A Southern California native, Louisa Bacio can’t imagine living far away from the ocean. The multi-published author of erotic romance enjoys writing within all realms – from short stories to full-length novels.

Bacio shares her household with a supportive husband, two kids growing “too fast,” and a multitude pet craziness: Four dogs, fish tanks, an aviary, hamsters, rabbits and two leopard geckos. In her other life, she teaches college classes in English, journalism and popular culture.

Check out the latest happenings via her blog http://louisabacio.blogspot.com

Ben Sperduto writes weird fiction that slithers across the boundaries of fantasy, horror, and sci-fi. The author of Blackspire and several short stories, he studies and teaches writing in Tampa, Florida. He remains optimistic that his work will one day be banned by the state or cause it to sink into the ocean.

K.Z. Morano is a writer, a beach bum, and a chocolate addict. She writes anything from romance and erotica to horror and SF, F, and WTF. Her stories have appeared in various anthologies, magazines and online venues.

"100 Nightmares" is her first horror story collection-- a book with 100 stories, each written in 100 words, with over 50 illustrations.

Visit her Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/100Nightmares

Lori M. Myers writes creative nonfiction, fiction, and plays for the stage. She is the author of Crawlspace, a collection of dark fiction and horror. Her work has been published in national and regional magazines, journals, and anthologies. She's won the Tourism Media Award for Best Print Article, and nominated for a Pushcart Prize and Broadway World Award. Her article in which she interviewed Holocaust survivors is in the archives at the National Holocaust Museum in Washington D.C.

Lori's website: www.lorimmyersauthor.com

Facebook group page: https://www.facebook.com/groups/LoriMMyers/

Facebook author page: https://www.facebook.com/LoriMMyersauthorplays/

Adam S. House is a Canadian writer currently living in Asia. If you read any of his work, let him know what you think. He likes that; positive or negative, it all helps. When he is not writing he enjoys reading, playing video games, watching movies, and photography, but is aware he should be writing instead.

Fox Emm is a freelance writer and editor living in South Carolina. She spends the majority of her time reading, writing and watching all things horror.

L.B. Shimaira is from the Netherlands, born in 1989, married and a mother. She has a Bachelor of Applied Science degree and currently works as a research technician, where she helps develop vaccines.

She considers herself a horror addict, having been into the genre since she was a little kid. As she often finds horror too predictable, she enjoys trying to make her works full of surprises.

The majority of her works are inspired by her own dreams and nightmares, giving them a vivid sense of realism. She's autistic, struggled with depression as a teen, and received therapy for PTSD in 2019.

She is polyamorous and currently identifies as pan grey-asexual idemromantic. She uses both she/her and they/them pronouns. Thinking about her own gender too much can give her quite the headache—especially since feelings fluctuate—so the term quoigender fits her best, though she's fine calling herself female. As there are a lot of labels, it's often easier to simply say she's queer.

Polyamory tends to sneak into her works, even if just a notion, and LGBTQ+ characters are always present in her novels.

On Wattpad, she shares some of her work. The first part of her horror novel They call him Lucius was featured by Wattpad itself for 3 years (2014-2017), and a paranormal thriller she co-wrote with the user Godhand under the name G.S. Lucent was featured for Halloween of 2019. She has won several user-run awards on the platform.

In May 2020, she joined the Wattpad Stars and remained a star until it disbanded at the end of 2022. She continued her Wattpad journey as a Wattpad Creator.

Gurt Dog Press welcomed her as a proofreader at the start of 2021, and she helped them out until they closed at the end of January, 2023. She will also proofread for friends when spoons permit.

You can connect with her in various ways via https://Shimaira.com

Rodolfo "Rudy" Barrett is a Master's Degree student in Writing, Rhetoric and Technical Communication at James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia. When not working as a grad assistant and tutor at his college's writing center, taking classes, or thumbing through painfully thick scholarly tomes, he likes to moonlight as a creator of literary horror fiction, whiskey enthusiast, fan of tabletop gaming, Japanese language and culture aficionado, and an advocate of a myriad of other geeky things.

Richard Ayre was born in Northumberland too many years ago to remember, and teaches History for a living. He is the author of The Prophecy Trilogy Books; Minstrel's Bargain, Minstrel's Renaissance and Minstrel's Requiem, and he has also written Point of Contact, a Sci-Fi chiller, and A Life Eternal, a speculative historical novel. He lives in the North East of England where he continues to write whenever he can. When not writing, or putting children on detention, he can be found pottering around the Northumberland landscape on his motorcycle, Tanya. You can contact Richard at www.richardayreauthor.com

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Donald Jacob Uitvlugt lives on neither coast of the United States, but mostly in a haunted memory palace of his own design. His short fiction has appeared in numerous print and online venues. Donald strives to write what he calls "haiku fiction," stories that are small in scope but big in impact.

Read the latest installments of his blogged novel at http://jiaotusendeavour.wordpress.com, or contact him via Twitter: @haikufictiondju.

Dr Charlotte Baker is an author and associate lecturer, with an interest in crime, horror and dark romance. She has nearly 80 publications, ranging from micro fiction to novels to academic articles. Charlotte enjoys spending time with little boy, drinking coffee, walking, and conversing with the various monsters that float around her imagination.

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