Jeffery Marks
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Jeffery Marks
Jeffery Marks was born in Georgetown,Ohio,the boyhood home of Ulysses S. Grant.Altough he moved with his family at an early age,the family frequently told stories about Grant and the people of the small farming community.At the age of twelve, he was introduced to the works of Agatha Christie via her short story collection, The Undedog and Other Stories.He finished all her books by the age of sixteen and had begun to collect mystery first editions.
After stints in high school and college newspapers,he began to freelance. After numerous author profiles,he choose to cronicle the short but full life of mystery writer Craig Rice.
That biography (which came out in April 2001 as Who Was That Lady?) encouraged him to write mystery fiction. The Ambush of My Name is the first novel by Marks to be published although ha has several mystery short srories anthologies on the market.
His work has won a number of awards including The Barnes and Noble Prizeand he was nominated for a Maxwell(DWAA) and an Anthony award (Bouchercon). Today he writes from his home in Cincinnati, which he shares with his dog.
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Sue Owens Wright
Author Sue Owens Wright wouldn't be bothered at all if you said her literary career is going to the dogs. She adores dogs and loves writing about them. Her pup fiction, nonfiction and doggerel have appeared in Animal Fair; The Bark; Dog Fancy; Byline; Good Dog!; Dogs International; and Pets, Part of the Family, among other publications.
Sue makes her debut as a mystery novelist and cover illustrator with HOWLING BLOODY MURDER, the first book in a series that features (you guessed it) a dog; namely, a basset hound. Bassets are something the author knows a lot about. She's had six, five of which were rescued from pounds and shelters. Her novel was recently nominated for a Maxwell Award by the Dog Writers of America Association.
Sue is an English professor and is also a senior writer for Comstock's Business magazine, which has twice nominated her for the American Legion Auxiliary "Heart of America" Award. She studied fiction writing at Trinity College and University Galway in Ireland and University College London in England. She is a member of Mystery Writers of America, Dog Writers of America Association, PEO International, and Sisters in Crime
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Mary Ellen Cooper
Mary Ellen ( M.E.) Cooper has lived most of her life in Stillwater, Oklahoma. She has been a licensed beautician, an insurance agent and was in charge of a motorcycle dealership for 21 years, besides being a wife for 49 years and mother of eight. She has three true crime books: UNLIKELY ASSASSINS, BLOOD & PITY and FATAL TRUST. She has sold over 50 articles and stories to national magazines. Two contemporary mysteries, THE WRIGHT SPECIAL and MURDER AT THE LOCKSMITH CONVENTION were released before her latest works, which are Historical mysteries. KEY DECEPTIONS, an Italian Renaissance mystery and UNCIVIL DEATH, which has a Confederate General as the sleuth. UNCIVIL DEATH was chosen by the moderator of CrimeThruTime, an online historical mystery group, as one of the top ten historical mysteries for 2001 Silver Dagger Press
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M.E.Cooper
Mary Ellen Cooper is the author of UNCIVIL DEATH.
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