Eric Dean is a published (but still aspiring) author, MMA personality, voice actor, YouTube and podcast host from Tulsa, Oklahoma. He’s loved to write since childhood, and considers it his passion, as well as the source of and cure for his every existential struggle. He hopes that others can connect with his work, and thereby with him, in a way that transcends space and time. You can read his words and follow his journey at EricWrites.com.
ELLEN CROSBY is the author of MOSCOW NIGHTS, which was originally published in the UK in 2000, and is based on her time as the Moscow correspondent for ABC News Radio in the waning years of the Soviet Union. She is also the author of the Virginia wine country mysteries and the Sophie Medina mysteries.
Ed Gorman — SHAMUS, ANTHONY & ELLERY QUEEN AWARD-WINNING author
Ed has worked in politics as both a speechwriter and a TV producer. He has won the Shamus, Anthony, Ellery Queen, Spur, and International Fiction Awards. He has been nominated twice for an Edgar and once for the Silver Dagger. His other work includes the Sam McCain series and the Jack Sawyer series. A feature film based on his novel The Poker Club is forthcoming.
E.C. Ayres has a B.A. from Syracuse University. Ayres was a producer, writer and director of film and television programs and documentaries for over twenty years. Ayres moved to Florida’s Gulf Coast in 1989 to write mysteries with a Florida setting, and his first effort, Hour of the Manatee, won the St. Martin’s Press/Private Eye Writers of America Best First P.I. Novel competition in 1992. With his ensuing Tony Lowell Mysteries, Ayres was one of the originators of the eco-thriller genre, and in Tony Lowell, he invented the first “hip” private detective. He recently spent three years working and teaching in Harbin, China where he wrote and has now published a new memoir, Inside the New China.
Donna Lagone lives in upstate New York in a historic district “The Stockade” located in the city of Schenectady. Her home built in 1741, she finds wonderfully inspiring. Donna lives with, six spoiled cats, feral no more, and an exuberant French bulldog named Bella. She feels now is the time to put pen to parchment, writing the stories that swirl through her head at any given moment.
With a Masters degree in Leadership from Grand Canyon University, 4-time Amazon best-selling western and military author Don Bendell has written 30 books with over 3,000,000 copies in print worldwide. He is a former US Army Special Forces (Green Beret) captain, and 100% disabled Vietnam veteran. Don is also a widely-read and controversial editorialist and has appeared on Fox News and many national radio shows, newspapers, and blogs and speaks all over the country. Though now retired from teaching, Don is a Grandmaster Instructor in 4 different martial arts and black sash instructor in Muay Thai kickboxing and 1995 inductee into the International Karate and Kickboxing Hall of Fame.
Diane Glancy was born in 1941 in Kansas City, Missouri, of a Cherokee father and an English/German mother. Her B.A. was received from the University of Missouri in 1964. She was married for 19 years to Dwane Glancy and has a son, David, born in 1964 and a daughter, Jennifer, born in 1967. From 1980 to 1986 Diane was Artist-in-Residence for the State Arts Council of Oklahoma. Several of her books come from that experience.
Dennis Danvers is the author of the critically acclaimed novels Circuit of Heaven, Wilderness, and Time and Time Again. He lives in Richmond, Virginia, and is currently at work on his next novel.
A former pilot, sarcophagus maker, and businessman, David W. Ball has traveled to eighty countries and seven continents, crossed the Sahara Desert four times in the course of researching his novel Empires of Sand, and explored the Andes in a Volkswagen bus. Other research trips have taken him to China, Istanbul, Algeria, and Malta. He’s driven a taxi in New York City, installed telecommunications equipment in Cameroon, renovated old Victorian houses in Denver and pumped gasoline in the Grand Tetons. He lives with his family on a small farm in Colorado where the only things he grows are weeds and tall tales.
David R. Topper earned his PhD in the History of Science from Case Western Reserve University in 1970, and became a Professor of History at the University of Winnipeg, Canada, where he taught courses in the history of science and the history of art for 42 years, until he retired in 2012. He is the proud recipient of two teaching awards: the Robson Memorial Award for Excellence in Teaching (1981), and the National 3M Teaching Fellowship (1987). Since 1982 he has been an international co-editor and honorary editor of the Art & Science journal Leonardo.
