WENDY BARTLETT lived in England from age thirteen to twenty-six; then settled in Berkeley, California. Her B.A. is in art history, and she taught school for several years. She started writing novels in 1999, although she has written all her life. The first chapter of her fourth novel, Cellini's Revenge, previously known as The Mystery of the Silver Bowls, won a writing prize at the San Francisco Writers Conference in 2007. Wendy first published her novel, Broad Reach, with the iUniverse prize. Wendy is an artist, songwriter, singer and world traveler. She is presently working on publishing several more of her new novels on Kindle. Her daughter, Elizabeth Stark, is a published author.