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John Everson
is the Bram Stoker Award-winning author of
 the
novels Covenant, Sacrifice, The 13th, Siren and The Pumpkin
Man, all released in paperback from Dorchester Publications. Limited
collector's hardcover editions have also been released from Delirium,
Necro and Bad Moon
 Books.
He has had several short fiction collections issued by independent
presses, including Creeptych, Deadly Nightlusts, Needles & Sins,
Vigilantes of Love and Cage of Bones & Other Deadly Obsessions. Over the
past 20 years, his short stories have appeared in
more than 75 magazines and anthologies. His work been translated into
Polish, Turkish, Italian and French, and optioned for potential film
production. He is also the founder of the independent press Dark Arts
Books (www.darkartsbooks.com).
John shares a deep purple den in Naperville, Illinois with a cockatoo
and cockatiel, a disparate collection of fake skulls, twisted skeletal
fairies, Alan Clark illustrations and a large stuffed Eeyore. There's
also a mounted Chinese fowling spider
named Stoker courtesy of Charlee Jacob, an ever-growing shelf of custom
mix CDs and an acoustic guitar that he can't really play but that his
son Shaun likes to hear him beat on anyway. Sometimes his wife Geri is
surprised to find him shuffling through more public areas of the
 house,
but it's usually only to brew another cup of coffee. In order to avoid
the onerous task of writing, he holds down a regular job at a medical
association, records pop-rock songs in a hidden home studio, experiments
with the insatiable culinary joys of the jalapeno,
designs photo collage art book covers for a variety of small presses,
loses hours in expanding an array of gardens and chases frequent
excursions into the bizarre visual headspace of '70s euro-horror DVDs
with a shot of Makers Mark and a tall glass of
 Newcastle.
For information on his fiction, art and music, visit John Everson: Dark
Arts at www.johneverson.com .
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 Best-selling
novelist Brian Keene is a two-time Bram Stoker Award winner.His books include GHOUL, THE RISING, CITY OF THE DEAD, TERMINAL, and the forthcoming DEAD
SEA.
Several of his short stories have been adapted into graphic novel format, and
several of
his novels have been optioned for films and video games.
Keene has been praised by the History Channel, the New York Times, Fangoria, Rue Morgue,
and many others. He lives in Pennsylvania.
 The Rising and City of the Dead Motion picture
and video game—in development
Terminal Motion picture—in development
Brian's blog:
http://www.hailsaten.blogspot.com/
Audrey's reviews of Conqueror Worms and Terminal are at
http://audreyshaffer.blogspot.com
Check out the rest of Brian's books
here.
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 Penny Rudolph is the
author of the contemporary mystery Thicker Than Blood and its sequel Lifeblood,
as well as the historical mystery Listen to the Mockingbird.
She has worked as a bartender,
truck driver, chile picker, musician, science writer, and medical writer. She’s taught high
school English, as well as journalism at New Mexico State University. A finalist or winner
in five national fiction competitions, she has won more than 50 national non-fiction
writing/editing awards, including an international Gold Quill.
Penny has lived most of her
life in New Mexico, with detours to the East and West coasts.
Thicker Than Blood,
hardcover and now in trade paperback:
Rachel Chavez owns—and lives
in—an L.A. parking garage. She's trying to stay sober and make ends meet. When she
discovers a dented car with smudges of what might be blood on the fender, she learns of
the hit-and-run death of an executive at InterUrban Water District. This is Chinatown
in the 21st century, plus the conflicting emotions of a woman trying to stay afloat
and alive, the mixed motives of everyone from activists to bureaucrats, and an eclectic
band of misfits who help Rachel solve the crime.
 Booklist calls Rachel
“one of the most refreshing new heroines to wander into the crime genre.”
Lifeblood, sequel to
Thicker Than Blood, (hardcover) is my second mystery/thriller with Rachel Chavez. When
she discovers two unconscious boys in a van, she rushes them to the emergency room. But
the next day, the hospital has no record of either child.
Outraged and determined to
learn what happened, Rachel gets help from her best friend (a character Whoopi Goldberg
should play one day), and a cell-phone-toting homeless woman. But soon someone is gunning
for Rachel.
Kirkus calls Lifeblood "a
quality follow-up to Rachel's first adventure.
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 Dr.
Gregory Spencer is professor of communication studies at
Westmont College in Southern California. He specializes in rhetorical theory and criticism,
religious rhetoric, and media ethics. Dr. Spencer's teaching has been noted for its
creativity. According to one former student, "His words do not merely paint pictures, they
provide eyes to see the pictures that have always been before us. In this sense, his classroom
is no less than a portal into a transformed world." Guardian of the Veil is his second
novel.
In Guardian of the
Veil, the long-awaited sequel to The Welkening, Dr .
Gregory Spencer has created an alternate reality that is at once fantastic and hauntingly
familiar, framed in a cataclysmic conflict between Good and Evil.
Four misfits of
Weyerhaeuser High—Angie, Lizbeth, Len, and Bennu—are each blessed, or cursed, with unique
characteristics. Angie has an ethereal quality about her; Lizbeth is physically plain but
athletic; Len is impetuous and strong-willed; Bennu takes off on flights of poetic fancy.
These gifts count for
little in their small town. But when the foursome is drawn into the parallel world of Welken,
they become the keys to save that world from the jaws of Morphane, the soul-eater.
The veil between the
worlds is thinning, and once again the misfits are called to defend their adopted homeland
against seemingly insurmountable odds. They must rescue their entrapped friends with the very
fabric of existence at stake. This incredible adventure forces the friends to face their own
weaknesses, nightmares, and pain—or lose it all trying.
www.threedimensionaltales.com
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