About the Author

Names are tricky little things. T.J. MacGregor was born with one name (Patricia Janeshutz), got nicknamed (Trish), then changed her name when she got married (MacGregor). She published her first two novels as Trish Janeshutz, a last name that few could pronounce or spell.  So her editor at that time asked her to come up with a simpler name that contained initials – i.e., an androgynous name,  because suspense novels by men were selling better at that time than suspense novels by women.

T.J. has written 28 novels, which include two different series – the Quin. St. James/Mike McCleary and the Tango Key series, as well as four stand-alone thrillers -The Seventh Sense, Vanished, The Other Extreme, and Out of Sight, which won the Edgar Allan Poe award for Best Paperback Original of 2002.  As Alison Drake (we still don’t know where she came from) she wrote five novels and as Trish Janeshutz she wrote two. Her most recent books, Kill Time  (October 2007) and the sequel, Running Time (November 2008) are time travel novels.  As Trish MacGregor, she has written 15 nonfiction books that reflect her interests - astrology, the tarot, dreams, and yoga.  In 2003, with the death of renown astrologer Sydney Omarr, Trish took over the writing of his astrology books. Confused yet? Check out the bibliography.

Born and raised in Caracas, Venezuela, she’s bilingual and has an ongoing love affair with South America. Before she sold her first novel in 1984, her jobs were all over the map. She taught English to Cuban refugees, Spanish to hormonal teenagers, was a social worker, and a librarian and Spanish teacher in a correctional facility for youthful offenders. Her best job was leading travel writing trips with her husband, writer and novelist Rob MacGregor, to the Peruvian Amazon.

She lives in South Florida with her husband and their teenage daughter, Megan, and a menagerie of pets.