Shrouded: A Crispin Leads Mystery

About the Author

Meredith Lee is the pen name for the Austin-based writing

team of Dixie Lee Evatt and Sue Meredith Cleveland. Their

process includes research trips to foreign counties to sample

wine and food and, when required, the occasional dramatic

performance of a scene to make sure it “works.”

A former political writer for the Austin AmericanStatesman,

Dixie later taught writing at the S.I. Newhouse

School of Public Communication at Syracuse University. While

there she published a book, along with colleagues, on the

communication practices of small organizations, Thinking Big.

Staying Small. When she teamed up with Sue to write fiction,

they sold a screenplay treatment to a Hollywood producer.

Although the movie was never made, they used the seed

money to found ThirtyNineStars, their publishing company.

They also produced a second screenplay based on the life of a

Waco schoolteacher who was imprisoned in World War I

because of his German heritage and his work with early radio

broadcasting. That screenplay, Wireless, was a finalist for the

Chesterfield Writer’s Film Project in 2003.

Sue is an award-winning artist who has worked in

multiple media including oil, watercolor and fiber. Her earliest

publications include articles advocating childbirth education

and humanizing hospital care. Shrouded, a mystery Sue

collaborated on with Dixie, was a finalist in the 2017 Writers’

League of Texas Manuscript Contest. One Slip Over the Line,

Sue’s work-in-progress Young Adult novel, was a 2015 finalist

in the Cynthia Leitich Smith Writing Mentor Award. Sue’s

essays, literary memoir pieces, and short stories have been

featured in award-winning literary journals, magazines, and

blogs. Wireless, a screenplay she collaborated on with Dixie,

was a semi-finalist for the 2003 Chesterfield Writer’s Film

Project. Sue has written two pre-published Middle Grade

novels: A Shadow Over Silver and Blue Water Over Dark

Secrets.