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Morgan Ann Adams is the author of the thrilling new novel, Forgotten Fairy Tales. She is currently at work on the sequel to this novel. Morgan attended two years of USC's film school before graduating from USC with a degree in American Literature. She is a teacher and freelance writer. As an avid reader with eclectic tastes, Morgan enjoys the opportunity to write and to educate others in the art of writing.
E-mail: MorgnAdams@aol.com
Reviewed by Morgan Ann Adams
Susan Wittig Albert is the author of the best-selling China Bayles herbal mysteries and a contributing editor to several national magazines. Under the pseudonym Robin Paige, she is also the co-author, with her husband, of a series of Victorian mysteries. A former English professor, she leads Reading Circles for the Story Circle Network, the non-profit organization she founded to help women explore their lives through story. You can learn more about the Network at www.storycircle.org.
E-mail: china@tstar.net
Reviewed by Susan Albert
Marion E. Cason is an avid reader and a book reviewer for several other Web sites, with a rare passion for books and writing. Her family is known to have walked several miles a week to get to the library. She works in finance and information systems and is an elected Town Official for the town she lives in. She shares a home with her husband and five cats.
E-mail: marione@the-casons.mv.com
Reviewed by Marion E. Cason
As a partner with her father in a small video production company, Andrea Collare wears many hats. Currently she works as a writer, director and editor - as well as the less glorified positions of accountant, office manager, quality control supervisor for Windward Productions. In her spare time, she writes for an on-line family magazine, familyclick.com and is working on a book and several short stories. Her ultimate goal is to break into the script and screen writing market.
E-mail: windward@netunlimited.net
Reviewed by Andrea Collare
Nancy Duncan, MSW is General Fiction Editor and a reviewer for The Charlotte Austin Review. She is the author of Obsession After Midnight, a psychological suspense novel. She is also a successful freelance magazine writer. Her articles have been published in numerous national magazines, and have been used by medical corporations on health related topics. She's been a newspaper columnist, writers workshop director, and instructor of creative writing classes. Nancy is a child abuse investigator who is furthering her education in the field of forensic investigations. She has recently taken on writing two regular columns, the first on issues relating to baby boomers, and the second on the importance of grandparents in families. She is working on her second psychological suspense novel.
E-mail: nancyduncan@charlotteaustinreviewltd.com
Reviewed by Nancy Duncan
Lisa Eagleson-Roever is E-book Editor and a reviewer for The Charlotte Austin Review.
She is also a freelance writer, editor and researcher with a background in physics, aerospace engineering, and aviation safety. Her short-short Vanity Unfair appeared in the summer 1999 issue of The Flying Island. Her articles on the craft of writing have appeared in Keystrokes and Inkspot, among others.
E-mail: ebookeditor@charlotteaustinreviewltd.com
Reviewed by Lisa Eagleson-Roever
Julie Failla Earhart began taking writing classes in 1992. She has completed a Bachelor’s Degree and a Master of Fine Arts degree at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. Her journalistic endeavors have included writing for The Tunica Times and The Women’s Voice of Saint Louis, a reviewer of fiction for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, as well as a plethora of newsletters and brochures. Creatively, she has published a short story that was included in Milliken Publishing Company’s CD-ROM Knowledge Works. Her work has been published in Steps Astray, An Archer’s Dream, Words and Dreams - Part XII, Watermark. Gigantic and Palimpsest. She is currently a freelance writer in the St. Louis area.
E-mail: JEarh13191@aol.com
Reviewed by Julie Failla Earhart
Diane Gotfryd lives in Chicago. An avid reader and a dedicated writer, she often seeks out the works of new authors for her reading enjoyment. Her personal mystery library is approaching 2,000volumes. In college, Diane worked on the daily paper as a reporter, feature writer, columnist and editor. She has since sold a couple of long features to Portland Monthly Magazine and completed five manuscripts, all mysteries, unagented and unsold. She is currently writing a fictionalized account of the two years she spent in Maine.
E-mail: DGotfryd@aol.com
Reviewed by Diane Gotfryd
Rachel A. Hyde is UK Editor and a reviewer for The Charlotte Austin Review.
She lives and works as a freelance designer in the South West of England. An avid booklover, she currently reviews for The Historical Novel Society. Her favorite genres are historical and fantasy. She is writing her first novel, a Regency whodunnit, and putting together a booklover's website. Other hobbies include crafts, dressmaking, line dancing, visiting historical places of interest and writing to penpals.
