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Rosalind Barden's zany, cozy noir mystery novel set in 1930s Depression-era Los Angeles, SPARKY OF BUNKER HILL AND THE COLD KID CASE, is a Firebird Book Award 1st Place Cozy Mystery Winner, Literary Titan Gold Medal Book Award Winner, Author Academy Top 10 Mystery Winner, and Critters Readers Poll Top 10 Finisher for both Best Mystery and Best Young Adult Books. Over thirty of Rosalind Barden's short stories have appeared in print anthologies and webzines, such as the U.K.'s acclaimed WHISPERS OF WICKEDNESS. Mystery and Horror LLC has selected her stories for multiple print anthologies, including FAPA President's Book Award Silver Medalist HISTORY AND MYSTERY OH MY! She is a regular contributor to the STRANGELY FUNNY anthology series. Ellen Datlow selected her short story LION FRIEND as a Best Horror of the Year Honorable Mention after it appeared in CERN ZOO, a British Fantasy Society nominee for best anthology, part of DF Lewis' award winning NEMONYMOUS anthology series. TV MONSTER is her print children's book that she wrote and illustrated. In addition, her scripts, novel manuscripts and short fiction have placed in numerous competitions, including the Writers Digest Screenplay Competition and the Shriekfast Film Festival. She writes in Los Angeles, California. Photo credit: Guy Viau.

Gwen Mayo is a history junkie, with a passion for troubled times. Her Nessa Donnelly series is steeped in the violent history of her native Kentucky. Circle of Dishonor, her first novel , is set during the turbulent political upheaval following the American Civil War, at a time when vigilantes and secret societies wielded power, and murder was more common in Kentucky than it was in anywhere else in the United States.

In partnership with humorist Sarah E. Glenn she writes the Three Snowbirds historical mysteries. These Roaring 20s mysteries feature a soon to retire US army nurse, Cornelia Pettijohn and her companion Teddy Lawless. Cornelia's Uncle Percival Pettijohn, a mischievous little old man with a striking resemblance to Santa Claus, "helps the ladies" as they take on gangsters, swindlers, grifters, and murderers.

She currently lives and writes in Safety Harbor, Florida but grew up in a large family in the hills of Eastern Kentucky. She is a graduate of the University of Kentucky, a member of the Short Mystery Fiction Society, the Derby Rotten Scoundrels Chapter of Sisters in Crime, the Florida Gulf Coast SiC and the SiC GUPPIES Chapter. Her numerous short stories have appeared in anthologies, at online short fiction sites, micro-fiction collections, and once showed up on the back of a coffee can. She desperately hopes that everyone will buy her books so she can retire and write all day.

Alex Azar is an award winning author bred, born, and raised in New Jersey. He had aspirations beyond his humble beginnings, goals that would take him to the skyscrapers of Metropolis and the alleys of Gotham. Alex was going to be a superhero. Then one tragic day, tragedy tragically struck. He remembered he wasn't an orphan and by law would only be able to become a sidekick. Circumstances preventing him from achieving his dream, Alex's mind fractured and he now spends his nights writing about the darkest horrors that plague the recesses of his twisted mind and black heart. His days are filled being the dutiful sidekick the law requires him to be, until he can one day be the hero the world (or at least New Jersey) needs.

Alex was first published in 2010, and he's since published over a dozen short stories, including his award winning collection "Nightmare Noir." Alex is a two time winner of the Preditors & Editors Best Horror Short Story of the year. Alex lives with his wife and their two cats, Leonidas and Miles Davis.

I am the author of DEAD BY MIDNIGHT and APOCALYPSE BY MIDNIGHT...novels near and dear to my heart.

I also wrote the Z-BOAT Trilogy by Permuted Press and CONTAMINATED with Severed Press.

I have degrees in Anthropology and Psychology. In my free time, I read, watch movies, play with my dog, and enjoy chocolate and LEGO's. I am an active member of the International Thriller Writers Organization.

Sarah E. Glenn loves mystery and horror stories, often with a sidecar of humor. Several have appeared in mystery and paranormal anthologies, including G.W. Thomas’ Ghostbreakers series, Futures Mysterious Anthology Magazine, and Fish Tales: The Guppy Anthology.

She developed strong ideals from her parents, a salesman turned missionary and a social worker. Despite their tutelage and a short stint as a classical languages grad student, she still loves Kolchak, superheroes, geek fandoms, and pop culture.

Her great-great aunt served as a nurse in WWI, and was injured by poison gas during the fighting. After being mustered out, she traveled widely. A hundred years later, 'Aunt Dess' would inspire Sarah and co-author Gwen Mayo to create the Three Snowbirds series.

Laura Huntley is a published writer from Sheffield, South Yorkshire. She writes flash fiction, short stories and poetry. Her first novels, Black Eyed Boy, and Green Eyed Girl, were published in 2015.

