ABEL, Kenneth
Novelist, author of Bait (Delacorte, Dell, BOMC, 1994), The Blue Wall (Delacorte, Dell 1996), Cold Steel Rain (Putnam’s, 2000). The Burying Field (Putnam’s 2002). Down In The Flood (Thomas Dunne/St. Martin’s Press, August 2009) http://us.macmillan.com/author/kennethabel
ALFIERI, Gus
Author of Cast A Giant Shadow: Joe Lapchick and the Golden Days of New York City Basketball (Lyons Press, 2006). www.lapchickthebook.com
ANGELL, Jeannette
Author of Callgirl (Permanent Press/HarperCollins), Madam (Permanent Press). www.jeannetteangell.com
BELSKY, Richard
Journalist and novelist, author of seven novels including the Mourning Show (Berkley), Loverboy (Avon, 1996) Playing Dead (Avon, 1999). Novel on submission: Forget Me Not
BRANDT, Anthony
Magazine writer (Esquire, Playboy, GQ, NY Times magazine, Atlantic, Men’s Journal, etc.). Author of Reality Police: The Experience of Insanity in America (William Morrow). The Man Who Ate His Boots: Sir John Franklin and the Tragic History of the Northwest Passage (Knopf, March, 2010).
BRUEN, Ken
Novelist, author of the Det. Sgt. Brant novels: A White Arrest, Taming the Alien, The McDead - Collected in A White Trilogy; (reprinted by St. Martin’s Press, 2011) Blitz (SMP, 2002), Vixen (SMP, 2003), Calibre (SMP, 2006), Ammunition (SMP, 2007). Jack Taylor novels: The Guards (SMP, 2001), The Killing of the Tinkers (SMP, 2002), The Magdalen Martyrs (SMP, 2003), The Dramatist (SMP, 2004), Priest (SMP, 2006), Cross (SMP, 2007), Sanctuary (SMP, 2009) Stand-alone novels: Rilke on Black (1997), The Hackman Blues (1997), Her Last Call to Louis MacNeice (1997), London Boulevard (2001), Dispatching Baudelaire (2004), American Skin (2006), Once Were Cops (St. Martin's Press, 2008), Tower (w/ Reed Farrel Coleman, Busted Flush Press, 2009), The Devil (a Jack Taylor novel) St. Martin's Press, 2010). www.kenbruen.com
*BURKE, Alafair
Novelist, Judgment Calls, (Henry Holt, 2003). Missing Justice (Holt, 2004). Close Case (Holt, 2005), Dead Connection, (Henry Holt, 2007), Angel’s Tip (HarperCollins, 2008), 212 (HarperCollins, March 2010), Long Gone (HarperCollins, 2011). www.alafairburke.com
BURKE, James Lee
Novelist and short-story writer, author of Half of Paradise (Houghton Mifflin, Hyperion), To The Bright And Shining Sun (Scribner, Hyperion), Lay Down My Sword And Shield (Crowell; Hyperion; Pocket Books, 2010), Two For Texas (Pocket Books), The Convict And Other Stories (LSU Press; Little, Brown; Pocket Books), The Lost Get-Back Boogie (LSU Press), The Neon Rain (Holt & Co; Pocket Books), Heaven’s Prisoners (Holt, Pocket Books), Black Cherry Blues (Little, Brown; Avon; Edgar Award for the best mystery novel of 1989), A Morning For Flamingos (Little, Brown; Avon), A Stained White Radiance (Hyperion, Avon), In The Electric Mist With Confederate Dead (Hyperion; Avon; Pocket), Dixie City Jam (Hyperion, 1994), Burning Angel (Hyperion, 1995), Cadillac Jukebox (Hyperion, 1996), Cimarron Rose (Hyperion, 1997, winner of Edgar Award), Sunset Limited (Doubleday, 1998, Dell, l999, winner of England’s