Authors

Beverly Bird confesses to having been the prototype of the rebellious teenager. By the age of five — when she tried to rewrite the ending to The Wizard of Oz because it scared her — she knew she would be a writer. Therefore, the high school regimen was obviously not for her, and childhood was just something to get through before she could make her mark on the world. On one memorable occasion, she stood up in chemistry class to inform her teacher that she did not need to understand the subject because in a few years she would be writing for a living anyway. She failed the class, of course. Then, some 20 years later, she had to face the teacher at a reunion and admit that when she had to research DNA for a recent book she still had no clue what it was about!

James D. Crownover grew up in the woods and on the streams of central Arkansas. He spent many days walking the fields and picking up arrowheads and other artifacts, possibly some of them left by his ancestors. Jim has a keen interest in history, especially that of the West and Southwest. Early on, he became interested in the everyday activities of the pioneers, Indians, and explorers and the oral histories of their adventures. Upon retirement as a Civil Engineer, he began writing a historical novel about four generations of a mixed Cherokee family that migrates from Tennessee to New Mexico Territory in the nineteenth century. The results of this work were four books. The first book is Wild Ran the Rivers, which in 2015 won two Western Writers of America Spurs for best historical novel and best first novel. It is about Mississippi River pirates and slavery and the New Madrid earthquakes of 1811-1812.

Scott E. Green has been active as a poet in the Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Horror genres for over 35 years. He is the author of the only reference book on Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Horror Poetry, SCIENCE FICTION, FANTASY, AND HORROR POETRY; A RESOURCE GUIDE AND BIOGRAPHICAL DIRECTORY (Westport, CT; 1989,Greenwood). In addition he has done entries on poetry for other reference books.

Sean Ellis has authored and co-authored more than 20 action-adventure novels, including the Nick Kismet adventures, the Jack Sigler/Chess Team series with Jeremy Robinson, and the Jade Ihara adventures with David Wood. He served with the Army National Guard in Afghanistan, and has a Bachelor of Science degree in Natural Resources Policy from Oregon State University. Sean is also a member of the International Thriller Writers organization. He currently resides in Arizona.

Seymour Blicker has had a long and distinguished career as a novelist, playwright, and screenwriter. He is the author of the acclaimed novels, BLUES CHASED A RABBIT, SHMUCKS, and THE LAST COLLECTION. His plays have been produced in Canada, The United States, and Europe. In 1997 in a ceremony at Britain’s National Theatre, he received the prestigious British Council International New Playwriting Award [for The Americas and Caribbean Region] for his play PALS.

Bestselling mystery author Beth Groundwater writes two series, the Claire Hanover, Gift Basket Designer series and the Rocky Mountain Outdoor Adventures series starring whitewater river ranger Mandy Tanner. Her first novel, A Real Basket Case, was nominated for the Best First Novel Agatha Award in 2007, her third, Deadly Currents, was an Amazon bestseller, and her fourth, Wicked Eddies, was nominated for the Rocky Award (Left Coast Crime) in 2013. She writes primarily in the Mystery genre, but she has a published science fiction novella as well.

Originally born in Chicago a long time ago, Sharon Ahern met her future husband and co-writer, Jerry Ahern, on the very first day of High School, and they became friends for life. Sharon began her writing career in the public relations department of Illinois Bell Telephone and stringing for a local newspaper. Always an avid researcher, she was happy to pull out the Britannica (and later the Internet) and become an instant expert on whatever information Jerry needed for a story. Today she co-writes with Bob Anderson to continue the dramatic line of the popular Survivalist series.

Stephen G. Mitchell is now writing as STEPHEN STEELE. He is a graduate of the University of North Texas with degrees in English literature and marketing. An avid swimmer, sailor and mountain biker, the author worked as a salesman, producer and syndicator of television sports shows, builder and developer, ski instructor and cowboy. He is a resident of Montana and lives in an 1800’s Victorian home with his lifelong partner and ruthless editor Beverly, a dog, a cat, and an undetermined number of deer, bear and squirrels.

Steve Maricic grew up in the happiest place on earth – Hudson County, NJ – on a block rich in stoops and colorful neighbors. He is happily married to tough and beautiful Bernadette from Jersey City, and they have two wonderful daughters. Educated at Brown, Montclair State, and Rutgers, he’s been a teacher and a librarian all his life.

James Rouch has been a full-time author for thirty years. In that time he has had fourteen books published. Three of them are novels of the Second World War. TIGER, set in Northern France during the breakout from the Normandy beachhead. THE WAR MACHINES, set in North Africa and GATEWAY TO HELL, dealing with the fighting for Monte Cassino in Italy. They were all published in the UK and the USA by major publishers and all went to reprints with translation rights sold in Spain and many other countries.