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Publisher/Editor-in-Chief J.R.G. DeMarco |  |
J.R.G. DeMarco lives and writes in Philadelphia and Montréal. He was recently given the "Best Magazine Editor" Reader's Choice Poll Award from Preditors & Editors. Before devoting his time more fully to fiction and non-fiction projects he was Editor-in-Chief of The Weekly Gayzette (Philadelphia); Editor-in-Chief of NGL, a national magazine; and has been an editor or contributing editor for a number of publications including Il Don Gennaro, a national Italian-American magazine. A number of his plays have been produced in Philadelphia, NY, and elsewhere around the U.S. A serious student of sociological issues, his work has been published in The International Encyclopedia of Marriage and Family (Macmillan); and two of his articles appear in the Encyclopedia of Men and Masculinites (ABC CLIO) One of his greatest loves is mystery (all kinds); he has written a number of mystery stories and is currently working on the first of a new series of mystery novels. He also has an abiding interest in alternate history, speculative fiction, young adult fiction, vampires, werewolves, science fiction, the supernatural, mythology, and more. You can learn more at www.josephdemarco.com | |
Web Advisor Jason Li |  |
Jason was in on the redesign of the site from the very beginning. He has given his advice and fixed problems as the arose and continues to do so. Though he is extremely busy with two other major facets of his life, he never fails to lend a hand when needed. He is currently working on revamping the archives and that should be up and working some time on 2006 which will make readers and writers happy. Jason is also creative in his own right and loves writing stories of his own as well as working on translations of Chinese literature. | |
Senior Assistant Editor Kathryn Lynn Carroll |  |
II have worked as a freelance writer for many years and have published stories and articles in various national and local publications. My mystery stories have appeared in Woman's World and Mystery Time. I have held a number of editorial positions and have served as a fiction judge for several national writing contests. Mysteries have engaged my imagination since I was a child when I spent many afternoons lost in the adventures of Nancy Drew and Saturdays meant Perry Mason and steak eaten from TV trays in the family room -- does it get any better than that?! | |
Art Director Gin E. L. Fenton |  |
| Gin, a creative workaholic, is art director and illustrator for several magazines and publishing companies creating book covers and illustrations for both print and online magazines, and books of all kinds. She loves to keep busy, and eats, sleeps and breathes for her Art in all its forms. Gin has painted all her life, and has mastered many mediums including oils, pastels, ink washes, watercolors, computer-aided art, graphic and web design, clay sculpture, soft sculpture, and is an accomplished glamour portrait artist. She published her own fantasy art ezine, Merlin's Dreams Zine. Preferring primarily figurative subjects, she loves creating dramatic illustrations for mystery, crime, suspense, glamour, pinup, romance, noir, intrigue, human interest, and fantasy stories, articles, and books. She lives in Texas with her retired physician husband, who dotes on her, even though she sometimes neglects him for her computer and drawing tablet. Her website: www.artpinups.com E-mail: gin@ginelf.com Portfolio Gallery : http://artisthome.com/Folio/folio.htm | |
Features Editor Julie Obermiller | .jpg) |
| JJulie Obermiller lives on the shores of Lake Ontario in Western New York with her cat Sneakie Pie, a healthy crop of dust bunnies and stacks of books. A freelance journalist with a weekly column in the Lockport Union Sun & Journal, her excuse for not becoming the next best-selling author is that she's too busy reading her beloved cozies. A hopeless anglophile and lover of Brit mysteries, Obermiller is also a part-time clown, community activist, self-professed slug and author of the soon-to-be-published Murder in Mason Jars, first in a series of Maggie Miller Mysteries. | |
Assistant Editor Barry Ergang |  |
| Barry Ergang has been writing since he was 12 and has had fiction, poetry, and non-fiction appear in a variety of publications, print and online, including Philly Talk, Erehwon, Pulpsmith, Stereophile, Proof Rock, Ketchup and Other Vegetables: American Poets on President Reagan, Gold Dust, Potpourri, Z Miscellaneous, The Sunday Suitor, Maelstrom, Moondance, Tucumcari Literary Review, The Listening Eye, Barbaric Yawp, QPB Presents the World's Best Shortest Stories, Nefarious, The Pedestal Magazine, Word Chowder, Mysterical-E, Whispering Spirits, Flashquake, Mind Fire Renewed, Web Mystery Magazine, Flashshot, The Coffee Cramps Review, and Futures Mysterious Anthology Magazine, where he is currently Managing Editor. Writers he admires include John Dickson Carr, Raymond Chandler, William Faulkner, Stephen Greenleaf, Langston Hughes, Ross Macdonald, Bernard Malamud, Wallace Stevens, Dylan Thomas, and William Butler Yeats. Befitting a mystery/suspense buff, his favorite film director is Alfred Hitchcock. Most of his working life has been spent selling high-end audio/video equipment, his personal preference being musical-reproduction components over home theater and video gear. Admittedly a dinosaur, he favors the sound of vacuum-tubed over transistorized amplification and analog (vinyl LP) over digital (compact disc) sources. | |
Assistant Editor Lance Zarimba |  |
