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JUNE 6-7, 2008 BOISE CENTRE ON THE
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2008 recipient of the Bloody Pen Award for contributions to mystery fiction  J.
A. Jance is the New York Times bestselling author of the J. P.
Beaumont series, the Joanna Brady series, three interrelated thrillers
featuring the Walker family. Born in South Dakota
and brought up in Bisbee, Arizona, Jance lives with her husband in Seattle,
Washington, and Tucson, Arizona. Her latest thriller, Hand of Evil,
is a December 2007 release.
David Morrell
Alice
Volpe
Fairbank Literary Representation
Sorche Fairbank established the Fairbank Literary Representation in 2002, and represents best-selling authors, Pulitzer Prize finalists and winner, Edgar recipients, award-winning journalists, and her favorite kind of client ' the first-time author. Subjects of interest include: literary fiction, topical or narrative non-fiction, women's voices, class and race issues, architecture, and works addressing the meeting of art and science. She is seeking select new fiction voices. Spencer Ellsworth
AUTHORS
- The Anthony award winning author of Tilt a Whirl, Chris's critically acclaimed John Ceepak series also includes Mad Mouse, Whack A Mole, and, in 2008 from St. Martin's Minotaur, Hell Hole. He also writes thrillers such as Slay Ride and Hell for the Holidays as well as young adult books for middle graders. A former improvisational comedian and guest lecturer at Universities, he loves talking structure, using it as form not formula. Boise resident and art historian Kelly Jones's debut novel, The Seventh Unicorn, inspired by The Lady and the Unicorn Tapestries in the Cluny Museum in Paris, France, was published by Berkley Books in 2005. The Lost Madonna (February 2007, Berkley Books), also an "art mystery" is set in Florence, Italy.
- USA Today best-selling author, Joanne has published fourteen books in the Angie Amalfi culinary series, plus romantic suspense, short stories, and a novella. Her latest mystery, a March 2007 release, is The Da Vinci Cook. Joanne lives in Boise and is part of the Murder in the Grove committee.
- Michael W. Sherer is the author of five books in the Emerson Ward mystery series featuring a Chicago freelance writer. His stand-alone thriller, Island Life, is a March release. He’s now working on the first book in his “Night” series.
SPECIALISTS AND EXPERTS Ray Ellis -Ray Ellis began his career as a police officer in 1989 in Southern California. He has been investigating sexual assaults and child abuse cases since 2001. Now, with seventeen years in law enforcement, Detective Ellis is the lead investigator for the City of Meridian in the area of crimes against children.Cathy Cobb - Cathy Cobb, Ph.D. (Aiken, SC), is the highly acclaimed author of Crime Scene Chemistry for the Armchair Sleuth, The Joy of Chemistry, Creations of Fire, and Magick, Mayhem, and Mavericks. She is currently an instructor of chemistry, calculus, and physics at Aiken Preparatory School and adjunct professor of chemistry at the University of South Carolina at Aiken. Julie Murphy - Julie Murphy has a B.A in Communications and a M.A. in Writing Popular Fiction, and has been a part-time teacher for the past six years, teaching grades K-12. Margaret Streeter - As a physical anthropologist,
Margaret Streeter (Ph.D. from the University of Missouri-Columbia) focuses
on bone biology as applied to forensics and bioarchaeology. Her
research addresses questions pertaining to growth and development,
health status, and estimation of age at death through the analysis of
one microstructure. Milton C. Toby - Milton C. Toby has worked as a journalist, a freelance photographer in Asia and Latin America, a lawyer, and an educator. During 12 years in practice he represented criminal defendants facing the death penalty at trial and on appeal in state and federal courts. He has also practiced equine law and has written five non-fiction books and numerous magazine articles on that topic. Marti Verlander - The first woman accepted as the personal student of the Taika, Seiyu Oyata, Marti Verlander has taught Ryu-Te Karate® for eighteen years. She earned a 5th-degree black belt and membership in the elite Oyata Shin Shu Ho Ryu organization. Her articles on martial arts topics have appeared in Consumer’s Digest, Kansas City Magazine, Inside Karate, and American Karate. She is currently the managing editor of www.whimsplace.com, which sponsors a quarterly flash fiction contest.
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David
Morrell is the award-winning author of First Blood, the novel in
which Rambo was created. Considered the "father" of all modern action
novels, Morrell is co-founder of the International Thriller Writers,
has written 28 novels, with eighteen million books in print that have been
translated into twenty-six languages. Mr. Morrell was a professor of English
for many years, and his novels are noted for their in-depth research.
Spencer
Ellsworth lives in Bellingham, Washington, where he attends Western
Washington University as a graduate student in English. He is married to
fantasy artist Chrissy Ellsworth and the father of Adia, whose artistic
talent at the moment is to turn any of Dad's shirts into a Jackson
Pollack painting. Along with
mysteries and thrillers, especially those set in an historical period,
he is looking for fantasy of all types, "soft" science fiction, history
of any period, satire, and travel stories. No vampires, please.
T.L.
Cooper
Kelly
Jones
Trevor
Scott
