My Favorite Reviewers
Becky Kyle
Becky Kyle was born on Friday 13, never mind how long ago. Â She lives between the Smoky and Cumberland Mountains with her husband and four cats, none of which are black at the moment. Her favorite past-times are reading, listening to music and writing. Â She is working on a mystery series of her own.
Jean Tribull Harris
Jean is currently an Environmental Compliance Coordinator at the Bremo Power Station for Dominion Virginia Power. She holds a B.S. degree in chemistry and biology from Fairleigh Dickinson University in Madison, NJ and a M.S. in environmental biology from East Stroudsburg University in Pennsylvania.
Frances Boynton
Frances has lived in Richmond, VA for almost her entire life. She has 3 cats of her own and does pet-sitting for a fair portion of the cat & dog population of Richmond. She loves animals, history, wandering around exploring (getting lost), and, of course, reading!
Wendi Chapman
Wendi lives in Richmond with her husband and four dog kids: Wobbles, Acorn, Care Bear and Chester. She works as a customer care specialist in the freight industry. She tutors in elementary education every Wednesday and reads every book she gets and every chance she gets in a lot of different subjects, not just mysteries.
P.J. Coldren
P.J. Coldren lives in northern lower Michigan with her husband. She owns a lab/pit bull mix named Bruno and is owned by a large feline named Mongo. Â She reads widely in the mystery genre and selectively from almost any other book category. Â She deals drugs professionally (works in a hospital pharmacy) to pay the bills. Â She has been a judge for the Malice Domestic/St. Martin’s Press Best First Traditional Mystery Novel contest for over twenty years and has reviewed mystery novels for almost that long.
Laura Taylor
Laura lives in a converted 150-year-old gristmill surrounded by mountains and cow pastures, with her teenage son and devoted, if noisy, dog. She holds a Master’s degree in Medieval History from Western Michigan University and hopes to teach high school history. In the meantime, she keeps busy reading and working on the mystery novel she wrote for NaNoWriMo 2009. She blogs, when the mood strikes, at The Two-Fingered Typist (http://keystrokes2backspaces.wordpress.com/) and has recently started posting book reviews at Beyond the Blurb (http://beyondtheblurb.wordpress.com/).
Jennifer Hancock
Jennifer graduated from VCU with a degree in Craft (Furniture Design) and minors in Philosophy and Art History. She happily resides in the neighborhood of Oregon Hill. She is blessed with a tolerant partner, a house crammed with books and enough cats for every lap in the house plus guests. Her pastimes include reading, community activism, running two book clubs with an iron fist, herding cats and wrestling with an unruly library.
Alva Hughes
Alva teaches at Randolph-Macon College. She has a B.S. from R-MC and an M.A. & Ph.D. from the University of Maryland. She finds living with at least one dog necessary. When she is not busy trying to understand cognitive processes in humans and dogs, she reads, knits, & eats chocolate.
Ted and Gloria Feit
Ted and Gloria Feit live in Long Beach, NY, a few miles outside of New York City. For 26 years, Gloria was the manager of a medium-sized litigation firm in lower Manhattan. Her husband, Ted, is an attorney and former stock analyst, publicist and writer/editor for, over the years, several daily, weekly and monthly publications. Having always been avid mystery readers, and since they’re now retied, they’re able to indulge their passion. Their reviews appear online as well as in three print publications in the UK and US. On a more personal note: both having been widowed, Gloria and Ted have five children and nine grandchildren between them. On their first [blind] date, Ted showed up with a Dick Francis book under his arm and the rest, as they say, is history.
Carl Brookins
Carl Brookins hails from a suburb of the Twin Cities in Minnesota. He’s been writing and reviewing crime fiction since he retired from Metropolitan State University in Saint Paul, nearly twenty years ago. He also sails, does photography and TV,  drinks a little scotch, and laughs a lot.
Patricia E. Reid
Patricia E. Reid lives in Kansas City.  She is employed as office manager for two Darling International, Inc. blending plants. One is in Kansas City, Kansas and the other is in Fairfax, Missouri. Prior to that, she managed a law office for seventeen years. She has two daughters, one living in Kansas City and one in West Virginia. She also has a granddaughter living in Kansas City. All three share her love of reading. Patricia favors mysteries, suspense and thrillers. One daughter reads romance and the other mystery; the more hard-boiled the better. Her granddaughter reads most everything but enjoys fantasy.
