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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. | |
Cover Artist |  |
Joshua J. Stewart, says he's one of those crazy people you see around... drawing in a sketch pad twitching out because he's sleep deprived. The kind of person you see and mistake for a Zombie. But seriously, he says, he's an Illustrator, born in Idaho raised in New Mexico near Gallup. He started drawing young, inspired by comic books, action movies, cartoons, and sci-fi art. After graduating high school he pursued a degree in welding, then after a brief career as a welder, decided to pursue art. He went to art school at BYU-Idaho, where he received many honors in Illustration, including acceptance into the Society of Illustrators student show three years in a row, as well as being the Idaho International Dance Festival illustrator 2007, while still in school. He graduated with a BFA, focusing on illustration. Since then he received the L. Ron Hubbard illustrator of the future Award in 2008. He now works part time with Foreverinteractive, a small video game company based in Chicago, as well as working as a freelance Illustrator. His style would be considered mixed medium, mostly figurative, textural, and edgy. Since he works as an illustrator the majority of his works are market-specific geared towards video games, magazines, and books. He loves doing book covers. | |
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CONTRIBUTORS THIS ISSUE |
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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. Patricia Abbot is a Derringer winner who has published more than sixty stories in literary and crime fiction outlets. Six of her stories have or will appear in anthologies including DAMN NEAR DEAD 2 (edited by Bill Crider) and BETWEEN THE DARK AND THE DAYLIGHT (Gorman and Greenberg). She lives and works in Detroit . BJ Bourg is a DA Investigator who loves writing mysteries and spending time with his beautiful wife and wonderful children. More information on the author can be found at his website www.bjbourg.com . Charles Mossup -- see bio above Larry D. Sweazy (www.larrydsweazy.com) won the WWA (Western Writers of America) Spur award for Best Short Fiction in 2005, and was nominated for a Derringer award in 2007. His other short stories have appeared in, or will appear in, The Adventure of the Missing Detective: And 25 of the Year's Finest Crime and Mystery Stories! , Boy's Life magazine, Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine , Amazon Shorts, and other publications and anthologies. His first novel, The Rattlesnake Season , will be published in the fall of 2009 by Berkley Books. Larry lives in Noblesville , Indiana with his wife, Rose, and two dogs, and a cat. Peter Bodi was born and raised in Philadelphia , the woefully misnamed city of brotherly love. He loves crime fiction and the Philadelphia Eagles, in spite of having his heart repeatedly and thoroughly broken. He lives in a Philly suburb with his wife and two young children. He only recently started writing and this is his first published story. :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 lives in Maryland and works for a government consulting company at an undisclosed location. It's not one of those he could tell you, but then he'd have to kill things; he's just not going to tell you. Dana has been published in Thuglit, New Mystery Reader, Crooked, Powder Burn Flash, and will have a story included in Thuglit's 2010 anthology. This is his first story for Mysterical-E 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. Mike Dennis After a lifetime as a professional musician (piano, keyboards), he semi-retired a few years ago to devote more time to writing and playing poker. One of his short stories will be published in the 2009 edition of the Wizards Of Words Anthology. In addition, he has written five novels and some dozen short stories, mostly in the hardboiled crime genre. About eighteen months ago, he moved to Las Vegas after sixteen years in his beloved Key West . Percy Spurlark Parker currently lives in Las Vegas , but when he lived in Chicago was active with the Midwest Chapter of the MWA, serving as chapter president, vice-president, treasurer, regional director. He has been active on the mystery con circuit, moderating panels and conducting workshops and has been on the selection committees for the Edgar and Shamus awards. His stories have been published in EQMM and AHMM, Woman's World, Mike Shayne, Espionage, The Executioner and others. His work has appeared in anthologies such as PWA's Mystery Street (ed. Randisi), Hollowood and Crime (ed. Randisi), Spooks, Spies, and Priate Eyes (ed. Woods), Fedora and Fedora II (ed. Bracken), Shades of Black (ed. Bland). His novels include Good Girls Don't Get Murdered and The Good-Looking Dead Guy. Steve Olley lives close to the shores of Lake Huron with his daughter, Beth, and their trusty dog, Chelsea . His Jack Best stories have appeared in many previous issues of Mysterical-E. He is now currently working on a Jack Best novel. Nick Mammano is a retired chemist living in Florida . He has taken advantage of his retirement to pick up on a long suppressed desire to be a fiction writer. Since retirement he has published two poems and a short story “Vito” adapted from his father's memoirs as an Italian American living in New York City during the Great Depression. The short story has been published (Italian translation) in Nuova Prosa, (New Prose) an Italian literary review, in 2009. Daniel B. Young is a fifty-eight year old retired private investigator. He is also an ex-teenage gang leader, Vietnam-era Navy sailor, steel mill laborer, overhead crane operator, and a computer programmer. He has worked for detective agencies as a security officer, executive bodyguard, undercover operative, and after ten years was state licensed as a private investigator for ten years. In his twenty-year security and investigative career he made 467 felony arrests and retrieved seven fugitives [on behalf of the victims; he is not a fan of bounty hunting]. He lives with his thirty-seven year marriage partner and proofreader Angel. He has had short fiction published online in "The Murder Hole". "Without a Clue", "Nefarious: Tales of Mystery", "Mysterical-E", "Quantum Muse", "Shalla" and a law enforcement article on the fallacies of the polygraph exam published in "Web Mystery Magazine" and "Crime Magazine". Tom Rynard is a student of Renaissance Venice and a writer of fiction, mostly long short stories and novellas, in his spare time. A fan of mystery series such as Hercule Poirot (Agatha Christie), Commisario Brunetti (Donna Leon) and Inspector Montalbano (Andrea Camilleri), he has created the character of Reginaldo Morosini from cinquecento (16 th Century) Venice in numerous novellas and short stories and one full length novel. When not writing, researching material for his stories, or traveling, he is a practicing attorney in Jefferson City , Missouri . He is presently serving with the military in Iraq . Dana C. Kabel has had work published at Muzzleflash, Powderflashburn, Blood Moon Rising, and Out of the Gutter magazine. He is currently trying to find a home for his novel, Killing Is My Business Joyce Tremel is a former employee of a suburban police department near Pittsburgh , PA. She has written articles for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, the Pennsylvania Chiefs of Police magazine, and The Penn Writer. Joyce is a former vice president of the Pittsburgh chapter of Sisters In Crime. Visit Joyce's website at www.joycetremel.com . Devon Greene lives and writes fiction (long and short) and plays in Houston, Texas. In addition to a story appearing in a Silverthought past issue, a flash piece is now appearing in Long Story Short. Another one is due to appear soon in The Oregon Literary Review and a short story is scheduled to appear in June, 2007 in Mouthful of Bullets. Devon truly believes one strong word is worth a thousand pictures. Jake Nantz is a high school Creative Writing and British Literature teacher living in North Carolina . His students are usually a little concerned about the mind that comes up with all of this gore, mayhem, and death. He's being published in Spinetingler Magazine 's January edition, and is currently working on his first novel. He blogs regularly at http://jnantz.blogspot.com. 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. | |
