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 competition 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.
	Kim Beck grew up in the Pacific Northwest and never strayed too far. She just moved north. Way north. She currently resides in majestic Alaska, near the beautiful Kenai River. She is pushing forty and rarely feels a day over 29 except when she wipes out on her bike or face-plants off her snowboard. Her flash fiction has appeared in the webzines Flash Me and Six Sentences. She usually writes stories with elements of mystery and intrigue, and has a private eye novel being considered for publication. She also likes a challenge and recently won honorary notice for a western romance.
	Bill Bernico is the author of more than 150 short stories and one novel. For four years he wrote a weekly humor column for his hometown newspaper, The Sheboygan Press. Bill's advice columns for computer enthusiasts have appeared in various magazines around the world. These days Bill writes an online advice column for musicians. Bill is a songwriter and has won several songwriting contests. He is also a working musician and has been playing live shows since 1966.
	Mark Best wrote a play in grade school about a fixed boxing match. It was never performed. His post-grade school output has been a little more successful, with a couple dozen published short stories and a few awards, among them a Derringer. His fiction has appeared in Hardboiled, Somniloquy, Thrilling Detective, Futures, and Over My Dead Body among others. He lives in Knoxville with his wife and kids, and manages an optometry office. He is currently working on his first novel.
	Phil Beloin Jr. lives in Connecticut with his wife and children. Read an interview with Phil on DellSmith.com. There you'll find links to Phil's stories, as well as lots of other interesting stuff.

	Robert Boertien retired after over 30 years in law enforcement and lives in Oregon. He divides his time between doing volunteer work and writing. Originally, his writing consisted of researching and preparing non-fiction articles for professional trade journals. One day, in a moment of clarity, he realized this was a lot like work. He was always paid for his articles, but the writing was seldom fun. Now he writes only fiction, which is always fun, but for which he is seldom paid. His dream is to someday see his unpublished novel, "Fruit of the Poisonous Tree," become published and made available to every discerning reader. And to those who are not.
	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.
	Stephen Book currently lives in Texas, where he lives with his wife and two kids. He loves heavy metal music (even though he has no hair to headbang with) and has a voracious appetite for crime, suspense and horror. His work has appeared in Six Sentences and Flash Fiction Online. If you would like to know more about him and his work, you can visit Stephen's blog.
	Mary J. Breen teaches creative nonfiction and seniors' memoir writing. Her essays have been broadcast on CBC Radio, and she has published fiction and nonfiction in national newspapers, essay collections, travel magazines, health journals, and literary magazines including Boston Literary Magazine, Canadian Woman Studies, Mystery Authors, Other Voices, and Quality Women's Fiction. She lives and works in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada.
	Linda Breneman lives in Seattle. She has a son who's a heavy metal musician, a daughter who's a scholar, a partner who's a Republican, a friendly Great Dane, and a mean little cockapoo. Her fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry has appeared in Ascent, Descant, Asphodel, Seattle Review, Poetry Northwest, and other magazines in the U.S. and Canada.
	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.
Amazon Short	Tony Burton is a confirmed communicator and an award-winning author, with a background that includes the U.S. Navy, work as a teacher, and 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 Georgia Writers Association. Tony teaches creative writing classes at the Harris Arts Center and other locations in Georgia. Tony was a judge for the 2008 Maryland Writers' Association Novel Manuscript contest, and has twice been a presenter at the Harriette Austin Writers Conference at the University of 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. He had one story, "Consider It Expedient", published in *Ten for Ten, 2007 Crime and Suspense Anthology 2*.
	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!
	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.
	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.
	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.
	After being a straight-A student, Karina Fabian now cultivates Fs: Family, Faith, Fiction and Fun. From Nuns in Space to a down-and out Faerie dragon working off a geas by St. George, her work takes quirky twists that keep her amused--and others, too. Her anthology Infinite Space, Infinite God won the 2007 EPPIE award for best sci-fi and her DragonEye, PI serial, Magic, Mensa and Mayhem won the Mensa Owl for best fiction. The novelization of MM&M comes out in 2009.Read more about her at www.fabianspace.com and more about Vern and Grace at www.dragoneyepi.net.
	Lawrence Falcetano is a former police officer who loves to write crime/suspense short stories and lives in New Jersey. He is devoting most of his early retirement time to writing and has been published or accepted for publication in: Futures Mystery Anthology Magazine, Great Mystery and Suspense Magazine, The Story Teller, DemonMinds and of course, Crime and Suspense. He is working on a suspense novel.
	Eugene Gramelis resides in Sydney, Australia, with his beautiful wife and two gorgeous daughters. His wife says that reading Eugene’s tales is like watching Rumpole, with Snoop Doggy Dogg as an accomplice, attempting to hot-wire a clapped-out old pick-up that’s just rolled off Pimp My Ride. During the day Eugene is a practising Barrister, specializing mainly in criminal trial work. He holds a Master of Laws Degree from the University of Sydney with a special emphasis on forensic psychiatry. Eugene is an active member of the Australian Horror Writers' Association, NSW Writers' Centre and the Australian Society of Authors.
