Robert Bailey
Robert Bailey is the bestselling and award winning author of the McMurtrie and Drake Legal Thrillers series, which includes The Final Reckoning, The Last Trial, Between Black and White, and The Professor, as well as the Bocephus Haynes’ series, which debuted with Legacy of Lies. He is also the author of the inspirational novel, The Golfer’s Carol.
Robert was born in Huntsville, Alabama, the son of a builder and a schoolteacher. From the time he could walk, he’s loved stories, especially those about Coach Paul “Bear” Bryant and his beloved Alabama Crimson Tide football team.
Robert obtained a Bachelor of Arts in History from Davidson College in North Carolina. Law School at the University of Alabama followed, where Robert made Law Review, comp
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Book Awards
Shamus Awards Best Novel winner (1984) : True Detective
Shamus Awards Best Novel winner (1992) : Stolen Away
Shamus Awards Best Novel nominee (1995) : Carnal Hours
Shamus Awards Best Novel nominee (1997) : Damned in Paradise
Shamus Awards Best Novel nominee (1999) : Flying Blind: A Novel about Amelia Earhart
Shamus Awards Best Novel nominee (2002) : Angel in Black
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Eric A. Shelman
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It has been a while since I delved into the zombie world. I really enjoyed writing the Scabs Series, but something was pulling me . Perhaps they were dead arms, peeling and gray, reaching for flesh. My flesh.
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A HUGE thanks to all of you who have read any of my work.
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Christopher Reich
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Kyle Bradford Jones
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Stephen W. Frey
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Holy Ghost Writer
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Henry Cox
Henry Cox has lived many different lives. He did run on a championship track team at Baylor. He worked in science, human dynamics, and statistics research, built houses from the ground up, hit a few tin cans at 10 to 100+ yards, had a few bruised knuckles, backpacked in snowdrifts and deserts, made a hole-in-one, learned to fly jet aircraft, and even sold a song.
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Henry was an adjunct professor for over a decade and developed thousands of hours of attorney education programs. He has been a distinguished trial lawyer in complex litigation for over 40 years, receiving numerous professional honors and still serves as an arbitrator, mediator.
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Mark Stevens
"No Lie Lasts Forever" was published by Thomas & Mercer in June, 2025. A sequel is due in 2026.
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Lake Union published "The Fireballer" in 2023. It was my first non-mystery. It's about a pitcher for The Baltimore Orioles.
My previous five books are all part of The Allison Coil Mystery Series, set in the Flat Tops Wilderness in Colorado.
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James Douglas
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Richard Farr
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Joe Cargile
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In 2015, Cargile sat for the bar exam in Georgia, then was admitted to the practice of law soon after. He joined a small law firm in South Georgia, where he began taking on criminal defense work and general litigation matters. After several years, and despite a growing caseload, Cargile began w -
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Margaret Fenton
Margaret grew up on the Mississippi Gulf Coast and moved to Birmingham in 1996. She received her B.A. in English from the Newcomb College of Tulane University, and her Master of Social Work from Tulane. She spent nearly ten years as a child and family therapist before taking a break to focus on her writing.
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Len Joy
Len Joy had an idyllic childhood, growing up in the gem of the Finger Lakes, Canandaigua, New York. As a typical small-town boy, he had a wide range of interests, most involving sports. He lettered in four sports in high school and went off to the University of Rochester with dreams of becoming a football hero and world-famous novelist.
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When he awoke from those dreams, he switched his major from English to Finance and quit the football team, but started dating one of the cheerleaders – Suzanne Sawada. Three years later they were married, and four decades later, they still are.
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Clyde Phillips
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Thad Diaz
My name is Thad Diaz. I was a Tampa Bay firefighter until I retired in 2021 with 25 years of service. I wrote sci-fi and fantasy as T. Allen Diaz, but I've always been a fan of hard-boiled mysteries. Now that I no longer ride fire trucks, I can tell my Tampa-based detective tales without concerns for my
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career.
