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SANDRA PARSHALL
McLean, VA
Sandra Parshall's first job was weekend obituary columnist on her hometown paper. Eventually she went to jobs on newspapers in West Virginia and the Baltimore Evening Sun. She covered everything from school board meetings to a mining disaster, health care in prisons, poverty in Appalachia, and the experiences of Native Americans living in the city.
She's written fiction since childhood, but didn't find the genre she could feel comfortable in—mystery/suspense—until a few years ago. The Heat of the Moon is her first attempt at psychological suspense.

Broken Places, ISBN: 978-1590586532, Poisoned Pen hardcover, February 2010
Disturbing the Dead, ISBN: 1590583787, Poisoned Pen Press hardcover, 332 pages, $24.95, March 2007.
The Heat of the Moon, ISBN: 159058256X, Poisoned Pen Press hardcover, 292 pages, $24.95, April 2006.

 

GORDON PAYNE
Texas
Musician, songwriter and author, Gordon Payne has been a member of the Crickets, played for years in Waylon Jennings' band the Waylors, and has had songs he wrote recorded by the likes of Reba McEntyre, Rosanne Cash, The Crickets, the Statler Brothers and many more.
He says his first writing heroes were were his cousin Peggy Goodin and his late father, Wayne Payne. Peggy wrote "My Darling Clementine" and "Take Care of My Little Girl," both bestsellers and adapted to successful Hollywood films. His father wrote additional verses to gospel songs for the family trio, and kept one very special diary.
That diary, discovered after Wayne died in 2002, detailed his experiences in World War II, and became the basis for a number of stories Gordon wrote after deciding to give up the touring life to be with his wife and family. "Dad would never talk about the war, and after we read his account of it, we knew why," Gordon says. "That little book is the most inspirational piece I've ever read, and I haven't stopped writing stories since."
His first novel, The Hail and the Fury, has been published by One Night Books. It describes a family planning a town-wide celebration during tornado season in Oklahoma, the deadliest time of the year.

The Hail and the Fury, ISBN: 978-1934335192, One Night Books paperback, 136 pages $9.95, April 2008.

 

STEFANIE PINTOFF
New York
In 2008, Stefanie Pintoff won the annual St. Martin's Minotaur/Mystery Writers of America First Crime Novel contest. Her novel, In the Shadow of Gotham, is the first in a historical mystery series where early criminal science meets the dark side of old New York.
The foundation for In the Shadow of Gotham began when, after graduating from Duke University, Stefanie moved to New York City to attend the Columbia University School of Law. Her studies at Columbia not only prompted her academic pursuit of the intersection of law, ethics and criminology, they also led to her love affair with New York City (not to mention that she met her husband in her first class on her very first day of law school).
After quickly realizing that she preferred the study of law to the practice of law, Stefanie received a fellowship to attend New York University's Ph.D. program in English Literature. There, Stefanie's work provided her with the final ingredient necessary to the creation of the Detective Ziele series—an in depth study of turn-of-the-century literature. Her years of academic research gave Stefanie an almost first-hand knowledge of the unique atmosphere of this fascinating historical period combining intense squalor and the loftiness of high society. While taking time to stay at home with her daughter, Stefanie combined this background with her continued love of New York City and knowledge of early criminal science and In the Shadow of Gotham was born.
A former attorney and teacher, she now writes full-time. Stefanie lives in New York, just north of the city, in a rambling and creaky old house just steps away from sweeping views of the Hudson River and the Manhattan Skyline. Chances are, you can find Stefanie writing at the neighborhood coffee shop, deep in research at the New York City Historical Society, walking her dog along an old trailway along the Hudson, or taking in Central Park, the Bronx Zoo, or the Natural History Museum with her family.

A Curtain Falls, ISBN: 978-0312583965, St. Martin's hardcover, 400 pages, $24.95, May 2010.
In the Shadow of Gotham, ISBN: 978-0312544904, St. Martin's Minotaur hardcover, 368 pages, $24.95, April 2009.

 

ROSEMARY POOLE-CARTER
Houston, TX
Rosemary Poole-Carter, a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin, lives in Houston and works at a college as a coordinator.
Her work includes What Remains, a mystery novel; Juliette Ascending, a young adult novel; Women of Magdalene, an historical suspense novel; Mossy Cape, a play for young audiences based on Southern folklore; and the adult dramas, The Little Death, set in the French Quarter of old New Orleans, and Inconvenient Women, set in a Louisiana asylum.
As a child, seeing Tennessee Williams's Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, she was impressed by Big Daddy's emphasis on the word "mendacity," a word that continues to resonate for her in her fictional creations.

