Bio: Born in Baltimore, MD, Beth Anderson attended school in Pekin, IL, Baltimore, MD, and Washington, DC. She is a graduate of Illinois Benedictine College, where she majored in Business Administration. She is a member of Mystery Writers of America, Sisters in Crime, EPIC and EPPRO, and is now the full-time author known as Hotclue on the Internet; her website is at http://www.bethanderson-hotclue.com. Beth has spoken at numerous writers conferences, guest-lectured at Purdue University and Moraine Valley College, appeared on the Cathy OMalley and Judy Markey WGN Radio Show, the ABC Evening News and various other radio and television shows in the Chicago area, and has been featured in numerous newspaper articles both local and nationwide. Beth's books include: Diamonds, Leisure Books; All That Glitters, Ivy Books; Count On Me, Harlequin Superromance, Night Sounds and Murder Online, and her upcoming Second Generation, to be published by Atlantic Bridge in the fall of 2001. Beth currently resides in a Chicago, Illinois suburb with her husband Stan and two cats, Jessica and Beemer. Her hobby is collecting porcelain dolls, who keep her company in her writing room, and yes, she does talk to them from time to time.