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Brandon Massey
is the award-winning author of several thrillers
and story collections, including
Dark
Corner
, The Other Brother, Don’t Ever
Tell
, and
Vicious
. He lives with his family near
Atlanta, GA, where he is at work on his next suspense thriller.
Visit him online at http://
www.brandonmassey.com
and sign up for
his free newsletter, The Talespinner, to receive book news updates
and writing tips.

Dean Wesley Smith
has written more than 90 popular novels, both his
own and tie-in projects, including well over 100 published short
stories. His novels include
Laying the
Music to Rest
and
X-Men: The Jewels of Cyttorak
. With
Kristine Kathryn Rusch, he is the coauthor of
The Tenth Planet
trilogy and the
motion picture novelization
X-Men
, along with more than a
dozen
Star Trek
books and two original
Men in
Black
novels. He has also written novels in
a number of gaming universes, including Vor and the novelization
for the movie
Final
Fantasy
. Currently, he is writing thrillers
and mystery novels under another name. His Web site is
http://www.deanwesleysmith.com.

David J. Montgomery
is the thriller/mystery critic for The Daily Beast
and the
Chicago
Sun-Times
. He has written about
authors and books for several of the country's largest newspapers,
including the
Washington
Post
,
USA
Today
and
Boston Globe
. His reviews and
journalism have also appeared in the
Philadelphia Inquirer
,
South Florida
Sun-Sentinel
,
Kansas City Star
,
Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel
and
National Review
Online
. An occasional writer of
fiction, David's short stories have appeared in Mira's
Thriller 2: Stories You Just Can't Put
Down
,
Plots
with Guns
and
Demolition Magazine
. His Web site is
http://www.davidjmontgomery.com.

Elizabeth Massie
is a two-time Bram Stoker Award-winning author of
horror novels, historical novels, media tie-in novels, radio
dramas, short fiction, and educational readers. Her books
include
Sineater
,
Welcome Back to the Night,
Homeplace, The Fear Report, Dark Shadows: Dreams of the Dark, The
Tudors: King Takes Queen, The Tudors: Thy Will Be Done,
and many more.

Beth is also the creator of
the Skeeryvilletown menagerie of bizarre cartoon characters, which
are featured on clothing and other items at
http://www.cafepress.com/Skeeryvilletown. Recent works include the
psychological horror/dark humor novel
DD
Murphry, Secret Policeman
, co-authored with
Alan M. Clark, and the comic book
Julie
Walker is
The Phantom in Race Against
Death
. She lives in the Shenandoah Valley
of Virginia with illustrator Cortney Skinner. Her Web site is
http://www.elizabethmassie.com

Douglas Clegg
published his first novel, Goat Dance, in 1989 and
has since written more than 20 books. He has primarily written
supernatural fiction—from horror to fantasy to psychological
suspense with a paranormal edge. An innovator in electronic
publishing, Clegg’s novel Naomi was the first serialized electronic
novel to be sponsored by a major publisher. In 2001, Purity became
the first fiction to appear on a cell phone.

He’s won the Bram Stoker Award, the
International Horror Guild Award, and the Shocker Award and his
work has been translated into nine languages.

Additionally, he’s been Director of Marketing
for a publisher, editor for a bookstore’s Web site, a marketing
consultant for publishers, publicity firms, and booksellers. He
also co-authored Buzz Your Book with M.J. Rose. His Web site is
http://www.douglasclegg.com.

Gayle Lynds
is a N.Y. Times bestseller and the award-winning
author of nine spy novels and has been called the Queen of
Espionage. Her newest, THE BOOK OF SPIES, is the beginning of her
first series.
Lee Child
writes she’s “today’s finest espionage writer,” while BookPage
claims: “Lynds has joined the deified ranks of spy thriller authors
like
Robert Ludlum
and
John le Carre
” and the London Observer says simply she’s “a kick-ass
thriller writer.” Please visit her at
http://www.GayleLynds.com.

