Mary San Giovanni
is the author of the Bram Stoker-nomiated
THE HOLLOWER from Leisure Books, and its recently released sequel, FOUND
YOU. She is currently at work on a ghost story novel.
Her fiction has appeared in anthologies and magazines
since 2001. She received a Masters in Writing Popular Fiction from Seton
Hall University in 2007. She lives in New Jersey with her son.
Naomi Tickle
is an International speaker, career consultant and author of You Can
Read A Face Like A Book. She was first introduced to Personology (face
analysis) 22 years ago. Amazed by the accuracy, she could immediately
see how this approach could help others find a career they would really
enjoy. Today she works with children, teenagers and adults world wide,
helping them discover their innate talents and abilities and how to
direct them.
As Naomi says - Personology
offers us a new approach for discovering who we are. It's piece of
the blue print we were born with. It helps us to discover the
unique qualities within every individual. When Naomi sees a child's
face, no matter where they live in the world, she sees the potential
that is written in the face. Potential that individual may never
discover. Her passion is about helping people make a difference in
their lives.
Naomi has
appeared on CNN, NBC, BBC, Good Morning America and numerous
television radio interviews around the world. Her clients include
IBM marketing division, CNN, AT&T, National Semiconductor, College
Administration Conference, Orthodontist, FAMA conference plus many
more.
Christopher Golden
is the award-winning, bestselling
author of such novels as The Myth Hunters, Wildwood Road, The
Boys Are Back in Town, The Ferryman, Strangewood, Of Saints and Shadows,
and (with Tim Lebbon) Mind the Gap. Golden co-wrote the
lavishly illustrated novel Baltimore, or, The Steadfast Tin
Soldier and the Vampire with Mike Mignola, which they are
currently scripting as a feature film for New Regency.
He has
also written books for teens and young adults, including the thriller
series Body of Evidence,
honored by the New York Public Library and chosen as one of YALSA's Best
Books for Young Readers. Upcoming teen novels include Poison Ink
for Delacorte, Soulless for MTV Books, and The
Secret Journeys of Jack London,
a collaboration with Tim Lebbon.
With
Thomas E. Sniegoski, he is the co-author of the dark fantasy series
The Menagerie
as well as the young readers fantasy series OutCast and
the comic book miniseries Talent, both of which were
recently acquired by Universal Pictures. Golden and Sniegoski also wrote
the upcoming
comic book miniseries The Sisterhood,
currently in development as a feature film.
Working
with actress/writer/director Amber Benson, he co-created and co-wrote
Ghosts of Albion,
an original animated supernatural drama for BBC online, from which they
created the book series of the same name. (www.ghostsofalbion.net)
As an
editor, Golden’s work has included the Hellboy novel series, a trio of
Hellboy short story anthologies, and co-editing duties on British
Invasion, from Cemetery Dance. His non-fiction work includes
collaborative efforts such as The
Stephen King Universe, Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Watcher's Guide,
and the upcoming Neil Gaiman Companion.
His other writing has included video games, numerous comic books, and
short stories.
Golden
was born and raised in Massachusetts, where he still lives with his
family. His original novels have been published in fourteen languages in
countries around the world.
