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Robb, Candace.
Candace was born in Taylorsville, North Carolina, and educated in Cincinnati, Ohio. Before launching the Owen Archer mysteries, she worked as a research editor in the Applied Physics Laboratory of the University of Washington. Candace currently lives in Seattle, Washington where she now writes full-time and teaches creative writing in UW's Extension College. She is also a member of the Authors Guild, the Medieval Academy of America, the Richard III Society, The International Association of Crime Writers, the British Crime Writers Association, Mystery Writers of America, and the American Crime Writers League.
Roe, Caroline.
Caroline Roe was born in Winsor, Canada. She is the creator of ''Isaac', blind physician in 14th Century Girona, Spain. Under the pseudonym 'Medora Sale', she created 'John Sanders and Harriet Jeffries', homicide detective and architectural photographer in Toronto.
Saylor, Steven.
Steven was born in Texas in 1956 and graduated with high honors from the University of Texas at Austin, where he studied history and Classics. He divides his time between homes in Berkeley, California, and Austin, Texas. Steven has been a newspaper and magazine editor, and a literary agent.
Tremayne, Peter.
Peter Tremayne is the fiction writing pseudonym of the Celtic scholar and author Peter Berresford Ellis. He was born in Coventry, Warwickshire, in England, on March 10, 1943. His father was a Cork born journalist who started his career on the Cork Examiner. Although Peter took his degrees in Celtic Studies, obtaining a first class honours BA and his master's degree, he decided to follow his father into a career in journalism.
He began his career as a junior reporter on an English south coast weekly, becoming deputy editor of an Irish weekly newspaper and was then editor of a weekly publishing trade journal in London. He first went as a feature writer to Northern Ireland in 1964 which had a profound effect on him. His first book was published in 1968 - Wales - A Nation Again, on the Welsh struggle for political independence.
In 1975 he became a full-time writer. A prolific writer, Peter has now published a total of 77 books, 60 short stories, several pamphlets, and numerous academic papers and an uncountable number of signed articles. His books break down into 32 titles published under his own name; 8 titles under the pseudonym of Peter MacAlan and 37 titles under his pseudonym of Peter Tremayne.
Kelli Stanley lives in San Francisco and earned a Master's Degree in Classics. When she's not writing or wandering in the fog, she can be found at bookstores, speakeasies and classic movie palaces. Kelli's first novel, Nox Dormienda (A Long Night for Sleeping), was a Writer's Digest Notable Debut (August, 2008), and is also the first of a new genre: Roman Noir. Ken Bruen described its combination of hardboiled style, historical background and thriller pace as "Ellis Peters re-written by Elmore Leonard ... and it moves like a gladiator on speed." Kelli is currently working on a novel set in 1940 San Francisco. Visit her at http://www.kellistanley.com.