Harley Jane
Kozak
, at age 19, headed for the Big Apple
and into the professional acting program at NYU's School of the
Arts (now Tisch School of the Arts). After completing the program,
she was cast in the feature film
The House
on Sorority Row
. This enabled her to retire
her waitress shoes.

Then came a trio of
principle roles in soaps—
Texas, Guiding
Light
and
Santa
Barbara
—that came to a smashing halt when
Harley's final character (a nun) was crushed to death by the giant
neon letter "C." But that "C" gig had gotten her to L.A., where she
went on to star in feature films and prime-time television
programs. Ten years later she began to write novels, have babies
and acquire dogs, cats, fish, and rabbits—and the rest, as they
say, is history. Her books are
Dating Dead
Men, Dead Ex, Dating Is Murder
, and
A Date You Can’t Refuse
.
Her Web site is http://www.harleyjanekozak.com and she participates
at http://thelipstickchronicles.typepad.com/.

Heather
Graham
is a New York Times and USA
Today best-selling author Heather Graham majored in theater arts at
the University of South Florida. After a stint of several years in
dinner theater, back-up vocals, and bartending, she stayed home
after the birth of her third child and began to write, working on
short horror stories and romances. After some trial and error, she
sold her first book, WHEN NEXT WE LOVE, in 1982 and since then has
written more than 100 novels and novellas including category,
romantic suspense, historical romance, vampire fiction, time
travel, occult, and Christmas holiday fare. She wrote the launch
books for the Dell's Ecstasy Supreme line, Silhouette's Shadows,
and for Harlequin's mainstream fiction imprint, Mira
Books.

Heather was a founding member of the Florida
Romance Writers chapter of RWA and, since 1999, has hosted the
Romantic Times Vampire Ball, with all revenues going directly to
children's charity. She also writes as Shannon Drake and Heather
Graham Pozzessere. Her Web site is
http://www.eheathergraham.com.

Kristine Kathryn
Rusch
is an award-winning mystery, romance,
science fiction, and fantasy writer. She has written many novels
under various names, including Kristine Grayson for romance, and
Kris

Nelscott for mystery. Her novels have made
the bestseller lists and have been published in 14 countries and 13
different languages.

Her awards include Ellery Queen Readers
Choice Award, John W. Campbell Award, two Hugo awards, two Asimov’s
Readers Choice Awards, the Best Mystery Novel award, UPC award, the
Endeavor Award, and is currently nominated for the Romantic Times
Book Review’s Reviewer’s Choice Award for Best Science Fiction
novel.

Rusch is the former editor
of prestigious
The Magazine of Fantasy
and Science Fiction.
Before that, she
and Dean Wesley Smith, started and ran Pulphouse Publishing, a
science fiction and mystery press in Eugene. She lives and works on
the Oregon Coast. Her Web site is
http://www.kristinekathrynrusch.com.

Jonathan
Maberry
is a multiple
Bram Stoker Award-winning author, magazine feature writer,
playwright, content creator and writing teacher/lecturer. Novels
include GHOST ROAD BLUES, DEAD MAN’S SONG, BAD MOON RISING, PATIENT
ZERO, THE DRAGON FACTORY and ROT AND RUIN, as well as THE WOLFMAN
novelization. In addition, Maberry writes for Marvel Comics and is
the co-creator (with Laura Schrock) of ON THE SLAB, an
entertainment news show in development by Stage 9 for ABC Disney /
Stage 9. In addition to teaching, career counseling, and martial
arts expertise, he’s penned a number of nonfiction books on
fictional monsters, such as ZOMBIE CSU and THEY BITE! His Big Scary
Blog is at
http://www.jonathanmaberry.com
.

Joseph Andrew
Konrath
was born in Skokie, IL in 1970. His
first novel,
Whiskey Sour
(2004), introduced Lt. Jacqueline "Jack" Daniels.
Others in the series include
Bloody
Mary
(2005),
Rusty Nail
(2006),
Dirty Martini
(2007),
Fuzzy Navel
(2008), and
Cherry
Bomb
(2009). The books combine
hair-raising scares and suspense with laugh-out-loud
comedy.

