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Charles Crosby is an East Coast-based playwright and novelist. His first novel, italics, mine was published in 2005 by Norwood Publishing and was shortlisted for the Margaret and John Savage First Book Award. He lives in Halifax with his wife Tanis, and sons Liam and Patrick.

Charles' second novel, Backspin is now available in bookstores.

Contact Charles at charles@hfx.eastlink.ca or visit www.charlescrosby.ca.

Patrick Blennerhassett is a reporter and columnist for the Victoria News. He is a 2007 Jack Webster Fellowship recipient, a Langara Journalism graduate, and has lived and worked in such places as Pahoa, Hawaii and Iqaluit, Nunavut.

Patrick's first novel, Monument, is now available in bookstores.

Contact Patrick at patblennerhassett@hotmail.com.

Chris F. Needham lives in Vancouver, BC where, prior to the publication of his first novel, the critically acclaimed An Inverted Sort of Prayer, he plied a piecemeal trade as bouncer, bartender, forklift driver, computer technician, and magazine editor. Falling from Heights is his second novel.

Chris's third novel, Leaving Lovestiff Annie, is now available in bookstores.

Contact Chris at needhamchris@hotmail.com.

Among other things, Trevor Clark has worked as an oilrig roughneck, editor, portrait photographer, bookstore manager, and home entertainment coordinator for a TV movie production company in London, where he lived for a number of years. He is the author of fiction, including Dragging the River and Born To Lose (ECW Press,) and his photographs have appeared in Designs of Darkness: Interviews With Detective Novelists, (Bowling Green University Popular Press,) and Interviews With Contemporary Novelists (Macmillan/ St. Martin’s Press,) both by Diana Cooper-Clark, as well as Ross Macdonald: A Biography, by Tom Nolan, (Scribner’s,) NOW, and The Globe And Mail. He currently lives in Vancouver.

Trevor's new novel, Love on the Killing Floor, will be available in bookstores in the Fall of 2010.

Contact Trevor at trevclark5@hotmail.com.

Mel McConaghy retired from truck driving at the age of 71, before which he spent ten years in the Royal Canadian Navy (’54 to ’64) sailing on every ship imaginable, from a sailboat to a submarine. He was one of the first six Canadians to sail on the Royal Yacht Britannia, circumnavigating the world with Prince Philip before witnessing the historic opening of the St. Lawrence Seaway by Queen Elizabeth in 1959.
Mel’s writing career began when a fellow trucker commented, “McConaghy you’re so full of BS you should write a book.” And so, with his colleague’s blessing, Mel soon discovered a passion for writing, contributing regularly to Pro-Trucking Magazine, writing and recording a bi-weekly commentary for a local community radio station, and working on various novels. He lives in Prince George, BC with his wife of 51 years, Barbara.

Mel's first book, The Stoker, a memoir of his time in the Canadian navy, is now available in bookstores. Contact him at lesmcc@telus.net.

R.W. Dunlop was born in 1983 in Sapporo, Japan, and in 1991 her family moved to Calgary, Canada where they continue to live and work. Dunlop has studied literature, art and design in Toronto, London, and Milan.

Dunlop's first book, A Clap for Cadence, is now available in bookstores. She can be contacted at dunloprw@gmail.com.