Laurie Stevens is a novelist, screenwriter, and playwright. She has written for television (Chris Isaak's Guide to Jazz Fest), for film (Footprint Films and John Daly's Film and Music Entertainment) and her stage play, "Follow Your Dreams" ran for eight weeks in Los Angeles. Her short story, "Kill Joy," is in the anthology, "Last Exit to Murder." Laurie's novel "The Dark Before Dawn" is the first in a psycho-thriller/detective series and was awarded the Kirkus Star of merit and was named to Kirkus Reviews Best of 2011/Indie. A Goodreads Book of the Month, the novel also received top honors at