The Grand Ole Plottery

Rick Glaze lives in Nashville. He published The Purple River (Amazon #1 New Release) in 2021, about whitewater rafting; Spanish Pieces of Eight, a mystery set in the sailing world in 2022; and the humor and satire of Ralph & Murray, a Silver Falchion Top Pick in 2024, Kirkus starred review and Indie Book of the Month; Eight Pieces of Eight an Amazon #1 Best Seller and #1 New Release in 2025, as well as a short story collection, and a weekly column in Silicon Valley. He’s released two albums, with songs featured on Country Music Television (CMT), BBC Radio.

Phyllis Gobbell is the author of seven published novels including the Jordan Mayfair Mystery Series (Pursuit in Provence, Secrets and Shamrocks, Treachery in Tuscany, and Notorious in Nashville), two true crimes about high-profile murder cases in Nashville, and a 2024 literary novel, Prodigal. Her short stories have been published in literary journals and she has received awards in both fiction and nonfiction, including a Silver Falchion Award for Treachery in Tuscany. Professor Emeritus at Nashville State Community College, she taught literature, composition, and creative writing. https://phyllisgobell.com

Judy Lyn Gregg spent a couple of decades as a K-12 teacher and librarian before writing her contemporary fantasy novel, Doppelgänger Jumper. She is a member of the Harpeth River Writers, the founder of The Nolensville Writers, and a finalist for the 2025 Killer Nashville Claymore award. She is a native Nashvillian who makes her home with her husband on an acreage in Nolensville, surrounded by a host of wildlife. Currently, she is writing a sequel to Doppelgänger Jumper and a book of ghost stories based on southern myths she loved while growing up in Tennessee. Visit her website at judylyngregg.com

Dawn (D.W.) Hogan majored in English at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. She’s the mother of four grown children and grandmother to two. Her debut novel Unbroken Bonds came out in 2021. Her second novel Intentionally released in May, 2025. She is a contributing author to the Feisty Deeds and Grief Like Yours anthologies. She is a member of the Woman’s Fiction Writers Association, Friends of the Library and Sisters in Crime. Check out www.DWHogan.com for more information. You can follow her on DWHogan AuthorFacebook . (@dawnhoganauthor) • Instagram  (@DawnDWHogan1)twitter.com
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Cate Moyle’s work is widely published in literary journals, from The Southampton Review to Wicked Alice, and honors include Yemassee Journal’s Fiction Prize, the Southeast Review’s Poetry Prize and inclusion in the juried BEST SMALL FICTIONS. Her collection Borrowings of the Van Shan Vocht—lyrical pieces in the voices of bog bodies—was a Pushcart Prize nominee and Silver Falchion Award finalist. She writes mystery and crime fiction as Cate Moyle, appearing in Mystery Tribune, Bowery Gothic, parABnormal, and Crimeucopia. Find her on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/cate.moyle or the web at https://catemoylepens.weebly.com/ 

Jim Nesbitt has the perfect radio face, bionic knees that can grind coffee beans and tell time and a cat who poaches his cigars and uses his cellphone to place bets on British soccer. He is also a recovering journalist who once chased politicans, neo-Nazis, hurricanes, rodeo cowboys, plane wrecks and the everyday people swept up in a news event who gave his stories depth, authenticity and a distinct voice. A lapsed horseman, pilot, journalist and saloon sport with a keen appreciation of old guns, vintage cars, red meat, good cigars, aged whisky without an ‘e’ and a well-told story, Nesbitt is the award-winning author of four hard-boiled Texas crime thrillers that feature battered but relentless Dallas PI Ed Earl Burch: The Last Second Chance, The Right Wrong Number, The Best Lousy Shot, and The Dead Certain Doubt. He’s recently finished his fifth Ed Earl Burch novel, The Fatal Saving Grace.

