Kathleen Marple Kalb is an author/anchor/mom...not in that order. The Agatha- and Derringer-nominated author of short stories and novels, she's also a Regional Edward R. Murrow Award-winning anchor of New York City's #1 weekend morning show on 1010 WINS Radio. Her fiction work: fourteen novels across four series, including the Ella Shane and Old Stuff Mysteries from Level Best Books, as well as short stories in top mystery magazines, anthologies, and online, with recognition in National Excellence in Storytelling, Black Orchid Novella, and Derringer competitions. Active in writers' groups, she is a Marketing and Communications Liaison on the Sisters in Crime Worldwide Board, and a past VP of the Short Mystery Fiction Society and NY/Tri-State SinC. She and her family live in a Connecticut house owned by a large calico cat.