M .M. Anderson
M.M. Anderson has always had an active imagination and a mischievously macabre sense of humor. As a child she enjoyed scaring her parents, brother, cousins, and friends with creepy stories and Halloweenish pranks. All the while secretly suspecting that as an infant she'd been separated from her real relatives: the Addams Family.
But there's more to Ms. Anderson than Wednesday wanna-be. She's been a darn good competitive runner, traveled near and far, sold real estate in Manhattan, was an educator at a world famous California zoo, taught elementary, middle school, and college, worked in publishing, advertising, rode the dot.com wave, and she once earned money as an assistant beautician for a mortician.
Although this is her first YA novel, M.M. Anderson has published nonfiction works, commercial ads, and written music, penned the lyrics in TURNAROUND for Signal 7. Besides working her craft, she enjoys spending time with her hubby, two wonderful children, four cats, two dogs, two fish, two turtles, a horse, and a posse of great pals.
Author website: www.mmanderson.net




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Ron Adams
Born and raised in Randolph, Massachusetts, Ron Adams loves a good story. Tended to by an extended family, he learned to appreciate the tales told by his great grandfather of "the old days" in Boston, of the family histories related by his grandparents, aunts, uncles, and parents. An assortment of characters flocked his parent's home; priests, cops, bar owners, bikers, Marines, cross country hitchhiking cousins, and international animal rescue workers all provided a writing base for his imagination.

A fan of mystery and crime fiction, Adams graduated from Daemen College in Amherst, New York in 1983, and published his first novel, Lake Effect, in 2003. He is active in online writing communities, and has written a collection of short stories, as well as articles on topics from rehabilitation to fitness and health to poker basics.

Adams has lived in the Buffalo area for a quarter century. He currently resides in Hamburg, New York with his wife and two children where he is at work on his next Joe Banks novel.

Author website: www.ronaldwadams.com


Jean Blasiar
Jean Blasiar is a playwright with eight full-length productions in the Los Angeles area, one of which was optioned by 20th Century Fox for a pilot. As President of MGR Productions, Ms. Blasiar has produced twelve full-length productions in LA, San Francisco, and New York City, and has several screenplays in development.

The Emmy Budd series is dedicated to all little girls who lived in a simpler time when hometown adventure could be found waiting around every corner. Ms. Blasiar resides in California and is currently at work on her fourth Emmy Budd novel, "The Scarlet Scarf."
Author website: www.jeanblasiar.com


Alessia Brio
Alessia Brio is a sassy tart from Pittsburgh who burst (or tip-toed, depending on who you ask) onto the erotic fiction scene in the latter half of 2005 with two eBook publications from Phaze. Until that time, she’d been giving her work away on Literotica. Now, she gratefully accepts money for it. That, she realizes, is the difference between a slut and a whore. Readers can find her online at alessiabrio.com.


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Matt Chapman
Matt Chapman grew up in Ohio and has always enjoyed an interest in writing. Matt developed his craft while attending St. Ignatius High School where his teacher's positive influence served as the foundation of his creativity.
Matt has been featured in magazines, at book signings, and interviews. He is currently enrolled at St. Louis University and is looking forward to greater writing opportunities. Tainted Veins is his second novel.
Author website: www.mattchapman.info

Alex Call
Alex Call has been a hit recording artist and songwriter for over thirty years. His muse is legendary in the industry, and his songs have become musical icons of American pop culture. His expansive repertoire of Billboard Hot 100 hits includes:

867-5309/Jenny by Tommy Tutone
Power of Love by Huey Lewis and the News
Perfect World by Huey Lewis and the News
Little Too Late by Pat Benatar
Just Take My Heart by Mr. Big
New Romeo by Southside Johnny and the Asbury Dukes

Alex was lead singer in the San Francisco cult-fave Country-rock band Clover, along with Huey Lewis and John McFee. Clover was the band on Elvis Costello's first hit album, My Aim is True. Alex has been a recording artist for Arista Records, Mercury Records, and Fantasy Records. The video of his Arista single, "Just Another Saturday Night" graced the early days of MTV. His songs are featured in Movies and TV, and have served as branding for national ad campaigns such as Cingular Wireless.

