Shannon Bell—a long time resident of Texas, Shannon is degreed in Criminal Justice from Texas Wesleyan University, has served as an investigator for the State and as a police officer, bringing a wealth of personal experience to her mystery writing.  She and her husband, Terry, own a family amusement center near Fort Worth. Time spent with her family and friends is very important to her. She has parented two stepchildren and a frisky miniature dachshund, Sig. Shannon enjoys reading, film, and travel, in addition to her passion for American muscle cars and drag racing.

Wayne Bethard—Wayne is a current member of the Western Writers of America, and a past member of the Texas Outdoor Writers Association. For three years he served was contributing editor for The Texas Outdoors Journal and authored his own monthly section titled At Full Draw. He just finished fulfilling a contract for a book titled Frontier Medicines-Potions, Lotions, and Deadly Elixirs, scheduled for publication early next year by Taylor Publishing, a division of Rowman and Littlefield, Boulder, CO. Wayne is a western writer and cowboy poet who is often found guilty of dipping his quill in a well of thin manure.

Scott Bradshaw,  John Brookshire

Ron Clements—an international business person who has lived in Asia, been detained in an Egyptian military camp, harassed by the police in China, and has been known to walk the back streets of Paris at four in the morning. He writes character driven, mainstream historical fiction and is near completion of his fourth manuscript, a novel about the last American in Paris in the spring of 1944. Ron and his family live in Rockwall, Texas.

Britta Coleman—writes mainstream fiction and non-fiction, and have taught Creative Writing at the college level. Her editorial column, Practically Parenting, appears in the Amarillo Globe-News, and can also be found at www.amarillonet.com. Wide Open Spaces (which I'm currently workshopping) won the 2002 Frontiers in Writing contest for Best Mainstream Novel, and is my first book.