The Cigar City Case Files is based in Tampa. Its stories occur in actual or fictionalized places tailored to this great city. The tales display its glorious beauty and gritty underbelly as only a native can. I still live in the Tampa Bay area with my wife, two of my kids and a house full of dogs.
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Mark M. Bello
Mark M. Bello is an attorney and award-winning author. A Michigan native, Mark received his B.A. in English Literature from Oakland University and his law degree from Thomas M. Cooley Law School.
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After his career handling high-profile legal cases, Mark now provides readers with a close-up view of the social justice battlefront. Each book in the Zachary Blake Betrayal Series is a ripped-from-the-headlines novel inspired by Bello’s legal experiences and his concern for our current sociopolitical landscape.
Mark is married and has four adult children and ten grandchildren. In addition to his novels, Mark writes articles and blogs about safety, justice, and fairness in the legal system. His work can be found in numerous print and online publicati -
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.
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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.
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Ric K. Hill
RIC K. HILL is the author of Old Man Par, Bunkered, Panic at Augusta, Stroke of Genius, Heart of a Caddie, Slice of Heaven, Rub of the Green, Last Mulligan, Bogey Train, The Right Side of the Fairway, Dust Bowl Justice, The Diamond Traitor, and Lotto: Blood Money.
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In addition to writing, Ric's interests include golf, gardening (with a focus on rare and unusual tropical plants), camping, and reading. He is currently writing a historical novel set in 1880s Indonesia. -
John F. Dobbyn
John F. Dobbyn is an American mystery writer and Professor of Law at the Villanova University School of Law. His Devlin and Knight short story "Trumpeter Swan," published in the February 2004 issue of Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, was a finalist for the Shamus Award for Best Short Story from the Private Eye Writers of America. He lives in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania with his wife Lois.
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Brian Harper
A pseudonym used by Douglas Borton, aka Michael Prescott.
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Douglas Child Borton, Jr. grew up in New Jersey and attended Wesleyan University, then moved to Los Angeles and pursued a career as a screenwriter. After working with several independent producers, he eventually switched to writing novels, a much less stressful occupation. He has published eight thrillers, from Comes the Dark (1999) to Mortal Faults (2006), and currently is at work on a new book. Today he divides his time between the Arizona desert and the Jersey shore. -
J.D. Lasica
J.D. Lasica is the International bestselling author of four high-tech thrillers. He is also the founder of BingeBooks.com as well as a former columnist and journalist at a top 20 newspaper. J.D. has spoken at the United Nations, Harvard, Stanford, MIT, Cannes and at dozens of conferences on four continents. He has just moved to Puerto Rico (he loves the beaches and arts scene there) and is working on his next thriller release.
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Do you belong to a book club? J.D. has spoken by video chat to dozens of book clubs on subjects from AI to thrillers to indie publishing. -
Eric Thomas
I am a talk radio host in Detroit, Mi at night and I write a lot during the day. Kind of like Batman.
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Nick Elliott
"Nick Elliott delivers in spades when it comes to fast-paced, intelligent, international thrillers. You feel, smell and touch every authentically crafted location; you’re expertly drawn into a maze of shadows and sinister organizations and characters where nothing is what it seems. This really is thriller writing of the highest calibre.” Craig Russell, award-winning author of the bestselling and critically acclaimed Jan Fabel and Lennox crime thrillers.
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Over an eventful career in international shipping, Nick Elliott has handled dozens of maritime claims, casualties and other assorted mishaps throughout the Far East, the East Med and Black Sea. Many of these cases provide inspiration for his series of Angus McKinnon thrillers.
