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Emmeline Duncan

Emmeline Duncan is a mystery writer based out of Portland, Oregon. Her novels include the Ground Rules series, including Fresh Brewed Murder, Double Shot Death, Flat White Fatality, and Death Unfiltered, which comes out in the spring of 2024. She's also the author of Chaos at the Lazy Bones Bookshop, a Halloween-themed mystery that will come out in August 2024.

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Ellen Byron

Ellen is the bestselling, Agatha Award-winning author of the Cajun Country Mysteries, the Vintage Cookbook Mysteries, and the Catering Hall Mystery series, which she writes under the name Maria DiRico.

Ellen is also award-winning playwright, and non-award-winning TV writer of comedies like WINGS, JUST SHOOT ME, and FAIRLY ODD PARENTS. She has written over two hundred articles for national magazines but considers her most impressive credit working as a cater-waiter for Martha Stewart.

She is a lifetime member of the Writers Guild of America.

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Vicki Delany

“It’s a crime not to read Delany,” so says the London Free Press.

Vicki Delany is one of Canada’s most varied and prolific crime writers.

She is the author of four cozy mystery series: The Tea by the Sea series from Kensington Books, the Sherlock Holmes Bookshop series from Crooked Lane and the Year Round Christmas series from Penguin. Under the pen name of Eva Gates she writes the Lighthouse Library Series.
Visit Vicki at www.vickidelany.com , www.facebook.com/evagatesauthor, and twitter: @vickidelany

Vicki is part of Mystery Lovers Kitchen (http://www.mysteryloverskitchen.com) and Killer Characters (http://www.killercharacters.com)

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Diane Kelly

Award-winning author Diane Kelly writes romance and romantic mysteries featuring feisty heroines, quirky sidekicks, and sexy leading men, with humor that leaves readers laughing out loud.

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Jennie Marts

Jennie Marts is a USA Today bestselling author of award-winning books filled with love, laughter, and always a happily ever after. She loves genre-mashups, and her books range from western romance to cozy mysteries but all have the charm and appeal of quirky small-town life. Living out her own happily ever after in the mountains of Colorado, she’s addicted to Diet Coke, adores Cheetos, and believes you can’t have too many books, shoes, or friends.

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Jennifer J. Chow

Jennifer J. Chow writes multicultural stories. She lives in Los Angeles, California.

Her accolades include: Agatha, Anthony, Lefty, & Lilian Jackson Braun Award nominations; SoCal Indie Bestseller; Foreword Reviews INDIEFAB finalist; and Teen Vogue coverage.

Find out more and join her monthly newsletter on her author website.

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Mindy Quigley

Mindy Quigley is the author of two cozy mystery series: the Deep Dish Mysteries (St. Martin's Press) and the Mount Moriah Mysteries.

Her work has been featured in Parade and Woman's World. Her non-writing career has been stranger than fiction, taking her from the US to the UK, where she worked as the personal assistant to the scientist who cloned Dolly the sheep, and as project manager for a research clinic founded by the author J.K. Rowling.

She lives in Virginia, with her Civil War history professor husband and their children.

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Catherine Bruns

Catherine is the USA Today bestselling author of the Cookies & Chance mysteries. She lives in Upstate New York with her very patient husband, three sons and several spoiled pets. She holds a dual B.A. in English and Performing Arts and is a former newspaper reporter and press release writer. Catherine also writes the Italian Chef, Maple Syrup, and Cindy York mysteries. Her book, For Sale by Killer, won the Daphne du Maurier award for Mainstream Mystery/Suspense.

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Sarah Fox

Sarah Fox, writer of cozy mysteries, was born and raised in Vancouver, British Columbia, where she developed a love for mysteries at a young age. When not writing novels or working as a legal writer she is often reading her way through a stack of books or spending time outdoors with her English Springer Spaniel.

Sarah is the author of the Literary Pub Mysteries, the Pancake House Mysteries, and the Music Lover's Mysteries.

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Olivia Matthews

Olivia Matthews is a pseudonym for Patricia Sargeant.

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Vivien Chien

Vivien Chien first started writing simple stories about adventures with her classmates when she was in elementary school. As she grew up, her love of books and the written word increased, leading to the attempt of her first novel at age 16. After many struggled beginnings and several different genres, she found her passion in the mystery world.

