Authors

Jason Bickerstaff - Author of The Curse.

Stephanie Alexis Bonvissuto - Author of The Love Song of Michelle and Stefan Fricke. Stephanie is a forty-something New York based author who lives with her partner and three cats. Her stories and poems have been spotted in On Our Backs Magazine, Oysters and Chocolate, Girlphoria, Chaotic Dreams, The Scream, Factory, Outlaw Biker, Sapphic Voices, Afterburnsf, Aiofe’s Kiss, Not One of Us, The Lusty Library, and very-koi. net. When not writing she can be found at protest marches, planning coffeehouses for her community center, out on Fire Island, up at The Cape or learning Italian.

Niall Boyce - Author of Demonology. Niall lives and works in London. He has previously published fiction with the popular literary events/websites ‘Liars’ League’ and ‘Tales of the DeCongested‘. He is currently writing a gothic tale about folk traditions in rural Austria and a novel about memory loss and time travel. More stories can be found here.

Patrick Boyton - Author of Childish Things. Patrick is a writer and filmmaker with an MFA from New York University. He lives in Frederick, MD with his wife Melissa, in-laws Rich and Rose, and their pug, Lilly. Patrick is the author of “Snallygaster: the Lost Legend of Frederick County.”

Brianne - Author of Pops. Brianne’s favorite authors are Stephen King and Dean Koontz.

Lawrence Buentello - Author of The Children. Lawrence lives in San Antonio, Texas, and is the author of several published short stories and poems. He is also the co-author of the short story collection Binary Tales and the novel Reproduction Rights. You can read more about Lawrence here.

Scott Emerson Bull - Author of Desire. Scott writes his tales from the beautiful state of Maryland which also serves as the setting for many of his stories. He has appeared in various anthologies and magazines, including recent appearances in Doorways Magazine and Orson Scott Card’s Intergalactic Medicine Show.

Justin E.A. Busch - Author of Trust. Justin is an internationally performed and published composer and author. Previous stories have appeared in ‘Challenging Destiny‘ and ‘Hooligan Follies,’ and his essays have appeared in ‘CineAction‘ and ‘Wagner.’ His music may be heard on TraumSpiel Music CD 1001; his first book, ‘The Utopian Vision of H.G. Wells’, will be published by McFarland Books in late 2009.

Colin L. Campbell - Author of Looking Glass Planet. Colin lives in Kansas City, Missouri. He has been published in Atomjack and has an upcoming story in Big Pulp.

Autumn Canter - Author of Sweet October. Autumn lives in upstate New York with her comic guru husband, baby son, four belligerent felines and hundreds of books. Were there an apocalypse, she is confident she will be entertained as long as there is a source of light by which to read. Writing is her hobby, reading her passion. You can learn more about her, than you ever wanted to know, at her blog: www.felinefixation.com,

Kim Carroll - Author of Gone. Kim is on hiatus as a librarian having just relocated to Hawaii.

Kevin Catalano - Author of The Nightmares of Finnegan Graves. Kevin lives in New Jersey with his wife and teaches writing at Rutgers-Newark University. His fiction has appeared inMAG, Prick of the Spindle, and Cause and Effect Magazine.

Roger Caverly - Author of Battle In the Graveyard.

Mike Chambers - Author of The Goblin’s Deck of Cards. Mike is a software engineer working in the Life Sciences industry. When he’s not busy obfuscating lines of code, he enjoy spending time with his wife and three children.

Greg Chapman - Author of Precious Blood. When he’s not working as a public relations officer and being father to two daughters in his native Australia, Greg is having dark thoughts about bizarre and frightening things happening to imaginary characters – occasionally he puts those thoughts into words. His speculative fiction isn’t all vampires and ghosts – it also verges on the psychological and the thin grey line between good and evil. Greg has grand plans to share all his dark tales with the world. While he is a new author, he has eight years experience as a newspaper reporter.

Marc Colten - Author of Triangles, Summer of Love, Able was I... and Dust Softly Gathering. Marc was born in 1950 in Coney Island, Brooklyn, New York. His was influenced by the Cold War and the divisiveness of the Viet-Nam war. His literary influences were the novels of George Orwell and John LeCarre and the short stories of Saki and John Collier.

Patricia Correll – Author of Fur. Patricia lives in Kentucky with her husband and their cat-demon. She has been previously published in A Thousand Faces, Reflection’s Edge, and Les Bonnes Fees. She enjoys zombie movies and ice cream. You can read more about her here.

Nathan Crowder - Author of None Left Behind. Nathan grew up in the unforgiving amber of the Seventies in small-town south-western Colorado, the eldest son of librarian and a daycare provider. He was drawn to books at an early age, and spent many hours looking at the pictures in oversized library books about horror cinema, thus beginning his macabre fascination with things that go bump in the night. His first competed novel was written while working at a self-storage facility in 2005, and he hasn’t looked back since, turning out a few dozen short stories, eight novels, and two screenplays in that time.

Nara Dakota - Author of Before the Moonlight Ends. Nara published her story, “First Strap This Board to Your Feet, Then Change Your Mind,” in Mesa State College’s Literary Review, May 2006. It won both the “Student’s Choice Nonfiction” and “1st Place” awards. She also also published, “Momma,” in Mesa State College’s Literary Review, April 2005. It won the “Students’ Choice Fiction” award. She now attends veterinary school at the University of Sydney

Daniel W. Davis - Author of The Call. Daniel is a graduate student at Eastern Illinois University. To him, “horror” isn’t just a word–it’s how you should feel after you’re done reading the story. The name of a genre means little; all that matters is how you feel when you’re done reading.

