Sara Voorhees has been a film critic for 27 years. She was nationally syndicated on television by Conus Commuincations and from 1990 to 2001 wrote for the Scripps Howard syndicate. She is the membership director of the Broadcast FIlm Critics Association and serves on the board of the Action Coalition for Media Education. Her first novel, The Lumiere Affair, is a mystery about the culture of celebrity, set at the Cannes Film Festival. It was published by Simon and Schuster in May 2007. She lives in Corrales, New Mexico, where she and her husband have raised two children, several dogs and cats, and eleven peacocks.