The G-ZONE Monday August 8th @ 6pmEST Joan Meijer and then @7pm Author’s Panel with Beth Groundwater & Friends from Midnight Ink.

Hey check it out! On Monday @6pm I have a great show coming at you: Joan Meijer my collaborator on the recently released “The Rescue” from The Author’s Lab/Collaboration series, and our good friend Beth Groundwater has rounded up some of her fellow authors from Midnight Ink to form an Author’s Panel for us. I have no idea what element of writing will we be discussing. I just host the show. Listen in as I am certain that we will be able to pull a few pearls of wisdom from these authors. Below I have put all their bio’s including Joan Meijer’s. Enjoy and I hope you tune in Monday ,Aug. 8^th at 6pm EST.Here is the link: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/gelatisscoop

Joan Meijer

“Joan Meijer is the author of 17 fiction and non-fiction books. Her most recent releases are "Tranquillity Initiative"¸ a medical thriller with a political edge about an anthrax attack on New York City and "Relentless: The Search for Typhoid Mary",  a fictionalized history about one of the most fascinating medical mysteries in all history - This was the book she wrote to become a winner in National Novel Writing Month. She is currently working on a new thriller, "Full Circle"-an alternative history which addresses what might have happened if a Reagan-like president had been given a transfusion that contained HIV after the assassination attempt in 1981. In her non-fiction career she is working on a book with Suzy Prudden called "Body Wisdom" that addresses the connection between your body and your life. “

Beth Groundwater

“Beth Groundwater writes two mystery series, the Claire Hanover gift basket designer series and the Rocky Mountain Outdoor Adventures series starring whitewater river ranger Mandy Tanner. The first book in her Claire Hanover series, A REAL BASKET CASE, was released in hardcover in 2007 and will be re-released in trade paperback and ebook in November this year. The book garnered good reviews from Booklist, Kirkus Reviews, and other national reviewers and was nominated for the 2007 Best First Novel Agatha Award. The second book in the series, TO HELL IN A HANDBASKET, was released in hardcover in 2009, also to good reviews, and will be re-released in trade paperback and ebook in the fall of 2012. A third book is in the pipeline.

The first book in Beth's Rocky Mountain Outdoor Adventures series, DEADLY CURRENTS, was released in trade paperback and ebook March, 2011 with good reviews from Booklist, Kirkus Reviews, Library Journal, Publishers Weekly, the Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, and Mystery Scene, among many other reviewers. The second book in the series, WICKED EDDIES, will be released in May, 2012, and Beth has begun work on the third book. Beth was an avid "river rat" in the 1980s, running whitewater rivers in the eastern US, and enjoyed reacquainting herself with that subculture while researching this series. In June, she was the parade VIP for the First in Boating on the Arkansas River whitewater festival in Salida, Colorado, which is featured in DEADLY CURRENTS. Beth lives in Colorado and enjoys its many outdoor activities, including skiing and whitewater rafting.

Beth's science fiction novella, THE EPSILON ERIDANI ALTERNATIVE, was released in ebook and paperback 2009. Also, she has published nine short stories, many multiple times in various formats, including audio. For more information, visit her website at www.bethgroundwater.com   and her blog at http://www.bethgroundwater.blogspot.com

Lois Winston

“Award-winning author, designer, and literary agent Lois Winston writes amateur sleuth mysteries, humorous cross-genre contemporary novels, romantic suspense, and non-fiction essays.  Her books often draw upon her extensive experience as an artist and crafts designer for her source material.

Her latest book, ASSAULT WITH A DEADLY GLUE GUN, the first book in her  Anastasia Pollack Crafting Mysteries series from Midnight Ink, debuted in January and has received rave reviews, included starred reviews from both Publishers Weekly and Booklist.  Kirkus Reviews called it, “North Jersey’s more mature answer to Stephanie Plum.” DEATH BY KILLER MOP DOLL, the second book in the series, will be available in January 2012.

Visit Lois at her website, http://www.loiswinston.com . In addition, Anastasia is the crafts editor at a women’s magazine, and she and her fellow editors also run the Killer Crafts & Crafty Killers blog, the magazine’s online companion. You can find Killer Crafts & Crafty Killers at http://www.anastasiapollack.blogspot.com , and you can follow Anastasia on Twitter @anasleuth.

Sebastian Stuart

“Sebastian Stuart has been a full-time writer for more than twenty-five years.  He has written novels, plays, screenplays, and political satire, and has ghostwritten in every genre imaginable.  His website is sebastianstuart.net

To the Manor Dead, the first in his Janet's Planet mystery series set in New York's Hudson Valley, was published in 2010.  Dead by Any Other Name, book two in the series, will be out in October.

Stuart’s novel The Hour Between won the Ferro-Grumley Award and was a National Public Radio “Season’s Readings” pick.  Stuart ghostwrote Charm! by Kendall Hart, a tie-in with the soap opera All My Children.  Charm! spent five weeks on the New York Times Bestseller List. 24-Karat Kids, written with Park Avenue pediatrician Dr. Judy Goldstein, was a national bestseller and published in seven languages. Stuart’s first novel The Mentor was a Book of the Month Club alternate.”

Alice Loweesey

“Alice Loweecey is a former nun who went from the convent to playing prostitutes on stage to accepting her husband’s marriage proposal on the second date. Her teenage sons clamor for dramatic cameos in future books, but she thinks they’ll make good Redshirts.

She is a member of Mystery Writers of America and Sisters in Crime. The author lives with her family in Western New York. Her first novel is Force of Habit, featuring Giulia Falcone, an ex-nun turned private investigator. Her second, Back in the Habit, returns Giulia to the convent, undercover this time, to deal with jealousy, power trips, and possibly murder.”