Panelists 2018

  Dr. Bryan Robinson Bryan E. Robinson, Ph.D. is a psychotherapist and award-winning author of two novels and 40 nonfiction books that have been translated into 15 languages. He is a contributor to Thrive Global, Psychology Today, and The Big Thrill and has been featured on 20/20, Good Morning America, NBC Nightly News, The Early…

Lori Rader-Day Lori Rader-Day is a two-time Anthony Award winner and a three-time Mary Higgins Clark Award nominee, winning the award in 2016. She is the author of Under a Dark Sky, The Day I Died, Little Pretty Things, and The Black Hour. She lives in Chicago, where she co-chairs the mystery conference Murder and…

Ross Carley Ross Carley has served as a military intelligence officer, an engineering professor, and the CTO of a defense contractor. He is the author or co-author of four books in the computational intelligence area (published under his “real” name). His novels feature Wolf Ruger, an Iraq vet with PTSD, who is a private investigator…

Matthew Mather Matthew Mather has sold over a million books in thirty countries, with multiple film and TV options by 20th Century Fox, NBC/Universal, and ITV Studios. He’s been published traditionally, through Harper Collins and others, and is also a very active self-publisher of his works–all of this in under five years from releasing his…

Carmen Amato With her CIA career in the rearview mirror, Carmen Amato is the author of the Detective Emilia Cruz police procedural series set in Acapulco and optioned for television by a US network studio. Emilia Cruz is the first female detective on the Acapulco police force, confronting Mexico’s drug cartels and legendary government corruption.…

Carolyn McSparren Award winning author of mystery for Belle Books, romantic suspense and romance for Harlequin, editor of and contributor to Malice in Memphis mystery anthologies. Winner of Mid-South Con Darrell Award for best short story of 2017. Currently finishing third book in series about animal rehabilitators. First, Tennessee Rescue, published May 1. Lives on…

  Phyllis Gobbell Phyllis Gobbell has three books in the Jordan Mayfair Mystery Series. The most recent, Treachery in Tuscany (Encircle, 2018), follows Secrets and Shamrocks (Five Star, 2016) and Pursuit in Provence (Five Star, 2015). She co-authored An Unfinished Canvas and A Season of Darkness, based on high-profile murders in Nashville. She wrote “Lost…

Katherine Prairie Katherine Prairie brings her own experience as an international geologist to the Alex Graham thriller series. Her debut novel THIRST was shortlisted for the 2017 Whistler Independent Book Awards, and she is an award-winning presenter. She is a current Crime Writers of Canada director, and the founding president of Sisters in Crime –…

Mike Pettit Mike Pettit has been writing professionally for ten years. He is an award-winning best-selling indie novelist. He is the author of thirty novels that includes two indie author self-help books, several Action Thriller series, three classic westerns, and numerous short stories. His Jack Marsh Key West Series has been optioned as a television…

Linda Thorne Linda Thorne began pursuing her true passion, writing, in 2005. Since then, she has published numerous short stories in the genres of mystery, thriller, and romance. Her debut novel, Just Another Termination, is the first in a planned series of mysteries that tell the story of Judy Kenagy, the first career human resources…