The International Thriller Writers membership includes some of the world's best-selling authors: David Morrell, Gayle Lynds, Lee Child, Sandra Brown, Clive Cussler, Jeffery Deaver, John Lescroart, Steve Berry, Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child, Heather Graham, Karin Slaughter, James Rollins, Tess Gerritsen, James Patterson and many, many more.

All of these authors' careers began with their first book. Check out the International Thriller Writers Debut Authors and discover the bestsellers of tomorrow! 

Drue Allen, THE COST OF LOVE, March 2010

Drue Allen enjoys remote camping in the rugged mountains along the southwestern Texas border, coastal kayaking, and backpacking through the Canadian Rockies. Her romantic thriller, THE COST OF LOVE, is set in the dusty town of Roswell, New Mexico. Awarded over two dozen RWA chapter awards, Allen holds a MA in English and teaches at the collegiate level. Drue plots feverishly from the safety of her home in the Texas hill country. 

Lisa Brackmann - ROCK PAPER TIGER, June 2010

Lisa Brackmann has worked as a motion picture executive and an issues researcher in a presidential campaign. A southern California native, she's lived and traveled extensively in China. She lives in Venice, California.

Ryan Brown, PLAY DEAD, May 2010

As an actor Ryan Brown has held contract roles on the CBS daytime dramas, The Young and the Restless and Guiding Light.  He has also appeared on Law and Order: SVU, and starred in two feature films for Lifetime Television.  His first novel, Play Dead, a comic supernatural thriller, will be published in May of 2010, and his short story, Jeepers Peepers, will soon appear in ITW's Young Adult Anthology.  

Carla Buckley, THE THINGS THAT KEEP US HERE, February 2010

Carla Buckley was born in Washington, D.C., attended Oberlin College and The Wharton School for Business, and has worked in a variety of jobs, including a stint as an assistant press secretary for a U.S. senator, an analyst with the Smithsonian Institution, and a technical writer for a defense contractor. She currently lives in Ohio with her husband and children.

Pamela Callow, DAMAGED, June 2010

Pamela Callow is the author of a new legal biomedical thriller series for MIRA Books. Prior to making writing a career, Pamela worked as a strategy consultant for an international consulting firm. She is a member of the Nova Scotia Bar, and has a Master's degree in Public Administration.

Gayle Carline - FREEZER BURN, August 2009

Gayle Carline was a software engineer for over 20 years, until she finally chewed her way out the cubicle and became a freelance writer. She's been writing a weekly humor column, What a Day, for her local newspaper, the Placentia News-Times since 2005. Freezer Burn is her debut novel. In addition to her husband, Dale, Gayle lives with their teenage son, Marcus, and a small menagerie of pets.

Kate Carlisle, HOMICIDE IN HARDCOVER, October 2009

Rick Chesler, WIRED KINGDOM, May 2010

Rick holds a Bachelor of Science in marine biology and has had a life-long interest in the ocean and its creatures. When not at work as an environmental project manager, he can be found scuba diving or traveling to research his next thriller idea. He currently lives in Honolulu, Hawaii with his wife, a cat, and some fish.

JJ Cooper, INTERROGATED, August 2009

JJ Cooper spent seventeen years in the Australian Army, deploying on two tours of duty in East Timor and one tour to the Middle East in 2003. He specialised in Human Intelligence, including interrogation (as a practitioner and instructor). Since leaving the military, he spends every spare moment on his passion for writing. JJ's debut thriller, Interrogated, will be published by Random House Australia in 2009.

Bob Doerr, DEAD MEN CAN KILL, COLD WINTER'S KILL, January 2010

After graduating from the Air Force Academy, Bob spent nearly thirty years in the Air Force with its Office of Special Investigations. A sister agency to NCIS, he spent his career either investigating crime and conducting counterintelligence operations or supervising those same activities. It was a career field that filled his mind with plots and characters he is now using in his fiction.

Jeremy Duns, FREE AGENT, July 2009

Jeremy Duns was born in 1973 and studied English literature at Oxford University before working for several years as a journalist in Belgium. He now lives in Stockholm, Sweden, and is running out of space for his ridiculously large collection of spy novels. 

Gregory Funaro, THE SCULPTOR, January 2010

Originally from Rhode Island, Gregory Funaro is currently an associate professor in the School of Theatre & Dance at East Carolina University. In addition to teaching, acting and directing (and finding time to write in between), Gregory is an amateur artist, bassist and history buff. He also holds a black belt in karate, and lives with his family outside of Raleigh, North Carolina. THE SCULPTOR is Gregory's first novel.

Daryl Wood Gerber, THE CHEESE SHOP MYSTERIES, June 2010

Daryl Wood Gerber writes both suspense thrillers and amateur sleuth novels.  For the latter, she uses the pseudonym Avery Aames and writes The Cheese Shop Mysteries for Berkley Prime Crime.  Daryl created the format for the popular sit-com, Out of this World and has won awards for her screenplays. She has hitchhiked around Ireland by herself and she has jumped out of a perfectly good airplane.

