Josh Aterovis has published four books in the Killian Kendall mystery series. His first book, Bleeding Hearts, introduced gay teen sleuth Killian Kendall and won several awards, including the Whodunit Award from the StoneWall Society. He followed up by winning the Whodunit Award again the following year for Reap the Whirlwind. The third book in the series, All Lost Things, was a finalist for the 2010 Lambda Literary Awards for Gay Mystery. The Truth of Yesterday, the fourth in the series, has just been published.
Mel Bossa is the author of the two novels, Split and the forthcoming Suite Nineteen. Mel lives in Montreal.
’Nathan Burgoine lives in Ottawa, Canada, with his husband, Daniel. His previous short stories appear in Fool for Love, I Do Two, Blood Sacraments, and Tented. He has nonfiction works in I Like It Like That and 5x5 Literary Magazine. He promises the real Ottawa is not nearly so rainy or grimy. You can find ’Nathan online at n8an.livejournal.com.
Rob Byrnes is the author of four novels—Straight Lies (2009); When the Stars Come Out (2006; winner of a Lambda Literary Award); Trust Fund Boys (2004); and The Night We Met (2002)—and has contributed to several anthologies. His next novel, Holy Rollers, is being published by Bold Strokes Books in late 2011. A native of upstate New York, he currently lives in West New York, New Jersey, with his partner, Brady Allen. He can be found online at www.robbyrnes.net and robnyc.blogspot.com.
Michael Thomas Ford is now best known for his charming novels about Jane Austen living as a modern-day vampire, and men falling in love with one another, but once upon a time to pay the bills he wrote dirty stories under various names. Much of his erotic fiction has been collected in the book Tangled Sheets. You may visit him at www.michaelthomasford.com.
Greg Herren is the Lambda Literary Award–winning author of Murder in the Rue Chartres and the Lambda winning editor of Love, Bourbon Street: Reflections on New Orleans. Under his own name and various pseudonyms, he has published seventeen novels and edited nine anthologies, as well as over fifty short stories. “Spin Cycle” is an adaptation of a radio play originally produced by the Southern Repertory Company, in conjunction with WWNO Radio.
Adam McCabe is the pen name of an award-winning mystery author. He lives in Cincinnati with his partner and two dogs.
Felice Picano is the author of more than twenty-five books of poetry, fiction, memoirs, nonfiction, and plays. His work has been translated into many languages, several titles have been national and international bestsellers, and four plays were produced. He is considered a founder of modern gay literature along with the other members of the Violet Quill. Picano also began and operated the SeaHorse Press and Gay Presses of New York for fifteen years. His first novel was a finalist for the PEN / Hemingway Award. Since then he’s been nominated for and / or won dozens of literary awards, including a Lambda Literary Foundation Pioneer Award in 2009. His most recent work includes the history / memoir True Stories: Portraits From My Past, and co-editing Ambientes: Latina / o Writing Today with Prof. Lazaro Lima. He teaches literature at Antioch University, Los Angeles. Recent (free) Picano stories, essays, and book reviews are available at www.felicepicano.net.
Neil Plakcy is the author of the Mahu mystery series, about openly gay Honolulu homicide detective Kimo Kanapa‘aka. They are: Mahu, Mahu Surfer, Mahu Fire, Mahu Vice, Mahu Men, and Mahu Blood (2011). He also writes the Aidan and Liam bodyguard adventure series: Three Wrong Turns in the Desert, Dancing with the Tide, and Teach Me Tonight (2011). His other books are In Dog We Trust (a golden retriever mystery), GayLife.com, Mi Amor, and The Outhouse Gang, and the novella The Guardian Angel of South Beach.
Max Reynolds is the pseudonym of a well-known East Coast writer. Reynolds’s stories and novellas have appeared in numerous anthologies, including Men of Mystery, Frat Boys, Rough Trade, His Underwear, Blood Sacraments, and Wings.
Jeffrey Ricker is a writer, editor, and graphic designer. A magna cum laude graduate of the University of Missouri School of Journalism, he has had writing in the literary magazine Collective Fallout and the anthologies Paws and Reflect, Fool for Love: New Gay Fiction, and Blood Sacraments. His first novel, Detours, is forthcoming from Bold Strokes Books. He lives with his partner, Michael, and two dogs, and is working on his second novel and too many stories to keep track of at once. Follow his blog at jeffreyricker.wordpress.com.
Jeffrey Round’s most recent novel is The Honey Locust. His first two books, A Cage of Bones and The P-town Murders, were listed on AfterElton’s Top 100 Gay Books. He has worked as a television producer and writer for Alliance Atlantis and CBC. Jeffrey directed the long-running stage production of Agatha Christie’s The Mousetrap for three of its most critically acclaimed years. His short film, My Heart Belongs to Daddy, won awards for Best Director and Best Use of Music, among others. Vanished in Vallarta, his third installment in the Bradford Fairfax Mystery Series, is scheduled for publication in 2011.
Julie Smith is the author of more than twenty novels, most of them mysteries, and an Edgar winner. Her most popular series feature NOPD Detective Skip Langdon and PI Talba Wallis. She’s also the founder of an electronic publishing group, www.booksBnimble.com.
John Morgan Wilson is a widely published journalist and fiction writer. His twelve books include eight novels in the Benjamin Justice series, which has earned an Edgar from Mystery Writers of America for Best First Novel and three Lambda Literary Awards for Best Gay Men’s Mystery. His short stories have appeared in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine and a number of literary anthologies, including Art from Art (Modernist Press) and Saints and Sinners 2011: New Fiction from the Festival (Rebel Satori Press). John lives in West Hollywood, California, where he serves on the planning committee of the annual West Hollywood Book Fair.