 Michael Malone is the author of 11 internationally acclaimed novels, including the classic Handling Sin, Uncivil Seasons, The Last Noel, and the NYT bestseller The Killing Club. His new novel The Four Corners of the Sky was published in 2009 and was also a national bestseller. He is currently at work on the fourth book in his "Hillston" quartet.
He has also written plays, television programs for ABC, NBC and Fox, a collection of short stories Red Clay, Blue Cadillac: Stories of 12 Southern Women, and two books of non-fiction, one on film, one on Jungian typology. His many essays and literary reviews have appeared in such magazines and journals as Harper’s, the New York Times, the Washington Post, Playboy, Partisan Review, Yale Review and the Wilson Quarterly.
Among his prizes are the O Henry, the Edgar, the Writers Guild Award and the Emmy for ABC's One Life to Live, where he was headwriter for much of a decade. He has taught at Yale, the University of Pennsylvania and Swarthmore and is currently a professor in Theater Studies at Duke University, where he teaches film, television and theater. He lives in Hillsborough, N.C. with his wife Dr. Maureen Quilligan, R Florence Brinkley Professor of English at Duke.
 A native of Washington, D.C., Ellyn Bache studied English at the University of Maryland and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She has resided in Wilmington for over 20 years, but now divides her time between the Tar Heel State and Pennsylvania.
Ellyn Bache's newest book, Daughters of the Sea, is a Reviewers Choice Book of the Year nominee and a Top Pick from RT Book Reviews. Another book, Safe Passage, starred Susan Sarandon Sam Sheppard in the film version.
Bache has written eight novels as well as a short story collection, books for young people and a nonfiction journal.
Among her other titles are: Holiday Miracles: A Christmas/Hanukkah Story, Festival in Fire Season, The Activist's Daughter and Riggs Park. Visit her Web site at www.ellynbache.com.
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 Chris Roerden is best known for her award-winning books for writers: Don't Sabotage Your submission-Insider Information from a Career Editor to Save Your Manuscript from Turning Up D.O.A., and its earlier version Don't Murder Your Mystery-24 Fiction Writing Techniques to Save Your Manuscript.
In her 44 years in publishing, Chris has edited thousands of fiction and nonfiction manuscripts, including those of authors published by St. Martin’s Press, Berkley Prime Crime, Walker & Co., Midnight Ink, Intrigue, Oceanview, Rodale, and Viking. Of the 11 books and a game she’s written, she ghosted all but four. Her books on writing have won four awards, two of them national: the prestigious Agatha for Best Nonfiction and the 2009 Benjamin Franklin for Literary Criticism; and were shortlisted for five additional national awards, including the Anthony, the Macavity, USA Best Books, and ForeWord Magazine’s Writing Book of the Year.
Chris is a summa cum laude graduate of the University of Maine and a former university instructor of writing. She is past president of a regional trade association of 250 commercial and university presses, and she chairs the Mystery Writers of America/Helen McCloy 2010 Scholarship Program. Most of all she enjoys filling invitations from across the US and Canada to present her popular workshops, in which she shares insider information about how publishing decisions are made, and steps writers through exercises to expand their use of techniques that help develop each writer’s unique voice. Her website is www.writersinfo.info.
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Lockhart-Taylor Center in Wadesboro
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