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Publisher/Editor-in-Chief Joseph R.G. DeMarco |  |
Joe DeMarco lives and writes in Philadelphia and Montréal. 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) He won "Best Magazine Editor" Reader's Choice Poll Award for 2007 and 2005 from Preditors & Editors. One of his greatest loves is mystery (all kinds); he has written a number of mystery stories and and the first book in his new mystery series, MURDER ON CAMAC has just been published by Lethe Press. 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. Jason is also an artist and some of his work can be seen at www.goldenfleecegallery.com | |
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 | |
First Senior Editor Barry Ergang |
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Barry Ergang is shown here holding Duncan, the West Highland White | |
Assistant Editor Pam Skochinski |  |
It all began with Nancy Drew. Many a mystery writer can point at Nancy as the beginning of their obsession with mystery. Pam Skochinski is no different. An life-long reader of mysteries, in 1997 she tried her hand at writing one. Since then, she has had over thirty short stories published in various e-zines and print publications. She currently lives in Southern California with her husband and three children. You can find out more about her at www.pamskochinski.com | |
Assistant Editor Larry Marshall |  |
Larry Marshall lives with is wife Chantal and daughter Jodie in Quebec City, Quebec. He holds a doctorate in Biological Sciences, is semi-retired and, when he feels like it, works as a copywriter and editor. Over the years he has written over 200 non-fiction articles for magazines. He's been editor-in-chief for Air Age Publishing, worked as an editor for Blinding Force Productions and for Wildcat Books. Larry can be reached at larry@larrymarshall.name | |
Assistant Editor Charles Mossop |  |
Retired after a thirty-two year academic career, Charles now lives on Vancouver Island on Canada 's west coast where he writes historical fiction, works in his garden and continues his study of classical guitar. A lover of mystery stories, his flash fiction has appeared in Flashshot, and his short stories in Over My Dead Body, Futures Mystery Anthology Magazine, and in the Amazon Shorts Program. He also contributed to the Anthology Aleatory's Junction, published by Double Dragon Publishing in 2006, and to the writer's resource book The Muse on Writing ( Double Dragon, 2005). His novel Jade Hunter will appear in 2007 from Double Dragon. Charles is also a monthly contributor to the online resource magazine The Muse Marquee where he writes on historical fiction and manages the historical fiction department. Charles's stories are usually set in fifteenth century China or eighteenth century Europe , and in the latter case he specializes in maritime history and life aboard wooden-walled ships of war. As he says, “Murder and intrigue can be found everywhere and in any time period. All you have to do as a writer is select a time and place to put them.” http://cmossop0.tripod.com | |
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| Julie 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/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. Tim can be reached at: matsonatmystericale@gmail.com | |
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. | |
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 Jim Doherty |  |
A police officer for more than ten years like his character Dan Sullivan, began his law enforcement career as a reserve cop in Berkeley , California , while simultaneously working on his bachelor's degree at Cal . Sullivan stories have previously appeared in Writers' Journal , Blue Murder , Hand Held Crime , Over My Dead Body! , and the upcoming anthology The Race Is On . Sullivan is also the protagonist of Jim's first (and still unpublished) novel, An Obscure Grave , which was a finalist in the 2004 Debut Dagger competition conducted by the British Crime Writers Association. In addition to his fiction, Jim is also the author of two non-fiction books. Just the Facts – True Tales of Cops & Criminals is a collection of true-crime articles, one of which, “Blood for Oil,” won the 2005 Western Writers of America Spur Award in the Short Non-Fiction Category. Raymond Chandler – A Master of American Noir is a series of lectures on Chandler 's early work available as an e-book on the Barnes & Noble website, and used in conjunction with an on-line course about Chandler that Jim teaches. A native San Franciscan, Jim currently lives in Chicago with his lovely wife, Katy. His website can be found here: http://www.deadlyserious.com/JimDoherty | |
Columnist Gerald So |  |
Fiction Editor for The Thrilling Detective Web Site, Gerald is also a reviewer for Crimespree Cinema and moderator of the crime TV and film forum CrimeSeen. He's always looking for more to read or watch. | |
Columnist Christine A. Verstraete |  |
