Authors
Shirley S. Allen
Shirley S. Allen was born in Oak Park, Illinois, and graduated from Oak Park High School. She received a B.A. from Carleton College and a Ph.D. in English and Latin from Bryn Mawr. Married to Archibald W. Allen, a professor of classics at Yale, Colby, and Wesleyan, she brought up three children before becoming a professor of English at the University of Connecticut. Among her scholarly publications is a book on the stage history of Shakespearean drama. After retiring to California, she became a fiction writer. Her first novel, Roxanna Britton, was published in 2001. Watch for Academic Body coming in March 2010.
P. I. Barrington and Loni Emmert
California natives and sisters P.I. Barrington and Loni Emmert fell in love with New England during fall vacations in Maine and New Hampshire. Loni has spent the past twenty-five years working in the music industry and writing press releases and magazine articles. P.I.’s experience includes work as a newspaper journalist, radio air talent, and at a major record company. P.I.’s first suspense novel, Crucifying Angel, was released in 2009. They are members of Sisters in Crime and Romance Writers of America. Each lives in Southern California, and each has a very spoiled dog. They love to hear from readers at wordmistresses@yahoo.com. Watch for Button Hollow Chronicles #1: The Leaf Peeper Murders coming in August 2010.
Judith Campbell
Rev. Dr. ‘Judy’ Campbell is an ordained Unitarian Universalist minister and author of several books and articles. She has published children’s stories, poetry, as well as essays on the arts and religion and on spirituality. She holds a Ph.D. in The Arts and Religious Studies and a Master of Arts in Fine Arts. She has presented writing retreats and spirituality workshops nationally and internationally—and when she isn’t tearing around the planet, she lives on the island of Martha’s Vineyard and in Plymouth, Massachusetts, with her husband and best friend, Chris Stokes, a Professional Englishman, together with their annoyingly intelligent cats, Lucy and Katie. Watch for A Deadly Mission coming in July 2010.
James A. Ciullo
Jim Ciullo lives in the Berkshires of Western Massachusetts, where in his previous career, he helped to develop a system of community services for persons with developmental disabilities. When not writing, he works as a consultant and as a volunteer in various community projects. His previous novels include A Tango in Tuscany (2002) and Orinoco (2007), a prequel to Maracaibo, published by Mainly Murder Press. Jim served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Venezuela, an experience that inspired both Orinoco and Maracaibo. An alumnus of Boston College and UMASS Amherst, he has traveled extensively. Sports, politics, and travel are his main interests. Please visit www.JimCiullo.com and/or contact Jim at JCiullo125@Yahoo.com.
Sharon Love Cook
Sharon Love Cook got her first newspaper column at age 16. Since then she's continued, writing a long-term humor column for a local paper. A cartoonist, sometimes standup comic, and mystery writer, she lives in Beverly Farms, Massachusetts, with her husband and herd of cats. Watch for A Nose for Hanky Panky coming in October 2010.
Jessie Crockett
A nearly life-long resident of the Granite State, Jessie naturally adores black flies, 98% humidity, killing frosts in August, and snow banks taller than the average grandmother. When not working on her next murderous adventure, she enthusiastically putters in her greenhouse, designs bento lunches, and throws oversized parties. She delights in mentoring young writers at the local elementary school. Jessie lives with her dark and mysterious husband and exuberant children in a village so small that most other New Hampshire residents have never heard of it. Hearing from readers makes her day, so please drop by for a visit at www.jessiecrockett.com.
Lesley A. Diehl
Lesley retired from her life as a professor of psychology and reclaimed her country roots by moving to a small cottage in the Butternut River Valley in upstate New York . In the winter she migrates to old Florida —cowboys, scrub palmetto, and open fields of grazing cattle, a place where spurs still jingle in the post office. Back north, she devotes her afternoons to writing, and when the sun sets, relaxing on the bank of her trout stream, sipping tea or a local microbrew. She was the winner of the Sleuthfest 2009 short story contest. You can visit her on her website: www.lesleydiehl.com. She loves to hear from her readers at LesDieh60@aol.com. Watch for A Deadly Draught coming in April 2010.
Karen Frisch
Karen Frisch has written and illustrated her own stories since childhood when her heroines were Nancy Drew and Lassie. Her short mystery won First Place in the 2007 Writer’s Digest Popular Fiction Awards’ Mystery Category. She is the author of two genealogy books, Unlocking the Secrets in Old Photographs and Creating Junior Genealogists. With a master’s degree in Victorian literature, she taught English and wrote hospital publications before becoming a historic interpreter. For 17 years she hosted Rhode Island Volunteer Services for Animals’ award-winning cable TV show "Pet Talk." Please visit http://karenfrisch.webs.com and/or contact her at AuthorKaren@cox.net. Watch for Murder Most Civil coming in June 2010.
