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 to 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 Jigsaw Press's 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 and their six cats 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: Racial Profiling Exposed is an account of the history of racial profiling was 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 and second books of which Jigsaw Press is proud to bring to you in Threads, a Blaine Horney mystery as well as her latest, Just Blaine Horney. 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, a constantly changing number of cats, cows, and horses.

Joseph A. Callan

We asked for a bio from the author of The Senchai Mosaic for the website and here's what we received (we couldn't have said it any better ourselves):

My daughter, Devin Eileen, thinks I pound nails for a living. She says that’s what carpenters do. I don’t take umbrage at that assessment because carpenters don’t take umbrage easily, (it’s true) and God knows, I’ve hammered enough nails over the last forty years. I guess it’s as apt a description as any of what I still do in Upstate New York.

The really old carpenters always told me that there will come a time when stepping out rafters and trusses with un-godly spans, is best left to the younger guys. They were right. (They’re always right.) So now I stay on the ground and for the most part, with the exception of windows and porches and the like, I’m inside where it’s warm.

My wife, of almost that many years, Mary Eileen, and my other three children, Meghan, Brendan and Sean, agree with “my” decision.

In all those days of “pounding”, I thought of stories. Some evenings at bedtime I told them to our young Devin and when I thought I was done, she would always ask: “And then what happened?” And I would always answer: “That will have to wait until tomorrow night,”(because I didn’t know) I needed to start writing my stories down.

Years ago, I discovered the computer and “spell check”. Voila! My stories are now on paper. Writing still excites me and like many writers, I’m always looking for that perfect phrase or that elegant metaphor. It’s all magic. I love writing as much as I’ve ever loved hanging doors and installing kitchens, and it’s easier on the knuckles.

Because I have a smart wife and two very confident daughters, I try to write about strong, female characters who solve their own problems without the aid of the proverbial White Knight who dashes to the rescue. Bad idea around here. (That’s another thing about carpenters, they like to keep peace in the house.)

People say that writing is hard work. Naww! Pulling lumber from under the snow in freezing weather, beating it apart, and Scraping off the ice with your square is hard work. But, honestly, the hardest work I know of is editing. I’m very grateful to Mari L. Bushman at Jigsaw Press. She’s a brilliant editor.

The painters who used to come in to the home after we carpenters finished trimming it, had a little ditty that went: “A little putty and a little paint, makes a trimmer what he ain’t.” About Mari, I say, “ A little editing here and there, she makes a writer pretty fair.” Oh, that’s bad.

When not “pounding” or writing, you might find me, a N.Y.S. Fishing Guide, fly fishing for wild trout in the Oatka Creek or the Delaware River.

Visit Joseph A. Callan on the Web at www.josephacallan.com

Linda Boltman

Growing up in the farm lands of Illinois and graduating from college in the 1960’s, Linda Boltman was part of an era that challenged and changed women’s roles. Early careers in male-dominated fields provided insight into the man’s world, laying the stepping stones for future novels. Ever the adventurer, she went on to work for a major airline, traveled to over 55 countries and has had endless personal experiences such as backpacking and working throughout Europe, dogfights in a Varga VG-21, zip-lining in the jungles of Belize and rappelling off a 160-foot cliff. These life adventures gave wings and ink to her creative spirit.

She has had numerous short stories and poems published in Adventures for the Average Woman in magazine, ezine and Kindle form in both the United States and England. In February, 2011 her short story, The Captive, was selected for San Diego Writer’s Ink Anthology, Vol 4 as one of San Diego’s finest writers and she was honored to read her piece at their February 14th Press Release Party. Her epic poem, Underground Connection, was published by Tough Lit in the February issue. In addition, she has had stories accepted by GreenPrints Magazine, the San Diego Reader, Escapist and other publications.

Now an empty nester, Linda resides in San Diego with Jake, a 135-pound Akita/St. Bernard. She keeps close ties with her two children, David and Erin and incorporates her colorful experiences into her hobbies of travel, writing, painting and photography.

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