CHRIS DI GIUSEPPI AND MIKE FORCE :  The Light Bringer by Mike Force and Chris Di Guiseppi is an outstanding supernatural adventure which pulls the reader into a world beyond and makes the reader wonder if this is really a work of fiction.  The Light Bringer bridges the gap between the goodness and evil that exist in this world .  The story is one of hope and gives meaning to the phrase “you reap what you sow”. Alan Crane, an-ex military man, who discovers he has the gift of helping loved ones pass over to the next life, sharing in their journeys both challenged and otherwise, and helping those family members left behind to deal with the pain of loss.  Written by the Chief of Police and the Deputy Chief of Police of Lake St Louis, Missouri, it is based on real life incidents confronting these two heroes on a daily basis. Published by HCI June 2011.

JOHN FRENCH : First Daughter by John French is in the American tradition of novels based around fictional presidencies. The book begins with the kidnapping of the daughter of America’s first female President, at first assumed to be a terrorist attack. But when a bizarre ransom demand is received it spirals into a story of political conspiracy and intrigue with twists and turns right up to the last page. John French has written over thirty books and sold a million copies, including the biography of actor Robert Shaw, whose agent he used to be. A co-producer of the West End musical, Liza of Lambeth at the Shaftesbury Theatre and a western in Mexico, The Eagle’s Wing with Martin Sheen and Sam Waterson he is also the author of The Working Actor (under the pseudonym of James Duke).

TERESE PAMPELLONNE : A Picture of Lily is Terese's second book and is a female driven mystery.  A professional dancer, Julie Plukowsky has traveled the world since a teenager.  After a career ending injury she goes home to care for her ailing mother and is forced to face a painful family breach  which she has been able to avoid for a long time.  What had happened to her older sister, Lily who was turned out of the house by their mother nearly thirty years ago? An MFA graduate from Hunter College, Terese's short stories have been published in numerous literary journals and her book, The Unwelcome Child (Kensington Books 2005), won Double Day Book Club Choice. 

JAMES DALE : James Dale is known for his humorous gift books and greeting cards, the latter published by Recycled Paper Greetings.  He has appeared numerous times on popular television and radio shows including the Colbert Report. He brings his humorous writing style to his book Summer Jobs which is a charming coming of age story set in the 1960’s and tells of a young man from an affluent family that falls on hard times, and instead of going to an Ivy League University he has to go to a state university and the summer jobs he takes to pay for his tuition.

ANN HARSON : Ann Harson’s novel, Bunion Babes is a comedy set in Morocco about the adventures of two hilarious menopausal women in search of adventure, love and money. This is the first in a series by this award winning playwright who has garnered seventy readings and productions from her plays both in the US and overseas. Ann’s compelling drama , Miles to Babylon, showcased in New York, opened in London in September 2008.

GLORIA DURAN: Gloria is affiliated with Columbia University and Yale University, where she teaches Spanish and writing in the Summer School of Languages. She was awarded First Prize for her young adult novel, Malinche: Slave Princess of Cortes, in 1993 by the National Association of American Pen Women, First Prize in 1996 for one of her short stories, and in 2000, her young adult fiction, Maria de Estrada, won the First Prize at the Latino Book Summit in Chicago. Her current intriguing historical novel, Catalina, My Father, is set in the 17th century in Mexico and deals with the hypothetical relationship between Mexico's greatest poet and feminist Avant la lettre, Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz and Catalina de Erauso, a Basque nun who escaped her convent dressed as a man and subsequently became famous as a conquistador in South America.