	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/
	Jim Hanley is a retired Human Resources Director who moved to rural Maryland to write fiction. Also retired from the Navy, he is writing a few mysteries around a former Navy chief (as in this story). Some of Jim’s stories have appeared in Detective Mystery Stories, Crimespree, Timber Creek Review and Futures. Lamenting the fate of mystery publications, dying faster than near-sighted mobsters, Jim is currently expanding a recently published story about the 1970 Kent State shootings into a novel.
	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
	Suzanne M. Harding has had short crime fiction published in Detective Mystery Stories, Great Mystery and Suspense Magazine, and Mysterical-E as well as the anthologies Racing Can Be Murder and Medium of Murder. She lives in Indianapolis, Indiana and has finished The Shadow of Truth, a novel featuring Samantha Wolfe who appears in"Whatever Happened to Marilyn?"
	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 in Thuglit, Nefarious, Yellow Mama, Crime and Suspense, Grim Graffiti, Reflection's Edge, The Cynic, Pulp Pusher and Blazing Adventures. Unlike the people he writes about, he is law-abiding and reasonably sane. Really.
	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, a story in DYING IN A WINTER WONDERLAND 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.
	Elizabeth James lives in western PA in a 100-year-old house that provides a perfect atmosphere in which to write mysteries. She has had her work published in the ezine 'flashquake" and has an intiguing mystery titled "Deadline" due out in November in the ezine theVERB In addition, she has published several editorials in local newspapers and her poetry was included in an anthology as well as published in The Lewiston Daily Sun, in Lewiston, Maine. This past summer Long Ridge Writer's Group recently published her review of a flashquake submission. Although somewhat new to the writing field, she remains loyal to her lifelong love of mystery. She is currently at work writing a mystery novel and can't wait to see how it ends.
	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.
	Katy Knight is the nom de plume of a very quiet person who, prior to this time, has written primarily children's stories and academic papers. Since she doesn't want to reveal her real identity (for fear that some super-villain will find her and take away her superpowers), she won't talk here about any of her past publications.
	John Kuhn is a high school principal who took up writing in 2006. His fiction and poetry have appeared in a number of publications and won him a few modest awards. His first book, a humorous collection of biographies entitled Texas Eccentrics, is now available from Atriad Press.
	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
	I. E. Lester is a 40 year old software designer living in a quiet village in the middle of England. His interests include science fiction, fantasy, horror and mystery fiction; Venice and all things Italian; rugby and cricket and music. He has had had several dozen reviews and articles published in magazines and websites including Shroud Magazine, Down in the Cellar, Art & Prose, New Myths, and nossa Morte. The articles have included subjects such as Countess Elizabeth Bathory, the Bodysnatchers and Jack the Ripper.
	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.
	Richard S. Levine has had several short stories published in "The Martian Wave", "The Fifth Di", "Ray Gun Revival", and other online and print magazines. His science fiction short story, "A Comic on Phobos", was nominated for the 2006 James Award. He lives happily on a Florida beach with his wife Carrie. Now, if only the hurricanes would go somewhere else. To learn more about Mr. Levine's writings and his award winning classic video game, "Microsurgeon", please visit his website.
	Karen Lewis is the author of Cold Case Mysteries by Double Dragon Publishing, Goth by Eternal Press, The Stalker by Forbidden Publications, and Lisa by Literary Road. All are currently available. She also wrote the award-winning suspense play Hit and Run, and the prize-winning short story The Cellar Door. Her line of children’s stories include: Wolstencroft the Bear by Magic Keys, and Lizzie the Lion Cub by BAB Books. She lives in Vancouver, Canada. www.karenlewisnovels.blogspot.com
	J.R. Lindermuth lives and writes in central Pennsylvania. He is the author of six novels, including three in the Sticks Hetrick mystery series. He has also published stories and articles in a variety of magazines, both print and on-line.
	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.
	Sharon McGregor is a semi-retired office worker whose first flirtation with mystery was a “Detectiverse” published in Ellery Queen Magazine. Since then she has had stories and articles in Horizon, Lake Country Journal, Fifty Something Magazine and Reader’s Digest Canada. Sharon is the proud grandmother of five who can’t wait to take the “semi” out of “semi-retired” to spend more time with the grandchildren, her pets, her garden and of course, writing.
	Dorinda Ohnstad is a Contributing Editor for the Crime & Suspense e-zine, writing feature interviews with mystery genre authors and book reviews. She 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 a regular blogger on its writer’s blog. She presently lives in Hanford, California with her husband and three children and works as a commercial transactions attorney, consultant and teaches business and business law courses for Columbia College and Chapman University. She is also currently finishing up her first legal thriller novel. More information on Dorinda’s writing can be found at her website.
	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.'
