Caleb J. Ross is an author and a lifelong gamer whose fiction and non-fiction have appeared widely, both online and in print. As a hobbyist indie game developer and video game obsessive, Caleb has produced hundreds of visual essays, editorials, and comedy videos on YouTube and has co-hosted many video game podcasts with the goal to evangelize for the video game medium, a medium that has changed his life.

David James Keaton's work has appeared in over 100 publications. His contribution to Plots With Guns #10 was named a Notable Story of 2010 by storySouth's Million Writers Award, and his (totally foolproof) casino scam in Crime Factory #8 won the 2012 Spinetingler Award for the Best Short Story on the Web. His first collection, FISH BITES COP! Stories to Bash Authorities (Comet Press), was named the 2013 Short Story Collection of the Year by This Is Horror and was a finalist for the Killer Nashville Silver Falchion Award. His second collection of short fiction, STEALING PROPELLER HATS FROM THE DEAD (Perpetual Motion Machine), received a Starred Review from Publishers Weekly, who said, "Decay, both existential and physical, has never looked so good." His first novel, THE LAST PROJECTOR (Broken River), was called "A loopy, appealing mix of popular culture and thoroughly crazy people" by Kirkus Reviews, and his second novel, the western PIG IRON (Burnt Bridge/Blastgun), was optioned for film. He has also been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, was the Editor-in-Chief and co-founder of Flywheel Magazine, and the co-editor of HARD SENTENCES: Crime Fiction Inspired by Alcatraz and TALES FROM THE CRUST: An Anthology of Pizza Horror. His latest novel, HEAD CLEANER (Polis), was called "a nonstop thrill ride blending science fiction, horror, and a lot of humor, for readers who enjoy Chuck Palahniuk and Lauren Beukes" by Library Journal. He's also tinkering with several screenplays, including a prison movie, a thriller, and a western, and will probably adapt them into novels. He realizes this method is probably backwards. He can be contacted at davidjameskeaton[at]gmail[dot]com.

Bob Pastorella lives in Southeast Texas. He's published with Nefarious Muse, Outsider Writers Collective, Thundadome, Troubadour 21, and has short stories featured in The Zombist: Undead Western Tales, Warmed And Bound: A Velvet Anthology, In Search of a City: Los Angeles in 1,000 Words, and the Booked. Anthology. Please visit Bob at his website, www.bobpastorella.com.

(Art by Erik Wilson) Richard Thomas is the award-winning author of seven books: three novels—Disintegration and Breaker (Penguin Random House Alibi), as well as Transubstantiate (Otherworld Publications); three short story collections—Staring into the Abyss (Kraken Press), Herniated Roots (Snubnose Press), and Tribulations (Cemetery Dance); and one novella in The Soul Standard (Dzanc Books). With over 150 stories published, his credits include The Best Horror of the Year (Volume Eleven), Cemetery Dance (twice), Behold!: Oddities, Curiosities and Undefinable Wonders (Bram Stoker winner), PANK, storySouth, Gargoyle, Weird Fiction Review, Midwestern Gothic, Shallow Creek, The Seven Deadliest, Gutted: Beautiful Horror Stories, Qualia Nous, Chiral Mad (numbers 2-4), PRISMS, Pantheon, and Shivers VI (with Stephen King and Peter Straub). He has won contests at ChiZine and One Buck Horror, has received five Pushcart Prize nominations, and has been long-listed for Best Horror of the Year six times. He was also the editor of four anthologies: The New Black and Exigencies (Dark House Press), The Lineup: 20 Provocative Women Writers (Black Lawrence Press) and Burnt Tongues (Medallion Press) with Chuck Palahniuk. He has been nominated for the Bram Stoker, Shirley Jackson, and Thriller awards. In his spare time he is a columnist at Lit Reactor. He was the Editor-in-Chief at Dark House Press and Gamut Magazine. His agent is Paula Munier at Talcott Notch. For more information visit www.whatdoesnotkillme.com.

