Bryon Quertermous’s first play was a shameless rip-off of The Maltese Falcon and was produced when he was 19. He’s been shortlisted for the Crime Writers Association Debut Dagger and his fiction has appeared in Shots, Noir Originals, CrimeSpree, Crime Scene Scotland, ThugLit, and Hardluck Stories among others. He is the editor and publisher of Demolition magazine in a debt of literary karma.
Gerri Leen lives in Northern Virginia and originally hails from Seattle. In addition to Shred of Evidence, her stories have appeared in Fusion Fragment, Mytholog, and The First Line. Her work has also been accepted by the Sails & Sorcery anthology, Renard’s Menagerie, GlassFire, GrendelSong, and the Fantastical Visions V anthology. Her website is at www.gerrileen.com.
Wanda C. Keesey is a student of the Civil War era, and the people who lived in that time. A long time member of Pennwriters, Inc, she was once an officer of that organization and still serves on the Annual Conference Committee. She won a chapter contest held by Bookhitch.com, in 2007. She writes short stories (one which is scheduled to be printed in Mouthfull of Bullets in the Winter 2007 issue (”Killer Personality”), and another that was published in August of 2006 in MysteryFiction (”Peanuts”) and now appears on her site). She also writes historic/suspense novels, articles, and does book reviews; some are showcased on her website.
The YA Books Goddess: www.yabookscentral.com & www.kidsbookscentral.com
Billy O’Callaghan, from Cork, Ireland, works as a freelance journalist. His fiction has appeared in the USA in Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, Elysian Fields Baseball Quarterly and War Journal, and in Ireland in such publications as Southword, Ireland’s Own, The Big Issue, and the Holly Bough, among others. He has won the George A. Birmingham Award and the Lunch Hour Stories Prize, and has been shortlisted for the Francis McManus Award, the Sean O’Faolain Award, and the Faulkner/Wisdom Award.
I have been most recently published in Flesh & Blood Magazine, Planet Relish, A Different Path, and Decompositions. I am a founding member and current secretary of the Garden State Horror Writers, a New Jersey-based organization of writers of all genres, and am appearing in an anthology presented by that group called Tales from a Darker State.
J.E. Seymour has had crime fiction published in Shots Crime and Mystery Magazine, A Cruel World, Mysterical-E and Windchill, an anthology of crime fiction by New England writers.
A. C. Ellis has two science fiction novels published in paperback editions: Death Jag by Manor Books and Worldmaker by Ace Books. Worldmaker was reprinted in Germany, and was recently optioned to an independent Los Angeles film production company.
Ellis has published two more sf novels as e-books, as well as a handful of short work in both print and electronic formats. His e-books can be accessed through his Web page at www.acellis.net.
Ellis lives in Denver, Colorado.
E.C. Morgan’s short fiction has appeared in Mysterical-e and A Cruel World, and is forthcoming in Crime Spree Magazine. He has also published non-fiction in more than 75 magazines. His writing and mystery blog is http://ecmorgan.blogspot.com.
Patricia Abbott has published stories in journals such as Fourteen Hills, Inkwell, The Potomac Review and The Portland Review. Having come over to the dark side now, forthcoming stories will appear in Demolition and SHOTS.