Jane Isaac
Jane Isaac lives with her husband, daughter and dog, Bollo, in Northants, UK. Two of her murder mystery short stories will appear in crime anthologies by Rainstorm Press and Bridge House Publishing, due for release in 2012. An Unfamiliar Murder is her first novel.
Jane Isaac lives with her husband, daughter and dog, Bollo, in Northants, UK. Two of her murder mystery short stories will appear in crime anthologies by Rainstorm Press and Bridge House Publishing, due for release in 2012. An Unfamiliar Murder is her first novel.
Tammy Maas
Tammy Maas is a writer who moonlights as a domestic Goddess. Her debut Novella, A Complicated Life in a Small Town, is slated for publication on 2-27-2012. Tammy ghost writes for several online clients. She was published by Oatmeal Studios, and was a writer/photographer for Houston County News. Check out her blog at: animaasity.weebly.com.
Amber Hartman
Amber Hartman has been writing since she was a kid. She loves to read romance novels almost as much as she enjoys writing them. Her fifth grade English teacher and high school newspaper teacher are the people she thanks the most for her joy of writing. She currently lives in a small town with her husband and daughter, where she spends most of her days being a stay at home mother, wife and author.
Nate D. Burleigh
Nate D. Burleigh is a family man. In the light of day he works as a mild mannered Disability Analyst, but in the thralls of night his doppelganger takes over. It feverishly types away into the wee hours of the morning weaving intricate webs of horror. Nate is a widely published author with short horror stories in multiple ezines, magazines, and book anthologies. Please visit him on his facebook page and follow his work at his blog.
Lacy Lalonde
Lacy Lalonde is a 25 year old masters student living in Montreal. She loves to write fiction and secretly hopes it makes her famous one day. She has published a handful of her short stories, consisting of both genre and non-genre fiction. Payton's Way and Other Short Stories is her debut novel. You can check out more of her work through her blog, ladala.blogspot.com
Sakina Murdock
Sakina took her happy, semi-rural childhood to the grim cities and towns of West Yorkshire for her twenties and found the magic in those places too. In eight years of jobbing between office work and film and TV, she wrote and produced one eight minute film of which she is openly critical and secretly proud (Precog?). She returned to beautiful Cumbria with an honours degree in English and Communication Arts and now combines part-time geese farming and a full time job in a public health service with hedonistic cookery and compulsive bouts of writing. Autotherapy is her first novel. Web links: northeastmovies.co.uk/films/99/precog - film http://soulsubsistence.wordpress.com - food
Susan Dorsey
Susan Dorsey is the author of A Civil Death, the first in the Jane Brooks series. She lives in East Tennessee with her husband and two children. She is currently hard at work on her third novel. Learn more at susandorseybooks.com and follower her blog sjdorsey.blogspot.com
Diane Lefer
Diane Lefer is an author, playwright, and troublemaker who only commits nonviolent acts of civil disobedience unlike the criminal characters in her short novel, Nobody Wakes Up Pretty, set in her native New York City and which Rainstorm Press is publishing much to her delight. Diane now lives in Los Angeles. Her most recent short-story collection--appropriately titled California Transit, was awarded the Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction and published by Sarabande Books. With Colombian exile Hector Aristizábal she is co-author of the nonfiction book, The Blessing Next to the Wound(Lantern Books, 2010) while their theatrical collaboration, Nightwind, has toured the US, Canada, and the world, including for human rights organizations in Colombia and Afghanistan. For 23 years Diane taught in the low-residency MFA in Writing Program at Vermont College of Fine Arts and she has been a guest artist at colleges, writing conferences, and festivals, leading workshops in the US as well as Spanish-language workshops in Colombia and Bolivia.
