Susan Sundwall is a self-described late blooming Boomer Babe with attitude. She’s been a freelance writer, children’s author, blogger and mystery writer for the past twenty years. Her stories, articles, poems and essays have appeared in publications nationwide. She is the author of the Minnie Markwood Mystery series which includes The Red Shoelace Killer, The Super Bar Incident and The White Pizza Caper.
Susan Koefod is the author of the Arvo Thorson mystery series. Her debut, WASHED UP (North Star Press, 2011), was praised for its gorgeous prose by Library Journal. Other books in the series include BROKEN DOWN (2012) and BURNT OUT, scheduled for publication this fall. She has also widely published prose and poetry, including the first chapter of her literary fiction novel.
Suzanne Barr has been putting pen to paper for more than forty years. Very diversified, Suzanne likes to write about everything! Her column for The Daily Breeze covered everything from the many colors of Crayons to local politics. She has written three fiction novels, Sight Unseen, A Five Star Mystery, Every Woman Has a Story, Time Warner and a self published light-hearted romance Mountain Magic.
Tabitha Baumander has a mind that has always taken the world around her and turned it into plot. Before she had the tools to write with, she drew pictures in sequence and actually thought she would end up a cartoonist. This was in the days before the term “graphic novel.” Tabitha writes novels, screenplays and stage plays, all with a theme of at least some sort of step away from pure reality.
The author of this based-on-real-life novel, Tadeusz R. Sas, was born in the United Kingdom to Polish parents in 1941 and participated in many of the events that are described in this book. The owner of a company that traded extensively in Eastern Europe, in the days when it was not fashionable to do so, he travelled widely to all the countries comprising “The Soviet Bloc”.
J.R. Roberts (Robert J. Randisi) is an American author who writes in the Detective and Western genres. He has authored more than 500 published books and has edited more than 30 anthologies of short stories. Booklist magazine said he “may be the last of the pulp writers.
Valerie Anand (Fiona Buckley) is a British author of historical fiction. Under the pen name Fiona Buckley she writes the series of historical mysteries, set in the reign of Elizabeth I of England, featuring “Ursula Blanchard” (whose full name is Ursula Faldene Blanchard de la Roche Stannard). Under her own name she writes historical fiction based on the royalty of England and the Bridges over Time series which follows a family from the eleventh century through the nineteenth century.
Barbara D’Amato was the 1999-2000 president of Mystery Writers of America. D’Amato is also a past president of Sisters in Crime International. She writes a mystery series starring Chicago freelance investigative reporter Cat Marsala, a series starring Chicago patrol cops Suze Figueroa and Norm Bennis, and standalone novels.
Thom Reese is the author of the novels, THE INFUSION OF ARCHIE LAMBERT, A SAVAGE DISTANCE, THE DRACULA JOURNALS Trilogy, THE DEMON BAQASH, DEAD MAN’S FIRE, DEAD MAN’S FIRE, CHASING KELVIN, and THE EMPTY, along with the short story collection, 13 BODIES: SEVEN TALES OF MURDER & MADNESS. Thom was the sole writer and co-producer of the weekly audio drama radio program, 21ST CENTURY AUDIO THEATRE. Several of Thom’s audio dramas have been published on CD and MP3 formats. A native of the Chicago area, Thom currently makes his home with his wife in Las Vegas, Nevada.
J. Rodney Tafoya—Now the author of his first book—Ageless Arm—baseball has played a huge role in Rod’s colorful career, but never secondary to education and family.