| Lance Zarimba has short stories published in the Mayhem in the Midlands anthology and Who Died In Here? anthology. He has won the VLP short story contest and his "Secret Santa" story has appeared on Without A Clue web site. He writes a "Therapy" series where Taylor, an occupational therapist, stumbles across murders and mayhem and is helped, but mostly hindering, in solving the crimes with his friends. | |
Assistant Editor Virginia LoMonaco |  |
| A native Californian, Virginia Lo Monaco has recently returned from Italy, where she lived for almost 16 years. She has published many short stories. "A Man of Honor," one of her short stories published in Futures Mystery Anthology Magazine, was nominated for a Pushcart Prize and, after she translated it into Italian, won 2nd place in the Akery National Literary Competition in Acerra, Italy. Her SF short story, "Intermezzo a Cappella" won an Honorable Mention in the Writer's Digest 2001 Writing Competition in the Genre Short Story classification, finishing 11th in a field of over 1600 genre short stories. She was Mystery Editor for Futures Mystery Anthology Magazine and is an active member of Private Eye Writers of America, Mystery Writers of America, and Sisters In Crime-Los Angeles Chapter. | |
Columnist Nicholas Fuller |  |
| Born Canberra 1983. Lived in Brussels 1993 - 1996; returned Canberra 1997. Currently studying Arts at the Australian National University - Honours in History this year, in English next. Edited Gladys Mitchell's Sleuth's Alchemy for Crippen and Landru, have contributed articles to CADS and to the Margery Allingham festschrift. Interests: detective fiction (favourite authors: Gladys Mitchell, John Dickson Carr, Agatha Christie, Dorothy L Sayers, GK Chesterton and HC Bailey), Doctor Who and European history (Rome and England from the Wars of the Roses on, particularly C19th - present). | |
Columnist Tim Matson |  |
Tim Matson lives with his wife Susan, and their two miniature schnauzers Asta and Archie, in a suburb of St. Paul, MN. When he isn't toiling away at his day job, Tim spoils his wife and dogs mercilessly, and finds time to write when they take naps on the couch. His stories have been accepted at Mysterical-E and Futures Mystery Anthology Magazine. He is currently working on his second novel. | |
Columnist BJ Bourg |  |
| BJ Bourg is the Chief Investigator for the Lafourche Parish District Attorney's Office. He has over fifteen years of law enforcement experience in a variety of fields, including patrol, investigations, training, SWAT, and as a Sniper Leader. He spent ten and a half years as a detective and has investigated countless felony cases, ranging from thefts to murders. He received extensive training in homicide investigations, as well as other facets of police work, and solved every murder case to which he was assigned. He is the author of Absent the Soul and is a contributing author to Stories of Strength, Seven By Seven, and The EX Factor. He has had nearly seventy stories accepted for publication in over a dozen venues. His hobbies include boxing, sniping, beating his drums, and strumming his guitar. He lives in Mathews, LA with his beautiful wife and two wonderful children. | |
Columnist Byron McAllister |  |
| Byron McAllister was always intrigued by whatever appeared to be “fundamental,” but what he thinks the word means has changed gradually through several sciences to mathematics, philosophy, and now—inevitably—to mystery writing. Besides a few technical and historical papers from his earlier career, his published writings (often jointly authored by his spouse) include maybe thirty or so poems, half a dozen mystery short stories, and let's not forget an e-published novel, “Undercover Nudist,” http://ebooksonthe.net which has just come out in paper. Despite the modesty of these achievements, Byron thinks he's entitled to express strong, though variable, opinions on everything. He's saving mention of his hobbies and such, because maybe they'll serve as subject matter for future columns. | |
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CONTRIBUTORS THIS ISSUE |
Writers |
Herschel Cozine has published extensively in the children's field. His stories and poems have appeared in many of the national children's magazines. Work by Herschel has also appeared in Alfred Hitchcock and Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazines. He has a mystery scheduled for publication in an upcoming issue of Woman's World. Additionally he has had many stories appear in Orchard Press Mysteries, as well as Shots, HandHeldCrime Great mystery and Suspense, and others. Retired from a career in electronics, he has resumed his writing career after an extended hiatus. Herschel lives with his wife, Sue, in Santa Rosa, California, close to his children and grandchildren Vero G. Caravetta has been a film buff and a mystery fan since he can remember. He has reviewed film for a number of small publications in the Midwest. Since his move East to New York, he has thrown himself into his work Off-Off Broadway. He would eventually like to try his hand at fiction. Neil Davies lives in the North West of England. He is married, has two children, and currently works as a Computer Consultant. Any spare time he can find he spends writing. His first novel, A World Of Assassins, is available now from most online bookstores, published by Publish America . For more information please visit his official website - http://www.nwdavies.co.uk William Moal lives in Modesto, California. He has been published in the e-zine Crime and Suspense, won an honorable mention in the Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine's Mysterious Photograph contest, and won "best to use of theme" in the Coveted Dead Bird Award contest. He is a member of Sisters in Crime, Modesto Ink, Central Valley Writers Workshop, and Dirty Deeds. When not writing fiction, he composes music. Learn more at