| Christine A. Verstraete is an award-winning journalist whose nonfiction and fiction has been published in various newspapers and magazines. She is working on a mystery novel and has had short fiction published in Mysterical-E, Orchard Press Mysteries, Mouth Full of Bullets, Flashshot, Flashquake, and Futures Mysterious Anthology. Her story, "The Witch Tree" was a recent contest winner at Echelon Press. Contact her at http://cverstraete.com | |
Columnist Byron McAllister |  |
Always intrigued by whatever he construed as basic, Byron's interests moved through several sciences then through mathematics, philosophy, and now--inevitably--to the most basic of all, mystery writing, which he does mostly in conjunction with his spouse. Ignoring some technical and historical papers written in his former career, his writing credits include a couple of dozen “mainstream” (i.e. non-mystery) poems, half a dozen mystery short stories, another six mystery-oriented poems, and three novels, Undercover Nudist , Runaway Nudist, and To Kill a Nudist, all of which appeared first as ebooks and can be found here and there on the web, e.g. at http://www.writewordsinc.com and, in fact your local bookstore can order it, although they may not be willing to simply stock it. Byron assumes that this wee bit of writing experience plus his considerable age give him the right to have strong but variable opinions on whatever crosses his mind. He lives in a cold climate, as do many of his faithful readers. | |
Columnist Jan Christensen |  |
Jan Christensen's main interests are reading and writing, mostly mysteries. She's had over fifty short stories published, several right here in Mysterical-e, including the premier issue, and has been nominated twice for a Derringer Award. Several of the now-unfortunately-defunct magazines who have published her work are: Red Herring Mystery Magazine, Whispering Willows Mystery Magazine, Nefarious - Tales of Mystery, Detective Mystery Stories, Hardluck Stories, EWG Presents, and Vacant Funhouse. But others are still in existence such as Long Story Short, Orchard Press, Futures Mysterious Anthology Magazine, Spinetingler, Crime and Suspense, and several others. She's also had stories in anthologies, one in last year's Wolfmont Publishing's Carols and Crimes, Gifts and Grifters, all proceeds going to Toys for Tots, and two in Whortleberry Press's, Strange Mysteries and It Was A Dark and Stormy Halloween. Her first novel, Sara's Search came out in 2004. Jan's office is a lounge chair and a laptop in the 40-foot motorhome she and her husband live in fulltime. She is beginning to call herself a minimalist because of her love of short stories and an uncluttered life. More about Jan: www.janchristensen.com | |
Features Montiese Mckenzie |  |
Montiese McKenzie is a thirty something Philadelphia native who loves city life. She is a writer in her spare time and part of the proleteriat by default. She loves blogging, photography, reading mysteries, and anything that involves coffee. Making a living as a full time writer and possible documentary filmmaker is still on her list of things to-do. She is the mother of two rambunctious felines and the owner of an ever-growing shoe collection. | |
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CONTRIBUTORS THIS ISSUE |
Writers |
Larry & Rosemary Mild coauthor the Paco and Molly Mystery Series: Boston Scream Pie, Hot Grudge Sunday and Locks & Cream Cheese . We're also award winners of short stories and essays from Writers' Digest , the Maryland Writers Association, Writers' Workshop of Asheville, NC, and the National Association of American Pen Women. Rosemary is the author of her memoir Miriam's Gift , a tribute to their daughter killed in the terrorist bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland. Curt Jeffreys has been writing since 1996. His credits include Dark Fire Fiction, Shadowkeep, Galaxy ezine and Millennium Science-Fiction and Fantasy. Charles Mossup -- see bio above :John D. Nesbitt is the author of twenty published novels, including several western-mystery crossovers and one contemporary mystery novel. He has also published numerous short stories, nonfiction pieces, and poems. He lives in Torrington , Wyoming , where he teaches English and Spanish at Eastern Wyoming College . Dana King Sarah Wisseman hadn't a clue that she wanted to be an archaeologist until she traveled to Israel right after her freshman year in college. There she fell in love with biblical archaeology, an experience that forced her to stay in school forever and eventually to write a novel, The Dead Sea Codex . Sarah didn't know she wanted to write fiction right away, either. For twenty-five years, she wrote nothing but dry technical articles and non-fiction about ceramics and museum exhibits. While researching an Egyptian mummy, the idea of a mystery set in her former museum (a creepy old attic) grew into Bound for Eternity. Her third novel, The House of the Sphinx, will be published by Hilliard and Harris. For more on Sarah's