Greg Mollin

Greg Mollin is a fiction and screenwriter and owner/bookseller at Artifact Books, an independent bookstore in Encinitas, California. His stories have appeared in print and digital publications including Weird Tales, Dread Coast: SoCal Horror Tales anthology, Starlite Pulp Review, Crime Factory magazine, Thrillers, Killers 'n' Chillers, Gothic Blue Book: Haunted Edition, and Dark Moon Digest.  

Greg is a member of the Horror Writers Association, the International Thriller Writers Association, the American Booksellers Association, and the California Independent Booksellers Association. 

New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author Patricia Rosemoor has had more than one hundred novels, eight publishers and eight million books in print. She’s fascinated with “dangerous love” – combining danger with romance, bringing a different mix of thrills and chills to her stories. Patricia has won a Golden Heart from Romance Writers of America and two Reviewers Choice and two Career Achievement Awards from RT Book Reviews, and in her other life, she taught Popular Fiction and Suspense-Thriller Writing, credit courses at Columbia College Chicago.

Find more about Patricia’s work at her Website or at her Facebook page. Sign up for her newsletter, Dangerous Love News.

Linda Sands is the award-winning author of five novels. Her short stories and essays have appeared in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Walton Sun, Skirt! Magazine, Dogplotz, Moronic Ox, Best of North Georgia Magazine, a bunch of defunct lit mags and various anthologies. Most recent awards include Georgia Author of the Year for Mystery/ Detective novels, Readers Choice Awards for THE CARGO SERIES, a Silver Falchion and Judge’s Choice Awards for Best Neo-noir and Best PI novel for 3 WOMEN WALK INTO A BAR, and Best Action Adventure Award for GRAND THEFT CARGO.

Linda splits her writing time between the Gulf Coast of Florida, the mountains of North Georgia and anyplace on the globe she has yet to see.

Ryan Sayles is the Derringer-nominated author of the Richard Dean Buckner hard-boiled PI series, The Subtle Art of Brutality, Warpath and Albatross as well as the standalone novels Goldfinches and Together They Were Crimson. His short fiction has appeared in dozens of venues in both print and digital media. 

He was the editor of the clown-themed anthology Greasepaint & .45s and has been included in numerous others such as the Anthony Award-nominated Trouble in the Heartland: Crime Fiction Inspired by the Songs of Bruce Springsteen and Unloaded: Crime Writers Writing Without Guns.

He is a founding member of Zelmer Pulp, a writer’s group publishing a wide array of genre fiction. Ryan was formerly a submissions editor at the now-defunct The Big Adios website as well as a columnist/interviewer at Out of the Gutter Online.

He is Midwestern and formerly military and police.

John Shepphird is a Shamus Award–winning crime-fiction author and Hollywood industry insider whose multi-faceted career spans novel writing, film and television directing, and producing. He draws on decades of experience behind the camera in Los Angeles to infuse his stories with an insider’s edge—whether it’s the gritty streets of a private-eye case or the back-lot intrigue of Tinseltown. His latest book, Deception Specialist, introduces Jack O’Shea, a reformed swindler-turned-private-investigator in Northern California, showcasing Shepphird’s skill at blending sharp character work with tightly wound plotting. 

On the film side, Shepphird has directed and produced feature and television projects including Jersey Shore Shark Attack and Chupacabra Terror, confirming his chops in both fiction and entertainment production. His short fiction has appeared in top publications like Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, and as a two-time Anthony Award finalist he continues to earn acclaim from the crime-writing community. Based in Los Angeles, Shepphird combines his love for cinematic storytelling and crime literature into unforgettable thrillers that feel just as much like movies on the page. 

Jim is the author of Holland Bay, The Dogs of Beaumont Heights, and Winter of Discontent from Down & Out Press. Jim has also published in Murder, Neat, Janie’s Got a Gun, and episodes of Mysteries to Die For.

He is also the creator of the Nick Kepler PI series and Road Rules, a Elmore Leonardesque romp from Cleveland to Florida that ends in Savannah, Georgia.