Two holiday stories A Cradle Song The Reindeer Conundrum Thirty-seven novels and seven short stories. The sci fi epic series Alien Danger consisting of three novels: Alien Quest Alien Home Alien Victory The mysteries: Tom and Scott series - 14 Paul Turner series - 12 Young adult - Steven and Roger - 3 - Safe, Hope, Always - Shane and Corey - 2 - Gentle, Forever Private eye - 2 Thriller - 1 A Simple Suburban Murder won the Lambda Literary Award for Best Gay Men's mystery. I also wrote a thriller, Foolproof, with two other mystery writers, Jeanne Dams and Barb D'Amato. I taught eighth graders English and reading for thirty-four years and was president of the teachers' union in my district from 1985 until 2006. I retired from teaching in 2006 and now spend my time reading, writing, napping, and eating chocolate. My newest book, Another Dead Republican, is my thirteenth book in the Tom and Scott series which features as main characters, a gay school teacher and his lover, a professional baseball player. One of the keys in my mysteries is you do not want to be a person who is racist, sexist, homophobic, or a school administrator. If you are any of those, it is likely you are the corpse, or, at the least, it can be fairly well guaranteed that bad things will happen to you by the end. And if in my books you happen to be a Republican and/or against workers' rights, it would be far better if you did not make a habit of broadcasting this. If you did, you're quite likely to be a suspect, or worse. Biographical data for Mark Richard Zubro Author of thirty-six books Current title: Always - May 2018 Winner of Lambda Literary Award - Best Gay Men's Mystery A Simple Suburban Murder - 1989 9 times nominated for the Lambda Literary Award - Best Gay Men's Mystery Ring of Silence - 2018 Pawn of Satan - 2014 Dead Egotistical Morons - 2003 Sex and Murder.Com - 2001 Drop Dead - 1999 Another Dead Teenager - 1995 Sorry Now? - 1991 Why Isn't Becky Twitchell Dead? - 1990 A Simple Suburban Murder - 1989 Education: Notre Dame High School, Riverside, CA - graduated 1966 St. Louis University, St. Louis, MO - BA in English 1970 Governors State University, University Park, IL - MA in Urban Teacher Education - 1976 Retired: School teacher - June 2006 - after 34 years Union president - May 2006 - after being in office 20 years Other interests: The works of J.R.R. Tolkien, chocolate, teaching myself to cook Basic data: Born - Racine, Wisconsin, August 9, 1948 Resident of Mokena, IL since 1976 Contact: zubrom@yahoo.com Website: www.markzubro.com  Books by Mark Richard Zubro Tom Mason mysteries: A Conspiracy of Fear -2014 Another Dead Republican - 2012 Schooled in Murder - 2008 Everyone's Dead But Us - 2006 File Under Dead - 2004 Here Comes the Corpse - 2002 One Dead Drag Queen - 2000 Are You Nuts? - 1998 Rust on the Razor - 1996 An Echo of Death - 1994 The Principal Cause of Death - 1992 The Only Good Priest - 1991 Why Isn't Becky Twitchell Dead -1990 A Simple Suburban Murder - 1989 Paul Turner mysteries: Ring of Silence - 2017 Pawn of Satan - 2013 Black and Blue and Pretty Dead Too - 2011 Hook, Line, and Homicide - 2007 Nerds Who Kill - 2005 Dead Egotistical Morons - 2003 Sex and Murder.Com - 2001 Drop Dead - 1999 The Truth Can Get You Killed - 1997 Another Dead Teenager - 1995 Political Poison - 1993 Sorry Now? - 1991 Young Adult Mysteries: Roger and Steve series: Safe - 2014 Hope - 2015 Always - 2018 Shane and Cory series: Gentle - 2016 Gay Sci-Fi epic Alien Danger - 2013 Alien Home - 2014 Alien Victory - 2015 All available as e-books and most available as paperbacks. Seven Short Stories: "The Reindeer Conundrum" - in Shifting Through the Snow - 2017 "Unworthy" - in Turn the Page - 2016 "Duped in Grit" in Windy City Queer - 2011 "Tea for Two" in Homicide Hosts Present - 1996 "Mrs. Talucci's Dinner" in Murder for Mother 1994 "Never on Santa" in Santa Clues - 1993 "Next Year Kankakee" in Cat Crimes III - 1992 Written with Barbara D'Amato and Jeanne Dams Foolproof - 2009