MEET THE AUTHORS
Our members range from the professional author, and editor, to the determined short story writer. They are all consummate story tellers with a passion for speculative fiction, looking to share a part of that passion here.
ALEXANDRA WOLFE — Web | Blog | Facebook
Alex studied the SF classics while sharpening pencils and working for a living as an Editor, for HarperCollins, in what is considered the drizzle capital of the world, London. This was way back in the day when the dinosaurs still roamed the earth. She then moved to New York she will tell you, to escape the rain, where she worked for people who expected her to spel corectly and typ efficently in engrish.
Her first published story was THE DARK, which appeared back in the mid-80s in the now defunct British SF mag Odyssey. Since then she has written dozens of short stories and novelettes; many of which have been published in a variety of genre magazines and small press venues, including: Flights of Fancy, Quantum Edge and Quark’s News, among others.
MARK J. HOWARD — Web | Facebook
Mark says he is a strange man who once had all the money stolen out of his wallet by some woman he picked up in a seedy bar. This fact has nothing to do with his prowess, or otherwise, as a writer and editor; but he feels that it is important anyway.
He was born in 1966 and lives in the glorious county of Lancashire, England, with his black dog and a collection of videos that is far too large to be healthy. He once had a picture shown on the children’s TV show, Rainbow, and won a badge, which is where it all started to go wrong, really. He no longer has the badge.
BREN MACDIBBLE — Web | Blog | Facebook
Bren is a Melbourne-based writer whose desire to write stems from a complete distrust of reality. “Wouldn’t it all make more sense if we discovered it was just someone’s idea of a joke?” Bren describes herself as poorly educated and a verbal duffer. She was afraid this might stand in the way of a writing career but after some successes, now worries that one day she’ll publish something really good and have to explain her writing. Bren was assimilated into the Clarionborg collective that is Clarion South in 2004.
TONYA R. MOORE — Web | Blog | Facebook
Tonya states: I love to write. I love the flexibility and weight of words and the infinite possibilities and magic that can be wrought by just the right combination of them. I’m a story-lover first and foremost. When I write, I endeavor to convey a story in a manner that would most inspire or move me if I were the reader, alas with varying degrees of success.
JOHN CLAUDE SMITH — Facebook
John Claude Smith writes dark speculative tales that mesh horror and surrealism with the just plain weird. He is currently working on his second novel, THE WILDERNESS WITHIN, a psychological, supernatural exploration of the power of imagination as influenced by the wily machinations of nature. His first novel, THE CORNER OF HIS MIND, a psychologically surreal exploration of love, loss, and the insidious peripheral phantoms, is currently being shopped around to prospective agents and/or publishers. He has sold over 40 short fiction pieces. He also writes music journalism, with over 1000 reviews, articles, interviews and profiles published.
MARIA DI GIROLAMO
Maria is a London-based postgraduate research student specialising in Romance linguistics (Italian & French) and reading for an MPhil degree. Her peripatetic upbringing and longstanding fascination with constructed, fantasy worlds were the main impetus behind her forays into fantasy erotica. Although she is something of a novice in the fine art of wordsmithing, she fully intends to supplement dry academic disquisitions with something more flavourful, for as long as her imagination allows it.
BONNIE KELEHER
For Bonnie, writing is a form of mental exercise. It’s the challenge of the craft, of creating new worlds and interesting people that draws her to write. Still chasing that elusive “first sale”, she’s been flexing her writing muscles with the online science fiction writers group, OWWW. When Bonnie’s not doing mental pushups, she’s tackling community projects, like starting a school Teaching Garden, geocaching with her husband and two dogs, and travelling whenever possible.
STUART SHARP — Web
Stuart Sharp lives in East Yorkshire, where he divides his time between writing, not quite translating medieval Latin correctly, and getting hit over the head with swords. He has a PhD from one of the Three Great British Universities for the second of those. His urban fantasy series is published by Double Dragon Publishing, but other than that mostly writes things with more jokes in. He was quite disappointed to learn that ghost-writing didn’t involve ouiji boards at any point, but keeps doing it anyway. He is easily distracted by… mmm…shiny…
TRACIE McBRIDE — Facebook
Tracie McBride is a New Zealander who lives in Melbourne, Australia. She is a member of the speculative fiction writers group SuperNOVA. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in over 40 print and electronic publications, including Pulp.Net, Coyote Wild, Abyss and Apex, Space & Time, Sniplits and Electric Velocipede. She won the Sir Julius Vogel Award for Best New Talent for 2007. Writing author bios remains her least favourite writing activity.
AARON M. WILSON — Blog | Twitter
Aaron M. Wilson is a Minneapolis resident attempting to crack the fortune cookie in a vain attempt to understand life, others (including his two cats – one good and one bad), and himself – in that order. He earned his M.F.A in Writing from Hamline University in St. Paul, Minnesota. He writes about books, stories, movies, and his experiences as an adjunct instructor of English, Literature, and Environmental Science on his blog.
He used to review fiction, mostly short stories, on his discarded blog, Soulless Machine. However, reviewing fiction did not allow him to truly commit to writing his own fiction. He knew it was time to focus again on his own writing when, in a fit madness, his stories started taking over his waking world. Forced to write, he spends more time typing at his desk than is healthy, politely ignoring the requests of his doctors prescribing regular exercise and sunlight.
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