Karen Dionne

Detroit native Karen Dionne dropped out of the University of Michigan in the early 1970s and moved to Michigan’s Upper Peninsula wilderness with her husband and infant daughter as part of the back-to-the-land movement. During the next thirty winters, her indoor pursuits included stained glass, weaving, and constructing N-scale model train layouts.

Eventually, her creative interests turned to writing. Karen’s short stories have appeared in Bathtub Gin, The Adirondack Review, Futures Mysterious Anthology Magazine and Thought Magazine. She worked as Senior Fiction Editor for NFG, a print literary journal out of Toronto, Canada, before co-founding Backspace, an Internet-based writers organization with over 750 members in a dozen countries.

Karen is a member of Sisters in Crime, the Mystery Writers of America, and the International Thriller Writers, where she serves on the membership committee and the website staff. She and her husband live in Detroit’s northern suburbs. Her debut environmental thriller FREEZING POINT will be available October 2, 2008 from Berkley.

Christopher Graham

After graduating with a Bachelor's Degree in Communications, and an emphasis in Journalism, Christopher Graham worked as a reporter for The Asbury Park Press, New Jersey's second largest daily newspaper, researching breaking news and writing weekend features, obituaries and basically whatever needed to be finished by deadline. He also wrote freelance articles with a focus on tourism and local environmental issues for a variety of weekly newspapers on the Jersey Shore. For the past 10 years Chris has been a corporate sales representative. He is a co-founder of Backspace, LLC (www.bksp.org) and a former bookstore owner.

“Below you’ll find some of my favorite authors. And isn't getting people to read your book and recommend it to others the whole point of promotion?” - Chris