Kate Ernst
Kate is an Australian who has been living in Germany for the last ten years with her husband and their child. She was always the girl on the school bus with her nose in a book, and often the girl tripping her way home from the bus stop in much the same fashion! Recently, she has realised a passion for photography (http://katesphotos.wordpress.com ) and baking. She enjoys reading any kind of genre, as long as the characters are strong and the plot is followable and is tentatively moving towards Sci Fi as we speak.
Brenda Cothern
Brenda’s introduction to fantasy novels started in the early 80’s. She is still an avid player of D&D/LFR, an RPGA member, and her obvious addiction to fantasy stories continues. She can be found immersed daily in Fantasy or Paranormal books or any number of other worlds that give her the fantasy fix she needs! Formally a Dir. of Ops for a marketing company, part web designer, genealogist and full time writer, Brenda lives in Florida with her husband, 3 teenage daughters, 3 dogs, 3 cats, and a turtle named Tammy. Brenda also posts reviews for Adventures in Sci-Fi Publishing (http://www.adventuresinscifipublishing.com/)
C.K. Crigger
C.K. Crigger lives with her husband and three feisty little dogs in Spokane Valley, Washington, where she crafts stories set in the Inland Northwest. Her current release of western suspense is TWO FEET BELOW. www.ckcrigger.com
Stephen L. Brayton
Stephen is a Fifth Degree Black belt who owns and operates a taekwondo club. He lives with Thomas, a fifteen pound cat. He lives about an hour away from two supportive and loving parents and two hours away from a younger sister, her husband and three beautiful nieces. Stephen also posts reviews on Brayton’s Book Buzz and he is the author of Night Shadows and Beta.
Marta Chausée
Marta Chausée is a Southern California author, artist, life coach and counselor from a cross-cultural background. She enjoys writing non-fiction, creative non-fiction, poetry and killing people in her murder mysteries. She has won several writing prizes and been published in magazines, literary reviews, mental health newsletters and an online Denver newsletter. Her first book, Resort to Murder, will be published in 2012 by Oak Tree Press. Ms. Chausée lives in a tree house in the college town of Claremont, with her luck dragon, Falcor, and her writing fellows nearby. For fun, she likes to travel, dance, ride her bike, ski, laugh, sing, play and otherwise carry on to the embarrassment of her children. She enjoys books, art, antiques, theater, movies and good times with good friends. Her motto is: Manus manum lavat.
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6 Responses
I saw your post on DorothyL and would be interested in blogging for you and/or reviewing for you. Please let me know what my end of this requires, if you are interested. Thank you.
P.J. Coldren
Aloha,
I found your website through a posting on DL. My husband, Douglas Corleone, has a debut novel coming out April 27. It is the winner of the 2009 Minotaur Books/Mystery Writers of America Best First Crime Novel award. Would you be interested in reviewing his book? He would also like to guest blog on your site.
All best,
Jill
How do I enter my soon to be released novel, The Beautiful Evil?
I, too, found your website through a posting on DL. My second bookstore cozy, NO REST FOR THE WICKED, is slated by Five Star for release in August, 2011. The second in the Jane Serrano Mystery series continues the adventures of bookstore clerk Jane Serrano, first detailed in MURDER OF THE MONTH (Five Star, 2005; Lava River Press, 2011), as she manages a mystery book club sponsored by the indie bookstore in Central Oregon where she works. Unfortunately, the unruly club members would rather solve crimes than read about them. I used to work in a Central Oregon indie (now, sadly, out of business), where I met plenty of characters there who have since made their way into my books. I’d be delighted to send an ARC if you’re interested in doing a review. Thanks for your consideration. Best, Liz
Lots of fun, reading the bios on your favorite reviewers. Love yours, too.
Marta Chausée, author
Resort to Murder Series
As a new mystery/suspense author, I would like to have my new novel, A Seed for Cora Lee, reviewed and posted here. How can I get a copy into your hands? Thanks for any consideration.
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