Women of Magdalene, ISBN: 1601640145, Kunati Inc. hardcover, 288 pages, $24.95, September 2007.
Juliette Ascending, ISBN: 1929976410, Top Publications paperback, 199 pages, $13, April 2007.
What Remains, ISBN: 192997616X, Top Publications paperback, 296 pages, $14.95, June 2002.

 

KEN RAMIREZ
Nevada City, CA
Ken Ramirez is a California science teacher who holds bachelor degrees in Maricultural Science and Biology, a minor in art, and a secondary teaching credential from Humboldt State University in northern California. He presently teaches in a telecommunications academy, coaches the Alpine Ski team at Nevada Union High School in Grass Valley, and works as an education consultant for the California State Department of Education.
Several years ago Ken's daughter asked him to write her a story about gnomes, because "Daddy, there just aren't any good books about gnomes!" That night Ken began writing the Naida's Quest Trilogy, a fast-paced, humorous adventure that gained the attention of his children's friends and his science students. Through the support of his community, Ken published his YA fantasy and hasn't quit writing. His latest novel, Valley of the Raven, is a unique tale that expertly weaves the mysticism of the Lakota totems, the actual history of the Buffalo Soldiers, the gold rush era, and a modern day group of teens who are trying to stop an ecological disaster at the hands of some hardened criminals.

Valley of the Raven, ISBN: 1933353759, Twilight Times Books trade paperback, 228 pages, $18.95, July 2007.
The Hidden Forest: Book Three of Naida's Quest Trilogy, ISBN: 1424132304, PublishAmerica trade paperback, 219 pages, $19.95, October 2006.
Beyond the Red Mountains: Book Two of Naida's Quest Trilogy, ISBN: 1413746683, PublishAmerica trade paperback, 167 pages, $19.95, July 2005.
Gift of the Ancient Grove: The Naida's Quest Trilogy Book One, ISBN: 1413718140, PublishAmerica trade paperback, 240 pages, $19.95, May 2004.

 

SUSAN SALGUERO
California
Susan Salguero first witnessed Carmen Amaya's flamenco fury at the age of 14. The experience inspired her to study Spanish cultural history at Berkeley, where she brought supplies to her activist friends as they left on freedom trains for the South. She wondered why she lacked their conviction.
Upon graduation, Susan traveled in Europe and discovered the quest that would define her own defiance: She protested through Flamenco, ath audacious art of Spanish gypsies.
Years later, she returned to California to finish her dancing career in Los Angeles at its surrounding area. She later taught flamenco theory at the UCLA Extension.
After a life-altering three-year stay in an Indian ashram, Susan became a bereavement and hospice counselor, and began to write. Her written works are based on her experiences and insights, which she has published in local newspapers as opinion essays, and an ongoing column of over fifty articles on counseling issues.
The Gachi is her first book.

The Gachi, ISBN: 0-9759047-4-4 Hickey's Books trade paperback, 324 pages, June 2009.

 

EARL STAGGS
Texas
Earl Staggs took the long path to becoming a novelist, but he got there in style.
A former sales professional, business consultant and trainer with a national trade association, Staggs honed his general writing skills by working on technical articles, training materials and trade magazines.
Always committed to writing fiction, Staggs got the chance to indulge himself when he and his wife moved to Florida, and eventually to Texas. As he did begin to write mystery stories, Staggs found his niche, and his work has appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies and one of them was awarded a Derringer Award for Best Short Mystery Story in 2002. He served as Managing Editor of Futures Mystery Anthology Magazine and as President of the Short Mystery Fiction Society. He was a Finalist for the 2003 Derringer Award, received Best Story of the Year honors from Mysterical-e Magazine, a Pushcart Prize nomination, and the Kathey Clarey Mystery Writer Memorial Award for Best First Chapter.

Memory of a Murder, ISBN: 978-0870336041, Tidewater Publishers trade paperback, 265 pages, $13.95, April 2008.

