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).
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.
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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