Elena Hartwell

Elena Hartwell was born in Bogota, Colombia, while her parents were in the Peace Corps. Her first word was "cuidado." At the age of nine months, she told two men carrying a heavy table to be careful in their native tongue. She's been telling people what to do ever since. After almost twenty years in the theater, Elena turned her playwriting skills to novels and the result was her first book "One Dead, Two to Go," followed by "Two Heads Are Deader Than One" and "Three Strikes, You're Dead." Elena is also a developmental editor and the author of The Foundation of Plot and the upcoming The Construction of Character, the first two books in her Wait, Wait, Don't Query (Yet!) series. For more information on Elena, who also writes under Elena Taylor, visit elenahartwell.com or like her Facebook Page Author.Elena.Taylor. You can see cute pictures of her dog, cats, and horses.