 |
||
Michael Haskins, Key West writer, recently won Pottersville Press's 1st annual noir novel writing contest. Michael Lister, conference coordinator and author of the John Jordan mystery series, announced Haskins' win at the 1st Annual Florida Noir Festival. Chasing the Wind will be out in early 2008 from Five Star Publishing. "Michael Haskins knows that a razor's width separates life and death at the end of the road. No one guards the gate to Key West. No Island law exists that isn't, quite simply, a target. In this seaworthy tale, Haskins proves that intrigue is the craft of thugs; patriotism, no matter the country, can warp to order; and the good don't always prevail. But sometimes they do. Chasin' the Wind is a deep-draft thriller. Take a reef in your main and hang on for the gale." Tom Corcoran author of Octopus Alibi
Janice Ryan Hall, free-lance writer/photographer, recently won Pottersville Press's 2 nd annual novel writing contest. Michael Lister, conference coordinator and author of the John Jordan mystery series, announced Hall's win at the 6 th Annual Gulf Coast Writers' Conference. Pottersville Press will publish “Killing the Past” in 2006.
When Janice Ryan Hall sold her northern Virginia townhouse in 2001, she neglected to tell the new owners the place served as the scene of two grisly murders. Fortunately, the subject never came up. In her 23-year Army career, Ms. Hall worked primarily in personnel and public affairs, serving her last four years in the Washington, D.C., area. Since retiring in Pensacola, Fla., she has held jobs ranging from a women's assisted living facility administrator to special ed teacher at an inner-city middle school. She currently serves as an intervention specialist at that school. Ms. Hall's writing/editing credits over the past 10 years include articles and photos published in “Climate” and “Pensacola Today” magazines and the “Pensacola News Journal,” including several of its specialty publications. In 2003, she participated in the “So, You Want to Write for the Pensacola News Journal” forum at Pensacola Junior College. Ms. Hall shares a house in Pensacola with her husband, Ron, a digital designer, and 13 squawking birds. Ditto, their African Grey (the aviary alpha bird), served as consultant on this novel.
|
