More information on the other authors coming soon! Reed Farrel Coleman was Brooklyn born and raised. He is the former Executive Vice President of Mystery Writers of America. His sixth novel, The James Deans, won the Shamus, Barry and Anthony Awards for Best Paperback Original. The book was further nominated for the Edgar, Macavity, and Gumshoe Awards. He was the editor of the short story anthology Hardboiled Brooklyn and his short stories and essays appear in Wall Street Noir, Damn Near Dead and several other publications. Reed lives with his family on New York's Long Island. Visit him online at www.reedcoleman.com. David Handler was born and raised in Los Angeles and published two highly acclaimed novels about growing up there, Kiddo and Boss, before resorting to a life of crime fiction.  He has written eight novels featuring the witty and dapper celebrity ghostwriter Stewart Hoag, including the Edgar-Award-winning The Man Who Would Be F. Scott Fitzgerald.  He has also written five novels featuring the beloved duo of pudgy New York film critic Mitch Berger and alluring Connecticut State Trooper Des Mitry, including the Dilys Award-nominated The Cold Blue Blood.  He has written extensively for television and films on both coasts and co-authored the international best-selling thriller Gideon under the pseudonym Russell Andrews.  He is a graduate of the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism and began his career in New York City as a television and theater critic. He also served a stint as a ghostwriter.  Mr. Handler currently lives in a 1790s carriage house in Old Lyme, Connecticut.   Vicki Hendricks is the author of noir novels Miami Purity, Iguana Love, Voluntary Madness, Sky Blues, and Cruel Poetry. She lives in South Florida where she precariously juggles her day job, the teaching of college writing, with her hobbies and adventures, including SCUBA diving, rock-climbing, bird-watching, sailing, and most recent obsession skydiving. "It's all research!" she says of her life. Having made over 500 skydives, she tries to capture the feeling of freefall alongside the sex and murder in Sky Blues. She is currently working on a biography of adventure to include skydiving in Spain, swimming with the pink dolphins in the Amazon, climbing a volcano in Guatemala and sailing the Devil's Triangle, as well as her trips dogsledding in Finland and Alaska and shark diving in South Africa. Visit her online at www.vickihendricks.com.