Her short fiction has been featured in The Adirondack Review, Barbaric Yawp, The Illuminata, Chick Flicks, Afternoon, The Circle, Citizen Culture, I Like Monkeys, New Witch Magazine, MudRock: Stories & Tales, Waxing & Waning, Wrong World’s multi-media anthology, I’m Going to Tell You One More Time, and many, many others. Skeletons in the Swimmin’ Hole: Tales from Haunted Disney World, a collection of ghost stories set in Disney Parks, is now available at www.haunteddisneytales.com, Amazon and all the usual outlets under the imprint Admit One Literary Theme Park Press. My short story “Doors” appears in Carpe Articulum Literary Review‘s Fall 2010 issue.
Her horror novel Bad Apple is forthcoming from Vagabondage Books in late 2011.
She’s the host of the “Dead Letters” paranormal fiction segment on The Ghostman & Demon Hunter Show, an editor for Read Short Fiction, and the recipient of Norman Mailer Writers Colony Winter 2010 and 2011 Residencies.
She holds a B.A. in Creative Writing in Literature from Burlington College in Vermont and an MFA in Creative Writing from Goddard College; prior to all of that, I was a student at the University of Rhode Island, where today I’m a member of a monthly writing critique group. My influences include Joyce Carol Oates, Edgar Allan Poe, Daniel Pearlman, Haruki Murakami, Koji Suzuki, Gina Ochsner and David Means, among at least thirty others. I’m constantly looking for ways to blend my favorite genres’ hallmarks, film’s visual qualities, and literature’s human themes in my writing. When do I have the most fun? Revision, actually. That’s my favorite part.
She lives in the Connecticut woods with my housemate, Charles, my fiancé, Nathan, and three cats, and I still frequently go to bed with the lights on.
http://kristipetersenschoonover.com/
Rob Watts’ bio:
Born and raised in Boston, Massachusetts, Watts embraced his creative personalities early in life and ventured hand-in-hand through life with each of them ever since. From his early days of furniture making in high school to Culinary Arts in college, Watts craved creative environments and the satisfaction it supplied. Throughout the nineties and beyond, Rob spent twelve years working in the culinary industry in and around the Boston area. During that period, he possessed an urge to write, mostly songs and short stories, and with that he created Ocean View Press, an entertainment magazine and publishing company. The first major project was extensive research into the history of the Boston music scene for a book now titled “The Sounds from Boston.” This project led to a freelance career in the local, as well as international music industry. From live reviews and album critiques to one-on-one interviews, it was fully embraced and fondly remembered. These days, Watts is in the process of completing his latest horror-themed project titled “The Crooked Roads through Cedar Grove” which is a collection of interrelated novellas released one-at-a-time over the span of two years, beginning with the paranormal thriller Huldufólk. T.C.R.T.C.G. is an epic mosaic of several intertwining tales and characters based in the small New England town of Cedar Grove. Combining sub-genres of horror and fantasy, Crooked Roads is an experimental approach at independent book releasing. Four stand-alone stories will be released one-at-a-time every few months, each accompanied with its own original soundtrack of music. In addition to his writing works, Rob is now one-half of a successful custom stainless steel design company based in Boston. He still loves to cook, build, review music and travel.
http://www.robwattsonline.com/
Kasey Shoemaker’s bio:
Shoemaker currently resides in Connecticut with her husband and a fur-kid, also known as a Boston Terrier. She received her MA in writing, media writing, and rhetoric from Trinity College in Hartford where her thesis was a novel about witchcraft. Having grown up in Florida, she still considers herself a transplant and misses the beach. However, she gladly trades the sunshine state for a place where she can watch the seasons change. Plus, she sunburns really easily.
In Florida, she studied at a small liberal arts school, which she attended on an academic scholarship. She majored in Psychology and minored in English. She was a member of the English honor society, Sigma Tau Delta, where she was integral in the decision to not put the initials on the group’s T-shirts.
Shoemaker has been writing since she was seven years old and has been known to author everything from poetry to blogs. But, the novel is her favorite medium. Also, she loves reading (a necessary addiction for writers), spending time with her husband, walking the dog, practicing yoga, and dancing when no one is home to witness it.
http://www.kaseyshoemaker.com
Dan Foley’s bio:
Foley is a fugitive from New Jersey who now lives in Connecticut with his wife. He developed his rather dark sense of humor while serving on nuclear submarines. Dan’s professional writing career started writing late in life, publishing his first short story at the age of fifty-seven. His stories have appeared in Maelstrom 1, Dark Notes From NJ, Nocturne Magazine, Wicked Karnival and Hellbound Book’s Damned Nation and Death Grip: Exit Laughing to name a few. A novel, Death’s Companion, will be published in the coming year.
Dan has six grandchildren, the oldest Caiti also enjoys a good horror tale. And as she tells her friends, “This is my grampa, don’t believe a thing he says.
Some past publications include:
It’s In The Bag, Cyber-Pulp’s Second Annual Halloween Anthology.
Talking To Robert, Be Mine Anthology, February 5, 2004.
Friends, Maelstrom 1 Anthology, Lighthouse Media One, December 2004.
The Sixth Victim, Anthology, Garden State Horror Writers, Dark Notes From NJ, March,
2005.
Premonitions, Nocturne Magazine, Issue 1.5, March, 2005. (UK)
Premonitions, No Longer Dreams Anthology, LiteCircle Books, April 2005. (USA)
Fat Tuesday, No Longer Dreams Anthology, LiteCircle Books, April 2005.
Future publications include:
The Yankee Cap, Dark Elation Volume One, Lighthouse Media One, December 2005.
Roses For My Lady, Contest Winner, Wicked Karnival Ezine, Issue 3, February, 2005.
The Yankee Cap, Nocturne Magazine, Issue 5.0, September, 2005. (UK)
Simon’s War, Damned Nation Anthology, Hell Bound Books, October 2005
Roses For My Lady, Wicked Karnival #3
Creepy Mouse, Wicked Karnival #4
The Merchant, The Witch, and the Christmas Tree, Wicked Karnival #5
Foley doesn’t have a website, but is planning on creating one in the future.
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