When she's not writing, she can be found frolicking in the bookstore or searching for her next bowl of noodles. She has a soft spot for doughnuts, a healthy love for coffee, and an extreme need to participate in random acts of crafting.

She currently lives in Cleveland where she is hard at work on the fifth book in her Noodle Shop series, and writes side-by-side with her toy fox terrier.

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Emmie Caldwell

Emmie Caldwell is the pen name of Mary Ellen Hughes, author of 4 cozy mystery series.

A WICKED YARN begins Emmie's Craft Fair Knitters Mystery Series, set in Crandalsburg, PA, where Lia Geiger and her Ninth Street Knitters solve murders as they knit up a storm.

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Korina Moss

KORINA MOSS is the author of the Cheese Shop Mystery series set in the Sonoma Valley, which includes multiple Agatha Award nominated books for Best Contemporary Novel and the winner of the Agatha Award for Best First Novel, Cheddar Off Dead. Listed as one of USA Today’s “Best Cozy Mystery Series,” her books have also been featured in PARADE Magazine, Woman’s World, and Writer’s Digest.

Korina is also a freelance developmental editor specializing in cozy and traditional mysteries.

For more information or to subscribe to her free monthly #teamcheese newsletter, go to her website korinamossauthor.com

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Meri Allen

MERI ALLEN lives in a quiet corner of Connecticut, where she haunts libraries, used book stores, and vintage shops.

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Joan Hess

Joan Hess was the author of both the Claire Malloy and the Maggody mystery series. Hess was a winner of the American Mystery Award, a member of Sisters in Crime, and a former president of the American Crime Writers League. She lived in Fayetteville, Arkansas.

Joan Hess also wrote a mystery series under the pseudonym of Joan Hadley.

Series contributed to:
. Crosswinds
. The Year's 25 Finest Crime and Mystery Stories
. Malice Domestic
. Deadly Allies
. Sisters in Crime

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Olivia Matthews

Olivia Matthews is a pseudonym for Patricia Sargeant.

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Tess Amy

Tess Amy was born in Johannesburg but now enjoys a nomadic lifestyle, living between Europe and South Africa. She holds a master’s degree from The Durban University of Technology, is an outdoor enthusiast, animal lover and unfaltering optimist. The Confidence Games is her debut contemporary fiction novel. She also writes historical fiction as T.A. Willberg.

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Jennifer J. Chow

Jennifer J. Chow writes multicultural stories. She lives in Los Angeles, California.

Her accolades include: Agatha, Anthony, Lefty, & Lilian Jackson Braun Award nominations; SoCal Indie Bestseller; Foreword Reviews INDIEFAB finalist; and Teen Vogue coverage.

Find out more and join her monthly newsletter on her author website.

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Christina Estes

Emmy Award-winning reporter Christina Estes uses her career for inspiration for her mysteries.

During 20-plus years in Phoenix, Christina covered crime, public policy and business. Her stories ranged from the whimsical - like a fish visiting a dentist - to the weighty - such as witnessing an execution by lethal injection.

Christina received the Tony Hillerman Prize for Best First Mystery Set in the Southwest for Off the Air. Good Morning America selected Off the Air as a Buzz Pick.

The sequel, which can be read as a standalone, is The Story That Wouldn’t Die.

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Kristi DeMeester

Kristi DeMeester is the author of Beneath, published by Word Horde, and Everything That's Underneath by Apex Books. Her short fiction has been included in Ellen Datlow's Year's Best Horror Volumes 9 and 11, Year's Best Weird Fiction Volumes 1, 3, and 5, and Stephen Jone's Best New Horror. Her short fiction has also appeared in publications such as Black Static, The Dark, Pseudopod, as well as several others. In her spare time, she alternates between telling people how to pronounce her last name and how to spell her first.

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Emmie Caldwell

Emmie Caldwell is the pen name of Mary Ellen Hughes, author of 4 cozy mystery series.

A WICKED YARN begins Emmie's Craft Fair Knitters Mystery Series, set in Crandalsburg, PA, where Lia Geiger and her Ninth Street Knitters solve murders as they knit up a storm.

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Jessica George

Jessica George was born and raised in London to Ghanaian parents and studied English Literature at the University of Sheffield. After working at a literary agency and a theatre, she landed a job in the editorial department of Bloomsbury UK. MAAME is her first novel.