Chris Deal - Author of Anhedonia. Chris has published several poems and short stories around the internet, most recently Glasgow Simile in Darkest Before the Dawn and four poems in Bicycle Review. He also regularly writes about literature at Creative Loafing. He has several stories and poems coming out in the months to come, and will be publishing a collection of micro-stories through Brown Paper Publishing in early 2010.

J.E. Deegan - Author of Do Not Read. J.E., a teacher/writer by trade, has a published collection of short stories, LIMBOLAND; a published collection of children’s stories, When I Was A Little Guy; and a published volume of poetry, The Moments In Between. His writing interest is in spooky things: of things that make us know why we are afraid of the deep woods in the dark of night.

Steven J Dines - Author of The Manny Prior Halloween Show. British writer Steven J Dines’ short fiction has appeared in over sixty online and print publications. His story, Unzipped, was selected as a Notable Story in storySouth’s Million Writers Award and recently received an Honorable Mention in The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror 2008. He is currently writing his first novel. For more information, visit his blog here.

Michael P. Dunn - Author of Symmetry and All My Yesterdays, Remembered. Michael was born in New York, and currently lives in Florida. He discovered science fiction at an early age, growing up on Lost In Space, Captain Scarlet and The Thunderbirds. He’s always had an active imagination, and started writing the day after he saw Star Wars. He divides his time between working full time and writing.

Ali Eickholt - Author of Needle and Thread. Ali Eickholt is a Colorado native who has is completing her MA in English and teaching at Colorado State University-Pueblo.

Marilyn Evans - Author of Position Wanted. Marilyn became an auditor for the pharmaceutical industry after working in medical research for 20 years. She served as editor of the Pagan magazine, The Rune, for 7 years. She lives with her husband, cats and horses in Kansas City.

Salvatore T. Falco - Author of Bringing up Bobby. Salvatore attended the University of South Florida in Tampa, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts in History and a Master of Arts in English. He now lives in Saint Petersburg, where he works as a Software Quality Assurance Engineer. He is an active member of the Florida Writers Association.

Richard H. Fay - Author of The Haunted Castle. Richard currently resides in upstate New York with his wife, daughter, two cats, and a rather confused shepherd-chow mix. Formerly a laboratory technician turned home educator, Richard now spends his days juggling various writing and art projects. History, myth, legend, and folklore all serve as inspiration for his creative endeavours. Many of the fruits of his labour have appeared in various e-zines, print magazines, and anthologies. Other examples of Richard’s work can be seen on his web site Azure Lion Productions.

Adrian Firth - Author of Final Refrain. Adrian lives in Auckland, New Zealand with his wife, cats, and a writing addiction. He has worked as a teacher, horticulturalist, bartender, web developer, and computer systems trainer. But not all at the same time.

Michael R. Fosburg - Author of LaRue and the Tinkers. He has published poetry under the pseudonym Roddy O’Donnell in The Puck Review, the Journal of Regional Criticism, and 86 Magazine. His rantings and ravings can be found here.

Dana Richard Freeman – Author of Thud, A Moment in Time and Alien Nation. A retired science teacher of 39 years, Dana has used his knowledge of the sciences to fashion stories “…with a twist.” The endings take one where they might not have expected to go.

Aaron French – Author of Charlie’s Resurrection. Aaron is a college student who’s been writing speculative fiction for the last six years. His work has appeared in the inaugural issue of Abandoned Towers Magazine (as well as various stories on their website), Wanderings Magazine, the one-year anniversary issue of the sorely missed Willows Magazine, issue #5 of Macabre Cadaver Magazine, and issue #9 of Werewolf Magazine – as well an upcoming issue of Sonar4. He resides in Tucson, Arizona, where he plays keyboard in a local alt/rock band called Think Big, and lives with his unequivocal girlfriend, Britt.

Michael W. Garza – Author of A Helpful Hand. Michael lives and works in Southern California. He spends the best part of his days with his wife and two children.

Valerie Geary - Author of None Will Remain. After receiving a Bachelor’s Degree in English from Vanguard University of Southern California, Valerie moved north to Portland, Oregon where she continued writing with the slow-moving tenacity of the undead. When she’s not writing (or throwing the tennis ball for her dog), she reads any and all books she can get her hands on and watching apocalyptic movies with the curtains closed.

Brady Golden - Author of Sweat. Brady received his MFA from the University of San Francisco. Recently, his stories have appeared in Prick of the Spindle and at ducts.org. He currently lives in Oakland, California.

Gordon Grainger - Author of The Efficiency Expert and Hero, Third Class. Gordon Grainger is an award-winning copywriter and former science columnist who writes stories that sneak up on you to reveal the familiar from a whole new perspective.

Joseph Grant - Author of Reclamation. Joseph is originally from New York City and his short stories have been published in 101 literary reviews and e-zines, such as Byline, New Authors Journal, Nite-Writer’s International Literary Arts Journal, Howling Moon Press, Hack Writers, New Online Review, Literary Tonic, six sentences, NexGenPulp, three UK literary reviews, Bottom of the World and Cupboard Gloom and two most recently in Darkest Before Dawn and a story in the upcoming anthology of horror, Northern Haunts, (available soon in Barnes & Noble, Target and on Amazon) and upcoming stories in Grim Graffiti, Heroin Love Songs and Bottom of the World #2. He has won “Story of the Month” at Bartleby-Snopes Literary Review and has earned a guaranteed spot in the 1st PRINT issue of the magazine due out in January of 2009. He has written for The New York Bar Guide (as a reviewer) and in various newspaper articles that have appeared in The Pasadena Star, Whittier News and the San Gabriel Tribune. He has published a work of verse, Indigo, with Alpha Beat Press and has completed his first novel. Joseph currently resides in Los Angeles. NOTE: Six stories of his have been recently featured in 6S Volume 1, a collection of short stories by various writers available at Amazon.

