Pearce Hansen is the author of Street Raised//https://www.amazon.com/Street-Raised-.... Pearce Hansen is an Oakland native residing in Seattle with his wife Pia. Pearce's fiction is inspired by events and experiences from his youth growing up in the East Bay. He's been writing 20 years with over 100 publications including three novels, one short story collection and six anthology inclusions. He's an alumnus of Anthony Neil Smith's legendary Plots With Guns! and Todd Robinson's Thuglit. He's been reviewed by Eddie Muller in the SF Chronicle, and blurbed by Joe Lansdale, Michael Shea, Ken Bruen and Laird Barron. His work's been translated into Finnish and Spanish, and adapted as a limited edition comic book.

Paul D. Brazill is the author of A Case Of Noir, Guns Of Brixton & Roman Dalton- Werewolf PI. He was born in England and lives in Poland. He is an International Thriller Writers Inc member whose writing has been translated into Italian, Polish and Slovene. He has had writing published in various magazines and anthologies, including The Mammoth Books of Best British Crime 8,10 and 11, alongside the likes of Ian Rankin, Neil Gaiman and Lee Child. He edited the best- selling anthology True Brit Grit – with Luca Veste.

A. B. Patterson is an Australian writer who knows first-hand about corruption, power, crime and sex. He was a Detective Sergeant in the WA Police, working in paedophilia and vice, and later was a Chief Investigator with the NSW Independent Commission Against Corruption. He now lives in Sydney and loves to holiday in France. In 2015 he published his debut crime novel, "Harry's World". The sequel, "Harry's Quest", was published in 2018. He has also had short crime fiction published in the US, in "Switchblade" magazine and "Econoclash Review". In 2020 he published his first collection of short stories, "Harry Kenmare, PI - At Your Service".

I write into the void. Sometimes the void wins. Other times the words win. Over the years, my work has appeared in print and online in such places as Adbusters, Geist, Shotgun Honey, 365 Tomorrows, Pulp Literature, Switchblade and the clown noir anthology, Greasepaint & 45s. I've also won the Mash Stories flash fiction contest and twice made it to the semi-finals of the Broken Pencil Indie Writers Deathmatch. In 2018, my novella, Dead Clown Blues, was nominated for an Arthur Ellis Award for Best Crime Novella by the Crime Writers of Canada. The follow-up, the second book in the Carnegie Fitch Mystery Fiasco series, 40 Nickels, is scheduled for release mid-August 2019 from Shotgun Honey/Down & Out Books. Previously a longtime Vancouver resident, I currently live in Toronto with my spouse and daughter. The battle with the void continues daily.

A native Oregonian, Diana Deverell was a US Foreign Service Officer and served in Washington DC, San Salvador, and Warsaw, before she moved to rural Denmark to write fulltime. Her latest release is LAY BARE THE LIE, the sixth book in the Nora Dockson legal thriller series, featuring a woman ex-con turned appeals lawyer. The first five books in order are HELP Me NORA, RIGHT THE WRONG, HEAR MY PLEA, JUDGE ME NOT, and OPEN THE DOOR. “Mercy Find Me”, a story spun off the series, was a finalist for the 2019 Derringer Award for short mystery fiction. and is now available as an ebook short story. Diana debuted as a published writer in 1998 with 12 DRUMMERS DRUMMING, her first Casey Collins International Thriller. 12 Drummers Drumming, her first international thriller. The latest thriller in the series is CHINA BOX. The four-book series spans seventeen years in the career of her heroine, State Department intelligence analyst Casey Collins. Diana has also written the political thriller BITCH OUT OF HELL starring security pro Bella Hinton and told in Bella’s own salty words. Bella is the heroine of “Payback is a Bitch,” a short story appearing in the Fiction River – Pulse Pounders: Countdown, edited by Kevin J. Anderson. Before shining in stories of her own, Bella played a supporting role in several international thrillers taking place from the Cold War to the present. Diana’s published short fiction includes five stories starring FBI Special Agent Dawna Shepherd which are available as ebook short stories. Dawna’s early adventures are collected in RUN & GUN: A Dozen Tales of Girls with Guns and she plays a supporting role in BITCH OUT OF HELL and three international thrillers.

Calvin Demmer is the author of The Sea Was a Fair Master and Dark Celebrations. When not writing, he is intrigued by that which goes bump in the night and the sciences of our universe.

Nick Manzolillo is another bearded Manhattanite wizard whose writing has appeared in over thirty publications including Thuglit, Wicked Witches: An Anthology of the New England Horror Writers, Grievous Angel and the Tales To Terrify podcast. He has an MFA in Creative and Professional Writing from Western Connecticut State University, and by day, he works as a content operations specialist for TopBuzz, a news app. I'd rather keep writing books than list the ones I've read on here.

Bethany Maines, a native of Tacoma WA, is the award-winning author of action adventure tales that focus on women who know when to apply lipstick and when to apply a foot to someone’s hind end. When she’s not traveling to exotic lands, or kicking some serious butt with her black belt in karate, she can be found chasing after her daughter, or glued to the computer working on her next novel. FB: www.facebook.com/AuthorBethanyMaines INSTA: @AuthorBethanyMaines TWIT: @BethanyMaines WEB: www.bethanymaines.com