Jeffrey Round's first two books were listed on AfterElton's Top 100 Gay Books. Lake on the Mountain was the first in the Dan Sharp Mystery series and won the 2013 Lambda Literary Award for best gay mystery. He is also author of the Bradford Fairfax comic mystery series, as well as a film/stage director, television producer, and songwriter. His blog, A Writer's Half-Life, has been syndicated online. Round lives in Toronto.