the Mystery in Ashland this Fall
View the 2025 Author Lineup & Exclusive Lodging Specials!
Festival Details
October 16-19, 2025
Ashland, Oregon
April
Early Bird Tickets go on sale
July
Schedule Released + Early Bird Pricing Ends
September
Mystery Dinner Tickets released
Digital Programs Released
A veracious storyteller and a lover of all things bookish. I believe that stories have the ability to transport and transform us. With over twenty five published novels and counting, my goal is to tell stories that provide points of connection, escape and understanding.
Mia P. Manansala is a writer from Chicago who loves books, baking, and bad-ass women. She is the author of the multi-award-winning Tita Rosie’s Kitchen Mystery series and the forthcoming YA novel DEATH IN THE CARDS (May 13, 2025). She uses humor (and murder) to explore aspects of the Filipino diaspora, queerness, and her millennial love for pop culture.
A lover of all things geeky, Mia spends her days procrasti-baking, playing RPGs and otome games, reading cozy mysteries and diverse romance, and gazing lovingly at her dog Gumih
Find her on Facebook and Instagram: @MPMtheWriter
Gretchen Rue lives in the Canadian prairies, which affords her ample time to read during six months of winter. She plays cat mom to seven mostly indifferent fur children, and plant mom to a ton of very demanding flora. When she isn’t sipping tea and working on her next novel, she enjoys swimming, hiking, and watching baseball.
Like her Ground Rules Mystery series, Emmeline Duncan is based in Portland, Oregon. Her series includes 2021's Fresh Brewed Murder, Double Shot Death, and Flat White Fatality, plus more to come. Emmeline also writes for teens as Kelly Garrett. Her debut YA novel, The Last To Die, was an Oregon Book Awards finalist. She was also a 2020 Oregon Literary Fellow. When not writing, she spends her time seeking out new coffee shops and hiking trails to explore, frequently accompanied by her Great Pyrenees sidekick.
British born, Hannah Dennison originally moved to Los Angeles to pursue screenwriting. She has been an obituary reporter, antique dealer, private jet flight attendant and Hollywood story analyst. Hannah continues to teach mystery writing workshops wherever she is invited!
After twenty-five years living on the West Coast, Hannah returned to the UK where she shares her life with Draco, an old, but still energetic, Hungarian Vizsla. She enjoys all country pursuits, movies, and theatre, reading and seriously good chocolate.
Esme Addison is the bestselling author of the Enchanted Bay mysteries, the first of which was nominated for an Agatha Award, and the brand-new Secret Society mysteries.
Esme lives in Raleigh, NC with her family and is a member of Sisters In Crime, International Thriller Writers, Mystery Writers of America and Crime Writers of Color. When she’s not writing, you can find her reading, traveling, and indulging her love of history at museums and historical sites.
Tina Connolly (she/her) writes fantastical stories for kids, teens, and grown-ups. Some of them are serious and some of them involve flying bananas. Her books include the Ironskin trilogy (Tor), the Seriously Wicked series (Tor Teen), and the official Choose Your Own Adventure books Glitterpony Farm and Fairy House Disaster. She has been a finalist for the Hugo, Nebula, World Fantasy, and Oregon Spirit Book awards. She lives in Portland, where she narrates stories, makes up silly songs on the ukulele, and paints the gorgeous Oregon scenery.
Gigi Pandian is a USA Today bestselling and Agatha Award-winning mystery author, accidental almost-vegan, and locked-room mystery enthusiast. She lives in northern California with her husband and a gargoyle who watches over the backyard garden. She writes the Accidental Alchemist Mysteries (humorous mysteries set in Portland, Oregon), the Jaya Jones Treasure Hunt Mysteries (lighthearted adventures set around the world), and the Secret Staircase Mysteries (locked-room mysteries called “wildly entertaining” by the New York Times Book Review).
Korina Moss is the author of the Cheese Shop Mystery series set in the Sonoma Valley, California, which includes multiple Agatha Award nominated books for Best Contemporary Novel and the winner of the Agatha Award for Best First Novel, Cheddar Off Dead. Listed as one of USA Today’s Best Cozy Mystery Series, her books have also been featured in PARADE Magazine, Woman’s World, and Writer’s Digest. Korina is also a freelance developmental editor specializing in cozy mysteries.
Lee Hollis is the pen name for Rick Copp, a Hollywood screenwriter who has written for numerous television series, including The Golden Girls, Wings, Scooby Doo, Teen Titans, Barbershop and Barbie. He is the co-writer of The Brady Bunch Movie and has written a number of novels under his own name. He also wrote, produced and starred in the hit web series Where the Bears Are with over 60 million views on YouTube and also produces and appears in the upcoming documentary about the series A Big Gay Hairy Hit: Where the Bears Are - The Documentary. He co-authors the Hayley Powell Food & Cocktails series with his sister Holly Simason and solo he writes the Poppy Harmon series and the Maya & Sandra series under the Lee Hollis name. His latest book is the stand alone novel My Father Always Finds Corpses.
Eryn Scott is the author of fun, puzzling, and heartwarming cozy mysteries.
As a former elementary school teacher, Eryn’s love of writing started out as a passion to teach her students how to communicate their ideas. She quickly realized that she had her own stories to tell. After more than a decade of writing while teaching, she has finally made the move to being a full-time author. She loves having a job where she can spread joy and give readers a fun escape from reality.
While Eryn’s many series range from contemporary to light paranormal, all her novels feature close-knit communities and lovable characters. Oh, and if you’re an animal lover, you’ll find plenty of adorable animals in each and every one of Eryn’s books.
Tamara Berry is the Edgar-winning cozy mystery author of the By the Book series, the Eleanor Wilde series, and the Seven Ponds series. Also a women's fiction author under the pen name of Lucy Gilmore, she has a bachelor’s degree in English Literature and a love of all books mysterious and romantic. She lives in Eastern Washington with her family and their menagerie.
Ellen is a bestselling author, Anthony nominee, and recipient of multiple Agatha and Lefty awards for her Cajun Country Mysteries, Vintage Cookbook Mysteries, and Catering Hall Mysteries (as Maria DiRico). Her new series, the Golden Motel Mysteries, debuts in July. She is also an award-winning playwright and non-award-winning writer of TV hits like Wings, Just Shoot Me, and Fairly OddParents, but considers her most impressive achievement working as a cater-waiter for Martha Stewart.
A native New Yorker, Ellen is a graduate of Tulane University and lives in the Los Angeles area with her husband, daughter, and a rotating crew of rescue
pups.
Angela M. Sanders is the author of the bestselling Witch Way Librarian cozy mysteries and the Joanna Hayworth vintage clothing mysteries. As Clover Tate, she wrote the Kite Shop cozy mysteries. Her latest book, the sixth in the Witch Way Librarian series, is The Witch is Back. Witch and Tell will be released in October 2025.
In addition, Angela is at work on a new series featuring the occupants of a Victorian mansion-turned-rooming house set in Astoria, Oregon, and infused with perfume, magical realism, murder, and heart. The first in that series, A Whiff of Murder, will be released by Kensington Books in the spring of 2026.
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