A native of Sacramento, California, June Gillam belongs to Sisters in Crime (SINC) and Gold Country Writers, the literary arts wing of the Placer Arts Council in Auburn, California. House of Cuts and House of Dads are first and second in her Hillary Broome suspense series and feature a redheaded reporter in her mid-thirties who writes for a Central California paper and serves as journalism advisor at a local community college. June's poetry and short stories have appeared in venues such as Metal Scratches and America's Intercultural Magazine (AIM). She teaches writing and literature at a Northern California Community College, and her dissertation was published under the title Creating Juicy Tales and is available with her other books on amazon.com, along with her poetry under the name June Comarsh Gillam. She can be contacted through her website at http: //www.junegillam.com.