He worked as a -
Simon Wood
Simon Wood is a California transplant from England. He's an ex-competitive racecar driver, a licensed pilot and an occasional private investigator. He shares his world with his American wife, Julie. Their lives are dominated by a longhaired dachshund and five cats. In the last ten years, he's had over 150 stories and articles published. His stories have been included in “Best of” anthologies and he's a frequent contributor to Writer’s Digest. He's the Anthony Award winner and a Crime Writers Dagger Award finalist. He's the author of Working Stiffs, Accidents Waiting to Happen, Paying the Piper, Terminated, We All Fall Down, Deceptive Practices, The Fall Guy, Hot Seat and Did Not Finish. His latest thriller is, Saving Grace. He also writes h
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James Stewart Thayer
James Thayer is the son of a wheat farmer, and he was raised in Spokane and the farm country in eastern Washington. He graduated from Washington State University and the University of Chicago Law School, and now teaches novel writing at the University of Washington extension school where in 2015 he received the Excellence in Teaching Award in the Arts, Writing and Humanities. The New York Times Book Review says his "writing is smooth and clear. Deceptively simple, it wastes no words, and it has a rhythm that only confident stylists achieve.” His The Essential Guide to Writing a Novel is a leading manual for fiction writers. Thayer is a member of the Washington State Bar Association and the International Thriller Writers. He and his family l
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Michael Useem
Michael Useem is a professor in the Management Department and Faculty Director of the Center for Leadership and Change Management and McNulty Leadership Program at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. His university teaching includes MBA and executive-MBA courses on management and leadership, and he offers programs on leadership and governance for managers in the United States, Asia, Europe, and Latin America. He works on leadership development with many companies and organizations in the private, public and nonprofit sectors.
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He is co-anchor for a weekly program “Leadership in Action” on SiriusXM Radio Channel 132 and co-director of the annual CEO Academy. He is the author of The Leader’s Checklist, The Strategic Leader’s -
Pete Zacharias
Pete Zacharias received a BA in English with a concentration in creative writing. He is a lover of Nordic noir, dark thrillers, and anything spy, and credits Michael Connelly’s The Poet as the novel that inspired him to become a writer. The Man Burned by Winter is Pete’s first novel.
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Pete grew up in Milford, Connecticut, received a BA in English with a concentration in Creative Writing, and now bounces around between Connecticut and Rhode Island. -
Stuart Blackburn
Born in the US, first went to India in 1970 as a Peace Corps volunteer. PhD from Berkeley in 1980 on Indian folklore, taught at Berkeley, Dartmouth, Heidelberg, Humboldt (Berlin) and mostly at SOAS in London, where I moved in 1994. Now live in Hove, with my wife, on the south coast. I love historical fiction, not ancient stuff, mostly early to mid 20th century. Novels can bring history alive and help us to understand the past.
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Hayley Stone
Hayley Stone is the author of the weird western, MAKE ME NO GRAVE, a finalist for the Laramie Book Awards, and the Last Resistance sci-fi series.
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She has lived her entire life in sunny California, where the weather is usually perfect and nothing as exciting as a robot apocalypse ever happens. When not reading or writing, she freelances as an editor, plays the ocarina, and analyzes buildings for velociraptor entry points. She holds a bachelor’s degree in history and a minor in German from California State University, Sacramento. -
Jessica Faleiro
India-based novelist, travel writer and avid reader. Author of 'The Delicate Balance of Little Lives' and 'Afterlife: Ghost stories from Goa.'
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My latest book 'The Delicate Balance of Little Lives' is now out on Kindle and in Paperback!
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Alan S. Kessler
Today, 2/11/21, is the first time I am using this space to say a little about myself.
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Shyness, a belief I would bore readers with my background or cause them to think I was using it to selfishly gain sympathy, prevented me in the past from sharing biographical information. However, because of my new novel, Ghost Dancer, I believe it is now appropriate to mention a few aspects of my childhood.
With Ghost Dancer I am a white male writing about a teenage girl, Native and African Americans, and a same sex, female relationship. So the question is, am I also “…a white liberal interloper, a cultural [gender] carpetbagger…” the criticism leveled at William Styron for writing The Confessions of Nat Turner? (William Styron’s Nat Turner: Ten Black Wri -
Giorgos Katsoulas
Giorgos Katsoulas was born on February 16, 1981, in Athens. He is an honours graduate of the screenwriting school at ANT1, but he is self-taught in literature. He has been diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome and has received numerous literary awards. He has written 15 books of all genres, including poetry, plays, novellas, historical novels, and psychological thrillers. His greatest passion is film music, and he is also a collector of soundtracks and films.
