Cast of Contributors
Eric S Brown is a 35 year old author living in NC with his wife and son. He has been called “The King of the Zombies” by places like Dread Central and was featured in the book Zombie CSU: The Forensics of the Living Dead as an expert on the genre. Some of his books include Space Stations and Graveyards, Dying Days, Portals of Terror, Madmen’s Dreams, Cobble, The Queen, The Wave, Waking Nightmares, Unabridged Unabashed and Undead: The Best of Eric S Brown, Barren Earth, Season of Rot, War of the Worlds Plus Blood Guts and Zombies, World War of the Dead, Zombies II: Inhuman, Tandem of Terror, and Bigfoot War. He was the editor of the anthology Wolves of War (Library of Horror Press). Some of his upcoming titles include How the West Went to Hell, The Human Experiment, Anti-Heroes, The Weaponer, and Kinberra Down. His short fiction has been published hundreds of times. Some of his anthology appearances include Dead Worlds I,II, III, and V, The Blackest Death I & II, The Undead I & II, Dead History, Dead Science, Zombology I & II, The Zombist, and the upcoming Gentlemen of Horror 2010 to name only a few. He also writes an ongoing column on the world of comic books for Abandoned Towers Magazine (which recently won the Preditors and Editors’ Award for Best Nonfiction 2009). Eric is also part of the giant collaborative, zombie novel effort from Pill Hill Press entitled Undead, Kansas.
Michael Scott Bricker has sold stories to numerous anthologies, and has recently completed a time travel novel which takes place, in part, during the Black Death. He lives in California where he works at a public library and buys and sells old and curious goods. http://sff.net/people/m.bricker
Camille Alexa When not on ten wooded acres near Austin, Texas, Camille Alexa lives in the Pacific Northwest in an Edwardian House with very crooked windows. Her work appears in Chizine, Fantasy Magazine, and Escape Pod. Her first book, Push of the Sky (Hadley Rille Books, 2009) received a starred review in Publisher’s Weekly.
Vincent L. Scarsella has gained modest success in publishing his work in print magazines such as The Leading Edge, Aethlon: The Journal of Sport Literature, Fictitious Force. Several of his short stories have appeared in the online zine Aphelion-Webzine, as recently as March 2009 (Simulation Addicts). In September, 2007, his short story Vice Cop was included in the anthology New Writings in the Fantastic (Pendragon Press) edited by award winning John Grant. In March 2008, Practical Time Travel was published in Bound For Evil – Books Gone Bad (Dead Letter Press). Homeless Zombies appeared in the April 2009 anthology Dead Science (Coscom Entertainment).
He has been an attorney for thirty years, an adjunct professor at the University of Buffalo School of Law, and is currently employed as an investigative lawyer for the New York Department of Taxation and Finance.
Sheila Crosby lives on a small rock in the Atlantic. She’s a mother, writer, photographer, translator, tour guide, librarian, gardener, belly dancer, English teacher and software engineer. One of her primary school teachers once sneered, “Well, you’ve got a good imagination,” and she’s been proving the truth of it ever since. http://sheilacrosby.com/
Gerard Daniel Houarner is a NYC resident who works at a psychiatric center by day and writes by night. Recent work includes the collections A Blood of Killers, and The Oz Suite, as well as the novel, Road From Hell.
David Steffen lives in Minnesota with his wife in a house where dogs now outnumber the humans. This complicates voting on family meetings, but can be counteracted with a well-placed treat bribe or a long filibuster that puts the dogs to sleep. He writes code by day and fiction by night and occasionally does other things too (time permitting). David is a repeat offender with Northern Frights Publishing: his story The Utility of Love was published in NFP’s first anthology, Shadows of the Emerald City. His fiction has also been published in Pseudopod.
