Meet the Authors
Jean Rabe - "Sorceress of Sand"
Jean Rabe is the author of two dozen novels and more than four dozen short stories. When she isn't writing or editing, she dangles her toes in her goldfish pond and tugs on old socks with her dogs. Visit her website at www.jeanrabe.com.
Vaughn Heppner - "The Green Lady"
Vaughn Heppner lilves in Turlock, in Central California. He teaches high school and has published in Writers of the Future and Sword & Sorceress and has several upcoming stories to appear in Black Gate Magazine. His favorite movies are the Matrix, Spartacus and the Terminator.
Max Wright - "The Unholy Grail"
Max Wright is trying to figure out a way to spend more time writing fiction and less time writing ads while still keeping a roof over h is head, not to mention those of his two sons. He lives in Dallas, TX, and when he's not writing he's usually on a tennis court as a player or an official.
Scott Harper - "Night Passage"
Scott Harper words in the waste management business, also referred to as law enforcement. He has had stories published in a number of small press venues such as A Thousand Faces, Afterburn SF, Alienskin, and Down in the Cellar. His story "Fresh Juice" will be published later this year in Space and Time Magazine. He lives with his wife, son, and two dogs in California.
Christpher Heath - "Azieran: Pawn of the Serpentine Witch"
Christopher Heath lives in Indiana and has been writing fantasy for over a decade, either as a role-playing game designer under the official Dungeons and Dragons logo or producing short stories and novels for his Azieran fantasy world. These words have seen publication in over thirty venues, including professional pay sales to Kenzer and Company, Fantasist Enterprises and Pitch-Black Books.
Laura Eno - "Guardian's Gate"
Laura Eno (lauraeno.blogspot.com) lives in Florida with her husband. She has written two YA fantasy novel and a paranormal romance but lately feels compelled to write in the dark fantasy/horror genre. Her flash fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Twisted Dreams, The Monsters Next Door, Flashes in the Dark, 10Flash and MicroHorror.
JW Schnarr - "The Tongue Child"
JW Schnarr is the Evil Mastermind behind Northern Frights Publishing. He lives in Calgary, AB Canada with his daughter and grumpy turtle, and on nights when the moos is full he strips down to skin and prays to blind Gods from ages past. Or he watches TV. www.jwschnarr.blogspot.com
Jessy Marie Roberts - "Familiar"
Jessy Marie Roberts lives in a "haunted" house in Western Nebraska with her husband and their two dogs, Tucker and Snags. She grew up in Morgan Hill, California. Visit her online at jessymarieroberts.weebly.com.
Bill Ward - "Shadow on the Edge of the City of Light"
BILL WARD's fiction has appeared in numerous magazines, anthologies, including Murky Depths, Every Day Fiction, Rage of the Behemoth, and Dead Souls, and he has also written background material and serial shorts for science fiction and fantasy tabletop game publications. He maintains a blog at www.billwardwriter.com.
Christopher Jacobsmeyer - "Earl Gridmon"
Christopher Jacobsmeyer is a self-styled fantasy author dabbling in the realms of sci-fi and horror. His tolerant wife and headstrong daughters humor him as long as it suits their needs. If that weren't enough, a trio of cats keeps him in check with their whispered designs of conquest at night.
Alva J. Roberts - "Against the Grain"
Alva J. Roberts lives in Western Nebraska with his wife and two dogs. When he is not writing, he works as a librarian at the local library. Visit him online at alvaroberts.weebly.com.
Kody Boye - "Baelra and the Equine"
Kody Boye began writing at the age of seven after being inspired by a teacher's object-specific writing assignment. At the age of fourteen, his short story [A] Prom Queen's Revenge was published in the Yellow Mama Webzine, and at seventeen, his novel Sunrise was published by Library of the Living Dead Press. You can visit him online at http://kodyboye.itrello.com.
Lydia Sharp - "The Keeper of Secrets"
Lydia Sharp is a novelist and short fiction author of science fiction and fantasy. She lives in Ohio with her husband, Joe Sharp, also a science fiction author, and their son. Visit Joe and Lydia's blog, The Sharp Angle, at www.lydiasharp.blogspot.com, where they offer tips on writing, and post reviews on books and movies.
Martin Turton - "River's End"
Martin Turton lives in East Yorkshire, England with his wife and three daughters. In the little spare time he has after working full time and looking after three children all under the age of five, he had been wokring on an unwieldy fantasy novel before turning to the shorter form in the hope of acutally finishing something. His work has appeared in The Rage of the Behemoth anthology, Flashing Swords, Reflections Edge, Abandoned Towers, Allegory, Ray Gun Revival and others, and is forthcoming in 2009 in Hub Magazine, Ray Gun Revival, Sonar 4 Magazine, Afterburn SF, Sfzine.org and others.
D.M. Bonanno - "Treischan Strength"
D.M. Bonanno lives in Chicago with her husband and two children, where the trees are not as ancienct as the Treishcans. This take was inspired by her father's unyielding devotion to his family throughout her childhood.
