The VIP Lounge for Menu #1
(a.k.a. The Contributor's for Issue #1)
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Bar the Devil and No Dragonslayer in Sight Lawrence Barker lives just outside Atlanta, Georgia. His fiction often reflects the dark side of the rural environment he grew up in. This story is no exception. Lawrence's most recent novel, Blood Red Sphere, is available from Swimming Kangaroo Press. Blood Red Sphere is a tale of murder, intrigue, and deception on a Mars that should have been, with mysterious Martians, down-on-their luck dealers in Martian antiquities, and dangerous hoodlums (from more than one planet). |
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It's well known that an artist becomes more popular by dying, so I'm typing this with one hand while pummeling my head with a frozen mackerel with the other. I've done art for several magazines, newspapers, websites, commercial and governmental clients, books, and scribbling - but mostly drooling - on tavern napkins. I also create art pro bono for several animal rescue groups. I was awarded the 2004 James Award for my cover art for Champagne Shivers. I recently illustrated the Cimarron Review and Stories for Children covers. Take a gander (or a goose) at my online gallery. And please hurry with your response - this mackerel's killin' me! |
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S. Coelho received a BA in English from Virginia Commonwealth University in her hometown of Richmond, VA. While getting her BA, she interned at Style Weekly and Richmond.com, and found that while she loves reading the news, she hates reporting it. When she is not writing from her shadow self, she enjoys reading Bentley Little and Peter Benchley or researching Milton and 16th century libel. She is currently studying in London for her MRes in Renaissance Literature. |
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Rycke has published short fiction since the early 90s in magazines and ezines such as Marion Zimmer Bradley's Fantasy Magazine, The Writer's Eye, Niteblade and Dark Planet, and has worked in virtually all aspects of independent film, television and theater for more than a decade. He has written and directed three short films, one of which has gone on to receive a Best Screenplay award, and co-wrote/codirector one feature length film. During his college years, he was honored with Best Newsletter Editing - regional for Phi Theta Kappa's monthly journal, Honorable Mention. |
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Six Ways From Sunday PRINT Issues of 69FoP as well! Ken Goldman is an American writer, HWA member, and former English/Film Studies teacher with homes in Penn Valley, Pennsylvania and the South Jersey shore. His stories appear in over 500 publications. His book of six short stories. “You Had Me At ARRGH!! Five Uneasy Pieces by Ken Goldman” featuring six (count ‘em) stories published by Sam’s Dot Publishing is an all time top ten best seller at The Genre Mall, where (shameless plug alert!) it can also be purchased. Ken has received seven honorable mentions in Datlow & Windling’s Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror 7th, 9th, and 16th editions, and Datlow, Kelly Link & Gavin J. Grant’s 17th, 20th, and 21st editions. A film based on his story “The Keeper” has been contracted by Precision Pictures (Australia). |
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Kyle Hemmings lives and works in New Jersey. In a past life, he might have been Edgar Allen Poe’s outcast cousin. In this one, he skateboards around Branch Brook. Sometimes he falls and he can’t get up. |
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The Thing in the Attic, Head (Issue 2/Volume 2 PRINT 69FoP) and Chill (Issue 4/Volume 2 PRINT 69FoP) Carl's work has appeared in the zombie anthology Cold Storage, which he coedited. His work has also appeared in Champagne Shivers 2007, DeathGrip: It Came from the Cinema, DeathGrip: Exit Laughing, the horror-romance anthology Loving the Undead, the erotic paranormal ghost anthology Beyond Desire, and several issues of Lighthouse Digest. His adult credits include fiction in Ruthie's Club, Oysters and Chocolate, Good Vibrations, and the erotic anthology Frenzy. Carl's nonfiction has appeared in The Blue Review and Writer's Journal. Carl lives in Georgia with his beautiful wife Marcella and their three boys. |
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Lorna D. Keach is an avid smoker and word addict who can be a little raunchy sometimes, but not overly so. Her hobbies include internetting, junking, laughing at inappropriate things, drinking, and keeping her day job. She is from Manhattan, Kansas. Enter for your chance to win a fabulous 0-day vacation hanging out with Lorna and her typewriter collection at http://sexsceneswithmonsters.wordpress.com. |
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Michael A. Kechula is a retired tech writer. His fiction has won first place in eight contests and placed in seven others. He’s also won Editor’s Choice awards four times. His stories have been published by 114 magazines and 30 anthologies in Australia, Canada, England, India, Scotland, and US. He’s authored a book of flash and micro-fiction stories: “A Full Deck of Zombies--61 Speculative Fiction Tales.” eBook available at www.BooksForABuck.com and www.fictionwise.com. Paperback available at www.amazon.com. |
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Patricia La Barbera has an MFA in creative writing from National University. Besides being a freelance writer who specializes in fiction and poetry, she is also an editor. The author is a member of Miami Mensa, Mystery Writers of America, and For Writers Only. Her book, "THE CELTIC CROW MURDERS," is available on amazon.com. She lives in the Florida Keys with her husband and a black cat. |
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Guy de Maupassant wrote "The Diary of a Madman" just months before cutting his own throat with a letter opener. de Maupassant wrote six novels, more than three hundred short stories, three travel books, and one tome of poetry in one manic decade before his gristly death at an asylum in Passy, France in 1893. |
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This native New Zealander lives to write. He is the author of several speculative fiction novels, short stories and chapbooks. He is currently an active member of AHWA, SpecFicNZ and SFFANZ and lives in Wellington, NZ. Lee does reviews for HarperCollins and Hachette via SFFANZ and also runs a review blog for privately purchased books and dvds. Lee also created and runs the Masters of Horror Community, Also he is an avid Twitterer. |
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I was born in the middle of the Baby Boom generation, raised in the rural heartland, married for half my life and am delighted to be starting over in the best of times for women. Both my parents worked for the U.S. Postal Service and Dad was also a Funeral Director so Parents’ Day at school was always something to look forward to. You grow up with that background, you develop a sense of humor. And a rich fantasy life. At some point, every woman must step back and examine her life. The lucky woman gets to see it clearly and decide if her current path is the one she wants to continue. Deciding that mine was not, I relocated to Sedona, AZ where I played tourist for a while, performed in the Vagina Monologues and in a Zaki Gordon Film Institute student production. I settled down to write In Search of the Menopause Ranch and have been fulfilled by the gracious comments and experiences shared by fabulous, intriguing women readers across the country. Here’s to us! |
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The Inner Eye and The Blajini Next-Door Dempsey Wilson is a 39 year-old single father of two living in Omak, Washington. To date, he is published 16 times. Here are a few of his published works: "Through The Eyes of a Killer" published by Mind Wings Audio. "Shadow Kitties" published in One Real Story's annual anthology, March, 2009. "Small Science" published in the April 09 issue of NVF Magazine. "I, Alone" published in the June 09 issue of New Voices in Horror Magazine. "Revenge In General" First Prize Winner in WritingRoom's monthly contest and published in the anthology, Running Willow~Waiting Revenge. "Ryers Canyon" was published in the November 08 issue of Vicious Writers, an online magazine, and winner of the Editor's Choice Award. Mr. Wilson was also named Januaray's Writer of the Month in Vicious Writers' Jan. 08 issue. |
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