from Wilton, New Hampshire

Nikki Andrews earns a living as a picture framer, but in her real life she is a writer, hiker, and songmaker.  She started writing stories during junior high school vocabulary tests and has never stopped since. Two of her short stories have been published by The Occasional Moose, and another was awarded Honorable Mention in the 2006Writer's Digest Writing Contest .  She is a member of Talespinners, a women's writing group, and the New Hampshire Writers' Project, and has completed the National Novel Writing Month challenge for six consecutive years.

Chicken Bones and A Windswept Star are set in the high-speed world of auto racing.  Champion driver Marti Hansen and her lover, rock star Derek Hamilton, join forces with the Timers, gender-swapping aliens who patrol the timelines of the galaxy and ensure the proper unfolding of the universe. The utterly average planet known as Earth has more than its share of dangerous time-breaches, and there is more at stake than fame and fortune when Marti straps on a race car!  The third book in the series, The Edge of Possibility, is due out next winter.

In Framed, a newly-discovered painting reveals clues to a cold case of murder/suicide.  When the staff of The Brush & Bevel clean Jerry Berger's portrait of Abby Bingham, they discover far more than they bargained for. Danger and grief await them at every turn.

                  from Northfield, Connecticut

Jan Brogan has been a journalist for twenty years. She is a former staff writer at The Providence Journal-Bulletin in Rhode Island and The Worcester Telegram and Gazette in Massachusetts and currently works as a correspondent for The Boston Globe. Her freelance work has appeared in Boston Magazine, The Improper Bostonian, Ladies Home Journal and Forbes Magazine.

Her first novel, Final Copy, which won The Drood Review of Mystery’s Editors’ Choice award, was named one of the best eight mysteries published in 2001.  A Confidential Source (Mysterious Press, April 2005 ) received a rave review in The New York Times Book Review and was chosen by The Mystery Guild Book Club as an alternate spring selection. Her new book, “Yesterday’s Fatal,” will be published by St Martin’s Press in May, 2007.
 
Brogan is a winner of the Gerald Loeb award for distinguished  financial writing. She has taught writing at the Cape Cod Writer’s Center, the Boston Learning Society in Needham, The Brown University Learning Community and The Learning Connection in Providence.

A native of Clifton, New Jersey, she lives in Westwood, Massachusetts with her husband, her two children, a bird and a dog. Her website is  www.JanBrogan.com, and you can check out her blog at www.jungleredwriters.com.

            from White River Junction, Vermont

Using an array of anecdotes, personal examples, practical advice, and sheer good humor, Joni B. Cole’s book Toxic Feedback: Helping Writers Survive and Thrive (University Press of New England) shows writers of all levels how to get started, stay motivated, and be happier throughout the creative process. The Erma Bombeck Writers Workshop called Toxic Feedback, “required reading for all writers.” Joni is also the founding creator of the acclaimed “This Day” book series, revealing the reality of a day in the life of women from all walks of life. In a starred review, Publisher’s Weekly wrote about This Day in the Life, “There is not one piece in this compilation that is not captivating.” People magazine concurred, “The ensemble resonates with drama, humor and pathos.” In addition to her work as an author and editor, Joni is a writing instructor and frequent speaker at universities and writing conferences around the country, and the co-founder of the recently opened Writer’s Center of White River Junction, Vermont. (www.thewriterscenterwrj.com). Joni’s third book in the This Day series will be released in March 2008. She lives in Hartford Vermont with her husband and two daughters, and is currently working on a collection of essays. For more information, e-mail joni.cole@alum.dartmouth.org

                     from Hooksett, New Hampshire

Tabatha Jean D´Agata was a redheaded, freckled-faced kid born in Lawrence, Massachusetts who liked to spend time imagining herself as Nancy Drew or admiring her grandmother's jungle-licious garden. She attended Lawrence schools and found her first knack for writing in a third grade classroom. D'Agata has continued her love for writing by authoring many books for children like Marvin Monster's Big Date, Marvin Monster's Teacher Jitters, Silent Sam, Ick The Stick, Storm Tunes and Pampered Pals. She currently resides in the charming town of Hooksett, NH with her husband and their son and daughter. When Tabatha isn't spending time with her family--you'll find her punching computer keys, plotting her next book or presenting one of her many workshops.

                          from New Hampshire

                  from Meriden, New Hampshire

For the past seven years I’ve focused on real-life adventure stories. Firefighters A to Z (NY Times Best Book 2000) started the series. Since then I’ve covered two more books on firefighting, a book on a U.S. Coast Guard rescue and Hurricane Hunters.   My passion is to tell the stories of the men and women who do amazing jobs that help us  in one way or another.