Golden Dagger Award for Best Novel of l998), Heartwood (Doubleday, 1999, Bantam Dell 2000), Purple Cane Road (Doubleday, 2000; Bantam Dell, 2001). Bitterroot (Simon & Schuster, 2001), Jolie Blon’s Bounce (S & S, 2002), White Doves at Morning (S & S, 2002). Last Car to Elysian Fields (S & S, 2003). In the Moon of Red Ponies (S & S, 2004), Crusader’s Cross (S&S, 2005). Pegasus Descending (S & S, 2006), The Tin Roof Blowdown (S&S, 2007), Swan Peak (S&S, 2008), Rain Gods (S&S, 2009), The Glass Rainbow (S&S, 2010) www.jamesleeburke.com
BURKE, Jan
Novelist, author of Goodnight, Irene (S&S/Avon), Sweet Dreams, Irene (S&S/ Avon), Dear Irene (S & S/Avon), Remember Me, Irene (S&S/Harper Paperbacks), Hocus (S& S/Harper Paperbacks), Liar (S&S/Harper), Bones (S&S/NAL; winner of 2000 Edgar Award), and Flight (S&S, 2001; Pocket Books, 2002); Nine (S & S, 2003). Bloodlines (S & S, 2004); Kidnapped (S & S, 2006), The Messenger (S&S, 2009), Disturbance (Simon & Schuster, 2011) www.janburke.com
CEZANNE, Jeannette
Nonfiction: Open Your Heart with Reading (Dreamtime Pub.), Open Your Heart with Geocaching (Dreamtime Pub.). Novel on submission: In Dark Woods. www.jeannettecezanne.com
*CONNELLY, Michael
Former L.A. Times writer and novelist, author of The Black Echo (Little, Brown, St. Martin’s Paperbacks; Edgar Award for best first mystery novel, 1992) The Black Ice (Little, Brown, SMP), The Concrete Blonde (Little, Brown, SMP), The Last Coyote (Little, Brown, SMP, BOMC), The Poet (Little, Brown, Warner Books, Literary Guild), Trunk Music (Little, Brown, SMP, Main Selection BOMC), 1998: Blood Work (Little, Brown; Main Selection, Literary Guild, nominated for Edgar Award for Best Novel), Angel’s Flight (Little, Brown, 1999; Main Selection, Literary Guild), Void Moon (Little, Brown, 2000; Warner Books, 2000). A Darkness More Than Night (Little, Brown, 2001; Warner Books 2002), City of Bones (Little, Brown; 2002, WB2003), Chasing the Dime (Little, Brown 2002, WB 2003), Lost Light (Little, Brown; 2003, WB 2004). The Narrows (Little, Brown, 2004), The Closers (Little, Brown; 2005, Grand Central Publishing 2006), The Lincoln Lawyer (LB 2005, GCP 2006, Main selection for the BOTM). Crime Beat (Little, Brown, 2006, GCP 2007). Echo Park (Little, Brown 2006, GCP 2007). The Overlook (Little, Brown; 2007, GCP, 2008). The Brass Verdict (Little, Brown, 2008, GCP 2009), The Scarecrow (Little, Brown; May 2009, GCP 2010), Nine Dragons (LB, 2009, GCP 2010), The Reversal (Little Brown, October, 2010, GCP, 2011). www.michaelconnelly.com
CORWIN, Miles
Former LA Times writer, and novelist. Author of The Killing Season: A Summer Inside an LAPD Homicide Division (Ballantine, 1997), And Still We Rise: The Trials and Triumphs of Twelve Gifted Inner-City Students (Morrow, 2001) Homicide Special: A Year with the LAPD's Elite Detective Unit (Henry Holt, 2004). First novel: Kind of Blue (Oceanview Publishing, 2010).
DAHLBY, Tracy
Journalist, documentary filmmaker, author of Allah’s Torch: A Report from behind the Scenes in Asia’s War on Terror (Morrow, 2005).
