Author Bios

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	Janice Alonso has taught writing in grades three through sophomore college level and volunteered for adult literary and ESL programs. She began writing in 2000, and her first short story won an Honorable Mention in Writer's Digest's 2001 writing competition in the Genre Short Story category. Another short story won an Honorable Mention in Writer's Digest's 2007 writing completion in the Children's Fiction category. She's been included in the anthologies Chicken Soup for the Beach Lover's Soul, Blessings for Mothers, and Chicken Soup for the Christian Soul 2. She's been a short fiction contributor to Grit, Foliate Oak Literary Magazine, Palo Alto Review, Anthology Magazine, and others.
	Kate Anderson has lived in six different states and held thirty-eight different jobs including a four-year stint in the Air Force. She earned her Bachelor’s Degree in Journalism and for the past twenty-two years she’s been a member of the Fresno Police Department. She writes a dynamite police report. She’s also won several writing contests and is the Vice President of her local chapter of Sisters in Crime. She likes to write mysteries because in her fiction, unlike her day job, she can control all the characters.
	Burl Barer is an Edgar Award winner and two-time Anthony Award nominee His books have been translated into seven languages, six of which he can't read at all, and he cant read the seventh without really strong glasses. What he puts in those glasses is open for discussion. His career is more checkered than a New York taxi, and just as tacky. He has convinced almost everyone that he is the leading expert on Leslie Charteris' THE SAINT, and is authorized to write new SAINT mysteries. He also writes the "Jeff Reynolds PI" series, but as no one publishes them very often, he doesn't write them very often. He does crank out true crime books for Kensington's Pinnacle True Crime imprint because they send him checks. Barer is exceptionally charming and dangerously handsome.
	Nathalie Boisard-Beudin is French but currently living in Rome, Italy. Most of her writing is done in English, her second – and working - language. She works as in-house lawyer for the European Space Agency and has published five micro-stories in the multinational anthology Wonderful World of Worders (Guildhall-Press) in 2007.

	Fleur Bradley is originally from the Netherlands and is now settled in Colorado with her husband and two daughters. Dozens of her short stories have appeared online and in print, in places like Shred of Evidence, Mysterical-E and Versal. Fleur has completed a suspense novel entitled Roots Don't Lie, which she's shopping around. She's now working on Two-faced, a YA novel.
	An artist and designer in New York City before turning to creative writing, Lauri Brett’s more recent life as wife and mother takes place in the wilds of Connecticut. Both of her twin boys, age 7, have mild autism. Her personal essay ‘The Day He Carried the Flag,’ was recently published on the national Autism Speaks Website. A member of the Connecticut Chapter of the Romance Writers of America, she has published pieces in their newsletter. She is at work on her second novel, the first of a series of cozy mysteries featuring P.T. Mackley, Media Liaison in the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department.
	Warren Bull is a psychologist in his "day job." He has a novel published, Abraham Lincoln for the Defense, a short story in the anthology Manhattan Mysteries and short stories in various publications including Amazon Shorts, DowngoSun, Espressofiction.com, Great Mystery and Suspense Magazine and, of course, Crimeandsuspense.com
Amazon Short	Tony Burton is a confirmed communicator, with a background that includes the U.S. Navy, work as a teacher, a few years as a newspaper columnist, technical writer and consultant. He writes poetry, short stories and essays, and has two published novels. Tony is a member of the Mystery Writers of America, Public Safety Writers Association and the Gordon County Writers' Guild. Tony teaches creative writing classes at the Harris Arts Center and other locations in Georgia. He is supported in his writing efforts by his wonderful, long-suffering and quite beautiful wife, Lara. They live in the mountains of NW Georgia with their dog, Buddy.
	Austin S. Camacho is a 53-year-old communications specialist for the Department of Defense with five novels in print. Austin does public affairs work for the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs. He lives in northern Virginia with his wife, Denise, and when he is not writing enjoys running along the shores of the Potomac, watching action films, and shooting - at paper targets, not live ones. He is a voracious reader of just about any kind of nonfiction, plus mysteries, adventures and thrillers.
	Todd Cameron works for an auto finance company in Vancouver, Canada, where he does collections, skip traces, arranges repo, and gets paid to hear people provide all sorts of strange explanations over the phone. One of his stories recently appeared in Demolition, and another will be featured in the winter issue of Spinetingler.