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Maureen Kilmer

Maureen Kilmer graduated from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio and lives in the Chicago suburbs with her husband and three children. She does not have a She Shed, and thankfully has not had to battle the forces of darkness (unless going to Costco on a Saturday counts).

She is the author of the upcoming HEX EDUCATION (9/19/23) and SUBURBAN HELL, released in 2022.

Under Maureen Leurck, she wrote CICADA SUMMER and MONARCH MANOR, both set in the Lake Geneva, Wisconsin area.

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Jennie Marts

Jennie Marts is a USA Today bestselling author of award-winning books filled with love, laughter, and always a happily ever after. She loves genre-mashups, and her books range from western romance to cozy mysteries but all have the charm and appeal of quirky small-town life. Living out her own happily ever after in the mountains of Colorado, she’s addicted to Diet Coke, adores Cheetos, and believes you can’t have too many books, shoes, or friends.

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Misha Popp

Misha Popp (she/her) enjoys writing about murdery women and over-the-top baked goods, but not so much about herself. She lives in rural Massachusetts where she bakes entirely too many pies and sculpts things out of chocolate. An unrepentant school nerd, she has a collection of degrees that have nothing to do with the jobs that pay her.

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Penny Colman

Penny Colman is the author of award-winning biographies and social histories. Her intriguing topics range from Rosie the Riveter: Women Working on the Home Front in World War II to Corpses, Coffins, and Crypts: A History of Burial. A popular speaker, Penny has appeared on television and radio, including National Public Radio, and on Book TV, C-Span2.

She has been honored by the New Jersey State Legislature for her books and public appearances that have “contributed to the advancement of women.” The New Jersey State Federation of Women’s Clubs presented her with the New Jersey Women of Achievement Award.

A graduate of The University of Michigan and The Johns Hopkins University, Penny has taught nonfiction literature and creative writing at va

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Liv Stratman

Liv Stratman's debut novel, CHEAT DAY, was published by Scribner in 2021. She writes the Substack A REASON TO LIVE and hosts Book Club² at Book Club Bar in New York City's East Village.

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Christina Estes

Emmy Award-winning reporter Christina Estes uses her career for inspiration for her mysteries.

During 20-plus years in Phoenix, Christina covered crime, public policy and business. Her stories ranged from the whimsical - like a fish visiting a dentist - to the weighty - such as witnessing an execution by lethal injection.

Christina received the Tony Hillerman Prize for Best First Mystery Set in the Southwest for Off the Air. Good Morning America selected Off the Air as a Buzz Pick.

The sequel, which can be read as a standalone, is The Story That Wouldn’t Die.

Join the News Crew to get the inside scoop at www.christinaestes.com

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Emma C. Wells

Emma C. Wells is the USA Today bestselling author of This Girl's A Killer.

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Meri Allen

MERI ALLEN lives in a quiet corner of Connecticut, where she haunts libraries, used book stores, and vintage shops.

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Sydney Leigh

Sydney Leigh spent several years running a seasonal business, working in the summer so she could spend cold months in cool places. Now she writes modern cozy mysteries and thinks about murder. She is a member of Sisters in Crime, International Thriller Writers, and served on the board of Crime Writers of Canada from 2018-2021.

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John Copenhaver

John Copenhaver’s historical crime novel, Dodging and Burning, won the 2019 Macavity Award for Best First Mystery Novel and garnered Anthony, Strand Critics, Barry, and Lambda Literary Award nominations. Copenhaver writes a crime fiction review column for Lambda Literary called “Blacklight,” cohosts on the House of Mystery Radio Show, and is the six-time recipient of Artist Fellowships from the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities. He grew up in the mountains of southwestern Virginia and currently lives in Richmond, VA, with his husband, artist Jeffery Paul (Herrity).

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C.J. Connor

CJ Connor is a Pitch Wars alumnus as well as a Book Riot and EBSCO NoveList contributor. They write queer romance and cozy mysteries. When they are not writing, they can be found stress knitting, listening to angsty folk music, or walking their chihuahua.

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Celeste Connally

CELESTE CONNALLY is the USA Today bestselling author of the Lady Petra Inquires series, an Agatha Award nominee, and a former freelance writer and editor. Her mysteries are set in Regency-era England and feature a headstrong heroine, a feminist spin, and as many equestrian scenes as her plots and editor will allow. She delights in giving her mysteries a good dose of romance, too, and a few research facts she hopes you’ll find as interesting as she does. Passionate about history and slightly obsessed with period dramas, what Celeste loves most is reading and writing about women who don’t always do as they are told.

