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Publisher/Editor-in-Chief Joseph R. G. DeMarco |  |
JJ. R.G. DeMarco lives and writes in Philadelphia and Montréal. He was recently awarded the "Best Magazine Editor" Reader's Choice Poll 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. Eric 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 |  |
I 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) |
| 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 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, which he has also served as one of the Mystery Editors. 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 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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Writers |
Diane Dahlstrom is a graduate of the Long Ridge Writer's Group Breaking into Print course. She has had poetry and stories published in Above the Bridge Magazine and on Long Story Short, Destiny 3 Fiction, Crime and Suspense ezines and also has stories accepted for publication on Laughter Loaf and Amsterdam Scriptum. Frank Zafiro Over thirty of Frank Zafiro's stories have been published or accepted for publication in such magazines as Futures Mystery Anthology Magazine, Crime Scene Scotland, Crime and Suspense and Mysterical-E. "The Meat-cutter's Wife" is a River City short story and many of his short stories share that setting, as well as his novels. The first novel, "Under A Raging Moon," is due out in mid-2006. He is also part of the crime fiction anthology "Seven By Seven." Outside of writing, his other passion is hockey. You can keep up with him at http://frankzafiro.com . Pam Skochinski, previously writing as Pamela Karavolos, has had short stories published in Murderous Intent Mystery Magazine, Futures Mysterious Anthology, Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, Flash Fantastic, Sorcery and Science, Mysterical-E, Flashshot, and A Flasher's Dozen. Recently married, she's on sabbatical from technical writing to spend more time with her children, living in “Pam”demonium with her family in California . Chick Lang is a part time schoolteacher and computer consultant who spends most of his spare time writing fiction. In the last three years he's garnered over two dozen writing credits in Futures Mysterious Anthology Magazine, FAME Ezine, ByLine Magazine, Coffee Cramp Magazine, The Writer's Hood, Virginia Adversaria, and The Alabama Writer's Conclave Anthology. He's enjoyed a stint as “first reader” for FMAM and is currently serving in a similar position for the new entertainment publication, Coffee Cramp Magazine. Presently he lives in Laurel , Mississippi with his wife Cheryl and daughter Natalie. Larry Tyler grew up—as much as he was going to—in California and now lives in central Maine. He has written mystery stories for several magazines, including one previous story for Mysterical-E. Matt Webb is a writer who lives in Baltimore, Maryland with his wife, Leah. He has written numerous stories including several that feature P.I. Vince Fanelli. Adam McFarlane works for the Fourth District Court of Minnesota. He has taught social studies in Namibia and the United States . His stories have appeared in SDO Detective , Nocturnal Ooze , and AlienSkin Magazine . His website is www.adammcfarlane.com. You can contact him at columnist5@yahoo.com Tim Matson currently resides in a suburb of St. Paul , Minnesota with his wife Susan, and two miniature schnauzers Archie and Asta. He often wonders why he doesn't move because it's pretty damn cold in the winter time. When he is not writing, he is searching for lost woolen socks and toiling his days away working for the Home Depot Charles Schaeffer Jeffrey Perren is a novelist with a background in Physics and Philosophy. His latest novel, The Geisha Hummingbird (in progress), is the story of a Ship Designer whose fiancé disappears on the eve of her wedding, amidst a whirlpool of industrial espionage. Ed Lynskey's short mystery fiction has appeared in Mysterical-E, Plots With Guns, Mississippi Review Online, Orchard Press Mysteries, and HandHeldCrime. His two PI Frank Johnson novels scheduled for publication in 2005 include The Dirt-Brown Derby (Mundania Press) and The Blue Cheer (Point Blank Press/Wildside Press). 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. Daniel Scott Dowell is "a fifty-four-year-old portfolio manager for the California State Treasury. When I'm not engrossed in promoting my three full-length mystery novels for possible publication, I spend my 'spare' time writing short mystery stories. Originally, I used the short story form to help me develop character and dialogue efficiently. I continue to develop my style, relying on the irony successfully displayed in works by O. Henry. My goal is to have the reader's final thought be, 'How clever. I didn't see that ending coming.'" |
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 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 Vivian Prince is the only child of a shepherdess and a traveling evangelist. Thought to be retarded in an age that dyslexia was not heard of, her parents put her in the back seat of a Nash Rambler and taught her on the road. Stopping at every museum, science exhibit, historical park and art festival, she was encouraged to draw the lessons she learned. At the age of 22 she finally learned to read and is rarely seen without either a book or a pencil and paper in her hands. She may be contacted at prncjohn@aol.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. | |