Joe is also the editor of
the hitman anthology
These Guns For
Hire
(2006). His short stories have
appeared in more than 60 magazines and collections, and his work
has been translated into 10 languages. Under the name Jack Kilborn,
Joe wrote the horror novel
Afraid
(2009). He is also author
of numerous ebooks, including the Kindle bestsellers
Serial
(with Blake Crouch)
and
The List
.

Joe's been nominated for several awards,
including the Anthony, Macavity, Gumshoe, Dagger, and Barry, and
has won the Derringer, Bob Kellog, EQMM Reader's Choice, and two
Lovie awards. His blog, A Newbie's Guide to Publishing
(jakonrath.blogspot.com), has had over 400,000 hits since 2005. His
Web site is http://www.jakonrath.com.

Kevin J. Anderson
is the author of more than one hundred novels, 47
of which have appeared on national or international bestseller
lists. He has over 20 million books in print in thirty languages.
He has won or been nominated for numerous prestigious awards,
including the Nebula Award, Bram Stoker Award, the SFX Reader's
Choice Award, the American Physics Society's Forum Award, and New
York Times Notable Book. Anderson has co-authored ten books in
Frank Herbert's classic DUNE universe with Herbert's son Brian. For
further information, see the official "Dune" site,
www.dunenovels.com. Herbert and Anderson are also co-producers on a
major new film of DUNE from Paramount Pictures.

Anderson's highly popular epic science fiction series, "The
Saga of Seven Suns," is his most ambitious work. Anderson is
working on an epic nautical fantasy trilogy, "Terra Incognita,"
about sailing ships, sea monsters, and the crusades. The first
volume, THE EDGE OF THE WORLD, was out in 2009 and THE MAP OF ALL
THINGS is out in 2010.

Anderson has also written or co-written
(with his wife, Rebecca Moesta) 20 STAR WARS novels, as well as
three X-FILES novels. He has also coauthored a major bestseller
with Dean Koontz, PRODIGAL SON, which sold more than a million
copies in a single year. He has written original novels SLAN HUNTER
(a completion of SF grand-master A.E. van Vogt's last novel),
HOPSCOTCH, CAPTAIN NEMO, THE MARTIAN WAR, BLINDFOLD, RESURRECTION,
INC., and the thrillers ILL WIND and IGNITION (both with Doug
Beason). For the Horror Writers Association, he edited the
bestselling anthology of humorous horror stories, BLOOD LITE.

Anderson has scripted numerous bestselling
comics and graphic novels, including Justice Society of America for
DC, Star-Jammers for Marvel, Star Wars and Predator for Dark Horse,
X-Files for Topps, and Star Trek for Wildstorm. He and his wife
Rebecca Moesta also wrote the original comic series and graphic
novel, GRUMPY OLD MONSTERS for IDW. His Web site is
http://www.wordfire.com.

M.J. Rose
is the international bestselling author of 10
novels:
Lip Service, In Fidelity, Flesh
Tones, Sheet Music, Lying in Bed, The Halo Effect, The Delilah
Complex, The Venus Fix, The Reincarnationist
, and
The Memorist
. Rose is also the co-author with Angela Adair Hoy of
How to Publish and Promote
Online
, and with Doug Clegg of
Buzz Your Book
.

She is a founding member and
board member of International Thriller Writers and the founder of
the first marketing company for authors:
AuthorBuzz.com
. She runs two
popular blogs; Buzz, Balls & Hype and Backstory. Getting
published has been an adventure for Rose who self-published
Lip Service
late in 1998
after several traditional publishers turned it down. After selling
over 2,500 copies (in both electronic and trade paper
format)
Lip Service
became the first e-book and the first self-published novel
chosen by the LiteraryGuild/Doubleday Book Club as well as being
the first e-book to go on to be published by a mainstream New York
publishing house. Rose has been profiled in numerous magazines and
television shows. Her Web site is http://www.mjrose.com.