Elaine Pascale has been writing for most of her life. She took a break from fiction in order to give birth to two children and complete a doctoral dissertation. She lives in the jungles of Florida with her husband. Her writing has been published in magazines and anthologies. She is the author of If Nothing Else, Eve, We've Enjoyed the Fruit; The Blood Lights; The Kitchen Witches; The Language of Crows; and is the editor of Dancing in the Shadows: A Tribute to Anne Rice. She enjoys a robust full moon, chocolate, and collecting cats.

Rose Blackthorn writes speculative fiction from the high mountain desert of eastern Utah.

Her short stories have appeared in such places as Stupefying Stories, Necon E-books, Interstellar Fiction, BuzzyMag, Siren’s Call and Massacre Magazine. She has also appeared in many anthologies including The Ghost IS the Machine and Fear the Abyss by Post Mortem Press, Eulogies II: Tales from the Cellar by HorrorWorld, Equilibrium Overturned and Dread by Grey Matter Press, Wrapped in Black by Sekhmet Press, and Twice Upon a Time by The Bearded Scribe Press.

Her poetry has appeared in Jamais Vu, 3 volumes of the HWA Horror Poetry Showcase, Widowmakers, and Chiral Mad 3. She has also released a poetry collection Thorns, Hearts and Thistles through Eldritch Press. More information can be found at:

http://www.facebook.com/RoseBlackthorn.Author

http://roseblackthorn.wordpress.com

https://twitter.com/rose_blackthorn

Convinced she was destined to be an artist, Suzie Lockhart attended The Art Institute of Pittsburgh after graduating high school, but the gnawing urge to write continued to challenge her. Originally, her desire was to write romance novels, but after discovering the innate ability to tell chilling tales, Suzie embraced her inner creepiness. Her middle son, Bruce realized the same passion for the macabre, so it was a natural progression to team up. Over a decade later, they have published enough short stories that they can no longer remember all of them! With dozens of paperbacks publications and e-zines to their name,

they had built a solid reputation and were asked by a small U.K. publisher to edit an anthology. ‘Nightmare Stalkers & Dream Walkers’ took second place in the 2013 P&E Readers Poll. Four more anthologies yielded another award for ‘Fractured Realms’, a charity anthology benefitting the Autism Trust.

Suzie went on to work on the highly acclaimed anthologies, "Killing It Softly 1 & 2, which both hit #2 in the P & E Readers Poll. The second installment also received a Solstice Award for best anthology!

The most recent anthology she worked on was the successful 'Scream in the Night,"

Presently, ‘Team Lockhart’ is focusing their energies writing their YA novel.

They can be reached at _suzienbruce2@gmail.com_

Suzie can be found on Facebook at Suzie Wargo Lockhart.

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Claire can't remember a time when writing wasn't part of her life. From the time she was a pre-teen, she wrote stories, most of them romances. She used to write stories with her friends, with each of them choosing a famous person or a character from their favorite TV series, and model the novels around that. One of her earliest stories, unfortunately lost to time, centered around the 1970s series Starsky and Hutch (she was partial to Starsky).

Although she read primarily fantasy and science fiction as a teenager, it didn't take long for Claire to discover Harlequin romances and their happily-ever-after endings. In a time when book covers would be ripped off the books for returns and then the actual books resold on the second-hand market, Claire devoured these coverless romances (and she regrets her role in the copyright violation), but always wanted to know what happened behind closed doors.

Fast forward and life, as life will, took precedence over creativity. She continued to write on and off, but it kept taking a back seat to other priorities such as paying the bills. When she started reading romances again, several years ago, Claire was delighted to find that the bedroom boundary first got broken, using euphemisms, and then romances went to their natural place of plain English and intense sexual situations. To her, anything goes within the boundaries of a loving relationship. She decided, if she enjoyed reading it, then she could take that natural next step and write it. And so a revived writing career was born.

Early literary influences include Anne McCaffrey, most notably her Dragonriders of Pern series, Marion Zimmer Bradley, and Elizabeth Lowell. Current authors she admire include C.L. Wilson, Nalini Singh, and Marjorie Liu.

Claire has many irons in the fire, most notably her first foray into urban fantasy as well as a paranormal series and many contemporary romances. The books she has self-published are just the beginning of what she hopes will be a long and rewarding career that brings romance to people.

The first book in her paranormal series, called "Fire Danger" is now available on Amazon!

Originally from Brookline, Massachusetts, Claire now lives in Los Angeles. In addition to writing she has an office job she loves, does animal rescue, reads and goes to movies. She loves to hear from fans, so feel free to drop her a line!

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Greetings! I write short stories and poetry in the horror, dark fantasy, and science fiction genres.

My poetry has been published in the HWA Poetry Showcase Vol. 6, The Wayfarer: A Journal of Contemplative Literature, Eternal Haunted Summer, Illumen, and FrostFire Worlds. Other poems have appeared in the anthologies Beneath Strange Stars and Wicked Witches. My short fiction has been published by Luna Station Quarterly and in the anthologies Dastardly

Damsels, Wicked Women, The Deep Dark Woods, Killing It Softly (Vol.1), and The Final Summons. My first chapbook of poetry, Interview with the Faerie (Part One): and Other Poems of Darkness and Light was published in 2013.

I’m working on a second Master's degree, another collection of short stories and poetry, and some mixed media art. I have a novel on the back shelf, collecting dust. And probably spiders.