Rhodi Hawk, A TWISTED LADDER, August 2009 

Leanna Renee Hieber, THE STRANGELY BEAUTIFUL TALE OF MISS PERCY PARKER, September 2009

Award winning author, actress and playwright, a lifelong love of the 19th Century and adapting Victorian literature for the stage set the course for Leanna's Strangely Beautiful series of Gothic Victorian novels. Her fantasy novella Dark Nest won the 2009 Prism Award. She lives in New York City with her real-life hero, a member of numerous writing organizations as well as Actors Equity Association and the Screen Actors Guild, Leanna works often in television.

Reece Hirsch, THE INSIDER, May 2010

Reece Hirsch is a partner in the San Francisco office of Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, specializing in privacy and health care law. Prior to law school, he edited and published an arts and entertainment magazine in Atlanta.

Jeannie Holmes, BLOOD LAW, May 2010

Jeannie Holmes is a native of southwest Mississippi. A total caffeine junkie, she currently lives in Mobile, Alabama with her husband and four neurotic cats, and is hard to find during hurricane season. 

Thomas Kaufman, DRINK THE TEA, March 2010

Thomas Kaufman is an Emmy award-winning motion picture director/cameraman. He has worked on documentary, commercial, and fiction films. In addition to shooting programs with police, FBI, and DEA agents for National Geographic and Discovery Channels, Mr Kaufman has also shot documentaries for Academy Award-winners Mark Jonathan Harris, Charles Guggenheim, and Barbara Koppel. Mr Kaufman's current project is an independent documentary, INDIAN HILL SUMMER. Here's the trailer: www.indianhillmovie.org

Nicholas Kaufmann, HUNT AT WORLD'S END, November 2009

Nicholas Kaufmann is the critically acclaimed author of the Bram Stoker Award-nominated novella GENERAL SLOCUM'S GOLD (Burning Effigy Press), HUNT AT WORLD'S END (as Gabriel Hunt, Leisure Books), CHASING THE DRAGON (ChiZine Publications) and the collection WALK IN SHADOWS (Prime Books). His stories and articles have appeared in a variety of venues, including The Best American Erotica 2007, The Internet Review of Science Fiction and On Writing Horror (Writers Digest Books).

Brett King, THE RADIX, May 2010

Brett King is a psychologist and award-wining professor at the University of Colorado at Boulder. In addition to a background in forensic psychology, he has published two nonfiction books on the history of science. His sequel to THE RADIX will be released in early 2011. When not writing his third novel, teaching, or touring his imagination, he enjoys time with his wife and three children, and exploring the scenic riches of his native Colorado.

Allan Leverone, FINAL VECTOR, February 2011

Allan Leverone is a two-time SMFS Derringer Award Finalist for Best Short Story whose fiction has been featured in numerous online and print venues. His debut thriller, FINAL VECTOR, represents perhaps the inevitable intersection of a lifetime spent in the aviation career field with a passion for storytelling. Allan lives in Londonderry, NH with his wife of twenty-six years, three wonderful children, one adorable grandchild, and a cat who has used up eight lives.

Sophie Littlefield, A BAD DAY FOR SORRY, August 2009       

Richard L. Mabry, M.D., CODE BLUE, April 2010

After his retirement from a distinguished career as a physician and medical educator, Richard turned his talents to non-medical writing with the publication of THE TENDER SCAR: LIFE AFTER THE DEATH OF A SPOUSE. CODE BLUE is his debut novel, the first of the Prescription For Trouble series. Richard makes his home in North Texas, where he continues his struggle to master golf.

Boyd Morrison, THE ARK, Spring 2010

Boyd Morrison is a Seattle-based author, actor, engineer, and Jeopardy! champion. He started his career at Johnson Space Center, where he got the opportunity to fly on NASA's Vomit Comet, the same plane used to train astronauts for zero gravity. He went on to earn a PhD from Virginia Tech, then used his training to develop eleven US patents at Thomson/RCA and manage a video game testing group at Microsoft before becoming a full-time writer. For non-fiction thrills, he enjoys white water rafting, skiing, scuba diving, and bungee jumping.

Alan L. Moss, ISLAND OF BETRAYAL, April 2010

In 2002, Alan Moss put his federal career aside and moved to the Jersey shore to pursue the life of an accomplished author. In his third published work and debut novel, ISLAND OF BETRAYAL, Moss shows how an intimate knowledge of government, Ph.D. research skills, and an over-active imagination can spin a sophisticated tale of conspiracy, love, and deception. After years of bureaucracy and politics, Moss has found the freedom of writing fiction an intoxicating and satisfying calling.

Stuart Neville, THE GHOSTS OF BELFAST, July 2009

Stuart Neville has been a musician, a composer, a teacher, a salesman, a film extra, a baker and a hand double for  a well known Irish comedian, but is currently a partner in a successful multimedia design business in the wilds of Northern Ireland. He has published short stories in Thuglit, Electric Spec and Every Day Fiction. His debut novel, THE GHOSTS OF BELFAST, will be published in the UK by Harvill Secker, an imprint of Random House, July 2009, and by Random House Kodansha in Japan.

