Sheila Bitts
Sheila Bitts, MFA, MPH is the author of Roses (2018, poetry). Her flash fiction is in Beyond Words Literary Magazine (2021). Worth (2022) is her collection of short stories. She wrote the novel, The Diamond Escape (2017) and its screenplay (2020). Entanglement (2022) is the second book in the Falloy Private Detective Novels.
BlueCat Review of Screenplay, "The Diamond Escape"--"This script is entertaining and is clearly inspired by many classic movies. It’s both a heist story and a detective story and the writer draws deftly from both genres to create a breakneck pursuit of the titular diamonds. In this expansive chase.. The diversity of place and the speed with which we move between settings create an exciting and, on the whole, original pie
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Since retiring from the FBI, ending a 40 year law enforcement career in which he avoided indictment and bought many a round, Joe Enright abides. His blog posts featuring deep dives into Brooklyn history and grossly opinionated takes on the passing parade (at JoeEnright.com, star-revue.com, and argyleheights.blogspot.com) have averaged thousands of monthly visits by the lost and misguided. Moreover, his PhD dissertation (CUNY, John Jay College of Criminal Justice) continues to be downloaded weekly by scholars and insomniacs who’ve heard of its extraordinary sleep-inducing properties. He lives in Brooklyn’s West Midwood/Little Pakistan enclave with Virginia Waters, his very long-suffering attorney wife, and an empty nest, although his son Jam
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Jane O'Brien discovered her love of writing at the age of ten when she wrote her first ten-chapter book in pencil on notebook paper. She passed it around to all of her friends at school and told them she wanted to be an author. And that planted the seed.
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O'Brien's career life has been varied. She was a piano teacher for over 50 years, a librarian, and a professional proofreader. She is also interested in genealogy, having worked on her own family tree, as well as her husband's, for over 40 years, which helps to color most of her novels.
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After living there his entire teen years, he returned to the United States in 1970. Metti attended Northern Illinois University, S.U.N.Y.-Binghamton, and Wayne State University-Detroit to earn his B.A., M.A. and Ed.D. respectively.
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Jean-Luc Bannalec
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The author divides his time between Germany and coastal Brittany, France. Death in Brittany, the first case for Commissaire Dupin, was published in German in March 2012 and sold 600,000 copies, spending many months on the bestseller list. It has been sold into 14 countries. -
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His writing is dark and without boundaries. Known for creating a stir, his work has gone viral on several occasions. He's won the Splatterpunk Award twice after garnering four total nominations. As an independent artist, Beauregard's book "Playground" has achieved #1 Bestseller status under the category of horror on both Amazon and Barnes and Noble. Additionally, his work has been translated to multiple languages.
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Charlotte Stuart
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Her current passion is for writing character driven mysteries with twisty plots. She has published twelve mysteries since 2019, including a legal thriller co-authored with writer husband Don Stuart.
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Bourne has worked as a waitress, cook, chambermaid, laundress, barker, and secretary. Much of her early 20s was spent traveling through the United States and living in hostels with foreigners.
She once hitchhiked from Valdez to Anchorage, Alaska, and it only took two rides—oh, and one bear encounter.
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Jenni Howell is an American dark academia and thriller author whose books feature characters that pluck themselves out of their pages and into your mind, eerie mysteries, and swoon-worthy romances that are almost never a good idea. Fans of The Raven Cycle and Atlas Six will find themselves at home in her words.
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Bourne has worked as a waitress, cook, chambermaid, laundress, barker, and secretary. Much of her early 20s was spent traveling through the United States and living in hostels with foreigners.
She once hitchhiked from Valdez to Anchorage, Alaska, and it only took two rides—oh, and one bear encounter.
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A.M. enjoys major league thingy and a several pebbles. When he grows up he hopes to be able to use the microwave.
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Calvin started working in the creative field at age 15. As a young radio disc jockey he wrote advertising for local retailers -- even won a state-wide award at age 18.
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Timothy
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Katya Mills
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I even write about time travel. I hope you enjoy them.