Herren, Greg: - Greg Herren is a New Orleans-based author and editor. He is co-founder of the Saints and Sinners Literary Festival, which takes place in New Orleans every spring. He is the author "Death Drop," the first in the drag queen mystery Killer Queen series also published by Golden Notebook Press. He is also the author of thirty-three other novels, including the Lambda Literary Award winning Murder in the Rue Chartres, called by the New Orleans Times-Picayune "the most honest depiction of life in poet-Katrina New Orleans published thus far." He co-edited Bourbon Street: Reflections on New Orleans which also won the Lambda Literary Award. His young adult novel Sleeping Angel won the Moonbeam Gold Medal for Excellence in Young Adult Mystery/Horror, and Lake Thirteen won the silver. He co-edited Night Shadows: Queer Horror, which was shortlisted for the Shirley Jackson Award.