An Air Force Brat, Donna Carrick grew up in locations all over Canada.

She is the host of Dead to Writes, the podcast, available at YouTube and wherever you get your podcasts. She is also co-owner of Carrick Publishing, an indie publishing house dedicated to excellence in fiction. A former executive member of Crime Writers of Canada, Donna remains active in the Canadian writing scene, supporting Sisters In Crime, Word On The Street, Bloody Words and a variety of other venues for the literary arts.

Novels include: The First Excellence ~ Fa-ling's Map, Gold And Fishes and The Noon God. All titles are available in paperback, hardcover as well as Kindle and e-reader versions. Her third crime novel, The First Excellence, won the 2011 Indie Book Event Award for excellence in fiction.

A founding member of the Mesdames of Mayhem, Donna's stories have appeared in all anthologies to date, including their upcoming book The 13th Letter, 2024. In addition, Carrick Publishing has produced several anthologies featuring authors from around the world, including their latest title: A Grave Diagnosis.

M. H. Callway had successful careers in science and business before following her childhood dream to write. Windigo Fire is her first novel and was a finalist for the CWC Best First Novel Award. Under different titles, it was short-listed for the Crime Writers Association Debut Dagger and the Crime Writers of Canada Best Unpublished Novel.

Madeleine used her experience as an endurance runner and cyclist to create the outdoor survival scenes in Windigo Fire. She has ridden in the 200 km Toronto Ride to Conquer Cancer every year since its inception in 2008.

Her award-winning short fiction has appeared in many crime fiction anthologies and publications. Her collected works are published by Carrick Publishing in Glow Grass and Other Tales and Snake Oil and Other Tales.

In 2013, she and author and publisher, Donna Carrick, co-founded the Mesdames and Messieurs of Mayhem, a collective of leading Canadian crime writers. Now a national organization, the collective's crime fiction appears in five anthologies: Thirteen, 13 O'clock, 13 Claws, In the Key of 13 and In the Spirit of 13 (all Carrick Publishing).