The following authors will speak:

Kim Reid, freelance business writer, novelist, and nonfiction author. Kim has written a real life, true crime story about how her life was changed at the age of thirteen when her single mother, a cop in early 1980s Atlanta, joined the Missing and Murdered Children investigation, a serial murder case that captured the nation's attention and resulted in the 1982 conviction of Wayne Williams. No Place Safe: A Memoir will be released in October 2007 by Kensington Books. Kim Reid is a local writer. 

Ann Ripley, writer, journalist, and author. Ann, a prize-winning reporter in Michigan, has won local, state, and national awards for education reporting. She was also a stringer in the Washington, DC, area for the New York Times National Affairs Desk. Ann has combined her interest in gardening and politics, as well as her life experiences, in her witty, amateur detective, Washington-based mystery series featuring Louise Eldridge, organic gardener and peripatetic foreign service wife. Ann has had a lifelong interest in horticulture, and is a master gardener. She lives in Lyons, Colorado.  

Carrie Vaughn, writer and author. Carrie Vaughn is the author of an award-winning series of novels about a werewolf named Kitty who has a talk radio show that dispenses advice to fellow werewolves, vampires, and other creatures of the night. The third novel, Kitty Takes a Holiday, is due out in April 2007. Carrie also writes short stories for such magazines as Weirdtales and Realms of Fantasy, holds a Masters degree in English Literature from the University of Colorado at Boulder, and graduated from the Odyssey Fantasy Writing Workshop. She lives in Boulder, Colorado. www.CarrieVaughn.com 

Lori Lacefield, writer and author. Lori Lacefield's first high-tension thriller, The Seventh Survivor, was released in September 2006. From the boardroom of Tennessee's prestigious Diamond Foundation, an organization dedicated to helping the victims of crime, protagonist and former kidnap victim Palmer Reed struggles to survive in a high society world where no one plays by the rules and extortion, murder, and lovers past and present collide. What will she do when she learns the foundation's secret method for raising money is something sinister—when she discovers the chairman's plan to take justice to a whole new level? A lover of nature, dogs, mystery, and, of course, justice, Lori Lacefield lives in Colorado. www.lorilacefield.com 

Moderator: Rosemary Carstens, freelance writer, and Internet marketing consultant. Rosemary is the editor of the quarterly e-zine FEAST, about books, art, film, food, and travel. She is the author of DREAMRIDER: Roadmap to an Adventurous Life (2003) and co-author of Sustaining Thought (2007). She has been published in regional and national magazines and is an avid adventure traveler. Two of her favorite leisure activities are surfing the 'Net and riding cross country on her motorcycle, the Road Goddess. www.CarstensCommunications.com