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.
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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.
Rodney Tafoya was born in Santa Fe, New Mexico, whereas the youngest of five siblings he immediately took a liking to baseball. Older brother Jack stressed that Rodney should one use his left hand, leading this new “southpaw” on to what became an interesting diamond career.
“I was a huge follower of my new passion with the game, as a baseball card collector and my new idol in Nolan Ryan, a right-handed flame thrower, as his poster adorned my wall in my room. Rodney’s success on the mound began in Little League, continued through high school and college, and then into the professional ranks.
While playing for Newman University in Kansas, he became confident his career would continue on the diamond, but he made sure he satisfied a promise he’d made to his father to secure a college diploma.
“I never looked back, only looking forward to what was next in a line of baseball opportunities that I had worked so hard in my young life for,” Tafoya said. “During the next decade, the game propelled me to travel and dream of new experiences and opportunities with stops in Canada, a return to Mexico, and yet more extensive traveling, with a job in baseball as a scout and a no end in sight, as I thought my career would never end.”
Tina Murray is the acclaimed author of a captivating series of glitzy, suspense-filled romance novels, the Heston Demming series. Murray’s steamy, yet spiritual saga chronicles the life and loves of handsome movie-superstar, Heston Demming. In Murray’s stories, the sexy actor struggles to tame his passions and torments. While he copes with fame and fortune, he searches for his lost soul, amid the hidden ruins of a secret past.
