Brief Author Bio

At age six, Andrew won his first shooting competition at summer camp which led to a life-long devotion to marksmanship. He has won numerous competitions throughout the Southwestern United States and holds the classification of Master in the NRA’s High Power Rifle ranking system. Andrew is working on the next novel in a planned series featuring Nathan McBride, a former Marine Corps sniper and ex-CIA operative. Born and raised in San Diego, California, Andrew attended La Jolla High School before enrolling at the University of Oklahoma, where he earned a B.S. Degree in Architecture. Andrew and his wife Carla, live in Central California.

I was raised by itinerant vacuum salesman along the rim of the dustbowl territories in New Guinea. I grew up large and strong achieving some notoriety as a cattle wrestler. I then settled into an occupation as a wood tradesman and have been known to whittle entire oak trees down into a life-size replica of an acorn. These fetch upwards of ten dollars and can be seen inside display cases in finer truck stops across America.

Bertram is the author of More Deaths Than One and A Spark of Heavenly Fire, soon to be published by Second Wind Publishing. A reader, writer, researcher, Bertram is on a quest to find her place in the real and the virtual worlds. Life changes us, and so, in a strange way, as we age, we become reborn. But as what? That is the question.

More Deaths Than One: Bob Stark returns home after 18 years in Southeast Asia to discover that the mother he buried before he went to Vietnam is dead again. He attends her funeral and sees himself married to his college girlfriend. Is his other self a hoaxter or a doppelganger, or is something more sinister going on?

A Spark of Heavenly Fire: In quarantined Colorado, where hundreds of thousands of people are dying from an unstoppable disease called the red death, insomniac Kate Cummings struggles to find the courage to live and to love. Her new love, investigative, reporter Greg Pullman, is determined to discover the truth behind the red death at all costs, until the cost -- Kate's safety -- becomes more than he can pay.

Bertram's publisher says: "I was told by some other small publishers with whom I had done research that I was going to get mountains of unacceptable crap for every worthy thing I received. So when I got Pat's manuscript for A Spark of Heavenly Fire, which was like the first submission to Second Wind, I thought, "OMG, is this possible?!" I thought she was a ringer that one of the other writers had sent our way just to see if I was really reading the submissions. I knew in the first 20 pages that she was the real thing. Then, as we corresponded, I realized where I knew that name: she and I were neck and neck throughout the FCC contest on Gather. I remember reading her first chapter of More Deaths Than One and thinking, 'Oh, man. I hope her second chapter is messed up! I can't beat this.' Well, it just goes to show, if you can't beat 'em, publish 'em!"

Bertram's Blog-- http://ptbertram.wordpress.com
Other blog -- http://marketingfloozy.wordpress.com
Website -- http://patbertram.com

Recently hailed as “the greatest thriller writer alive today” by Bookviews, screenwriter and novelist Jon Land is the author of 26 books, fifteen of which have been national bestsellers, Jon is published in over fifty countries and six different languages, including German and Japanese. There are currently almost 7 million copies of his books in print.

Jon’s most recent book, THE LAST PROPHECY, appeared on over 30 national, local and regional bestseller lists "Land's series seems to gain momentum with every installment," Publisher's Weekly wrote of that book, "and his latest is as timely and extravagantly plotted as ever. Highly entertaining from start to finish.” His next novel, THE SEVEN SINS, will be published in June of 2008 with a 200,000 copy first hardcover printing to be backed by a $250,000 marketing campaign.

Jon Land has more recently turned his talents to screenwriting. His first film, a teen caper-comedy called DIRTY DEEDS, was released theatrically in the summer of 2005 and in DVD in January of 2006. Other screenplays, including the psychological-thriller PARANOIA (Handpicked Films), as well as the suspense-thriller STRANDED and action-thriller MAYDAY (Gibraltar Films) and LUCKY DOG (Gravity Entertainment),
are currently approaching production.

It took a few years of the corporate world for me to say..."Forget this!" Also the fact that my son needed me more than any corporation needed my brain. Being a normally busy person, I had to find something to do with all the extra time. So, I started writing down the stories for all those people that live in my head.
I tend to write edgy romance in my novel Badeaux Knights and Paranormal Romance in Mortals Gods and a Muse.
My books are currently being prepared for publication through Second Wind Publishing. They are available now for presale for delivery in August. I hope you love them as much as I do!