	Larry Chavis is a 54-year-old high school physics and mathematics teacher who spends his spare time reading, shooting black powder firearms, and writing. Besides writing short fiction, he regularly reviews books for Crime and Suspense ezine.
	Jan Christensen has had one mystery novel, Sara's Search published and almost forty short stories, including one in the Summer, 2006, issue of Hardluck Stories, edited by Ed Gorman. Other venues include Futures Mysterious Anthology Magazine, Red Herring Mystery Magazine, and Orchard Press, to name a few.
	James C. Clar is a forty-eight-year-old teacher (English and Religious Studies) and writer who lives in upstate New York. His book reviews, author interviews and articles appear regularly in MYSTERY NEWS. He has also published material – including short fiction – in MYSTERY REVIEW, CRIME TIME MAGAZINE (UK), CRIMESCENE: SCOTLAND, HACKWRITERS, LONG STORY, SHORT, POWDER BURN FLASH, MYSTERYAUTHORS.COM and ORCHARD PRESS MYSTERIES. He is an ardent jazz fan as well as an avid digital photographer. Surprisingly, however, he hates having his own picture taken… unless he can be photographed with a celebrity like, say, Jack Lord!
	Libby Cudmore's recent publications include Sage of Consciousness and The Subway Chronicles, where her story, “The Cellist in the Subway” was selected as the Essay of the Year in 2004. She is a frequent contributor to st8ke.com and Blogcritics under the moniker “Retro Music Chick” and maintains two blogs: the music-oriented Kill Your iPod and Smoke and Mirrors, which showcases her personal writings. She teaches Intro to College Writing and various teen-oriented creative writing workshops around the upstate area, as well as an online class with the Long Story Short School of Writing. In between all that, she is collaborating on a hardboiled-neo-romantic-retro-pulp novel.
	Wally Cwik is in semi-retirement from the Engineering profession. He has performed over the past 25 years with the Park Ridge Players, a community theatre. He has written some radio plays that have been performed with the Those Were The Days Radio Players, a group that recreates old time radio shows around the city. Published stories include: “The Golden Monkey with Basket” in Requiem for the Radioactive Monkeys at Iguana Publications: “A Meeting of Three” in The Loyal Hannah Review at Ligoniervalley.com: Upcoming publication, “Lilith” in Hell in the Heartland anthology and A Crowning Repast with the Great Lakes Horror Writers Assn. He has appeared as a featured reader at the Twilight Tales in Chicago.
	J.T. Deckard was born in Euclid, Ohio and now resides elsewhere. He has a cat named Ringo and enjoys occasionally going to baseball games. He likes the idea of wearing suits and ties, but is typically more of a jeans and a sweatshirt kind of guy. He also likes to write things.
	Agnes Dee is happily retired from advertising and lives with her husband among the cornfields in the Midwest. Her stories have appeared in Crime and Suspense, Flash Shot, and Flashes of Speculation.
	Clair Dickson says, "I write when I'm not teaching my darling reprobates at Brighton's Adult Alternative High School program. I've had a half-dozen flash fiction pieces published at such places as Apollo's Lyre, Flashshot, and Flashing in the Gutters; in addition, Mysterical-e published my longer short story "Spark" in Summer 2006. Often my stories are rejected because of my caustic female protagonist-- I think some male editors might be threatened by her. I don't take it personally." That caustic female protagonist has a blog at http://www.bofexler.blogspot.com/