Iain Grant - Author of The Mumblies. Iain lives in Birmingham, England, where he is a member of the Birmingham Writers’ Group. His science fiction and horror stories have appeared in numerous small press collections over the last ten years.

Justine Graykin - Author of Chimera. Justine lives with 1 husband, 2 kids, 3 dogs, 7 cats and a flock of chickens on 50 acres in New Hampshire. She assists in herding the books at the local library, performs in community theater, and never misses and chance to read her various works of speculative fiction aloud. She is a member of Broad Universe and the NH Writer’s Project, and has had several pieces of short fiction published, as well as one novel, Awake Chimera.

A. Douglas Hackle - Author of The Stick Figure. A. Douglas (adh789@yahoo.com) received a Bachelor of Arts in English from John Carroll University in Ohio. In addition to his publishing debut here in The Absent Willow Review, his short story, “Don’t Cry, Yoshiko,” will appear in Issue 2 of Horror in Wordsin December 2009. He currently resides, works and writes in Cleveland, Ohio.

Susanna Hargreaves - Author of You Still Haunt Me. Susanna is a writer and educator from New Hampshire. You can read more about her here.

Kat Heckenbach - Author of A Day Better Spent and Willing Blood. Kat is a freelance writer, homeschool mom, and magna cum laude graduate of the University of Tampa (Biology). Her short fiction ranges from light-hearted fantasy to dark and disturbing. You can enter her world and learn about her novels and other writing at www.findingangel.com and www.kat-findingangel.blogspot.com.

Rick Hipps - Author of Squire William’s New Charge. With the initials ‘REH,’ Rick has always considered pulp writer Robert E. Howard as his literary mentor and guiding influence. In October 2008, Rick was asked to be a guest panelist (‘Self-Promotion for New Writers’) at Silicon in San Jose, CA. His love of fantasy novels, classic movies, and family (wife Verna McKinnon, and three cats, Molly, Bridget and Duncan) fill those few hours Rick can spare from his writing; including development of a nine-book fantasy adventure series.

S.J.Hirons - Author of A Trophy. S.J.Hirons (sjhirons@yahoo.co.uk) was born in Greenwich, England in 1973. Educated at Rugby and Cambridge, he currently resides in Leamington Spa. He has studied creative writing at the National Academy of Writing and Birmingham City University. More of his short fiction can be found in Subtle Edens: An Anthology of Slipstream Fiction from Elastic Press, SFX magazine’s “Pulp Idol” 2006 and at www.pantechnicon.net. Further pieces will appear this year in The Willows magazine and in the “52 Stitches” project.

Sylvia Hivén - Author of The Interment of Fedella and When the First Petal Falls. Sylvia was born in Sweden and relocated to the US in 2001. She currently resides in Atlanta, GA with her husband and dog, where she works in the hospitality industry.

Michelle Howarth - Author of Neighborhood Watch. Michelle’s writing has featured in Dark Fire ezine and SNM magazine. She also works as an editor for Shock Totem magazine.

Beth Hudson - Author of A Midwinter’s Kiss. Beth is a serious writer as well as a mother of three terrific sons. She has several published short stories, in anthologies and small press magazines, including a chapbook, “Following Seas” from Sam’s Dot Publishing, “The Seal King” in the Fine Tooth Press anthology “Strange Stories of Sand and Sea“, and “House Call” in the April 2009 edition of Kaleidotrope magazine. She is always hard at work on the next idea!

Gary Inbinder - Author of Nemo and Kafka Balance the Books. Gary is an attorney who recently left the practice of law to write full-time. Gary holds a J.D. from the University of La Verne (California) where he received an American Jurisprudence Award for Legal Writing, and a B.A. in English Literature from the University of Illinois, Chicago. His fiction, articles and essays have appeared in Bewildering Stories, Morpheus Tales,The Copperfield Review, Humanitas, Praesidium, Quodlibet and Touchstone Magazine. He is a member of the Bewildering Stories Editorial Review Board.

Jasmine Giacomo – Author of The Healer of Kyras. Jasmine lives in Washington State with her husband and two small children, and dreams of owning enough cats someday to be called “that daft cat lady” by the neighbors.

Michael David Gibb - Author of Edge. Michael writes because he has to, picks AC/DC’s “The Jack” and “Highway to Hell” on his electric guitar because he needs to, and plays like a fool with his two young sons because he wants to. Gibb grew up in South Carolina where the old family home had a rocking chair that rocked on its own. He frequented dilapidated colonial graveyards and even frolicked in a park where pirates were once hanged. He now lives in Ottawa, Canada, in the guise of a scary stay-at-home dad.

Jonathan Janz - Author of Throwing Monsters. Jonathan is the pseudonym of a Midwestern horror/suspense writer whose works have been published by Creative Guy Publishing, From the Asylum, Amarillo Bay, and AlienSkin.

Curt Jeffreys - Author of Gut Feeling and Exit Left. Curt has been writing fiction since 1996. His stories have been on the web at Dark Fire Fiction, Mysterical-e, Galaxy ezine, Shadow Keep, Rocket Stories! and Millenium Science Fiction. He lives in Arvada, Colorado with his beautiful wife of thirty years

Pamela J. Jessen - Author of Martian Dawn, Sleeping Dogs, Tidal Forces, Witch, Wet Spell, After Midnight, and The Cannibal. Pamela is from Colorado and has been writing poetry and short fiction for quite a few years. Her poetry has appeared most recently in Absent Willow Review and Snakeskin Poetry Webzine. Short fiction has appeared in the anthology Women Who Run with the Werewolves, Cemetery Dance, The Horror Show and Twilight Zone Magazine.