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Lance Carney
Lance Carney is an award winning 30+ year hospital pharmacist (5 year award, 10 year award, 15 …). He has been writing medical/pharmacy based fiction since the 1980s. His first novel, Ripped Tide: A Daniel O’Dwyer Oak Island Adventure, follows a hospital pharmacist who reluctantly goes undercover to fight prescription drug diversion in a hospital near his new home. Ripped Tide is a 2017 McGrath House Indie Book Award Winner in the Humor Category. His second novel, No Egrets: A Glenn and Glenda Oak Island Mystery, teams Daniel with husband and wife bar owners to solve a medical mystery. Mantis Preying: A Daniel O'Dwyer Oak Island Adventure (Book 2) picks up post-Ripped Tide. Of Vamps and Vampiros: A Finnian O'Dwyer Universal City Crime Cape(
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Sharon Cramer
Sharon Cramer is an aspiring time-traveler, alien princess, and master painter of Halloween faces. In the meantime, she writes from a dank, dark cave, somewhere in Washington State. THE EXECUTION is her breakthrough novel and the first of The WINTERGRAVE CHRONICLES.
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Hard at work on her new Sci-Fi, Fantasy series, THE CERULEAN STAR, she also creates children’s picture books, including the multi-award winning MARLOW and the MONSTER.
When not surfing black matter threads and planning historical ruin and perfectly crushed hearts, Sharon can be found wandering around Eastern Washington.
Driven by sleeplessness and an endless draw to the keyboard (and the occasional extra strong coffee), she is inspired by unorthodox friends and extreme weather. M -
Scott Parazynski
Dr. Scott Parazynski is a highly decorated physician, astronaut, and tech CEO, recently inducted into the US Astronaut Hall of Fame. His first book, a memoir entitled "The Sky Below," is slated for launch on August 1, 2017.
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He is a widely sought after keynote speaker on innovation, risk management, mentorship and leadership under extreme adversity.
Scott has lived and traveled all over the world, spending many of his grade school years in places such as Senegal, Lebanon, Iran and Greece. A graduate of Stanford University and Medical School, he went on to train at Harvard and in Denver for a career in emergency medicine and trauma.
In 1992 he was selected to join NASA's Astronaut Corps and eventually flew 5 Space Shuttle missions and conducted -
Gary Showalter
Gary Showalter was born in Honolulu, Hawaii. He lived in Aruba, Florida and the Panama Canal Zone before joining the U.S. Army during the 1960s. Mr. Showalter has picked cotton in East Texas, baled hay in Ardmore Oklahoma, sold light bulbs in Los Angeles, California, and built cattle pens in Fallon, Nevada (during a blizzard, of course). After settling in Atlanta, Georgia, Mr. Showalter worked as a professional gardener before turning his hand to furniture making.
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In 1981, he moved to Israel, married, and raised four children while working as a furniture maker, silversmith, goldsmith, and ornamental wood turner. He served in the Israel Defense Forces Reserves for sixteen years, and when not on active duty he worked in government and private -
Michael Balter
Michael Balter is an award-winning author and natural storyteller whose debut novel, Chasing Money, won multiple accolades, including the 2023 Best Indie Book Award for Crime Thrillers, the 2024 Feathered Quill Award for Best Mystery/Thriller/Suspense novel, and the 2024 Crime Thriller of the Year from BestThrillers.com.
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Born in post-war Berlin, Michael grew up in a bombed-out building with bars on the windows and bullet holes in the walls. When the Berlin wall went up, his family fled to Ottawa and then moved to Detroit at the height of the 1967 riots. During the Vietnam War, Michael served as an air traffic controller at the Udorn Air Force base in Thailand.
After graduating college with an aerospace engineering degree, Michael joined Int -
Patti Frye Meredith
Patti Meredith grew up in Galax, Virginia. Most of her stories are set in the Blue Ridge Mountains, but her debut novel, South of Heaven, takes place in the North Carolina Sandhills where her family’s roots run deep.