	Conda V. Douglas was born a writer. Since the age of 12, she's published numerous short stories and articles. She's also worked as a film editor, bookstore clerk and now an exercise instructor. Conda resides with her cat-like dog and her dog-like cat and a fellow writer, who all assist her in her writing endeavors. Find out more at http://www.condascreativecenter.blogspot.com.
	Mike Driver lives in Yorkshire, England with his wife and family. He has been published in a number of online and print venues over the last two years. His most recent works can be found online at Aphelion and Allegory webzines and in the forthcoming Winter Edition of Shimmer Magazine and the June edition of The Harrow. to find out a little more visit Mike's myspace page.
	Erik James Eggers is 37 years old. He resides in Connecticut with his amazing wife and three beautiful children. Erik works in the Mortgage Industry by day and often by night. He loves writing and has been attracted to the suspense and horror genres since early childhood. He spends his free time reading, writing, and weight training.
	Wil Emerson holds a Bachelor’s degree in science, worked as a registered nurse for twenty years. Between writing women’s fiction and mysteries, Wil writes short stories for the mystery market. "Dog Gone" appeared in Crimson Dagger, March 2005. "Bone Music" will be featured in Silver Moon, January, 2006. Five other novels await publication. Professional memberships include Mystery Writers of America, Sisters in Crime, Western-Michigan Mystery Writers, and Romance Writers of America. She is also president of the Mid-Michigan chapter of RWA. At home, Wil divides her time between an early-bird husband, a growing family, one adorable Bischon Frise and her writing life. She still manages to read two or three books a week.

	Connie Ferdon lives in Florida with her two children. Her many adult crime stories have been published in magazines such as Futures, Orchard Press Mysteries, Monthly Short Stories. Her children's stories have been featured in Primary Treasure Magazine.
	Suzanne Flaig, from Phoenix, Arizona, is president of the Desert Sleuths Chapter of Sisters in Crime and co-owner of Red Coyote Press, a mystery publisher. Her short stories have been published in several anthologies: “Ephemera” (MEDLEY OF MURDER, 2005, Red Coyote Press); “What Ever Happened to Sandy Kloss?” (BY THE CHIMNEY WITH CARE, 2006, Wolfmont Publishing); “Death At the Dumpster” (MAP OF MURDER, 2007, Red Coyote Press). She has written nonfiction articles for Mystery Readers Journal, The Great Blue Beacon, KidsToday and others. She is currently seeking representation for a completed novel, Terror Near Three Mile Island. Visit her website: www.authorsden.com/suzanneflaig.
	Sunny Frazier has been publishing both fiction and nonfiction since 1972. Her fiction has appeared in Murderous Intent Mystery Magazine, Blue Murder Magazine, Writer's Journal, San Luis Obispo Nightwriters newsletter, and The Line-Up (Fresno County Sheriff's Department magazine). She contributed 12 stories to the anthology Valley Fever: Where Murder Is Contagious, seven stories to Seven By Seven and she has stories appearing in three other anthologies in 2006. She has been writing reviews for the San Joaquin Sisters in Crime newsletter, The Poison Pen, for eight years. Reviews can also be read on her website.

	John M. Floyd's short mysteries have appeared in a wide range of publications, including AHMM, The Strand, Grit, Murderous Intent, and Woman's World. One of his stories recently won the 2007 Derringer Award, two more have been adapted for upcoming films, and many others are available via Amazon Shorts. A collection of John's short fiction, Rainbow's End, was released in October 2006.
	John C. Goodman is a Canadian writer has lived in British Columbia, Ontario and Newfoundland, wherehe currently resides within sight of the ocean. He does not own a tie. John has published a book of poetry, Sounds from the Centre of Water (Lyric Publishing) and a novel, Talking to Wendigo (Turnstone Press). His poems and stories have appeared in magazines in Canada and the U.S.
	Beth Groundwater's debut mystery novel, A REAL BASKET CASE, was released in hardcover by Five Star Publishing in March, 2007. It has garnered good reviews from Booklist, Kirkus Reviews, and other publications and will be released in a large-print edition by Wheeler Publishing in January, 2008. Also, Beth has published eight short stories, including one in Wild Blue Yonder, the Frontier Airlines in-flight magazine, one which was translated into Farsi, and one which was performed live on stage. Visit her website at http://www.bethgroundwater.com and her blog at http://bethgroundwater.blogspot.com.