 

APRIL STAR
Florida
Mystery author April Star took an unusual route to a writing career. Traveling the roads of America in an RV for 16 years with her husband, Jerry, she began to write on the road. Jerry's work in the construction trade brought them to every "where-in-the-hell-is" place on the map. April filled her days writing journals of people, places, and the countless things that happen on the road. Many campers through the years would ask her over and over why she didn't write a book. So she did: a nonfiction account of all the journals titled Life Through A Rear-View Mirror. Shortly after writing that very large volume, April discovered her real niche was in the mystery genre. In 1992, shortly after hurricane Andrew devastated the Homestead, Florida area, April and her husband rolled their thirty-two foot Avion into a camping resort (which at the time appeared to be more of a MASH unit).
In an attempt to keep her sanity, she took a job in the office where she says she soon discovered insanity seemed to be the rule. A year later April became assistant manager and marketing director. In 1996 Jerry joined her in the office as campground managers. There they stayed and there is where the stories and characters emerged for what is now a reality—the Wanderlust Mystery Series. Taken from both views of the full-time RV'er—the traveler across America and Canada as well as the villains—otherwise known as "Managers."

The Last Resort, ISBN: 978-1594147685, Five Star hardcover, 264 pages, $25.95, June 2009.
Tropical Warnings, ISBN: 1594144796, Five Star hardcover, 263 pages, $25.95, November 2006.

 

MARK STEVENS
Colorado
The son of two librarians, Mark Stevens was raised in Lincoln, Massachusetts. He worked as a reporter for The Christian Science Monitor in Boston and Los Angeles, and The Rocky Mountain News, covering City Hall for three years. When he learned that The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour was expanding its production he joined the team—they were actually looking for somebody with no television experience, which suited him perfectly.
For six years, he produced field documentaries across the United States and Latin America. He covered the 1985 earthquake in Mexico City, NASA's space shuttle disaster, a volcano eruption in Colombia, political upheavals in Nicaragua, and mudslides in Puerto Rico. His "master of disaster" title, he was told, referred to the stories he covered, not the quality of the reports.
After tending bar for a year on a self-financed sabbatical (and to write fiction), he joined the Denver Post to cover education. He now works in school public relations in Greeley, Colorado. Stevens lives near Congress Park in Denver with his wife, Jody Chapel, and two daughters, Ally and Justine.

Antler Dust, ISBN: 978-0977418817, Paandaa hardcover, 288 pages, $24.95, March 2007.

 

LARRY SWEAZY
Indiana
Larry D. Sweazy is the author of the Josiah Wolfe, Texas Ranger (Berkley) series, and of more than 40 short stories, non-fiction articles, and poems. The first Josiah Wolfe novel, The Rattlesnake Season, was released in October of 2009, and was highly praised.
The Scorpion Trail, book two in the Josiah Wolfe series, will be released in April, 2010. There will be at least two more books to follow, The Badger's Revenge and The Cougar's Prey, tentatively set for release in late 2010 and early 2011.
Larry's first professionally published short story, "The Promotion," won the 2005 WWA (Western Writers of America) Spur award for Best Short Fiction, and appeared in The Best Short Mysteries of 2005 anthology (The Adventure of the Missing Detective: And 25 of the Year's Best Crime and Mystery Stories [Carroll & Graf]), edited by Ed Gorman and Martin H. Greenberg. His other short stories have appeared in, or will appear in, Boy's Life, Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, Amazon Shorts, Hardboiled, Terminal Fright, and other anthologies and magazines.
Larry's non-fiction articles have appeared in The Drood Review, Mystery Muses, Roundup magazine, and in the upcoming release from M.E. Sharpe, The Encyclopedia of the Western Expansion. As a freelance indexer, he has written 600 back-of-the-book indexes for publishers such as Cisco Press, Addison Wesley, Prentice Hall, and Cengage.
Larry currently lives in Noblesville, Indiana, with his wife Rose, two dogs and a cat.

The Scorpion Trail, ISBN: 978-0425233795, Berkley paperback, 304 pages, $5.99, April 2010.
The Rattlesnake Season, ISBN: 978-0425230640, Berkley paperback, 320 pages, $5.99, October 2009.

