J. A. KONRATH has written a lot of books and short stories. You can visit him at www.JAKonrath.com, or at the local bar. He’s probably there right now.
JOHN R. LITTLE won the Bram Stoker Award in 2009 for his book, Miranda. His first novel, The Memory Tree, was published in 2007, and all five of his books have been very well received. John has a short story collection, Little Things, being published in late 2010, and following that are a couple of thrillers he is currently writing. You can see what’s up with John’s writings at www.johnrlittle.com.
SHARYN MCCRUMB is an award-winning Southern writer, best known for her Appalachian “Ballad” novels, including the New York Times bestsellers She Walks These Hills, The Rosewood Casket, The Ballad of Frankie Silver, and The Songcatcher. Her most recent novels are The Devil Amongst the Lawyers, a Ballad novel set in Wise, Virginia, in 1935; and Faster Pastor, a comic Southern novel coauthored with NASCAR driver Adam Edwards. St. Dale—The Canterbury Tales in a NASCAR setting—won a 2006 Library of Virginia Award, the AWA Book of the Year Award, and was featured at the National Festival of the Book. In 2008, Sharyn McCrumb was named a “Virginia Woman of History” for Achievement in Literature. Her other honors include: AWA Outstanding Contribution to Appalachian Literature Award; the Chaffin Award for Southern Literature; and the Plattner Award for Short Story. She lives and writes in the Virginia Blue Ridge.
SCOTT NICHOLSON is the author of ten novels, including Drummer Boy, The Red Church, The Skull Ring, and Disintegration. He has published more than sixty stories, including the collections Ashes, The First, and Flowers. Nicholson is also creator of the comic series Dirt and Grave Conditions and has written six screenplays. He lives in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina, where he works as a journalist and freelance editor. His website is www.hauntedcomputer.com.
MARK ONSPAUGH is a native Californian whose childhood was warped by a whole lot of monster movies, DC Comics, and science fiction. He’s a proud member of the HWA and his film, Kill Katie Malone, is seeking distribution as he writes this. He’s published some thirty short stories in anthologies like Footprints, The Book of Exodi, Dead Bait, The World is Dead, Return of the Raven, Dead Set, The Zombist, Triangulation: End of the Rainbow, War of the Worlds: Frontlines, Timelines, and OZ: Shadows of the Emerald City. His essay on monsters will appear in the slasher compendium Butcher Knives and Body Counts from Dark Scribe Press. He’s working on a couple of novels and stays out of graveyards after dark. He lives in a well-lit house in Los Osos with his wife, writer/artist Dr. Tobey Crockett and two space-warping cats. Please visit him at his website, www.markonspaugh.com.
AARON POLSON was born on the Ides of March: a good day for him, unlucky for Julius Caesar. He currently lives in Lawrence, Kansas, with his wife, two sons, and a tattooed rabbit. To pay the bills, Aaron attempts to teach high school students the difference between irony and coincidence. His stories have featured magic goldfish, monstrous beetles, and lullabies for baby vampires along with other oddments. You can visit Aaron at www.aaronpolson.com.
DANIEL PYLE lives in Springfield, Missouri, with his wife and two daughters. Despite his certainty that swarms of testotserone-laden boys will someday come buzzing at his door, he has a full head of hair. For now. Read his debut novel, Dismember, available now from Wild Child Publishing.
MIKE RESNICK has won five Hugos (and been nominated for thirty-four). According to Locus, he is the all-time leading award winner, living or dead, for short fiction. He is the author of 61 novels, over 225 short stories, and two screenplays, and has edited more than forty anthologies. His work has been translated into twenty-five languages.
LEZLI ROBYN is an Australian writer who made her first professional story sale in November 2008, and since then has gone on to make seven more, to American markets such as Clarkesworld, Jim Baen’s Universe, Asimov’s, Analog, Hadley Rille Books, DAW, and Tor’s 50th Anniversary Twilight Zone anthology, alone or in collaboration with Mike Resnick. She has also resold those stories to foreign fiction markets in China, Poland, Russia, Greece, Italy, Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Spain, and Slovakia. She was recently nominated for the Best SF Short Story Aurealis Award for a novelette she wrote with Mike, “Soulmates,” as well as having just found out she’s made the Campbell Award for best new writer.
