Jason V. Brock
Jeff Burk
Chelsea Cain
P.R. Frost
Lisa Hendrix
April Henry
Colleen Houck
Amber Keyser
Jay Lake
Phillip Margolin
Allison Moon
William F. Nolan
Lilith Saintcrow
Ken Scholes
Inara Scott
Virginia Euwer Wolff
Jason V. Brock
Jason V. Brock has been widely published in magazines, comics and anthologies such as Dark Scribe Press’s “Butcher Knives & Body Counts” [nonfiction anthology]; “Animal Magnetism” [poetry anthology]; “Calliope” [poetry]; “The Weird Fiction Review”; “Black Wings II”; “Like Water For Quarks”; “San Diego Comic-Con International’s Souvenir Book”; “Dark Discoveries” magazine (where he served as Managing Editor/Art Director/Contributor for more than two years); “Fangoria” and several other venues. He is currently finishing several novels.
Brock served as coeditor/contributor to the award-winning Cycatrix Press anthology “The Bleeding Edge: Dark Barriers, Dark Frontiers” with William F. Nolan (“Logan’s Run”), which showcased new, unpublished works from authors John Shirley, Richard Matheson, Ray Bradbury, Joe R. Lansdale, Gary Braunbeck and more. Brock and Nolan also teamed for the follow-up anthology, “The Devil’s Coattails: More Dispatches from the Dark Frontier,” which featured more never-before-seen writings from Dan O’Bannon, Earl Hamner, Ramsey Campbell and Norman Corwin, among others, as well as a book about the life and works of “Twilight Zone” scribe Charles Beaumont (“The Intruder”), entitled “Strange Interlude: The Worlds of Charles Beaumont.”
Brock also assists Mr. Nolan on various other projects, including the Bluewater Productions comics “Logan’s Run: Last Day” (as Story Consultant and Costume Designer) and the Graphic Novel “Tales from William F. Nolan’s Dark Universe” (writer); as editor for Nolan’s Arkham House collection “Dead Man Walking and Other Shadow Tales” (out in 2013); and as co-writer for the upcoming addition to the Logan saga entitled “Logan Falls.”
Brock’s films include the highly regarded documentaries “Charles Beaumont: The Short Life of Twilight Zone’s Magic Man”; “The AckerMonster Chronicles” (about legendary agent and “Famous Monsters of Filmland” editor Forrest J Ackerman), and the forthcoming “Image, Reflection, Shadow: Artists of the Fantastic” (featuring H. R. Giger, Roger Dean, Ernst Fuchs and many more artists from all over the world). An outstanding artist and musician himself, Brock has had multiple showings of his artwork and illustrated his own books in addition to creating posters and packaging for his films and his former progressive rock band ChiaroscurO.
A health nut and gadget freak, he lives in the Portland, OR area, and loves his wife Sunni, their family of reptiles/amphibians, and practicing vegan/vegetarianism. Visit his website at http://www.JaSunni.com.
Jeff Burk
Jeff Burk is the cult favorite author of Shatnerquake, Super Giant Monster Time, and Cripple Wolf. He is also the Editor-In-Chief for The Magazine of Bizarro Fiction and the Head Editor of Eraserhead Press’ horror imprint, Deadite Press. His influences include: Sleep deprivation, comic books, drugs, magick, and kittens.
You can stalk him online at www.JeffBurk.wordpress.com and www.Facebook.com/
Chelsea Cain
Chelsea Cain is the author of The New York Times bestselling thrillers Heartsick, Sweetheart, Evil at Heart, and The Night Season.
Her Portland-based thrillers, described by The New York Times as “steamy and perverse,” have been published in over 30 languages, recommended on “The Today Show,” appeared in episodes of HBO’s “True Blood” and ABC’s “Castle,” named among Stephen King’s top ten favorite books of the year, and included in NPR’s list of the top 100 thrillers ever written. According to Booklist, “Popular entertainment just doesn’t get much better than this.”
P.R. Frost
P.R. Frost resides on beautiful Mt. Hood in Oregon. She hikes the Columbia River Gorge for inspiration. She is an omnivorous reader having taught herself to read before entering kindergarten. Her sister claims this was so she wouldn’t have to wait to learn how to write so she could begin penning her stories. At Science Fiction/Fantasy Convention she can be found hanging out with filkers and costumers.
Lisa Hendrix
Lisa Hendrix fell in love for the first time at age 10 (with both of the Men from U.N.C.L.E., for those of you who remember that far back) and has been fascinated by the whole concept of love ever since. That interest led her naturally enough to reading romance novels, and then to writing them–-which, coincidentally, put her in a hotel elevator with Robert Vaughn at an RWA conference. Still waiting for that equally serendipitous encounter with David McCallum, she is now working on The Immortal Brotherhood, an extended series about a crew of cursed Viking raiders. The third book IMMORTAL CHAMPION hit the shelves in early 2011, and fourth, IMMORTAL DEFENDER will be out in August 2012.