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Anastasia Hastings

Also writes as Miranda Bliss, Casey Daniels, Zoe Daniels, Connie Deka, Mimi Granger, Anastasia Hastings, Connie Lane, Connie Laux, Constance Laux, Kylie Logan.

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Beth Hensperger

Beth Hensperger is a passionate professional- and home- baker who is both extremely creative and extraordinarily prolific as an author and developer of quality recipes. Her training included a ten-year apprenticeship as a restaurant and hotel pastry chef as well as having her own custom wedding cake business and attending classes given by some of the top bakers in America. Though restaurant trained, she considers herself more of a dedicated home baker than a chef.
Beth’s writing career began when she was chosen as the Guest Cooking Instructor for the March 1985 issue of Bon Appetit. She is now the author of fifteen cookbooks, many of them best sellers. Her most recent books include: Williams Sonoma Breads (Weldon Owen), Bread For Breakfast (

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Anthony Lee

Anthony Lee has a unique background in medicine. After graduating from medical school, he switched from clinical medicine to health technology assessment, analyzing new medical tests and treatments in a career spanning over 15 years.

As a writer, he found inspiration in a variety of literary works, both contemporary and classic. He has especially discovered the excitement of thriller novels, including medical thrillers by authors like Robin Cook and Tess Gerritsen, crime fiction by Michael Connelly, and Ian Fleming's James Bond novels. After years of brainstorming his own story ideas, he finally wrote and self-published his first medical thriller novel, Doctor Lucifer, in 2024.

When he is not writing, he enjoys things like music, movies, vide

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Claudia H. Long

Claudia H. Long has written in a wide range of genres. She first wrote historical fiction, beginning with Josefina's Sin. Following Josefina's Sin, Claudia wrote The Duel for Consuelo, featuring the Secret Jews of Mexico, and Chains of Silver, set in the silver mining city of Zacatecas in 1753.
Turning her attention to family history, her next book, Nine Tenths of the Law, was published by Kasva Press. Based on her mother's survival in World War 2, and featuring a contemporary mystery starring two daughters as they searched for an artifact stolen during that war, this book broke new ground for Claudia. The second book in the Zara and Lilly series, Our Lying Kin, came out from Kasva in 2023.
Then Claudia discovered the joys of small-town, edg

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Veronica Bond

Veronica Bond is the pseudonym of a beloved author who has taught high school English for twenty-nine years.

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Jennifer Wright-Berryman

I'm a professor of social work at the University of Cincinnati and specialize in mental health and suicide prevention (if you need a mental health sensitivity reader, I'm your gal).

I am the author of The Dying Five (A Hospice Heroes Mystery) series- cozy mysteries in which folks in hospice spend their final months solving crimes.
I have also published The Pleasure Company under the pen name Samantha Gor. The Pleasure Company creates a world where sexual freedom is combined with sex positivity and is a unique twist on contemporary romance, with enemies-to-rejection-to-acceptance-to-lovers trope and eventually close proximity.

I live in Indiana with my husband and enjoy the outdoors: hiking, biking, and kayaking. I'm a weekend warrior writer.

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Bill Garwin

Bill Garwin left California and now resides in the high desert of New Mexico where he can wear his cherished cowboy hat year-round. Eight years of lacrosse, fifteen years of karate, and five years of fencing have taught him lessons which can only be earned. While others may accept the fertile middle-ground, he respects his readers too much to write down to them, striving to blend action, humor, and considered reflection in his books. When you meet him, understand that he enjoys nothing more than a conversation on a topic he has never before considered. He will, of course, opine with complete confidence.

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Dwayne Claud

Dwayne Claud is a demonologist, paranormal investigator, author, and lecturer from Leicester, New York.

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Kater Cheek

Kater Cheek is the author of the urban fantasy Kit Melbourne series, the Alternate Susan series, and the chicken comic Coop de Grace. Her short work has appeared in The Steampunk User’s Manual, The Living Dead anthology, Weird Tales, Fantasy Magazine, and some other forums including foreign textbooks. Kater Cheek is a graduate of 2007 Clarion San Diego. www.catherinecheek.com. When not writing, she enjoys dangling in the air and making the sort of art that requires safety glasses and good ventilation.
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