Who's Who of CrimeSpree Magazine...
Who are we? Collectively we are mystery fans from all over. We share a love of the mystery crime genre and it has drawn us together.
Individually we are:
Jon and Ruth Jordan - Publishers and editors
Jon and Ruth met at Bouchercon in 1999. Since then they have taken their love of books up a few notches. They both contribute to mysteryone.com and booksnbytes.com. When not reading or talking about books they go to see live music when ever possible. And while they still love Rob Zombie, they realize they may be a little too old for the crowds that go to see him. They share their home with four cats who believe they are the center of the known universe.
Jennifer Jordan - fiction editorJennifer's day never truly begins until she's begun to write. Her first book, written when she was nine, featured a cast of wizards and talking animals fighting an almost Jungian archetype of evil known as the Shadow. Writing compulsively and voraciously reading everything, nothing presses her pleasure button quite like great writing. She has articles, interviews and short fiction featured in various magazines and has a short story called ‘Bitter Kiss’ that will appear in the anthology “Stirring up A Storm: Tales of the Sensual, the Sexual, and the Erotic” Edited by Marilyn Jaye Lewis, available in the fall of 2005. She is halfway through her first non-wizard novel. You can visit her at her blog site: Human Under Construction.
Jeremy Lynch - entertainment editor
When not reading crime fiction, listening to music or watching movies, Jeremy can be found talking, or at least thinking, about crime fiction, music or movies. He also enjoys the rough and tumble worlds of Mixed Martial Arts (UFC, Pride) and politics, which are really not that different.He lives in St.Paul with a neurotic, slightly overweight cat that doesn't solve crimes or do anything more strenuous than sleep on the windowsill. It also should be noted that he feels a little freaky referring to himself in the third person. He currently resides somewhere between being a know-nothing punk and an addled-minded fossil.
Sarah Weinman
Sarah is the fiction editor for SHOTS Ezine, a contributing editor of January Magazine, and has written for a number of print and online publications including the Washington Post, Deadly Pleasures, Plots With Guns, and the Denver Post. She also blogs about crime fiction and whatever else pops into her head at "Confessions of an Idiosyncratic Mind." Relaxing is not amongst her list of activities.Ali Karim
Ali is an industrial chemist, freelance journalist and book reviewer living in England. He is Assistant Editor at Shots Ezine and also contributes to January Magazine and Deadly Pleasures Magazine and is an associate member of The Crime Writers Association (CWA) of Great Britain.
Ayo (ola) Onatade
I have been an avid reader of crime fiction since I was ten years old.
Since 1998 I have been a reviewer for Shots Magazine, a crime fiction magazine that reviews crime fiction books and interviews crime fiction authors. The magazine also has short stories and forthcoming information about crime fiction conferences. It is now an online magazine.
I am a member of a group called Mystery Women that was set up by Kate Charles and Michelle Spring in 1998 to promote female crime writers. I also help run the group along with Lizzie Hayes.
Job: Clerk (Personal Assistant) to a Court of Appeal Judge at the Royal Courts of Justice, London
Dave Biemann
Hey, Lama, how about a little something, you know, for the effort, you know? And he says: "Oh, uh, there won't be any money but when you die, on your deathbed, you will receive total consciousness." So I got that going for me. Which is nice.
This quote is from Caddyshack which sums up Dave just fine…..
Annie Chernow
Annie lives in the Chicago suburb of Inverness, Illinois in a house filled with thousands of books and never enough shelf space. The most annoying thing you can ask her is 'do you really read these?'
Thalia Proctor
Thalia has been selling crime and mystery books since 1990. She is currently working for Goldsboro Books in a bookish alley near Leicester Square. She lives in Barnet, North London, and gets a lot of reading done on the daily train journey.
Joe Lemmer - artist extreme
Likes:Neon Genesis Evangelion
Dislikes:
Evangelists
Sum me up:
Lacking a concept of time with a loose sense of reality, a sick sense of humor a love of pudding.
Mary Reagan - photographer and more
Mary lives in New York City and developed an interest in both books and
photography at an early age. Aside from a stint as a photography editor
during college, her photos have been featured in Plots with Guns, author
web
sites, and a variety of work-related publications.
Kelli Ketterling -
Kelli is a librarian who lives in St. Paul. She started reading mystery
novels in grade school with Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys, and was
reintroduced to the genre about ten years ago. She lives by the motto:
"There's no such thing as too many books" and her home shows it.There will be many other people contributing on a per-issue basis, but these are names that will be showing up in Crime Spree often.