Author of the Margot O’Banion & Max Skull mystery series, Kit Sloane’s offbeat stories chronicle the intricacies of Hollywood filmmaking from the point of view of her protagonist, feature film editor Margot O'Banion and her significant other, director Max Skull. The first four books in the series were published by Deadly Alibi Press (now defunct) and the fifth, Extreme Cuisine, with Location Location due out January 2007, are from Durban House Publishing. A screenplay of the second in the series, Grape Noir, whose cover by her daughter Annie Sperling was an Anthony nominee in 2002 for best cover art, is bouncing around Hollywood, searching for a home.

A graduate in Art History from Mills College, Oakland, California, Kit has published short stories and many articles on the art of writing and the writing business. She served as first fiction editor for Futures Mysterious Anthology Magazine. She especially enjoys lecturing about the writing world and mentoring new writers. She is an active member of Sisters in Crime, Mystery Writers of America, and Mystery Women of the UK.

Kit and her professor husband live on a small hilltop horse ranch in Northern California's sublime wine country.