Persia is the author of acclaimed historical crime novels and short stories. Perennial book club favorites, her books are fast-moving, sometimes dark, and always surprising. Readers of her 1920s novels know they're in for a fast-paced trip through one of the most fascinating periods in U.S. history, the Jazz Age. In designing her stories, and developing her characters, Persia draws upon her theatrical training as well as her journalistic experience.

She has written for The Associated Press in Arkansas; Washington, DC; and New York. She has also written for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Inc., (RFE) in Munich, worked as a freelance book editor, and done cultural reporting and voice work for European publications.

For more information, contact her via PersiaWalker.com or Facebook.com/AuthorPersiaWalker.

Michael Connelly is the bestselling author of more than thirty novels and one work of nonfiction. With over eighty million copies of his books sold worldwide and translated into forty-five foreign languages, he is one of the most successful writers working today. A former newspaper reporter who worked the crime beat at the Los Angeles Times and the Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel, Connelly has won numerous awards for his journalism and his fiction. His very first novel, The Black Echo, won the prestigious Mystery Writers of America Edgar Award for Best First Novel in 1992. In 2002, Clint Eastwood directed and starred in the movie adaptation of Connelly's 1998 novel, Blood Work. In March 2011, the movie adaptation of his #1 bestselling novel, The Lincoln Lawyer, hit theaters worldwide starring Matthew McConaughey as Mickey Haller. His most recent New York Times bestsellers include Desert Star (2022), The Dark Hours (2021), The Law Of Innocence (2020), Fair Warning (2020), and The Night Fire (2019). Michael is the executive producer of Bosch and Bosch: Legacy, Amazon Studios original drama series based on his bestselling character Harry Bosch, starring Titus Welliver and streaming on Amazon Prime/Amazon Freevee. He is the executive producer of The Lincoln Lawyer, streaming on Netflix, starring Manuel Garcia-Rulfo. He is also the executive producer of the documentary films, "Sound Of Redemption: The Frank Morgan Story' and 'Tales Of the American.' He spends his time in California and Florida.

Paul Guyot was born in a small desert town to a blue collar father and Ten High drinking mother. He passed his time in those early years converting the side yard of his boyhood home into the great football stadiums and golf courses of the world. If you drove by the corner of Palm Lane and 81st in the late 70's there's a chance you saw Paul diving for a pass in the end zone of Lambeau Field, or chipping to the 15th green at Augusta National.

While that sort of extracurricular imagination did not serve him well in school - Paul spent 62.7% of his elementary school hours in the principal's office - it did help form the beginnings of a writer. High School came next and Paul was on track to turn things around and become one of those honor students and lettermen, and thus get into a top Ivy League school and have a glorious career in international banking or cardiovascular surgery.

Then Paul discovered girls.

Cut to: Paul finishes college and uses all he learned to grab a job on the graveyard shift at Denny's at the corner of Sunset and Gower. During those late-night discussions of life with hookers, pimps and the homeless, Paul remembered what he used to love to do. But finding no side yards anywhere, he began writing again.

Eventually, Paul turned in his brown polyester vest for a laptop and the rest is history. He became an award-winning television writer who has penned episodes of FELICITY, JUDGING AMY, LEVERAGE, NCIS-NEW ORLEANS, and co-wrote the non-Blockbuster GEOSTORM, starring Andy Garcia & Gerard Butler. If you spent money to see it, contact Paul and he will refund you. Apologies.

More recently, Paul served as the Co-Executive Producer of NCIS: NEW ORLEANS. His first novel will be released in 2022 if he ever finishes it. While he no longer plays football by throwing himself on the ground, he still plays golf - on actual courses - and he enjoys the sport of cycling.

Paul is an avid supporter of and fundraiser for the fight against cancer.

More prosaic information on Paul Guyot and his raconteur lifestyle can be found at his web site: http://paulguyot.net