(Photograph by Susan Reynolds)
James Shannon, Andrew McAleer, and Stephen D. Rogers
Paula Munier and Mo Walsh
Jim Shannon's work has appeared in Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, Mad Magazine, TV Guide, The Providence Journal and the Boston Herald. A contributor to the mystery anthologies Seasmoke and Still Waters, he is also a recipient of the Al Blanchard Prize for Short Mystery Fiction presented by the Mystery Writers of New England. Mr. Shannon teaches English at the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth and Bristol Community College. Watch for Jim’s work in a forthcoming Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine. Jim has always enjoyed trivia. Back when Jeopardy! was on NBC, he was a five time undefeated champion.
Andrew McAleer is the author of the 101 Habits of Highly Successful Novelists and the co-author (Edgar Allan Poe Award Winner John McAleer) of Mystery Writing in a Nutshell and A Miscellany of Murder. He is also the author of four crime novels including the well-received private eye novels, Fatal Deeds, Double Endorsement, and Bait and Switch. In addition to being the editor of Crimestalker Casebook, he has also contributed to numerous crime publications such as, The Strand, Mystery Scene, Futures, and the Lizzie Borden Quarterly. Mr. McAleer works as a prosecutor, serves as a Combat Historian with the Army National Guard, and teaches crime fiction at Boston College. A winner of the Sherlock Holmes Revere Bowl Award, he serves as a Director with the New England Chapter of the Mystery Writers of America, is a member of the Speckled Band of Boston, the Friends of Irene Adler, and the Private Eye Writers of America. A commissioned Kentucky Colonel, he is also the author of Colonel McAleer’s Wee Bit of Homespun Wisdom. Visit Mr. McAleer at: http://www.crimestalkers.com/
Stephen D. Rogers is the author of Shot to Death (Mainly Murder Press/Untreed Reads) and Three-Minute Mysteries, a co-author of A Miscellany of Murder, and the award-winning writer of more than seven hundred shorter pieces, which have appeared in publications including Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine, Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, and Woman’s World. He is a staff writer at CrimeScene.com and a member of the Mystery Writers of America, the Private Eye Writers of America, and the Short Mystery Fiction Society. Visit http://www.stephendrogers.com/ to discover new and upcoming titles as well as other timely information.
Paula Munier is the Senior Literary Agent and Content Strategist at Talcott Notch Literary Services, and boasts broad experience creating and marketing exceptional content in all formats across all markets for such media giants as Disney, Gannett, Greenspun Media Group, and Quayside. She began her career as a journalist, and along the way added editor, acquisitions specialist, digital content manager, and publishing executive to her repertoire. She most recently served as the Director of Innovation and Acquisitions for Adams Media, a division of F&W Media, where she headed up the acquisitions team responsible for creating, curating, and producing both fiction and nonfiction for print, ebook, eshort, and direct-to-ebook formats. Her specialties include mystery/thriller, SF/fantasy, romance, YA, memoir, humor, pop culture, health & wellness, cooking, self-help, pop psych, New Age, inspirational, technology, science, and writing. Paula is very involved with the mystery community, having served four terms as President of the New England chapter of Mystery Writers of America as well as on the MWA board. (She’s currently VP of that organization.) She’s also served as both co-chair and Agents and Editors chair on the New England
Crime Bake committee for seven years and counting. And she’s an active member of Sisters in Crime.A well-published journalist, author, copywriter, and ghostwriter, Paula has penned countless new stories, articles, essays, collateral, and blogs, as well as authoring/co-authoring more than a dozen books, including Fixing Freddie, 5-Minute Mindfulness, and A Miscellany of Murder.
Maureen “Mo” Walsh won the 1998 Mary Higgins Clark Mystery/Suspense Short-Story Contest with her first published mystery story, “Roadside Roulette.” Her stories have appeared in Mary Higgins Clark Mystery Magazine, Woman’s World and four New England crime anthologies: Windchill, Still Waters, Deadfall and Thin Ice. Her story, “Double Take,” received an Honorable Mention in the 2009 Al Blanchard Award contest. Mo is a member of Sisters in Crime and the Mystery Writers of America, a committee member of the New England Crime Bake, and a past coordinator and anthology editor of the South Shore Writers Club. She is a National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) “winner” with five 50,000-word manuscripts of “impressively adequate fiction” in various stages of revision. She is a recovering advertising copywriter who worked on a range of retail, financial, industrial, and technical accounts. She now writes weekly features for several Gatehouse Media community newspapers. Born in Long Beach, CA, and raised in Saint Louis, MO, she met her husband, Attorney Kevin Walsh, when they worked on the student daily newspaper at the University of Notre Dame. They are the parents of three sons and now live in Weymouth, MA, south of Boston. She is a graduate of the Weymouth Citizens Police Academy. Mo posts short excerpts of her fiction, as well as humor and doggerel verse, at http://www.momentary-lapses.blogspot.com/.
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