DAVIS, Kevin
Author of The Wrong Man (novel, Avon, 1995). Defending the Damned (nonfiction, Atria Books, 2007). www.kevinadavis.com
DOUGLAS, Geoffrey
Nonfiction writer, author of CLASS: The Wreckage of an American Family (Holt, 1992), DEAD OPPOSITE: The Lives and Loss of Two American Boys, (Holt, 1994), The Game of Their Lives (Holt, 1996, Avon 2004). CLASSMATES: St. Paul’s Class of 1962 (Hyperion, 2008).
DUBUS Andre (Estate of)
Author of The Lieutenant (novel, Dial Press), and Voices From The Moon (novel, Godine, Crown). Stories and essays have appeared in The New Yorker, Playboy, Harper’s, literary quarterlies and anthologies. Short story collections: Separate Flights (Godine), Finding a Girl in America (Godine), The Times Were Never So Bad (Godine), Dancing After Hours (Knopf, 1996). Essay collections: Broken Vessels (Godine), Meditations From A Moveable Chair (Knopf, 1998).
DUBUS Andre III
Short story writer and novelist, author of The Cage Keeper And Other Stories (Dutton, NAL), Bluesman (novel, Faber & Faber), House of Sand And Fog (Norton 1999, Vintage, 2000; National Book Award Finalist, L.A. Times Book Award Finalist). The Garden of Last Days (Norton, June 2008), Townie (a memoir, Norton, 2011).
DUNBAR, Wylene
Novelist, author of Margaret Cape (Harcourt, 1997), My Life with Corpses (Harcourt, 2004)
FERRELL, David
Journalist (L. A. Times) and author of Screwball (William Morrow (2003). Novel on submission: The Buzzards of Mayhem. www.davidferrell.com
FRANCISCO, Ruth
Novelist, author of Confessions of a Deathmaiden (Mysterious Press, 2003). Good Morning, Darkness (Mysterious Press, 2004). The Secret Memoirs of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (St. Martin’s Press, 2005). New novel: Amsterdam, 2012.
GRANGER, Farley
Author of Count Me Out (with Robert Calhoun), a memoir (St. Martin’s Press, 2007).
GREENSIDE, Mark
Author of I’ll Never Be French (Free Press, 2008).
HARRINGTON, Kent
Novelist, author of The Good Physician (Dennis Macmillan Publication, 2008), Red Jungle (DMP, 2005), Dia De los Muertos (Capra Press, 2003), The American Boys (DMP, 2000), The Dark Ride (St. Martin’s Press, 1997). New novel: Satellite Circus (Editions Alphee/France, 2011). www.kentharrington.com
HAYWOOD, Gar Anthony
Novelist, award-winning author of the Aaron Gunner series: Fear of The Dark, Not Long For This World, You Can Die Trying, It’s Not A Pretty Sight, When Last Seen Alive; the Joe and Dottie Londermilk series: Going Nowhere Fast, Bad News Travels Fast; Two pseudonymous written stand-alone thrillers, as Ray Shannon: Maneater, Firecracker (Putnams’s/Penguin), Cemetery Road (Severn House, 2010). www.garanthonyhaywood.com
ISAACSON, Ken
Novelist, author of Silent Counsel (Windermere Press, 2007). New novel: Death Benefit. http://www.kenisaacson.com/
*KING, Jonathon