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“The Carthage in South of Heaven is a place formed from the hazy childhood memories I have of visiting my grandmothers. If you know the real Carthage, I apologize for misplaced landmarks and fictitious churches!”
After graduating from Virginia Tech with a degree in horticulture, she was fortunate to cultivate a career in television production and worked for many years at UNC-TV on the long running program, North Carolina People with William Friday.
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Mike Dowd
Mike Dowd has been the PGA General Manager/COO and Head Golf Professional at Oakdale Golf & Country Club in Oakdale, California since 2001, is the NCPGA's 2013 Bill Strausbaugh Award Winner, and was nominated for the NCPGA's 2016 Teacher of the Year. He served three terms on the Northern California PGA's Board of Directors and chaired the Committees for the Growth of the Game and Communications in that time. He has introduced thousands of people to the game of golf since turning professional in 1990 and has coached dozens of collegiate and professional athletes, including his daughter Isabella who has just accepted a scholarship to play for Jessup University.
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Mike currently lives in Turlock, California with his wife Julieanne and their daug -
Michael Califra
Michael Califra’s books are examinations of individuals resisting or succumbing to events in a world that is often absurd.
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Califra lived and worked in Germany, mostly in Berlin, from 1986 to 1998 where he wrote the novel, "No Man's Land." When the Berlin Wall fell, and Germany and Berlin were reunified, it soon became clear that the city he knew would be quickly erased, just as the Berlin of the Kaiser had been overtaken by Weimar Berlin, which was then been wiped away by Hitler's capital, only to be replaced yet again by Cold War cities of East and West Berlin. Wanting to document the place he knew would soon dissolve into history was the motivation behind writing his novel.
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John Metcalfe
John Metcalfe is a writer and academic based in the UK. He first started writing for magazines in the nineties and his work has appeared in Dirt, MBR, Australian Mountain Bike, MBI, On The Hill and Singletrack.
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His first book Mountain Bike Fitness Training was published in 2001 by Mainstream Publishing and received wide acclaim. His second book Dividing the Great saw John venture into travel writing and it quickly became no.1 Kindle bestseller in American travel.
Articles from his Ph.D. have appeared in several academic journals and his philosophical musings have been published as chapters in academic books.
His debut novel Praesagium follows three strangers who are preoccupied with their own futures. But when their paths cross in Mexico none -
Stacy Wilder
Stacy writes mysteries, children’s stories, short stories, and poetry.
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Stacy’s mission is to deliver a delightful story to readers of all ages while benefiting a larger community. She donates a portion of the proceeds from Charleston Conundrum to the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI). For Carmel Conundrum, she is donating to causes that help homeless pets.
She and her husband live in Houston, Texas, with a totally spoiled Labrador retriever, Eve.
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Avery West
I am a writer and researcher dedicated to the weird, the wild and the horrific. To stories that are overlooked or kept off the radar. Stories you may find hard to believe. Stories that powerful interests would prefer to keep hidden. Names and places have been changed to protect the innocent – starting with my own.
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Jeffrey C. Ulin
After majoring in anthropology at Harvard, Jeff Ulin became fascinated with other cultures and began traveling the world—capturing and moving an endangered Rhino on a rescue project in Africa, visiting Buddhist monasteries on the Indian/Tibetan border, exploring Asia, Russia and the Mid-East, coupled with living as an American expat in the Netherlands, UK, and Spain, all which color and inform his novels. He’s braved and enjoyed every conceivable mode of travel (tuk-tuk,
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atop bus with goats, private planes, Concorde, bullet trains). Jeff’s experiences working for George Lucas on Skywalker Ranch, creating Higglytown Heroes, and working as a General Counsel also infuse his writing. He relishes very spicy Chinese food, is a dog lover, and now l -
Charles Alden Seltzer
Charles Alden Seltzer was an American writer. He was a prolific author of western novels, had writing credits for more than a dozen film titles, and authored numerous stories published in magazines, most prominently in Argosy.
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