You can occasionally find me paneling at some New England-area scifi conventions. But mostly you'll find me at home petting my two black cats and drinking too much coffee.

Gerri Leen spent her childhood and early adult years in the Seattle area but moved to Northern Virginia in the late eighties and has stayed there ever since. She began writing in her forties and credits fanfic over the public school system for teaching her how to punctuate and plot. She prefers writing speculative prose and poetry. She also writes romance under the pen name Kim Strattford. She is a full member of SFWA and HWA.

Gerri follows horse racing avidly, is big into single-origin tea, and collects art, focusing on encaustic (especially mixed media) and raku pottery.

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Valerie has been writing twisty tales since discovering writing late in life. Several of her short stories have been published in anthologies and magazines. Her debut novel, a tale of supernatural suspense titled "The Vanishing Twin," was released on October 1, 2024. She lives in central Virginia with her very patient husband and an equally patient Golden Retriever. To find out more, visit her at valeriebwilliams dot com or find her on Facebook.

Since its founding in August 2012, Crystal Lake Publishing has quickly become one of the world’s leading publishers of Dark Fiction and Horror books in print, eBook, and audio formats.

While we strive to present only the highest quality fiction and entertainment, we also endeavour to support authors along their writing journey. We offer our time and experience in non-fiction projects, as well as author mentoring and services, at competitive prices.

With several Bram Stoker Award wins and many other wins and nominations, Crystal Lake Publishing puts integrity, honor, and respect at the forefront of our publishing operations.

We strive for each book and outreach program we spearhead to not only entertain and touch or comment on issues that affect our readers, but also to strengthen and support the Dark Fiction field and its authors.

Not only do we find and publish authors we believe are destined for greatness, but we strive to work with men and woman who endeavour to be decent human beings who care more for others than themselves, while still being hard working, driven, and passionate artists and storytellers.

Crystal Lake Publishing is and will always be a beacon of what passion and dedication, combined with overwhelming teamwork and respect, can accomplish. We endeavour to know each and every one of our readers, while building personal relationships with our authors, reviewers, bloggers, podcasters, bookstores, and libraries.

We will be as trustworthy, forthright, and transparent as any business can be, while also keeping most of the headaches away from our authors, since it’s our job to solve the problems so they can stay in a creative mind. Which of course also means paying our authors.

We do not just publish books, we present to you worlds within your world, doors within your mind, from talented authors who sacrifice so much for a moment of your time.

There are some amazing small presses out there, and through collaboration and open forums we will continue to support other presses in the goal of helping authors and showing the world what quality small presses are capable of accomplishing. No one wins when a small press goes down, so we will always be there to support hardworking, legitimate presses and their authors. We don’t see Crystal Lake as the best press out there, but we will always strive to be the best, strive to be the most interactive and grateful, and even blessed press around. No matter what happens over time, we will also take our mission very seriously while appreciating where we are and enjoying the journey.

What do we offer our authors that they can’t do for themselves through self-publishing?

We are big supporters of self-publishing (especially hybrid publishing), if done with care, patience, and planning. However, not every author has the time or inclination to do market research, advertise, and set up book launch strategies. Although a lot of authors are successful in doing it all, strong small presses will always be there for the authors who just want to do what they do best: write.

What we offer is experience, industry knowledge, contacts and trust built up over years. And due to our strong brand and trusting fanbase, every Crystal Lake Publishing book comes with weight of respect. In time our fans begin to trust our judgment and will try a new author purely based on our support of said author.

To date we’ve published around 100 books, and with each launch we strive to fine-tune our approach, learn from our mistakes, and increase our reach. We continue to assure our authors that we’re here for them and that we’ll carry the weight of the launch and dealing with third parties while they focus on their strengths—be it writing, interviews, blogs, signings, etc.

We also offer several mentoring packages to authors that include knowledge and skills they can use in both traditional and self-publishing endeavours.

We look forward to launching many new careers.

This is what we believe in. What we stand for. This will be our legacy.

Welcome to Crystal Lake Publishing—Tales from the Darkest Depths.

Born in a snowy wasteland and raised by her sisters, Aelth has loved books since before she could read and was crafting stories before she could write. Still an avid reader, she lives on the edge of a forest which provides an excellent backdrop for her laptop and mug of tea.

She’s a professional nibling-wrangler (she has over 30 nieces and nephews) who values the title of “Cool Auntie” almost as much as the designation “author.” With a katana under her couch, a crossbow by the front door and bull-whip that she can indeed crack, Aelth is prepared for anything that comes her way, including battle-crazy nephews.

Mia Dalia is an internationally published, award-nominated author of all things fantastic, thrilling, scary, and strange. Her short stories of horror, noir, science fiction, mystery, crime, humor, and more have been featured in a variety of anthologies, magazines, literary journals, online, and adapted for narrative podcasts.

Her stories have been voted top ten of Tales to Terrify 2023 and shortlisted for the CWA's Daggers Awards 2024.

Featured publications include the novels Estate Sale and Haven (CamCat Books); novellas Tell Me a Story and Discordant (Anuci Press); science fiction debut, Arrokoth (Spaceboy Books); darly comedic neonoir murder mystery, Do You Know The Muffin Man? (Spaceboy Books) and the collection, Smile So Red and Other Tales of Madness (Anuci Press)

Mia Dalia is represented by Curtis Brown.

Find her online at:

X: @ Dalia_Verse

FB: DaliaVerse

Instagram: daliaverse

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