Janette Johnson - Author of Trip of a Lifetime. Jannette’s passion for writing began in her teenage years. Her stories vary from science fiction to dark fantasy-depending on her mood and the creative muse that whispers in her ear. She has one short story published with BRAVE BLUE MICE, and is an editor for the online ezine FLASH ME MAGAZINE. You can read more about Janette here.

Nathaniel Johnson – Author of Early Checkout. Nathaniel lives in Rockport, Massachusetts with his muse and two basset hounds. He is active in local writing groups and on-line at Francis Coppola’s Zoetrope Virtual Studio. His most recent publication appears in the June, 2009 issue of Boston Literary Magazine.

Ryan T. Johnson - Author of The Bridgemaker. Ryan is a writer, musician, and actor in Los Angeles, CA. He has published journalistic works in LA Weekly, but spends most of his time tickling the synthesized ivories for his bands Uberband, Rnfield, and Batlord. You can see his site here.

Ty Johnston - Author of Ogre. Ty has been writing fiction for nearly 20 years, though has only become serious about it recently while working on a series of novels. When not writing or reading, he enjoys spending time with his wife, their beagle and three house rabbits.

Waite Jorin - Author of Madeline. Waite Jorin is a writer of Science and Literary Fiction who lives in Southwest Florida. He is a staff writer for a daily newspaper in his home town, Cape Coral.

Margaret Karmazin – Author of Sound Effects. Margaret’s credits include over one hundred stories published in literary and national magazines, including Rosebud, North Atlantic Review, Potomac Review, Confrontation, Virginia Adversaria, Mobius, Chiron Review and Aim Magazine. Her stories in The MacGuffin, Eureka Literary Magazine, Licking River Review and Words of Wisdom were nominated for Pushcart awards and Piper’s Ash, Ltd. published a chapbook of her sci-fi, COSMIC WOMEN. She helped write the introduction for and has a story included in STILL GOING STRONG, a story in TEN TWISTED TALES and one coming up in MOTA 9, and a novel, REPLACING FIONA, published by etreasurespublishing.com. You can visit Margaret here.

John A. Karr - Author of His Shadowed Self. October, 2001 saw the publication of John A. Karr’s novel, Dark Resurrection (small press). Samhain Publishing, LLC has released new electronic and print versions (October 2007). Asylett Press is scheduled to publish his medical thriller, Hippocrates Shattered. Short stories have been published on webzines, including the current issue of Allegory . Raleigh, North Carolina, is home. It’s also where he day-jobs as an IT Analyst and does his best to balance family life with his need to write. Other works are in the marketing queue, and the first volume of the RHONE series (heroic fantasy) is complete. Currently he is working on a mystery with paranormal leanings.

Michael C. Keith – Author of In Time and Space. Michael is the author of a critically acclaimed memoir (The Next Better Place, 2003) published by Algonquin Books as well as two dozen monographs and several articles on electronic media subjects. He is a professor at Boston College.

Ron Keith - Author of The Empty Room. Ron lives in Arlington, Virginia, a suburb of Washington, DC. He works as a consultant, primarily writing about energy issues and the environment, but also aspires to write fiction, particularly horror.

Robert E. Keller - Author of Sand Painter. Robert E. Keller has sold a large number of short stories to various online and print magazines, including Murky Depths, Flashing Swords, Necrotic Tissue, Afterburn SF, Sorcerous Signals, Bards and Sages Quarterly, and many more. For links to free online published fiction, visit his website.

Kate Kelly – Author of Symbionts. Kate’s short fiction has appeared in a variety of print and online magazines and anthologies including Hub, Murky Depths, Pseudopod and anthologies from Hadley Rille Books. You can visit Kate here.

Jamie Killen - Author of Mapmaker. Jamie stories have appeared in a number of magazines and anthologies. She lives in Arizona.

Christi King - Author of Figgy. Christi has authored seven resource books and dozens of articles for national magazines. Her stories and poetry have appeared in Insight, The Fossil, Vision, Zelos, Qarrtsiluni, Umbrella, and Halfway Down the Stairs. She can be found blogging at http://christikrug.blogspot.com.

Matthew King – Author of Surfacing.

Ryan Kinkor - Author of Never Mind the Little Things. Ryan lives in Nevada City, California. A graduate of CSU Chico, he’s worked in education and social service fields. While fascinated with human behavior, he finds writing to be his one true passion.

Morgen Knight - Author of I Miss You, And Other Words. Morgen is a 20 year old female and has been working with words and stories her whole life. She enjoys the horror and fantasy genres.

Alec Kowalczyk – Author of Transfer of Guilt. Alec is a native of South Troy, New York. Civil engineer by day with an interest in the mechanics of poetry.

Eric J. Krause - Author of Planetary Fear. Eric pens stories from Orange County, California, just minutes away from Disneyland. When he is not writing, he is working as a substitute teacher with the goal of becoming a full-time elementary school teacher. He’s been published in a number of Internet magazines. You can view some of them from his Myspace page.

Mark Lance - Author of The Darkened Smoke Room. Mark has an MA in Archaeology and lives in Providence, RI. He has been writing horror since he was a teenager.

Robert Laughlin – Author of The Heroes, Hic Nemo Jacet & The Preacher Says. Robert lives in Chico, California. He is the creator of the Micro Award, an annual competition for previously published flash fiction. Two of his short stories are MWA Notable Stories, and his first novel, Vow of Silence, is available from Trytium.

