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Author Karina Fabian
has written
everything from radio news stories to personality features to science fiction. She’s been
in over 50 periodicals and has four books published. Her latest, Infinite Space, Infinite
God, she wrote for and edited with her husband Rob. Infinite Space, Infinite God
(August 2007, Twilight Times Books) features fifteen stories of Catholics dealing with the
challenges of the future--from time travel to genetic engineering. (
http://isigsf.tripod.com )
Infinite Space
Infinite God
has driven her into
the world of marketing. As she learns the tricks of publicizing her book, she’s also tried
to share her knowledge with others by teaching courses, offering “primers” on her website,
answering questions and offering advice on the world of writing. (Did we mention she wrote
how-to pieces?) In addition, she’s shopping a fantasy trilogy, publishing a newsletter,
writing a Catholic science fiction novel and crafting a fantasy noir satire involving a
dragon detective, the creatures of Faerie, and a Mensa convention.
She's President of the Catholic Writers' Guild, owner of Catholic Writers Online, and active
in a half-dozen or more groups. She homeschooled her four children, and has the most
understanding husband in the world.
Learn more at
www.fabianspace.com.
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D. L. Snell
is an Affiliate member of the Horror Writers Association and a graduate from Pacific
University's Creative Writing program. His stories have appeared in anthologies such as
Chimeraworld #3, Raw Meat, and The Undead: Skin & Bones.
Roses of Blood on Barbwire Vines
is Snell's first novel and is based on his short story, "Limbless
Bodies Swaying," first
printed in Hellbound Books' zombie anthology, Cold Flesh.
David Moody calls the book
"violent and visceral...beautiful and erotic." Learn more at Snell's website,
www.rosesofblood.com
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Simon
Wood is a California transplant from
England.
He
used to be a competitive racecar driver and he’s a licensed pilot. He shares his world with
his American wife, Julie. Their lives are dominated by a longhaired dachshund and four cats.
In the last seven years, he's had over 140
stories and articles published. His stories
have
been included in “Best of” anthologies
and he's written for Writer’s Digest. He's the author of Working Stiffs
and Accidents Waiting to Happen.
His next thriller, Paying The
Piper, hits bookshelves in
November, soon to be followed by
We All Fall Down
in July '08.
Simon's horror fiction
appears under the identity of Simon Janus. Curious people can find him at
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Ken Kuhlken’s
stories have appeared in ESQUIRE and numerous other magazines, been honorably mentioned in
BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES, and earned a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship.
With Alan Russell, in the
novella NO CATS, NO CHOCOLATE, Ken has chronicled the madness of book promotion tours.
His novels are MIDHEAVEN
(finalist for the Ernest Hemingway Award for best first fiction book, 1980), and the
Hickey family mysteries THE LOUD ADIOS (St. Martin’s/PWA Press Best First PI Novel, 1989),
THE VENUS DEAL, THE ANGEL GANG, and THE DO-RE-MI, a finalist for the Shamus Award for best
private investigator novel of 2006. www.kenkuhlken.net
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Mystery author Sandra
Tooley is the creator of the Sam Casey Series and the Chase Dagger Series (written as
Lee Driver). She has held a number of interesting
and diverse jobs such as administrative assistant to a local mayor, car salesman, sales
assistant, assistant to the president of a franchise consulting firm, and seminar
coordinator. Her most enjoyable job was the six years she spent as a casino dealer. The
author is particularly fond of the unusual and has carried her interests in the unknown and
unbelievable to her writing. Her Sam Casey Series features a Native American detective with
the unique ability to hear the dead speak, mixing mystery with paranormal. Her
Chase Dagger
Series (written as Lee Driver) includes a young Native American woman who is a shapeshifter, combining mystery with fantasy.
The Rhine Research Center and Institute for Parapsychology in North
Carolina has published two of her short stories in an anthology titled, A Mystery in Mind,
a selection of mystery and suspense stories with an underlying theme of the supernatural or
paranormal. Sara Morningsky, one of these short stories, was nominated for a
Derringer Award.
Sandy was featured in the October 2004 issue of Self-Publishing
Essentials published by Writer’s Digest. The article is titled “Success Stories: 14
Authors on How to Make It Big.”
After attending a course on publishing at
Columbia College in Chicago as well as numerous publishing sessions conducted by Publishers
Marketing Association, Sandy started Full Moon Publishing LLC in May 1998. Since 1999 she
has published seven titles as well as re-releasing some of her backlist in paperback. Her
Sam Casey Series has won ForeWord Magazine’s Book of the Year Award twice and a
Reader’s Choice Award. The Unseen won the 2005 IPPY Award for Best Horror.
The Skull, her December 2006 release,
has been nominated for ForeWord Magazine’s Book of the Year Award in the Young Adult
category. The winner will be announced at the Book Expo in New York City in June.
Her titles have received favorable reviews
in Booklist, Library Journal, Publishers Weekly, and Midwest Book Review.
A native of a Chicago south suburb, Sandy currently lives in
Northwest Indiana.
Check out all Sandy's books
here.
Website: www.sdtooley.com
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Jonathan Maberry has been a working writer
for thirty years and is the author of seventeen nonfiction books, including Vampire
Universe (Citadel Press). Ghost Road Blues (Pinnacle Books), his first novel,
recently won the Bram Stoker Award for Best First Novel. He was also nominated for Novel of
the Year, but lost out to some guy named...Stephen King. His second novel, Dead Man’s Song,
will be released in July.
Jonathan is a Board Member of
the
Philadelphia Writers Conference, a speaker for the National
Writers Union, a writing mentor for the Mystery Writers of America, and president of the NJ-PA
Chapter of the HWA. He is the co-founder of The Writers Corner USA, a writers’ education
center in Doylestown, PA.
www.writerscornerusa.com and
http://www.myspace.com/writerscornerusa
In September he’ll be launching
The Cryptopedia Magazine, (www.cryptopediamagazine.com
and
http://www.myspace.com/cryptopedia_magazine)
a horror ezine (a paying market), and is co-founder of the literary ezine Wild River Review. Jonathan lives in Bucks County, PA with his wife,
Sara and son, Sam.
n 2001 Jonathan’s martial arts
teaching and writing earned him an induction into the International Martial Arts Hall of Fame.
Jonathan can be found online at
www.jonathanmaberry.com and on MySpace at
www.myspace.com/jonathan_maberry
Check out all of Jonathan's books
here.
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| After graduating from Cornell Law School in 1989, Barry Eisler spent three years in the
CIA's Directorate of Operations, and then three years in Japan, where he earned his black
belt at the Kodokan International Judo Center.
Today Eisler lives and works in the San Francisco Bay Area and continues to travel
frequently to Japan and other parts of Asia.
The Rain books, featuring half-Japanese, half-American freelance assassin John Rain, have
won the
Deadly Pleasures Barry Award and the Mystery Ink Gumshoe Award for Best Thriller of
the Year; have been included in numerous “Best Of” lists, including those of Amazon.com, Deadly Pleasures, News-Press, Publisher’s Weekly, the San Francisco Chronicle, and the San
Jose Mercury News; have been translated into nearly twenty languages; and have been optioned
for film by Barrie Osborne, Oscar-winning producer of the Lord of the Rings trilogy. To
learn more, please visit www.barryeisler.com .
Check out all of Barry's books
here.
(Read Audrey's review of Rain Fall
here.)
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