Brendan DuBois
Brendan DuBois is the New York Times bestselling author of twenty-nine novels, including The First Lady and The Cornwalls Are Gone (March 2019), co-authored with James Patterson, along with The Summer House (June 2020), and Blowback (September 2022). Other novels co-authored with Patterson include Countdown (March 2023) and Cross Down (June 2023). He’s also published more than 200 short stories. His full-length novels include twelve novels in the Lewis Cole series, the latest being Terminal Surf (June 2024) as well as the Dark Victory science fiction trilogy.
Brendan’s short fiction has appeared in Playboy, The Saturday Evening Post, Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine, Analog, Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, The Strand Magazine, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, and numerous anthologies, including The Best American Mystery Stories, The Best American Noir of the Century, and Best Science Fiction of the Year.
Eight times his short fiction has been selected for The Best American Mystery Stories anthologies. His stories have thrice won the Shamus Award from the Private Eye Writers of America, two Barry Awards, two Derringer Awards, the Ellery Queen Readers Award, and three Edgar Allan Poe Award nominations from the Mystery Writers of America. In 2021 he received the Edward D. Hoch Memorial Golden Derringer for Lifetime Achievement from the Short Mystery Fiction Society.
He is also a Jeopardy! game show champion.
Brendan’s short fiction has appeared in Playboy, The Saturday Evening Post, Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine, Analog, Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, The Strand Magazine, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, and numerous anthologies, including The Best American Mystery Stories, The Best American Noir of the Century, and Best Science Fiction of the Year.
Eight times his short fiction has been selected for The Best American Mystery Stories anthologies. His stories have thrice won the Shamus Award from the Private Eye Writers of America, two Barry Awards, two Derringer Awards, the Ellery Queen Readers Award, and three Edgar Allan Poe Award nominations from the Mystery Writers of America. In 2021 he received the Edward D. Hoch Memorial Golden Derringer for Lifetime Achievement from the Short Mystery Fiction Society.
He is also a Jeopardy! game show champion.
Jackie Sherbow
Jackie Sherbow is the senior managing editor of Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine and Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, the former editor in chief of Newtown Literary, the publisher at THRASH Press, and the author of poetry and short stories.
Michael Bracken
Michael Bracken is the Edgar Award-nominated, Shamus Award-nominated, Derringer Award-winning author of more than 1,200 short stories, including crime fiction published in Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine, Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, The Best American Mystery Stories, The Best Mystery Stories of the Year, and many other publications. Additionally, Bracken is the editor of Black Cat Mystery Magazine, associate editor of Black Cat Weekly, consulting editor for Level Short (an imprint of Level Best Books), and editor or co-editor of thirty-two published and forthcoming anthologies, including the Anthony Award-nominated The Eyes of Texas: Private Eyes from the Panhandle to the Piney Woods. His stories have been translated into several languages, released in audio format, and adapted for animation.
Stacy Woodson
Stacy Woodson is a two-time Derringer Award-winning author. She made her crime fiction debut in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine’s Department of First Stories and won the 2018 Readers Award—the second time in the award’s history that a debut has taken first place. Her short fiction has appeared in multiple anthologies and periodicals and has been adapted for animation. Her story “One Night in 1965” is short-listed for a Thriller Award and was selected for The Best Mystery Stories of the Year 2024 which will be published later this year. She also co-edits anthologies with Michael Bracken for Down and Out Books and Level Best Books. She’s a US Army veteran and a member of the Screen Actors Guild. When not writing, she works as background talent for movies and television. Past projects include Showtime’s Homeland, Amazon’s Jack Ryan, AMC’s The Walking Dead: World Beyond, and Wonder Woman 1984.