E--mail: rachelahyde@ntlworld.com
Reviewed by Rachel A. Hyde
Zaheera Jiwaji is Canadian Editor and a reviewer for The Charlotte Austin Review. She has had a life-long romance with books, and especially enjoys world literature, history and travel. She began writing reviews to expand her joy of reading, and discovered the joy of writing. Her greatest pleasure lies in finding a lesser-know work, and sharing it with fellow book-lovers. She lives in Edmonton, Canada, and is a part-time student of literature and political science, and a full-time collector of reading lists.
Email: zae@v-wave.com
Reviewed by Zaheera Jiwaji
Faith Leslie is the author of two children's books. Bev's Masterpiece (Daan Retief Publishers) was published in 1988, and The Donkey Kids
(Maskew Miller Longman, 1990) won the 1990 Young Africa Award. Intended for teenage readers, The Donkey Kids has sold well, is on the prescribed list for Namibian schools and is currently in libraries nation-wide in South Africa. In 1993 she received an award from the South African Writers' Circle as the most successful writer that year.
Her current project is working on an autobiography which she hopes to complete in 2001. She lives in Newlands, Cape Town with her husband and three adult sons. She enjoys travelling in South Africa, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Namibia and Malawi.
E-mail: faithlez@mweb.co.za
Reviewed by Faith Leslie
Maria Y. Lima was born in Matanzas, Cuba and came to the USA with her family in 1961 at the tender age of three. She graduated with a BA in journalism, broadcast and film from Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas. She currently freelances as a web designer, editor and copywriter while working full-time as a customer support specialist at a software company in San Antonio. She's edited and written for numerous corporate newsletters and magazines, and participates regularly in a local mystery reading group and in the local San Antonio Sisters in Crime chapter, Without a Clue. Her web design business specializes in web sites for small business owners and mystery authors.
Email: webdiva@thelima.com
Web site: www.thelima.com
Reviewed by Maria Y. Lima
Susan McBride is a graduate of the University of Kansas School of Journalism.
An avid reader and a mystery lover, she is the author of AND THEN SHE WAS GONE, a suspense novel set outside Dallas, Texas, featuring police detective Maggie Ryan. The novel was a finalist in the St. Martin's Press Best First Traditional Mystery Novel Contest, won the National Writer's Association's Best Novel Contest, and captured Mayhaven Publishing's First Award for Fiction in 1997, the prize being publication of the book. AND THEN SHE WAS GONE was recently nominated for a Romantic Times Magazine Reviewers' Choice Award for Best First Mystery Novel. Her second in the series, OVERKILL, is set for release next year. Susan also pens a regular column From the Trenches for The Charlotte Austin Review.
Email: SEMAuthor@aol.com
Web site
Reviewed by Susan McBride
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Nancy Mehl is Mystery Editor and a reviewer for The Charlotte Austin Review.
She is also the Outreach Coordinator for a new program with The Salvation Army that ministers to the needs of the homebound. Her other passion is writing mysteries. She has completed three novels and is hard at work on her fourth. Her third novel SINNER’S SONG will be released by St Kitts Press sometime next year.
Nancy’s freelance articles have been published in a variety of newspapers. She is under contract for two booklets NUTRITION FOR SENIORS and HOW TO MARKET YOUR MYSTERY with American Books. Both should be available later this year.
She pens a monthly column entitled THE HISTORY OF MYSTERY for The Charlotte Austin Review. One of her short stories was published on The Writer’s Hood in January 2000, and another will appear in the August 2000 issue of Anotherealm. Her short story Milk Bottles was featured in The Charlotte Austin Review in March 2000. For more of Nancy’s writing credits, visit her own Web site .
E-mail: nancy@charlotteaustinreviewltd.com
Reviewed by Nancy Mehl
Patricia J. Nunn (PJ Nunn) is Senior Mystery Reviewer for The Charlotte Austin Review. She is the author of numerous articles and short stories, and the author of Angel Killer, a first psychological thriller to be published by Deadly Alibi Press in 2001. Two other mysteries are being considered by different publishers.