books, articles, and short stories, visit her website at www.sarahwisseman.com Bill Bernico is the author of more than 150 short stories and one novel. For four years he wrote a weekly humor column for his hometown newspaper, The Sheboygan Press. Bill's advice columns for computer enthusiasts have appeared in various magazines around the world. These days Bill writes an online advice column for musicians. Bill is a songwriter and has won several songwriting contests. He is also a working musician and has been playing live shows since 1966. William Blick David Hagerty lives and writes in Sacramento, CA. In addition to being an aspiring novelist, he has taught at a community college and in a county jail, and labored thanklessly as a journalist for a small town newspaper. P. R. Morris received two Reviewers' Choice Awards for her first historical novel, Daring Deceptions. Murder at Rendezvous is the first in a series of short stories featuring Deputy Nina Archeuletta and her reporter husband Steve. She lives in Colorado where she teaches writing at a local college and works with special needs teenagers. Robert J. Schneider live in a suburban Long Island town about thirty miles east of New York City . My work has been mainly in the financial services industry. I'm a longtime reader of mystery fiction and enjoy researching the history of the genre almost as much as reading the actual stories. I've written a series of detective stories featuring a Manhattan based amateur sleuth couple. Only one of the stories ever saw publication, and on the whole, I would have to agree with all the editors who rejected the other six stories. It's easier to write about mystery fiction than it is to actually write good stories. Peter Joseph Swanson lives in Minneapolis and writes fiction in a variety of genres. He is currently working with Stone Garden Publishing based in San Francisco . Available now are his Tinseltown Trilogy: Hollywood Sinners, The Joan Crawford Murders, and Bad Movies. Gail Farrelly writes mysteries, articles about the mystery field, and Op-Eds. She also publishes satire pieces on a British website, www.TheSpoof.com . Her first mystery book, Beaned in Boston , was named to the Washington Irving Book Selection List. Duped by Derivatives and Creamed at Commencement followed. The book in progress is The Virtual Heiress. Her story "Even Steven" (finalist for a 2007 Derringer award) is now available at the audio website www.Sniplits.com . Gail shares a website ( www.FarrellySistersOnline.com ) with her sister Rita, also a mystery writer. First chapters of the Farrelly mysteries are available on the website. Frank Zafiro is a police lieutenant in the Pacific Northwest . Many of his crime novels and stories take place in the fictional Washington city of River City. “The Bastard Mummy” features Detectives Finch and Elias, who are also featured in the short story “Finch and Elias” (available on Amazon Shorts). “Finch and Elias” follows the detective pair as they investigate the events that occured in “Be My Santa Baby,” which was published in Mysterical-E's Winter 2005-06 issue. You can check out Frank website at http://frankzafiro.com and follow his River City blog at http://frankzafiro.blogspot.com Jake Hinkson Frederick Fish travels often in his profession as a chemical engineer, and he writes mystery stories while stranded in airports. His current project is a Civil War mystery novel, featuring Watts and Meigs from this story. Cindy Rosmus is a New York textbook editor by day, a hardboiled Jersey female by night. Her fiction has appeared in Black Petals , The Beat , The Cynic , Red Fez , Zygote in My Coffee , Hardboiled , NVF , The Monsters Next Door, Out of the Gutter , Devil Blossoms , & 13th Warrior Review . She has four collections of stories out: Angel of Manslaughter , Gutter Balls , Calpurnia's Window , and No Place Like Home . She is the editor of the e-zine, YellowMama: blackpetalsks.tripod.com/yellowmama/index.html She is also a thrill seeker, a Gemini, and a Christian. Stephen D. Rogers has over five hundred stories and poems selected to appear in more than two hundred publications. His website, www.stephendrogers.com, includes a list of new and upcoming titles as well as other timely information. J.E. Seymour lives in a small town in seacoast NH and has had short stories published in two anthologies of crime fiction by New England writers - “Windchill,” and “Deadfall,” and in Thriller UK Magazine, Shots Crime and Mystery Magazine, A Cruel World, Shred of Evidence, Mouth Full of Bullets and Mysterical-E. http://home.earthlink.net/~j.e.seymour 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. |
Artists |
Gin E. L. Fenton -- see bio above 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 |
Founder Eva Batonne |
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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. Her book RESSURECTION DIVA, a literary crime novel, comes out in August 2007 from ZUMAYA PUBLICATIONS. | |
