Bob Shayne has been nominated for two Edgars for his TV movie “The Return of Sherlock Holmes”-also nominated by the Writers Guild of America as Best TV Movie of the Year-and for “Ashes to Ashes and None Too Soon,” one of twelve scripts he wrote for the popular 1980s TV series “Simon & Simon.” Pierce Brosnan is attached to star in and produce Shayne’s upcoming movie Once a Thief. This is his first short story. He is also developing a series of historical mystery novels featuring the Naomi Weinstein character.
Mark Terry is the author of two mystery series, one featuring Dr. Theo MacGreggor, a consulting forensic toxicologist, and one featuring Megan Malloy, a computer troubleshooter. He is also a frequent book reviewer, technical editor, and freelance writer. His work appears regularly in Mystery Scene Magazine, and has appeared in The Armchair Detective and Orchard Press Mysteries. He has published nearly one hundred book reviews, dozens of columns and articles, and even the occasional poem. His “day job” is in the field of genetics. He lives in Michigan with his wife and sons. Visit his website at www.mark-terry.com
Gary Phillips writes in various mediums from the short story form to comic books to scripts, as a general practitioner of mass media. And what few forays he’s had into the arena of Hollywood has taught him that show bizness ain’t a business for sissies.
Parnell Hall is the author of the Stanley Hastings private eye novels, the Puzzle Lady Crossword Puzzle mysteries, and the Steve Winslow courtroom dramas. His books have been nominated for Edgar and Shamus awards. Parnell is an actor, screenwriter, and former private investigator. He lives in New York City.
Susanne Shaphren’s first nationally published mystery was The Visit, a Fiction Award story in the March 1972 issue of Weight Watchers Magazine. Her articles and short stories have been published in an eclectic alphabet soup of magazines including: Authorship, Better Communication, Crosscurrents, Delta Scene, Golden Years, Hibiscus, Jack and Jill, Lady’s Circle, Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine, Plot, Short Stuff, and The Writer.
A transplant from Washington, D.C., Libby Fischer Hellmann has lived in the Chicago area twenty-five years. Her amateur sleuth series, featuring video producer Ellie Foreman, made its debut in 2002 with An Eye for Murder, published simultaneously by Poisoned Pen Press and Berkley Prime Crime. A Picture of Guilt was released in July, 2003, followed by An Image of Death in February 2004. Her short stories have appeared in both American and British publications. When not writing fiction, Libby writes and produces corporate videos. She is also a speech- and presentation-skills coach. She holds a BA from the University of Pennsylvania and an MFA in Film Production from New York University. She lives on the North Shore of Chicago with her family and a Beagle, shamelessly named Shiloh.
By the age of thirty, Charles Ardai had been a Shamus Award-nominated mystery writer, founder and CEO of a $2 billion Internet company, and a managing director at the investment and technology development firm Fortune magazine called “the most intriguing and mysterious force on Wall Street.” His proudest accomplishment, however, is having appeared as an extra in Woody Allen’s “Radio Days.” Mr. Ardai lives in New York.
Gregg Hurwitz is the author of The Tower, Minutes to Burn, Do No Harm, and The Kill Clause. He holds a B.A. in English and psychology from Harvard University and a master’s degree from Trinity College, Oxford. He lives in Los Angeles.
Show business may be murder, but somehow Steve Hockensmith has managed to survive his brushes with it-so far. A freelance journalist, he has covered pop culture and the film industry for The Hollywood Reporter, The Chicago Tribune, Newsday, The Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Total Movie, Cinescape, and other publications. He also recently sold the movie rights to his Derringer Award-winning story “Erie’s Last Day,” and a short film based on the story is in the works. His short fiction has appeared in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine, and Analog. But what he really wants to do is direct…
Shelley Freydont is the author of the Lindy Haggerty mystery series (Backstage Murder, Midsummer Murder, A Merry Little Murder). She has toured internationally with Twyla Tharp Dance and American Ballroom Theater and has choreographed for and appeared in films, television, and on Broadway. She is a member of MWA and Sisters in Crime (President of NY/TriState chapter 2001-2003).
Robert Lopresti is a librarian and songwriter in the Pacific Northwest. Thirty of his stories have been published in Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine, and many other places. One of his stories was nominated for the Anthony Award in 1994.
Mat Coward is a British writer of crime, SF, horror, children’s, and humorous fiction, whose stories have been broadcast on BBC Radio and published in numerous anthologies, magazines, and e-zines in the UK, US, and Europe. According to Ian Rankin, “Mat Coward’s stories resemble distilled novels.” His first non-distilled novel-a whodunit called Up and Down-was published in the USA in 2000 by Five Star Publishing. The same publisher produced his first single author collection, Do the World a Favour and Other Stories in 2003.
Stuart M. Kaminsky is the author of fifty-six published books, forty short stories, and five produced screenplays. He was one of the writers of the A & E Nero Wolfe television series. He won the Edgar for best novel in 1989 and the Prix De Roman D’Aventure of France in 1990. He has received a total of six Edgar nominations for his novels and short stories. Kaminsky writes the Toby Peters series, the Porfiry Rostnikov series, the Abe Lieberman series, and the Lew Fonesca series set in and around Sarasota. He has also written two “Rockford Files” novels. Kaminsky has a B.S. degree in Journalism and an M.A. in English Literature from the University of Illinois and a Ph.D. in Communications from Northwestern University. He taught film history, filmmaking, and creative writing at Northwestern University for sixteen years before going to Florida State University in 1988 to head the Graduate Conservatory in Film. He left FSU in 1994 to write full time. He now lives in Sarasota with his wife and family, and finds time to play a lot of softball.
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