Participating Authors
HIGH DESERT CRIMES BOOKFAIR
March 24, 2007
10:00 am to 4:00 pm
Cochise College Library
901 North Colombo Avenue
Sierra Vista, AZ

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MEMBER AUTHORS
DENISE AGNEW
Featured Book: Meant To BE
ISBN#: TBA
Publisher: Cerridwen Press
Publisher's URL: http://www.cerridwenpress.com/index.asp
Suspenseful, erotic, edgy, thrilling, romantic, adventurous. All these words describe Denise A. Agnew’s award-winning novels. Romantic Times Book Review Magazine called her romantic suspense novels “top-notch” and her erotic romance PRIMORDIAL received a TOP PICK from Romantic Times Book Review Magazine. Denise’s record proves that with paranormal, time travel, romantic comedy, contemporary, historical, erotic romance, and romantic suspense novels under her belt, she enjoys writing about a diverse range of subjects. The fact she has lived in Colorado, Hawaii, and the United Kingdom has given her a lifetime of ideas. Her experiences with archaeology and archery have crept into her work, as well as numerous travels through the UK and Ireland. Denise lives in Arizona with her real life hero, her husband. Visit Denise's Web Site
Denise Agnew
FRANCINE P. BIERE
Featured Book: Death in the Desert
ISBN#: 1-932695-23-0
Publisher: Treble Heart Books
Publisher's URL: www.trebleheartbooks.com
Francine Biere resides in Sierra Vista, Arizona, where she and her husband Chuck have lived for twenty-seven years. Francine is an award-winning journalist, editor, and photojournalist, with articles and photographs published in regional newspapers and Christian magazines in Arizona and Europe. She’s written travel columns and feature articles for secular publications. Francine is an award winning public speaker and one of Arizona’s Outstanding Young Women of America In her first contemporary suspense novel, “Death in the Desert,” set in Cochise County, Arizona, journalist Meagan Wagner thought she could find safety after September 11th in her beloved southwest. She was wrong. Contact Francine via email: francinebiere@gmail.com or through her WebSite
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LYNDA DOUGLAS
Featured Book: DEADFALL & CLEARCUT
ISBN#: 1-931742-99-5 & 1-932695-13-3
Publisher: Treble Heart Books - WhoooDoo Mystery Division
Publisher's URL: http://www.Trebleheartbooks.com
Lynda Douglas lives in southern Arizona with her husband and daughter. She writes mystery short stories, novellas and mystery novels. Her "Murder in a National Forest Mystery Series” takes you on a wild ride through some of our beautiful national forests. DEADFALL and CLEARCUT are filled with characters you'll love and some you'll love to hate. Lynda's articles on the craft of writing and her short stories have appeared in such magazines as Murderous Intent Mystery Magazine, Futures Mysterious Anthologies, Nefarious Tales of Mystery, The Novel Advice Writing Journal, The Pen in Mightier, Sister's in Crime Newsletters and others. Visit Lynda's Website
or email her: LyndaWrytsA1@aol.com
Lynda Douglas
SUNNY FRAZIER
Featured Book: Fools Rush In
ISBN#: 0-9778402-5-5
Publisher: Wolfmont Publishing
Publisher's URL: http://www.wolfmont.com
I have made my name in the short story market, with four anthologies and over 30 awards under my belt. With my first novel, Fools Rush In, I've combined my 17 years with the Fresno Sheriff's Department as an undercover narcotics secretary with over 35 years of practicing astrology. The book is loosely based on the first case I worked. I am a Navy veteran and wrote for military publications, went to college on the GI Bill, received a BA in Journalism, worked as a newspaper reporter before entering law enforcement. I have been a Sister in Crime for over 14 years and have recently joined Public Safety Writers Association. Visit Sunny's Website
or email her: sunny69@comcast.net
Sunny Frazier
SYDNIE GOODELL
Featured Book:The Cinco de Mayo Murders
ISBN#: 0-765-30806-1
Publisher: Treble Heart Books
Publisher's URL: http://www.trebleheartbooks.com
After retiring from a Fortune 500 Company with 31 years of service, Sydnie Goodell began writing fiction and is published in magazines and periodicals. Her other two books, The Monsoon Murders and the Maquiladora Murders. as well as the current Cinco de Mayo Murders take place in Sierra Vista, Arizona, where she lives with her husband Robert. She professes to be the oldest member of the Cochise County Chapter of Sisters in Crime, but is keeping it a secret.
Email Sydnie: sydnie42@msn.com or Visit Sydnie's Web site
Sydnie Goodell
ELIZABETH GUNN
Featured Book:Crazy Eights
ISBN#: 1-932695-40-0
Publisher: Forge Publishing Company, Inc.