	Richard Hallows lives in Buckingham, England, where he combines writing with looking after his two young children. Although this tends to involve a lot of looking after children and not much writing, he has three non-fiction books published as well as numerous magazine articles and short stories. His short story “An Unusual Job” won the National Association of Writing Groups’ 2006 Award for Best Short Story and in 2007 his non-fiction Diary of a Reluctant Green was shortlisted for a Clarion Award for contributions to Sustainability and Social Inclusion. He runs a writer’s group in his home town and is an occasional teacher of creative writing at a local elementary school. His website may be found at http://www.spikethecat.co.uk/
	Vinnie Hansen’s murder mystery series features Carol Sabala, a baker/sleuth who aspires to be a PI. The series includes Murder, Honey; One Tough Cookie; Rotten Dates; Tang is Not Juice, and the upcoming Flimflam Flan. Tang Is Not Juice was awarded “Best Book of Fiction of 2005” by The Oklahoma Writers’ Federation. Vinnie’s short stories have appeared in publications as diverse as the Santa Cruz Spectacle to Web Mystery Magazine. A member of Sisters in Crime, Vinnie has penned many articles for mystery publications. Vinnie also writes mainstream fiction and was a finalist for the Iowa School of Letters Award for Short Fiction. An English teacher for twenty-four years, Vinnie lives in Santa Cruz, California with her husband, artist Daniel S. Friedman, and their very spoiled cat Lola. For more information, visit Vinnie’s website: www.vinniehansen.com
	Vince Harriman controls his criminal impulses by writing them out rather than acting on them. Stubborn as a Tennessee mule, Vince did not drive a car a single mile in his twenties-an unjust (and unpaid) speeding ticket cost him his right to drive and rather than pay the seventy dollar fine he patiently waited for the seven year statute of limitations to expire. So beware, friends and foes-and hope you end up in a story rather than on his bad side!

	Brian Haycock lives in Austin, Texas, where he has worked for a number of nonprofit organizations. He enjoys running (especially in the summer heat), hiking and reading crime stories. He also writes blogs (usually with a little humor worked in) for several websites. His stories have appeared on the e-zines Thuglit and Nefarious. There is nothing suspicious buried in his backyard.
	Peg Herring is a retired educator with several publishing credits thus far: four plays, several articles including one in the MYSTERY READERS’ JOURNAL, a short story published by Orchard Press Mysteries, and a novel published with Five Star called MACBETH’S NIECE. She writes mostly mysteries and was a finalist in CourTV’s 2007 Search for the Next Great Crime Writer contest.
	Gary R. Hoffman lives all over the place. He is a retired English and Speech/Drama teacher, who now lives in a motor home, traveling across the United States and Canada. Gary has had short stories published in an anthology, in an ezine, in "Tattoo Highway" and in "The Storyteller". He also has a novel now published, and another due out in early 2006.
	Therese Kinkaide holds a BS in Political Science, with a minor in Psychology and a Master’s Degree in Education. She obtained both degrees from Quincy University in Quincy, IL. She is a former member of the National Writers Association, as well as a former president of the Quincy Writers’ Guild, a local writers’ group. Ms. Kinkaide has a self-published book entitled Betrayal. She has had two short stories, ‘India Falls’ and ‘Afterwards’ published in the ezines Lovewords and Pens on Fire. She is a member of the Illinois State Poetry Society and has had poems published in The Poet’s Pen. Ms. Kinkaide lives in the Midwest with her husband and children.