 

ELAINE VIETS
Ft. Lauderdale, FL
Elaine Viets is the author of two national bestselling mystery series and has won the Agatha and the Anthony Awards. Her Dead-End Job series is a satiric look at a serious subject—the minimum wage world. Elaine and her character, Helen Hawthorne, work a different low-paying job each book. They've been everything from a bookstore clerk to a hotel maid. The South Florida series has been called "Janet Evanovich meets The Fugitive." Publishers Weekly called her fifth book in the series, Murder Unleashed, "wry social commentary." Viets' hardcover debut is at an expensive dog boutique in Fort Lauderdale.
Elaine's second series, featuring Josie Marcus, mystery shopper, is a look at the pink collar world of secret shopping. This critically acclaimed series debuted in October 2005 with Dying In Style, tying with Stephen King on the Independent Mystery Booksellers Association bestseller list. The second in the series, High Heels are Murder, released November 2006, is already topping the Best of 2006 lists.
Elaine's short stories have appeared in Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, the Drop-Dead Blonde anthology, High Stakes, the award-winning Chesapeake Crimes anthology, the Mystery Writers of America's anthology, Blood On Their Hands, edited by Lawrence Block; the Mystery Writers of America's Show Business Is Murder anthology, edited by Stuart Kaminsky; and The World's Greatest Mystery And Crime Stories, edited by Ed Gorman and Martin H. Greenberg.
Elaine has appeared on national television including the Discovery Channel and the Sally Jesse Show, and has served on the national boards of the Mystery Writers of America and Sisters in Crime.
Read about Elaine's 2007 "Tour By Proxy"

Dead End Job series:
Half Price Homicide: A Dead End Job Mystery, ISBN: 978-0451229892, NAL hardcover, 272 pages, $22.95, May 2010.
Killer Cuts: A Dead End Job Mystery, ISBN: 978-0451226860, NAL hardcover, 272 pages, $22.95, May 2009.
Clubbed to Death: A Dead End Job Mystery, ISBN: 978-0451226860, NAL hardcover, 272 pages, $21.95, May 2008.
Murder With Reservations: A Dead End Job Mystery, ISBN: 0451221117, NAL hardcover, 272 pages, $21.95, May 2007.
Murder Unleashed: A Dead End Job Mystery, ISBN: 045121840X, NAL hardcover, 272 pages, $19.95, May 2006.
Just Murdered: A Dead End Job Mystery, ISBN 0451214927, Signet paperback, 288 pages, $6.50, May 2005.
Dying to Call You: A Dead End Job Mystery, ISBN: 0451213327, Signet paperback, 270 pages, $6.50, October 2004.
Murder Between the Covers: A Dead End Job Mystery, ISBN: 0451210816, Signet paperback, 288 pages, $5.99, December 2003.
Shop Till You Drop: A Dead End Job Mystery, ISBN: 0451208552, Signet paperback, 288 pages, $6.99, May 2003.
Mystery Shopper series:
The Fashion Hound Murders, ISBN: 978-0451228420, Signet paperback, $6.99, 304 pages, November 2009.
Murder With All the Trimmings, ISBN: 978-0451225481, Signet paperback, $6.99, 304 pages, November 2008.
Accessory to Murder, ISBN: 045122258X, Signet paperback, $6.99, 288 pages, November 2007.
High Heels Are Murder, ISBN: 0451219880, Signet paperback, 228 pages $6.99, November 2006.
Dying In Style: Josie Marcus, Mystery Shopper Series, ISBN: 0451216792, Signet paperback, 288 pages, $6.99, October 2005.
Francesca Vierling Mystery series:
Doc In The Box: A Francesca Vierling Mystery, ISBN: 0440236207, Dell paperback, 256 pages, July 2000.
The Pink Flamingo Murders: A Francesca Vierling Mystery, ISBN: 0440613515, Dell paperback, 272 pages, July 1999.
Rubout: A Francesca Vierling Mystery, ISBN: 0440613485, Dell paperback, 320 pages, May 1998.
Back Stab: A Francesca Vierling Mystery, ISBN: 0440224314, Dell paperback, 320 pages, September 1997.
How To Commit Monogamy: A Lighthearted Look At Long-Term Love, ISBN: 0836227239, Andrews/McMeel hardcover, 216 pages, $17.95, June 1997.