Publisher's URL: http://www.tor.com/
Elizabeth Gunn, a Tucson author, grew up in Minnesota, where her Jake Hine mystery series is set. Her seventh novel, McCafferty's Nine, is due out in May from Severn House. The first book of her new Arizona series will be published in the Fall by the same publisher.egunn85743@yahoo.com or Visit Elizabeth's Web site
Elizabeth Gunn
DARRELL JAMES
Featured Book:Body Count: A Killer Collection
ISBN#: 0-595-37793-1
Publisher: iUniverse
Publisher's URL: http://www.iuniverse.com
Darrell James is a fiction writer living in Pasadena, California, with his wife/manager, Diana. His stories have appeared in numerous mystery magazines to include Futures Mysterious Anthology Magazine, Armchair Aesthete, and in the book anthology LAndmarked For Murder. He is the 2004 winner, as well as, prior year finalist, in the prestigious "Fire to Fly Competition". His solo anthology, Body Count: A Killer Collection, was released in February 2006. Darrell is an active Board Member of Sisters In Crime/LA and a particpating member of Mystery Writers of America and Independent Writers of Southern California.
Email Darell: djames2020@sbcglobal.net or Visit Darells's Web site
Darrell James
GWYNN MORGAN
Featured Book: Mollie's McGuire
ISBN#: 1-587490448-5
Publisher: Awe-Struck E-Books/Earthling Press
Publisher's URL: http://www/awe-struck.net
An avid reader since childhood, Gwynn Morgan has written most of her life preparing to be a published author. A former RWA member, she's now a member of SinC and EPIC, electronic publishing's professional organization. She writes romantic adventure with suspense and police procedural elements set in the southwest she knows and loves. Gwynn currently has nine novels in print and more in the queue for the future. She is a twenty-plus year Cochise County resident.Email Gwynn: azwriter427@yahoo.com or visit Gwynn's Web Site
Gwynn Morgan
JAMES M. MURPHY
Featured Book:Set-Up
ISBN#: 0-595-40486-3
Publisher: iUniverse
Publisher's URL: http://www.iuniverse.com
James M. Murphy is a member of the Cochise County and California Central Coast Chapters of Sisters in Crime. He is a featured author of Seven Sisters Publishing of Irvine California www.7sisterspress.com. In addition to the Gary Charboneau novels of which Set-up is the third, James has authored two comedy novels, Bimbo Sluts from Hell and Zero Connection. Short stories featuring Gary Charboneau are included in two anthologies by Seven Sisters Publishing. James is currently working on a fourth novel featuring the PI Gary Charboneau, and another comedy to be titled Sin City. Visit James' Web site
James M. Murphy
P.K. PARANYA
Featured Book:Herr Schnoodle & McBee
ISBN#: 1-59414-412-5
Publisher: Five Star-Thomson Gale
Publisher's URL: http://gale.com/fivestar
I have authored twelve books, and sold seven so far. My latest published is a cozy mystery and Treble Heart Pub of Sierra Vista recently acquired my psychological paranormal suspense to be published soon. I enjoy mentoring new writers and have started writing groups in Yuma, AZ, which is close to where I live. I have judged for many years in Orange Co. RWA and belong to Sisters In Crime national and the San Diego branch, also MWA and RWA. Visit P.K.'s' Website or email her at paranya@juno.com.
