Meet Our Authors

Pemberley Press promises to introduce you to a group of talented authors who will enrich your lives:

• Patricia Wynn
• Victoria Heckman
• Kathy Lynn Emerson
• Marion Moore Hill
• Author Guidelines

Patricia Wynn

Our first author, Patricia Wynn, holds a degree in history from Rice University, and a Masters in International Management. Ms. Wynn has written romances set in the Regency and late-Georgian periods for Harlequin, Fawcett and Dorchester, including a lead title from Leisure LoveSpell, CAPTURING ANNIE. With the award-winning THE BIRTH OF BLUE SATAN, she began a swashbuckling mystery series rich in adventure, romance, and the history of early 18th-century Britain. Her second mystery, THE SPIDER'S TOUCH, won a Benjamin Franklin Award from PMA. Her third, THE MOTIVE FROM THE DEED, received a starred review from Library Journal. Ms. Wynn hails from Texas, but lives in Newport Beach, CA. She is past-president of the Heart of Texas Chapter of Sisters in Crime and the Austin Chapter of Romance Writers of America, and is currently a member of Novelists, Inc., and the Orange County and Los Angeles chapters of Sisters in Crime.

Victoria Heckman

Victoria Heckman, award-winning author of the K.O.’d in Hawai‘i Mystery Series, joined Pemberley Press in April, 2003. The first book in this series, K.O.’d in Honolulu, is available from Writers Exchange E Publishing. Ms. Heckman's short fiction has appeared in FUTURES, Short Story, Kid’s Highway, Mysterical-e, The Smog, Without a Clue, LoveWords, TRUE SOUL MATES, MORE SLOW DEATH, and AND SOME OF THEM ARE DEAD. She has published numerous articles and newsletters, as well as editing two anthologies and co-editing a third. She also works as a free-lance editor.

Ms. Heckman has served as the president of Sisters in Crime-Central Coast Chapter, and is a member of Sisters in Crime National’s E Publishing Committee and the Police Writers Association. She is a past member of Mystery Writers of America

She divides her time between California and Hawai‘i.

Kathy Lynn Emerson

In 2004, we introduced a new mystery series by bestselling author, Kathy Lynn Emerson, author of more than 40 books, including the Face Down Mystery Series. She also pens the Lisa Macrimmon Mysteries under the pseudonym Kaitlin Dunnett, and is the author of HOW TO WRITE KILLER HISTORICAL MYSTERIES (April, 2008). With the Diana Spaulding mystery series, DEADLIER THAN THE PEN, FATAL AS A FALLEN WOMAN, NO MORTAL REASON, and LETHAL LEGEND, she brings the era of Nellie Bly to life. Ms. Emerson is well known for her impeccable research and attention to historical detail, vivid characters, and challenging plots. For more information about Ms. Emerson, visit her website at www.kathylynnemerson.com.

Marion Moore Hill

Pemberley Press is happy to welcome author Marion Moore Hill to our list, starting with the first novel in her new Deadly Past Mystery Series, DEADLY WILL. Ms. Hill was born in Haskell, Oklahoma, and holds degrees from Butler County (Kansas) Community College, Oklahoma Baptist University, and Stanford University. A former legal secretary, college teacher of journalism and English, and owner of an ethnic/gourmet grocery, she has won numerous awards for her mystery fiction, both short and long. She has just completed the second novel in her “Sassy Librarian” series, which began with Bookmarked for Murder, and is now at work on the first sequel to DEADLY WILL. She lives in Durant, Oklahoma, with her husband Elbert, a professor of children’s literature at Southeastern Oklahoma State University. She is a member of Mystery Writers of America, Sisters in Crime, and Oklahoma Writers’ Federation, Inc.

Author Guidelines

At the moment, we regret to say that Pemberley Press is not looking for new authors. Our publishing list is full for 2008.