Diana Orgain, BUNDLE OF TROUBLE: A MATERNAL INSTINCTS MYSTERY, August 2009

Diana Orgain holds an M.F.A. and B.A in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University with a minor in acting. Diana's plays have been produced at San Francisco State University, GreenHouses Productions, and PlayGround in San Francisco. Diana's debut novel Postpartum Detective will be released August 2009 from Berkley Prime Crime. Diana lives in San Francisco with her husband and their children.

Alan Orloff, DIAMONDS FOR THE DEAD, April 2010

Before Alan stepped off the corporate merry-go-round to concentrate on writing, he had an eclectic (some might say disjointed) career. As an engineer, he worked on nuclear submarines, supervised assembly workers in factories, facilitated technology transfer from the Star Wars program, and learned to stack washing machines three high with a forklift. He even started his own newsletter business, educating the public about the benefits of recycling and waste reduction.

Brad Parks, FACES OF THE GONE, December 2009

Brad Parks is an escaped journalist, having done time at The Washington Post and The (Newark, N.J.) Star-Ledger as a sportswriter and news feature writer. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Dartmouth College, he is a washed-up jock, a veteran of community theater and an experienced (and enthusiastic) public speaker. He lives in Virginia with an understanding wife and two adorable young children.

Barry Pollack, FORTY-EIGHT X, December 2009

After a film degree from Stanford and a fellowship at the American Film Institute, Pollack made several prize-winning shorts before going on to write and direct the MGM feature COOL BREEZE. His next feature did not fare as well and Pollack left Hollywood for medical school. While working as a physician, he began writing again - television dramas, newspaper columns, and now novels.

Sharon Potts, IN THEIR BLOOD, September 2009

Sharon Potts is a former business executive, entrepreneur, CPA, and soccer mom. An active member of the Mystery Writers of America, Sharon served as the treasurer of the Florida chapter and as co-chair of SleuthFest, its annual writers' conference. Her debut psychological thriller In Their Blood is set in her steamy, seductive, and sometimes shady hometown of Miami Beach.

John Rector - THE COLD KISS, June 2010

John Rector is a Colorado native and the author of THE GROVE and THE COLD KISS, which will be published in the summer of 2010 by Tor Books. His short fiction has appeared in The Seattle Review, Futures Mystery Anthology Magazine, Black October Magazine, The Edge: Tales of Suspense, FlashQuake (1st place for fiction), and 42nd Parallel, where he won the Porterhouse Prize for best fiction. He lives in Omaha, Nebraska.

Amy Dawson Robertson - MILES TO GO,  February 2010

Cynthia Robinson, THE DOG PARK CLUB, December 2009

Neil Russell, CITY OF WAR, March 2010

Neil Russell is a motion picture and television writer and producer and a former senior executive at Paramount, Columbia, MGM/UA and Carolco Pictures. His company, Site 85 Productions, has entered into licensing arrangements with Jerry Bruckheimer Films, Activision, MGM, ABC, Scott Free, Heyday Films, FP Productions, Hyde Park Entertainment and others. He is a member of the Naval War College Foundation and a former board member of the Institute for Foreign Policy Analysis.

Hank Schwaeble, DAMNABLE, September 2009

Stephen Jay Schwartz, BOULEVARD, September 2009

Stephen Jay Schwartz grew up in New Mexico and traveled the United States extensively before settling down in Los Angeles. There he wrote for the Discovery Channel and became the Director of Development for Wolfgang Petersen, helping develop "Outbreak" and "Air Force One," among others.

Chevy Stevens, STILL MISSING, May 2010

Chevy Stevens grew up on a ranch on Vancouver Island and still calls the island home. When she's not writing, or forcing her very patient husband to act out scenes, she's hiking with her dog and exploring the local mountains.

Norb Vonnegut, TOP PRODUCER, September 2009

Norb Vonnegut built an extensive career in private wealth management, most recently as a Managing Director with a finance boutique in New York City, and previously with Morgan Stanley, Paine Webber, and Kidder, Peabody. Now he brings us into the world of Top Producer, a sharp and twisted thriller that moves at breakneck pace. Norb graduated magna cum laude from Harvard College in 1980 and earned his MBA from Harvard Business School in 1986.

Wendy Lyn Watson, I SCREAM, YOU SCREAM: A MYSTERY A LA MODE, October 2009

Wendy Lyn Watson teaches constitutional law to college students by day and writes deliciously funny cozy mysteries, with a dollop of romance, by night. While she does not commit--or solve--murders in real life, her love of ice cream is 100% true. She's also passionately devoted to 80s music, Asian horror films, and reality TV.

Maureen Wood and Ron Kolek, GHOST CHRONICLES, September 2009

Maureen has communicated with the deceased for as far back as she can remember. At the age of fifteen, she was a medium for adult séances. She has practiced, studied and instructed metaphysical studies for more than twenty-five years and is currently the lead psychic/Trance-medium for the New England Ghost Project. She co-hosts a weekly broadcast of the popular Ghost Chronicles radio show on TOGInet radio, as well as the Ghost Chronicles podcast on iTunes.