Aileen Baron is retired from a distinguished career as a professor of archaeology at California State University, Fullerton, where her work took her to many parts of the world. She has served on panels and presented workshops on archaeology for several writers’ workshops, and wrote her first novel at age 76. http://www.aileengbaron.com/

Andrew Taylor is the award-winning author of a number of novels, including a crime series, a psychological thriller, and the groundbreaking Roth Trilogy. He and his wife live with their children in England. Visit Andrew-Taylor.net for more information.

After law school, Angela Gerst moved from New York to Massachusetts and worked at journals. As a suburban desk reporter, she covered local happenings for the Newton Times and the Boston Globe, with a detour as press secretary for a Boston cultural organization.  Her interest in local issues became a passion for campaigning and political [...] Read More →

Ann Littlewood was a zoo keeper in Portland, Oregon for twelve years. She raised lions and cougars, an orangutan; and native mammals, as well as parrots, penguins, and a multitude of owls. The financial realities of raising primates (two boys of her own) led Ann to exchange a hose and rubber boots for a briefcase [...] Read More →

Ann Parker’s award-winning Silver Rush mystery series features saloon-owner Inez Stannert  in the 1880s silver boomtown of Leadville, Colorado. The series includes SILVER LIES, IRON TIES, LEADEN SKIES, and the upcoming MERCURY’S RISE. Ann’s ancestors include a Leadville blacksmith, a Colorado School of Mines professor, and a gandy dancer. Ann and her family live in [...] Read More →

Mystery writer Ashna Graves came into being on a warm June afternoon in 1997, and owes her existence to an extended illness, a nice chair in a garden and an empty yellow legal pad. Ashna was born in Santa Fe in 1950 to restless, bookish parents who moved her and two brothers all over the [...] Read More →

Barbara Fass Leavy is a former Professor of English Literature at Queens College of the City University of New York. Currently, she is Adjunct Professor of English in Psychiatry at the Institute for the History of Psychiatry, Weill Medical College of Cornell University. She has published numerous essays and given lectures on literature, folklore, crime [...] Read More →