Michael Ebner
Michael Ebner has been named a Kirkus Reviews 'Best Books of the Year' author and some of his books are currently in Hollywood film development. His new book is the crime thriller The New Bad Thing by Pen and Picture.
https://www.penandpicturepublishing.com
His next book will be Blood Fire (The New Bad Thing 2) coming in 2025.
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Dennis Lehane
Dennis Lehane (born Aug 4th, 1966) is an American author. He has written several novels, including the New York Times bestseller Mystic River, which was later made into an Academy Award winning film, also called Mystic River, directed by Clint Eastwood and starring Sean Penn, Tim Robbins, and Kevin Bacon (Lehane can be briefly seen waving from a car in the parade scene at the end of the film). The novel was a finalist for the PEN/Winship Award and won the Anthony Award and the Barry Award for Best Novel, the Massachusetts Book Award in Fiction, and France's Prix Mystere de la Critique.
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Michael Connelly
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Michael Connelly decided to become a writer after discovering the books of Raymond Chandler while attending the University of Florida. Once he decided on this direction he chose a major in journalism and a minor in creative writing — a curriculum in which one of his teachers was novelist Harry Crews.
After graduating in 1980, Connelly worked at newspapers in Daytona Beach and Fort Lauderdale, Florida, primarily specializing in the crime beat. In Fort Lauderdale he wrote about police and crime during the height of the murder and violence wave that rolled over South Florida during the so-called cocaine wars. In 1986, -
Kelly Link
Kelly Link is an American author best known for her short stories, which span a wide variety of genres - most notably magic realism, fantasy and horror. She is a graduate of Columbia University.
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Her stories have been collected in four books - Stranger Things Happen, Magic for Beginners, Pretty Monsters, and most recently, Get in Trouble.
She has won several awards for her short stories, including the World Fantasy Award in 1999 for "The Specialist's Hat", and the Nebula Award both in 2001 and 2005 for "Louise's Ghost" and "Magic for Beginners".
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Don Winslow
Don Winslow is the author of twenty-one acclaimed, award-winning international bestsellers, including the New York Times bestsellers The Force and The Border, the #1 international bestseller The Cartel, The Power of the Dog, Savages, and The Winter of Frankie Machine. Savages was made into a feature film by three-time Oscar-winning writer-director Oliver Stone. The Power of the Dog, The Cartel and The Border sold to FX in a major multimillion-dollar deal to air as a weekly television series beginning in 2020.
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A former investigator, antiterrorist trainer and trial consultant, Winslow lives in California and Rhode Island.
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Debra Webb
DEBRA WEBB is the USA Today bestselling author of more than 170 novels, including reader favorites the Finley O'Sullivan and Devlin & Falco series. She is the recipient of the prestigious Romantic Times Career Achievement Award for Romantic Suspense as well as numerous Reviewers Choice Awards. In 2012 Debra was honored as the first recipient of the esteemed L. A. Banks Warrior Woman Award for her courage, strength, and grace in the face of adversity. Recently Debra was awarded the distinguished Centennial Award for having achieved publication of her 100th novel.
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Chris Pavone
CHRIS PAVONE is the New York Times-bestselling author of international thrillers including THE EXPATS and, most recently, TWO NIGHTS IN LISBON; his sixth novel, THE DOORMAN, publishes May 20, 2025. Chris's books have appeared on the bestseller lists of the New York Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, and IndieNext; have won both the Edgar and Anthony awards, and have been shortlisted for the Strand, Macavity, and Los Angeles Times Book Prize; are in development for film and television; and have been translated into more than two dozen languages.
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Andy Maslen
MILLION COPY BESTSELLER SHORTLISTED FOR KINDLE STORYTELLER AWARD
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Andy Maslen writes thrillers across a number of genres: police procedurals, vigilante, psychological, suspense and horror. He spent 30 years in business before turning to writing full time.
Readers praise Andy's novels for their relatable characters, realistic dialogue, sense of place and kinetic action sequences, and for his meticulous research into police procedure around the world.
He is the creator of best-selling series featuring Kat Ballantyne, Gabriel Wolfe, Stella Cole and Inspector Ford, plus standalone novels and short stories.
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Jo Nesbø
Jo Nesbø is a bestselling Norwegian author and musician. He was born in Oslo and grew up in Molde. Nesbø graduated from the Norwegian School of Economics with a degree in economics. Nesbø is primarily famous for his crime novels about Detective Harry Hole, but he is also the main vocals and songwriter for the Norwegian rock band Di Derre. In 2007 Nesbø also released his first children's book, Doktor Proktors Prompepulver.