Justin R. Lawfer – Author of Between the Toes. Justin R. currently resides in Windsor, WI, outside of the state capital of Madison. His fantasy stories, which include “Legacies,” “Jacob and the Sorceress’s Daughter,” and “Payment in Full,” have appeared on www.alienskinmag.com, www.planetmag.com, and www.theswordreview.com, respectively. He also wrote “Credit Due” which was published in Issue 3 of Tales of the Talisman. He is a lover of fantasy tales, Monty Python, and giant monster movies.

James Lecky - Author of All That Grows. James is a writer based in Derry, N. Ireland. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Sorcerous Signals, EDF, Mirror Dance, Alphelion, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Jupiter SF and the anthologies The Phantom Queen Awakes and Emerald Eye, The Best Irish Imaginative Fiction

Leroy Leonard - Author of Beauty makes Us Selfish. Leroy is a writer and actor from Denver, Colorado. His fiction has appeared in Expose, Rocky Mountain Sports, and Fate magazines. He is a founding member of Chameleon Stage Denver. His plays have been seen in numerous Colorado theatres.

Ilan Lerman – Author of Whisper. Ilan is a writer living in Edinburgh, Scotland. By day he sells expensive shiny things to old Edinburgh ladies. By night he writes dark fiction in a corner of his living-room under the unforgiving glare of an Ikea lamp. He’s been a writer for several years, but only started taking it seriously in March of 2008 and since then has had stories accepted for publication in places such as Hub Magazine, The Harrow, Neonbeam and Dark Tales.

Miguel Lopez de Leon - Author of The Bridge and Break. Miguel is a writer living happily in Los Angeles. Miguel’s short fiction has appeared in numerous publications, including The Shine Journal, The Oddville Press, Gold Dust Magazine (UK), Fantastic Horror and The Cynic Magazine. Novel excerpts, video readings and book trailers for The Hillside Chronicles series can be found at his website

Steve Lowe – Author of Wolves Dressed as Men. Steve is a sports journalist and fiction writer residing in South Bend, Ind. with his wife and two sons. He has been previously published in many newspapers, national and regional magazines and ezines. In his spare time, Steve enjoys writing third-person autobiographical blurbs.

Donald Lunsford - Author of The Light That Leads to Darkness. Donald is a new writer that writes cross genre fiction.

Jodi MacArthur - Author of A Lick of Fate. Exiled in deep southern Texas, Jodi is a Seattle author hoping to write her way back to the Pacific Northwest. In her spare time, she twitters at her beloved finches, Edgar and Emily, and drinks coffee – but never at the same time. Her short stories have been published at Six Sentences, and forthcoming in Yellow Mama’s Halloween edition

K. J. MacArthur - Author of Travelling Incognito and Hole in a Bottle. K. J. MacArthur lives New Hampshire. He has a Bachelor’s in Physics and has been a Research Technician for the UNH Physics Department (building nuclear particle detectors and also devices related to improving MRI systems), a Software Engineer, a Technical Writer and many other odd things that make life interesting and pays the bills.

Christopher Mari - Author of Greener Grasses. Christopher received his education at Fordham University. His fiction, nonfiction and poetry have appeared in a number of publications. He is also the editor of four reference books.

Richard Marsden - Author of Space Vampire!, Robert F. Munroe. Richard was born in Canada and currently is a resident of Arizona. He has been fencing with the rapier for fifteen years, dabbles in economics and holds a Masters Degree in Land Warfare courtesy AMU. You can read more about Richard here.

Timothy Masters – Author of The Old Man of the Forest. Timothy lives in the mountains of rural Pennsylvania with five dogs, 18 computers, and a fabulous wife. He works as a freelance programmer and mostly writes nonfiction, although he dabbles in fiction when the mood strikes.

S. D. Matley – Author of The Auditor, Knackers and Inheritance. S. D. Matley lives in Prescott, WA with her husband, 1 dog, 3 cats and thousands of acres of wheat. Her short stories have been published by The Absent Willow Review and THEMA Literary Journal. By day she is half of the music duo Nevada Slim & Cimarron Sue, and has recently added accordion playing to her list of day job skills.

Adam Mayes - Author of Free Fall. Adam is working on his first novel titled The Interloper and has had one short story, The Voice, published in the ezine AlienSkinMag.com in August/September of 2008.

Lynette Mejia - Author of Becoming and The Last Fairy Tale. Lynette’s stories have appeared in Niteblade, Everyday Weirdness, and The Absent Willow Review. She lives in Lafayette, LA, and is working on her first novel. You can read more about Lynette here.

Brian Merklin - Author of Monsters, Monsters Everywhere. Brian keeps himself from starving by working as a paramedic. Writing has now taken on the additional purpose of keeping him sane while juggling a full-time job and full-time classes.

Michael Meyerhofer – Author of Career Day, 2136 A.D. Michael Meyerhofer’s second book, Blue Collar Eulogies, was just published by Steel Toe Books and is available now on Amazon. His first book, Leaving Iowa, won the Liam Rector First Book Award. He has also published four chapbooks. His work has appeared in Asimov’s, Strange Horizons, On Spec, Ploughshares, Quick Fiction, and other journals, and can be read online here.

Jeffrey Miller – Author of Tinni and the Chain. Jeff is a graduate of the Creative Writing program at the University of Arkansas. He has had a number of short stories appear online at website such as Aphelion.

S.P. Miskowski - Author of Devil’s Club. S.P’s stories have been published by Horror Bound Online Magazine, Identity Theory, Black Ice, Other Voices, and The Stranger. The story collection Red Poppies: Tales of Envy and Revenge is available from many booksellers and stores online. S.P. also writes a reader blog for horror fans, called Shock Room, at the Seattle P-I.

C. Dennis Moore - Author of Billy Ray’s a Good Boy. C. Dennis has published over 50 short stories in and around the horror genre, including 2 novellas and a short story collection, TERRIBLE THRILLS. By day he works as an inventory control clerk.

