Justin Bumgarner

Invasive Surgery

This is my first bio. Kind of nervous to be honest. Really trying not to slip into 3rd person. Just seems arrogant to me. Invasive Surgery is the first story I've ever written with the intention of publishing it. I'm a huge Lions fan so I know some stuff about horror. I've wanted to be a writer ever since I was a little kid and watched one of the Twilight Zone marathons. The fact that the show had lasted so long and was able to hold my attention even though it was in black and white really struck me. And the endings were great. I loved how you were going down this path and then the writer would just completely shake up the trail at the last second. So the desire to write's been there for some time. But I didn't really get serious about it until my freshman year in college last year. Even that wasn't very serious though, with class and everything. This year I'm doing better. On a strict writing schedule that I'm following suprisingly well. This is my first writing credit but I'm sure it won't be my last.

Michael S. Collins

Slow Melt

Known for rarely shutting up about any given subject, Michael S. Collins is the pet of three gerbils who live in the South of Glasgow. Or so it feels. Thanks to the benefits of the internet, he can now be read anywhere in the world - except maybe China - a potentiality he is still not used to. Michael has had many articles published over the years, most notably in the Whotopia magazine of Bob Furnell, and his work as book reviewer for the Fortean Times. Michael has written over ninety short stories to date, including many linked to on his blog (http://michaelscollinswriter.blogspot.com/), and has recently finished a book, which he hopes to get published sometime in the next century or two. He likes to namedrop various writers he knows – like Neil Williamson – and does not know which planet he would like to visit most. It would have to be one with copious amounts of Jack Daniels found naturally. And a breathing atmosphere might help too...

Rycke Foreman

The Damnedest Thing ...

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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Thomas La Rue

A Lil' Something for Halloween

Thomas was always a disturbed lad; he was always quiet in high school, the guy that people would say, "Yeah, he's nice but real quiet."  In other words perfect serial killer material.  Two things happened that saved him from wearing a dress and stalking co-eds.  He discovered theatre and film making.  Now the world is a much safer place.  (And really he only wore the dress that one time, well maybe five, but it was for a show… promise.)  He has performed in over eighty plays, acted in several independent films, written a few things people have seen, including Inquisition, A Fathers Time, and fragments of a few 48 hour film challenges.  Thomas is quite enthusiastic about appearing in 69 FOP, as Jack would say, "A magazine?  About the horrible things we do to each other… and featuring a story about little old me.  Tsk, mayhaps I can visit the kitchen… and give the chefs my recipe of editor julienne… it is simply to die for."

Bryan Lindenberger

Appliance Girl

My stories have appeared in over 300 books and magazines including Zodiac Fantastic, Fantastic Worlds, New Writings in the Fantastic, Clash of Steel: Demons, and others

I have also written historical articles for consumer magazines.

By day I write grants, research business and marketing plans, and produce freelance copy.

Francois Lebrun

The Last Piece of Bacon

I am 20 years old, I was born in Quebec, was raised in the Maritimes and, once I moved to Ontario, I became a writer. I always loved telling stories; it's quite the hobby for me. Sometimes I'll tell a story to my friends and they won't know if it's real or not because I tend to go into so much detail about everything. I have a nickname and its Frank, I like the name Frank because my real name tends to make me look like some kind of snob or a butler. Speaking of that, my primary language is French but I can't write it very well. As for what I do? Well, beside from exploring abandoned buildings, wearing huge Steampunk goggles in public and loving my girlfriend, I dumpster dive (You'd think that's gross but you have no idea what I've found). I also watch a lot of anime and read comic books (The weird and horror kind.) I love speculating about Mars and its potential colonisation and terraforming. My favourite food is Burgers, my favourite colour is Red and I also own a pet rat named Caramel!
This is my first official publication so I don't have that many credits, sorry.

So there you have it, my life's story in one paragraph.

Wayne Palesado

Dead

(A Visual Tasting)

Due to budgetary cutbacks, this is all the bio we could prepare for this Menu:

Wayne is an artist.

Joseph W Patterson

Smoking Habits

My greatest achievement was banned from the bible, and in the last year or two my works have slowly disappeared from print and the web.  Since there is some sort of cosmic conspiracy against me, I've chosen to only wright about true strange events and peoples…that come to me in dreams.

Brian Rowe

Q & A

Brian Rowe is a writer and filmmaker living in Los Angeles, California. He graduated from Loyola Marymount University, where his writing was published for four years in the Los Angeles Loyolannewspaper. He has written five feature-length screenplays, as well as over fifty short films. His short story "Kelly" was published in Mobius Magazine, and his short story "Pumpkin Milkshake" was published in Horror Bound Magazine. He has recently finished his first novel.

A.M. Schwarz

Carnival Man

A. Michael Schwarz lives in some impoverished artist community in L.A. where he writes stories and nightmares designed to entertain and fascinate. When he is not writing he is usually reading, unless his cats decide to wreak havoc with his sanity. He realized that he'd become "one of them" when he began an ebay auction duel for a Dr. Who scarf in preparation for an upcoming fan convention.

He began writing at the age of twelve and became a professional dilettante dabbler until a couple of years ago when he decided it was time to get extremely serious, at which point he began writing anything that came into his silly, messed up head.

He does not claim fame because he does not have any, but has not given up on it just yet. His biggest ambition in life is to write more stories, of which, plenty haunt, beguile, entertain and frighten him on a regular basis. He has published three short stories and has an e-book coming out sometime in 2011.

Brian Typhair

Night of the Living Dead

(A Visual Tasting)

We interrupt your regular schedule programming to give you this breaking news biography on me, Brian Typhair, the aspiring Canadian horror comic book artist and writer. A ghoulish artist, I have been a fan of horror ever since the young tender age of 5 when I first saw the original Night of The Living Dead and Vincent Price in Last Man On Earth. As a young ghoul I have always drawn zombie and horror related art. It has always been something I have enjoyed and loved and now making more of a push to put my name out there. I truly do want to be known as a horror legend or icon in art, who knows movies too. But, truth be known ... this might not be good to say [to Myss M], but I can't stand The Rocky Horror Picture Show! Hope that doesn't get me into much trouble around the dinner table.

Ghoulish Credits!
Artist for McHozer Comics Horror Anthology Series Deadmen & Poodleskirts #1 and #2 coming soon!
Artist/Co-Creator of Speakeasy Primates Gulliver Brimstone
Creator/Artist/Writer of Midnight Spookshow! Coming soon!
Artwork featured in Jesus Hates Zombies Vol2(Cartoon piece)
Artist of The Month for Issue#40 of RKYV Online

Mark Wolf

Pops Out When Done Baking

Mark rambles about as a logistics gopher at an eco-tour company in Hawaii when he isn't writing.  In other incarnations he has snared pigs, built houses, worked oversees as a missionary, fought forest fires and built wilderness trails.

His published work has appeared at:  Liquid Imagination, Aurora Wolf, Spaceports and Spidersilk, Goldenvisions, and 69 Flavors of Paranoia.

His web-link is honuio.wordpress.com