Seven Sisters Press proudly presents…
THE AUTHORS OF
GONE
COASTAL
Margaret Searles
OATMEAL COOKIES
Margaret Searles lives, writes, and edits on
the north coast of California. Her sleuths, Mrs. Millet
& Mrs. Hark, have appeared in magazines and anthologies, and
their first novel, Terlingua
Ale, was published by Deadly Alibi Press in 2004. Wrinkler’s Press published
their second novel, Devonshire Cream in 2005 and
their third novel, Filet
Mignon in 2006
K.M. Kavanagh
FRESH EVIDENCE
K.M. Kavanagh served as
co-President, Vice President, and Events Chair for the Sisters in
Crime-Central Coast Chapter. Her award-winning
stories have been published in small press periodicals. One such story found a home
in the Central Coast Writers anthology,…And Some of Them Are Dead, published by
Deadly Alibi Press; another will soon appear in Never Safe, a mystery
anthology to be published by Seven Sisters Publishing in 2006.
You’ll find “Fresh Evidence” characters
Valdez and Martinez
featured in Kavanagh’s debut mystery novel, Rock of Morro Bay to be
published in 2006 by Seven Sisters Publishing. Ms. Kavanagh lives
with her beloved husband in Irvine,
where they share the same dream to move to their Central
Coast home
together.
Victoria
Heckman / Zach Heckman
MELE’S CURSE
Victoria Heckman is the author of numerous
short stories and articles as well as the KO’d in…Hawaii
mystery series from Pemberly Press and Writer’s Exchange E
Publishing. Her third
novel, KO’d in the Rift
came out in September 2005.
See her website for signings and appearances
www.victoriaheckman.com .
She is a past president of Sisters in Crime–Central Coast
Chapter.
Zach Heckman is 14 years old and this is his
first published story.
His hobbies include playing golf and video games (not at the
same time) and he loves reading, particularly Sci-Fi. His current favorite author
is R.A. Salvatore. He
says that being the son of a mystery writer makes him extremely
well-behaved.
James
M. Murphy
FAMILY TIES
James M. Murphy, a
competition shooter, aircraft mechanic, pilot, physicist, engineer,
manager, and a lover of all things technical, is the author of the
Gary Charboneau mystery series and a humorous novel, Bimbo Sluts From Hell.
James was raised in San
Diego and obtained a BS degree in Physics from San Diego
State. He joined IBM and moved to
their plant in San
Jose, leaving after 24 years to write full
time. He now lives with
his wife, Joan O’Reilly, in Green Valley, Arizona. His third PI Gary
Charboneau novel, titled Set-Up, will be published in
2006.
Suzanne Caplette
Champeau
LES SOEURS en CRIME
Suzanne Caplette Champeau, when not writing
or trying to escape her own French connections, is a librarian in an
elementary school. Her
stories and articles have won awards and have been published in Yesterday Magazine, Down Memory Lane Magazine,
New Times, New Times Fifty-Five Collection, San Luis
Obispo Telegram/Tribune and Five Cities Times Press
Recorder. She
was the secretary of Sisters in Crime-Central Coast Chapter and a
member of SLO Nightwriters.
Her first mystery novel, which stars the same quirky, senior
characters featured in “Les Soeurs en Crime,” plus a middle grade
novel, are both in the hands of her agent.
Bonnie J. Cardone
MURDER at the MURRIETA INN
Bonnie J. Cardone worked for Skin Diver Magazine as an
editor/writer/photographer for 22 years, authoring more than 900
articles. Thousands of
her photos also appeared in the magazine as well as in dive
equipment catalogues, a diving medicine book, the LA Times Magazine and Sports Illustrated. Bonnie was named Woman
Scuba Diver of the Year in 1999 and received the California Scuba
Service Award the same year.
She is a member of the Women Divers Hall of Fame and the
California Wreck Divers Hall of Fame.
Bonnie is a co-author of Shipwrecks of Southern California, published in
1989 and now a coveted collector’s item, and editor/author of The Fireside Diver, an
anthology of dive adventure and humor stories. Published in 1992, it has
been reprinted three times and is still for sale. Approximately 10,000 copies
of both books have been sold.
Ms. Cardone was the principal photographer of a Lonely Planet
book, Diving and Snorkeling Southern California
& the Channel Islands, released in 2001.
Bonnie currently works as a freelance
photojournalist, authoring articles for scuba diving and
photographic publications.
She has been the editor of In Sinc, the Sisters in
Crime national newsletter since 2000. Bonnie serves as the current
President of the Sisters in Crime Central Coast Chapter. The short story that appears
in this anthology is her first published work of fiction.
Marilyn
Meredith
DEATH of a DECEIVER
Marilyn Meredith is the author of Deadly Omen, Unequally Yoked, Intervention, a
Bloody Dagger finalist, Wing
Beat, Best Mystery from American Authors Association, and Calling the Dead, all in the
Deputy Tempe Crabtree mystery series as well as other mysteries such
as Wishing Makes It So, a psychological
and Christian horror.
Ms. Meredith is a member of
EPIC, Sisters in Crime, Mystery Writers of America and Public Safety
Writers of America. She
is an instructor for Writer’s Digest School, served as an
instructor at the Maui Writer’s Retreat and many other writers’
conferences. She makes
her home in a small foothill community much like Bear Creek where
Deputy Tempe Crabtree lives.