Sunny Moraine - Author of And Would Suffice. Sunny moonlights as a writer with whatever time her pursuit of a doctorate in sociology leaves her, which is not as much as she’d like. Her work has appeared in several anthologies, including “Like a Thorn” and “Like a Long Road Home”. She lives in a Hobbit hole outside Washington DC with her fiancé, two cats, and the voices in her head. You can visit Sunny here.

Victoria Clayton Munn - Author of Transformation. Victoria wrote her first book at age six, and shows no signs of stopping. She is a writer and poet who has been published in various online and print ‘zines, including Poor Mojo’s Almanac(k), Right Hand Pointing, Boston Literary Magazine, decomP and more – as well as a chapbook “Two Lips”. She lives near Albany NY with her husband and daughter. Visit her here.

Lori M. Myers – Author of The Man Upstairs. Lori is an award-winning writer of fiction, creative nonfiction, and playscript. Her fiction has appeared in PHASE, Holy Cuspidor, and Innsmouth Press. She recently obtained her masters degree in creative writing from Wilkes University. You can read more about Lori here.

Robert Norton - Author of Across of Ashes.  You can read more about Robert here.

Heather Parker – Author of Deliverance. Until recently Heather worked for the University of Cumbria but now writes semi-professionally. She has won prizes in several major UK literary competitions and many of her stories have been published in popular British and American magazines. One has recently appeared in an anthology and her new novel will be published shortly by Drollerie Press. You can visit Heather at her site here.

Astrid Perkins - Author of The Magistrate. Astrid lives in Maine. She regularly escapes from her otherwise thoroughly drab life with flights of fantasy in fiction.

Anne Petty – Author of The Veritas Experience. Anne lives in rural north Florida, and is best known for her books on J.R.R. Tolkien – One Ring to Bind Them All and Tolkien in the Land of Heroes (Mythopoeic Society Awards Finalist 2005) – her dark fantasy novel, Thin Line Between, and her book about famous fantasy authors, Dragons of Fantasy. She has also published essays in lifestyle magazines like Florida Living, literary journals such as Tolkien Studies, and academic anthologies on mythology and folklore, Tolkien, pop culture, writing, and publishing. Anne has a Ph.D. in English from Florida State University. You can visit Anne’s site here.

D.R. Pinney – Author of The Wizard’s Birthday. D.R. is a writer from Binghamton, NY and now resides in Buffalo, NY. A portion of his Novella, “The Hero’s Journal: June 4,” was recently published in the anthology Nickel City Nights.

David Pinnt – Author of For Want of a Nail. David works for the federal government and lives in a suburb of Denver, Colorado with his lovely wife and myriad children and animals. In his spare time (what there is of it) he tries to write high-end literary fiction; however the end result is always something much like the story you’ve just read. Go figure. His fiction is also appearing this year in Arkham Tales and the Permuted Press anthology The World is Dead. He keeps a sporadically updated blog.

Aaron A. Polson - Author of The Surgeon of An Khe and Uncle Bobby. Many of his stories take place in the fictional town of Springdale, Kansas, a strange place modeled after his own hometown. He currently lives in Lawrence, Kansas with his wife, two sons, and a tattooed rabbit. His stories have appeared in Reflection’s Edge, Necrotic Tissue, Monstrous from Permuted Press, and other publications. You can visit him on the web.

Stephen Pope - Author of Roaming. Stephen has been writing off and on for a while, mostly for his own enjoyment. This story was previously reviewed by Mike Resnick at a workshop.

David J. Rank – Author of Jinxed. David is a working journalist in eastern Wisconsin with tendencies of writing dark fiction. He has always been fascinated by what he sees staring into shadows. His short stories have been published online in AlienSkin, Apollo’s Lyre, and MicroHorror, as well as regional literary publications.

Carl Rauscher – Author of In the Shadow of the Oak. When Carl was young, his mother said he could do anything and he’s tried hard to accomplish just that. He drove a nuclear submarine, hunted squirrel with a slingshot, got kicked out of the Rocky Horror Picture Show, drove a commercial truck, sailed across Long Island Sound in a rented boat, ordered food in a foreign McDonalds, and appeared in a major film (or at least his elbow did). Despite his colorful history, he lives a fairly normal life in Maryland with his wife and two children, yet still finds time to read books, write stories, and make others laugh.

Timothy P. Remp & Peggy McFarland - Authors of Claims. Timothy P. Remp, a member of the New England Horror Writers association, has had several short stories published and his micro fiction appears on the Six Sentence website and in their anthology, 6S Volume 2. He is working on his Bachelor’s Degree in English at the UNH while working for FairPoint Communications as a broadband specialist. Peggy McFarland is featured on-line at WordSlaw and is January’s “Six of the Month” winner at Six Sentences. Her micro fiction appears in the anthology 6S Volume 1 and 2. She lives in New Hampshire with her family and bartends to earn money.

Joshua M. Reynolds – Author of The Door of Hours. Joshua is a freelance writer of moderate skill and exceptional confidence. He has written quite a bit, and some of it was even published. For money. By real people. You can find him here.

Aurelio Rico Lopez III - Author of Vile. Aurelio is an avid fan of the “weird stuff.” His poetry has been featured in dozens of publications and e-zines, including Mirror Dance, Membra Disjecta, Sybil’s Garage, Fear and Trembling, Electric Velocipede, Hungur, and Mythic Delirium. He is also the author of the haiku chapbooks JOLTS and SHOCKS (Sam’s Dot Publishing).

