Orange County Noir (Akashic Noir) (40 page)

MARY CASTILLO, a former reporter for LosAngeles Times Community News, is the author of three novels and two novellas.

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DAN DULING is an award-winning playwright, best known
for Stranglehold, which won the Oregon Playwrights Award.
He is also a former journalist, having written for publications
such as the L.A. Weekly, the Los Angeles Times, and the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner. the feature film Last Lives, based on his
screenplay, originally premiered on the Sci-Fi Channel and is
now available on DVD. Behind the Orange Curtain, Duling is
the scriptwriter for the Pageant of the Masters in Laguna Beach.

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ROBERT S. LEVINSON is the author of the novels The Traitor in Us All, In the Key ofDeath, Where the Lies Begin, and Ask
a Dead Man, as well as the Neil Gulliver and Stevie Martinet
series of mystery-thrillers, which to date consist of The Elvis and Marilyn Affair The James Dean Affair The John Lennon
Affair and Hot Paint: The Andy Warhol Affair. the Derringer
Award-winner's short stories appear often in the Ellery Queen
and Alfred Hitchcock mystery magazines.

DICK LOCHTE is the author of ten popular crime novels, including, most recently, Croaked' His novel Sleeping Dog won a
Nero Wolfe Award, was nominated for Edgar, Shamus, and Anthony awards, and was named one of the "100 Favorite Mysteries of the Century" by the Independent Booksellers Association.
Lochte, who lives in Southern California with his wife and son, is
also an award-winning drama critic and has written screenplays
for such actors as Jodie Foster, Martin Sheen, and Roger Moore.

LAWRENCE MADDOX works as a film and television editor,
and has written a number of independent features. He lives
with his wife in northeast Los Angeles, less than an hour's
drive from the badlands beyond the Orange Curtain.

GORDON MCALPINE is the author of three novels, Joy
in Mudville, The Persistence of Memory, and Mystery Box. His
short fiction and book reviews have been featured in magazines and journals both in the U.S. and abroad. He lives in
Orange County with his wife and three children.

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PATRICIA MCFALL is a freelance writer and editor. She
also teaches fiction and coaches writers privately. She has
published one suspense novel, a half-dozen short stories, and
many newspaper features. Her work has appeared in Ellery
Queen Mystery Magazine, Orange Coast Magazine, and Writer's
Digest.

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T. JEFFERSON PARKER was born in Los Angeles and has
lived in Southern California his whole life. He has published
seventeen novels, numerous articles and short stories, and is
a three-time Edgar Award winner. His most recent novel is
Iron River.

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GARY PHILLIPS writes stories of chicanery and misadventure in various formats, including novels and short stories. He
has contributed stories to several volumes in the Akashic Noir
Series, including Los Angeles Noir Dublin Noir and Phoenix
Noir. He recently published Freedom's Fight, a novel set in
World War II.

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ROB ROBERGE is the author of the story collection Working
Backwards from the Worst Moment in My Life and the novels More
Than They Could Chew, and Drive. His stories have been featured
in ZYZZYVA, Chelsea, Other Voices, Alaska Quarterly Review, and
the Literary Review. His work has also been anthologized in
Another City, Its All Good, and SANTI: Lives of the Modern
Saints. Roberge plays guitar and sings with the L.A.-area
bands the Violet Rays, the Danbury Shakes, and the Urinals.

MARTIN J. SMITH is currently editor-in-chief of Orange
Coast Magazine and formerly senior editor of the Los Angeles
Times Magazine. He is also the author of three crime novels,
Time Release, Shadow Image, and the Edgar Award-nominated
Straw Men, and is coauthor of two nonfiction pop culture histories, Poplorica and Oops.

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