I am a freelance author and occasional lecturer, and over the last 28 years I have published more than 400 articles in true crime magazines and other publications in the United States, Canada, and England. My stories regularly appeared in True Detective, Official Detective, Inside Detective, Front Page Detective, and Master Detective magazines, until those magazines' demise in the mid-1990s. More recently I have found alternate venues for my stories, including Crime Library. I am also the author of several true crime books including: Blood Lust: Portrait of a Serial Sex Killer, Driven to Kill, Web of Deceit, Blind Rage, Savage Vengeance (with Don Lasseter), An Early Grave, The Texas 7, Murder in Hollywood, Angels of Death, Stolen in the Night, and Love, Lies, and Murder. An Almost Perfect Murder, which is about the murder of Nevada State Controller Kathy Augustine by succinylcholine poisoning administered by her husband, critical-care nurse Chaz Higgs, will be published in September 2008. BUTCHERED! is a work-in-progress about Canadian serial killer Robert Pickton, tentatively scheduled for publication in April 2009. Driven to Kill, the story of serial child killer Westley Allan Dodd's killing spree in the Pacific Northwest, was published in April 1993 by Pinnacle Books and was nominated for an Anthony Award in the Best True Crime Book category at Bouchercon 25. Blood Lust: Portrait of a Serial Sex Killer, details the bizarre case of Dayton Leroy Rogers, Oregon's worst serial killer to date. Blood Lust was published in December 1992 under NAL/Dutton's Onyx imprint as an original paperback and was in its twelfth U.S. printing before going out of print after nearly 14 years. A German language edition of Blood Lust was published later, in 1995, and sales were good in German-speaking areas of Europe. I hope to have additional books translated into German, French, and other languages, and published in the respective countries. Both Blood Lust and Driven to Kill were chosen as featured selections of Doubleday's True Crime Book Club. I have also written articles on several celebrated cases that include "Son of Sam" David Berkowitz; the Hillside Stranglers; Jim Jones and the Guyana Massacre; D.B. Cooper; Gary Gilmore; John Lennon's killer, Mark David Chapman; and Seattle's bizarre Chinatown Massacre in the 1980s. I have also contributed to several true crime compilation books with various publishers, and have had articles published in a number of magazines on a variety of non-crime subjects. Brief details of my other books include Blind Rage, about suspected Pacific Northwest serial murderer Darren Dee O'Neall, which was published by Dutton-Signet (Penguin USA) under their Onyx imprint in August 1995, and was reprinted in 2001 by the Mystery Writers of America/iUniverse publishing program for out of print books. Savage Vengeance was published in 1996 by Pinnacle Books, an imprint of Kensington Publishing Corporation. More recently I have published, with St. Martin's Press, An Early Grave, a book about the mysterious death of Las Vegas casino scion Ted Binion; The Texas 7: A True Story of Murder and a Daring Escape, about the infamous Texas prison break in which a dedicated cop with a family was senselessly brutally murdered; Murder in Hollywood, about the murder of Bonny Lee Bakley, actor Robert Blake's wife; Angels of Death, a story detailing the murder of Terry King in Florida, purportedly committed by King's 12- and 13-year-old sons, Derek and Alex King; and Stolen in the Night, about the horrific Joseph Edward Duncan III case out of Idaho. My latest book, published by Pinnacle Books in August 2007, Love, Lies, and Murder, is about the riveting Perry March case, the shady Nashville lawyer who was convicted of second-degree murder in the death of his wife, Janet, and for plotting the murders of Janet's parents. I also write the Bizarre Crime of the Week blog for Investigation Discovery, which is a part of The Discovery Channel. I am not averse to publicity! My television appearances have included Entertainment Tonight, Larry King Live, Inside Edition, Court TV, MSNBC's Headliners and Legends, E!, British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), Extra TV, and several other network programs. I also frequently provide radio interviews. I am an active member of the Authors Guild, Mystery Writers of America, American Crime Writers League, The Crime Writers' Association (United Kingdom), Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE), National Press Club, Society of Professional Journalists, and the International Association of Crime Writers. I am represented by agent Peter Miller, President, PMA Literary and Film Management, 45 West 21st Street, Suite 4SW, New York, NY 10010. Phone: 212-929-1222; Fax: 212-206-0238. Many of my books are available for development into television and/or motion picture projects, as well as foreign translation rights. Interested parties may either contact me directly, or my agent.