Authors

M.L.Bushman has been writing prose and poetry since the age of eight. In fact, she penned her first novel to the rave reviews of her eighth-grade class until the family dog submitted his opinion by lifting his leg and subsequently sent that unfinished manuscript into the trash. Ms. Bushman next turned to music, and for over twenty-five years pursued a singer/songwriter's dream until a car accident put her on a six-year soul-searching return to writing in general, fiction in particular.

Primarily a novelist, her body of published work to date includes short stories, nonfiction, and poetry. Her debut novel entitled Miracle the novel, was our debut as well. The Implausible Hero, her second offering through Jigsaw Press, is available here and elsewhere in eBook and hardcover form. She is also a former reporter for a local weekly newspaper.

When she's not working on her latest paranormal thriller, M.L. Bushman is raising her daughter and/or helping the neighbors out with their ranch. Ms. Bushman, her daughter, their six cats and one horse make their home just outside of Sun River, Montana.

Visit her personal website and her blog Montana Crosswinds.

Upcoming titles for Jigsaw Press by M.L. Bushman include such paranormal thrillers as Third Warp, Crimson Ice and Elijah, first book of the series by the same name.

Joseph Collum

Author Joseph Collum Joseph Collum is the recipient of more than 100 major journalism awards during his career as an investigative reporter, including the duPont-Columbia Award, two George Polk Awards, and five Investigative Reporters & Editors Awards.

His reports have led to a Congressional inquiry on elder care, saved the lives of people denied adequate medical care, prevented hundreds of low income homeowners from being evicted, and resulted in the imprisonment of dozens of corrupt public officials.

He was the first reporter in America to expose the widespread practice of racial profiling (the Oxford English Dictionary credits Collum with coining the term “racial profiling”). His final assignment was at Ground Zero on September 11, 2001 and the days immediately following the collapse of the World Trade Towers. In fact, Collum’s account of the tragedy was excerpted in the book, Covering Catastrophe.

Since returning to his roots in Florida he has been writing and contributing reports to PBS. His book, The Black Dragon: How racial profiling was exposed is an account of the history of racial profiling to be published by Jigsaw Press in 2010. Brady's Run, Collum's first novel, was published by Jigsaw Press in February, 2009. He is currently working on the sequel, Et Tu, Brady, to be published by Jigsaw Press in the near future.

Stirling Davenport

Stirling is a writer, artist and traveler. She has spent most of her life doing various day jobs to support her writing and painting.

In 2005, she spent a year volunteering in northern India where she taught art to Tibetan refugee children and did the filming for a documentary about the exile experience. She has a keen interest in Buddhism and has made seven trips to Tibet over the past ten years.

Stirling holds a degree in Human Services as well as honors in Fine Arts. She devoted two years to ballroom dancing and won an award for her Samba performance to the music of Waldemar Bastos. In India, she learned to play the Tibetan dranyen (stringed instrument).

But writing will always be her first priority. She has a son and granddaughter and most recently spent a year teaching art to three- and four-year olds at a Montessori school in upstate New York.

A collection of her stories, Amphibious Dreamers, was published in 2000 by Xlibris. Her short story “Abba’s Mark” was published by Design-Image Group in a 1998 vampire anthology called The Darkest Thirst. Other short stories have appeared on-line at Dark Planet and Shadowkeep, and the story “Engineering Beauty” received a top prize in Eternity.com’s 1999 Price of Technology contest.

Stirling’s poem “On the Mountain” is featured at Artspeaks Tibet. She has published articles and letters in Tibet World News, Woman Magazine, Tibetan World Magazine and Shanghai Star. Stirling has written four novels and hundreds of short stories and poems. She is in the process of finishing a memoir of her year in India.

Kris Karrel

Kris Karrel grew up in Seattle with the rest of her multiple personalities, and they all left for California, Florida, the Texas Panhandle, before finally settling in Montana. She's been writing on the sly for years now and only after our esteemed editor made her acquaintance did she get up the nerve to show us her stuff. And what stuff it is! This talented gal's got a whole series, the first book of which Jigsaw Press is proud to bring to you in Threads, a Blaine Horney mystery. And yes, Jigsaw Press has optioned not only the whole Blaine Horney series, plus a second spin-off series entitled The Agency.

Visit her website and read her bio while you're there--it's a real hoot! She makes her home in rural Montana with her husband, 18 cats, 50 or more cows, and five horses.

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