David co-edits Diabolical Plots with his friend and colleague Anthony Sullivan. DP provides interviews of professionals in the speculative fiction industry, as well as reviews and editorials. Past and future guests include NFP’s very own JW Schnarr, as well as Cat Rambo, David Farland, John Joseph Adams, Orson Scott Card, Tad Williams, and Anne Rice. The site features amazing original art by professional artist Joey Jordan. Stop by, check out the interviews, and leave a comment or two. http://www.diabolicalplots.com/
Mark Onspaugh grew up on a steady diet of horror, science fiction and DC Comics. An HWA member, he writes screenplays, short stories and novels. His ghost horror film Kill Katie Malone is now in post-production and he is the co-writer of zombie cult fave Flight of the Living Dead. Mark’s stories also appear in Shadows of the Emerald City (JW Schnarr, ed.), Timelines: Stories inspired by HG Wells’ The Time Machine (JW Schnarr, ed.), The Book of Exodi (Michael K. Eidson, ed.), The World is Dead (Kim Paffenroth, ed.), Footprints (Jay Lake & Eric T. Reynolds, ed.), The Book of Tentacles (Scott Virtes, Edward Cox, Susan R. Campbell, ed.), Triangulation: Dark Glass (Pete Butler, ed.) and Thoughtcrime Experiments (http://thoughtcrime.crummy.com/2009). He also has an essay on monsters in the forthcoming Butcher Knives and Body Counts (Dark Scribe Press). He lives in Los Osos, CA with his wife, author/artist Dr. Tobey Crockett and three enigmatic cats. http://www.markonspaugh.com/
Bruce Golden After more than 20 years as a journalist, publishing more than 200 articles, working as a magazine editor, radio reporter, and television producer, Bruce Golden decided to walk away from journalism and concentrate all his efforts on his first love–writing speculative fiction. That’s what he wanted to do when, at age 18, he decided to be a writer. But life, as it often tends to do, took him in a different direction. The jobs in journalism kept coming, and there were bills to pay. Along the way, some of the work, like writing and producing his all-original show Radio Free Comedy and producing documentaries like “Sex in the ‘90s,” he found rewarding. He dabbled in writing science fiction and fantasy–and never stopped reading it–but the time to pursue it seemed elusive.
That all changed at the turn of the century, when decided to devote himself entirely to writing fiction. Since then his short stories have garnered several awards and more than 80 sales across seven countries. Asimov’s Science Fiction described his second novel, “If Mickey Spillane had collaborated with both Frederik Pohl and Philip K. Dick, he might have produced Bruce Golden’s Better Than Chocolate.” His latest novel, Evergreen, takes readers to alien world full of ancient secrets and a strange intelligence, populated with characters motivated by revenge, redemption, and obsession, on a quest to find the City of God. http://goldentales.tripod.com/
RJ Sevin’s short fiction has appeared here and there. He’s very happy about his upcoming appearance in Cemetery Dance Magazine, and thinks you should check out The Living Dead 2 (edited by JJ Adams). In addition to, like, several dozen of the most awesome of the awesomest zombie stories around, it features Thin Them Out, a novelette he co-wrote with his lovely wife, Julia Rose, and the equally lovely (though moustachioed) Doctor Kim Paffenroth (Dying to Live, Gospel of the Living Dead).
He’s one half of Creeping Hemlock Press, and he thinks you’d love to buy some of their books: www.creepinghemlock.com. Also, he promises to never add zombies (or any other horror tropes) to public domain literature.
Kristen Lee Knapp is an author attending the University of North Florida. When he isn’t writing, he’s probably reading. When he isn’t reading, he’s probably writing. He enjoys long walks on the beach and murderous robots. http://thelifefromtheslushpile.blogspot.com/
Harper Hull was born and raised in Northern England but now lives in a 19th century farmhouse in the American South with his much smarter and prettier Dixie wife. He has lived in London, San Antonio and Seattle and his favourite city is Florence. He grew up in a home crammed with classic sci-fi and horror books, and started writing his own stories in 2009. If you ever read one of his pieces, he just hopes you enjoy it. http://helloharperhull.blogspot.com/
Auston Habershaw has been an avid science fiction and fantasy fan for his entire life and has been writing stories in the genre for almost as long. He has an MFA in Creative Writing from Emerson College, due, in part, to a species of aliens who look a lot like cabbages. He is a college English professor who lives and works in Boston, Massachusetts.
