Shaun Meeks lives in Toronto, Ontario with his partner, Mina LaFleur, where they own and operate their own corset company L’Atelier de LaFleur. Shaun is a member of the HWA and has published more than 50 short stories. His most recent work has appeared in Demon Rum and other Evil Spirits, Dark Moon Digest, Shadow Masters an anthology from The Horror Zine, Zippered Flesh 2, Someone Wicked and Fresh Fear. His short stories have been collected in At the Gates of Madness, and Brother’s Ilk. His new novel, Shutdown and his third collection, Dark Reaches are due out later this year. To find out more or to contact Shaun, visit www.shaunmeeks.com.
Jennifer Loring's short fiction has appeared in numerous magazines, webzines, and anthologies. Her novella Conduits will be published by DarkFuse in September 2014, and she recently signed a four-book deal with Permuted Press. Jenn holds an MFA in Writing Popular Fiction from Seton Hill University and is a member of the Horror Writers Association. She is also an editor for Red Adept Publishing. Jenn lives in Philadelphia, PA, with her husband and their turtle named—what else?—Ninja. Connect with her online at http://jenniferloring.wordpress.com.
Eric LaRocca is a writer and long-time admirer of the grotesque and the bizarre. Naturally, his childhood peers found his obsession with the work of Tennessee Williams and Dario Argento rather peculiar. Although not yet 21, he has had the honour of having his work published in several magazines such as, Dark Moon Digest, Massacre Magazine, Sanitarium, and The Horror Zine. He is also the author of several plays. Many of his theatrical pieces have seen production in his native state of Connecticut as well as in New York. Most recently, his play, Parasite, was performed by the New York City based theatre troupe, La Petite Morgue. He is currently at work on completing an anthology of short stories that concentrate on the sub-genre of “body-horror,” titled Body Shock. After completing his freshman year at the University of Connecticut, he is continuing to pursue his Undergraduate education at Western Connecticut State University.
Aaron J. French (a.k.a. A. J. French) is currently a book editor for JournalStone Publishing and the Editor-in-Chief for Dark Discoveries magazine--a professional, internationally distributed print magazine specializing in dark fiction, currently on its tenth year of continuous publication and distribution. He has worked with and edited such authors as David Liss, Norman Partridge, Gary A. Braunbeck, Thomas Ligotti, Steve Rasnic Tem, Jonathan Maberry, F. Paul Wilson, and many others. In 2011 he edited Monk Punk, an anthology of monk-themed speculative fiction and The Shadow of the Unknown, an anthology of nü-Lovecraftian fiction. His latest anthology Songs of the Satyrs will be published in 2014 and features a brand new novella from New York Times best-selling author David Farland. Aaron also served as co-editor for The Lovecraft eZine for several months in 2012.
A lifelong fan of all things Horror and one of 3 winners of the Cemetery Dance Amatuer Writer's Contest, C.W. LaSart made her publishing debut in Dark Moon Digest Issue 1 in late 2010. She has since been published multiple times by Dark Moon Books as well as Cemetery Dance Publications, Eirelander Press, Evil Jester Press, Angelic Knight Press and more. Her premiere horror collection, AD NAUSEAM 13 Tales of Extreme Horror, was released by Dark Moon Books in March of 2012. Find more at CWLaSart.com
Cameron Trost is a writer of strange, mysterious, and creepy tales about people just like you. His short fiction has been published in magazines and anthologies such as Midnight Echo, Eclecticism, Fear: A Modern Anthology of Horror and Terror, and SQ Mag. Many of these stories can be found in Hoffman's Creeper and Other Disturbing Tales. Cameron lives in Brisbane, Australia. He is the vice-president and QLD community leader of the Australian Horror Writers Association, and a member of the Queensland Writers Centre. He loves rainforests, thunderstorms, whisky, and chess. www.trostlibrary.blogspot.com
LUCY TAYLOR is the author of seven novels, including Nailed, Saving Souls, Dancing with Demons, Eternal Hearts, and the Stoker-award winning The Safety of Unknown Cities. Her stories have appeared in over a hundred magazines and anthologies, including The Mammoth Book of Historical Erotica, The Best of Cemetery Dance, Twentieth Century Gothic, The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror, and The Century’s Best Horror Fiction
Most recently her work has appeared in Miseria’s Chorale, Exotic Gothic 5, Axes of Evil, Nightmare Magazine (Jan. 14), and Best Horror of the Year #5. Her collection Fatal Journeys is due out in July 2014.
Visit her website at www.lucytaylor.us
Ken MacGregor’s work has appeared in over fifty anthologies, magazines and podcasts. Ken is a member of The Great Lakes Association of Horror Writers and an Affiliate member of HWA. Ken is a big fan of horror, but an even bigger fan of sex; combining the two was a no-brainer. Ken lives in Michigan with his family and two unstable cats.
Bear Weiter is an illustrator, animator, artist, and writer. While he has a fondness for tattoos, he does not have one; and though his stories often feature the supernatural, he is a devout skeptic (as long as the lights stay on). His fiction appears in a number of magazines and anthologies including Black Static, Atomic Age Cthulhu, LORE, and Miseria's Chorale. He previously published under the pen names Virginia Ray and Jacob Ruby, but he has locked them all away and now those voices labor for Team Bear. You can find him on Twitter @bearthw or his personal site: www.bearweiter.com.
