JEROME PREISLER is the New York Times bestselling author of over thirty books of fiction and nonfiction, including the TOM CLANCY'S POWER PLAYS SERIES and numerous movie and television tie-ins. Among the latter are CSI: NEVADA ROSE, and the recent CSI: SKIN DEEP. His narrative history (w/Kenneth Sewell), ALL HANDS DOWN: The True Story of the Soviet Attack on the USS Scorpion (Simon and Schuster, 2008) was praised by Kirkus Reviews as a "satisfying historical whodunit, redolent with Cold War paranoia and tragedy". Jerome's next book of narrative nonfiction, CODENAME CAESAR: The Secret Hunt for U-Boat 864 during World War II will be published as a Berkley hardcover in the summer of 2012.

JOHN TALBOT has twenty-plus years of book publishing experience as an editor and literary agent. As an agent, he has placed books at imprints of all of the major publishers, including Doubleday, Random House, Bantam Dell, Simon & Schuster, Pocket Books, HarperCollins, Grand Central/Hachette, St. Martin's Press, Putnam Berkley, Dutton, NAL, Wiley, Macmillan, and McGraw-Hill. His clients include several New York Times and USA Today bestsellers, a National Book Award finalist, a National Book Critics Circle Award nominee, and a New England Book Award winner. He is a member of the AAR. 

Prior to becoming an agent John spent three years with Pocket Books and seven years with Putnam Berkley (now part of Penguin USA), where he rose to the rank of Senior Editor and worked with such global bestsellers as Tom Clancy, W.E.B. Griffin, and Jack Higgins, as well as then-rising literary star Tom Perrotta. John edited over a dozen national bestsellers and had five New York Times Notable Books for the Putnam, Berkley, and Riverhead imprints. He began his editorial career at Simon & Schuster/Prentice Hall Press. John received his B.A. in English Composition from DePauw University and also spent semesters at Washington University in St. Louis and Nanzan University in Nagoya, Japan.

STEFANIE GORDON has been planning events large and small her whole life. Professionally she has planned events as small as a Bon Voyage party at a local New York City watering hole and as large as a 5,000 person international educational conference.  Stefanie has worked for sports organizations such as the Tampa Bay Storm, Miami Dolphins, Florida Panthers and the Arena Football League.  She also spent time with Turner Broadcasting as an Ad Sales Account Coordinator. Stefanie now brings her expertise to the Mystic Writers and looks forward to finding all the exciting locations where we will hold our conferences.

Stefanie holds a Bachelors degree in Communications  from Florida Atlantic University and a Masters degree in Sports Business from New York University. 

She lives in New York City, attending an obscene number of Yankees games in her spare time.