About the author
Author and journalist Penelope Karageorge cultivates wide-ranging literary interests, including a passion for the mystery novel. Her new book, Lovers and Other Killers, draws on her news background as it transports you into a fictional world of love, murder and addiction in all its forms. She is the author of Murder at Tomorrow (Walker), set in the news magazine world. Her second novel, Stolen Moments (Kensington), a roman a clef of sex and intrigue in a publishing empire, was published in England as Winners, and in Germany where it became a best-seller as New York, New York.
A prize-winning poet, Pella published her first collection, Red Lipstick and the Wine-Dark Sea, which contains the poem "New York Love Letter: P.S. You're Crazy," a winner in a city-wide contest sponsored by the Mayor's Office. Somerset Hall published her second collection, The Neon Suitcase. Her poetry appears on twelve anthologies.
Her feature-length film script, The Neon Jungle, a fast-paced neo noir, placed 7th out of 3,000 plus in the prestigious Final Draft competition. She has written and produced short films including Fat Tuesday, a mystery/romance; The Vanishing Typewriter, a documentary; and Shock Therapy, an homage to Alfred Hitchcock. She is in pre-production for Reach Out and Touch Someone, a dark comedy.
She has contributed to publications as diverse as Cosmopolitan and Mouth Full of Bullets.
She began her journalistic career at Newsweek magazine, interviewing luminaries including Bette Davis and Frank Sinatra.