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August 1, 2010 - Sally Franklin Christie

Kathryn Meyer Griffith has been writing for over 39 years now...published for 26 of those years since 1984; has fourteen novels and 7 short stories to her name...and more coming. She writes traditional supernatural horror, murder mysteries and paranormal romance. She's been writing about ghosts, haunted places and evil vampires WAY LONG BEFORE Stephanie Meyer (no relation, even though her maiden name is Meyer) and the rest of the vampire author crowd. And this year, 2010, it looks as if (fingers crossed) many of her older Zebra and Leisure paperbacks are going to be repackaged, reprinted and rereleased for the first time in many years.

Kathryn is a wife of 32 years (husband, Russell), mother (one son, James) and grandmother (two grandchildren, Caitlyn and Joshua). She was a graphic designer in the corporate world for 23 years; and has published with Dorchester, Kensington, Avalon Books, The Wild Rose Press, Damnation Books and Eternal Press. Recently, she crossed over into e-books as well as paperbacks.

She loves cats and nature, classic rock and country music (her brother, JS Meyer www.jsmeyermusic.com , is a singer/songwriter and does the songs for all the self-made book trailers that are on her websites).

VISIT her at www.myspace.com/kathrynmeyergriffith (to see all book trailers) or www.kathrynmeyergriffith.intuitwebsites.com

Kathryn's published books: Evil Stalks the Night (supernatural horror), Leisure 1984; The Heart of the Rose (historical romance) Leisure 1985; Blood Forge (supernatural horror), Leisure 1989; Vampire Blood (romantic supernatural horror), Zebra 1991; The Last Vampire (supernatural horror), Zebra 1992; Witches (romantic horror), Zebra 1993 & Pinnacle 2000; a novella called The Nameless One in Dark Seductions, an erotic horror anthology, Kensington, 1993; The Calling (supernatural horror), Zebra 1994. And Scraps of Paper (hardcover mystery) Avalon Books, 2003; All Things Slip Away, the second mystery in the series came out also from Avalon Books in February 2006.

Recently she published with an e-book/paperback publisher called The Wild Rose Press: Egyptian Heart, 2008 (ancient Egyptian time travel romance); Winter's Journey, 2008 (a romantic suspense novel); The Ice Bridge, (a contemporary romance e-novel with a dose of murder mystery) and two ghostly short stories, Don't Look Back, Agnes and In This House. BEFORE THE END: A Time of Demons, an apocalyptic saga from Damnation Books, June 2010. The Woman in Crimson, an eternal love vampire novel, from Eternal Press, September 2010.

 

August 8, 2010 - Lisa Haselton

Bryan Gruley is the critically acclaimed author of STARVATION LAKE: A MYSTERY, and the newly released sequel, THE HANGING TREE.

Starvation Lake was recently nominated for an Edgar Award for Best First Novel by the Mystery Writers of America and is currently nominated for two Anthony Awards. Reviewers have compared Bryan to novelist Dennis Lehane.

Secretly, though, Bryan would love to be compared favorably to Detroit Red Wings stars Johan Franzen and Pavel Datsyuk. He’s been playing hockey since he was a boy growing up in Detroit.

Hockey plays a big role in the life of the fictional town of Starvation Lake, as do two of Bryan’s other passions, northern Michigan and newspapers.

Bryan had his first newspaper job at the nearby Antrim County News in the summer of 1978. After graduating from the University of Notre Dame in 1979, Bryan worked for newspapers in Brighton, Howell, Kalamazoo and Detroit, Michigan, before joining The Wall Street Journal Washington Bureau in 1995.

Bryan is the author of a prize-winning non-fiction book, PAPER LOSSES: A MODERN EPIC OF GREED AND BETRAYAL AT AMERICA'S TWO LARGEST NEWSPAPER COMPANIES. He’s also an amateur musician who sings, plays guitar, and composes his own songs. They include "For a Son," which he wrote after the 2002 death of his friend and Journal colleague, Danny Pearl.

 

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