n another vein, she is a trained forensic artist (able to do 3-D sculptures, cadaver drawings and fugitive updates); and Editor for the Arkansas Identification News, a quarterly that goes out to law enforcement, forensic scientists, and parole officers whom all belong to the professional organization, the International Association for Identification. She holds a degree in criminal justice, is a Diplomate and Fellow with the American College of Forensic Examiners International, and often gives workshops on forensic art and other topics.

She currently has a book on market with a CSI bent, and a website devoted to the phenomenon called "The CSI Effect." You can visit and take an "Armchair Detective Quiz" at: http://www.the-CSI-effect.com  In addition, join Andrea's blog on the subject (with new postings every Tuesday) at: http://www.thecsieffect.blogspot.com

Andrea is also an expert in primatology having raised a capuchin monkey for Helping Hands, a nonprofit organization headquartered in Boston. "Ziggy" was her monk daughter for 13 years; she is now a helper/companion to a quadriplegic, and subject of their book: Bringing Up Ziggy: What Raising a Helping Hands Monkey Taught Me About Love, Commitment and Sacrifice. For more information about Andrea's books and to see Ziggy's own monkey pages, visit at: http://www.andreacampbell.com  (You can also find information about writing a book, and article-interviews with lots of tips pertaining to the industry and self-promotion on site.)

Teaching is also part of Andrea's expertise and she has an eight-week online e-course for Mediabistro called: Publish That Book: How to Write a Nonfiction Book Proposal That Sells. A previous student of Andrea's just got a "very good" deal with a Broadway Books imprint. To find out more about her next class, contact Amanda Your corner of the universe Barrett at: amanda@mediabistro.com

Andrea will be heading a workshop session for the Romantic Times Booklovers Convention in Houston, Friday, April 27 and will be at a booksigning later that evening. For more information, about the conference: http://guest.cvent.com/EVENTS/Info/Summary.aspx?e=454d09e1-8234-400e-aad2-8e6cf105bac2

You can sign up for Andrea's free, bi-monthly author's newsletter, Soup's On, a guide to what's happening in the publishing industry, tips on craft and promotion, and interviews with prominent writers. To subscribe, send an e-mail to: campbell@arkansas.net Please put "subscribe newsletter" in the subject line.

Andrea is a member with the American Society of Journalists and Authors, Inc., Mystery Writers of America, Sisters in Crime, and often writes for First Draft, a publication put out by a subgroup of SinC called the Guppies. She is also a contributing editor too, for The Simian, a newsletter put out by The Simian Society whom are owners of monkeys and apes; the column is about monkeys in research.

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Diana Ossana was born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri. Her father emigrated from Italy to America in 1937. She attended Eastern New Mexico University in Portales, New Mexico, majoring in English/Political Science. 

She moved to Arizona in 1977. In Tucson, she helped to implement and establish a successful law practice for a corporation of 5 trial attorneys.

In 1992, Ms. Ossana began a writing collaboration with Larry McMurtry, which continues to this day and has expanded to encompass film and television projects that they write and produce.  The duo most recently won an Oscar and Golden Globe for their screenplay for Brokeback Mountain.  Ossana also served as producer on the film, which earned her the Golden Globe for best dramatic feature.  

The team has written two novels together, Pretty Boy Floyd and Zeke and Ned. They adapted two of his novels, Streets of Laredo and Dead Man’s Walk, into acclaimed miniseries, both of which they also executive-produced. The two miniseries were directed by Joseph Sargent and Yves Simoneau, respectively. The duo later adapted Frederick Manfred’s novel Riders of Judgment into the miniseries Johnson County War, which they also executive-produced, and which was directed by David S. Cass Sr.

Upcoming projects include writing and producing Comanche Moon, a CBS six-hour prequel to the 1989 miniseries Lonesome Dove, and an ensemble drama TV project tentatively titled “Sheriff Luke” for ABC and Touchstone TV. 

Additionally, Tom Hanks is slated to star in, and produce, the Universal Pictures film version of Mr. McMurtry’s novel Boone’s Lick, for which the author and Ms. Ossana are writing the screenplay adaptation. 

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A New Yorker and graduate of Boston University, Jenna is married to a musician and pregnant with their first child, due in March. So far, her only craving is milk. Lots and lots of milk.

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Karen E. Taylor is best known for her Vampire Legacy series from Pinnacle Books -- BLOOD RED DAWN is the seventh and (possibly) last novel chronicling the life/death and times of vampire Deirdre Griffin. 

President of the Persephone Writers Organization (a new professional organization for women writers of dark fiction) and twice nominated for the Bram Stoker Award (in the categories of Short Fiction and Fiction Collection), Karen is also the author of many short stories, most of which have been collected in FANGS AND ANGEL WINGS from Wildside Press. She is currently working on her next novel, TWELVE STEPS FROM DARKNESS, scheduled for publication in April, 2007 from Juno Books.