April Henry
April Henry knows how to kill you in a two-dozen different ways. She makes up for a peaceful childhood in an intact home by killing off fictional characters. There was one detour on April’s path to destruction: when she was twelve she sent a short story about a six-foot tall frog who loved peanut butter to noted children’s author Roald Dahl. He liked it so much he arranged to have it published in an international children’s magazine. By the time she was in her 30s, April had started writing about hit men, kidnappers, and drug dealers. She has published thirteen mysteries and thrillers for adults and teens, with four more under contract. The most recent are Eyes of Justice and The Night She Disappeared.
Colleen Houck
Colleen is a lifelong reader whose literary interests include action, adventure, science fiction, and romance. Formerly a student at the University of Arizona, she has worked as a nationally certified American Sign Language interpreter for seventeen years. Tiger’s Curse is her first book, which has already received literary praise and digital success. Her self-published eBook claimed the #1 spot on Kindle’s children’s best-seller list for seven weeks. Colleen lives in Salem, Oregon, with her husband and a white stuffed tiger.
Amber Keyser
Amber J. Keyser is a former ballerina and evolutionary biologist, who writes about science and adventure for tweens and teens. Currently, she’s the go-to-girl and young adult novelist for Angel Punk. Look for action-adventure heroine, Mara Layil, to burst onto the scene, fists flying, in 2013. Amber’s articles have appeared inOdyssey Magazine, Mothering Magazine online, CommonSenseMedia.org, and Globio.org. Her books include An Algonquin Heart Song: Paddle My Own Canoe(2007), two graphic novels about science, The Basics of Cell Life with Max Axiom (2010) and Decoding Genes with Max Axiom (2010), and Anatomy of a Pandemic(2011). For more information, visit Amber’s website at www.amberjkeyser.com or on Twitter at @amberjkeyser.
Jay Lake
Jay Lake lives in Portland, Oregon, where he works on numerous writing and editing projects. He has nine novels, five collections, and over a dozen anthologies edited, as well as several hundred short stories in print. Jay’s 2011/2012 books are Endurance and Kalimpura from Tor Books, and Love in the Time of Metal and Flesh from Prime Books. His short fiction appears regularly in literary and genre markets worldwide. Jay is a past winner of the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, and a multiple nominee for the Hugo and World Fantasy Awards.
Phillip Margolin
I grew up in New York City and Levittown, New York. In 1965, I graduated from The American University in Washington, D.C. with a Bachelor’s Degree in Government. From 1965 to 1967, I was a Peace Corps volunteer in Liberia, West Africa. In 1970, I graduated from New York University School of Law. During my last two years in law school I went at night and worked my way through by teaching junior high school in the South Bronx in New York City. My first job after law school was a clerkship with Herbert M. Schwab, the Chief Judge of the Oregon Court of Appeals. From 1972 until 1996, I was in private practice in Portland, Oregon, specializing in criminal defense at the trial and appellate levels. As an appellate attorney I have appeared before the United States Supreme Court, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, the Oregon Supreme Court and the Oregon Court of Appeals. As a trial attorney, I handled all sorts of criminal cases in state and federal court and I have represented approximately 30 people charged with homicide, including several who have faced the death penalty. I was the first Oregon attorney to use the Battered Women’s Syndrome to defend a battered woman accused of murdering her spouse.
Since 1996, I have been writing full-time. All of my novels have been New York Times bestsellers. Heartstone, my first novel, was nominated for an Edgar for best original paperback mystery of 1978 by the Mystery Writers of America. My second novel, The Last Innocent Man, was made into an HBO movie. Gone, But Not Forgotten has been sold to more than 25 foreign publishers and debuted as a miniseries in 2004. After Dark, The Burning Man, The Undertaker’s Widow, Wild Justice,The Associate, Ties That Bind, Sleeping Beauty, Lost Lake, Proof Positive, Executive Privilege, Fugitiveand Supreme Justice were also New York Times bestsellers.
In addition to my novels, I have published short stories and non-fiction articles in magazines and law journals. My short story, The Jailhouse Lawyer , was selected for the anthology 1999, The Best American Mystery Stories. The House on Pine Terrace was selected for the anthology 2010, The Best American Mystery Stories.
From 1996 to 2009 I was the President and Chairman of the Board of Chess for Success. I returned to the Board after a one year absence in 2010. Chess for Success is a non-profit charity that uses chess to teach elementary and middle school children in Title I schools study skills. From 2007 to the present, I have been on the Board of Literary Arts, which sponsors the Oregon Book Awards, The Writers in the Schools program and Portland Arts and Lectures.
Allison Moon
William F. Nolan
William F. Nolan writes mostly in the science fiction, fantasy, and horror genres. Though best known for coauthoring the acclaimed dystopian science fiction novel Logan’s Run with George Clayton Johnson, Nolan is the author of more than 2000 pieces (fiction, nonfiction, articles, and books), and has edited twenty-six anthologies in his fifty-plus year career.
In January, 2010 a comic book series based on Logan’s Run (Logan’s Run: Last Day) debuted from Washington-based publisher Bluewater Productions, and the outfit is also working with Nolan on a Graphic Novel based on his stories and characters (Tales from William F. Nolan’s Dark Universe). In addition, Arkham House is planning a new collection of mostly unpublished work for 2013. Adept at poetry and screenwriting as well as fiction (with more than twenty produced scripts to his credit), he was co-writer (with Dan Curtis) of the screenplay for the 1976 horror classic Burnt Offerings, and co-wrote Trilogy of Terror with his friend Richard Matheson, both for Dan Curtis Productions.
