E.E. King is an award-winning painter, performer, writer, and naturalist.

She’ll do anything that won’t pay the bills, especially if it involves animals.

Ray Bradbury called her stories, “marvelously inventive, wildly funny and deeply thought-provoking. I cannot recommend them highly enough.”

She’s been published in over 200 magazines and anthologies, including Clarkesworld, Daily Science Fiction, Chicken Soup for the Soul, Short Edition, Daily Science Fiction, and Flametree.

Her novels include Dirk Quigby's Guide to the Afterlife: All you need to know to choose the right heaven, available in audio and in Spanish and several short story collections.

Her newest novel, Gods & Monsters is currently being serialized on MetaStellar dot com.

Her art has been collected internationally. She's painted murals in downtown Los Angeles and Cuenca Spain and shown at LACMA and elsewhere.

She also co-hosts The Long-Lost Friends Show on Metastellar YouTube.

Check out paintings, writing, musings, and books at: Elizabetheveking dot com.

Amazon won't let writers add websites or links which is why things say dot com.

There is a free reads page links to some of her science writing.

Maggie King is the author of the Hazel Rose Book Group mysteries.

Her short stories appear in various anthologies, including the VIRGINIA

IS FOR MYSTERIES series, 50 SHADES OF CABERNET, DEADLY SOUTHERN

CHARM, DEATH BY CUPCAKE, MURDER BY THE GLASS, FIRST COMES

LOVE, THEN COMES MURDER, and CRIME IN THE OLD DOMINION.

Maggie graduated from Rochester Institute of Technology. She is

a member of Sisters in Crime, James River Writers, and the Short

Mystery Fiction Society. She has worked as a software developer,

retail sales manager, customer service supervisor, web designer, and

non-profit administrator. She has called New Jersey, Massachusetts,

and California home. These days she lives in Richmond, Virginia

with her husband Glen and mischievous cat, Olive. All these jobs,

schools, and homes have gifted her with story ideas for years to come.

Joseph S. Walker is an Edgar-nominated writer of crime and mystery short fiction. His work has appeared in Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, Mystery Weekly, The Front Line, Flash, and a number of themed anthologies. He lives in Indiana. Follow him on Twitter (@JSWalkerAuthor) and visit his website at jswalkerauthor.com.

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Cameron Trost is an author of mystery and suspense fiction. He has published three collections, "Oscar Tremont, Investigator of the Strange and Inexplicable", "The Animal Inside", and "Hoffman's Creeper and Other Disturbing Tales", and three novels, "Flicker", "The Tunnel Runner", and "Letterbox". Originally from Australia, he now lives with his wife and two sons near Guérande in southern Brittany, between the rugged coast and treacherous marshland.