ROB ROSEN is the author of the novels of Sparkle and Divas Las Vegas” and has had short stories featured in more than ninety anthologies, most notably: Short Attention Span Mysteries: Modern Witches, Wizards and Magic; Southern Comfort; Hell’s Hangmen: Horror in the Old West; By the Chimney With Care; Strange Stories of Sand and Sea; Damned in Dixie: Southern Horror; Spottu Spec: Games of the Fantastic; Ruins Metropolis; Don’t Turn the Lights On; Bloody October; Christmas is Dead; Love is Dead and Throw Down Your Dead: An Anthology of Western Horror Stories. Please visit him at his website www.therobrosen.com

LYNLEY STACE lives in Australia with a man, a daughter, a Border Collie and what they hope is a possum. She has been mistaken for a Goth on account of her dark hair and pale skin. !is is not for lack of Aussie sunshine but is probably down to over-generous applications of sun-block. (A deathly complexion does not a Goth make). Lynley Stace likes sardines on toast, never-ending cups of rooibos tea, and regular trips home to

New Zealand.

MARGARET CUNNINGHAM after completing an MA in Literature and Publishing at N.U. I. Galway, worked in Dublin as an abstract writer and editor, an experience that furnished her with a brief paragraph’s worth of knowledge on a wide variety of obscure subjects ranging from Hittite deities to Nebraskan rodents. She now lives in Sligo, where she is supposedly working on a young adult fantasy novel.

PHOEBE PENHALLIGAN is new to writing for young adults, recently teaming up with Boo Irwin she collaborated on Miserable Middles a collection of short stories also released by Rebel Books. Her short story Scarecrow appeared in a horror anthology for teens released in Fall 2009. Phoebe is studying Graphic Design and enjoys all arts and crafts. She loves walking her dogs and spending time with her family.

DOROTHY WILLIAMS is an avid reader of all types of "ction and has been writing since her early teens. Forever is her first published work for young adults although she has been busy writing short stories and has startedwork on a supernatural novel for young adults. Dorothy lives with her husband and her two daughters.

AARON POLSON was born on the Ides of March: a good day for him, unlucky for Julius Caesar. He currently lives in Lawrence, Kansas with his wife, two sons and a tattooed rabbit. To pay the bills, Aaron attempts toteach high school students the difference between irony and coincidence. His stories have featured magic goldfish, monstrous beetles, and a book of lullabies for baby vampires along with other oddities. The House Eaters, a young adult dark fantasy, is due from Virtual Tales in 2010.

SHAR ROS-ELMAN was born in South Africa but now lives in a market town in the Home Counties with her husband, two children, three cats and an inde"nite number of Koi "sh. She studied psychology and economics before pursuing a career as an organisational psychologist but realised that a full time career didn’t allow any time for personal stuff so she scaled down her workload to become a mum and concentrate on her passion for writing. She writes for young people of all ages (also under her pseudonym Walwyn Rose) having discovered that the young mind is considerably more open to the sort of weird ideas that float around in her head on a daily basis.

JESSY MARIE ROBERTS lives in a ‘haunted’ house in Western Nebraska with her husband and their two dogs; Tucker and Snags. She grew up in Morgan Hill, California. When she isn’t busy writing or editing, Jessy enjoys board games and scary movies.

VALERIE STILLWELL became a student at the Liverpool Playhouse when she was sixteen. For the next ten years she worked in theatre, radio and television. Her last role was in the West End playing the Chest of Drawers inSpike Milligan’s The Bedsitting Room. She married and moved to South Africa, had three children and started writing. Work included short stories for magazines and radio and three books for children. Returning to England she wrote articles for magazines, stories for Aquila and !e Toffees from Zongaba for Andersen Press. She also wrote a self-help book for those caring for someone with clinical depression Living with a Stranger published by Gaskell.

JOHN ATKINSON is an avid reader of both horror and fantasy. !e only thing he enjoys more than staying up late to read a story is staying up late to write one. In$uenced mainly by the works of Stephen King and H. P. Lovecraft he seeks to create an atmosphere of dread and intrigue in his stories. Rather new to the trade he hopes to establish himself in the business and hopes you enjoy his stories! He doesn’t like marmite!

GEOFF BAGWELL After a childhood spent reading the complete works of Enid Blyton, as an adult Geoff expected to live in a shed and solve mysteries. By a cruel twist of fate, however, he spent 18 years as an office clerk – which is not as glamorous as it sounds – and now lives in a house in London with Sandra and their two children. In 2009, Geoff won ShortStoryRadio.com’s annual writing competition.

DULCINEA NORTON-SMITH writes fiction and non-fiction for children and adults. She has been writing web content under her own name and as a ghost writer for three years and has been published in several books and magazines including the books Scream, An Advent Calendar for Children, Gentle Footprints and Dragontales. Dulcinea is currently working on two novels for teens and editing an anthology called Mertales. Dulcinea lives in Lancashire with her husband and two children. She can be found on her writer’s and artist’s forum Pen & Palette www.penandpalette.co.uk

PHILIP CAVENEY was born in North Wales in 1951. His first novel, !e Sins of Rachel Ellis was published in 1977. Over the following twenty years he published 12 thrillers including Speak No Evil and Burn Down Easy. His first novel for children Sebastian Darke: Prince of Fools was published by Random House in 2007 and was followed by Prince of Explorers (2009). The series has been published in more than 20 countries around the world. His latest series featuring 1920’s adventurer Alec Devlin launched in 2008 with The Eye of the Serpent. It was followed in 2009 with Kingdom of the Skull and 2010 will see the publication of the concluding story, Maze of Death.

PAMELA POTTINGER lives in rural Cumbria with her husband, three sons, dog, cat and a host of stories, some written, some not. !e latter, she says, hover like spectres, thin, grey ripples of air that wait silently for her to give them life... a voice.

ALEX STACEY was born in Auckland, New Zealand in 1997. When she was 1, her family moved to London where they still live today. Alex began writing poetry and short stories when she was 10 years old, but has had an interest in writing since a very young age, and would like to become a professional writer in later life. She enjoys running, boogie-boarding and listening to music.

JACK BURTON & LUCIEN FIERRE Jack resides in the Arizona deserts where he spends his time teaching, writing and watching way too many horror movies. His work has appeared in several anthologies including: Dreams and Screams, Bonded by Blood II, Creature Features, Elements of Horror and The Middle of Nowhere among others. Lucien is a musician and poet living in Phoenix.

L.J. BOLDYREV is an American writer. She grew up on a horse ranch in Pennsylvania and spent most evenings around a fire, listening to the howl of the family pet, a Timber Wolf named Cody. Now she resides in New York and spends most of her day sitting in her little red chair, pulled up to her roll-top desk. When she isn’t writing, she’s reading, listening to Elvis Presley’s vinyl records, riding a motorcycle with her husband or spending time with her two children. Visit L.J. on the web at www.ljboldyrev.com