867-5309/Jenny continues to be a ubiquitous icon of the 80's ensconced at number four on VH1's Hits of the 80's. It has been featured on over forty compilation CD's with Power of Love close behind.

In addition to writing music, lyrics, and fiction novels, Alex produces sessions, and performs as a solo act or with his band in cities across the US. He is a member of the Studer Group's (a healthcare company) speakers' bureau for his work with music and healthcare.

Alex is an avid student of history, spirituality, and politics. He was strongly influenced early in life by the anthropologists who taught at Verde Valley School in Sedona, AZ. Alex is a fly fisherman, a baseball player, fan, and coach. A San Francisco native, Alex loves the wide-open spaces of the Southwest and the Rockies, and has lived and worked in London, Los Angeles, and Montana.

Mr. Call currently resides in Nashville, Tennessee with his wife and two sons, and is busy crafting his next novel. Author website: www.alexcall.net


Jennifer Cloud
Jennifer Cloud was born in Asheville, North Carolina where she harbored a knack for storytelling at an early age. Upon discovering a dust-covered manuscript, her husband encouraged her to renew her writing passion. Today, Jennifer is a published author with dozens of short stories and novellas to her credit. She resides in Missouri with her husband and two daughters and is at work on her next novel, Blood Ties.
Author website: www.jennifercloud.com

Joe Costanzo
Joe (Giuseppe) Costanzo was born in 1951 in Pedivigliano, a town in the mountains of Calabria in Southern Italy. He emigrated to America with his family in 1954, sailing aboard the ill-fated Andrea Doria.
From New York, the family headed West, settling in Salt Lake City, near the coal mines of Eastern Utah and Colorado, where his grandfather once worked.
At the age of nineteen, while attending the University of Utah, Joe got his first full-time job as a reporter working for the Deseret News, one of the daily newspapers in Salt Lake City, and that same year won his first national news writing award for his coverage of an airline hijacking.
After graduating with a B.A. degree, he spent months traveling throughout Italy, particularly Calabria, and then returned to America to resume his career in journalism.
Over the next twenty-five years, Joe covered some of the biggest news stories in the West, including the execution of Gary Gilmore, and won numerous regional and national awards for his reporting and news writing, including recognition from the William Randolph Hearst Foundation, the Associated Press, and the Society of Professional Journalists.
He has written extensively on the topics of crime and justice, the environment, animal rights, natural calamities, religion, the Italian-American experience, and many other subjects that served him well in the writing of his novel, GRAPHIC TIMES.
Joe is currently at work on a second novel set in Calabria. When he is not writing, he's reading, biking, hiking, restoring classic British roadsters, and otherwise pursuing a contemplative lifestyle.
Author website: www.joecostanzo.com


Tessa Dawn
Tessa Dawn grew up in Colorado where she fell in love with the beautiful, purple sunsets and gorgeous, Rocky Mountains. After graduating with a degree in psychology, she worked for several years in criminal justice and mental health before returning to get her Masters Degree in Nonprofit Management.  
Tessa began writing as a child and composed her first, full-length novel at the age of eleven.  Her first published works were in the areas of poetry and education.  She currently lives in the suburbs with her two children and "one very crazy cat" but hopes to someday move to the country where she can own horses and a German Shepherd.  Writing is her bliss.
Author website: www.tessadawnnovels.com


Elizabeth Eagan-Cox
Known as the Ghost Hunter's Librarian, Elizabeth Eagan-Cox is a former school librarian and an expert in genealogical/paranormal research. Her upcoming book, Ghost Hunter's Research Guide to Free Internet Sources details her techniques for digging up crucial information about persons and events from centuries ago, a generation ago, or today. Mrs. Eagan-Cox is a frequent guest on paranormal radio programs, advising ghost hunters on topics such as: How to Identify a Ghost, and, Are Your Ancestors Your Ghosts?
She is the author of three paranormal novels and resides in California where she travels occasionally and is always at home in Cyberspace.
Author website: www.elizabetheagancox.net


