She Survived (13 page)

Crime writer, serial-killer expert, and investigative journalist
M. William Phelps
is the
New York Times
bestselling author of twenty-six nonfiction books. Winner of the 2008 New England Book Festival Award for
I'll Be Watching You
, Phelps has appeared on nearly one hundred television shows, including CBS's
Early Show
, ABC's
Good Morning America
,
The Today Show
,
The View
, TLC, BIO Channel, and History Channel. Phelps also created, produces, and stars in the hit Investigation Discovery series
Dark Minds
, now heading into its fourth season; and he is one of the stars of ID's
Deadly Women.
Radio America calls him “the nation's leading authority on the mind of the female murderer.”

Profiled in such noted publications as
Writer's Digest, Connecticut Magazine, NY Daily News, NY Post, Newsday, Suspense Magazine,
and
The Hartford Courant
, Phelps has also consulted for the Showtime cable television series
Dexter
and written for
Connecticut Magazine.
Touched by tragedy himself, due to the unsolved murder of his sister-in-law, Phelps is able to enter the hearts and minds of his subjects like no one else. He lives in a small Connecticut farming community and can be reached at his author website,
www.mwilliamphelps.com
.

 

Melissa Schickel
was just twenty-five when she survived a near-fatal attack by a violent criminal. Today she works as a paralegal. She enjoys attending hockey games, comedy shows, and taking her Dalmatian mix and gray-and-black Catahoula Leopard/Blue Heeler mix for walks. She lives in the Midwest and hopes one day to become a full-time comedy writer.