Piers Anthony, whose web site is www.hipiers.com, has been writing and and publishing since 1963, with 139 books and counting. He was on the New York Times bestseller list in the 1980s with 21 titles. He and his wife of 52 years live on their small tree farm in central Florida, which resemble his fantasy land of Xanth.
Cathy Bryant worked as a life model, civil servant and childminder before becoming a professional writer. She has won 27 literary awards, including the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Prize and the Wergle Flomp Humor Poetry Contest, and her work has appeared in over 200 publications. Cathy has had three poetry collections published: 'Contains Strong Language and Scenes of a Sexual Nature' (Puppywolf, 2010), 'Look at All the Women' (Mother's Milk, 2014) and 'Erratics' (Arachne, 2018). She co-edited 'Best of Manchester Poets' vols. 1-3, and Cathy’s nonfiction book is 'How to Win Writing Competitions' (Puppywolf, 2015). Cathy lives in Manchester, UK.
Dr. Tammy Euliano’s writing is inspired by her day job as a physician, researcher and educator at University of Florida. She’s received numerous teaching awards, ~100,000 views of her YouTube teaching videos, and was featured in a calendar of women inventors. Her short fiction has been recognized by Glimmer Train, Bards & Sages, Flame Tree Press, Flash Fiction Magazine, and others. Her debut novel, a medical thriller entitled “Fatal Intent,” was published by Oceanview in March, 2021.
Angelique Fawns is a journalist and speculative fiction author. She started her career travelling the world and writing about the most bizarre people. Now she interviews publishers and authors on horrortree.com and Mythaxis.com. (Also some wonderfully bizarre people.) Check out her podcast READ ME A NIGHTMARE wherever you like listening best. You can find her short stories in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine and DreamForge Anvil to name a few of many magazines and anthologies. Learn more at www.fawns.ca
Mark began writing fiction in 2010. What began as an experiment quickly became a labor of love. Writing allows him an outlet for his unpredictable imagination, as well as an excuse to spend even more of his time listening to music. Mark finds music and writing the perfect mental connection; the nexus of focus and inspiration.
For information about Marks published books and short stories, visit his website, markwritesfiction.com.
Ken Goldman (U.S.), former Philadelphia teacher of English and Film Studies, is an Active member of the Horror Writers Association. He has homes on the Main Line in Pennsylvania and at the Jersey shore. His stories have appeared in over 910 independent press publications in the U.S., Canada, the U.K, and Australia with over thirty due for publication in 2019. Since 1993, Ken’s tales have received seven honorable mentions in The Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror. He has also penned six books including three anthologies, a novella, and two novels, Of a Feather and Sinkhole.
Noah Grace is a young, emerging writer from the UK who loves to create stories and music in equal measure. Noah's first full-length publication will be a Young Adult interactive fiction game, which is currently in the works.
Gabriel Hart lives in Morongo Valley in California’s High Desert. His debut twin novel of dipso-surrealist noir Virgins In Reverse / The Intrusion (Traveling Shoes Press) was released in 2019, with a foreword by Avant-rockabilly provocateur Tav Falco. Other works have appeared in Pulp Modern, Shotgun Honey, ExPat Press, Bristol Noir (UK), Black Hare Press (Australia), and Crime Poetry Weekly. He is a regular contributor to Lit Reactor, EconoClash Review, Space Cowboy’s Simultaneous Times podcast, as well as L.A. Record, a Los Angeles underground music publication. Hart also taught the writing workshop for Mil-Tree, a non-profit reach out program for Vets and Active Duty Military to heal the wounds of war.
Gabriel's musical alter-ego sees him as the ringleader of the L.A. based punk Wall of Sound group Jail Weddings, who released their third album Wilted Eden in 2019. Their previous album Meltdown: A Declaration of Unpopular Emotion (2013) was voted Best Album of The Year by L.A. Weekly, followed by Best Band of the Year in 2014.
Fiona M Jones is a creative writer living in Scotland. She writes very short things, not yet collected together into one volume. You can read Fiona's published work through @FiiJ20 on Facebook, Twitter or Thinkerbeat.
Nicola Kapron is a Canadian student who has just finished her fourth year of Digital Media Studies and Creative
Writing at Vancouver Island University. She's contributed poetry to Portal Magazine and non-fiction to Rebel Mountain Press's upcoming anthology Disabled Voices and Mannison Press's upcoming anthology Little Girl Lost: Thirteen Tales of Youth Disrupted. She lives in Nanaimo, British Columbia, with a hoard of books—mostly fantasy and horror—and an extremely fluffy cat.