 

WENDY LYN WATSON
Texas
Wendy Lyn Watson first dreamed of making her living as a writer when she was 10. She made a few tentative, and disastrous, efforts over the years. First, about 80 rhyming couplets, the beginning of an epic fantasy poem... suffice it to say the "bad guy" was called "The Craven." And it rhymed. Then she made another attempt at a fantasy novel about a bunch of orphans who are humanity's last hope. There were dragons. It was all completely atrocious, and she moved on.
And on and on, piling up degrees like plastic grocery bags: She knows she'll use them someday, so she's holding on to them! Wendy says her parents despaired of her ever leaving school and getting a real job, one that was more than a break between universities. But now her schooling is done. In fact, now she does the schooling. She earns her keep by teaching college kids about American government and constitutional law. AND she's revived her dream of writing but she's given up on epic fantasy in favor of mysteries. Light, funny mysteries (because what could be funnier than murder?) with a decidedly snarky edge.
While she doesn't commit—or solve—murders in real life, her passion for ice cream is 100% true. She also loves 80s music, Asian horror films, and reality TV. Wendy currently lives in Texas—in a town that bears a suspicious resemblance to Dalliance—with her wonderful spouse and four cats: Iphigenia Watson, Electra Watson, Todd Baryshnikov (he's adopted), and Squeak-a-Doodle Baryshnikov (Todd's son).

I Scream, You Scream: A Mystery a la Mode, ISBN: 978-0451228352, Signet paperback, 320 pages, $6.99, October 2009.

 

SALLY WRIGHT
Ohio
Mystery Writers of America Edgar Allen Poe Finalist Sally Wright is the author of the Ben Reese mystery series. Wright was born obsessed with books, and her ambition to write novels dates back to the age of six. After earning a degree in oral interpretation of literature at Northwestern University, she went on to complete graduate work at the University of Washington and published many biographical articles, including pieces on Malcolm Muggeridge and Nikolai Tolstoy, Leo's grandnephew.
Reviewers repeatedly compare Wright's work to that of Agatha Christie, Dorothy Sayers, Josephine Tey, Margery Allingham, and Ngaio Marsh. Wright says her literary influences range from Sayers and Marsh to Tolstoy and Jane Austen, from P.D. James to Dick Francis.
Wright is a master at portraying believable people who are up against hard decisions. "I want to make real, compelling characters and let them get caught in complex tangles of good and evil that could actually happen in real life."
The comprehensive research she does—traveling, interviewing, learning to do some part of her characters' work—isn't always easy. She's fallen down a castle staircase, been chased by a wild young stallion, as well as a herd of 100 cows in plain view of a country hotel. Accuracy and authenticity are still worth the price, she says. "Even the bruises and mockery."

Watches of the Night, ISBN: 978-0727866189, Severn House Publishers hardcover, 245 pages, $28.95, May 2008.
Out of the Ruins, ISBN: 978-0345445537, Fawcett paperback, 320 pages, $6.99, June 2004.
Pursuit and Persuasion, ISBN: 978-0345425904, Fawcett paperback, 304 pages, October 2000.
Pride and Predator, ISBN: 978-0345425898, Ballantine Books paperback, 336 pages, December 1999.
Publish and Perish, ISBN: 978-0345425881, Fawcett paperback, 224 pages, January 1999.

 

SUE OWENS WRIGHT
Sacramento, CA
Sue Owens Wright is an award-winning writer of fiction and nonfiction about dogs. She is a fancier and rescuer of basset hounds, which are frequently featured in her work. Sue is a five-time nominee for the Mighty Maxwell, which is awarded annually by the Dog Writers' Association of America (DWAA) for the best writing on the subject of dogs. Her first nomination was for Howling Bloody Murder, the debut novel in the acclaimed Beanie and Cruiser mystery series. She won the Maxwell Award in 2003 and received a third Maxwell nomination and special recognition from the DWAA in 2004 for the Humane Society of the United States Compassionate Care Award. The DWAA nominated Sue twice in 2005 in two categories. She won her second Maxwell Award in the Best Newspaper Column category for Pets & Their People (Inside Publications).
A native of Sacramento, Sue is also an educator, a business writer, and has been twice nominated for the American Legion Auxiliary "Heart of America" Award. She studied writing at University College Dublin and University Galway in Ireland and University College London in England. Sue is a member of Mystery Writers of America, Dog Writers' Association of America, Daughters of the American Revolution, PEO International, and Sisters in Crime.