Christian A. Larsen grew up in Park Ridge, Illinois and graduated from Maine South High School in 1993. He has worked as an English teacher, radio personality, newspaper reporter, and a printer’s devil. His short stories have appeared in such anthologies as Chiral Mad (Written Backwards), Shadow Masters (Imajin Books), Zippered Flesh 2 (Smart Rhino), and Bleed (Perpetual Motion Machine Publishing). In Losing Touch, Larsen’s debut novel from Post Mortem Press, Morgan Dunsmore, near bankruptcy and desperate to keep his marriage from dying a quiet death, discovers that he can walk through walls. When he tries to use his newfound power to repair his life, he endangers himself and his family in ways he didn't imagine. Losing Touch features a foreword by NY Times bestselling author Piers Anthony.
Larsen lives with his wife and two sons in the fictional town of Northport, Illinois. He posts regularly on his website, www.exlibrislarsen.com.
J. Daniel Stone was germinated in New York City and is still thriving there to this day. He's only been on earth for 26 years but has already been published in some cool places such as Grey Matter Press, Prime Books, Icarus: The Magazine of Gay Speculative Fiction, The Dreadful Cafe (Fall 2014) and more. His first novel, The Absence of Light, was published by Villipede Publications. Currently, his second novel is looking for a publishing house; simultaneously, he is hard at work putting together his first short story collection. Come find him on twitter @solitaryspiral
Mandy DeGeit lives in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada with her soulmate boyfriend (aka Dan #whoisnotonFB) and their many plants. Predominantly a short story writer, Mandy is now working on a few longer pieces that will be released in 2014 and 2015, including a novella, a novel and a co-written novella. Her short stories can be found in numerous anthologies, including but not limited to: 50 Shades of Decay, Quick Bite Of Flesh, LampLight Magazine, Zombie! Zombie! Brain Bang!, Shifters and Mistresses of the Macabre. When she’s not working on writing, she’s in the kitchen cooking up a storm in preparation for culinary school. She’ll be attending college in 2014 as she takes up yet another career. For more information on Mandy, follow her blog at http://mandydegeit.com/
Stacey Turner lives in West Central Illinois. Four wonderful, adult children call her “Mom,” and two beautiful little boys call her “Mimi” (Grandma). She is owned by cats. Most of her time is taken up with running Angelic Knight Press and editing, but she still finds time to review books & interview authors, write a blog about her absolutely ridiculous family, and write fiction. You can find her Author blog at www.staceyturner-authorspot.blogspot.com or follow her on twitter: @Spot_Speaks or Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AuthorStaceyTurner. To contact her about editing, you can email her at [email protected]. She enjoys editin
g because she’s bossy. And also because she revels in helping an author polish their work. She has edited several anthologies, including the upcoming No Place like Home: Tales from a Fractured Future and the more recent 50 Shades of Decay, as well as many novels & novellas for a variety of authors.
She has been published in several anthologies and online magazines. When not working, she enjoys photographing cemeteries, playing “what if,” and discussing the imminent zombie apocalypse. She does not enjoy scarecrows, creepy dolls, birds (of any sort), snakes, clowns or garden gnomes.
John M. McIlveen, author of JERKS AND OTHER TALES FROM A PERFECT MAN, has numerous stories, poems, and articles published in several anthologies, magazines, and other such places, Including 21st Century Dead, The Monster's Corner, Epitaphs, From the Borderlands, and Buzzymag.com… just to name a few. His first novel, HANNAHWHERE (paranormal suspense), is finished and en route to a kind and loving home. If luck prevails, HANNAHWHERE will get huge bids on the paperback floor and generate a brutal movie option battle between Peter Jackson and Guillermo del Toro. John is well into his second and third novels, GOING NORTH and CORRUPTION, both of which will make Oprah swoon.
John is a father to five lovely daughters, owns a shotgun, and has nerves of steel (which also defines the colour of his hair). He's an Electrical and Mechanical Designer, the O&M/MEP Liaison at MIT’s Lincoln Laboratory, and lives in Marlborough, MA with a beautiful Italian goddess. He has an affinity for black licorice, whoopie pies, and good tequila.
Kenneth W. Cain is the author of The Saga Of I trilogy (These Trespasses, Grave Revelations, and Reckoning), The Dead Civil War, and two acclaimed short story collections: These Old Tales and Fresh Cut Tales. His short stories have been published, and are forthcoming, in several anthologies and publications. He lives in Chester County, Pennsylvania with his wife and two children. http://kennethwcain.com
Chris Taggart is a Horror/Dark Fantasy/Fetish illustrator from Runcorn, UK. His cover art for Crowded Quarantine Publications includes the Dead series by Adam Millard. Chris is currently working on Beauty’s Punishment, a limited run of fetish prints, and The Wasteland, an illustrated prose piece about society. When he’s not illustrating, Chris designs beautiful one-of-a-kind tattoos for friends and clients.
Clint Millard is a tattoo artist/illustrator from Wolverhampton, UK, where he owns and runs his studio, Age of Elegance. You can check out Clint’s portfolio at http://www.elegancetattoo.co.uk/artist-galleries/
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