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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.

 

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

 

 

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 www.simonwood.net.

 

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  

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

 

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.

 

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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