KAREN MCCULLOUGH

Karen McCullough sold her first novel, a romantic mystery, to Avalon Books in 1989. Since then, she has had almost two dozen novels and novellas published in the mystery, romance, suspense, and fantasy genres. Publishers include Avalon Books, Kensington, Five Star/Gale Group, Worldwide Mystery Library, and ImaJinn Books, a division of Belle Bridge Books. Her short fiction has appeared in a wide variety of periodicals and anthologies.

A member of Mystery Writers of America, Sisters in Crime, and the Piedmont Authors Network, Karen is also a past president of the Southeast chapter of Mystery Writers of America and served on the MWA national board. She has won numerous awards, including an Epic Ebook Award for fantasy, and has also been a finalist in the Daphne, Prism, Dream Real, Rising Star, Lories, and Vixen Award contests. Karen lives in Greensboro, North Carolina, with her husband of many years. Visit her website at www.KMcCullough.com

Mary Miley

Mary Miley, historian and author of eight mysteries set in the Roaring Twenties, began her fiction career with The Impersonator, winning the Mystery Writers of America Best First Crime Novel national award. A graduate of William and Mary, she worked at Colonial Williamsburg and taught history at Virginia Commonwealth University for many years. For getaways, Mary retreats to her Virginia winery where everything she does would have been illegal during the Prohibition era. Visit her website at www.MaryMileyTheobald.com

Julie Moffett is the bestselling author of the long-running, geeky Lexi Carmichael Mystery Series that USA Today says “...runs a riveting gamut from hilarious to deadly, and the perfectly paced action in between will have you hanging on to Lexi’s every word and breathless for her next geeked-out adventure.” Julie also writes the young adult White Knights spin-off series featuring a cool, teenage hacker girl. Julie’s been publishing books for 25 years, but writing for a lot longer. She writes in the genres of mystery, young adult, historical romance, and paranormal romance.

Julie has won numerous awards, including the Mystery & Mayhem Award for Best YA/New Adult Mystery, the HOLT Award for Best Novel with Romantic Elements, a HOLT Merit Award for Best Novel by a Virginia Author (twice!), the Award of Excellence, a PRISM Award for Best Romantic Time-Travel, AND Best of the Best Paranormal Books, and an EPIC Award for Best Action/Adventure Novel. She has also garnered additional nominations for the Booksellers’ Best Award, Daphne du Maurier Award, the Dante Rossetti Award, and the Gayle Wilson Award of Excellence.Visit her website at www.JulieMoffett.com.