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Brant Randall (Bruce Cook)
teaches Communication at Woodbury University. He originally worked as a
physicist/mathematician at Northrup University. He later earned his MS and PhD in
Communications.Brant has served as consultant on dozens of independent feature films. He
recently designed a course titled Globalization of Media. Currently he is teaching
Theology of the Horror Film.
Brant lives in Los Angeles with his wife. They travel the world, having adventures and
collecting stories for future novels. (Well, they wish they did.)
Visit him at
www.brucecookonline.com
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 Dubbed
“the newest of the blood bards” by Philadelphia Weekly after the publication of
Body Trace, his 2006 debut, Jonathan McGoran—a.k.a.
D. H. Dublin—is back with the June 3, 2008 release of Freezer Burn, the third
book in his Philadelphia-based forensic crime series from Penguin Books. With almost a year
on the job, rookie forensic technician Madison Cross is starting to feel like she knows her
job, but nothing she has encountered so far could prepare her next case. A trash bag full of
hacked-off body parts, an escalating gang war, a victim of brutal torture, and a shriveled
corpse, oozing something other than blood; unrelated at first, together they point to a plot
more elaborate—and more sinister—than anything Madison Cross has ever faced.
Publishers Weekly
calls Body Trace a “brisk, tight novel about the
crime scene unit of the Philadelphia Police Department ...[its] detailed approach and lively
characters make an immersive read.” The second book in the series, 2007’s Blood Poison,
was called “a page-turning thriller,” and “a gripping tale with plenty of twists and turns
along the way,” by Montgomery Newspapers. Midwestern Book Review says it is, “fascinating
...a fantastic thrill ride.” And Angela Wilson of Pop Syndicate writes, “D.H. Dublin’s C.S.U.
Investigation series is fresh, fast-paced and sure to grab
 readers
and hold them tight until the end... Blood Poison is gripping, and offers up unique
twists and characters that make you want to read more.”
When not writing crime
thrillers under his own name or as D. H. Dublin, McGoran, a Philadelphia native who now
resides in Elkins Park, is Communications Director at West Mt. Airy’s Weavers Way Co-op and
editor of the Co-op’s newspaper, The Shuttle. For more information, including
excerpts of Body Trace, Blood Poison, and Freezer Burn, visit
www.jmcgoran.com . |
 Robin
D. Owens has been writing longer than she cares to recall. Her
 fantasy/futuristic
romances finally found a home at Berkley with the issuance of HeartMate in December 2001.
She credits the "telepathic cat with attitude" in selling that book. Currently, she has one
domesticated cat and one feral, who is thinking about changing his mind on being wild in the
Colorado winter (canned food might also have something to do with this). She has secretly
admitted to having as many as six cats. Before purchasing her home, she shared apartments
with an innumerable parade of hamsters, and
 included
one as a sidekick in her second Luna book, Sorceress of Faith.
Naturally, for the flying horses in Protector of the Flight, she had to do hands-on research
with horses, and enjoyed every minute!
She loves writing fantasy with romance or romance with fantasy, and particularly likes
adding quirky characters for comic relief and leaving little threads dangling from book to
book to see if readers pick up on them (usually, yes! Reader intelligence is awesome!).
 She
is particularly proud of her Web site, which includes such pages as Worlds (character
interviews, cut scenes/chapters/characters, photos of places/things that have inspired her)
and Free Your Artist (motivational quote, artist exercise, affirmation and fun links). Her
Web site is updated monthly and has excerpts of all her work. Her monthly contest is for fun
items that usually tie into her books: jewelry, pet carriers, runes, etc.
 Robin
loves hearing from readers, tries her best to respond to any questions and has been known to
take reader advice for her work
(eg., the mole in Heart Thief). Please e-mail her at
robin@robindowens.com.
She is profoundly thankful to be a recipient of the 2002 Romance Writers of America RITA®
Award (like the Oscar in her field) for HeartMate, the 2004 and 2005 PRISM Awards for Heart
Thief and Heart Duel, the 2003 Denver Area Science Fiction Association Golden Lungfish Award
for Writer of the Year and
 the
2004 Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers' Writer of the Year Award. The Luna books continue to be
award winners and when she receives such news she’s been known to dance around bored
cats....
EXCERPTS:
http://www.robindowens.com/reads/reads.htm
On Writing & Publishing
http://www.robindowens.blogspot.com
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 Jeanne C. Stein's
first novel, THE BECOMING, was a Barnes & Noble
national best seller for December 2006 as
well as a local bestseller in San Diego and Denver. It was published first by ImaJinn Books,
a small Colorado publisher, then picked up by Berkley. She lives now in Denver, but was
raised and educated in San Diego, which is the
setting for her contemporary vampire fantasy.
BLOOD DRIVE, the second in the Anna Strong series, was released by Berkley in June 2007
and WATCHER, the third, in December 2007. She
 also
has a story in an anthology entitled MANY BLOODY RETURNS, edited by Charlaine Harris and
Toni L.P. Kelner, which debuted at #30 on the NYT bestseller list in September 2007. She is
currently at work on books 4 and 5 of the Anna Strong Chronicles.
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