Diane Lefer is an author, playwright, and troublemaker who only commits nonviolent acts of civil disobedience unlike the criminal characters in her short novel, Nobody Wakes Up Pretty, set in her native New York City and which Rainstorm Press is publishing much to her delight. Diane now lives in Los Angeles. Her most recent short-story collection--appropriately titled California Transit, was awarded the Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction and published by Sarabande Books. With Colombian exile Hector Aristizábal she is co-author of the nonfiction book, The Blessing Next to the Wound(Lantern Books, 2010) while their theatrical collaboration, Nightwind, has toured the US, Canada, and the world, including for human rights organizations in Colombia and Afghanistan. For 23 years Diane taught in the low-residency MFA in Writing Program at Vermont College of Fine Arts and she has been a guest artist at colleges, writing conferences, and festivals, leading workshops in the US as well as Spanish-language workshops in Colombia and Bolivia.
Tommy B. Smith
Tommy B. Smith is a writer of dark fiction whose works have appeared in numerous publications through the years to include Morpheus Tales, Every Day Fiction, Darker, Black Petals, Night to Dawn, and a variety of other magazines and anthologies. His presence currently infests Fort Smith, Arkansas, where he resides with his wife and cats. More information can be found on his website at http://www.tommybsmith.com.
Amy Durrant
Amy Durrant is a Journalism student at the University of Sheffield, UK. Her science-fiction novel, Prisms, is to be released later this year. Amy is also the founder and editor of the music webzine We Are Unseen (www.weareunseen.co.uk). She has had work published for NME, The Daily Express and on pocket-lint.com, alongside having designed a game for the original iPod Nano. In her spare time she writes poetry, songs and enjoys idling away days in the sunshine.
C.M. Saunders
Christian Saunders, who writes fiction as C.M. Saunders, began writing in 1997, his early fiction appearing in several small-press titles and anthologies. His first book, Into the Dragon's Lair “ A Supernatural History of Wales was published in 2003. After graduating with a degree in journalism from Southampton Solent university he worked extensively in the freelance market, contributing to numerous international publications including Fortean Times, Chat, Its Fate! Bizarre, Urban Ink, Enigma, Record Collector, Nuts and Maxim, and a regular column to the Western Mail newspaper. Since returning to dark fiction he has had stories published in Screams of Terror, Shallow Graves, Dark Valentine, Fantastic Horror, Unbroken Waters and several anthologies. His novellas Dead of Night and Apartment 14F: An Oriental Ghost Story are available now on Damnation Books, and 2012 will see the release of his latest, Devil's Island, on Rainstorm Press.
Christian Saunders, who writes fiction as C.M. Saunders, began writing in 1997, his early fiction appearing in several small-press titles and anthologies. His first book, Into the Dragon's Lair “ A Supernatural History of Wales was published in 2003. After graduating with a degree in journalism from Southampton Solent university he worked extensively in the freelance market, contributing to numerous international publications including Fortean Times, Chat, Its Fate! Bizarre, Urban Ink, Enigma, Record Collector, Nuts and Maxim, and a regular column to the Western Mail newspaper. Since returning to dark fiction he has had stories published in Screams of Terror, Shallow Graves, Dark Valentine, Fantastic Horror, Unbroken Waters and several anthologies. His novellas Dead of Night and Apartment 14F: An Oriental Ghost Story are available now on Damnation Books, and 2012 will see the release of his latest, Devil's Island, on Rainstorm Press.
The Nightmare Jane
The Nightmare Jane sits in Board meetings taking minutes, no one the wiser. She imagines what might happen if she showed up for work looking like this. 90% of her time is spent doing what other people tell her to, the other 10% is imagination. SUMMARY: Average woman plots to improve the quality of human civilization through writing.
Joe Filippone
Joe Filippone is currently a fulltime actor and writer living in Hollywood California whose short stories have appeared in close to forty anthologies including Thirsty Are The Damned, The Undead That Saved Christmas, Baconology and Letters From The Dead. He was also the co-editor of the anthology The Undead That Saved Christmas: Vampire Edition. Joe is also the author of the novels Real Boys Kiss Boys (CAPA award nomination for YA novel) and The Christmas Cottage.