Tim Mendees is a horror writer from Macclesfield in the North-West of England that specialises in cosmic horror and weird fiction. A lifelong fan of classic weird tales, Tim set out to bring the pulp horror of yesteryear into the 21st Century and give it a distinctly British flavour. His work has been described as the love-child of H.P. Lovecraft and P.G. Wodehouse and is often peppered with a wry sense of humour that acts as a counterpoint to the unnerving, and often disturbing, narratives.
Since breaking onto the scene in December 2019, Tim has had over seventy published stories in anthologies and magazines with publishers all over the world including Eerie River Publishing, HellBound Books, Lovecraftiana Magazine, and Madness Heart Press. His critically acclaimed debut novella, Burning Reflection (Mannison Press,) is currently available on Amazon. He is also the project leader and twisted mastermind behind the Jack The Ripper and Cthulhu Mythos mashup anthology, 13 Victims (Black Hare Press.) His novelette, Carpe Detritus (Black Hare Press,) releases on May 15th.
This year will see Tim release several stand-alone books, including the short story collection, The Pseudopod That Rocks The Cradle (Mannison Press,) and the novellas, Spiffing (Red Cape Publishing) and The Creeping Void (Eerie River Publishing.)
When he is not arguing with the spellchecker, Tim is a goth DJ, crustacean and cephalopod enthusiast, and the presenter of a popular web series of live video readings of his material and interviews with fellow authors. He currently lives in Brighton & Hove with his pet crab, Gerald, and an army of stuffed octopods.
https://timmendeeswriter.wordpress.com/
Retired after four decades' prizewinning print and broadcast journalism in Hartford CT, I received my MFA in Creative Writing from Fairfield University in 2013. I have since published more than five dozen short stories, but have two novellas and a novel still looking for publishers.
John was an English professor at Norfolk State University where he designed and taught a course in how to write Science fiction and Fantasy. He is a former Chairman of the Board of the Horror Writers Association and has published 300 stories in places such as Weird Tales, Whitley Strieber’s Aliens, Fangoria, Galaxy, The Age of Wonders, and Hot Blood. John has published two dozen books, including SF action-adventure novels such as Beyond Those Distant Stars and Speaker of the Shakk (Mundania Press), A Senseless Act of Beauty and Alien Dreams (Crossroad Press), and the Inspector of the Cross series and The Amazing Worlds of John B. Rosenman (MuseItUp Publishing).
Besides selling fifty-odd short stories, twenty-some poems and a few comics, Marie Vibbert has been a medieval (SCA) squire, ridden 17% of the roller coasters in the United States and has played O-line and D-line for the Cleveland Fusion women’s tackle football team.
She has been translated into French, Chinese, and Vietnamese! Her work has been called “..the embodiment of what science fiction should be…” by The Oxford Culture Review.
And she has finally sold a novel! Look for "Galactic Hellcats" coming out in December 2020 from Vernacular Press!
Born and raised in western Connecticut, Ronald Linson now lives in New York City. He earned a degree in Computer Information Systems from Baruch College of the City University of New York, and has found that he prefers writing to database management.
He writes mainly science fiction, fantasy, and horror, but has been known to dabble in other genres. Many of his short stories and poems can be found at http://www.bewilderingstories.com.
In November 2017, he won first place in the On the Premises Mini-Short Story Contest #35, under his real name, Morgan Schafer.
It can be found here: https://onthepremises.com/minis/mini_35/
He has a number of projects in the works, including a YA fantasy novel and collaborations on a children's series and a short story, "Overworked: A Legal Fiction," with Deidre J Owen.
Deidre J Owen was born in Lexington, Kentucky, but aside from a stint in the Canadian Maritimes she has spent a majority of her time in the Tampa Bay area in Florida. A versatile writer, Deidre has taken joy in a variety of genres including science fiction, weird fiction, speculative fiction, horror, humor, children's books, and Christian themes. She has a published children's picture book series called "The Heaven Zoo" as well as a number of short stories, novelettes, and novellas.
In 2019, she partnered with editor and fellow indie author Ronald Linson to establish independent publishing house Mannison Press. Specializing in short-form fiction, Mannison Press publishes in a wide variety of genres of varying lengths, including flash fiction, short stories, novelettes, and novellas.
Although formerly a certified veterinary technician by trade (with a quirky history of random interests), Deidre is currently loving life with her husband in Lithia, Florida, as a writer, publisher, and work-from-home mother to the couple’s young daughter.