Kate George
Born in Northern California, Kate George now lives in rural Vermont. She shares an old farmhouse with a husband, four kids, three dogs and three cats. She started writing because of a dare and now makes the rascal who dared her read through her rough drafts. Kate earned a Bachelor of Arts from the University of California, Davis, and writes about things she has some experience with. These include working as a typesetter, paste-up tech, motorcycle safety instructor and in the housekeeping department of a swank hotel - among many, many other unusual occupations. Please visit www.kategeorge.com and/or contact Kate at
moonlightinginVermont@gmail.com .
John J. Gilmore
John J. Gilmore writes fiction based on offbeat people he meets in his travels. His characters are very often the invisible people we walk by every day of our lives. He was born and raised in New York City and now lives with his wife in Stratford, Connecticut. He spends a great deal of time in Vermont. His early career was in journalism. He spent many years as a reporter covering everything from police news to national political campaigns and was an award-winning columnist. John currently works in marketing for large law firms. He has handled media relations for mergers of law firms, major news events affecting the legal world including 9-11, and crisis communications for lawyers. He has won a number awards for his short stories, which have been published in Penworks, Vermont Ink and Umbrellastories.com. Watch for Cocaineros Duel coming in December 2010.
Judith K. Ivie
A lifelong Connecticut resident, Judith K. Ivie has worked in public relations, advertising, sales promotion, the international tradeshow industry, and an assortment of not-for-profit venues. Along the way, Judi produced three nonfiction books, as well as numerous articles and essays. In 2006 Judi broadened her repertoire to include fiction, and the Kate Lawrence mystery series, set in central Connecticut, was launched. Whatever the genre, she strives to provide lively, entertaining reading that takes her readers away from their work and worries for a few hours, stimulates thought on a variety of contemporary issues-and gives them a laugh along the way. Judi loves to hear from readers at jkivie@sbcglobal.net. Watch for Drowning in Christmas, the fourth in the Kate Lawrence Mysteries, coming in October 2010.
Stacy Juba
A Massachusetts native, Stacy Juba is a former daily newspaper reporter and freelance journalist with more than a dozen writing awards to her credit, including three New England Press Association awards and the American Cancer Society New England Chapter’s Sword of Hope Media Award. Her books for Mainly Murder Press are Twenty-Five Years Ago Today and the December 2010 release, Sink or Swim. Stacy is a past recipient of the William F. Deeck - Malice Domestic Grant for new mystery writers. Her young adult novel, Face-Off, was published under her maiden name, Stacy Drumtra. Please visit www.stacyjuba.com to learn more about her books. She loves to hear from her readers at stacy@stacyjuba.com
Stephen Liskow
Steve Liskow has published stories in three anthologies of New England crime writing and has twice won Honorable Mention for the Al Blanchard Story Award. “Stranglehold” won the Wolfe Pack’s 2009 Black Orchid Novella Award and will appear Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine in summer 2010. A member of MWA and Sisters in Crime, he is working on a private eye series and a novel based on his previous life as an English teacher. He lives in Connecticut with his wife Barbara and two rescued cats. Visit his website at steveliskow.com. Watch for Who Wrote the Book of Death? coming in May 2010.
Stephen D. Rogers
Over five hundred of Stephen's stories and poems have appeared in more than two hundred publications. His website, www.stephendrogers.com, includes a list of new and upcoming titles as well as other timely information.
Joy Seymour
J.E. Seymour lives in a small town in seacoast NH and has had short stories published in three anthologies of crime fiction by New England writers (Windchill, Deadfall, and Quarry), in Thriller UK Magazine, and in numerous ezines, including Shots, Mouth Full of Bullets, Beat to a Pulp and Shred of Evidence. In 2002, she was selected to attend the Bread Loaf Writers Conference. She has finished three novels and is working on a fourth. She is a member of Mystery Writers of America and Sisters in Crime and is the markets coordinator for the Short Mystery Fiction Society. For more information, visit http://jeseymour.com. Watch for Lead Poisoning coming in January 2011.
Suzanne Young
Born and raised in Rhode Island, Suzanne Young has worked as a writer, an editor and a computer programming since earning her degree in English from URI in Kingston. Among her publishing credits is the first chapter in Police Accountability, chronicling the evolution of police performance measures in the U.S. A resident of Colorado for more than 30 years, Suzanne works full time in software development and writes fiction in her spare time. A member of Denver Woman’s Press Club, Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers and Sisters in Crime, she is also a graduate of the Arvada (CO) Citizens Police Academy. Please visit http://www.SuzanneYoungBooks.com and/or contact Suzanne at Suzanne@suzanneyoungbooks.com.
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