Mystery/Detective

Born and raised in New York, I attended the State University of New York at Brockport and taught Kindergarten for several years. I migrated into Special Education equipped with a master's degree in Learning Disabilities.

Settling in North Carolina, the corporate world was calling. With my experience in teaching, marketing was the next logical step!

After a twenty year career with IBM, and the family safely launched into life, my husband and I retired to Buffalo, Wyoming. For variety and terrific weather we enjoy a yearly trek to Florida and other parts of the East coast.

Writing with the Chaffee County Writers Exchange opened a whole new world for me. GaGa and I collaborated to write a mystery short story as a fundraiser for the Leadville Mining Museum. We enjoyed creating that so much, we decided to try a cozy mystery series.

Our fictional town of Oresville is a small mining town in the high mountains of Colorado. Lots of history, characters, and puzzles for our gal, Phoebe, to solve.

Find out more about co-author GaGa Gabardi at her author profile found here.

Graduating from college, my one thought was to leave Minnesota and live where the weather is phenomenal, but I never made it to southern California!

I retired from a career in telecom with a Master's in Project Management, another in Business, and an advanced project degree from Stanford (thank you corporate world).

Completing my private pilot license I needed money for 'av' fuel....back to work. This time consulting, teaching, course development...a welcome change along with a grandson who named me GaGa. Thank you, B.

Writing with Judilee is a way I can add levity within the confines of the pandemic, reach out to others sharing our mutual experiences, and fine-tune my storytelling.

Hubby and I live in the Colorado mountains. It's an easy pace for us with enough space to enjoy camping, fishing, and riding the rough mountain trails. I can't make up these experiences!

I hope you enjoy The Last Hurrah, The Last Slide, and The Last Line, get a chuckle here and there, learn a bit regarding Colorado history, and at the end, wonder what happens next.

Find out more about co-author Judilee Butler at her author profile found here.

James Schannep is a graduate of the United States Air Force Academy (USAFA) with a degree in English Literature and minor in General Engineering. After serving honorably, he left the service to write full time.

Patricia Meredith is an author of historical and cozy mysteries. When she’s not writing, she’s playing board games with her husband, creating imaginary worlds with her two children, or out in the garden reading a good book with a cup of tea. She graduated high school in Buena Vista, CO and currently lives just outside Colorado Springs.

K. L. Emanuelson is an Army veteran. She was a working cowgirl for many years, a horse trainer and a riding instructor. As a Beowulf scholar, she's presented at academic conferences and been published in the proceedings. She's entered the poetry, essay and short-short fiction divisions and won, at the Colorado Veterans Arts competitions, but now focuses upon writing her novels. She shares her ranch in the beautiful, historic Bijou Basin with her horses, dogs and cats. She's a historian with a focus upon pre-Viking early 6th century Scandinavia and the 19th century American West.

For 19 years, I played in the Colorado Springs Symphony. My current cozy mystery series is based on those experiences.

Brought to the Springs twice thanks to the Air Force, Laura and her family returned for a third time for keeps. Originally from Alabama, she's the author of fourteen novels, and eight short stories/novellas. She also writes as "Elle Vaughn" in collaboration with Yvonne Jocks and Evelyn Vaughn. In addition, she's the owner of Author, Author! and supplies authors with their own books at deep discounts. 

Ethan reads all the time and writes so that you can read. He travels the world, ignoring the usual boundaries of space and time, collecting stories, which he loves to tell almost as much as Sparrow himself does.

He has visited more than 25 countries in person, and perhaps more than a hundred in books. He has also time-traveled to more than 40 different years in history. We won’t tell you exactly which ones.

David is a retired foreign service officer who lived in Italy for nine years.

Jodi Bowersox has never liked being put in a box. Over the course of her life, she has been an actress, seamstress, designer, business owner, homeschool teacher, kid's choir director, and artist, so it's only natural that her writing would take on an eclectic flare as well.

Her romance novels span genres from faith fiction to suspense to time travel to sci fi with small town and big city settings. Several have won awards from the Colorado Book Awards, the Colorado Authors League, and the Colorado Independent Publishers Association. She has also been named a finalist in the American Fiction Awards and the Killer Nashville Silver Falchion Awards.

In addition to novels, she has children's picture books to her credit under the name J.B. Stockings that include her new series of books for birth to three that she calls Sing-a-Story books.

As an award-winning watercolor artist, Jodi specializes in pet portraits and has illustrated a couple of her children’s books herself. A Tale of Two Kitties and Cats feature some of her favorite pets. You can read more about Jodi’s writing and other creative endeavors, as well as read samples of her books, at jodibowersox.com.

Jodi lives in the heart of Colorado Springs with her husband and too many cats where they never get tired of looking at the mountain views.