Joanna Campbell Slan
National bestselling and award-winning author Joanna Campbell Slan was born in Jacksonville, Florida, but she grew up in a small town in Indiana. After graduating from Ball State University with a degree in journalism, she worked as a newspaper reporter, a newspaper ad salesperson, a television talk show host, a college teacher, a public relations professional, and a motivational speaker. In that capacity, she was named by Sharing Ideas Magazine as “one of the top 25 speakers in the world.”
Slan's work has appeared in five of the New York Times Bestselling Chicken Soup for the Soul books, and one of those became a television show. She is the author of nearly 80 books, nonfiction and fiction, including Death of a Schoolgirl, which won the 20
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Shanti Hershenson
Shanti Hershenson’s first two novellas were published when she was in the sixth grade, although her writing journey started long before then. Ever since she could hold a pencil, marker, or crayon, she was creating stories. They started from pictures, mere scribbles, and eventually, turned into captivating tales.
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Kyung-Sook Shin
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* Shin Kyung-sook
* 신경숙
* 申京淑
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Ann Warner
A former Air Force brat turned clinical chemist, toxicologist, and university professor, Ann's life took another turn in 2001, when she began writing fiction. After completing a perfectly dreadful novel (she didn't know it was at the time) she talked her way into a graduate writing seminar and followed that up with several years of study as she continued to write. Along the way she made friends with other writers who have supported, critiqued, and eventually praised her novels. Her debut novel, Dreams for Stones, was a finalist for the Indie Next Generation Book Award.
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Wendy Delaney
Wendy Delaney writes fun-filled cozy mysteries and is the award-winning author of the Working Stiffs Mystery series. A longtime member of Mystery Writers of America, she's a Food Network addict and pastry chef wannabe. When she's not killing off story people she can be found on her treadmill, working off the calories from her latest culinary adventure. Originally from the Pacific Northwest, Wendy lives in the Texas Hill Country with the love of her life and is a proud grandma.
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Héctor Aguilar Camín
Periodista, novelista e historiador mexicano.
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Ha destacado en sus tres vertientes de periodista, escritor e historiador. En la primera, recibió el Premio Nacional de Periodismo Cultural; ha sido colaborador de diversos medios, como La Jornada (diario del que fue subdirector), Milenio, Unomasuno, La Cultura en México. Fue director de la revista Nexos entre 1983 y 1995, cargo que retomó a fines de 2008. Condujo el programa televisivo Zona Abierta y participa en Tercer Grado, ambos transmitidos por Televisa. Es fundador de Ediciones Cal y Arena (1988), la cual dirigió.
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Patrícia Melo
Patrícia Melo (born 1962 in São Paulo) is a Brazilian author. She has written a number of successful novels, including The Killer and In Praise of Lies. Her works have often dealt with sex and violence in a heavily urbanized setting.
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Mindi Boston
Mindi Boston is a novelist residing in Tennessee. She employs Hemingway’s sage advice to “simply sit down at the typewriter and bleed,” connecting with her readers on a profound level. Her unique voice and experiences bring raw emotion and a personal depth to her readers as they follow her on a remarkable journey.
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Boston is a former freelance writer and journalist, having written professionally for corporations and websites, with her lifestyle work being featured in popular print and online publications. She remains active in her local writing community. In her spare time, she caters to four spoiled dogs, one spoiled husband, and two amazing grown-ups that call her Mom. -
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Irene Jorgensen was that kid in class who secretly read books while the teacher was talking. A few decades later, she realized she had some stories of her own to share — the cozier, the better. Ever fascinated by people and their motivations, Irene’s writing brings together a mishmash of her favourite things: friendship, justice, personality profiling, shadow work…and the TV show Psych. A born-and-bred Canadian, Irene lives in southern Ontario with her Cornish Rex cats Razzle, Annie and Shadow. Their antics frequently end up on the pages of her books.
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Lynn Cahoon
NYT and USA Today bestselling author, Lynn Cahoon, writes the Tourist Trap, Cat Latimer, Farm-to-Fork, Kitchen Witch, Survivors' Book Club, the Haunted Life, and the Bainbridge Island cozy mystery series. No matter where the mystery is set, readers can expect a fun ride Sign up for her newsletter at www.lynncahoon.com
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Daniel Carson
Daniel Carson lives in Nebraska with his wife and their perfect adoring children who have never ever misbehaved. Not once. Honest.
