October 10th – Panel of Experts
Please join us on October 10th, when we’ll welcome a panel of experts to answer your questions. To facilitate this forum, please look over the bios and consider what you’d like to ask our guests.
After careers in journalism and teaching English, Cheryl Bolen’s first novel was published by Harlequin Historical in 1998. For that novel, she was named Notable New Author. Six more novels set in Regency England followed, including the 2006 Holt Medallion winner for Best Historical. Her articles on Regency England have appeared in The Regency Plume and The Regency Reader, and she is a regular contributor to The Quizzing Glass. Since 1987 she has traveled to England whenever possible and confesses to a fascination over dead Englishwomen.
When most people look at Crystal Clifton “cop” isn’t the first thing that comes to mind. After all when you think “cop” the first image that usually comes to mind is a six foot four, 220 pound, muscle bound macho guy with a lot of body hair. At five foot two (and a half), without visible muscles or body hair, Crystal is the complete opposite of that mental image in every way. However, if you ask any of those macho guys that she works with, they would still tell you that she can get the job done, and you can always count on her to have your back.
Physician Kimberly Frost has given numerous medical presentations at the state and national levels and has received six awards for teaching and academic excellence.
In June 2008, she was a presenter at the RWA national conference where her talk, Medical Facts and Fallacies in Popular Fiction, was well-received. She currently splits her time between working and teaching at an urban trauma center and writing her humorous Southern Witch series, which debuted this year from the Berkley publishing group.
Laine Lindsey has been practicing law since 1992. He worked for the Harris County District Attorney’s Office until 1995, when he opened his own criminal defense practice. He is Board Certified in Criminal Law and is one of the few lawyers in Harris County approved to be appointed to defend death penalty cases. He also acts as a special prosecutor in cases where the Harris County D.A.’s office is recused because of conflicts.
William Simon specializes in Computer Forensics, Computer Crime, and Computer Security. He has worked on cases ranging from inappropriate use of e-mail to child endangerment to capital murder. William earned the “TCI” (Texas Certified Investigator) designation from the Texas Association of Licensed Investigators, and served as HTCIA’s Gulf Coast Chapter 2nd Vice President, and spent three years as moderator of the HTCN Forensic Forum.
Mike Thompson is a twenty-eight year veteran of the Houston Fire Department. A Texas Certified Master Firefighter and Emergency Medical Technician, Mike has been assigned to an engine company, ambulance, ladder trucks, and is currently an engineer/operator on Tower 6, where he has crosstrained to assist in medical, hazmat, and water, below-grade, high-angle, tunnel, and extrication rescue.
Schedule for October 10th:
8:30 - Open doors - sign in/coffee
9:00 to 10:00 - Business meeting, PAL reviews & introductions
10:00 to 10:30 - Break
10:30 to 12:00 - Panel of Experts Program
12:00 to 12:30 - Booksigning with various authors
12:30 - Adjourn to lunch