Scott Fields
Scott Fields was born and reared in La Rue, Ohio, a small village nestled in the farmlands of mid Ohio. It was there that he learned to appreciate small town life and country living. After graduating from Ohio University in 1970 with a degree in English Literature, he entered the field of retail management and for the next 30 years managed many stores in the Detroit, Michigan area.
In 1996 with a lifelong dream of being a writer, he started writing short stories. Within the next two years, he had four stories published. Since then, his first novel, All Those Years Ago, was published, and in the fall of 2004, his second novel, A Summer Harvest, was released.
Scott and his wife, Deb, now live in Mansfield, Ohio. Their children, Sara, Angela, Michael, and Matt live in the Detroit area.


Ross Gallen
Ross Gallen was born in New York and raised in California. Growing up in the turbulent era when the Soviet Union threatened the free world with nuclear destruction, he was acutely aware of the lack of civil liberties in the Soviet hegemony.  This ingrained a lifelong belief that the Constitution was all that protected ordinary Americans from arbitrary government action.  His writing career began as an Op. Ed. writer for his high school newspaper. Graduating from the University of Redlands, he simultaneous received a Bachelor of Science degree in Geology and a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology.   After a short stint in graduate school at the University of California he proceeded to Cal Western Law School, where he earned his Juris Doctor degree.  

Ross is a member of the State Bar of California and the State Bar of Texas.  Employed as a Deputy District Attorney he argued the landmark case of In re Kay before the California Supreme Court. He honed his skills as a trial lawyer by working as a deputy Public Defender representing clients charged with capital murder and serious felony crimes, and went on to become a managing partner in a civil litigation firm.  He has been a Judge Pro Tem of the Orange County Superior Court and is recognized as a preeminent lawyer in the Martindale-Hubbell Bar Register of Preeminent Lawyers in America.  Ross currently devotes his time to writing fiction and practicing law. Both of his sons are airline pilots and his daughter is a speech pathologist.  He and wife Lynn make their home in Henderson, Nevada.
Author website: rossgallenauthor.com



Jerry Graffam
Jerry Graffam was born and raised on the rugged coast of Maine and began sailing with his family at an early age. After spending his teenage years living in London, England, Jerry returned to the U.S. and enrolled at Babson College where he studied business menagement. Three semesters and numerous short stories later, Jerry decided that financial accounting was far too monotonous for his tastes and he transferred to the University of Maine to study English.

After graduating from the University of Southern Maine in 2003 with a degree in English Literature, Jerry decided to forgo the life of corporate America and concentrate his time learning the craft of the novel. Fortunate to study with the likes of Dennis Lehane and Tom Perotta at the Stone Coast Writer's Conference for two straight summers, Jerry completed his first novel, The Lighthouse Society.

Jerry lives in greater Portland, Maine, with his wife and their 13-year-old cat, Fatty. Jerry spends his weeks working in risk management for a disability insurance carrier and spends most non-working days skiing or sailing. www.jerrygraffam.com


Henry Gravelle






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David Greske
Raised in rural Wisconsin, David E. Greske grew up watching Saturday afternoon creature features. He has been writing horror stories since the age of seven and one of his first literary endeavors was a rip-off of a Dark Shadows episode. He attended the University at River Falls, Wisconsin and was involved with the campus newspaper and a regular contributor to the university¡¦s literary magazine.
"Making Make-believe Believable" an article that expressed his opinion about the importance of creating realistic settings in an unrealistic world, appeared in the on-line magazine, Wicked Karnival.
(www.wickedkarnival.com) His stories have appeared in Black Ink Horror, Back Roads, and Thirteen. Blood River is his fourth novel.
The author lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
www.davidgreske.com