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Dan Wells
Dan Wells is a thriller and science fiction writer. Born in Utah, he spent his early years reading and writing. He is he author of the Partials series (Partials, Isolation, Fragments, and Ruins), the John Cleaver series (I Am Not a Serial Killer, Mr. Monster, and I Don't Want To Kill You), and a few others (The Hollow City, A Night of Blacker Darkness, etc). He was a Campbell nomine for best new writer, and has won a Hugo award for his work on the podcast Writing Excuses; the podcast is also a multiple winner of the Parsec Award.
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Heather Hach
Heather Hach is an American screenwriter, librettist and novelist.
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Hach graduated from the University of Colorado at Boulder's School of Journalism, and later worked as a research assistant at The New York Times' Denver bureau and as a magazine editor at Sports and Fitness Publishing.
A 1999 recipient of the Walt Disney Screenwriting Fellowship, Hach wrote the screenplay for the 2003 remake Freaky Friday with Leslie Dixon, and both were nominated for a Saturn Award for Best Screenplay for the film.
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Eliza Knight
Eliza Knight is an award winning, USA Today and international bestselling author. Her love of history began as a young girl when she traipsed the halls of Versailles and ran through the fields in Southern France. She can still remember standing before the great golden palace, and imagining what life must have been like. Growing up in the Washington, D.C. area, her weekends were filled with visits to museums, and historical reenactments. Escape into history for courageous heroines, irresistible heroes and daring escapades. Join Eliza (sometimes as E.) on riveting historical journeys that cross landscapes around the world. She is a member of the Historical Novel Society and Novelists, Inc., the creator of the popular historical blog, History
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Charlotte Stein
Charlotte Stein is the RT and DABWAHA nominated author of over fifty short stories, novellas and novels. When not writing deeply emotional and intensely sexy books, she can be found eating jelly turtles, watching terrible sitcoms and occasionally lusting after hunks. For more on Charlotte, visit: www.charlottestein.net
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Emma Barry
Emma Barry is a teacher, novelist, recovering academic, and former political staffer. She lives with her high school sweetheart and a menagerie of pets and children in Virginia, and she occasionally finds time to read and write.
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Olivia Dade
Olivia Dade grew up an undeniable nerd, prone to ignoring the world around her as she read any book she could find. Her favorites, though, were always, always romances. As an adult, she earned an M.A. in American history and worked in a variety of jobs that required the donning of actual pants: Colonial Williamsburg interpreter, high school teacher, academic tutor, and (of course) librarian. Now, however, she has finally achieved her lifelong goal of wearing pajamas all day as a hermit-like writer and enthusiastic hag. She currently lives outside Stockholm with her delightful family and their ever-burgeoning collection of books.
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Steve Urszenyi
Steve Urszenyi served for many years as a paramedic and a police tactical medic. He is an expert in chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, and explosives (CBRNE) incident response. When not writing, Steve loves international travel and touring on his Harley-Davidson with his wife, Lynne.
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Kate Clayborn
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Christopher St. John
Christopher volunteers for several San Francisco Bay Area animal rescue organizations. And he’s proud to be part of the group that helped get the California Fur Ban signed into law in 2019.
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He and his partner live with rescue bunnies running freely in their well-nibbled home.
Christopher started working on the War Bunny Chronicles in 2012. War Bunny was published in 2021. The second book in the series, Summerday, launched in March 2023. The third book, City of Oom, is currently in development.
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A.M. Strong
A.M. Strong is a British-born writer living and working in the United States. He has worked as a graphic designer, newspaper journalist, artist, and actor.
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He currently resides most of the year on Florida’s Space Coast, where he can watch rockets launch from his bedroom balcony, and part of the year on an island in Maine, along with his wife and two furry bosses, Izzie and Hayden.
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Natasha Siegel
Natasha Siegel is a writer of historical fiction. She was born and raised in London, where she grew up in a Danish-Jewish family surrounded by stories.
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William Marcuse
William Marcuse is an author that has to consider all the meows, caprices and visions of a special white cat involved in a series of adventures and unusual secrets.
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Daniel J. Davies
Daniel J. Davies is the author of two other books, Bread Alone and Seed. He currently lives in Charlestown, Massachusetts with his family.
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Kenna Campbell
I can't remember a time when I didn't love mysteries. The addiction started with Agatha Christie's books and Hercule Poirot on BBC's Mystery. I, also, love what a person has to go through to become who they are. So, when I'm not writing about a person who has had to start from scratch building a career in sleuthing, I binge watch whatever mystery television series I can when my husband hasn't taken over the TV watching football and basketball.
