Featuring:
Meredith Cole
Posed for MurderMeredith Cole won the St. Martin's/Malice Domestic Best First Traditional Mystery competition, and her book Posed for Murder was published in 2009. Her second book in the Lydia McKenzie series, Dead in the Water, comes out in May 2010.
Genre:Publishing
Clifford Garstang
In An Uncharted CountryClifford Garstang, author of In An Uncharted Country, is an international lawyer. His fiction and book reviews have appeared in numerous literary magazines. He lives in the Shenandoah Valley.
Genres:Fiction, Publishing
Hawes Spencer founded both weekly newspapers in Charlottesville, C-ville Weekly and The Hook, the latter of which he still serves as editor and publisher.
Genre:Publishing
Rachel Unkefer is both the founder of WriterHouse, a non-profit community writing center, and the first-prize winner of the 2009 Hook Short Story Contest judged by John Grisham. She recently submitted her unpublished novel to two competitions.
Genre:Publishing


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