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About the Authors

J.K. Cummins is the author of Death Rides at Ascot, Shadowed by Evil, Awake from Evil Dreams and more than a hundred shorter works. Her crime fiction has appeared in Murder between Knife and Fork (German and French editions), Futures Mystery Anthology, Mystery Time, FAME, Dime, City Crimes: Country Crimes, Fedora IV, Maelstrom I (UK), and several other publications.
    An active member of Mystery Writers of America and Sisters in Crime, she has received numerous writing awards for both novels and short stories. She currently teaches English at Palomar College in San Diego but spent twenty years living abroad, during which time she owned a travel business specializing in tours to the Middle East. She and her British husband still enjoy traveling extensively.

J.M.M. Holloway is a fifth-generation Texan, who recently returned to her home state after a twenty-year sojourn on the San Mateo Coast of California. Both locales color her short fiction, which has appeared in various e-zines and the print anthology Mystery in Mind.
    Her story, "How to Kill a Peanut Queen," was inspired by the infamous Sweet Potato of Queens of Hunt Texas, although the two groups have only flamboyance in common.
    J lives in the Texas Hill Country with her husband Bob, a research chemist turned university professor.

Kadi Easley is a mystery writer from Fulton, Missouri. Her work has appeared in Futures Mysterious Anthology Magazine and on various E-zines. Her recent story, Diamonds are Forever, was submitted to the 2005 Edgar committee.
She writes and works throughout the United States and parks in Missouri periodically to catch up with her two grown sons. If you'd like to see more of Kadi's work, stop by www.kadieasley.com
 

Megan Powell lives in suburban Philadelphia and sometimes vacations in the Adirondacks. She has never needed to hide a body or cover up a murder, but planning for such eventualities has provided her with hours of entertainment. Sometimes her husband assists with said plans, which bodes well for the future of the relationship.
    Megan's most recent anthology, Crossings, was published in 2004 and her novel Waxing is due for release in 2005. Her short fiction has appeared in various magazines and anthologies. She putters online with the webzines Shred of Evidence and Fables, as well as a homepage at www.meganpowell.net.
 

Pam McWilliams got hooked on Nancy Drew as a young girl and never stopped reading. She graduated to Agatha Christie, P.D. James, and the wider world of great literature, but mystery – her first love – remains her passion and became her writer’s muse. Lots of living happened first.
    She chose business writing initially because she thought she lacked imagination. These days she’s bombarded by story ideas every time she picks up the newspaper, waits in a carpool line, or sits in the stands at a football game.
    After working briefly as a feature writer for a small town paper, she moved to Manhattan to spend a decade in the business world – writing, posturing, traveling. One day she got talked into a sales job at a Wall Street brokerage firm. Temperamentally she was unsuited to work on a trading floor, but she remembers the insanity, the greed, the giant personalities - it was there that she discovered the simple joy of observing other people. She married and had two children, and one day she woke up with a big imagination.
    She started to write fiction and couldn’t stop. Today as she adds to her eclectic collection of short stories, works on her contemporary young adult mystery series (an ode to Nancy Drew), and fleshes out the plot of her first adult mystery novel, she wonders, is one lifetime enough? www.pdmcwilliams-pdqmedia.com.
 

Roberta Rogow is the author of four mystery novels in which Mr. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson(better known as Lewis Carroll) teams up with young Dr. Arthur Conan Doyle to solve mysterious deaths when the local police either cannot, do not, or will not take action.
She has also written Sherlock Holmes pastiche stories and participated in the "Merovingen Nights" Shared Universe anthologies.
    When she is not writing or attending Science Fiction and Mystery conventions, Roberta is a children's librarian at a public library in New Jersey.
 

 Heather Hiestand’s first short story, Nancy’s Magic Penny, was written when she was seven. Though the story was popular in grade school publishing circles, it took her years to find additional publication for her short fiction. Now she looks forward to finding publication for her novels.
She resides in Washington State where she owns a small business that provides non-medical services for seniors and the disabled. You can reach her at HAHiestand@aol.com. 
 

Gesine Schulz is the author of the popular German children's mystery series, Privatdetektivin Billie Pinkernell about a spunky girl detective. In her series of crime stories for adults she writes about the (not always clean) cases of Karo Rutkowsky, owner of a struggling detective agency and sought-after cleaning lady. One of these stories, "The Panama Hen", was included in "The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories, Fourth Annual Collection", 2003, edited by Ed Gorman and Martin H. Greenberg.
A librarian by training, Gesine Schulz spent more than a decade living and working abroad. Mostly in New York, but also in South America, Ireland and Switzerland. Nowadays she divides her time between Essen/Germany and her garden in West Cork/Ireland.
    He is a member of Sisters in Crime as well as the Internet Chapter, and the German Chapter 'Moerderische Schwestern' (http://www.sinc.de  ) Gesine is currently working on new Karo-stories, her next children's mystery and is planning a crime novel. www.gesineschulz.com www.billie-pinkernell.de
Gunhild Muschenheim, translator for Gesine Schulz, was born in Germany, and has spent most of her life in the States. She has a translator's certificate from New York University. After some years in London she and her husband now live in the South-West of Ireland.
 