P. K. Paranya
JINX SCHWARTZ
Featured Book: Just Add Salt
ISBN#: TBA
Publisher: Treble Heart Books
Publisher's URL: http://www.trebleheartbooks.com
Jinx lives with her husband Robert in Sierra Vista, Arizona, and Mexico as much as possible. Meaning to stay three months in the Sea of Cortez, they somehow never got around to bringing the boat back, and lived aboard for almost fifteen years in Mexican waters. Just Add Water is the first in her Hetta Coffey mystery series. Hetta is a globe-trotting civil engineer with attitude who is working on coming of age, just a little late. Pushing forty, and still single, Hetta is the epitome of the “b” word: bold, bossy, brassy, breezy, and brash. Just Add Salt is the sequel and is now in publication. Jinx also writes boating articles and maintains a Sea of Cortez website. For more information go to: Jinx's Web Site
Jinx Schwartz
FLORENCE BYHAM WEINBERG
Featured Book: The Storks of La Caridad
ISBN#: 1-933353-21-X
Publisher: Twilight Times Books
Publisher's URL: http://www.twilighttimesbooks.com
Born in Alamogordo, NM, now living in San Antonio, TX, Florence has worked and traveled in Canada, Mexico, Germany, France and Spain. After earning her PhD. She taught for twenty-two years at St. John Fisher College in Rochester, NY, and for ten at Trinity University in San Antonio. She published four scholarly books, many articles and book reviews. Her novels include The Storks of La Caridad and Apache Lance, Franciscan Cross. She is a member of PEN America, Women Writing the West, the Historical Novel Society, and Sisters in Crime. Her website is www.florenceweinberg.com. Visit Florence's Web Site
Florence Weinberg
VISITING AUTHORS
LEE BASNAR
Featured Book: Northern Lights & Shadows: Sixteen Years in the Alaska Bush
ISBN#: 1-59113-778-0
Publisher: Booklocker
Publisher's URL: http://www.booklocker.com
Lee Basnar’s latest book, Northern Lights & Shadows: Sixteen Years in the Alaska Bush, fascinates readers with descriptions of a lifestyle that few have experienced. While he and his wife subsisted on fish and game in the wilderness, he wrote articles for Alaska Magazine, among others, and won two poetry contests. He was also a bush pilot. His first book, Vietnam Vignettes, depicts the daily life of an infantryman in Vietnam. Lee has been an Op/Ed columnist for the Sierra Vista Herald for seven years. He was a presenter at the 2006 Cochise College Writing Celebration. Visit Lee's website or Email Lee: basnar@cox.net

Lee Basnar
KENNETH N. BROWN
Featured Book: Behind the Polygamy Veil
ISBN#:
Publisher: xlibris
Publisher's URL: http://www.xlibris.com
Kenneth Brown is a Former FBI agent. But now is a practicing CPA. He writes fictional stories about what he has seen in his life. Read more about Kenneth by visiting his website

or Email Kenneth: mauthor@comcast.net
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EVELYN CIRINCIONE
Featured Book: Dawn Lightfoot and the Case Moccasins and Old Papers
ISBN#: 0-9670006-2-9
Publisher: F.A.M.E. Press
Publisher's URL:
Mrs. Evelyn Cirincione (Catherine Paul) taught in New York for over twenty-five years and relocated to Tucson Arizona with her husband. While in New York she was active in the New York State Association for the deaf as an alternate delegate, Delegate and secretary. She is currently teaching in Sunnyside School District. Evelyn a member of SIC, has written the books out of pleasure and to fill a void for her students, the characters hearing, oral deaf and manual deaf. The characters are believable to the both the hearing and deaf communities. WATERVIEW MANOR is being considered as movie project.
Email: mysterywriter1012002@yahoo.com
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CAROL COSTA
Featured Book: A Deadly Hand
ISBN#: 0803497997
Publisher: Avalon Books
Publisher's URL: http://www.avalonbooks.com
Carol Costa is an award-winning playwright and journalist. She is the published author of nine books. Her nonfiction titles include Teach Yourself Accounting in 24 Hours (Penguin Group) Video Poker:Play Longer with Less Risk (ECW Press) Three of her novels have been published by Avalon Books: A Deadly Hand, A Dana Sloan Mystery, Love Steals the Scene and Labor of Love. Carol is a member of the Mystery Writers of America, The Dramatists Guild and The Society of Southwestern Authors
Visit Carols's Website or Email her: ccstarlit@aol.com
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ROBERT HOLLMANN
Featured Book: Davy Crockett
ISBN#: 1-930754-75-2
Publisher: Durban House Publishing
Publisher's URL: http://www.durbanhouse.com
Robert Hollmann is an attorney and a member of the Criminology faculty at the University of Texas of the Permian Basin located in Odessa, Texas. He has a B. A, M. A., Ed. D., and Law Degree from Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas. His first book was a historical novel, TEXAS REBEL. Since then he has published, THE LAST COWBOYS, KING OF THE LLANO, and two books for children on Texas heroes, DAVY CROCKETT and JIMBOWIE. Two otherbooks in the series JUAN SEQUIN and SUSANNAH DICKINSON are due soon. Visit Robert's Website
Robert Hollmann
BJ KURTZ
Featured Book: The Curse of Atlantis
ISBN#: 1420801163
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Brenda was born and raised in Sierra Vista, Arizona. She discovered her love for writing in the sixth grade and has been writing ever since. While in high school, she wrote middle school sports articles for the Sierra Vista Herald, selected works for The Mirage at Cochise College, and attended the annual Southwestern Writers Association conferences in Tucson. She began her first full-length novel, “The Curse of Atlantis,” when she was a sophomore in high school. She is currently pursuing a degree in teaching and is an Associate member of the Southwestern Writers Association. Email BJ: brendakurtz@cs.com