http://wmoal.blogspot.com/ Robert Benson was born in the Midwest , raised on the West Coast, and spent his adult life on the East Coast. Recently retired from the computer business to do housework for his wife and kids and dog, he write crime fiction for his own amusement. None of it has yet been published. He loves the crime field and have an extensive collection of paperback originals and first editions from the golden era of the pulps. He believes this genre still has much to say and will continue to write in it regardless of the world's indifference. Mark Joseph Kiewlak has been an author for fifteen years, mainly writing short stories and poetry. Recently his work has appeared in Hardboiled, Crime Scene, Toasted Cheese, and The Oracular Tree. He has also written for DC Comics (FLASH 80-PAGE GIANT #2) and counts among his main inspirations the work of Robert B. Parker and Frank Miller. Mark Murphy has been a copy editor with The Post-Standard in Syracuse, N.Y., for almost 30 years. His mystery fiction has appeared in Futures Mystery Anthology Magazine. Susan Brassfield Cogan is the author of Murder on the Waterfront, A Lady Chesterleigh Mystery (August 2004, Hilliard & Harris). She is also the author of Jubilee, A Novel (2003) and writes short stories and essays on a broad range of topics. She's been published in AlienSkin, Hardluck Tales, Mysterical-E, Orchard Press Mysteries, Anotherealm, Oracular Tree, Writers Unbound, MoonDance and Deep Magic. She would like you to visit her website: http://www.coganbooks.net Rus Morgan has published investigative feature articles in several regional magazines and has self published three novels. He has previously published mysteries in FMAM and Mysterical-E. He is currently working on more short stories and his sixth novel. He resides with his silver haired lady in Memphis , TN Barry Ergang -- see bio above BJ Bourg -- see bio above Allen McGill was originally from NYC, but now lives, writes, acts, and directs theatre in Mexico. His published fiction, non-fiction, poetry, plays, photos, etc., have won awards and appeared in: NY Times, The Writer, Newsday, Literary Potpourri, Poetry Midwest, QLRS, Herons Nest, Frogpond, Modern Haiku, World Haiku Review, many others. He is a former member of PEN. He was an invited guest at the First World Poetry Festival in Taiwan 2005, haibun editor for Simply Haiku, and two of his plays have been professionally produced in Sacramento and L.A. Philip Lees is British by birth but has spent more than half his life in Greece and now lives on the island of Crete, birthplace of Zeus and source of many myths and legends. His short fiction has appeared in a variety of print and electronic publications, while his story"Lucretia´s Nose" won him a trip to Hollywood and a place in the 2001 C.S. Foerster was born and raised in Michigan and after university studies lived in Paris, France for a decade. Writing short stories about people and how they reacted in the most astonishing ways to mundane moments in their lives always seemed to blend themselves into a mystery story. C.S.Foerster presently lives near Union Square in San Francisco, happily putting the three boxes of notes and stories accumulated through time into proper manuscript shape. Clair Dickson writes in the free time she has between working as an Alternative High School teacher, a summer school teacher and a disgruntled retail clerk. She has seen several pieces of flash fiction published in the past six months. She enjoys the crime noir of Raymond Chandler but is thoroughly a modern woman-- including a tendency to speak her bitter mind. |
Artists |
Arthur King is a strange young curmudgeon who only exists for his art, which he says speaks for itself. He has no use for people unless they want to give him money for his illustrations or have sex with him. arthurkingart@gmail.com Gin E. L. Fenton -- see bio above Teresa Tunaley: Originating from the UK but now residing in the Canary Islands, freelance artist Teresa Tunaley finds more time to devote to her love of art and painting. For years she has been doodling traditionally with pencils and dabbling with watercolours. More recently she uses a more modern technique and creates with her electronic tablet and pen in software such as Photoshop, Corel Draw and Paint Shop Pro. Web site portfolio www.artstopper.com E-mail post@artstopper.com Laura Givens is currently seeking the meaning of life in Denver, Colorado. So far she has only determined that, despite conventional wisdom, the Hokey Pokey is not "What it's all about!" She is a freelance artist and Associate art director/ Graphic designer for LBF Books. More of her work can be viewed at: www.storesonline.com/site/581321/ She can be contacted at lauragivens@lbfbooks.com |
Founder Denise Batonne |  |
| Denise Batonne began writing professionally when she was hired as researcher for a small production company in Santa Monica.The position evolved into writer/producer on the project, The Shaping Of America, a series of historical spots on American history. A forerunner to the popular Ken Burns style of dramatic portrayals of historical figures and events, The Shaping Of America featured narrators Sally Kellerman, Robert Guillaume, Dennis Weaver and was voted Favorite Series. Denise has worked for Brentwood News and Venice Art Magazine interviewing and reviewing the work of personalities such as Dizzy Gillespie and Chris Connelly, editor of Premiere Magazine. Co-Editor of Techno Noir with Jeffrey Marks, her story "Mixo-Matic" appears in its pages. "The Ticket," Denise's first short story, was featured as Publisher's Choice in Futures magazine. Denise has a strong background in film and theatre. She left Mysterical-E in early 2004 to pursue her own writing and other interests. | |