Novels
Strangewood (Signet, 1999)
Straight On 'Til Morning (Signet, 2001)
The Ferryman (Signet, 2002)
The Boys Are Back in Town (Bantam, 2004)
Wildwood Road (Bantam, 2005)
THE VEIL
The Myth Hunters (Bantam, 2006)
The Borderkind (Bantam, 2006)
The Lost Ones (Bantam, 2008)
THE SHADOW SAGA
Of Saints and Shadows (Berkley, 1994)
Angel Souls and Devil Hearts (Berkley, 1995)
Of Masques and Martyrs (Ace, 1998)
The Gathering Dark (Berkley, 2003)
THE MENAGERIE
The Nimble Man [w/Tom Sniegoski] (Ace, 2004)
The Tears of Furies [w/Tom Sniegoski] (Ace, 2005)
Stones Unturned [w/Tom Sniegoski] (Ace, 2006)
Crashing Paradise [w/Tom Sniegoski] (Ace, 2007)
PROWLERS
Prowlers (Pocket, 2001)
Laws of Nature (Pocket, 2001)
Predator and Prey (Pocket, 2001)
Wild Things (Pocket, 2002)
BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER
Halloween Rain [w/Nancy Holder] (Pocket, 1997)
Blooded [w/Nancy Holder] (Pocket 1998)
Child of the Hunt [w/Nancy Holder] (Pocket 1998)
The Gatekeeper, Book One--Out of the Madhouse [w/Nancy Holder] (Pocket
1999)
The Gatekeeper, Book Two--Ghost Roads [w/Nancy Holder] (Pocket 1999)
The Gatekeeper, Book Three--Sons of Entropy [w/Nancy Holder] (Pocket
1999)
Immortal [w/ Nancy Holder] (hardcover, Pocket, 1999)
Sins of the Father (Pocket, 1999)
Spike & Dru: Pretty Maids All in a Row (hardcover, Pocket, 2000)
The Lost Slayer - Parts 1 through 4 (Pocket 2001)
Oz: Into the Wild (Pocket, 2002)
The Wisdom of War (Pocket, 2002)
Monster Island [w/Tom Sniegoski] (hardcover, Pocket, 2003)
Additional Novels for
Teens
Beach Blanket Psycho (Bantam YA, 1995)
Bikini (Bantam YA, 1995)
Force Majeure [w/Tom Sniegoski] (Pocket, 2002)
Poison Ink (Delacorte, 2008) Soulless (MTV Books, 2008)
****October 2008****
Non-Fiction
Cut!: Horror Writers on Horror Film (Berkley, editor, 1992)
The Watcher's Guide: The Official Buffy the Vampire Slayer Companion
[w/Nancy Holder] (Pocket 1998)
The Sunnydale High Yearbook [w/Nancy Holder] (Pocket, 1999)
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Monster Book [w/Stephen R. Bissette & Tom
Sniegoski] (Pocket, 2000)
The Stephen King Universe [w/Stanley Wiater & Hank Wager] (Renaissance,
2001)
Sheila Connolly
has taught art history, structured and marketed municipal bonds for
major cities, worked as a staff member on two statewide political
campaigns, and served as a fundraiser for several non-profit
organizations. She also managed her own consulting company providing
genealogical research services. Now a full-time writer, she thinks
writing mysteries is a lot more fun than any of her previous
occupations.
Ms.
Connolly is a member of Mystery Writers of America, Sisters in Crime,
Romance Writers of America, the New England Chapter of RWA, and the
online RWA mystery/suspense chapter Kiss of Death. She began writing in
2001 and sold her first series (the Glassblowing Mystery series), under
the name Sarah Atwell, to Berkley Prime Crime in 2006. Six months later
she sold a second series (the Orchard Mystery series) under her
own name to the same publisher. The first books of both series debuted
in 2008.
She lives in a too-big Victorian in southeastern
Massachusetts with her husband and three cats, as well as her
poet-daughter who graduated from college with a degree in comparative
literature and now works in a bookstore.
Joe Moore
is a former marketing &
communications executive and two-time EMMY® winner with 25 years
experience in the television postproduction industry. He has written
articles for national and international trade magazines
covering the field of professional sound recording and video. As a
freelance writer, he reviewed fiction for the South Florida
Sun-Sentinel, the Florida Times Union, and the Tampa
Tribune.
As a native Floridian,
Lynn Sholes
was intrigued by the
prehistoric people of salvage ancient Indian sites before their
destruction and petitioning for preservation of sites. These activities
birthed the seed ideas of her first six novels, writing as Lynn
Armistead McKee.
After reading an article more than ten years ago in Discover magazine,
the idea for The Grail Conspiracy was conceived. The article was
about an archaeological dig in Jerusalem. One of the archaeologists
stayed late on Christmas Eve, and as he brushed away the dirt, something
silver glinted in the setting sun. It was a cup which he had reason to
believe was The Cup, the Holy Grail. Resting
in the bottom of the artifact was a brown residue that proved to be
human blood, type O negative. And wouldn’t that be just the blood type
of Christ—universal donor? Lynn and Joe Moore, the co-author of The
Grail Conspiracy, teamed up and the tale started spinning.