An artist, Nolan was born in Kansas City, Missouri, and worked at Hallmark Cards, Inc. and in comic books before becoming an author. In the 1950s, Nolan was an integral part of the writing ensemble known as “The Group,” which included many well-known genre writers, such as Ray Bradbury, Charles Beaumont, John Tomerlin, Matheson, and Johnson, many of whom wrote for Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone. Nolan is considered a leading expert on Dashiell Hammett and pulps such as Black Mask and Western Stories, and is the world authority on the works of prolific scribe Max Brand.
Of his numerous awards, there are a few of which he is most proud: being voted a Living Legend in Dark Fantasy by the International Horror Guild in 2002; twice winning the Edgar Allan Poe Award from the Mystery Writers of America; being awarded the honorary title of Author Emeritus by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America in 2006, and receiving the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Horror Writers Association in 2010. Nolan resides in Vancouver, WA.
Lilith Saintcrow
Lilith Saintcrow was born in New Mexico, bounced around the world as an Air Force brat, and fell in love with writing when she was nine years old. She currently resides in Vancouver, WA with her children, a houseful of cats, and assorted other strays.
Ken Scholes
Ken Scholes is the critically acclaimed author of three novels and over thirty short stories. His series, The Psalms of Isaak, is being published both at home and abroad to award nominations and rave reviews. Publisher’s Weekly hails the series as a “towering storytelling tour de force” in starred reviews of the first three volumes. Lamentation, the first volume, won the American Library Association’s RUSA Reading List award for Best Fantasy of 2009 and recently won France’s Prix Imaginales for Best Foreign novel.
Like many writers, Ken comes from an eclectic background. He grew up in a trailer in rural Washington, spending his youth in a small logging town at the foot of Mount Rainier. He fell in love with storytelling through television initially, then books, comic books and the old TSR table-top RPGs. He has honorable discharges from the US Navy and the US Army, learned to busk on the streets of Stuttgart, and has worked in a variety of jobs from non-profit management to public procurement to label gun repair. Ken spent his younger years as a Baptist minister and musician before transitioning away from fundamentalist religion and into secular life. Ken has a degree in History from Western Washington University.
Ken broke into print through the small press markets with his first publication, “The Taking Night,” in Talebones Magazine in Winter 2000. In 2005, with a dozen small press publications under his belt, he won the Writers of the Future contest. Ken credits that as the beginning of his launch and shortly after writing his first novel, Lamentation, on a dare, he landed a five book contract with Tor for the Psalms of Isaak series. His short fiction has been collected in two volumes available from Fairwood Press.
Ken is an able public speaker, coach and teacher who also invests in paying forward what he’s learned about life and writing to the next generation of writers. He presents regularly at conventions, schools and workshops and can speak on a wide variety of topics including the craft and business of writing for publication.
He lives in Saint Helens, Oregon, with his wife Jen West Scholes and his twin daughters, Lizzy and Rae. Ken invites readers to look him up at www.kenscholes.com and follow his antics on Facebook.
Inara Scott
Inara Scott was born in the winter wonderland of Buffalo, NY. She promptly commenced complaining about being cold, and didn’t stop until she moved to Durham, NC, to attend college at Duke University. After graduating with a degree in History and Women’s Studies, Inara wandered around the country teaching outdoor education and writing bad poetry. She eventually obtained a Master’s degree in Recreation and Leisure Studies from the State University of New York at Cortland, where she wrote her thesis on the effects of wilderness programs on the body image of female participants.
Given Inara’s love of argument, it was really only a matter of time before she ended up in law school. The mossy forests and volcanic beauty of Oregon led her to Lewis and Clark Law School and Portland, where she finally decided to settle down. Inara rediscovered her love of writing fiction while trapped in a hotel for a hearing in Anchorage, Alaska. It took another five years for Inara to screw up the courage to quit her lawyer job and devote herself to writing and teaching. Today, Inara writes anything and everything, including children’s books, young adult fiction, and adult romance. She also does frequent school visits, and loves teaching writing to students of all ages. Her debut novel, DELCROIX ACADEMY: THE CANDIDATES, published in 2010 by Disney-Hyperion Books for Children, was a 2010 Oregon Spirit Book Award Honor Book. THE CANDIDATES will be released in March of 2011 in paperback under the title THE TALENTS. A follow-up, THE MARKED, will be released in April of 2011. Inara’s first adult romance, RADIANT DESIRE, released in October 2011 from Entangled Publishing.
For more information contact: inara.scott@gmail.com.
Virginia Euwer Wolff
Virginia Euwer Wolff is the winner of the 2011 Phoenix Award for her 1991 novelThe Mozart Season. Her 2001 novel True Believer won the National Book Award and her newest novel for young adults, This Full House (2009), is on the American Library Association’s Amelia Bloomer List. You can visit her website at http://www.virginiaeuwerwolff.