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Mischief in Moonstone Series Christine DeSmet is a novelist, screenwriter, and writing teacher at University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her romantic suspense, SPIRIT LAKE, is an award-winning, best-selling novel available now from Hard Shell Word Factory. In the film world, she co-authored with Peggy Williams and Bob Shill a true-story film script "Chinaware-Fragile," which is a past winner of the Slamdance Film Festival writing contest and was optioned by New Line Cinema. With Peggy, Christine has optioned other projects. Workshops she teaches online for UW-Madison include "Screenwriting: Write Your First Draft Fast" and "The Dialogue Shop." She's a fellowship graduate of the Warner Bros. Sitcom Writers Workshop, and member of Wisconsin Screenwriters Forum, Romance Writers of America, Electronic Publishing Internet Connection (EPIC), and Writers Guild of America, East. She has a bachelor's and master's degree in journalism from UW-Madison and grew up on a farm near Barneveld, WI. Christine's newest releases are a novella called "Sex with the Man in the Moon" in TALES FROM THE TREASURE TROVE, the first Jewels of the Quill Anthology; "When Rudolph was Kidnapped," the first story in her Mischief in Moonstone Series, in the Jewels of the Quill Christmas anthology, SMALL GIFTS; "Misbehavin' in Moonstone," Book 2 in her Mischief in Moonstone Series, in TALES FROM THE TREASURE TROVE, Volume II; "Mrs. Claus and the Moonstone Murder," Book 3 in the Mischief in Moonstone Series, in TALES FROM THE TREASURE TROVE, Volume III; and and the newest, "When the Dead People Brought A Dish-to-Pass," Book 4 in the Mischief in Moonstone Series, in SHADOWS IN THE HEART, A Jewels of the Quill Halloween Anthology. TALES III won the 2008 EPPIE Award and was also nominated in the Romantic Times BOOKclub's Reviewer's Choice Awards (Best Small Press Contemporary Paranormal/Futuristic category)! Also available now is the first book in her Men of Moonstone Series, "The Moonstone Fire", in TALES FROM THE TREASURE TROVE, Volume IV. Look for Christine's two Dame series collections: MISCHIEF IN MOONSTONE SERIES, with the first four books and a bonus novella in the series, available now. MEN OF MOONSTONE SERIES, with the first two books and a bonus novella in the series, plus a non-series bonus novella, will be released February 2009. Christine also has a romantic mystery novella in The Object of Romance Anthology, "Stolen Pleasures", available now from Beacon Books. THE OBJECT OF ROMANCE ANTHOLOGY was nominated for a 2007 CAPA (anthology category)! The annual award is given by The Romance Studio. Click on the Books & Awards button below to purchase any of Christine's books.