	D. Krause is a retired military special agent residing near Washington, DC. He's seen his share of crime scenes, bad guys, cheats, bodies and general mayhem in a 27 year career. When he's not working for the government, he's working for himself for the government (or people who say they're the government, anyway). He writes for fun, rarely profit.
	One of BV Lawson’s short stories received a Masters Literary Award from Center Press, and she was a finalist for the 2007 Deadly Ink contest. Other publication credits include Mysterical-E, Great Mystery and Suspense, Cantaraville, ESC! Magazine, and Mouth Full of Bullets. In addition, she’s written articles for Mystery Readers Journal, The Washington Times and special-interest magazines, and penned public radio and commercial television feature scripts. She’s a member of Mystery Writers of America, Sisters in Crime, and Washington Independent Writers. Her web site is bvlawson.com, and she also operates the blog In Reference to Murder
	Allan Leverone is a 47 year old air traffic controller living in southern New Hampshire with his beautiful wife Sue, three children, a grandchild, and a cat who has used up eight lives. He has daydreamed of weaving tales of mystery and suspense since picking up his first Sherlock Holmes story at the age of ten, but only recently began acting on that impulse. He recently completed his first novel, The Fixer, and hopes to live long enough to see it published. Crime and Suspense is the venue for his first published work.

	Rod Lousteau writes under the name of Lew Stowe and lives in Connecticut. His work has been published by the Globe Pequot Press, Puckerbrush Press, and Delta. His SF story "Skinner" was in the Spring 2007 issue of Afterburnsf.com. His story "Sweeper," in the Summer 2007 issue of Mystericale.com, was the first of a series of six stories about the same series character (Sweeper) scheduled to appear over time in that ezine. The second story about Sweeper ("Angel of Justice") is in the Fall 2008 issue of Mysterical-E. Another of Rod's stories ("Stalkers") will appear in a future issue of Mouth Full of Bullets.
	Mike Madoc is a consultant and sometime fiction writer who lives in Georgia with his wife, Katya and their bull mastiff, Heimdall. He has had essays published in a local paper, as well as two short stories in Crime and Suspense, one of which later ended up in the Crime and Suspense 2006-2007 anthology.
	Kim Mallin is the author of more than 25 non-fiction pieces published in Sasee, Daniel Island News, Tiny Lights and Running Times. She won the 2005 Doctors Writing Contest in Medical Economics and the 2006 Non-Fiction Best of Issue in the South Carolina Writers anthology, Catfish Stew. Currently she lives outside of Charleston, SC with her husband and works at her day job as a family physician and spends nights on her laptop, writing and dreaming of getting her first medical thriller published.
	Michael Allan Mallory lives in Minnesota with his wife and two cats. His debut mystery novel DEATH ROLL (with Marilyn Victor) was published in May 2007 by Five Star Publishing and features mystery’s first zoologist sleuth. Kirkus Reviews praised the book for its “engaging characters and intriguing behind-the-scenes look at zoo life.” His short story BIRD OF PREY appeared in the regional mystery anthology RESORT TO MURDER published by Nodin Press in September 2007. Visit his website at www.snakejones.com
	After saying "see ya" to McGraw-Hill, where she wrote online training for corporate America, Sue McGinty moved to the funky little town of Los Osos, on California's Central Coast. She spent the first year gazing at the ocean and trying to figuring our how she got lucky enough to find such a gorgeous place. Eventually she realized that the harder she worked the luckier she got! Deciding to follow her bliss, she turned to writing fiction, especially mysteries. Sue has short stories in three Central Coast Mystery Writer anthologies, the latest being NEVER SAFE. "Metaphor For Murder" was recently published in Crime and Suspense. She is currently researching her third mystery novel, writes environmental material for local nonprofits (more bliss), and freelances for the San Luis Obispo Tribune.
	Edward McKinney desperately wants his own time portal, but until he finds one the next best thing is writing. Besides writing and seeking time portals, he enjoys watching his four children grow, change and provide daily suspense.
	Jean M. Medeiros is a certificate student in the Writers’ Program at UCLA Extension (online) and received a Certificate in Fiction Writing from Gotham Writers’ Workshop in 2006. One of her stories recently placed fourth in “The Good German Stories,” a contest sponsored by Crime and Suspense. She also has stories published in two issues of FlashFiction.net and has co-authored two legal manuals for the National Business Institute. By day she works as a paralegal in Providence, Rhode Island.
	Rosemary and Larry Mild co-author the Paco and Molly mystery series: Locks & Cream Cheese (mayhem and murder on the Chesapeake Bay); Hot Grudge Sunday (conspirators derail the sleuths’ honeymoon tour out West); and Boston Scream Pie (coming soon; a harrowing tale of twins). Their award-winning story “Assault and Battery” will appear in the first Maryland Writers’ Association anthology this fall.
	William Moal lives in Modesto, California . He belongs to five very helpful critique groups including Dirty Deeds and Central Valley Writers Workshop. He is also a member of the San Joaquin Chapter of Sisters in Crime. He has been published in Mysterical-E, The Chabot Review, Phaedra, Crime and Suspense, and Great Mystery and Suspense Magazine under the names Bill Moal, W. Moal, William Moal, Guglielmo Moalio, and Rashid Raza. When not writing fiction he composes music on his computer. You can find out more about the author at wmoal.blogspot.com
	Donna Nowak is a freelance writer and illustrator, residing in New York City. She is an active member of the Mystery Writers of America.
	Dorinda Ohnstad is an active member of the San Joaquin Sisters in Crime Chapter and an active contributor to the club’s monthly newsletter The Poison Pen. She is also a long-time member of the Kings County Writer’s Support Group and is currently finishing up her first legal thriller novel. Dorinda has a B.A. in Economics from University of California - Davis and a JD/MBA from University of Washington. She has worked in the fields of commercial finance, economic development, non-profit management and the practice of law in both the public and private sectors in the states of Washington, Minnesota and South Dakota. She currently lives in Hanford, California with her husband and three children and works as a consultant and teaches business and business law courses for Columbia College.
	Deborah Pass is from Manchester, England, and has lived in Germany, Canada and France over the past eighteen years. She's now settled in Paris where she teaches chess to children. Deborah has had one story published on MysteryAuthors.com.
	Alison Pearce is an Australian author and poet living in Queensland with her husband and four children. A former English and Math tutor, Alison now writes full time. Her work has appeared in various publications including 'Infinitas', 'Bright Light Multimedia', 'The Shine Journal' and 'Darkest Before the Dawn.'

