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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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OPPORTUNITIES ABOUND We are also always looking for people with good ideas. | |
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. 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. John M. Floyd's short stories, articles, and humor pieces have appeared in more than 200 publications, including The Strand Magazine , Murderous Intent , Grit , Woman's World , Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine , and Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine . A 2007 Derringer Award winner, he has been nominated three times for the Pushcart Prize and writes a weekly column at Criminalbrief.com. John is also the author of three collections of short fiction: Rainbow's End (2006), Midnight (2008), and Clockwork (coming in October 2010). Paul D. Marks has had over twenty stories published, including Netiquette , first place winner in the Futures Short Story Contest. Dem Bones was a finalist in the Southern Writers Association contest. His novel White Heat took second place in the SouthWest Writers contest. And his story Endless Vacation recently won Honorable Mention in Glimmer Train's Very Short Fiction competition. His story Terminal Island recently appeared in Weber: The Contemporary West. He has also published several non-fiction articles and has lectured on writing at UCLA, Cal State San Bernardino and other organizations. He works as a script doctor and is currently working on a novel set in the L.A. homefront during World War II. He can be reached through his blog or website: http://www.PaulDMarks.blogspot.com –or– www.PaulDMarks.com. Montiese McKenzie (see above) David Siddall is from Liverpool , England . In February 2004, 23 illegal Chinese immigrants were swept to their deaths by the rising tide in Morcambe Bay . Working for little more than slave wages and held in thrall to "gangmasters' and ‘snakeheads', their deaths were inevitable. Two bodies were never recovered. I would hope the story is not disrespectful. Peter Swanson Ever since reading his parents' copy of Jaws at the age of ten, Peter Swanson has been in love with mysteries and thrillers, anything that gets him to turn the page. He is a graduate from Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, and from the MFA program at Emerson College in Boston. He has recently appeared or will appear in Asimov's Science Fiction, The Atlantic Online, Epoch, Measure, Orchard Press Mysteries, and The Wisconsin Miles Archer Victor J. Banis is the critically acclaimed author ("the master's touch in storytelling," Publishers Weekly) of more than 160 books and numerous shorter works published here and abroad in a number of languages, in a career spanning nearly half a century. Learn more about him at http://www.vjbanis.com Charles Schaeffer's short mysteries have appeared in Mysterical-E Woman's World, Futures Magazine, Detective Mystery Stories, Mouth Full of Bullets, Crrime and Suspense, Blazing Adventures, A Twist of Noir, New England Writers's Network, Dana Literary Society's On-Line Journal, Great Mystery and Suspense, Magazine, Burst. He is back-to-back winner of Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine's “Mysterious Photo” Contest I. Van Laningham Alic Benson lives in Wisconsin , work in a human service agency and have been studying fiction writing for several years. Recently one of her lighter romance stories was published on the Long and Short of It website. Scott B. Robinson lives in Santa Barbara , CA . Related tales have appeared in previous editions of Mysterical-E. When he isn't indulging fantasies in prose, he enjoys taking a crack at Catullus. Visit ScottBRobinson.net for more. Special thanks to Universal Music Enterprises and especially the LaSalle Quartet for permission to use excerpts from their recording of Schoenberg's String Quartet No 3. Richard Hart has been a teacher and a school administrator in Peoria IL for over 40 years. He has always been a fan of mysteries, so when he decided to do some writing in his free time that was the genre he chose. He has completed one unpublished mystery novel. Herschel Cozine Allan Leverone is a two-time SMFS Derringer Award Finalist for Best Short Story whose fiction has been featured in Shroud Magazine, Twisted Dreams, Crime and Suspense, Black Hound, FlashShot and many others, including right here at Mysterical-E, which featured the first Uncle Brick story in the Summer 2009 issue. His debut novel, a thriller titled FINAL VECTOR, is slated for a February, 2011 release by Medallion Press. Learn more at www.allanleverone.com or Allan's Myspace or Facebook pages. J.R. Lindermuth is a retired newspaper editor who lives and writes in central Pennsylvania . He is the author of eight novels, including four in the Sticks Hetrick mystery series. He has also published stories and articles in a variety of magazines, both print and on line. 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". 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
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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. | |
