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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

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

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: www.rossgallen.com

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

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.

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

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

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 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 the pen name of self-made mogul, adventurer, and business consultant Thomas Eurich. Formally trained as a chemical engineer with an MBA in Finance and Management, Mr. Eurich 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 FUSION BREAKTHROUGH, 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 novel, THE TARASOV GAMBIT.
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, author, lecturer, visionary and regular guy Jonathan Womack has a few answers. Jonathan freely lectures on his own amazing out-of-body episodes and understanding of the soul’s experience and existence after death – 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.

Darius 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. He currently resides in London with his wife and four-year-old son.