Jean Sheldon is president of the Northwest Association of Book Publishers and, considering that 2001, operator of Wellworth Publishing, Heating Breakdowns including Bast Press as her fiction imprint in 2004. Prior to creating mysteries, she published a book of poetry and drawings called 'Jelly Aspect Down', a handbook on car or truck maintenance, 'Glovebox Guidebook to Keeping it on the Road', and wrote, with her cat, 'The Way of the Cat, Teaching Humans to Be'.

