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Write On, Vancouver: Speakers
LISA JACKSON
Lisa Jackson has been helping to kill people
everywhere from Savannah and New Orleans to San
Francisco and the Pacific Northwest – and
it’s really paid off. Her novel, FATAL BURN
was a number 1 New York Times paperback bestseller
in April, 2006 and her first hardcover novels,
SHIVER and ABSOLUTE FEAR, broke new ground for
her on best selling book lists across the nation.
Since then, ALMOST DEAD was published as a mass
market original and she has written LOST SOUL,
which will go on sale March 25th, 2008.
Having made serial killing her business –
sort of – she has put her characters through
the wringer. They find themselves up their necks
in danger, staring death, usually a pretty gory
one, right in the face. Her obsessive curiosity
has proven contagious and her audience keeps growing
from book to book.
It all began when Lisa and her sister, novelist
Nancy Bush, both mothers, first sat down determined
to write, and to be published.
They did and they were.
Both later began to move in different directions.
Born and raised in Oregon, and still living in
the Pacific Northwest, Lisa has ended up on national
bestseller lists, while Nancy’s writing
has expanded to include her own novels, such as
her recent ULTRAVIOLET, but also a career as a
writer for one of television’s leading soap
operas. Currently, plans are afoot for their foot
collaboration in years, a thriller that will appear
in 2009.
In a nutshell, who is Lisa Jackson? As those
who know her can attest, this funny, smart woman
who enjoys making the hair stand up on the back
of her readers’ necks is a mom, a daughter,
a workaholic and an amazing writer. www.lisajackson.com
EILEEN COOK
Eileen’s debut novel, UNPREDICTABLE, will
be published by Berkley in February 2008. Foreign
rights have been purchased in France, Germany
and Russia, and film rights were optioned by New
Line Cinema. Eileen has published short humorous
fiction with CBC Radio, Women’s World, First
Line, and with the North Shore News. Her day job
is a counselor for people with catastrophic injuries
or illness which motivates her to find venues
where she can ensure happily ever after endings.
www.eileencook.com
PETER DITCHFIELD
Peter Ditchfield has a long and varied history
in law enforcement. His background includes extensive
experience conducting investigations as a Vancouver
City Constable; for the Vancouver Integrated Intelligence
Unit; the VPD Internal Investigation Unit; as
an Inspector in the Tactical Support Section associated
with the Emergency Response Team, Gang Crime Unit
and Outlaw Motorcycle Gang Unit; and time in the
Coordinated Law Enforcement Unit, Asian Crime
Team. In this latter position, he was designated
as an expert in Asian Crime by the B.C. and Immigration
Courts.
He was Deputy Chief Officer for the Organized
Crime Agency of B.C. and Acting Head of Investigations
in the Sierra Leone Anti Corruption Commission.
Now Manager of the Law Enforcement and Regulatory
Training Program at the Justice Institute of B.C.,
Peter’s background in working across jurisdictions,
and in conducting investigations both in Canada
and abroad make him an excellent source of information
regarding policing in Canada and beyond.
THERESA MEYERS
Best known for getting her clients chosen as
two out of the total seven picks for the Kelly
Ripa Book Club on LIVE! With Regis and Kelly,
Theresa Meyers spent over ten years working in
public relations garnering millions of dollars
in media coverage for her clients on national
television and in daily newspapers, before she
launched Blue Moon Communications. A former journalist
and magazine columnist, she now works with New
York Times bestsellers and many of the largest
fiction publishers in New York, including St.
Martins Press, Grand Central Publishing (when
they were Warner Books), MIRA Books (Harlequin),
NAL, Dorchester and others. www.bluemooncommunications.com
MICHAEL SLADE
Michael Slade is an alter ego who conjures up
dark thrillers. He lurks in the mind of a criminal
lawyer who has acted in more than 100 murder trials,
including the last death penalty case. From HEADHUNTER
(1984) and GHOUL (1987) to KAMIKAZE (2006) and
CRUCIFIED (2008), the thirteen Slade chillers
have fused the genres of police procedure, whodunit,
suspense, horror, historical, legal, western,
romance adventure and science fiction in differing
proportions. HEADHUNTER is in film development.
Best review description? “Literary bungee
jumping with Agatha Christie’s bastard son.”
www.specialx.net
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