Bio: Patricia Rosemoor

New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Patricia Rosemoor has had 102 novels, 8 publishers and more than 7 million books in print. Patricia is fascinated with "dangerous love" and writes romantic suspense or paranormal romantic thrillers.

Patricia has won a Golden Heart from Romance Writers of America and two Reviewers Choice and two Career Achievement Awards from Romantic Times BOOKreviews, and in her other life, she taught Popular Fiction and Suspense-Thriller Writing at Columbia College Chicago.

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A.C. Frieden is an international author of mysteries and thrillers, including the acclaimed Jonathan Brooks series (Down & Out Books / Avendia Publishing). Frieden is also an attorney, private pilot, PADI scuba instructor, martial artist, equestrian and former army sniper. He was born in Senegal and raised in India, Brazil, Switzerland and England before moving to the United States in his teens. Today, you’ll often find him in a far-flung hotspot researching future books, like his recent investigative travels to North Korea, Russia, Cuba, China, Qatar, and India. He has faced the chaos of a Central American coup, piloted small planes over the Andes and the Panama Canal, explored remote underwater sites in the Indian Ocean, surveyed the damaged Chernobyl nuclear power plant, followed the Che Guevara trail in Bolivia, tracked down drug traffickers in Paraguay, explored former Soviet missile bases, and much more across nearly 80 countries. Frieden is a member of Mystery Writers of America, International Thriller Writers, and the Military Writers Society of America and regularly participates in literary events in the U.S. and Europe. He speaks French, English, Portuguese, Spanish and some Russian, and carries several passports.

Alverne Ball grew up on Chicago’s west side in the dangerous crime-infested streets of K-Town. He has attended Columbia College Chicago where he studied fiction writing and would later receive his B.A. and M.F.A in Creative Writing.

Mr. Ball has completed studies in Columbia College’s prestigious Semester in Los Angeles program, an intensive course focused on the adaptation of material to the screen. His love of storytelling has taken him to South Africa where he’s written storylines for the hit TV series, Uzalo. He is a 2015 Stage 32 finalist for his TV pilot, Soul Survivor, as well as a finalist in the Page International Screenplay Competition for his co-written screenplay, Rhineland Bastards.

Mr. Ball has taught graphic novel writing at Noble charter High School in Chicago. He has written comic and graphic novel material for such companies as Di Bona Ventura Productions, Paramount pictures, Mcgraw-Hill, Lions forge comics, New Paradigm entertainment, Campfire graphic novels, and 133art.com.

His writing has been published in the literary magazine Annalemma, in Columbia College newspaper The Chronicle, online at Brokenfrontier.com, online for the Museum of contemporary Photography in Chicago, online for Comicbookresources.com, and an online graphic story for the literary magazine, Hypertextmag.com. His short stories of suspense have appeared in the Sin anthology by Avendia Press, Criminal Class Review as well as the online magazine, the heated forest.com

Mr. Ball is also the recipient of the 2014 and 2015 Glyph Rising Star awards for his writing on 133art's OneNation and OneNation: Old Druids. In 2009 Mr. Ball received first place in the Union League Civic & Arts Foundation Creative Writing Competition for his graphic story, "Virgin Wolf”. He has also received Three Weisman Scholarships from Columbia College Chicago for his other graphic works.

Currently, Mr. Ball has produced an online comic series, When we were Kings, published by popular entertainment website, Afropunk.com. He is working on the follow up to Only the Holy Remain while also writing a new graphic novel and a new feature screenplay.