Thomas Grissom
Professor Emeritus Thomas Grissom was born in Knoxville, Tennessee and grew up in the rural landscape of the Mississippi Delta. He attended the University of Mississippi from which he received BS and MS degrees in physics. During three years spent at the Physical Sciences Laboratory of the US Army Missile Command at Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Alabama he did work in experimental low-energy nuclear physics. He received a PhD in physics from the University of Tennessee, for which he did his dissertation research in atomic physics at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. For fifteen years he was a member of the technical staff and department manager at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, New Mexico where he had responsibility for the design and development of nuclear weapons components. He resigned from Sandia and work on nuclear weapons as a matter of conscience, a decision that was chronicled in Studs Terkel, The Great Divide; Debra Rosenthal, At the Heart of the Bomb; and Melissa Everett, Breaking Ranks. He subsequently joined the faculty of The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington where he taught physics, mathematics, philosophy and literature. He is currently Emeritus Member of the Faculty and resides in Albuquerque. He is also the author of two volumes of poetry, Other Truths, Golden Quill Press, 1984 and One Spring More, Golden Quill Press, 1986; and a recent book about physics, The Physicist's World, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011.


Rick Herrick
Dr. Rick Herrick (PhD, Tulane University), a former tenured university professor and magazine editor, is the author of two published novels: An Uncommon Woman and A Week in October. He is recently retired, splitting his time between Oak Bluffs, Massachusetts and Leadville, Colorado. He is married with three children and two grandchildren. He is currently working on a third novel entitled Bridging the Divide.


Kevin Klehr


Kevin lives with his long-term partner in their humble apartment (affectionately named Sabrina), in Australia's own 'Emerald City,' Sydney.

He calls himself a bit of a 'media tart,' having worked both professionally and voluntarily in television, radio and online. His longest running passion is a weekly radio program he and his partner, Warren, produce for local Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander station, Koori Radio. Since 2005 they have been discovering music, both new and old, and interviewing local artists and community leaders. Every Saturday night, the Rhythm Divine is heard across Sydney and via the world wide web.

From an early age Kevin had a passion for writing, jotting down stories and plays until it came time to confront puberty. After dealing with pimple creams and facial hair, Kevin didn't pick up a pen again until he was in his thirties. His handwritten manuscript was being committed to paper when his social circumstances changed, giving him no time to write. Concerned, Warren snuck the notebook out to a friend who in turn came back and demanded Kevin finish his novel. It wasn't long before Kevin's active imagination was let loose again.

Kevin is currently at work on the sequel to Drama Queens with Love Scenes.


Ashley Madau
Ashley was born and raised in Michigan, with an adoration of the vampire folklore stemming from her Romanian heritage. Graduating from 2012 from Michigan State University's technology programs, Ashley focuses on all forms of creation, not limited to pen and paper. An avid gamer, video games are an extension of Ashley's love for stories and storytelling, some of her favorites being Final Fantasy X & XIII, Beyond Good and Evil and Prototype. Why stay in reality when there are so many places to escape?
Author Website: www.AshleyMadau.com


Stacy McArdle-Sardelli
Stacy McArdle-Sardelli's fascination with music began at a young age. A frequent patron of record shops such as Wax Trax! Records (where she once met Divine), dance clubs like Medusa's, The Metro, The Riviera, and The Vic, Stacy went on to study broadcasting at Columbia College, Chicago. She is the founder of Babble and Beat Music Magazine, a free magazine featuring musical artists across a wide range of genres. As editor of Babble and Beat, Stacy solicited personal ghost stories from musicians around the world.
Author website: www.stacysardelli.com

John McMullen
John William McMullen, a native of Vincennes, Indiana, holds a Master’s Degree in Theological Studies from Saint Meinrad School of Theology in Indiana. He is a Third Order Benedictine Oblate; a member of the Thomas More Society of Southwestern Indiana; and a member of the Holy Cross Historical Society of Notre Dame, Indiana. He is a Theology Instructor at Mater Dei High School in Evansville, Indiana, and an adjunct Philosophy Professor at Ivy Tech Community College of Indiana.
McMullen has written numerous articles on religion and politics, a collection of short stories, and five previous novels: ROMAN: Unparalleled Outrage; Defector From Hell; Utopia Revisited; 2084: Tomorrow is Today; and Poor Souls. He is currently working on another novel. He resides in Evansville with his wife and children.
Readers may contact John McMullen at jmcmullen@materdei.evansville.net

