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Marianne Halbert is an attorney from central Indiana. Her horror, crime, and weird speculative fiction stories have appeared in magazines such as Necrotic Tissue, Midnight Screaming, and ThugLit, as well as in anthologies by Blue River Press, The Four Horsemen, Great Old Ones Publishing, Mystery and Horror LLC, Evil Jester Press, Mocha Memoirs Press, Grinning Skull Press, The Horror Society, and more. She prefers quiet, psychological horror in the vein of Shirley Jackson and Rod Serling. Marianne has been a panelist at AnthoCon and NECon. She is currently working on her ghost story novel The Lady’s Pocket. Her work, including her collection Wake Up and Smell the Creepy, is available now.
B. K. Hart is an American Writer of humor, mystery, and horror. Short stories have seen publication in mystery anthologies with Speed City Indiana Sisters in Crime and in several independent horror anthologies. B. K. currently resides in Indiana.
Shari Held is an Indianapolis-based freelance journalist. She began her professional career at the age of sixteen writing a column for the Greensburg Daily News. More recently, she narrated Indianapolis: A Photographic Portrait and authored several For Dummies custom publications. Her first mystery story, Pride and Patience, appeared in the Sisters in Crime anthology The Fine Art of Murder. A Hoosier, through and through, Shari earned her Bachelor’s degree (double major in English and History) from Purdue and worked toward her Master’s degree at the Indiana University School of Journalism.
Elizabeth Perona is the father/daughter writing team of Tony Perona and Liz Dombrosky. Tony is the author of the Nick Bertetto mystery series, the standalone thriller The Final Mayan Prophecy, and co-editor of the anthologies Racing Can Be Murder and Hoosier Hoops & Hijinks. Tony is a member of Mystery Writers of America and Sisters-in-Crime. Liz Dombrosky graduated from Ball State University in the Honors College with a degree in teaching. She is currently a stay-at-home mom and preschool teacher. She also is a member of Mystery Writers of America and Sisters-in-Crime.
C. L. Shore began reading mysteries in the second grade, and has been a fan of the genre ever since. Maiden Murders, a prequel to A Murder in May, is her most recent release. Her short stories have appeared in Sisters in Crime anthologies and Kings River Life Magazine. Shore has been a member of Sisters in Crime for over a decade. A nurse practitioner and researcher, she’s published numerous articles on family coping with epilepsy as Cheryl P. Shore. Shore enjoys travel and entertains a fantasy of living in Ireland for a year.
Stephen Terrell is an Indianapolis attorney and writer. He is the author of two legal thrillers, Stars Fall and The First Rule, and the short story collection Visiting Hours and Other Stories form the Heart, featuring the award-winning story “Visiting Hours.” He contributed two short stories (“Street Art” and “Expose Yourself to Art”) to the Speed City Sisters in Crime anthology The Fine Art of Murder. An avid motorcyclist and photographer, Stephen also authored a very personal photo-journal account of his last motorcycle trip with his longtime riding companion, There and Back: Journal of a Last Motorcycle Ride.
Janet Williams has been writing her entire life, first as a child making her own books and later as a journalist for newspapers in Pittsburgh and Indianapolis. She has always believed that journalism is, at its heart, strong storytelling. Today, she uses her experiences covering courts, crime, and politics to create her fiction. Since retiring from a corporate job in 2015, Janet has been teaching, writing, and hanging out with her dog, Roxy.
T. C. Winters owned a small business in the real estate industry for decades before deciding a change was required to preserve her sense of humor. She joined the Indiana chapter of the Romance Writers of America and the Speed City Sisters in Crime where she spent years studying the writing craft, specializing in humor and suspense. She is a resident of Central Indiana and enjoys cooking and gardening. Other loves include animals and canned cheese. Don’t judge!