Kris
Neri
MALIBU DREAMIN’
Kris Neri’s novels include the Agatha,
Anthony and Macavity award-nominated Tracy Eaton mysteries, Revenge of the Gypsy Queen, Dem
Bones’ Revenge (Worldwide Mystery), Revenge for Old Times’ Sake
(Quiet Storm Publishing), and the Zoey Morgan novel of suspense, Never Say Die (Hilliard
and Harris).
She has also published more than fifty short
stories, in such publications as Woman’s World, Blue Murder
Magazine, Crimestalker
Casebook, Murderous Intent, Futures, Mystery Time, and many
others; as well as
anthologies in the U.S. and overseas, including…And Some of Them Are Dead. She is a two-time Derringer
award winner for short mystery fiction. Along with her husband, she
owns The Well Red Coyote bookstore in Sedona, Arizona, and she teaches crime writing online
for the Writers’ Program of the UCLA Extension School in Los Angeles. Readers can reach Ms. Neri
through her website: www.krisneri.com.
Sunny
Frazier
THE WINE SNOB
Sunny Frazier has been
publishing both fiction and non-fiction since 1972. She worked as a journalist
in the Navy and on a paper before joining the Fresno County
Sheriff’s Department in the early ‘80’s. It was logical for her to
write mysteries--stories just fell into her lap!
Her fiction has
appeared in Murderous Intent Mystery Magazine, Blue Murder Magazine,
Writer’s Journal, San Luis Obispo Nightwriters
newsletter, Deputy Dialogue, and The Line-Up Fresno County
Sheriff’s Department Magazine, to name a few.
Co-writers Cora Ramos and Jo Anne Lucas
conspired with Sunny to produce the only mystery anthology from the
San
Joaquin Valley: Valley Fever: Where Murder
is Contagious,
published by Fithian Press in 2003. Ms. Frazier has twelve
award-winning stories in the book. Seven sinful tales of hers
appear in the mystery anthology Seven by Seven published by
Wolfmont Press in 2006.
There are two novels in her computer dying to be published.
Contact: www.sunnyfrazier.com.
Earl
Staggs
ROOM SIX
Earl
Staggs is Editorial Consultant for Futures Mystery Anthology Magazine, former
President of the Short Mystery Fiction Society, and Derringer Award
winner for Best Short Mystery.
His short stories have appeared in numerous magazines and
anthologies, His mystery novel, Memory of a Murder is
available from Amazon and most bookstores. He welcomes comments on his
work at EarlStag@Juno.com.
* Alison Leigh Powers mysteries: Eppie (Epic)
Award winner, Agatha Award nominee (twice), Independent E-Book
Awards finalist (twice) and Sime-Gin Reviewers Choice Award Finalist
for the Favorite Young Adult/Children’s Book.
Bette
Bardeen
THE PRECIOUS WENTLETRAP
Bette Bardeen writes mysteries and poetry,
and raises money for Sequoia and Kings Canyon National
Parks. She splits her time between
the Central Coast and the Sierra
foothills. In a former
life she was an aerospace executive and lawyer in Southern California.
Jo Anne
Lucas
NIPPED in the NUPTIALS
Multi-award winning Jo Anne Lucas of
Clovis, California is an active member of Mystery
Writers of America, Sisters in Crime and Private Eye Writers of
America. Her stories may be found in
fine magazines and several athologies, including …And Some of Them are Dead
and Valley Fever: Where
Murder is Contagious.
Candii Vedrin
MOUNTAIN of GOLD
Candii Vedrin is the newsletter editor for
the California Central Coast Sisters in Crime. She is delighted to be
numbered among so many of their more seasoned authors. She is a teacher, mother and
grandmother and began writing short stories for and about her
family, who always had enough character of their own to fill a
library!
“Mountain of Gold” is her first foray into the field of
mystery writing and her third short story to be set in the small
town of Los
Osos--where she and her husband have lived
for 22 years. Come
visit Candii in Los Osos at her family’s new Expresso Café, Copa de
Oro.
Sherri Patton
GOD HELPS THOSE
Sherri Patton is a novice author. She is a former president of
the Central Coast Chapter of Sisters in Crime. She lives in Los Osos with a
happy hubby, two great kids and a neurotic cat.
Chelle Martin
YOU BET YOUR LIFE
Chelle Martin, a New Jersey
native, is published in numerous mystery anthologies. She’s a member of Sisters in
Crime, Mystery Writers of America and Romance Writers of
America. Chelle is
presently at work on a humorous mystery novel that she hopes to turn
into a series.
She can be reached at ChelleMartin@AOL.com.
Kit Sloane
THE STING
Kit Sloane’s offbeat
stories chronicle the intricacies of Hollywood filmmaking from the point of view of
her protagonist, feature film editor Margot O’Banion and her
significant other, director Max Skull. The first four books in the
Margot O’Banion & Max Skull mystery series were published by
Deadly Alibi Press (now defunct) and the fifth, Extreme Cuisine with Location Location due out in
Fall 2006, are from Durban House Publishing. A screenplay of the second
in the series, Grape
Noir, whose cover by her daughter Annie Sperling was an Anthony
nominee in 2002 for best cover art, is bouncing around Hollywood,
searching for a home.
A graduate of Art History from Mills College, Oakland, California, Kit has published
short stories and many articles on the art of writing and the
writing business. She
served as first fiction editor for Futures Mysterious Anthology Magazine. Kit especially enjoys
lecturing about the writing world and mentoring new writers. She is an active member of
Sisters in Crime, Mystery Writers of America, and Mystery Women in
the UK. Kit and her professor
husband live on a small hilltop horse ranch in Northern California’s sublime wine
country.
http://www.kitsloane.net.
