[HTML1]More about Michaela Hamilton
Michaela Hamilton joined Kensington Publishing Corp. in October 2001as editor-in-chief. In the fall of 2005 she was named editor in chief of The Citadel Press, Kensington’s nonfiction imprint specializing in books about popular culture, memoirs, narrative nonfiction, and other general-interest trade topics.
In addition to managing a department of three editors, Michaela acquires and edits commercial fiction and nonfiction for the Kensington and Citadel imprints, which include hardcover, trade paperback, and mass-market books. In the fiction area, mysteries, and suspense, she works with Neal Baer, John Lutz, Gregg Olsen, Max Allan Collins, John Gilstrap, Shane Gericke, and C. E. Lawrence. She also oversees Kensington’s true-crime publishing program, featuring such authors as M. William Phelps, Robert Scott, and Caitlin Rother.
Prior to joining Kensington she worked for fifteen years at New American Library, where she rose to the position of editor-in-chief of NAL and associate publisher of Dutton. Her bestselling authors there included Dr. Mehmet Oz, Sharyn McCrumb, Joan Hess, Stephen White, and Jeffery Deaver.
Michaela describes herself as a die-hard bookworm. Her tastes are broad-ranging, and her areas of expertise include mysteries, thrillers, romances, and mainstream fiction; true crime, memoirs, self-help, how-to, current events, biographies, and other nonfiction specialties.
A native of Pennsylvania, she holds a B.A. in English from the University of Pennsylvania and an M.B.A. from New York University’s Sloan School of Business. She loves working with writers and considers herself lucky to live in the world of books.
More about C. E. Lawrence
Carole Bugge (C. E. LAWRENCE) has eight published novels, six novellas and a dozen or so short stories and poems. Her work has received glowing reviews from such publications as Kirkus, The Library Journal, Publisher’s Weekly, Booklist, The Boston Herald, Ellery Queen, and others. Her short fiction has appeared in numerous anthologies and magazines. Winner of both the Euphoria Poetry Competition and the Eve of St. Agnes Poetry Award, she is also the First Prize winner of the Maxim Mazumdar Playwriting Competition, the Chronogram Literary Fiction Prize, Jerry Jazz Musician Short Fiction Award, and the Jean Paiva Memorial Fiction award, which included an NEA grant to read her fiction and poetry at Lincoln Center. A finalist in the McClaren, MSU and Henrico Playwriting Competitions, she has read her work at Barnes and Noble, The Knitting Factory, Mercy College, Merritt Books, the Colony Cafe and the Gryphon Bookstore. She has received grants from Poets and Writers, as well as the New York State Arts Council. Her story “A Day in the Life of Comrade Lenin” received an Honorable Mention in St. Martin’s Best Fantasy and Horror Stories, and she was a winner in the Writer’s Digest Competition in both the playwriting and essay categories.
Her plays and musicals have been presented in New York City at The Players Club, Manhattan Punchline, Pulse Theatre, The Van Dam Street Playhouse, Love Creek, Playwrights Horizons, HERE, the Episcopal Actors’ Guild, the Jan Hus Theatre, Lakota Theatre, The Open Book, The 78th Street Theatre, Genesius Guild, the 14th Street Y, and Shotgun Productions, as well as the Alleyway Theatre in Buffalo, The Bay Street Theatre in Sag Harbor, Actors and Writers in Olivebridge, and the Byrdcliffe Theatre in Woodstock, New York. She was sponsored by The Paper Mill Playhouse for a TCG Playwriting Award two years in a row, and was a Playwriting Fellowship finalist at Manhattan Theatre Club. She has just completed a Residency Fellowship at International Writers Retreat at Hawthornden Castle, just outside Edinburgh, Scotland, and is a Writer in Residence at Byrdcliffe Arts Colony in Woodstock, New York. Her physics play “Strings,” about string theory, was hailed by John Simon as “the most absorbing play in New York today.” She was head writer for the television sketch show Human Relations 101 an is a juror for the Scholastic National Achievement Awards in both the playwriting and fiction writing categories.
Her first two thrillers for Kensington Publishing under the pen name C.E. Lawrence, Silent Screams and Silent Victim, have also been sold to Audible Books and Piper Verlag in Germany. Silent Kills, the third book in the series, is due out later this year.
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