Mike has been writing for over thirty years. His stories, poems, and articles have appeared in such publications as the Arizona Daily Star and Writer's Digest. His Writer’s Digest award-winning story, "The Human Element," was included in the short fiction anthology, Computer Legends, Lies and Lore (Ageless Press, 1994). Mike has published two Nick Madrid mysteries, Deliver Us From Evil and The Last Place God Made; a young adult mystery novel, The Treasure of the Santa Ritas, and the suspense thriller, Kino's Gold. He has also published a book about writers and their craft, Mamas, Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Writers. The classes Mike teaches at Pima Community College, where he’s taught writing since 1990, confirm Mike’s enthusiasm for his craft.

My wife and I run Satori Web Design, LLC. We provide web solutions to small businesses, clubs and nonprofits. I enjoy writing mysteries and am currently working on the second in an amateur-sleuth featuring Wilson McKenna, a retired bank skip tracer, who moved to Hawaii. I am marketing the first novel in the series, PHOTO FINISH, to agents at this time.

Retired professor emerita of Visual Arts, University of North Dakota. Since retirement I've concentrated on writing mysteries that take place on a Midwestern university campus. So far nothing in print but I do have an agent.

I have four books written and published; Wind Dancers, Can You Hear the Music?, Lady Ace, and Obituary Column. A movie was made based on Obituary Column's manuscript and is in post production. I am currently working on two more novels. I am a member of Society of Southwestern Authors as well as AMW.

Author, the Jake Hines mystery series (seven novels and counting) and the Sarah Burke series (Cool In Tucson published, New River Blues on the way). I write police procedurals, do extensive research and try to get it right, but think the characters make the story.

Jake Jacobs has held jobs as diverse as cab driver and casino manager, law clerk and professional gambler. These days he is a permanent resident of Singapore where he manages a software development company. He spends a lot of time commuting between Tokyo (where he serves on the board of a client company) and Thailand, where his daughter attends school. When his daughter isn't "helping Papa pound the keys" of his PC, he writes a monthly backgammon column.

Vija, (sounds like Mia,) loves to write short stories, suspense, and mystery thrillers. She's lived abroad in third world countries for most of her adult life due to her husbands international work along with their three children, now grown with families of their own. Vija uses her knowledge of ethnic cultures and world travels in her stories, thankful for the vast oportunitites her travels have allowed. She is a member of SSA, Society of Sothwestern Authors, and presently serves as the Publicity Chair for Arizona Mystery Writers. Vija has been published in the 2009 anthology, Thanksgiving to Christmas, A Patch Work of Stories, as well as several local newspaper submissions.

Karen has had several stories published in Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine back around the turn of the century. She has one book - "CRIMINAL Justice" - about the quest for justice by a convict inside the prison. (Publisher - 1stbooks.com whose name has been changed to Author House.) The book can be found on Amazon by author - K.R. MacLeish. Before relocating to AZ where she worked in Phoenix as an Intensive Probation Surveillance Officer, Karen worked in the two prisons about which you will read in her book.

Molly writes cozy and romantic mysteries in short story and novel formats. Publications: 1966: Two short stories in Ananke, U of Arizona literary magazine. 2004: Three short stories in A Way With Murder, Arizona Mystery Writers Anthology. 2009: Publisher, Moon Cactus Books. Author of novelette, Crocodile Tale. Molly's mysteries feature fast-paced, unpredictable adventures spiced with humor. Settings are Arizona, Africa, Mexico and the Caribbean. Her favorite authors specialize in edgy, absurd humor, e.g. Dorothy Parker, S.J. Perelman, P.G. Wodehouse, S. Potter, Jerry Seinfeld. Favorite books are Catch-22 by J. Heller and Cautionary Tales by H. Belloc.

Tucson writer/geologist SUSAN CUMMINS MILLER, a research affiliate of the University of Arizona's Southwest Institute for Research on Women (SIROW), writes the award-winning Frankie MacFarlane mystery series published by Texas Tech University Press. Susan's novels include DEATH ASSEMBLAGE, DETACHMENT FAULT, QUARRY, and HOODOO. She edited A SWEET, SEPARATE INTIMACY: WOMAN WRITERS OF THE AMERICAN FRONTIER, 1800-1922 (Texas Tech UP), and her poems have been published in regional journals and anthologies, including WHAT WILDNESS IS THIS: WOMEN WRITE ABOUT THE SOUTHWEST (UT-Austin). She is currently working on her fifth mystery, FRACTURE.