Stephen D. Rogers is a multi-published writer of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Over five hundred of his stories and poems have been selected to appear in more than two hundred publications, earning, among other honors, two Best of Soft SF awards, a Derringer (and five additional nominations), two Notable Online Stories from storySouth’s Million Writers Award, honorable mention in The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror, mention in The Best American Mystery Stories, and numerous Readers’ Choice awards.
Randy Rohn is an advertising executive with more than 650 international creative awards to his credit. As a fiction writer his work has been published inOut of the Gutter #2, Out of the Gutter #5, Your Darkest Dreamspell Thriller Anthology, and The Loch Raven Review. Also, he has been published online in Powder Burn Flash, Mysterical-E, and Flash Fiction Offensive. One of his stories was picked by editors Otto Penzler and Jeffery Deaver as one of The Best American Mystery Stories 2009.
Kathleen A. Ryan is a retired twenty-one-year veteran of the Suffolk County Police Department. She is a breast cancer survivor and volunteers with Crime Stoppers of Suffolk County, Inc., and the American Cancer Society. She won a Creative Nonfiction award from PSWA in 2009 for her essay “The Watcher.” Her story “Playing with Matches” will be published by W.W. Norton in Fall 2010 in Hint Fiction: An Anthology of Stories in 25 Words or Fewer, edited by Robert Swartwood. She is currently working on a true crime memoir.
Sandra Seamans’s work has been published in Pulp Pusher, A Twist of Noir, The Thrilling Detective, Spinetingler, Scalped, and numerous other crime fiction zines.
Sandra Scoppettone is the author of nineteen novels including the most recent This Dame for Hire and Too Darn Hot, published by Ballantine.
Kieran Shea’s crime fiction has appeared in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, Thrilling Detective, Plots with Guns, and the forthcoming third Thuglit anthology from Kensington Books. He lives outside of Annapolis, Maryland.
Gerald So has been fiction editor for The Thrilling Detective website since 2001. He is also co-editor of The Lineup: Poems on Crime and a regular television/film reviewer for Crimespree and BSCReview.
Jay Stringer lives in exile in Glasgow with his better half and the permanent rain. He loves to read and write crime fiction, or anything else with a dark sense of humor, and is a contributor to www.DoSomeDamage.com. He’s represented by Stacia Decker at the Donald Maas Literary Agency, and has a novel under submission.
Albert Tucher is the author of over twenty published stories and four unpublished novels all featuring a prostitute named Diana Andrews. You can find his work on Thuglit, Beat to a Pulp, and other online zines.
John Weagly is the author of the short story collection Small Town Dreams (Twilight Tales Publications). His short stories have appeared in many crime fiction zines. In past lives, he was a playwright, a director, a comedian, and a baby photographer.
Steve Weddle is an award-winning journalist whose crime fiction has appeared at Beat to a Pulp, CrimeFactory, and elsewhere. Each Monday he blogs about crime fiction at www.DoSomeDamage.com. He can be found at www.steveweddle.com.
Jeff Vande Zande teaches English at Delta College in Midland, MI. His stories have been collected in a full-length collection, Emergency Stopping and Other Stories (Bottom Dog Press). Individual stories have appeared in Coe Review, Existere, Iron Horse Literary Review, and Smokelong Quarterly, among others. He has two novels: Into the Desperate Country (March Street Press) and Landscape with Fragmented Figures (Bottom Dog Press). In 2010, Whistling Shade Press will release Threatened Species, his novella with stories. He maintains a website at www.jeffvandezande.com.
Dave Zeltserman is most recently the author of Small Crimes, Pariah, and Killer, all published by Serpent’s Tail.
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