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Michael Lewis has been in book publishing since 1989, first in marketing and sales and, for the last 10 years, as an acquisitions editor.  He has acquired upwards of 500 books in his career. 

He teaches seminars on how to get a book published, and he is the author/co-author of nine books: The Films of Harrison Ford, The Films of Tom Hanks, The Cheapskate's Guide to Walt Disney World, The James Bond Trivia Book, The Clint Eastwood Trivia Book, True Grits; Here, There and Everywhere; 20 Questions to Ask Before Buying on eBay; and A Guy Walks Into a Bar. 

Mike is also acquisitions editor for the "For Dummies" series of books. He lives in New Jersey.

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Since then Krich has published thirteen other novels, all critically acclaimed, as well as several short stories, many of which have been nominated for awards including the most recent, "Bitter Waters" (in Criminal Kabballah by Jewish Lights), nominated for the Agatha, Anthony, and Macavity Awards.

In addition to her stand alone novels, she has written five Jessie Drake mysteries, three of which were nominated for the Agatha Award. The fourth in the series, Dead Air, won the Romantic Times Reviewers' Choice Award for Best Mystery or Suspense. The fifth, Shadows of Sin, was a national bestseller and an Agatha nominee. Krich's works have been published in Britain, Iceland, Japan, France, Germany, and Holland, Israel, and Spain.

In October of 2002, Ballantine published Blues in the Night, the first in a new series. "Think Harry Kemelman's Rabbi Small, with the rabbi's wife as sleuth," says Krich. "Think Nick and Nora Charles. Then meet true crime writer Molly Blume. An Orthodox Jew, currently unattached, who 'doesn't date rabbis.' Or so she says." Krich smiles. Blues in the Night and its sequel, Dream House, were nominated for the Agatha (Blues was also nominated for Best Novel by the Southern California Booksellers Association). The third novel in the series, Grave Endings, won the Mary Higgins Clark and Calavera Awards. Coming this October is the fourth Molly Blume mystery, Now You See Me.

The daughter of Holocaust survivors, Krich was born in Germany and lived in New Jersey and in New York before moving with her family to Los Angeles in 1960. With a master’s degree in English from U.C.L.A., she taught high school English for eighteen years, chairing the English department at Yeshiva University of Los Angeles High Schools, and received the Milken Families Foundation Award for Distinguished Educator of the Year and the Samuel Belkin Memorial Award for professional achievement. Past editor of the national Sisters in Crime newsletter and a former director of the National Board of Directors of the Mystery Writers of America, Krich remains active in both organizations and is a member of the American Crime Writers League.

Krich was still teaching and raising six children when she began her writing career. "The juggling was difficult," she admits, "and I’ve made my share of mistakes. At one point the hems of my daughters’ uniform skirts were being held up by over a dozen safety pins, and I served way too much macaroni and cheese! But somehow we all managed, and my husband and children are wonderfully supportive. Which doesn't mean that they're never cranky."

Her mysteries are attracting a growing number of readers and receiving praise from reviewers who note Krich's fully realized characters, careful plotting, page-turning suspense, and the seamless way she weaves her Orthodox Judaism and contemporary social problems into many of her works. "Krich," observes Kirkus, "doesn't shrink from big issues."

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Naleighna Kai's name is pronounced Na-Lay-nah Ki which means "the determined one is present." She is the author of Every Woman Needs a Wife, She Touched My Soul, and Trio; co-author of Speak it into Existence and How to Win the Publishing Game. Naleighna is a Chicago native, who began writing in December of 1999 and pens fiction, romance, erotica, new age, and science fiction. She currently works for a major law firm in Chicago and has her own publishing consultant and literary marketing company--Macro Publishing Group. 

About Every Woman Needs a Wife ...Bursting with originality and controversy, author Naleighna Kai has created a provocative, and at times heartwarming tale about an age-old problem that will strike a chord with all women.  

Every Woman Needs a Wife is the hilarious, but thought-provoking story of a wife who does the "unthinkable." Strolling in on Vernon and his mistress one night, Brandi Spencer insists that the new woman in his life come home and earn her keep the honest way -- on her feet helping the wife clean the house, keep the children and pay the bills, instead of laying on her back servicing the husband.  

Tanya Kaufman has had one shock too many -- one minute she's a fiancée, the next she finds out she's been the mistress all along. When Tanya shows up during the surprise anniversary party to take Brandi up on her offer, the women seize the opportunity to teach Vernon that infidelity will no longer come at the expense of the women's time, money, and happiness. Vernon fights back by launching a high-profile court battle that doesn't have a thing to do with splitting the money, keeping the house, or visitation rights.

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