Paul D. Marks is the stealth screenwriter, making his living from optioning screenplays of his own and rewriting (script doctoring) other people's scripts and developing their ideas. He has also had short stories appear in the "Dime," "Murder on Sunset Boulevard," "Murder by Thirteen" and "Fiction on the Run" anthologies, as well as in such magazines as "Crimestalker Casebook," "Futures" and others. His story Netiquette won first place in the Futures Short Story Contest. Dem Bones was a finalist in the Southern Writers Association contest.
    Paul recently placed his novel White Heat with a literary agent in NYC. White Heat is a detective thriller about a private eye in L.A. trying to redeem himself in a time of racial turmoil – the L.A. riots of 1992 – by finding a killer – a killer he unwittingly aided. Paul is currently working on another mystery-thriller as well as a mainstream novel.
Besides fiction and screen work, Paul has sold non-fiction articles to the Los Angeles Daily News, The Los Angeles Times, The Los Angeles Herald Examiner, and American Premiere magazine. He was also a contributing editor on The Hollywood Gazette.
    Paul has also lectured on writing and screen writing at UCLA, California State University, San Bernardino, Learning Tree University and other seminars or conferences.
Good Old Days is the second story to appear in print featuring Paul's character Bobby Saxon.
A Los Angeles native, Paul loves the city that L.A. was. Dodging bullets, he's not so sure about the city it is today. You can find him at www.PaulDMarks.com.
 

Patricia Gulley is a retired travel agent from a major travel agency in the USA. She has, and still, travels widely, cruising is her favorite. She grew up in Pennsylvania and worked with two airlines in New York City before moving to Portland Oregon, where she now lives on a floating home. Though she never found a body, though one night half a smashed pumpkin stuck between her house and the walkway gave her a scare, she has experienced almost everything else mentioned in her story. She loves clubs, conferences and conventions and has helped run a few for Mystery and Science Fiction. She is the editor of the In SinC Docket. She has one daughter and two grandchildren.

R. Barri Flowers is a prolific writer, living in the Pacific Northwest. A fan of mystery, thriller, and romantic suspense fiction, he has a long background in criminology and has used this to write both nonfiction and fiction books.
The author of more than thirty books, his nonfiction titles include the best selling true crime book now in its seventh printing, The Sex Slave Murders (St. Martin's Press, 1996), as well as Murders In The United States (McFarland, 2004), Male Crime And Deviance (Charles C Thomas, 2003, Murder, At The End Of The Day And Night (Charles C Thomas, 2002, Kids Who Commit Adult Crimes (Haworth, 2002), Domestic Crimes, Family Violence And Child Abuse (McFarland, 2000), Drugs, Alcohol And Criminality In American Society (McFarland, 1999), and Female Crime, Criminals And Cellmates (McFarland, 1995).
Fiction by Flowers includes the bestselling legal thrillers, Persuasive Evidence (Dorchester, 2004) and Justice Served (Dorchester, 2005). Look for his next powerful legal thriller from Dorchester, State's Evidence, to hit the bookstore shelves in 2006.
    R. Barri Flowers is a longtime member of Sisters in Crime, Romance Writers of America, Mystery Writers of America, American Crime Writers League, American Society of Criminology, and Kiss of Death.
When not writing, he enjoys traveling (often to scope out new locations for his thrillers) across the country and abroad; listening to jazz standards, watching basketball, football, and baseball; classic movies, tennis, walking, dancing, museums, and playing on the computer.
Visit the author’s website at: http://rbarriflowers.homestead.com
 

Cindy Daniel lives in Rockwall, Texas (a lakeside suburb of Dallas) with her husband. She works as an orthopedic research coordinator at a Dallas area children's hospital.
Cindy is the Southwest Chapter President of Mystery Writers of America and was the 2004 President of Sisters in Crime - Internet Chapter. She is a member of Mystery Writers of America, Sisters in Crime, SinC Internet Chapter, SinC Guppies, Romance Writers of America - Kiss of Death, and American Medical Writers Association; she is the Dallas Meeting Coordinator for the Southwest Chapter of Mystery Writers of America.
    Cindy’s debut novel, Death Warmed Over, was released in hardcover in October 2003 and paperback in April 2005. The series is set in the East Texas Bible belt and is packed with sibling rivalry, lust, old-fashioned Christian guilt, death of a beauty queen, and, of course, pickup trucks.
The second of the series, A Family Affair, was released hardcover in May 2005. Return to Destiny, Texas - where the eccentric heirs, animal activists and stray bullets threaten to spoil Hannah’s romance. Good thing the Sheriff of Van Zandt County has a big gun!
    "What Janet Evanovich does for the Jersey burbs, Cindy Daniel takes to the back streets of the Bible Belt in a rollicking, Texas-sized mystery!" Ann Cavan, Sisters In Crime
In her spare time, Cindy is writing a non-fiction account of her breast cancer experience — It’s Not About You: A Mother and Daughter’s Journey Through Cancer.
Please visit Cindy at her website: www.deathwarmedovermysteries.com