Liz Ringrose - Author of Bill and La Belle Madame. Liz writes novels but sometimes wanders into short story writing. She has had poetry, articles and short stories published in British magazines. This year her novel Unwrapping Angelo was one of six titles shortlisted for the Daily Mail First Novel Award.

Kevin Risk – Author of The Incredible Vanishing Cannibal. Kevin lives in Toronto with his cherished wife, and the thing under their bed.

Julia Roberts - Author of Empty. Julia has lived and worked in East Anglia (UK) for most of her life, finding inspiration for her ghost stories from the haunting landscape.

Philip Roberts - Author of Catching Back Up and Within A Fictional Truth. Philip lives in Overland Park, Kansas and holds a degree in Creative Writing with a minor in Film from the University of Kansas. As a beginner in the publishing world, he’s a member of the Horror Writer’s Association, and has had numerous short stories published in both print and online magazines, such as Twisted Dreams Magazine, Byzarium, and The Horror Library. More information on his works can be found here.

William P. Robertson - Author of Hourglass. William is a veteran writer whose work has appeared in over 480 magazines, webzines, and anthologies worldwide. He has also published three collections of macabre tales and poems entitled LURKING IN PENNSYLVANiA, DARK HAUNTED DAY, and TERROR TIME.

Jason Rolfe – Author of A Dream of You and In the Valley of Dry Bones. Jason writes speculative fiction. His short stories have recently appeared in Hypersonic Tales, The Absent Willow Review, Horror Bound Magazine, Crossed Genres, The Willows, and The Harrow. His book reviews can be found at Horror Bound Magazine. You can visit Jason here.

Galen Rossop - Author of Confessions of a Well Dressed Zombie. Galen wrote over a thousand songs before he reached the age of 17 and thousands more since. He became a rock n’ roll performer, audio engineer, composer, promoter, along with being a cutter and wholesaler of gemstones. He’s written children’s books, adult novels, poems, stories, movie treatments, magazine and newspaper articles along with a potpourri of multi media advertising and humor. He shared a writing credit with Ralph Nader while serving as a writer in Jerry Brown’s presidential campaign. He has just finished a sci-fi fantasy, “When Robots Dream”. He has also completed two CDs with the Robots From Mars, “When Robots Dream” and “It’s All So Clear From Here”. You can learn more about Galen here.

Abby “Merc” Rustad - Author of Kayen’s Fortune. Abby “Merc” Rustad lives and writes in Minnesota, and avoids fortunetellers. She’s had fiction published in The Town Drunk, Tower of Light, Alternative Coordinates, M-Brane SF, Fusion Fragment, AlienSkin Magazine and others. One day she will take over the world.

Catherine Schaff-Stump - Author of The Love Song of Oliver Toddle. Catherine Schaff-Stump is a writer of fantasy for both children and adults. Her novella “Sister Night, Sister Moon” is available in the collection Needles and Bones from Drollerie Press. Her first novel Hulk Hercules: Professional Wrestler is coming from Cats Curious Press in January of 2010. More information about her hijinx can be found at her website.

Darren R. Scothern - Author of The Key to Heaven’s Gate. Darren is the author of many shorts stories, and the novel Blood Brothers. He lives in Sheffield, England. Darren’s official web presence can be found at http://www.freewebs.com/darrenrscothern

J. Troy Seate - Author of Alone , Three Poems, and The General Store. J. Troy has written everything from humor to the macabre. His short stories and poems appear in several magazines, journals and webzines. His two anthologies, Descent into Darkness and From the Depths of Darkness, and his two suspense thrillers, Chosen, and Shanghai is Crying are available through amazon.com and most bookstores. J. Troy lives in Golden, Colorado. Visit him on his website.

Craig S. Shoemake - Author of The Dreams of Mr. Goodall. Craig is a Maryland native who has circled the globe, living in Japan, Sri Lanka, and South Korea. Currently, he works in Boston managing grant money dedicated to curing various horrible diseases. He has completed his first novel, which he is seeking to publish, and is now working on a second.

Lucien Spelman - The Author of The Wavelength of Maybird. The son of American gypsy entertainers, author Lucien was born and educated on the road, instilling in him a sense of adventure, wonder, whimsy (some may say caprice), and the driving desire to disassemble the woof and warp of the human condition. He has made his living as a flamenco guitarist, actor, stuntman, and ferry boat captain. He has always been a writer. He is a graduate of NYU Playwrights Horizon Workshop ‘88 (Full Scholarship), San Francisco/Bay Area Stuntman’s Association ‘90-’92, and The E-ville Writers Workshop ‘00. He has most recently been published in Susurrus Magazine, Apex Digest, Blood, Blade, & Thruster Magazine, The Willows Magazine, and Niteblade, with upcoming work in Champagne Shivers, and as a featured author in the upcoming Gentleman of Horror Anthology 2009. He lives in Boston, Massachusetts with his wife, son, and an exquisitely ugly little pug.

Mark Stawecki - Author of Boom Hiss Jane. Mark lives in Phoenix, AZ where he is active in the indie film industry and local poker tournaments. He’s enjoying the weather much better than his native home of New Hampshire.

Daniel Stephens – Author of Lowell’s Loss. Daniel is a UK-based writer and editor of online film journal Strange Conversation. As well as working for the UK’s leading DVD review website DVD Times as a film critic for five years, he has seen fiction published in print and online in the UK, Australia, and the USA. You can visit Daniel here.

Erin E. Stocks – Author of Skinned. Erin is a writer living and working in Oklahoma City, OK.