Brent Knowles is a game designer and author. He has been published in Dragon, Not One of Us, Tales of the Talisman and On Spec. In 2009 he placed first in the Writers of the Future Contest (3rd Quarter). He lives in Edmonton with his wife and two sons. http://www.brentknowles.com/.
Michele Garber grew up in northern Indiana, which should not be held accountable for the products of her imagination. After narrowly escaping a doctorate in psychology, she succumbed to her urges to write, happily using her arcane knowledge of the human psyche to titillate, tempt, and terrify readers. Her work will appear in Zombology IV: The Undead vs The Living Dead (Library of the Living Dead Press). Find out more about her at http://www.michelegarber.com/
Gary Cuba lives with his wife and oodles of critters in South Carolina. His work has appeared or is scheduled in more than a dozen genre and mainstream publications, including Jim Baen’s Universe, Abyss & Apex, Fictitious Force, Allegory, Lunch Hour Stories, Brain Harvest, Atomjack, Dark Recesses and others. He has worked as an editorial associate on the staff of JBU, and now reads for Flash Fiction Online. www.thefoggiestnotion.com
Michael Penkas has lived in Chicago for the past five years and have had a half-dozen short stories previously published. http://michaelpenkas.blogspot.com
JW Schnarr is the evil mastermind behind Northern Frights Publishing. He lives in Champion, Alberta Canada with his daughter and a grumpy turtle. JW and the turtle watch the skies at night for signs of alien invaders so the rest of the world can sleep easy. His debut novel, Alice and Dorothy, will be forthcoming in 2010, as well as a collection of short fiction titled Things Falling Apart. http://jwschnarr.blogspot.com/.
Mike Barretta is a retired Naval Aviator that currently works as a professional pilot. He resides in Pensacola, Florida with his wife and five children.
Edward Morris is a 2010 Stoker nominee, also nominated for the 2009 Rhysling and the 2005 BSFA. His short fiction has now appeared 59 times in 4 languages and 7 countries; including Murky Depths thrice, Interzone twice, and most recently the forthcoming Lefora Press anthology Through The Eyes Of The Undead (I Am Stretched On Your Grave) He collaborates with Texan SF author, journalist and Campbell nominee Lou Antonelli quite regularly, and their collection Music For Four Hands will be looked at by a major indie publisher in March. http://edwardrmorrisjr.blogspot.com/
Jodi Lee An editor and occasional writer, Jodi Lee has spent her entire life on the Canadian Prairies which she credits with her over-active imagination. She is currently the editor in chief of Belfire Press and The New Bedlam Project, where she can be found slicing and dicing prose. Occasionally she’s found mucking about with book covers, graphics, and websites in her design freelancing.
Her fiction has appeared in Night to Dawn and Nocturnal Ooze, as well as the anthologies Fried! Fast Food, Slow Deaths (Graveside Tales), Parasitic Thoughts (The Parasitorium Group) Tainted and 52 Stitches (Strange Publications), The Black Garden (Corpulant Insanity), and several other upcoming anthologies. www.jodilee.ca
Victorya is a writer who lives and works in the desert mountains of New Mexico. Her work can be seen in Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine, Necrotic Tissue, and Timelines: Stories Inpired by HG Wells' The Time Machine (Northern Frights Publishing).
James S. Dorr’s collections Strange Mistresses: Tales of Wonder and Romance and Dark Loves: Tales of Mystery and Regret are available from Dark Regions Press, while other work has appeared in venues from Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine to Xenophilia. An active member of SFWA and HWA, Dorr is an Anthony (mystery) and Darrell (fiction set in the mid-south) finalist, a pushcart prize nominee, and a multi-time listee in The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror from the early ‘90s on. In addition to Canada and the US, he has fiction and poetry published in Britain, France, Australia, and most recently Brazil.
Davin Ireland was born and bred in the south of England, but currently resides in the Netherlands. His fiction credits include stories published in over fifty print magazines and anthologies on both sides of the Atlantic, including Aeon, Underworlds, The Horror Express, Zahir, Neo-Opsis, Rogue Worlds, Storyteller Magazine and Albedo One.