Michael Paul Gonzalez is the author of the novels ANGEL FALLS and MISS MASSACRE’S GUIDE TO MURDER AND VENGEANCE. His newest project is the serial horror audio drama LARKSPUR UNDERGROUND, available for free on iTunes and Stitcher. A member of the Horror Writers Association, his short stories have appeared in print and online, including Great Jones Street, Lost Signals, Gothic Fantasy: Chilling Horror Stories, the Booked. Podcast Anthology, FCJR, HeavyMetal.com, and the Appalachian Undead Anthology. He resides in Los Angeles, a place full of wonders and monsters far stranger than any that live in the imagination. You can visit him online at MichaelPaulGonzalez.com

Gordon Highland is the author of the novels Flashover and Major Inversions, as well as Submission Windows: a collection of stories and verse. You'll find his short fiction in such publications as Word Riot, Black Heart Magazine, Noir at the Bar Vol. 2, Warmed and Bound, and many others. Gordon lives in the Kansas City area, where he makes videos by day and music by night. Visit him at http://gordonhighland.com.

Axel Hassen Taiari was born and raised in Paris, France. Publishing credits include Abyss & Apex, Fantasy Scroll, The Big Click, and others. His stories have also appeared in anthologies including Exigencies and Warmed and Bound. He is the co-author of The Soul Standard, released by Dzanc Books in 2016. His debut novel, RUINATION, will be released by King Shot Press in 2020.

Welcome to MY world...

A few minutes with author TW Brown.

Tucked away in the Pacific Northwest with my wife Denise, two Border Collies, one named Aoife (pronounced EYE-fa) and one named Tyrion; we have also recently added a beautiful Newfoundland named Freyja. I live for football season when I can cheer on the Oregon Ducks and my Super Bowl Champion Seattle Seahawks. I am a fan of Cookie Monster, KISS, and Dr. Who (along with most things British).

His blog can be found at:

authortwbrown.com

You can contact him at:

twbrown.maydecpub@gmail.com

You can follow him on twitter @AuthorTWBrown and on Facebook under Todd Brown, Author TW Brown, and also under May December Publications.

Anthony is an author, musician and gemologist.

He graduated from the Gemological Institute of America and spent several years grading diamonds in their Carlsbad, California lab. In 2012 he partnered with Diamonds International Saint Lucia to design curriculum for diamond and colored stone courses. He has additional degrees in Graphic Design and Music Theory.

His fiction ranges from literary to transgressive, and has been published both online and in print, including the Booked. Anthology, voted as This Is Horror’s 2013 Anthology of the Year.

His first novel, Subliminal Messiah, is available here at Amazon and Barnes & Noble.

He is currently at work on his second novel.

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Craig Wallwork lives in West Yorkshire, England. His short stories have appeared in many journals, magazines and anthologies in the UK and US. He is the author of the Tom Nolan detective series, Bad People and Labyrinth of the Dolls, as well as the novels, Heart of Glass, The Sound of Loneliness, and the story collections, Quintessence of Dust, and Gory Hole. He was also the co-author of the micro collection, Serious Moonlight, along with Amanda Gowin. Get a free ebook by Craig by visiting here: https://landing-page.craigwallwork.com/

Amanda Gowin lives in the foothills of Appalachia with her husband and son. She has always written and always will.

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Robb is an avid reader, a sometimes writer, and an all the time co-host of Booked. He is also an editor and contributing writer at ManArchy Magazine. When he’s not editing audio and mooching wifi at a coffee shop, Robb is probably burying his nose in a book (at a coffee shop).

Joshua Alan Doetsch is a sentient word virus spreading across the collective unconscious through the vector of human language. It has taken on many forms, from short stories, to screenplays, to tabletop roleplaying games. It spreads through print, digital, and audio mediums. It coalesced as the novel STRANGENESS IN THE PROPORTION and shaped itself into an anthropomorphic guise as Lead Writer of THE SECRET WORLD, a massive multiplayer online computer game. It is made of cuttlefish ink and earworm rhymes, and its fingernails are gleaming fountain pen nibs. You can help spread the infection at joshuadoetsch.com. It’s already too late.

Nikki Guerlain lives in the Pacific Northwest.

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