Board
SEMWA Board of Directors:
President: Rick Helms
Email: rick@richardhelms.net
Rick Helms is a retired forensic psychologist who now teaches at a college in Charlotte, NC. His fifteenth novel, Thunder Moon, will be released in June 2011 by Five Star Mysteries. He has been nominated three times for the PWA Shamus Award (2003, 2004, 2006), four times for the SMFS Derringer Award (twice in 2008 and twice in 2011), and is a 2011 nominee for the ITW Thriller Award.
He invites visitors to check out his home on the web at http://www.richardhelms.net
Email: tony@tonyburton.biz
Tony Burton is an author and editor with over 160 published short stories and articles in print and online venues. He spent years writing nonfiction, before deciding that writing fiction was more fun. His writing credits include Writer’s Journal, Woman’s World, Great Mystery and Suspense Magazine, Focus On Your Child, Reflection’s Edge, and others, including stories in six anthologies. He has two published novels and one published collection of supernatural crime stories. Tony also teaches/tutors creative writing. He and his wife live out in the boonies near Ranger, Georgia.
Treasurer: Kim Ciamarra
Email: kimlb258@yahoo.com
Kimberly Ciamarra has completed her first manuscript and screenplay adaptation for A Sister’s Betrayal. A Penn State University graduate, Kimberly has earned her MBA, CPA and CMI and has over eight years of accounting and tax experience. Kimberly currently resides in Alpharetta, GA.
Secretary: Stacy Allen
Email: amorebello@bellsouth.net
SEMWA Secretary Stacy Allen holds an Advanced Open Water Diver certificate, with specialties in wreck diving and night diving. She has traveled to Italy many times. Her passion for adventure has taken her to six continents to explore over 50 countries. She has studied many languages, but is most comfortable with Italian and French, having studied both for many years. She has published two short stories, included in the Anthologies Ship’s Log – Writings at Sea and Lies and Limericks, Inspirations from Ireland.
PR & Publicity: David Schlosser
Email: mail@analects-ink.com
David Schlosser is an award-winning fiction and non-fiction writer and an award-winning editor. His fiction has appeared in Salon magazine and university literary journals. His non-fiction and journalism have run in Business Today magazine, academic and scientific journals, multiple print and online news outlets, and a wide range of industry and trade publications. He edited the 2003 memoir Through My Eyes by John Mora, which won the Latino Literary Hall of Fame’s Mariposa Award. As a political and public relations consultant and candidate for public office, he has delighted and offended people around the world through such diverse outlets as The Wall Street Journal and New York Times as well as “Hard Copy” and “Inside Edition.” A native of Kansas, David went to college and grad school in Texas. After living or working in nearly a dozen states, he now lives in in Davidson, N.C. and makes his living as a writer, editor, book producer, and strategic communications advisor who emphasizes the power of story to increase the impact of all forms of communication.
Eastern Area Rep (NC, SC, GA): Joseph Terrell
Email: jlsterrell@aol.com
Joseph Terrell is the author of two published novels, a book of humor, and numerous short stories, plus magazine articles ranging from true crime, psychology, agribusiness, to military and government affairs. His mystery novel TIDE OF DARKNESS will be published by Bella Rosa Books early this spring. A graduate in English from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, he was awarded a full scholarship to the famed University of Iowa Writers Workshop, but the Korean War interrupted his studies there. After service as a Special Agent in the Army’s Counter Intelligence Corps, Terrell returned to UNC to pursue graduate studies in journalism. He began his journalism career as a staff writer for United Press, then went on to The Wall Street Journal’s Washington bureau covering the Pentagon. Most of his career was spent in Washington, including a stint as press secretary for the Senate Agriculture Committee. He now makes his home on the Outer Banks of North Carolina where he continues writing fiction, with another mystery completed and work-in-progress on a literary novel. Other interests include the usual beach activities plus playing the bass, which he has performed with jazz and dance bands and for 10 years with a symphony orchestra in Northern Virginia.
Western Area Rep: Beth Terrell
Email: jadenterrell@comcast.net
Beth Terrell is a member of MWA, PWA, ITW, SinC, and the Tennessee Writers Alliance. She is a former special education teacher, and the author of the Jared McKean Mystery Series. A recipient of the SEMWA Magnolia Award, Beth is also the Executive Director of the Killer Nashville Crime Literature Conference, founded by former SEMWA President Clay Stafford. Beth resides in Nashville, TN.
You can visit her website at: http://www.elizabethterrell.com
Immediate Past President: Karen McCullough
Email: karen@kmccullough.com
Karen McCullough is the author of six romantic mystery/ suspense novels published in hard cover and trade paperback by Avalon Books, LTDBooks and Cerridwen Press, a fantasy role-playing game tie-in from Iron Crown Enterprises, and two fantasy novels. Her first cozy mystery, A GIFT FOR MURDER, will be published January, 2011, by Five Star/Gale Group. Karen lives in Greensboro, North Carolina and runs a web design business, Karen’s Web Works, that specializes in creating web sites for authors and other small businesses.
She invites visitors to check out her home on the web at http://www.kmccullough.com
Newletter Editor: Kelly Nichols (P.Parrish)
Email: pjparish@aol.com
Kelly Nichols is 1/2 the writing team of P. J. Parrish (with her sister, Kris Montee.) They are the authors of the critically acclaimed and New York Times bestselling Louis Kincaid series. Their books have been Edgar, and Anthony award finalists and they have won both the Shamus and the Thriller awards. ISLAND OF BONES was named a top book of 2004 by Publishers Weekly and Oline Cogdill. AN UNQUIET GRAVE was named a Michigan Notable Book for 2006. Their latest, A THOUSAND BONES, (Pocket Books, July 2007) marks the debut of a new series starring Michigan police woman Joe Frye. Their next book, SOUTH OF HELL, will be released in August of ‘08.
Mailing Address:
SEMWA
C/o Rick Helms
7026 High Oaks Drive
Weddington, NC 28104
