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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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Writers |
Tim Matson -- see bio above 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. 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. Bertil Falk is a retired Swedish newspaper journalist and TV-producer. Spent ten years outside Sweden ( England , India , Kenya , USA etc.) Published fiction and non-fiction in Swedish. After retirement written short fiction in English and Swedish and translated other writers in both directions. Published in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, in an anthology from Outrider Press and has had a translation of a 150 years old Swedish mystery by August Blanche published in Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery magazine. Joe Raciti grew up in Massachusetts with three younger brothers and an older sister. He's twenty three years old and lives in New York City . He enjoys art, baseball, writing, and movies but most of all he likes composing music on his piano. lf you like his storyand want to read some of his other work or check out some of his art or music, follow this link to his website: http://www.sccs.swarthmore.edu /users/05/jraciti1/ 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. Courtney Mroch's aliases include Courts Mroch and C. Le Mroch. She's a member of Mystery Writers of America and the Short Mystery Fiction Society. Her more notable accomplishments include her short story, “Skin Ish Ca”, (published by Orchard Press Mysteries in 2003) finishing #2 in the 2003 P&E Reader Poll, and her e-book, Cellfish Ways , ranking as Echelon Press's 2004 #2 best-selling dollar download. Her first novel, Beneath the Morvan Moon , was released in 2004 in trade paperback by PublishAmerica and as an e-book from Writers Exchange Electronic Publishing. Visit her on the web at www.courtneymroch.com . Michael A. Kechula is a retired tech writer. Switching to fiction, his flash fiction works have won first place in three contests. His tales have appeared in Alien Skin, Apollo's Lyre, Binnacle Journal, Bobbing Along, Buddy Tales, Long Story Short, Lotus Blooms Journal, Nimue's Grotto, Somewhat, True Love, Wicked Karnival, and Writer's Hood. He is Flash Fiction Editor for Apollo's Lyre Magazine. Kechula is the author of four fiction books consisting of 115 flash fiction tales, plus a nonfiction book, “Writing Flash Fiction: A Self-Study Book for Beginners.” Marjorie James is a scientist and writer from the San Francisco Bay Area. Her work has previously appeared in Orchard Press Mysteries, Futures and the Berkeley Science Review. She likes bad movies and spends way too much time on the Internet. Marshall Bye, a retired educator has over 30 mathematics textbooks to his name. During his first five years of retirement he edited and published an eight-page four-color newsletter for the local Trout Unlimited Chapter. He is now fulfilling a lifelong ambition to write in the creative field. He has items published in his local newspaper, The Calgary Herald, in BackHome Magazine, Birdwatcher's Digest, Orchard Press, and Writer's E-Zine. Tickle by Thunder selected one of his stories for The Year's Best. He lives with his wife in Calgary at the foot of the Rockies where they enjoy being near their family. John Salvage is a graduate of the creative writing program at Ohio University . He has spent much of his life writing for his own pleasure and for publication. His credits include a series of murder mystery party games entitled Murder Made Merry, and several poems. He lives and works with his lovely wife in Columbus , Ohio . 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 Debbie Kuhn -- Just recently, a man with a fake teddy bear bomb accused Debbie Kuhn of being an evil redhead. Actually, this is only true on her bad days. On her good days she's simply a multi-genre writer and a scary southern belle. Visit her website for more harrowing details: www.debbiekuhn.com . Nicole Andrews is twenty-three years old. Since she was born prematurely, the doctors gave her too much oxygen, resulting in her blindness. She went to a Community College. At all college campuses, there are Access Offices, which are used for the deaf and blind, but can also be used by other students who have Learning Disabilities. The textbooks she uses come from a place located in New Jersey called Recording for the Blind and Dyslexic. They specialize in textbooks on tape and digital Audio plus Books, which are C.D.'s that play on special CD players or use special software. she uses there Victor Reader Soft software and usually orders books through there website. One class she took was Creative writing. The students were expected to do a portfolio for their final project. The portfolio included a Table of Contents and at least twenty-five pages of text attached with a cover page. The portfolio's text included poetry, stories, and essays. In 2004, she was asked to attend a self-defense workshop and write an article about her experience. she was told that it would be published in the Library for the Blind's newsletter. The day she turned twenty-two, the library called her to tell her they liked the article and had decided to publish it! After the article was published, she decided to become a writer! She began working on articles, and searching for possible markets. She also started a weblog or online journal. SHE also signed up for online writing groups and workshops. She's currently working on a futuristic mystery novel set on a fantasy world. Dawn Dowdle is a prolific reader and reviewer. She runs the Mystery Lovers Corner and Romance Lovers Corner sites. See her reviews for the web addresses. |
Artists |
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 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 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. | |
