Heather Werner is a novelist and adventure writer. Whether she’s scaling the Seven Summits, bicycling across continents, or giving a world-record haircut on the slopes of Mount Everest, she loves to find the small, intimate stories woven into the journey. Heather is a contributing writer for Weekend Sherpa and Trail Sisters, and although she currently lives in sunny Silicon Valley, her heart will always belong to the woods of New England.

Judy is a lifelong Minnesotan who has always enjoyed reading and writing mysteries. She’s an editor, has published several short stories, and is a member of the infamous Minnesota Minions. She’s a member of Sisters in Crime National and is serving on the board of the Twin Cities Chapter of Sisters in Crime. After 38 years working for the US Postal Service, Judy wrote Black Friday, the first novel in her series about a postal service investigator. The second book, Silent Service, was published in March 2022. She is working on the third book in the series now and envisions many more tales about her flawed but fascinating sleuth, MC McCall. She’s become fascinated with a true crime case that occurred in Minnesota and is collaborating to write that book as well. Judy and her partner live in the Twin Cities and are avid bicyclists.

E.J. loves cats, reading, writing, and making quilts, not necessarily in that order. Her first novel is a mystery set in Oregon about an amateur sleuth and is called In Harm’s Way. In addition to sheltering and rescuing a half dozen cats or more at any given time, she’s completed the first draft of her second novel in the Annie Velasquez series called Family Secrets, which will be published in early 2023. E.J. grew up in the Pacific NW and now lives in the Portland Metro area with her cantankerous kitty clan.

Sandra was born and raised in the Pacific Northwest settlement of Lowell, Washington, up the hill from the lush green Snohomish River Valley and with an alluring view of the Cascade Mountains. At nine, she penned her first two Hitchcockian mystery stories while sitting in an abandoned shack next to the railroad tracks on the banks of a raging river. Her first novel, Thunder Edge, came out in May 2022 and is a character-driven story set in 1950s Port Townsend, which is nestled between the Cascade and Olympic mountains and notorious for its spectral figures darting about turn-of-the-century Victorian homes and buildings. When she’s not writing, Sandra enjoys painting watercolors and having fun with her friends.

Science is the focus of CA Farlow’s writing, and her ongoing research is in earthquake mechanics. The initial three books in her Nexus Series are available, and the fourth, Quantum Time, will be out in 2023. Her next publication is a thriller, The Paris Contagion, just released March 15, 2023. CA tries to balance the passion for long-distance cycling with her writing.

Jane, born a Texan and recently a Portland resident, has settled in at a new home on Whidbey Island in Washington state. She travels many roads and writes in many genres. She is an avid soccer fan, and her first novel, Game Changers, a romance set in the world of professional women’s soceer, was published in late 2019 and won Golden Crown Literary Society Awards in two categories: Debut Author and Contemporary Romance. She is working on her next novel.