Embarking on Murder, Five Star hardcover, May 2009.
150 Activities for Bored Dogs: Surefire Ways to Keep Your Dog Active and Happy, ISBN: 9781593376888, Adams Publishing Group trade paperback, 224 pages, $10.95, April 2007.
What's Your Dog's IQ?: How to Determine If Your Dog Is an Einstein—and What to Do If He's a Scooby Doo, ISBN: 1593376022, Adams Publishing Group trade paperback, 206 pages, $12.95, May 2006.
Sirius About Murder, ISBN: 1594143641, Five Star Publishing hardcover, 258 pages, $25.95, January 2006.
Howling Bloody Murder, ISBN: 1886199124, Deadly Alibi Press trade paperback, 184 pages, $16.99, April 2001.

 

ALLEN WYLER
Seattle, WA
A Seattle native, Allen Wyler's parents died early, leaving him on his own by the time he entered college. He supported himself with various jobs including being a fry cook at a drive-in and a professional musician playing drums for various local blues and jazz groups. In his first year of medical school, he knew he wanted to specialize in neurosurgery. Upon graduating from residency he started on the faculty of the University of Washington and then the University of Tennessee where he developed an international reputation for pioneering surgical techniques to record brain activity. In 1992 the prestigious Swedish Medical Center recruited him back to Seattle to develop a neuroscience institute.
Wyler's love of thrillers began in 1974 on his way to Cincinnati to take the oral boards in neurosurgery. At SeaTac airport he picked up a copy of William Goldman's Marathon Man to read on the flight. He became so engrossed he stayed up all night to finish it before stoking up on coffee and meeting with the examiners. He aced the exam.
Wyler develops plots from actual events in his practice. While serving on a committee charged with selecting the medical center's new computerized medical record system he wondered what might happen if the software had a random bug. From this came the story line for Deadly Errors, his 2005 thriller that has been subsequently translated into several foreign languages, including Russian.
Much of the background for Dead Head, a story about keeping a detached head alive for the information in the brain, was derived from Wyler's own research on recording the brain's electrical activity. Wyler's third thriller, Chop Shop, originated a few years ago, when demonstrating surgery in Hong Kong. He removed the drapes covering a detached cadaver head. The moment he looked at the dead face, he got a creepy feeling and wondered what it would feel like if, perchance, he knew him. So this is the story's set-up. His protagonist has this exact experience but the head is his best friend.
In 2002 he left active practice to become Medical Director for a start-up medical technology company, Northstar Neuroscience, which went public (NSTR) in 2006. At the end of 2007 he retired to devote full time to writing. He and his wife divide their time between their downtown Seattle condo and home in the San Juan Islands.

Deadly Errors, ISBN: 978-0765351678, Tor paperback, 668 pages, $7.99, April 2008.
Dead Head, ISBN: 978-0765355966, Forge paperback, 352 pages, $7.99, February 2007.

 

ELIZABETH ZELVIN
New York
Elizabeth Zelvin is a lifelong writer who earned honors in English at Brandeis University, graduating magna cum laude. After a brief stint in advertising, she joined the Peace Corps. She spent two years in Côte d'Ivoire, West Africa, where she taught English to French-speaking students, sang and played the guitar on Ivoirien radio and television, and went out dancing every weekend.
On her return, Elizabeth found a job in publishing, hoping it would fuel her literary career. While she edited accounting textbooks and audiovisual materials on medical terminology, she began writing poetry. Her work appeared in numerous journals and eventually was published in two books, I Am the Daughter and Gifts and Secrets: Poems of the Therapeutic Relationship. In 1983 she received a CAPS award in poetry from the New York State Council on the Arts.
Elizabeth returned to school for a master's degree in social work from Columbia University and a credential in alcoholism counseling. Her first clinical internship took her down to the Bowery, where her mystery Death Will Get You Sober begins. She worked at the prestigious Smithers Alcoholism Treatment Center (now the Addiction Institute of New York) and at alcoholism treatment programs in the Bronx, East Harlem, Nassau County, and Coney Island as a social worker and later a program director. She then went back to the Bowery to develop and run an outpatient program for homeless alcoholics and drug addicts at Project Renewal (formerly the Manhattan Bowery Project). After leaving Project Renewal, Elizabeth launched an online therapy website, www.LZcybershrink.com.

Death Will Help You Leave Him, ISBN: 978-0312582661, St. Martin's Press hardcover, 288 pages, $25.99, October 2009.
Death Will Get You Sober, ISBN: 0312375891, St. Martin's Press hardcover, 272 pages, $23.95, April 2008.