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Kathy Brandt
Biography
WALKS ON THE MARGINS: A STORY OF BIPOLAR ILLNESS
Author Bios
Kathy Brandt is a published author who taught writing at the University of Colorado for ten years. After her son, Max, was diagnosed with bipolar disorder, she became active in mental health issues. She was on the Board of Directors of the National Alliance on Mental Illness in Colorado Springs (NAMI-CS) for six years, and served as President. In 2012 she received the NAMI National Award for her outstanding service to the organization. She is currently the NAMI-CS liaison to the Mental Health Court in Colorado Springs. Kathy has published four novels with the Penguin Group. She has a B.A. in English and an M.A. in Rhetoric. She lives in the mountains of Colorado.
Max Maddox has a BA in philosophy from Grinnell College and an MFA from the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, where he was nominated for the Joan Mitchell Award and received the Fellowship Trust Award. He has exhibited his work in galleries including The Slought Foundation, The Print Center of Philadelphia, and the Ellen Powell Tiberino Memorial Museum. He was the preparator, photographer, and curator at the Sun King Gallery and Pyramid Museum in Philadelphia and also assistant to artist and curator Richard Torchia, Director of Arcadia University Gallery. He now lives in Colorado where he teaches and continues to pursue his career in art.
Author Bios
Kathy Brandt is a published author who taught writing at the University of Colorado for ten years. After her son, Max, was diagnosed with bipolar disorder, she became active in mental health issues. She was on the Board of Directors of the National Alliance on Mental Illness in Colorado Springs (NAMI-CS) for six years, and served as President. In 2012 she received the NAMI National Award for her outstanding service to the organization. She is currently the NAMI-CS liaison to the Mental Health Court in Colorado Springs. Kathy has published four novels with the Penguin Group. She has a B.A. in English and an M.A. in Rhetoric. She lives in the mountains of Colorado.
Max Maddox has a BA in philosophy from Grinnell College and an MFA from the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, where he was nominated for the Joan Mitchell Award and received the Fellowship Trust Award. He has exhibited his work in galleries including The Slought Foundation, The Print Center of Philadelphia, and the Ellen Powell Tiberino Memorial Museum. He was the preparator, photographer, and curator at the Sun King Gallery and Pyramid Museum in Philadelphia and also assistant to artist and curator Richard Torchia, Director of Arcadia University Gallery. He now lives in Colorado where he teaches and continues to pursue his career in art.
Where to find Kathy Brandt online
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Series
An Underwater Investigation
by Kathy Brandt
Swimming with the Dead
Dark Water Dive
Dangerous Depths
Under Pressure
These fast-paced CSI diving mysteries feature Hannah Sampson, a cop, an expert scuba diver, and a homicide detective who investigates crime scenes that lie on the ocean floor. Hannah dives deep into tropical Caribbean waters where danger is only a breath away from the beauty of her surroundings. Though the ocean itself can turn violent, Hannah’s real foes are the human kind—those who murder for profit, ambition, and out of passion, often exploiting the ocean itself—the coral reef, sea turtles, mangrove colonies, even shark populations, an environment she has learned to treasure.
Swimming with the Dead
Price:
$0.99 USD.
Dark Water Dive
Price:
$2.99 USD.
Dangerous Depths
Price:
$2.99 USD.
Under Pressure
Price:
$2.99 USD.
Books
The Underwater Investigation Series--Boxed Set (4 Books)
by Kathy Brandt
Price:
$7.99 USD.
Words: 297,640.
Language:
English.
Published: June 22, 2015
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Categories:
Fiction » Mystery & detective » Police Procedural, Fiction » Thriller & suspense » Crime thriller
This fast-paced CSI mystery series features Hannah Sampson, a cop, expert scuba diver, and homicide detective who investigates underwater crime. Hannah dives deep into tropical Caribbean waters where danger is a breath away from the beauty of her surroundings. Though the ocean itself can turn violent, Hannah’s real foes are the human kind—those who murder for profit, passion, and ambition.
Under Pressure
by Kathy Brandt
Series: An Underwater Investigation.
Price:
$2.99 USD.
Words: 79,280.
Language:
English.
Published: May 14, 2015
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Categories:
Fiction » Mystery & detective » Police Procedural, Fiction » Thriller & suspense » Crime thriller
Underwater investigator Hannah Sampson is gearing up to dive on a flawless tropical morning when the sea turns to carnage—an airplane plunges into the water just yards off the bow of her boat. Minutes later, Hannah is sixty feet below the surface, vying with sharks to pull victims out of the wreckage. One is a nine year old boy who will change Hannah forever.
Dangerous Depths
by Kathy Brandt
Series: An Underwater Investigation.
Price:
$2.99 USD.
Words: 81,440.
Language:
English.
Published: May 1, 2015
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Categories:
Fiction » Mystery & detective » Police Procedural, Fiction » Thriller & suspense » Crime thriller
Trying to save an endangered species doesn’t normally target one for extinction. But detective Hannah Sampson has her doubts when friend Elyse dies in a fiery boat explosion. The local police believe it was suicide. But Hannah knows that Elyse—a staunch environmentalist—was too dedicated to preserving life to take her own. But if Hannah is going to find the killer, she'll be doing it on her own.
Dark Water Dive
by Kathy Brandt
Series: An Underwater Investigation.
Price:
$2.99 USD.
Words: 72,450.
Language:
English.
Published: April 22, 2015
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Categories:
Fiction » Mystery & detective » Police Procedural, Fiction » Thriller & suspense » Crime thriller
Homicide detective Hannah Sampson has traded the chill of the Colorado Rockies for the sunnier climes of the British Virgin Islands to become the only underwater CSI for the Tortola Police Department. But a murdered tourist and colleagues eager to sink her career have left Hannah navigating the stormy waters of betrayal, greed, and murder as cold as the deep blue sea...
Swimming with the Dead
by Kathy Brandt
Series: An Underwater Investigation.
Price:
$0.99 USD.
Words: 71,740.
Language:
English.
Published: April 11, 2015
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Categories:
Fiction » Mystery & detective » Police Procedural, Fiction » Thriller & suspense » Crime thriller
Hannah Sampson is a cop, an expert scuba diver, and leader of the Denver Underwater CSI team. When a scientist is found dead under 70 feet of tropical ocean, Sampson is summoned to the sun-drenched beaches of the British Virgin Islands to investigate. She is fully prepared to face unknowable dangers beneath the crystal-clear waters of an idyllic paradise and to seek justice.
Walks on the Margins: A Story of Bipolar Illness
by Kathy Brandt & Max Maddox
Price:
$5.99 USD.
Words: 42,510.
Language:
English.
Published: July 15, 2013
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Categories:
Nonfiction » Health, wellbeing, & medicine » Mental health, Nonfiction » Psychology » Mental illness
2014 CIPA Book Award
Mother, Kathy Brandt & son, Max Maddox weave a single compelling story of what it means to suffer from mental illness. Max takes us under the seas of psychosis as Kathy narrates her struggle to decode her son’s disease in a world beset by institutional failure. A fiercely candid story about the emotional turmoil and confusion of those who struggle with bipolar disorder.
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