A.J. Devlin   

A.J. Devlin grew up in Greater Vancouver before moving to Southern California for six years where he earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Screenwriting from Chapman University and a Master of Fine Arts in Screenwriting from The American Film Institute. After working as a screenwriter in Hollywood he moved back home to Port Moody, BC, where he now lives with his wife and two children. Cobra Clutch is his first novel.

www.ajdevlin.com

Kelley Raab 

Kelley Raab is a psychotherapist, teacher, and writer. She earned a Ph.D. in Religious Studies and taught at universities in the U.S. before immigrating to Canada in 2004. One of her most popular courses was “Personal Stories of Faith and Doubt,” because students liked reading spiritual journeys from different faith traditions. Since 2005 Kelley has worked in the mental health field. She is a member of the College of Registered Psychotherapists of Ontario and provides clinical supervision to students. Kelley’s crime fiction investigates two of her interests: spiritual beliefs and practices and the nature of the human mind. She also enjoys playing music, especially harp. Kelley and her husband Yvon live in Ottawa.

Daniel Rasic

Daniel Rasic is the author of The Pirates of Aden and lives on the East Coast.

Lorna Poplak Bio 

Books have always been a constant in Lorna’s life — like Mount Everest or the moon or breakfast. As a child, Lorna was an avid reader, one of those kids who use a flashlight to read under the covers until the wee small hours of the morning.

Success as a writer took a while longer. There was some early promise — that’s if poems and stories in high school yearbooks count as promise. Lorna majored in law at university in her native South Africa, but her love of the written word led her to study English literature and take an Honours degree in French. After a diploma in library science, Lorna moved to Canada and into the field of information technology. Then, as now, Lorna enjoyed exploring her new country by car, bike, and on foot.

But writing computer code is no substitute for playing with and playing on words, so Lorna escaped into that other kind of writing. She also became an editor, proofreader, and fact checker. To hone her skills and explore electronic media, she enrolled in a technical communication program.

By this time more successes were rolling in — published work included travel pieces, reviews, user-friendly web content, annual reports, and medical and science writing. But her real passion lay in children’s literature.

So it’s not entirely surprising that when Lorna started writing and workshopping Drop Dead: A Horrible History of Hanging in Canada, she envisioned it for an audience of young readers. The surprise came in the form of a contract to publish the work as adult non-fiction. This set Lorna free to delve deeply into the topic. And the result is a darkly humorous book about crime and punishment in Canada’s first century, which examines the relevance of capital punishment today.

https://www.lornapoplak.com/