David Perlmutter is a freelance writer based in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. He is the author of America Toons In: A History of Television Animation (McFarland and Co.), The Singular Adventures Of Jefferson Ball (Amazon Kindle), The Pups (Booklocker.com), Certain Private Conversations and Other Stories (Aurora Publishing), Honey and Salt (Scarlet Leaf Publishing), The Encyclopedia of American Animated Cartoon Series (Rowman and Littlefield, forthcoming) and Orthicon; or, the History of a Bad Idea (Linkville Press, forthcoming) He can be reached on Facebook at David Perlmutter-Writer, Twitter at @DKPLJW1, and Tumblr at The Musings of David Perlmutter (yesdavidperlmutterfan).

Ken MacGregor writes stuff.

He has three story collections: AN ABERRANT MIND, SEX, GORE & MILLIPEDES, and LIONS & TIGERS & WERES, a young adult novella: DEVIL’S BANE, a co-written (with Kerry Lipp), novel: HEADCASE. His work has also appeared in dozens of other publications. He is an Active Member of the Horror Writer's Association (HWA) and is a member of the Great Lakes Association of Horror Writers (GLAHW). He has also written TV commercials, sketch comedy, a music video, a smattering of poetry, and a zombie movie. He is the Managing Editor of Collections and Anthologies for LVP Publications, and he curated two anthologies: BURNT FUR for Blood Bound Books, and the Shirley Jackson award-nominated STITCHED LIPS for Dragon's Roost Press. He will be co-editing the Midnight Zone series (beginning in 2023) with Douglas Gwilym also with Dragon's Roost Press.

When not writing, Ken drives the bookmobile for his local library. He lives with his kids, two cats, and the ashes of his wife.

You can find him at https://www.kenmacgregor.com/.

Jon Michael Kelley has been writing speculative fiction for many years. He lives in a gold mining town in the mountains of Colorado.

Ted Wenskus is a freelance writer and lives in Rochester, NY. His work has appeared in a number of anthologies including "Strangely Funny," "Zombie Zoology," "Rom Zom Com", and the alternate-history collection "Rochester Rewritten." His first novel, "The Mostly Weird Chronicles of Steffan McFessel," co-authored with Marcos Donnelly, was released in 2011. Ted has also written numerous short plays which have been produced in England, Australia, and the Philippines as well as throughout New York State, where he was won a Theatre Association of New York State award for playwriting.

He is currently working on numerous fiction and theater projects, including his first full-length play. On his rare days off, he enjoys long walks, which to date has included climbing Kilimanjaro and trekking across Iceland from coast to coast.

Paul Wartenberg developed an interest in writing as far back as the first grade, and pursued an interest in creative writing alongside studying for a career in journalism. He graduated from the University of Florida in 1992 with a bachelors in Journalism, but during his studies he worked as a part-time student at the campus library, which redirected his professional interests. He quickly went to the University of South Florida to study librarianship, earning a Masters in Library and Information Sciences in 1993.

His professional career has mostly been in libraries. Working Broward County Libraries from 1994 to 2003. Then at the UF Smathers Libraries from 2003 to 2006. He then worked at Pasco County Libraries from 2006 to 2008. He is currently working as the reference librarian at Bartow Public Library.

He's been a resident of Florida since childhood, which means that, yes he has seen a lot of crazy stuff...

Ed Ahern resumed writing after forty odd years in foreign intelligence and international sales. He’s had nearly two hundred poems and stories published so far, and three books. His collected fairy and folk tales, The Witch Made Me Do It, a novella, The Witches’ Bane, and his collected fantasy stories, Capricious Visions. He works the other side of writing at Bewildering Stories, where he sits on the review board and manages a posse of five review editors.

I'm a college lecturer from England and a fan of all types of speculative fiction, most notably science fiction, horror & sword and sorcery fantasy. Where possible I try to blend these elements together in my own writing.

H. P. Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard and Edgar Rice Burroughs were my first writing inspirations and more recently Frank Herbert and Clive Barker whose works I never grow tired of re-reading.

I live in the rainy city of Manchester with my wife and two young daughters, the elder of which is something of a budding writer herself.

You can contact me or learn more about my published works through my website:

http://jimbomcc.wix.com/jimbostories

You can also follow me on twitter @Jimbomcc69

David Perlmutter is a freelance writer based in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. His published works include the non-fiction books America ‘Toons In: A History Of Television Animation (McFarland and Co.) and The Encyclopedia Of American Animated Television Shows (Rowman and Littlefield); as well as a number of speculative fiction collections and novellas.

A resident of North Carolina's Outer Banks, A.P searches for that unique element that twists the everyday commonplace into the weird. When he's not writing fiction, he composes music, dabbles in animation, and muses about theology and mind-hacking, all while watching way too many online movies.