Kathy Rhodes is author of the novel Ghosts on the Oxbow—Southern, multicultural, multi-generational, historical fiction. She was born and raised in the Mississippi Delta, fifteen miles east of the oxbow she writes about. Rhodes is also author of Remember the Dragonflies: A Memoir of Grief and Healing. HEr short stories and essays have appeared in literary journals and anthologies, including A Second Blooming: Becoming the Women We Are Meant to Be; Chocolate for a Woman’s Soul II; andIn Tangled Lives: A Harpeth River Writers Anthology. Rhodes has served as panelist or presenter at book festivals and conferences, including the Southern Festival of Books, Southern Kentucky Book Festival, Alabama Writers’ Cooperative, Mississippi Book Festival, MTSU Write, and the Southern Literary Festival. She currently lives in Spring Hill, where she practices native gardening, kayaks the Harpeth and Duck Rivers, and hikes woody trails with her buff merle cocker spaniel.

Clay Stafford is an American bestselling and award-winning author, poet, screenwriter, and playwright; film and television producer, director, showrunner, actor; book, film, and stage reviewer as well as
public speaker. He has sold nearly four million copies of his books overall and has had his work distributed in sixteen languages. He is founder and CEO of the annual Killer Nashville International Writers’ Conference and a contributor to Writer’s Digest magazine with his monthly online column, “Killer Writer”. In addition, Clay is the founder of TheBalancedWriter.com, a creative learning platform for writers. For more information visit, https://claystafford.com/.

Jaden (Beth) Terrell is a Shamus Award finalist and the internationally published author of the Nashville-based Jared McKean private detective series. At the other end of the spectrum, she’s a proud Mad Catter, with an upcoming Marley the Great cozy cat mystery, written as Bethany Chandler. Terrell’s short stories have appeared in multipleanthologies, and she is a contributor to International Thriller Writers’ Big Thrill magazine and Now Write! Mysteries, a collection of exercises published by Tarcher/Penguin for writers of crime fiction. She is the recipient of the Killer Nashville Builder Award and has also received the Magnolia Award and the Silver Quill Award for service to the Southeast Mystery Writers of America. Terrell offers live and online workshops, coaching, and courses for writers. Website: https://jadenterrell.com

Michael J. Tucker grew up in the cold northern climate of Pittsburgh, PA, and an only child He was often trapped indoors and left to his own devices, where he would create space ships out of cardboard boxes, convert his mother’s ironing board into a horse and put on his Sunday suit and tie and his father’s fedora and become a newspaper reporter or police detective. This experience left him with an unlimited imagination and the ability to write electrifying short stories and novels. Mike is the author of three critically acclaimed novels, Aquarius Falling, Capricorn’s Collapse, and Summer Haze. His supernatural short story collection, Between Night and Fog, was a 2023 Killer Nashville Top Pick. His work also appears in the Civil War Anthology, Filtered Through Time, and two Harpeth River Writers anthologies, By Blood or By Marriage, Words on Water, and In Tangled Lives. You can visit his website at: http://michaeltuckerauthor.com

Tom Wood is an award-winning Nashville journalist, author and unproduced screenwriter whose writing goals are to inform, inspire and entertain. A retired sportswriter at The Tennessean who now writes for the weekly Ledger newspapers, Tom writes thrillers and also short stories in the Western, mystery, crime fiction, science fiction, and Southern genres. 

Lisa Wysocky is a former national and international award-winning horse trainer and riding instructor who now runs Colby’s Army, a therapeutic riding center in Ashland City, TN. An in-demand book editor and ghostwriter, she is also the author of the award-winning Cat Enright equestrian mystery series, now optioned for television. Lisa has also written several books about country music stars and their horses, along with a number of books about horses and horse training. The host of the award-winning Celebs with Horses podcast, and the regular substitute co-host of Horses in the Morning, (both on the Horse Radio Network), during her three free minutes of time each week, she can be found hiking, reading, playing Scrabble®, or searching for the perfect iced latte. Learn more at lisawysocky.com, or at lisawysocky@gmail.com.

Judith A Yates is a criminologist who has written nonfiction crime and fiction. She is currently completing her PhD in Criminology. She has over 45 year’s experience in law enforcement and education. Her website is http://www.JudithAYates.com.