An avid mystery fan and freelance writer, editor of The Mystery Morgue monthly news and reviews, and Raven Feathers monthly newsletter, she is also the Department Head for Without a Clue, a division of the Electronic Writer's Group. An instructor for the Dallas County Community College District, she teaches job/skill development classes for women, and creative writing to retirement village residents. The devoted mother of five, ages five to twenty, she is finishing her internship for a Master of Arts degree in psychology and intends to pursue a PhD in criminology through Walden University.
E-mail: RebelsSong@aol.com
Reviewed by PJ Nunn
Devorah Stone lives on the Canadian West Coast. Her passion for art led the way to a visual arts degree from the University of Victoria, but her true love for writing surfaced later, after marriage and three children. A former Web reviewer for the Encyclopedia Britannica online guide, her articles, fiction and reviews have been widely published in Inklings, Folksonline, Chatelaine and Papyrus magazine, among others. She regularly contributes science, nature and craft articles to Kid'n'Around newspaper. She is currently Project Leader for the Inkspot Discussion Forums
E-mail: devystone@home.com
Reviewed by Devorah Stone
Marie Thorpe has a BA degree with English and Philosophy majors, and an Honors degree in Philosophy from the University of Natal, South Africa. She is the author of two children's books - Lucy's Games (Tafelberg, 1992) and Limboland (Via Afrika, 1996) - as well as countless short stories and articles. She is the recipient of the prestigious Quill Award (1993) and won the Bronze Medal in the 1992 Sanlam Prize for Youth Literature for Lucy's Games.
Currently, Marie runs a school for street children and is involved in the Wordwise Reading Project, which entails writing reading cards for young readers, a project organized by the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC). Highly respected in the SA writing and publishing world, Marie Thorpe is an honorary life member of the South African Writers' Circle and one of their official competition judges.
Email: adams.west@saol.com
Reviewed by Marie Thorpe
Robert Tolins is the author of Unhealthy Boundaries: A Story of Murder and the Internet published in June 2000 to critical acclaim.
He is a retired forty-eight year old lawyer who practiced for twenty years, mostly in litigation. He was raised on Long Island, New York, and attended Cornell University, then Boston College Law School. In 1993 he was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease and battled his increasing physical limitations by becoming involved in computer use and technology. He is currently working on a second novel, Albertine's Leap, which he expects to have published within the next year.
Email: RTolins610@aol.com
Read our two reviews of Unhealthy Boundaries
Reviewed by Robert Tolins
Phillip Tomasso III is the author of Mind Play (Dry Bones Press, Feb. 2000) a brisk new thriller. He is also the author of more than 28 published short stories and articles. His work has appeared in an array of magazines ranging from Lost Worlds, Lynx Eye, Eclipse and Western Digest, to Byline, Modern Dad and Intellectual Property Today. He works full time as an Employment Law and Labor Personnel Paralegal. He lives in Greece, New York with his wife and their three children.
Email: ptom3@hotmail.com
Read our review of Mind Play
Read our advance review of Phillip's newest mystery Tenth House
Reviewed by Phillip Tomasso III
Merilyn Tomkins is South African Editor and a reviewer for The Charlotte Austin Review. She has been secretary for Adams Bookshop in Durban for 28 years. She was recently appointed Chairman of the prestigious Professional Secretaries' Association of SA (PSA) for the Durban Chapter, and General Secretary of SABA (South African Bookseller's Association) for the whole of South Africa. Merilyn is the Editor of Wider Horizons, a magazine with a wide readership in South Africa. In 1999, she was asked to contribute to the latest Chicken Soup for the Soul, and was later interviewed on national radio. She is a reviewer for the SA Writer's Circle Newsletter and Writer's World. Her fiction and non-fiction works have been widely published in a number of national print publications such as Writer's World and Woman's Value.
E-mail: adams.west@saol.com
Reviewed by Merilyn Tomkins
Bev Walton-Porter is a professional writer/editor who has had more than 150 articles featured in numerous publications, both in print and in electronic format. As contract editor for NBC Internet / Snap.com live directory, she evaluates sites, edits web site descriptions and writes reviews. She is also the senior editor for CyberTip4theDay.com, book recommendation editor for Inkspot's BookStop and contributing editor for Suite101.com's freelance writing site. Bev is a member of the Oklahoma Writers' Federation, Inc. and Sisters of the Scribe.
E-mail: bev@scribequill.com
Reviewed by Bev Walton-Porter
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