Lynn has a B.S. in education from East Carolina University. She trains
teachers to teach writing for Citrus County Schools in Florida. Lynn
develops the content and facilitates face-to-face and online workshops
for staff development.
Lynn has presented writing workshops and lectures through The
Florida Center for the Book, Backroom Writers, Florida Romance Writers,
Writer’s Connection, and others. She has been a featured speaker at
Brevard Community College, West Regional Library, Broward Community
College, Friends of the Library, American Association of University
Women, The Broward County Historical Society, Plantation Historical
Society, The Graves Museum, National Council for Teachers of English,
and other organizations. She has been interviewed on television and in
newspapers (The Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel, Miami Herald, Coral
Springs Forum) and Cultural Quarterly magazine. Currently, she is a
member of
Mystery Writers of America,
Florida Writers Association,
the
International Thriller Writers,
and
The Authors Guild.
Page
Lambert writes about the western landscape, guiding and
mentoring people who want to reconnect with nature.She leads Creative Outdoor Writing Adventures, and Life
Balancing Retreats, often working in partnership with organizations such
as The Women’s Wilderness Institute, the Grand Canyon Field Institute,
and the Aspen Writers’ Foundation.
Her River Writing
Journeys for Women were featured in the January, 2006 issue of Oprah’s
O Magazine as “One of the
top six great all-girl getaways of the year.” This year’s specialty
trips include the “Literature and Landscape of the Horse” retreat at the
Vee Bar Guest Ranch in Wyoming, and the “Create Yourself Anew: Writing
and Sculpting River Trip” on the Colorado River in Utah featuring
world-renowned Santa Clara Pueblo artist Roxanne Swentzell.
A
presenter and facilitator of over 150 retreats and conferences in the
U.S. and British Columbia, she speaks on a variety of motivational,
creative and nature topics. She also works with writers to help them
hone their writing skills, develop market-ready manuscripts, identify
their core passions, envision more creative life styles, and learn how
to more fully integrate their personal and professional lives.
Starting fall of 2008,
Page will begin hosting 5-day private Mt. Vernon Writing Sabbaticals:
one-on-one retreats in her Mount
Vernon cabin in the foothills west of Denver, Colorado. A secluded
place to work on your novel, memoir, or poetry, these private retreats
include your own bedroom and bath, meals, secluded hiking trails amidst
aspens and ponderosas, elegant Friday night "king crab" buffet at Mt.
Vernon Country Club, and 3 hours of one-on-one editing and career
consultation each day. Optional: 1-hour massage at Lake Steam Baths.
For more information, or to book a week for the 2008/2009 season,
contact
page@pagelambert.com.
A Senior Associate on
the Leadership Team of the Children and Nature Network (
www.cnaturenet.org ), she is a
board member of The Vore Buffalo Jump Foundation, and a past board
member of the Colorado Authors’ League.
Doranna
Durgin responded to all early injunctions to "put down that
book/notebook and go outside to play" by climbing trees to read &
write. Such quirkiness of spirit has led to an eclectic
publishing journey, spanning genres and form over 25 novels to include
mystery, SF/F, action-romance, paranormal, franchise, and a slew of
essays and short stories.
But after all that, mostly she still prefers
to hang around outside her northern Arizona home with the animals,
riding dressage on
her Lipizzan and training for performance sports with
the dogs. She doesn't believe so much in mastering the beast within,
but in channeling its power. For good or bad has yet to be decided...
You can find her online at
www.doranna.net , where
she keeps a collection of gorgeous high
desert sunsets and scoops about new projects, lots of silly photos, and
contact info.
This
year has been especially busy, with a special edition release of Dun Lady's Jess--Doranna's
first & award-winning novel--in a French flap trade paperback with
gorgeous packaging and artwork (she admits some bias here) in April,
followed by the July appearance of Hidden Steel.