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His days are a mixture of... teaching, cooking, driving, cleaning, more cooking, lots more driving, cleaning and more driving. So much driving. When the children finally go to bed, Daniel writes stories.
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Carolyn Haines
Carolyn Haines is the USA Today bestselling author of over 70 books. In 2020, she was inducted into the Alabama Writers Hall of Fame. She was the recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Alabama Library Association, the Harper Lee Award for Distinguished Writing, the Richard Wright Award for Literary Excellence, as well as the "Best Amateur Sleuth" award by Romantic Times. Born and raised in Mississippi, she now lives in Alabama on a farm with more dogs, cats, and horses than she can possibly keep track of.
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Charlaine Harris
Charlaine Harris has been a published writer for over forty years. Her first two books were standalones, followed by a long sabbatical when she was having children. Then she began the Aurora Teagarden book, mysteries featuring a short librarian (eventually adapted for Hallmark movies). The darker Lily Bard books came next, about a house cleaner with a dark past and considerable fighting skills.
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Tired of abiding by the mystery rules, Harris wrote a novel about a telepathic barmaid that took at least two years to sell. When the book was published, it turned into a best seller, and DEAD UNTIL DARK and the subsequent Sookie books were adapted in Alan Ball's "True Blood" series. At the same time, Harris began the Harper Connelly books. Harper ca -
Melrose McFadden
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Melrose McFadden writes cozy mysteries and historical clean mysteries. Melrose Cozies are known for their humor and twists, with some light romance sprinkled in for fun.
Current series-in-progress are:
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Gail Meath
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Derrick Belanger
Author Derrick Belanger's publications include an eclectic mix: book reviews, articles for education journals, short stories, poems, comic books, and the graphic novel, Twenty-Three Skidoo! A former instructor at Washington State University, and a current middle school Language Arts teacher, Derrick lives in Broomfield, Colorado with his wife Abigail Gosselin and their two daughters, Rhea and Phoebe. Currently, Derrick is working on several Sherlockian projects: the Young Adult novel Sherlock Holmes and the Transformers of Time, the teaching guide Sherlock Holmes for Teachers, the pastiche novel The Funeral of Sherlock Holmes, and the film studies book The Hound of the Baskervilles: From Page to Screen. He also co-authors the web site Myste
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Şebnem İşigüzel
1973 yılında doğdu. İstanbul Üniversitesi’nde antropoloji okudu. İlk kitabı Hanene Ay Doğacak 1993 yılında yayımlandı. Aynı yıl Yunus Nadi Öykü Ödülü’ne değer bulundu. Sonra sırasıyla Öykümü Kim Anlatacak (öykü, 1994), Eski Dostum Kertenkele (roman, 1996), ağırlıklı olarak Radikal İki’de yayımlanan yazılarını topladığı Neşeli Kadınlar Arasında (deneme, 2000), Sarmaşık (roman, 2002), Çöplük (roman, 2004), Resmigeçit (roman, 2008), Kirpiklerimin Gölgesi (roman, 2010), Venüs (roman, 2013) ve Ağaçtaki Kız (roman, 2016) kitapları yayımlandı. 2016 yılında İletişim Yayınları tarafından yayımlanan Gözyaşı Konağı, Ada, 1876 adlı romanıyla Duygu Asena Roman Ödülü’nün sahibi oldu. Çocuklar için Annem, Kargalar ve Ben’i (2011) yazdı. Hayatını yazarak s
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Peter Wilson
Peter Wilson is an award-winning writer based in Sydney Australia. His first novel, Jack Gregson & the Forgotten Portal has won awards internationally, in both the USA and United Kingdom, and quickly became a favourite with young readers.
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Peter’s second novel Jack Gregson & the Forgotten Sons, the second book in his trilogy series, is set for release in 2019.