JEFF RYAN’s Super Mario: A Biography will be published by Penguin’s Portfolio imprint in 2011, provided the world lasts that long. What if the Mayans forgot to carry the one, and we’re really doomed a year or two early? What if the Giant Space Baby (circa 2010, after all) eats us? Jeff lives in New Jersey with his wife and daughters, although Jersey itself may be a wasteland of filth and despair by the time this sees print. That is, a bigger wasteland of filth and despair.
D. L. SNELL created a game on his website where he’s a zombie and you get to shoot him in the head. Snell, along with screenwriter/producer Richard Finney, coauthored “the best damned horror novel” Ray Garton has read in ages, titled Demon Days. Snell’s website is exit66.net.
LUCIEN SOULBAN (www.luciensoulban.com) is a videogame scriptwriter and novelist living in beautiful Montreal. He was story designer for Rainbow Six: Vegas, Deus Ex 3 and Farcry 3 as well as having written numerous other scripts like Warhammer 40K: Dawn of War, The Golden Compass, Kung-Fu Panda, Dawn of Heroes, and Kim Possible 3. He’s written five novels including Dragonlance: Renegade Wizards and Warhammer 40K: Desert Raiders, and contributed to numerous anthologies including Horrors Beyond 2, Butcher Knives and Body Counts, Book of All Flesh, Dark Faith, and the HWA’s original horror comedy anthology, Blood Lite.
Despite taking creative writing classes in the 1980s, ERIC JAMES STONE did not begin seriously writing fiction until 2002. Since then, he has sold over twenty stories to the Writers of the Future, Analog, and Intergalactic Medicine Show, among other places. Eric lives in Utah, has a website at www.ericjamesstone.com, and is not in the Federal Witness Protection Program.
JEFF STRAND’s novels include Benjamin’s Parasite, Pressure, Casket For Sale (Only Used Once), and Dweller. Plus a bunch more. He had a story in the original Blood Lite and is pleased to have a second opportunity to ride the coattails of more successful authors. Check out his Gleefully Macabre website at www.jeffstrand.com.
JORDAN SUMMERS is a multipublished author who made the jump from small press to New York by winning writing contests. She’s written nine novels and nine novellas in genres ranging from erotic romance to horror. Her latest release, Crimson (Tor) completed her Dead World trilogy—a post-apocalyptic twist on Little Red Riding Hood. She also writes urban fantasy and young adult fantasy under the name T. R. Allardice. For information, visit www.jordansummers.com and www.trallardice.com.
JOEL A. SUTHERLAND is a full-time librarian and the Bram Stoker Award–nominated author of Frozen Blood (Leisure Books, 2010) and Be a Writing Superstar! (Scholastic, 2010), a children’s creative writing book. He lives in a small town east of Toronto with his wife, Colleen, their son, Charles, and beloved dog, Murphy, who likes to go for long walks in the woods near the local Christmas tree farm. Sutherland is currently writing a second horror novel to be published by Leisure in 2011. Visit him online at www.joelasutherland.com.
STEVE RASNIC TEM’s latest book is In Concert from Centipede Press, a collection of all his short story collaborations with wife, Melanie Tem. Also available is their collaborative ebook Daughters (dark fantasy adventure from macabreink.com) and Steve’s Invisible, (a six-CD audio collection from speaking-volumes.com).
CHRISTOPHER WELCH is a happily married freelance writer, reporter, and book reviewer originally from Akron, Ohio. He currently lives in Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin, where he works for the local newspaper and news radio station. He also teaches part time at Madison Area Technical College. He earned a B.A. and a M.A. in English from the University of Akron, with a minor in creative writing. Welch’s poetry, fiction, and nonfiction have appeared in various small press and professional publications, including the anthologies Catopolis, Dark Wisdom: The Best of Dar
k Fiction, and the first volume of Blood Lite. Welch has always thought clowns were cool, especially those driving around in tiny cars.
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