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My goal in writing my books is to give people a fun adventure with a light side of real life and all the relationships that hold us together.
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John Ellington
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Joanna Elm
Author of three crime thrillers, Scandal (1996) Delusion (1997). Her third thriller, Fool Her Once was released on March 1, 2022.
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In between writing fiction, she has worked as a journalist on newspapers in UK and in New York; on magazines including as the news editor of STAR tabloid magazine, and in TV News where she wrote and researched for WNYW-TV's Emmy award-winning documentary, Irish Eyes.
She was also a producer on Fox-TV's "A Current Affair."
She attended law school in 2002, and worked as a judicial law clerk for a New York appellate judge for more than seven years.
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William Marcuse
William Marcuse is an author that has to consider all the meows, caprices and visions of a special white cat involved in a series of adventures and unusual secrets.
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Daniel J. Davies
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Mu Jeong
"An author who presents a realistic depiction of South Korea's materialism, which has been accelerated by media dependency in the post-pandemic era."
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Jeong Mu is a trailblazing author from Seoul, South Korea, born in 1994. He built a strong academic foundation with a major in Physics, complemented by his current studies in Computer Science. Jeong’s early professional life was marked by a four-year tenure as a software engineer and planner in the automobile industry, equipping him with a keen sense of precision and planning.
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Jay Nesbit
Hello, I’m Jay.
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I’m an award-winning author, blogger, and behavioral health pharmacist with a passion for sharing life-changing words that make a real difference.
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Robert Miller
I started teaching in 1970, and for thirty-two years, I worked full-time in public high schools. In addition, I accepted part-time assignments in community colleges and the teacher-credentialing program at San Jose State University. I earned a doctorate in Education from the University of San Francisco, and over the years, I published many articles, some teaching materials, and a couple of books.
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Now that I am retired, I can pursue my real passions: cooking, drinking wine, and writing fiction. Out of this love came the five mysteries in the Rick Podowski and the Hefty Trio series. My recent writings include Mellow Out: Lesson Learned From Household Cats which is a fun read. Death At Sequoia Woods and Death At Grizzly Bowl are co-authored wit -
December Knight
December Knight strives to share her imagination and Christian faith through her creative writing from an honest, real-life perspective, developing relatable deep characters, and vivid, complex storylines with controversial themes.
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She is an alumna of Liberty University graduating with a BS in Multidisciplinary Studies with an emphasis in Creative Writing, History, and Theology. -
Loraine Hayes
Loraine Hayes is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and a Certified Clinical Trauma Professional with over 25 years’ experience as a psychotherapist. As a result, Loraine saw first hand how a resilient child can grow into a healthy and confident adult. By introducing simple lessons to children, their resilience can grow. To that end, Loraine set out to create a children’s chapter book series (Small Fry Spy Club) that could impart those lessons for children in a fun and exciting way.
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Zan Safra
Denizen of Innsmouth. Makes up outrageous lies in book form while awaiting her return to the Deep.
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I can also perform Dwight Frye's "Rats!" monologue pretty effectively.
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Mark Dickson
Mark Dickson is a surgeon, farmer, and combatives enthusiast, who also has authored the Amazon Bestseller ENEMY AT THE HELM. After raising four successful children, he and his wife downsized to a farm in rural Texas where they enjoy caring for the land and the animals.
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Thomas J. Yeggy
Thomas J. Yeggy has undergraduate degrees in English and psychology. He is a graduate of the University of Iowa College of Law and practiced law in Davenport, Iowa, and Rock Island, Illinois, for many years. He served as the mental health and substance abuse judge for Scott County, Iowa, for more than 25 years. In that position he developed a keen understanding of the difficulties that everyday life presents regardless of social or economic status. As a judge, he authored more than 1,500 opinions, and only one was reversed by the appellate courts. Thomas was also a licensed Series 7 broker at Beyer & Company Investments in Davenport, Iowa, for more than two decades.
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Ephraim.
Ephraim was raised in the United States. After he obtained his undergraduate degree at the University of Notre Dame, the lure of travel and adventure trumped the pressure to settle down and put his nose to the grindstone. His wanderlust itinerary took him from Latin America to the UK and Europe, earning his way as a karate instructor, night club bouncer, pop singer, and recording artist. He has post graduate degrees from the University of Madrid and the University of Paris, where he obtained his PhD in Financial Economics Summa cum Laude. After a few years as a financial forecaster and country risk analyst, Ephraim turned to academia in France as a full professor in Finance. During his academic career, he has authored or co-authored nine bo
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