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D.V. Chernov
D.V. Chernov is an award-winning author of historical and crime fiction. His debut novel Commissar was named Finalist for the prestigious Hemingway International Book Award. D.V. Chernov was born in Omsk, Russia and grew up in the Soviet Union during the final decades of the Cold War before immigrating to the US in 1991. For his crime fiction, Chernov derives inspiration from his 20-year career in the high-tech industry, with his extensive experience lending his thrillers a level of authenticity that is rare in the genre.
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Carole Marples
Carole would like to say she leads an exciting life which is reflected in her novels, but that would be a lie. The most daring thing she's done in the last
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ten years is to dye her hair red.
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Leslie J. Hall
Leslie J. Hall writes humorous, PG-rated, amateur sleuth mysteries. She is also a well-known writing instructor at colleges and writers' conferences around the Pacific Northwest—she loves to support and encourage new writers. She also teaches basic writing skills to businesses.
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Leslie is a member of Sisters In Crime and Mystery Writers of America. Leslie loves words, books, writing, and sharing that passion with others. Leslie has wanted to write for as long as she can remember—ever since she co-wrote a story with a friend in elementary school titled "How to Wash a Ghost."
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T.K. Sheffield
TK Sheffield writes stories for readers to laugh and escape. Her comic cozy mysteries, The Backyard Model mysteries are whodunnits served with a brandy old-fashioned and a side of cheese curds.
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Model Ghost releases in October '24! Also in the series is Model Suspect and Model Wave.
The series has earned awards including Killer Nashville, an Eric Hoffer finalist, RWA Excellence in Mystery, and a Top 100 Notable Indie from Shelf Unbound magazine. TK has degrees from UW-Madison and Mount Mary University, and she's on the board of the Wisconsin Writers Association and a member of Blackbird Writers and the Wisconsin Chapter of Sisters in Crime.
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Paul Regnier
Paul Regnier is a speculative fiction author. He believes one of the closest things to magic on this earth is imagination. His favorite type of story is filled with adventure, humor, and heartfelt moments between characters. He likes to dream up worlds of fantasy, sci-fi, mystery, and the supernatural. Sometimes they end up in a book.
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Paul is the writer of Monster Therapist, Bard Tidings, the Luke and Bandit cozy mystery series, the Paranormia series, and the Space Drifters series.
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Andrew Kraft
Andrew Kraft was born and raised in Baltimore, Maryland. He has a bachelor's degree in economics from Towson University. He is an avid traveler and has visited over thirty countries on this beautiful planet we call Earth. Andrew enjoys running and has completed a few half marathons along with a virtual full marathon in 2020. He is a big fan of science fiction books, especially those involving the cosmos.
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Iris Dorbian
Iris Dorbian is a former actress turned arts and business journalist and award-winning novelist. Her articles have appeared in a wide number of outlets that include the Wall Street Journal, Forbes.com, Thomson Reuters, Crain's NY Business, Business Insider, PE Hub, Venture Capital Journal, Buyouts, Investopedia.com, DMNews, CFO.com, Playbill, Backstage, Theatermania, Dance Magazine, Live Design, Media Industry Newsletter and PR News. From 1999 to 2007, Iris was the editor-in-chief of Stage Directions. She is the author of “Great Producers: Visionaries of the American Theater," (Allworth Press); "An Epiphany in Lilacs: In the Aftermath of the Camps" (forthcoming third edition, Sunbury Press/Milford House Press); "Sentenced to Shakespeare" (S
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Joanne Sydney Lessner
Writer, singer, and actor Joanne Sydney Lessner draws on her own experiences pursuing a performing career in New York City for her acclaimed Isobel Spice Mysteries: THE TEMPORARY DETECTIVE, BAD PUBLICITY, AND JUSTICE FOR SOME, and OFFED STAGE LEFT. With humor and a bit of romance, Isobel juggles auditions and temp jobs, solving murders along the way, while Joanne’s inside knowledge provides a window into the realities of breaking into show business (as well as a forum to share every humiliating audition experience she and her friends ever had.)
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Meredith Potts
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Cherie O'Boyle
Cherie O'Boyle is Professor Emeritus of Psychology at California State University, San Marcos. When not writing, she is playing with her border collies and taking them to exotic locations in California such as Gridley for flyball tournaments, Galt for sheepherding trials, and Lake Tahoe for dog summer camp.
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