Tony Patino
Born in Tampa, Florida in 1970, Tony Patino was introduced to the power of music by his mother who exposed Tony to the pioneers of that age: The Rolling Stones, Dylan, The Allman Brothers, Bob Marley, and others. His attraction to more obscure artists became evident when his older sister began dating, and later married, an employee of a local Tampa record store, Vinyl Fever, where Tony was exposed to underground acts such as King Crimson, Devo, Frank Zappa, Captain Beefheart, Motorhead, and The Ramones.

Tony played bass guitar in a band at the young age of fifteen, and music has never left his blood. He has worked as a concert booking agent, a local promoter, a columnist for music magazines, the A&R person for a record label, and an artist manager. He's experienced first-hand the unpredictability of life on the road, and decided to bring the insanity of it all to interested readers.

Mr. Patino resides in Lexington, Kentucky with his wife Kaarmin, and 3 children, where he says people are more friendly, and monster trucks don't dominate the roads like they do in Florida.
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Dar Radmanesh
Born in 1969 in Kirksville, Missouri to a Cherokee mother and an Iranian father, Darius Radmanesh spent the first nine years of his life like any other precocious boy growing up in small town America.

In 1978, Darius's father moved the family to Iran where their lives were forever changed by the Islamic Revolt of 1979. Raised as a Christian, Darius and his family endured appalling incidents inflicted by the Iranian government while dodging attacks from Iraqi bomber raids.

At the age of sixteen, Darius was yanked off the street by members of the Iranian Islamic Guard (Hezbolah) and sent to the front lines to fight. With the assistance of an Iranian Major, Darius was able to elude his subjugators and escape into the mountains where he found refuge amongst the Qashqai nomads.

Darius eventually linked up with the U.S. State Department and was smuggled out of Iran through the Persian Gulf, and on to Dubai and the American Consulate. From there, Darius returned to his American homeland, the boy now a war-wearied man.

Darius is committed to raising awareness regarding the imminent global-threat posed by the corrupt, Iranian regime and the plight of the Iranian people. Mr. Radmanesh currently resides in London with his wife and four-year-old son. Author Website


Mike Ryan
After Mike Ryan read I'd Do It Again, the autobiography of James Michael Curley in high school, he wasn't sure if Curley was the greatest politician who ever lived or the greatest con artist of all time. But he was hooked. Since then he has written more than a dozen articles in newspapers and magazines about the controversial Boston 'Mayor of the Poor.' Ryan has been footnoted in several books and has lectured for many years about the Purple Shamrock. Ryan graduated from Boston State College with a degree in history and minors in secondary education and in English. He later earned a master's degree in journalism from Boston University. He has worked as a caddy, supermarket bundle boy, trash collector, taxi driver, cemetery worker, pants salesman, maintenance man, political campaign worker, tutor, teacher, reporter, and government communicator. A Red Sox fan ever since his father took him to Fenway Park in 1960, Ryan lives with his family west of the Pesky Pole.
Author website: www.ryanmj.com

Cynthia Satloff-Kolko
Cynthia Kolko graduated from Hamilton College with a bachelor's degree in English. She has worked as a corporate, advertising, and editorial writer as well as a graphic designer and photographer. Her writing has appeared in such varied periodicals as P.R. Journal, How, Interactivity, Progressive Railroading, Rochester Business Journal, and the Democrat and Chronicle. She brings her keen ear for dialogue, dark sense of humor, and penchant for eccentricity to her first novel, Fruit of the Vine. Mrs. Kolko lives in western New York State with her husband and two children. She enjoys gardening, birds, history, and winter, and is currently busy crafting her next novel.
Author website: www.cynthiakolko.com












Michael Sherlock
Born in Sydney Australia, Michael Sherlock has lived in Japan with his wife and two children for the past eight years.  Although he enjoys a happy and quiet life, Michael is deeply troubled by the infirmities of this world and makes attempts to remedy what he sees as the underlying cause. Michael sees himself not as a follower of any religion or nation, but as a member of the human race.  His discontent, sarcastic, and slightly antagonistic nature has led him to pursue and uncover lies forming the foundation of most belief systems. According to Michael, these religions have plagued humankind for thousands of years and hindered our species from advancing.

