Lise McClendon is a fiction writer in Montana, although she has lived in Jackson Hole like Alix Thorssen. She also writes under the name Rory Tate. She is the author of the stand-alone suspense novel, Blackbird Fly, and has served on national boards of Mystery Writers of America and International Association of Crime Writers. Lise says: "After thirty years writing fiction has become as necessary as breathing. Finding the essential story in the novel, chipping away the rock until the solid core is revealed, is an adventure and a joy."