Matthew V. Brown, Ph. D., is an assistant professor of Management and Organization and adjunct faculty member at the University of Michigan, William Davidson Institute, and Ross School of Business. Dr. Brown has been teaching and researching organizational behavior and executive leadership for the last seventeen years. He teaches multiple upper-level courses in the BBA program, advises Executive MBA teams’ capstone projects, and led the design of the University of the Virgin Islands' first doctoral program in Creative Leadership for Innovation and Change (CLIC). He was the lead instructor for the Goldman Sachs 10000 Women Entrepreneurs Program in Kigali, Rwanda (2009-2014]. Before that, he served as a senior consultant at Denison Consulting
Jacquolyn McMurray writes both contemporary romance and historical fiction, teaches on-line writing classes, and provides editing services for fiction authors. She lives with her husband on a macadamia nut farm on Hawaiʻi Island where they coexist with a clowder of cats and a flock of hodgepodge chickens.
Jacquolyn is a member of the Pacific Northwest Writers Association, the Emerald City Romance Writers, Sisters in Crime, and Sisters in Crime - Houston. When she's not writing, she enjoys time with her family and friends, reading, sewing, and solving crossword puzzles. In her past life, she was an elementary school teacher.
A London-based author with a Ukrainian grandpa, a Siberian grandma, and a Belarusian dad—basically, my family tree looks like the cast list of a very complicated historical drama.
Back in school, my Literature teacher told me I’d never become “the next Dostoevsky.” Honestly, that was fine—I never dreamed of being Fyodor Mikhailovich anyway. My secret ambition? To be a little more like Stephen King (minus the haunted hotels, hopefully).
My books tend to wander between genres, but there are a few things you can always count on: a pinch of horror, a dash of romance, and a healthy scoop of folklore and history.
I wrote my first detective stories in school—handwritten, stapled together, and passed around like contraband. Later, I flirted with histo