Jessica A. Weiss - "Scattered Souls"
Jessica A. Weiss lives on the Southeasten Seaboard with her husband, children and various animals. When she isn't busy with them, she writes as much as she can. You can find her writing blog at The Writers Side of the Looking Glass (thewriterssideofthelookingglass.blogspot.com/).
Carrie Harris - "Revenge of the Mucus Shovel Fairy"
Carrie Harris likes writing books, playing games, fighting evil, and cooking (everyone's got to have hobbies). You can read more about her obsessions with lolzombies, Richard Simmons, and Twilight parodies at http://carrieharrisbooks.blogspot.com.
Gustavo Bondoni - "Sword of Rasna"
Gustavo Bondoni is an Argentine writer with over fifty stories published online and in print, in two languages and six countries. He was the winner of the 2008 Marooned Award for flash fiction, as well as one of the winners in the Return to Luna contest. You can visit him online at www.gustavobondoni.com.ar.
Paul L. Bates - "Brothers"
Paul L. Bates is retired from a seemingly endless career in construction management. He swims distances and writes. His first two novels of his post-apocalyptic end-of-days trilogy, Imprint and Dreamer were published by Gale Five Star; short fiction credits include the anthologies and periodicals Zahir, Star*Line, Witherskin, City Slab, Parsec, TransVersions, Beyond the Last Star, Desolate Places, New Writings in the Fantastic, Ruins Extraterrestrail and Sporty Spec.
Ray Kolb - "The Siege of Ravelin"
Ray Kolb has been an attorney for sixteen years. He is currently in Afghanistan where he mentors Afghan prosecutors and criminal investigators in Afghan criminal law and procedure. Ray's work has been published in Espresso Fiction, Whispering Spirits, Sonar4, and Pear Noir!.
Jonathan Shipley - "The Dark and Poisonous Wood"
Fort Worth writer Jonathan Shipley has had fantasy and science fiction stories published in Weird Tales, Dragon Magazine, Marion Zimmer Bradley's Fantasy Magazine, and several recent anthologies. However, he is actually a novel writer at heart and spends most of his writing time on a vast story arc that ranges from Nazi occultism to vampires to futuristic space opera. This short story is from the Nazi occultism end of the spectrum.
John B. Rosenman - "Wizard's Duel"
John B. Rosenman is an English professor at Norfolk State University, and has published over 300 stories in Weird Tales, Whitely Strieber's Aliens, Galaxy, Hot Blood, The Age of Wonders, etc. Some of his SF action-adventure novels have been published by Drollerie Press, Lyrical Press, Mundania Press, and Blade Publishing. His website is www.johnrosenman.com.
Jean Rabe is the author of two dozen novels and more than four dozen short stories. When she isn't writing or editing, she dangles her toes in her goldfish pond and tugs on old socks with her dogs. Visit her website at www.jeanrabe.com.
Vaughn Heppner - "The Green Lady"
Vaughn Heppner lilves in Turlock, in Central California. He teaches high school and has published in Writers of the Future and Sword & Sorceress and has several upcoming stories to appear in Black Gate Magazine. His favorite movies are the Matrix, Spartacus and the Terminator.
Max Wright - "The Unholy Grail"
Max Wright is trying to figure out a way to spend more time writing fiction and less time writing ads while still keeping a roof over h is head, not to mention those of his two sons. He lives in Dallas, TX, and when he's not writing he's usually on a tennis court as a player or an official.
Scott Harper - "Night Passage"
Scott Harper words in the waste management business, also referred to as law enforcement. He has had stories published in a number of small press venues such as A Thousand Faces, Afterburn SF, Alienskin, and Down in the Cellar. His story "Fresh Juice" will be published later this year in Space and Time Magazine. He lives with his wife, son, and two dogs in California.
Christpher Heath - "Azieran: Pawn of the Serpentine Witch"
Christopher Heath lives in Indiana and has been writing fantasy for over a decade, either as a role-playing game designer under the official Dungeons and Dragons logo or producing short stories and novels for his Azieran fantasy world. These words have seen publication in over thirty venues, including professional pay sales to Kenzer and Company, Fantasist Enterprises and Pitch-Black Books.
Laura Eno - "Guardian's Gate"
Laura Eno (lauraeno.blogspot.com) lives in Florida with her husband. She has written two YA fantasy novel and a paranormal romance but lately feels compelled to write in the dark fantasy/horror genre. Her flash fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Twisted Dreams, The Monsters Next Door, Flashes in the Dark, 10Flash and MicroHorror.
JW Schnarr - "The Tongue Child"
JW Schnarr is the Evil Mastermind behind Northern Frights Publishing. He lives in Calgary, AB Canada with his daughter and grumpy turtle, and on nights when the moos is full he strips down to skin and prays to blind Gods from ages past. Or he watches TV. www.jwschnarr.blogspot.com
Jessy Marie Roberts - "Familiar"
Jessy Marie Roberts lives in a "haunted" house in Western Nebraska with her husband and their two dogs, Tucker and Snags. She grew up in Morgan Hill, California. Visit her online at jessymarieroberts.weebly.com.