	Carol Pharr, writer, reader, and observer of life, has kept journals, entered contests, written essays and stories since she learned to form sentences. Carol worked as a free-lance feature writer for many years, earning her degrees in English and Journalism while working at two jobs, one of which was as a staff writer for CSU Fresno’s newsletter to staff and alumni. Her career in Marketing and Public Relations included writing/editing in-house newsletters. Her tabloid-sized editions of Fresnotes for the city of Fresno won first place in a national contest. The local newspaper, The Fresno Bee, commissioned Carol to write much of the copy for a special edition. Her story "Garden Dreams" (Crime and Suspense April '07) is Carol’s first-ever story written in the crime genre.
	Over four hundred of Stephen D. Rogers's stories and poems have been selected to appear in more than a hundred publications. When not writing, he supports the computer systems at a municipal police station where his puns have nearly landed him in jail. His website includes a list of new and upcoming titles as well as other timely information.
	Christopher Ryan spent eight years as an award-winning Bronx crime and politics reporter, has won honors for playwriting and screenwriting , has written comedy, including an original sitcom considered for production by NBC, and has even published a few comic books. While teaching Creative Writing, Journalism, and English at Hackensack H.S. (where he still teaches, and has been named to Who’s Who in American Education), Chris earned an MA and Rutgers University’s English Award for Highest Distinction in Literary Studies for his master’s “thesis” — a first novel. He is currently seeking representation for that work, CITY OF WOE, which features detectives Mallory and Gunner, who made their debut in the Nov/Dec 2007 issue of Crime and Suspense. Chris lives in New Jersey with his wife and twin sons.

