Investigative journalist and award-winning speaker Geri Spieler established a professional relationship with Sara Jane Moore that lasted for thirty years. This unique access to her enigmatic subject, combined with her diligent independent research, reveals information never before known in Taking Aim at the President: The Remarkable Story of the Woman who Shot Gerald Ford. Published by Palgrave-Macmillan, in bookstores January 2009.

Geri has written articles for the Los Angeles Times, was a featured correspondent for the San Francisco Chronicle, and was published in Westways magazine and Forbes. She founded and edited Electronic Commerce News, a technology journal published by Phillips Business Information, which led to a six-year assignment as a Research Director and Analyst for the Gartner Group, an international technology advising company.

Geri grew up in Southern California and now resides in the San Francisco Bay Area.

• Past president of the San Francisco/Peninsula Branch of the California Writers Club
• Chair of the 2005 Jack London Writers Conference
• Founder and Chair of the SF/Peninsula Writers Club Open Mic
• Winner-Second Place Non-fiction, 2006 San Francisco Writers Conference