Bill Ward - "Shadow on the Edge of the City of Light"
BILL WARD's fiction has appeared in numerous magazines, anthologies, including Murky Depths, Every Day Fiction, Rage of the Behemoth, and Dead Souls, and he has also written background material and serial shorts for science fiction and fantasy tabletop game publications. He maintains a blog at www.billwardwriter.com.
Christopher Jacobsmeyer - "Earl Gridmon"
Christopher Jacobsmeyer is a self-styled fantasy author dabbling in the realms of sci-fi and horror. His tolerant wife and headstrong daughters humor him as long as it suits their needs. If that weren't enough, a trio of cats keeps him in check with their whispered designs of conquest at night.
Alva J. Roberts - "Against the Grain"
Alva J. Roberts lives in Western Nebraska with his wife and two dogs. When he is not writing, he works as a librarian at the local library. Visit him online at alvaroberts.weebly.com.
Kody Boye - "Baelra and the Equine"
Kody Boye began writing at the age of seven after being inspired by a teacher's object-specific writing assignment. At the age of fourteen, his short story [A] Prom Queen's Revenge was published in the Yellow Mama Webzine, and at seventeen, his novel Sunrise was published by Library of the Living Dead Press. You can visit him online at http://kodyboye.itrello.com.
Lydia Sharp - "The Keeper of Secrets"
Lydia Sharp is a novelist and short fiction author of science fiction and fantasy. She lives in Ohio with her husband, Joe Sharp, also a science fiction author, and their son. Visit Joe and Lydia's blog, The Sharp Angle, at www.lydiasharp.blogspot.com, where they offer tips on writing, and post reviews on books and movies.
Martin Turton - "River's End"
Martin Turton lives in East Yorkshire, England with his wife and three daughters. In the little spare time he has after working full time and looking after three children all under the age of five, he had been wokring on an unwieldy fantasy novel before turning to the shorter form in the hope of acutally finishing something. His work has appeared in The Rage of the Behemoth anthology, Flashing Swords, Reflections Edge, Abandoned Towers, Allegory, Ray Gun Revival and others, and is forthcoming in 2009 in Hub Magazine, Ray Gun Revival, Sonar 4 Magazine, Afterburn SF, Sfzine.org and others.
D.M. Bonanno - "Treischan Strength"
D.M. Bonanno lives in Chicago with her husband and two children, where the trees are not as ancienct as the Treishcans. This take was inspired by her father's unyielding devotion to his family throughout her childhood.
Jessica A. Weiss - "Scattered Souls"
Jessica A. Weiss lives on the Southeasten Seaboard with her husband, children and various animals. When she isn't busy with them, she writes as much as she can. You can find her writing blog at The Writers Side of the Looking Glass (thewriterssideofthelookingglass.blogspot.com/).
Carrie Harris - "Revenge of the Mucus Shovel Fairy"
Carrie Harris likes writing books, playing games, fighting evil, and cooking (everyone's got to have hobbies). You can read more about her obsessions with lolzombies, Richard Simmons, and Twilight parodies at http://carrieharrisbooks.blogspot.com.
Gustavo Bondoni - "Sword of Rasna"
Gustavo Bondoni is an Argentine writer with over fifty stories published online and in print, in two languages and six countries. He was the winner of the 2008 Marooned Award for flash fiction, as well as one of the winners in the Return to Luna contest. You can visit him online at www.gustavobondoni.com.ar.
Paul L. Bates - "Brothers"
Paul L. Bates is retired from a seemingly endless career in construction management. He swims distances and writes. His first two novels of his post-apocalyptic end-of-days trilogy, Imprint and Dreamer were published by Gale Five Star; short fiction credits include the anthologies and periodicals Zahir, Star*Line, Witherskin, City Slab, Parsec, TransVersions, Beyond the Last Star, Desolate Places, New Writings in the Fantastic, Ruins Extraterrestrail and Sporty Spec.
Ray Kolb - "The Siege of Ravelin"
Ray Kolb has been an attorney for sixteen years. He is currently in Afghanistan where he mentors Afghan prosecutors and criminal investigators in Afghan criminal law and procedure. Ray's work has been published in Espresso Fiction, Whispering Spirits, Sonar4, and Pear Noir!.
Jonathan Shipley - "The Dark and Poisonous Wood"
Fort Worth writer Jonathan Shipley has had fantasy and science fiction stories published in Weird Tales, Dragon Magazine, Marion Zimmer Bradley's Fantasy Magazine, and several recent anthologies. However, he is actually a novel writer at heart and spends most of his writing time on a vast story arc that ranges from Nazi occultism to vampires to futuristic space opera. This short story is from the Nazi occultism end of the spectrum.
John B. Rosenman - "Wizard's Duel"
John B. Rosenman is an English professor at Norfolk State University, and has published over 300 stories in Weird Tales, Whitely Strieber's Aliens, Galaxy, Hot Blood, The Age of Wonders, etc. Some of his SF action-adventure novels have been published by Drollerie Press, Lyrical Press, Mundania Press, and Blade Publishing. His website is www.johnrosenman.com.