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Michael H. Rubin’s career has many facets.  A full-time attorney who is Chair of the Appellate Practice Team of the multi-state law firm of McGlinchey Stafford, PLLC, with offices ranging from the West Coast to the Gulf Coast up the East Coast from Florida to Washington D.C. to New York, he’s also been a professional jazz…

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. Thorne lives in a suburb of Nashville where she writes when not working at her job in human resources. Her debut novel, Just Another Termination, published this year by…

Leah Price was born and raised in Tennessee. She enjoys reading and writing as well as horseback riding and traveling. After studying abroad and working in a variety of locations, she has returned to Tennessee and devoted herself to writing middle grade and young adult novels. www.leahprice.com

R.M. Cartmel is a Military brat, born in occupied Germany. Educated in the southwest of England, he learned conversational Latin and how to handle a rifle in case the Russians came. He alarmed himself by being good at both of those, so studied Medicine at Oxford University, and at the same time practiced the art…

Tracy Whiting is also known as T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting, the award-winning Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Distinguished Professor at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN. She received the Ph.D. in French Studies at Brown University in Providence, RI. She has published over 14 academic books. She has been a commentator on NPR, FOX News, and MSNBC. Her work has…

Rick Reed retired from the Evansville Police Department where he was a Homicide Detective and Hostage Negotiator. Before that he was an Investigator for Circuit Court. After retirement he became an assistant professor of criminal justice. His acclaimed book, BLOOD TRAIL, is the true account of serial killer, Joseph Weldon Brown that he captured in…

A veteran author of over 40 works of romance and women’s fiction, D.D. Ayres is writing Romantic Suspense and loving it! She believes the lure of romance is always the human connection. Put that connection in physical jeopardy, and we learn a bit more about who we really are. With her K-9 Rescue series (The…

Randall Reneau is the author of five novels, including Diamond Fields, a Royal Dragonfly Book Awards grand prize winner, and Deadly Lode, a Richard Boes Memorial Award winner. He is also a two-time winner of the Pinnacle Book Achievement Award. A former international geologist and Vietnam veteran, he lives with his wife, Lynne, in Austin, Texas.

Claire Applewhite is a St. Louis mystery writer and Acquisitions Editor for Smoking Gun Publishing, LLC. A graduate of St. Louis University, her published books include The Wrong Side of Memphis, Crazy For You, St. Louis Hustle, Candy Cadillac, Tennessee Plates, and The Doctor’s Tale. She is an adjunct professor at the University of Missouri,…

K.C. Tansley lives with her warrior lapdog, Emerson, on a hill somewhere in Connecticut. She tends to believe in the unbelievables—spells, ghosts, time travel—and writes about them. Never one to say no to a road trip, she’s climbed the Great Wall twice, hopped on the Sound of Music tour in Salzburg, and danced the night…