Tanya Tienne was one of those kids who always had a book in her hand while growing up. From an early age she knew she would be a writer, but she did not feel compelled to actually write anything until her late twenties. By then she had married, gotten a B.S. in Information Systems, and held a "real" job for several years. Then a conversation about their future during a long drive with her husband led to a monumental decision: she quit her job and dedicated herself to writing full-time.

Her first writing attempt was a 65,000-word novel based in Cairo, Egypt which friends and family pronounced "good." The chance discovery of MINDHUNTER, the first in a series of autobiographical accounts of psychological profiling by retired FBI agent John Douglas, eventually led to her second writing adventure, CONTROL, a novel in which a disillusioned FBI profiler and a reluctant psychic find themselves chasing a serial killer across the vast Navajo Reservation. When the response from friends and family to this novel was requests for the next, Tanya decided it was worth publishing. She is now as hard at work on the second novel featuring these characters as her and her husband's recently arrived first child will allow.