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Brenna
Lyons wears many hats, sometimes all on the same day: Senior Editor of
Mundania Press, President of EPIC, author of more than 50 published works, columnist for
ERWA, special needs teacher, wife, mother...
 In
her first five years published in novel-length, she's finaled for 6 EPPIES (in five
different categories), 3 PEARLS (including one Honorable Mention, second to Angela Knight),
2 CAPAS and a Dream Realm Award. She's also taken Spinetingler's Book of the Year for 2007.
Brenna writes milieu-heavy dark fiction, mainly science fiction, fantasy and horror,
straight genre, romance and erotic crosses, poetry, articles
and essays. She teaches classes in everything from POV studies to advanced editing,
networking to marketing. Brenna loves to talk to readers and can be reached via her site at
http://www.brennalyons.com
 All
dreams have a meaning, even those that cannot possibly be true. Mollie hopes so, anyway. Is
she losing her mind or learning her destiny?
Find more of Brenna's books
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 As a pre-teen,
Kathryn Lilley had two passions: Nancy Drew
mysteries and Pralines 'n Cream ice cream. So it was perhaps inevitable that she grew up
to write a series called the Fat City Mysteries.
Her stories are set in Durham, North Carolina, the self-proclaimed "Diet Capital of the
World". And like her journalist sleuth, Kate Gallagher, Kathryn understands the Battle of
the Bulge all too well. She once lost 90 pounds to land a job on camera as a TV reporter.
And even today, Kathryn avoids the street that goes past 31 Flavors.
A graduate of Wellesley College (and former editor-in-chief of the Wellesley News) Kathryn
received a graduate degree in journalism from the Columbia University Graduate School of
Journalism, interned at stations in Cambridge, MA and South Carolina, and worked as an
on-air reporter for WIS-TV in Columbia, South Carolina.So far, she's kept the weight off, too.
Kathryn Lilley
is the author of Dying to Be Thin (Obsidian, ISBN: 0451222407), the first
book in the Fat City Mysteries series. She lives in the Los Angeles area.
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 Since 1976
James McMullen has been an author,
naturalist, tracker, environmental education teacher, wildlife lecturer, photographer, and
wildlife consultant in nationwide video productions of the Florida Everglades.
Jim devoted years to writing his New York Times best-selling book,
Cry of the Panther: Quest of a Species. (He is presently writing Cry of the Panther,
Part II, Quest for Survival).
During a six-year stint with the Marines, while serving in Viet Nam,
Jim was wounded in action three times and was awarded the Purple Heart.
In 1980, Jim and his wife settled in Naples, Florida to devote full
time efforts to tracking the endangered panther/cougar and to help save it from extinction
in the Florida Everglades.
For intensive close up research, Jim raised a female panther/cougar
from cub to adulthood through a breeding program, naming her Tracker. She quickly became his
wilderness soul-mate and “panther teacher”.
Tracker helped Jim and 600,000 students, through a statewide straw
ballot election, get the Florida panther voted in as the state animal on March 9, 1982.
Jim and Tracker traveled to Tallahassee and walked down the isle of the House of
Representative three minutes before the vote. Her presence easily swayed the vote in favor
of the panther 93 to 3.
Over the years, Jim has presented his wildlife lecture to audiences
across Florida, New York, Illinois, Massachusetts, Maine, Ohio, and California. He has
appeared on local, regional, national and international television and radio. His panther
project has reached London, England, New Zealand and Canada.
He has appeared in more than one hundred newspaper and magazine feature stories
nationwide.
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Bob Avey is the author of
several short stories, various non-fiction articles, and a debut mystery novel, Twisted
Perception, released April 2006. He lives with his wife and son in Broken
Arrow,
Oklahoma. He works as an accountant in the
 petroleum industry, and when he’s not writing or
researching mystery writing techniques, he spends his free time prowling through dusty
antique shops looking for the rare or unusual, or roaming through ghost towns, searching for
echoes from the past. Through his writing, which he describes as a blend of literary and
genre, he explores the intricacies and extremities of human nature. Bob is a member of The Tulsa NightWriters, The Oklahoma Writers Federation (active board
member for 2006), The Oklahoma Mystery Writers, and Mystery Writers of America, which he
joined in 2005.http://www.bobavey.com/
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 Hailey Lind is
the pseudonym for two sisters, one an artist and the other a historian. Together, they write
the Art Lover’s Mystery Series. The first in the series, Feint of Art, was nominated for an
Agatha award for Best First Novel and has been translated into Japanese. The second,
Shooting Gallery, was an Independent Mystery Booksellers’ Association (IMBA) Bestseller. The
third, Brush with Death, is set in an historic cemetery and columbarium and will be released
July 3, 2007.
One-half of Hailey, Julie Goodson-Lawes, is a San
Francisco Bay Area muralist and portrait painter with her own faux finishing and design
business. Before pursuing art full time Julie worked as a waitress, an anthropologist, an
ESL teacher, and a family therapist. A California native, she graduated from UC Santa Cruz
with a major in Latin American studies before earning Masters’ Degrees in Anthropology and
Social Welfare from the State University of New York at Albany. She has published several
non-fiction articles on immigration as well as one book-length translation and has lived in
Mexico, Spain, Italy, the Philippines, and France. She now resides in Oakland with her
teenaged son, a rescued dog, and two housemates. Besides writing and painting, Julie enjoys
gardening, cooking, renovating old homes, hiking and –occasionally--dancing to salsa music
until dawn.
 Carolyn J. Lawes received a BA in History from
the University of Santa Clara, and, after a brief and remarkably unhappy sojourn as a
Personnel Assistant in the Silicon Valley, earned an MA and a PhD in History from UC Davis.
She taught in Paris for a year and traveled extensively before becoming an Associate
Professor of History at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia, where she specializes
in American women’s history. Carolyn has published numerous academic articles and reviews
and one major book, Women and Reform in a New England Community, 1815-1860. She has
won both college and university teaching awards, and was voted “Favorite Professor” in 1996.
She lives with her partner and several rescued dogs and cats in Norfolk, Virginia, where she
spends her spare time reading and coming up with new mystery plots.
www.haileylind.com
www.artloversmysteries.blogspot.com
| Robert W. Walker is
a graduate of Chicago's Wells High School, Northwestern University, and the NU's Graduate
Masters in English Education program. Rob has taught writing in all its permutations ("All
writing is creative writing but not all writing sings," he says.) from composition and
developmental to a study of the literary masters to creative and advanced creative writing.
His first novel was one only an arrogant youth could have conceived -- a sequel to
Huckleberry Finn (now published as Daniel & The Wrongway Railway, Royal Fireworks Press,
NY), but his first suspense-techno-thriller-sf-mystery came in 1979, after college, a novel
that won no awards, entitled SUB-ZERO.
Robert W. Walker's greatest success has been his popular INSTINCT and EDGE
series. He somewhat measures his life in publication dates as he has had over 36 novels
published and has written under 4 pen names as well as his own. Even the police don't know
all his aliases...but we'll tell you. Evan Kingsbury, Geoffrey Caine, Stephen Robertson, Glenn Hale.
http://www.robertwwalkerbooks.com
www.myspace.com/robertwwalkerbooks
Check out Robert's books
here.
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