Meet the MysteryAuthors.com's "Dead Giveaway" Writing Contest Judges
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MysteryAuthors.com is fortunate to have among its membership the following esteemed authors who will be judging our contes. Their combined experience with award-winning fiction and contests will bring much to our competition and we're grateful to have them:
Co-Judges
Mike Nettleton and Carolyn
Rose
Mike and Carolyn are the authors of several novels including The Hard Karma Shuffle. Mike is a two-time winner of the Pacific Northwest Short Story competition and a Colorado Gold finalist. Carolyn has past experience with contest judging and is herself a second place winner of the Pacific Northwest's mainstream mystery category. She also placed twice for the Colorado Gold.
Wendy
has been an English teacher and is the author of several mystery novels, including
Severance Packages. She shortlisted both in poetry and short fiction
in the 2001 Inner Kiss Publishing writing competition. She was a judge in our
2005 Minute Mystery contest.
Courtney Mroch
Courtney Mroch's award-winning writing
include: A Landmark Christmas (essay, 2nd Place, Writer's Journal
Travel Writing Contest 2005); Fate's Way (Honorable Mention,
Writer's Journal Romance Writing Contest 2005); the first line from her
recently completed 3rd book The Ghost of Laurie Floyd (Finalist,
5th Annual Best First Line Contest, 2005); Leaving a Mark (2nd Place,
Bitten's 2005 Short Story Contest); The Hammerhead (2nd
Place, Twisted Shift's 2005 Short Story Competition), and Skin Ish
Ca (2nd Place, 2003 Preditors & Editors Readers Poll). She was also honored
when Florida Monthly Magazine recognized her as one of their 21 Intriguing
Floridians and featured her in their October 2005 issue. She is the author of
Beneath the Morvan Moon and Cellfish Ways,
the latter of which was Echelon Press's number two bestselling dollar download
for 2004. Ms. Mroch and family recently relocated from Jacksonville, FL to Nashville,
TN..
Judge/Contest Editor:
Lisa Logan
Lisa's story
The Christmas Present won KeepItComing.net's 2004 Holiday Story
Contest, plus she's won Honorable Mention in Writer's Write 2003 Short Story Contest
and shortlisted Flash Me's Jan 2005 Flash Fiction Contest. Nearing completion
on her second novel, Twelve Steps to Murder, Lisa's has had essays
and stories (such as A Kink in the Tale) featured in Futures
and Explore! magazines, Chicken Soup for the Recovering
Soul, and Misadventures of Moms. She is the coordinator
for all mysteryauthors.com contests.