Lisa Lutz is the author of Revenge of the Spellmans, The Spellman Files, a New York Times bestseller, and Curse of the Spellmans, a national bestseller and nominee for the 2008 Edgar Award for Best novel. Since 2007, the Spellman series has received Edgar, Agatha, and Macavity nominations, and each of titles has been a selection of the IndieNext list. Although she attended U.C. Sana Cruz, U.C. Irvine, the University of Leeds in England, and San Francisco State University, Ms.Lutz still does not have a bachelor’s degree. She spent most of the 1990s hopping through a string of low-paying odd jobs while writing and rewriting the screenplay, Plan B, a mob comedy that was made into a film.
David Hayward runs a small writing and editing business in Healdsburg, California. His poetry has won a Pushcart Prize and appeared in Harper’s, ZYZZYVA, The Threepenny Review, and other magazines. He attended UC Berkeley and received an MFA in poetry from UC Irvine. Heads You Lose is David’s first published fiction.