Brenda Kurtz
SUSAN L. MILLER (Sue Guntis)
Featured Book: The Hunter Falls
ISBN#: 978-1-4303-1946-7
Publisher: Lulu
Publisher's URL: http://www.lulu.com
Susan L. Miller has worked as a journalist overseas, written for several trade publications and for two years, penned a weekly shopping column for the The New Tucson Shopper where she covered locally owned, independent Tucson businesses. She published "Shop Tucson!" a compilation of her shopping columns last year, just published this romance mystery "The Hunter Falls" and is working on "M.A.D.-- Your Middle Age Dating Guide" which she is co-writing with clinical psychologist Dr. Christopher Pinhey. She has a B.A. in Journalism and an M.A. in Higher Education. Visit Susan's Storefront
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PAMELA OSBACK (Pamela Tracy)
Featured Book: Pursuit of Justice
ISBN#: 13:978-0-373-44236-2
Publisher: Harlequin
Publisher's URL: http://www.eHarlequin.com
Pamela Kaye Tracy is a writer and teacher who lives with her husband and son in Scottsdale, Arizona. Her first novel It Only Takes a Spark was published by Barbour Publishing in 1999. Pursuit of Justice is a March 2007 release by Harlequin. It is her thirteen publication. Pamela is an English professor and belongs to Romance Writers of America and American Christian Fiction Writers. She is president of the ACFW’s local chapter. You can find out more about Pamela by visiting Pamela's Website
Pamela Osback
MARÍA LUISA RETANA
Featured Book: Grandma's Trunk/El Baíl de Mamaíta
ISBN#: 0-9652920-9-6
Publisher: High Desert Productions
Publisher's URL: http://www.englishspanishchildrensbooks.com
María Luisa Retana was born in Cuba. She received her B.A. in Spanish and Comparative Literature from the University of California, Riverside. She has worked extensively with children of all ages in scholastic and cultural programs, as well as in theater. A mother of three wonderful children and wife of Guillermo Retana a Spanish professor at Cochise College. She has published now seven bilingual children's books. She is also a literary presenter for teachers, students and events such as The Arizona Young Author's Day in Casa Grande, AZ. A member of the AZLA and the Society of Southwestern Authors. Visit María's Website or Email her: mariaretana@msn.com
Maria Lusia Retana
JAMES R. SNEDDEN
Featured Book: Ostara Night: Death of a Coven
ISBN#: 1-4241-2095-0
Publisher: Wings e-Press
Publisher's URL: http://www.publishamerica.com
James (Jim) Snedden lives in Tucson. Ostara Night is his fourth published novel. He is a professional member of the Society of Southwestern Authors and the Arizona Mystery Writers. Before writing mysteries he had a varied career as an international business consultant, a weekly newspaper columnist, and a university instructor. Visit James' Website
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PATRICK VAUGHN
Featured Book: The Cure for the Curse ISBN#: 1-932695-41-9
Publisher: Treble Heart Books
Publisher's URL: http://www.trebleheartbooks.com
Patrick Vaughn was raised in Sierra Vista and has been writing contemporary fantasy stories since his childhood. "The Cure For The Curse," his first novel, was published in late 2006 and has been called "an elegant ride with both imagination and direction" (armchairinterviews.com) and "a fresh twist of vampire lore" (Wantz Upon A Time Reviews). Patrick lives in Phoenix, where he works at the Foundation for Blind Children, and is currently writing the sequel to "The Cure For The Curse." He is inspired by dreams and by those who chase them. Member of the Arizona Authors Association. Visit Patrick's Website
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Patrick Vaughn
KATHLEEN WELLS
Editor and Authors's Coaching Services
Kathleen Wells is a multi and internationally published novelist who coaches authors, freelance edits, and teaches writing classes. She is represented by the Bradford Literary Agency and is a member of the Romance Writers of America. Her first two novels were published by Kensington and her next two by Treble Heart Books. Kathleen teaches for the University of Arizona, South, and Horizon Health Care Institute. She loves to mentor beginning to experienced writers. She knows that drive, determination, focus, and believing in possibilities will help her clients get published. If you believe in possibilities,checkout Kathleen's Website OR email her: drkatewells@hughes.net.
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Kathleen Wells
LEE AARON WILSON
Featured Book: Killdeere Way ISBN#: 1-59705-920-X
Publisher: Treble Heart Books
Publisher's URL:
I write westerns as Lee Aaron Wilson. Billy Killdeere came out in 1995, and Killdeere Way will be out February 2007, with Colorado Justice right behind it, both from Treble Heart Books, My real name is Lee Baldwin, and I write mysteries, thrillers and romantic suspense under that name Send An Angel was published in 2002--after Kat Martin read my work and told me that I must write romantic fiction. Kyla's Angel, the sequel to Send and Angel is finished, but not in the cue yet. My non-fiction work is Your Solar Energy, a how-to understand solar book. Email Lee at: Leelawman@AOL.com.
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Lee Baldwin

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