This book was once
slated to be a February '07 release...and then the line was
discontinued, and the final month of publication was...January '07. So
Hidden Steel
found a new home with Five Star Expressions.
With September came the
launch of the new Ghost Whisperer
tie-in books, which Doranna kicks off with Revenge;
in December, the second of the Dale Kinsall series (known to fans as the
Dale & Sully books, for Dale and his Beagle Sully) hits the scene. And
'09 brings two Silhouette Nocturnes, an online Nocturne novella, and the
launch of a brand new series with Tor, The Reckoners.
Maine Native and recovering attorney
Kate Flora is the author of eleven
books, including seven Thea Kozak mysteries, the latest of which is Stalking Death,
and Playing God,
a police procedural set in Portland, Maine. Her second Joe Burgess police
procedural, The Angel of Knowlton Park, was published in September. Research
for Playing God
led to her non-fiction collaboration, Finding Amy: A True
Story of
Murder in Maine, which was nominated for an Edgar award in 2007
and was a finalist for the Maine Literary Awards. The story has been featured on
Court Tv's Murder by the Book and A&E's Psychic Investigators.
She is a partner in
Level Best Books, a
cooperative publishing yearly crime story anthologies by New England
writers. The sixth anthology is Deadfall.
Their other story collections are: Undertow, Riptide,
Windchill,Seasmoke and Still
Waters. The cooperative is pleased to have been able to
provide publishing opportunities for more
than a hundred twenty stories and to have introduced many new writers to
mystery and short story readers. First time writer Mark Ammons,
published in the 2007 anthology, received The Robert Fish Award for best
crime story by a first time writer and is a 2008 Edgar nominee.
Flora's profile of
Elinor Lipman appeared in The Larcom Review; her profile of Maine's
first Poet Laureate, Kate Barnes, appeared in The Wolf Moon Press and
later in an anthology. Her short stories have appeared in six
anthologies as well as in a collection of stories by former Sisters in
Crime international presidents, Sisters on the Case.
Another story appeared in Per Se,
an anthology of fiction honoring her inspiring writing teacher, Arthur
Edelstein.Short
pieces have appeared in ForeWord Magazine and the Northeastern Law
School alumni magazine. She is a former international president of
Sisters in Crime, and a former Maine Assistant Attorney General. She
teaches writing for Grub Street in Boston. Flora is an MFA candidate in
writing at Vermont College.
Flora
is married and the mother of two sons, one into film and the other into
physics. She divides her time between Maine and Massachusetts, where she
wages two constant battles. One is to protect her perennial gardens from
deer, woodchucks, chipmunks, and her husband's lawnmower. The other is
to devise sneaky and skillful ways to get the guys in her life to eat
their vegetables.
N M Kelbyis
the author of Murder at the Bad Girl’s Bar and Grill
(forthcoming June 2008 from Shaye Areheart/ Random House), Whale
Season (Shaye Areheart/ Random House, In the Company of Angels
(Theia/Hyperion), and Theater of the Stars (Theia/Hyperion).
Named “Outstanding Southern Artist” by The Southern Arts Federation,
her work has been translated into several languages and offered by The
Literary Guild, Doubleday Book Club, and Quality Paperback Book Club.
She is currently working on a story collection for Borealis Books and
The Constant Art of Being a Writer: The Life, the Work & the
Business of Fiction, a craft book for
Writer’s Digest Books.
Her short stories have
appeared in many publications includingOne Story, Zoetrope ASE, and the audio magazine Verb. Her
story “Jubilation, Florida” was selected for National Public Radio’s
Selected Shorts, and later recorded by actress
Joanne Woodward for the NPR CD
Travel Tales, and included in New Stories from the South: Best of
2006 (Algonquin Books).
Kelby is working on the
film version of Whale Season along with Actor/Singer Dwight
Yoakam.
She is the recipient of a
Bush Artist Fellowship in Literature, an NEA Inter-Arts grant, the
Heekin Group Foundation’s James Fellowship for the Novel, both a Florida
and Minnesota State Arts
Board Fellowship in fiction, two Jerome Travel Study Grants, and a
Jewish Arts Endowment Fellowship.
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