When he is not pondering the planet's troubles, Michael spends time with his first passion, his family.  Michael's philosophy is to avoid treading on the flowers at his feet whilst gazing up at the stars. One must not let life's drudgery spoil the simple pleasures that he and his family enjoy.

Michael's upcoming books are focused on the eradication of belief as an aspect of human consciousness, which he hopes will lead to the emancipation of the human mind and heart from the various spiritual, psychological, and cognitive prisons built and maintained by belief.
Author website: www.MichaelSherlock.org

Tony Schiavone
Tony Schiavone has been involved with youth soccer since 1995. He has worked with boys and girls, indoor and outdoor teams, and children ranging in age from six to sixteen. A graduate of Youngstown State and Kent State Universities, Schiavone works as a freelance writer and illustrator, best known for his "Grampa's Gang" comic strip.
Schiavone has three children, Vince, Andy and Alexandra, and a wonderful wife, Pamela. They live in Ohio where Schiavone coaches youth soccer.

Gary Starta
Gary Starta was originally born in Massachusetts and attended the University of Massachusetts where he majored in English and Journalistic Studies. He initially wrote as a newspaper reporter before taking the plunge into creative writing to pursue his love for science fiction. The publication of Blood Web launches a series of books to feature investigator Caitlin Diggs. Starta is a member of the Garden State Horror Writers Association. He currently lives in New Jersey with his wife, a few Tonkinese cats and an ever-growing science fiction video and book collection.
Author website: www.garystarta.com

Richard Trevae
Richard Trevae is an adventurer and business consultant. Formally trained as a chemical engineer with an MBA in Finance and Management, Mr. Trevae matured a startup design/construction/development firm into a publicly traded company that later merged with a parent corporation generating four billion dollars in annual revenues. His articles concerning business valuation, mergers, acquisitions, and management practices have been published in various trade associations and business newspapers.
Writing reality inspired fiction has become his latest passion, commencing with, The Israeli Betrayal, followed by the prequel, The Tarasov Solution. His extensive world traveling has provided a rich backdrop for the exotic locales featured in his novels. Mr Eurich lives with his wife along the picturesque shores of Lake Michigan where he is writing his next Dalton Crusoe novel.
Author website: www.richardtrevae.com


Jonathan Womack
Questions of spirituality, faith, the brevity of life and what becomes of us after death are enduring questions for the ages – brought into particularly sharp focus with the events of the last few years. However, local author, lecturer, visionary and regular guy Jonathan Womack has a few answers. Jonathan freely lectures on his out-of-body episodes and understanding of the soul’s experience and existence before, during, and after life – in a captivating, compelling manner cloaked in an approachable, aw-shucks Midwest charm.
Jonathan is committed to raising awareness on this topic through his lectures, website, and book, A Cry for a Hero, a semi-autobiographical fictional story about the world’s first out-of-body superhero and defender of America’s freedom (his birthday is 9/11). He has had a positive impact on many people looking for even the briefest glimpse of what it all means and why we are here.
author website: www.jonathanwomack.com


Brenda Woody & Steve Tindle
Steve Tindle and Brenda Woody were high school friends in Georgia who reconnected after 30 years of leading separate lives. During their re-acquaintance, they found their past and interests were similar; they had written poems, songs, and both had the desire to be published. Their combined experiences and fantasies inspired this erotic novel. Brenda moved to Dallas in 2009 to be closer to Steve and work on future books. Best Lover in Town is their first novel.







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