Novelist, author of The Blue Edge of Midnight (Dutton, 2002, NAL 2003, Edgar Award for Best First Novel). A Visible Darkness (Dutton, 2003), Shadow Men (Dutton, 2004), A Killing Night (Dutton, 2005), Eye of Vengeance (Dutton, 2006), Acts of Nature (Dutton, 2007), Styx (Middle River Press, 2009). Upcoming novel: Guardians. www.jonathonking.com
KLEIN, Matthew
Novelist, author of Switchback (Orion Books/UK, 2007), Con Ed (Grand Central Publishing, 2008). www.matthewklein.org
LOWE, Tom
Novelist, author of A False Dawn (Minotaur/Thomas Dunne Books, 2009), The 24th Letter (Minotaur, Thomas Dunne Books, 2010). http://us.macmillan.com/author/tomlowe
MACKINNON, Colin
Novelist, author of Finding Hoseyn (Arbor House), Morning Spy, Evening Spy (St. Martin’s Press, 2006). The Contractor, (SMP, 2009). http://us.macmillan.com/author/colinmackinnon
MASLIN, Jamie
Author of Persian Porn & Iranian Rappers (Skyhorse Publishing Nov. 2009), Socialist Dreams & Beauty Queens (Skyhorse Publishing, 2011)
MAYER, Robert
Novelist, and former Journalist (Newsday) and author of Superfolks (Dial, Literary Guild, St. Martin’s Press, 2005), The Execution (Viking), Midge & Decker (A & W), The Grace of Shortstops (Doubleday), The Search (Doubleday), I, JFK (Dutton, SMP). Nonfiction: The Dreams of Ada (Viking, NAL, Doubleday 2006), Baseball and Men’s Lives (Delacorte), re-issued as Notes of a Baseball Dreamer (Houghton Mifflin, 2003). Origin of Sorrow (Publish America, 2010). New novel: Eyes.
MOODY, Bill
Mystery/Jazz writer, author of The Jazz Exiles: American Musicians Abroad (University of Nevada Press) Solo Hand (novel, Walker), Death of A Tenor Man (Walker), The Sound of The Trumpet (Walker), Bird Lives! (Walker, 1999), Looking For Chet Baker (Walker 2002), Shades of Blue (The Poisoned Pen Press, 2008). www.billmoodyjazz.com
McCLENDON, Lise
Novelist, author of Bluejay Shaman (Walker, 1994, Thalia Press), Painted Truth (Walker, Thalia Press), Nordic Nights (Walker), One O’Clock Jump (SMP, Thalia Press), Blue Wolf (SMP), Sweet & Lowdown (SMP), Blackbird Fly (Thalia Press). www.lisemcclendon.com
NEWMAN, Christopher
Novelist, author of Midtown South (Fawcett), Sixth Precinct (Fawcett), Knock-Off (Fawcett), Backfire (Fawcett), Midtown North (Fawcett; MWA Edgar nominee), l9th Precinct (Fawcett), Dead End Game (Putnam, Berkley), Killer (Dell), The Devil’s Own (Dell, l997), Hit And Run (Dell, l997), Clean American Fun (Random House Audio), Chains of Command (Dutton, l999). New work on submission: Everything to Win.
PHILPIN, John
Novelist, author of The Prettiest Feathers (Bantam), Tunnel of Night (Bantam), Dreams in the Key of Blue (novel, Bantam), The Murder Channel (Bantam); Nonfiction: Beyond Murder: The Inside Story of the Gainesville Student Murders (Dutton/NAL), Stalemate (nonfiction, Bantam), Shattered Justice (Avon, 2006).