	Dale Phillips spent his formative years in Maine, and studied writing with Stephen King. He has traveled to all 50 states and a number of countries. He has published short stories in Plot, Space & Time, Ethereal Gazette, Big Pulp, and upcoming issues of Atomjack, Aoife’s Kiss, and Chilling Tales. He's just finished his third novel, the second in a mystery series. He has appeared on stage, television, and in an independent feature film, Throg. He co-wrote and acted in a short political satire film, The Nine, seen on Liberty News TV. He has also appeared on two nationally televised quiz shows, Jeopardy and Think Twice.
	Von Pittman is an aging observer of the bureaucratic and academic wars and intrigues at four large state universities. He has a long and dreary record of publishing in the field of higher education. In preparation for retirement, he has turned toward fiction, a field in which he hopes to come closer to the truth of university life. His stories have appeared in such obscure publications as Well Versed and The Study Guide, and the anthology, Diamond in the Rough. His academic mischief was rewarded with first place in the 2008 Missouri Writers Guild short story competition. He hopes to reach official retirement age before his current employer finds him out.
	Stephen Pohl writes from Baltimore. He is a former Baltimore City police officer, who has worked for fifteen years as an insurance claims adjuster, handling claims involving police and firefighters.
	Marlene Pyle is a wife and mother who works in healthcare and welcomes her frequent bouts of insomnia because it gives her time to write. Her work has appeared in Caregiver magazine, All You, and Quick & Simple, as well as prodigalsonmagazine.com. She writes book reviews for a local newspaper and the vast majority of her son’s college essays.
	Mark Robyn is an inspector for the Navy and lives in Tacoma, Washington. A lifelong lover of science fiction and mystery, he has been published in From the Asylum magazine, the Writer’s Post Journal and many other small presses. His story “Lenny” is included in the short story collection ChimeraWorld 4. He was the playwright for Port Gamble’s Murder, Mystery and Mayhem event to celebrate their town anniversary in March of 2008. He is currently working on a mystery novel and a screenplay as well as a whole file cabinet of short stories.
	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.
	Loretta Ross is a Wal-Mart produce stocker and mystery writer who lives in rural Missouri with two cats and two dogs. Her first novel, The Reenactment, is with her agent and is currently undergoing revisions. She does not make a habit of circumventing security measures. (If you are with Homeland Security, please re-read that last sentence as many times as necessary until you believe it.)
	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.
	Robert Scotellaro was born and raised in Manhattan, New York, and is currently living in California with his wife and daughter. He worked for 20 years at the San Francisco Mint and is now retired and writing full-time. His stories and poems have appeared in a variety of magazines and anthologies, including Ghoti, Long Story Short, The Laurel Review, Red Rock Review, Northeast Journal, The Vagabond Anthology, Rolling Stone, and others. He is the author of several literary chapbooks, three books for children, and the recipient of Zone 3s Rainmaker Award.
	Fred Snyder lives in central Ohio and works as a software developer. Some of his other stories have appeared in Plots with Guns and Hardboiled. More information is available on his web site.
	Though Sandy Stephen's main writing focus is novel-length fiction, Sandra Stephen has written and published short mystery stories in various on-line and print publications over the years. Recently, she won First Prize in the Pennwriters’ contest for her short story “Dead Men Don’t Eat Ratatouille”. With the help of her critique group, Mysterywrights, she is currently polishing the final draft of “Kill De Sac”, the first book in a series about a personal chef who solves mysteries. And soon she will be launching the dreaded agent search. Sandra is a long-time member of Pennwriters, Inc. and the national organization of Sisters In Crime, and is a founding member and former officer of the Mary Roberts Rinehart Chapter of SinC in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
	Paul Sundeson grew up on Bourbon Street in New Orleans' fabled French Quarter. He has worked as a delivery driver, radio announcer, and computer programmer, though not simultaneously. A past winner of the Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers' Colorado Gold mystery competition, Paul has one short story in Thrilling Detective, and another is coming up in Mysterical-E. While he still lives in New Orleans with his Siberian Tatiana (a cat, not a Russian immigrant), after the chaos of Hurricanes Katrina and Gustav he wishes he could live anywhere else.
	Anna (Suzanne) Sykora has been an attorney in New York and teacher of English in Germany, where she resides with her patient husband and three enormous Forest Cats. To date she has placed 37 tales in the small press or on the web, most recently with Rosebud, the Iconoclast, the Barbaric Yawp, Black Petals and Afterburn SF. She has also placed 70 poems, and a small press is pondering her first novel.
	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.
	Paul von Hippel is a bank fraud analyst and the most recent winner of the Columbus Literary Award for fiction, a biennial prize given by the Thurber House in Columbus, Ohio. He lives in a hundred-year-old house with his wife and two amiable mutts.
	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. You can read more about her on her website!
	William Wilde is an Oregon native. His new suspense novel, *Show Me*, will be issued soon by Synergebooks.com. His story, The Gil Hodges Trading Card, appeared in the April 2007 issue of Crime & Suspense. Visit his author webpage.