	Charles Schaeffer's short mysteries have appeared in Futures Mystery Magazine, Mysterical-E, Web Mystery Magazine, Silver Moon, Crimson Dragon, Dana Literary Society's online Journal, Woman's World, Detective Mystery Stories, New England Writers' Network, The Story Teller, Great Mystery and Suspense Magazine. He's a two-time winner of Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine's "Mysterious Photo" contest. Non-fiction and satire have appeared in national magazines such as Esquire, Harper's and The Nation, with short stories in a number of children's magazine. Stacks of kids' picture book manuscripts, looking for a home, block the entrance to the den in his Bethesda, Maryland home.
	Dr. Charles E. Schwarz received his doctoral degree in Philosophy of Education from Rutgers University. He has been writing fiction mystery short stories since 1990. He has been awarded the Blaggard Award for Best Mystery Short Story by New Mystery Magazine for "My Obit Habit, " won the World Wide Writer's Contest and had his award winning short story, "Dummy's Murder Between Hands" published in Writers' Forum. He is the author of the Lonely Detective Series. His short stories also have appeared in Nefarious – Tales of Mystery, Detective Mystery Stories, PI Magazine, Magnolia, Writer’s Hood, Shots, Futures Mysterious Anthology Magazine, and Electronic Writer’s Group Without a Clue, Story One. His web site is http://www.charlesschwarz.com
	Bill Schweizer has resided in Southern California almost long enough to pass for a native despite the occasional pang of nostalgia for snow falling on steam grates, pizza by the slice, and Jones Beach. Enjoyments are movies (Manhattan locales - caper flicks - noir), California history, Linda’s biscotti, Linda, college football, the ocean (either one), and, once in too great a while, travel. His fiction has been published in Skive, The Los Angeles Times, River Walk Journal, Bewildering Stories, Thieves Jargon, Static Movement Online (a frequent contributor), and Futures Mystery Anthology Magazine.
	Sandra Seamans is a 55 year old retired farmwife who lives in Northeast PA. Since selling the cows, she spends her time writing stories and baking cakes and cookies for her two grandsons. Two years ago she joined the FlashXers writing group and has been in love with writing flash stories ever since. Her work has appeared in Apollo's Lyre, Mysterical E, Flash Shot, and A Flasher's Dozen where she's also co-editor.

	Kevin Tipple's short fiction has appeared in magazines such as Lynx Eye, Starblade, Show and Tell, among others and recently appeared last fall in two consecutive issues of The Writer’s Post Journal. Kevin has been either the senior editor or the assistant editor of two online writing advice sites and is currently the Assistant Editor for Mouth Full Of Bullets. In addition to several online sites that also run his reviews, he is also the book reviewer for the Texas edition of the newspaper Senior News.
	John W. Vieczorek lives in upstate New York. He has worked as an ironworker, a psychiatric nurse, a successful small business owner, a boarding house landlord, a heavy equipment operator, a bar tender, a lumber salesman, a soldier, and other occupations he has all but forgotten about. He’s an avid lover of nature and wildlife. He enjoys studying the different philosophies and religions of the world, and has been a Zen student for a long time. In addition to Crime and Suspense his writing has appeared in such fine publications as Bewildering Stories, Sinister City, Dark Reveries, Contemporary Rhyme, Quantum Muse, and A Cruel World.
	Robert Wangard recently chucked the practice of law, something he had done for longer than he cares to admit, and turned to writing crime fiction full-time. In addition to Crime and Suspense, his short stories appear in the March/April 2007 issue of Futures Mystery Anthology Magazine and the Summer 2007 issue of Spinetingler Magazine. He has other short stories in the mill and is busy at work on his first mystery novel. Bob splits his time between the Chicago area and a lake house in northwest Michigan.

	From the beauty of the desert to the lushness of the Pacific Northwest, the landscape and escapades of Rochelle Weidner’s life translate to poetry and short stories and future novels. Her work has appeared in Gravity, 2River View, Snakeskin and other literary magazines. Her first published short story appeared in the October 2003 issue of Ghoulish Intent. She received an Honorable Mention in the FMAM Fire to Fly 2003 short story contest. Published in Crime and Suspense in January 2007. A national member of Sisters in Crime and local member of the Hawaii Sisters in Crime, and the Mystery Writers of America, Rochelle lives in Kaneohe, HI with her husband and persnickety cat.
	William Wilde is an Oregon native who likes to use Pacific Northwest settings in his fiction. His stories have appeared in the magazines Black Petals, Thirteen, and Trunk Stories. His Ebooks Deadlink and Tech Wolves are available from Fictionwise.com.