POLNER, Murray
Founding editor of Present Tense magazine, author of six nonfiction books including Disarmed and Dangerous: The Radical Lives and Times of Daniel and Philip Berrigan (Basic Books, 1996, Westview), Anti-War Patriots (The Perseus Group, 2008)
ROSENGREN, John
Award-wining journalist and author, Hammerin’ Hank, George Almighty and the Say Hey Kid:The Year that Changed Baseball Forever (Sourcebooks, 2008), Hank Greenberg: Baseball Star, Jewish Hero, American Legend (NAL, 2012)
RUSSELL, Kirk
Novelist, author of Shell Games (Chronicle Books, 2003), Night Game (Chronicle, 2004). Dead Game (Chronicle, 2005). Redback (Severn House, 2011). www.kirkrussellbooks.com
SALTER, Sam
Novelist, author of A Long Cold Fall (Putnam’s) and other crime novels (pseudonymn, Sam Reaves). Dooley’s Back (Otto Penzler Books/Carroll & Graf, 2003). Homicide 69 (Carroll & Graf, 2007), Mean Town Blues (Pegasus Books, 2008). New novel: Nightfall, Algiers. www.samreaves.com
SHEEHY, Helen
Author of MARGO: The life and Theatre of Margo Jones (SMU Press), EVA LA GALLIENE: A Biography (Knopf, 1996). Eleanora Duse: A Biography (Knopf, 2003). First novel: WILLA. www.helensheehy.org
*SHIELDS, Jean
Novelist, author of Air Burial (Carroll & Graf, 2003). Novel on submission: Hydrangea Blue.
SMITH, JP
Novelist, author of Breathless (Viking Penguin, 1995), The Discovery of Light (Viking Penguin, 1992), The Blue Hour (British American Publishing, 1989), Body and Soul (Grove Press, 1987), The Man from Marseille (St Martin’s Press, 1986). Upcoming Works: The Man Who Was (on submission) and Airtight (recently completed). http://www.redroom.com/author/jp-smith
*SMITH, Taylor
Novelist, author of Guilty By Silence (Mira Books), Common Passions (Mira Books), The Best of Enemies (Mira Books), Random Acts (Mira Books, 1998), The Innocent’s Club (Mira, 2000), Deadly Grace (Mira, 2001). Liar’s Market (Mira, 2003), Slim to None (Mira, 2006), The Night Café (Mira, 2008). www.taylorsmith.org
STANTON, Tom
Journalist, author of The Final Season: Fathers, Sons, and a Last Summer of Baseball at a Classic American Park (St. Martin’s Press, 2001). The Road to Cooperstown (SMP, 2003), Hank Aaron and the Home Run that Changed America (William Morrow, 2004). Ty & Babe (St. Martin’s Press, 2007). www.tomstanton.com
URE, Louise
Novelist, Shamus award winning author Forcing Amaryllis (Mysterious Press, 2005) for best first mystery novel. The Fault Tree (St. Martin’s Press, 2008), Liar’s Anonymous (St. Martin’s Press, 2009). www.louiseure.com
VAN BOOY, Simon
Short story writer author of The Secret Lives of People In Love (Turtle Point Press, 2007/reprint Harper Perennial, 2010), Love Begins in Winter (Harper Perennial, May 2009). The Greek Affair (a novel, Harper Perennial, 2011) www.simonvanbooy.com
WALKER, Persia
Novelist, author of Harlem Redux (S&S, Feb. 2008), Darkness and the Devil Behind Me (Blood Vintage Press, Dec. 2008). Black Orchid Blues (Akashic Books, 2011). www.persiawalker.com
WARD, Robert
Television writer (“Hill Street Blues,” “Miami Vice,” et. Al) and novelist, The Cactus Garden (Pocket Books), The King of Cards (Pocket), Red Baker (Washington Square Press, & re-issued by St. Martins, 2006), Shedding Skin (Washington Square Press), Four Kinds of Rain (St. Martin’s, 2006), Total Immunity (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009), Eyes of Fire (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011). www.robert-ward.com
WILEY, Michael
Novelist, author of The Last Striptease (St. Martin’s Press, 2007), which won the Private Eye Writers of America and St. Martin’s Press prize for best first private eye novel in 2006. The Bad Kitty Lounge (SMP, 2010). Nonfiction: Romantic Geography (Macmillan-St. Martin’s Press), Romantic Migrations (Palgrave Macmillan). www.michaelwileyonline.com
WORRALL, Simon
Freelance magazine writer for The Sunday Review, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The Times Weekend Review, and National Geographic Magazine, among others; author of The Poet and the Murderer (nonfiction, Dutton/Plume, 2002).
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