I am a psychiatrist who recently worked at a large state hospital for the criminally insane, Napa State Hospital, where I was the Medical Chief of Staff. My inspiration and ideas came through my exper…
Steve earned a B. A. Degree from the University of Texas in Austin, majoring in political science and minoring in history. Afterwards he passed his stock broker's exam and worked for a time at a brok…
Peter Rowlands is an author whose mystery thrillers “are about ordinary people getting thrust into challenging, sometimes dangerous situations.” His leading characters don’t have special skills, and a…
Shane Joaquin Jimenez is the author of the neon-noir novel Bondage. His writing has appeared in The Cincinnati Review, Los Angeles Review of Books, Punk Noir Magazine, Shotgun Honey, Grain Magazine, a…
A.W. Baldwin has written seven novels featuring “Relic,” a moonshining hermit living deep in the remote canyons of Utah. The Antidote features a botany student, a couple of "old-timers," and genetical…
Jay Allan Storey has traveled the world, passing through many places in the news today, including Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, and the Swat valley in Pakistan. He has worked at an amazing variety of jobs,…
Erik Therme has thrashed in garage bands, inadvertently harbored runaways, and met Darth Vader. He currently resides in Iowa City, Iowa—one of only twenty-eight places in the world that UNESCO has cer…
Mr. Maldonado is an attorney in the Phoenix area that practices insurance coverage and employment discrimination law. He is co-author/editor of Couch on Insurance, a multi-volume treatise on insurance…
Michelle Cornish is an author-illustrator, crafting the kinds of stories she loves to read--complex characters, a dash of romance, and plenty of mystery and intrigue. Her specialty? Strong women in st…
As a former physician and business executive in another life—with a childhood filled with reading multi-genre novels (including Shakespeare in the original version)—Dobi Cross loves to write thrilling…
L.A. Detwiler is the USA TODAY Bestselling thriller author of The Widow Next Door with HarperCollins UK and several other chilling page-turners. Her novel The Diary of a Serial Killer's Daughter was a…
Jennifer Kropf spent her college years bored to death (nearly) in marketing and advertising classes, and graduated only to discover once and for all that her true passion is telling stories. She lives…
Ava Strong is author of the REMI LAURENT mystery series, comprising six books (and counting); of the ILSE BECK mystery series, comprising seven books (and counting); of the STELLA FALL psychological s…
Laury Silvers is a North American Muslim, raised in the United States but finally at home in Canada. She writes historical mysteries set in medieval Muslim lands and…
Will Pass is the author of The Second-Smartest Dog That Ever Lived, a dark comedy about interspecies friendships and the wild contradictions of domesticated life. It was named among the 2025 Southwest…
My early career took me to rural Zambia where I was a nurse-midwife for a volunteer agency. The role was challenging – hospital care, rural clinics and teaching midwifery theory to students. The life …
