Richard Lee Byers is wielding his rapier pen to create a new Forgotten Realms trilogy. Richard is the author of such works as Unclean, Undead and Unholy (The Haunted Lands trilogy), and The Rage, The Rite, and The Ruin (The Year of the Rogue Dragons trilogy.) The new work combines fan-favorite characters from past novels with new heroes, mysteries, and perils.

Andrea Dean Van Scoyoc also known as “Mistress Macabre” is not your every day female horror writer. Her novels are graphic, brutal and disturbing. When asked if she has had a difficult time proving herself in the horror field as a female, she tells a story about a man who reluctantly bought her book Michael and told her that he was sure female writers couldn’t scare him. A few months later after reading the book, he called her and told her that it made him sick and he wanted more. She has a large following of readers that agree. She has even made the best seller list on Kindle.

John Saul was born in Pasadena, California on February 25, 1942, and grew up in Whittier where he graduated from high school in 1959. He moved around a lot during college, going from California, to Montana, and Ohio colleges, majoring in anthropology, liberal arts, and theater. He never obtained a degree.

After leaving college, he took up writing, deciding that it was a fitting career for a college dropout, and he worked at various odd jobs to support himself while developing his skill as a writer.

He wrote several manuscripts that didn’t find much success, but in 1976 he was approached by Dell and asked to write a psychological thriller. He was happy to oblige and wrote Suffer the Children within a staggering 30 day period. It appeared on the best seller lists, even hitting #1 in Canada. All of his subsequent books have been best sellers and have been published world wide.

John resides in the Pacific Northwest, living in Seattle and the San Juan Islands, and also has a residence in Hawaii.

In addition to his novels, he also writes plays, acts in theater, and is a Vice President of The Chester Woodruff Foundation (New York), a philanthropic organization. He received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Northwest Writers Conference.

Mort Castle is an American horror author and writing teacher, with a dozen books, novels, and collections, as well as hundreds of short stories to his credit. He contributed to How to Write Tales of Horror, Fantasy, and Science Fiction by J.N. Williamson, served as editor of both Writing Horror: A Handbook By the Horror Writers Association and the updated and revised On Writing Horror. He is a founding member of the Horror Writer’s Association. He has been (and is) a musician, stand up comedian, high school English teacher, a magazine and comic book editor, and a mentor, and teaches in the fiction writing department of Columbia College Chicago in the largest college writing program in the nation. He is a Bram Stoker Award nominee (six times), and has been nominated for the prestigious Pulitzer Prize in 2000 for the collection, Moon on the Water. In 2000, The Star / Chicago Sun-Times Newspaper Group named him as one of “21 Leaders in the Arts for the 21st Century in Chicago.” Along with Gary Braunbeck, Gemma Files, and Cody Goodfellow, Castle is one of the four authors in the forthcoming Dark Arts anthology Mighty Unclean, the deluxe edition of the comics formatted book he edited and produced. J N Williamson’s MASQUES will be released in May, and there’s a new collection of stories announced from Full Moon Press for 2009, entitled New Moon on the Water. The Polish edition of Newsweek cited two of Castle’s books as the “best published in Poland in 2008.”

Post Mortem Comic Studios, based out of western North Carolina, is launching a series of independent horror comics, joining stories and authors from the Southern Horror Writers Association with talented artists spanning the world.

John Parker, the Owner of Post Mortem Studios, is the head of the Southern Horror Writers Association, a screenplay and fiction writer and artist. He is the creator of the comics: Fever, Ink, The Cursed and the Damned, Dorothy Rising, and The Magic Eight Ball. Parker has been vigorously promoting and building the foundation for Post Mortem Comic Studios for the past year and he is excited by the new trends and changes in the comic book industry.

Daniel P. Coughlin is a writer of screenplays and fiction, and with two feature films to his credit, Lake Dead, which was selected by Lionsgate for their 2007 After Dark Horror Fest - 8 Films to Die For, and Farmhouse, a film that is still in production and soon to be released, he is well on his way to becoming a name in the horror/thriller genre. His stories are well written with a brute force no-holds-barred style that rivals the best horror movies ever written, and with the influence of such Hollywood heavyweights as Wes Craven, who has acted as a mentor of sorts, there is good probability that Daniel will be the author of future horror classics.

Biographical introduction "Who Scott Thinks He Is" and promotional material all gratefully borrowed, with permission,  from Scott Nicholson's Web site: www.hauntedcomputer.com

Who Scott Thinks He Is

Boone, NC, author Scott Nicholson has published novels, short stories, poetry, and non-fiction magazine articles, and has written five screenplays. As a newspaper reporter, he's won three North Carolina Press Association awards. He's had the usual collection of odd jobs: dishwasher, carpenter, painter, musician, baseball card dealer, and radio announcer. Now he haphazardly trades words for beans and uses "haphazardly" as often as possible.

Nicholson’s first novel “The Red Church,” inspired by legends surrounding a haunted Appalachian church near his home, was a Stoker Award finalist and an alternate selection of the Mystery Guild. “The Harvest” is an alien infection tale that’s an allegory for the development of the mountains. “The Manor” is set at a haunted artists’ retreat in the Appalachian Mountains and has been optioned for film development. “The Home” was inspired by the death of a child at a nearby group home for troubled children, informed by Nicholson's own forgettable childhood. "The Farm" is based on the little farm community where he moved in 2004 and became a serious organic gardener and libertarian. "They Hunger"--well, let's just say it contains three sex scenes, pseudo-vampires, and the phrase "You got a purty mouth."