Graham Storrs – Author of The Earth Ship. Graham is a speculative fiction writer living in Queensland, Australia. A former research scientist, IT consultant and award-winning software designer, he now lives and writes in a quiet corner of the Australian bush. His writing credits include short stories in Bewildering Stories, Concept Sci-fi, and the forthcoming anthology Masques (ed G. Pollack and S. Hopkins) another story was broadcast on a national radio program. His writing credits also include three children’s science books, over a hundred magazine articles, and more than thirty academic papers and book chapters. You can view his online presence here.

Dariel Suarez - Author of The Clockworker. Dariel was born in Havana, Cuba, where he lived until 1997. He currently resides in Miami, FL with his wonderful wife and a large number of books. He is attending Florida International University, where he was a winner in both the Fiction and Poetry categories at the 2009 Literary Awards. Dariel’s works have appeared or are forthcoming in several publications including elimae, Bent Pin, Vain, The Heron’s Nest, Foundling Review, Every Day Poets, and The Cynic.

A.W. Sullivan – Author of Normal. Anthony writes mostly speculative fiction from his home town of Louisville, KY. He pays the bills by writing financial software for a Fortune 500 healthcare company. His hobbies include astronomy, photography and video games. He is married to a wonderfully patient woman and has one rambunctious son. You can visit Anthony here.

Wayne Summers - Author of Warming. Wayne was born in rural Western Australia. He now lives and works as an English language teacher and counsellor at a small university in the city of Perth. He has been getting his work published in the UK and the US regularly over the past two years and is working on a novella. He currently has stories in Aphelion, Concept Sci-Fi E-zine, Night To Dawn #14, Issue 23 of Theaker’s Quarterly Fiction (for which he designed the cover), Morpheus Tales, Cemetery Moon, Mirror Dance, Grim Graffiti, Chimeraworld, fourteen stories on MicroHorror and another on Whispering Spirits.

Keith Sutherland - Author of What Drives You? Keith lives in Farmingville, New York. A father of two and a student at SUNY Empire, he spends his midnight hours exploring the dark corners of his mind, writing of monsters real and imagined. You can visit Keith here.

H. Syn – Author of Carbon Dreams.

Breanna R. Teintze - Author of Remember.

Deborah Walker - Author of The Illegal Baby Lottery. Deborah lives in London with her two lovely, yet distracting children. She has recently had acceptances from; AlienSkin; Atomjack; Bards and Sages; 55 Stitches; Arkham Tales; Sonar 4 ezine; Sonar 4 Mag; Golden Visions; Drunk and Lonely Men and Poe Little Thing.

Derek Ivan Webster – Author of The Binder and A Bridge to Nowhere. Raised in a tiny Alaskan fishing village, educated at Yale University, Derek is a writer that appreciates a good contrast. A victim of the freelance lifestyle, it is only his sage wife and precious/precocious little girls that keep him sane. Read more about him here.

Richmond Weems- Author of The Mediocrity Principle. Richard was born in a rough and tumble upper-middle class neighborhood, where he learned to lie and tell stories to get the girls. Which explains why he never got the girls. But he’s never stopped lying.

Jill Weinberger - Author of Getting Away With It. Jill is a web journalist whose writing on new media has been syndicated to Salon.com and the website for the New York Times. She is also the winner of the Austin Film Festival’s award for Best Teleplay, Drama.

Simon West-Bulford – Author of The Box. Simon, lives in Essex England earning his keep as a Clinical Trials scientist. He is currently working on his fourth novel – “The Soul Consortium”.

J Westlake - Author of The Dog. J. Westlake lives in Wales, in the U.K. His fiction is usually in the realms of horror and science fiction, and many of his stories are a mixture of both. His work has appeared in Murky Depths Magazine, as well as in Withersin Magazine. He has also had work appear on the award-winning Variant Frequencies podcast. To find out more, go to www.jwestlake.wordpress.com.

Nancy Widrew - Author of To Dance With the Bogeyman. Nancy has been writing obsessively for two years. Her taste is eclectic although horror is a favorite.

Paul Williams – Author of Remote Viewing. Paul is a British writer whose work has appeared in magazines on both sides of the Atlantic. His first book, “Howls of Imagination“, a study of the wolf in folklore was published by Heart of Albion Press in 2007. You can visit Paul and lend him your support here.

David A. Wimsett - Author of Time and Tide. David was born in Burbank, California directly between Walt Disney and NBC studios. He immigrated to Canada in 2001 and lives in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Over the years he has been a software developer, a writer, a photographer, and a stage actor. Mr. Wimsett is a member of the Professional Writers Association of Canada (PWAC) and writes a technology column for the online magazine “BoomersForever.com”. He won second place in the 2008 Philip Mangelsdorf Excellence in Writing Contest for his short story “Shoot”.

Benjamin Winship - Author of Time Freeze. Ben graduated from Azusa Pacific University with a degree in English. He has published two poems (spokenwar.com & Everydaypoets.com).

Lee Wright - Author of The Fear Inside. Lee lives and works in the Chattanooga, Tennessee area. He is the author of one produced play, ‘Haint Blue‘, which won the Chattanooga Theatre Centre’s 2009 Best New Play contest.

Angel Zapata – Author of Dreams of the Scarlet Blossom and The Little Pyromaniac. Angel Zapata was born in NYC, but currently resides just outside of Augusta, Georgia. Some of his flash fiction and poetry has appeared or is forthcoming on Powder Burn Flash, Doorknobs & Bodypaint, Every Day Fiction, Every Day Poets, Membra Disjecta, Flashes in the Dark, and The Daily Tourniquet. He is husband to his blond goddess and father of four boys obsessed with all things ninja. He occasionally blogs.

Thomas Zimmerman - Author of The Eternal Widower. Thomas works as a community college English teacher and edits 2 college literary magazines. His poems have appeared recently in Kaleidotrope, Perpetual Magazine, and Abandoned Towers.