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Joanne Fisher was born in Canada and lived there until she was 20, at which time she moved to Italy with her parents. She married and had three children.

When her father died, she, along with her sister, their respective families and mother, returned to Canada. Her husband didn’t fit well in Canada, they divorced, and he returned to Italy.

She met the love of her life, Dan and now lives in Florida with her husband and her two Dachshunds, Wally and Ozzie.

Her books With All of Me, Her Spanish Doll, & Good Things Always Happen in Springtime available at most online Ebook retailers

Marty Roppelt was born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio. He was brought up with Grimm's Fairy Tales at bedtime. Marty later ran across horror novels that his mother borrowed from the local library, by contemporary masters of the horror genre—Stephen King, Dean Koontz, Peter Straub.

 

Small wonder. Marty's parents emigrated from Transylvania.

 

Marty's original profession was acting. He lived in New York for a while and appeared in a few shows Off-Off-Broadway at the Spectrum Theater, and as an "extra" on the soap opera, Guiding Light. After returning to Cleveland, he continued acting on stage, in local commercials and training films, and in feature and cable films.

 

Marty also worked a wide variety of day and night jobs. He has cleaned swimming pools, delivered newspapers, been a security guard, waited tables, and tended bar. Today, when he's not writing a new short story or novel, he works as a Starbucks barista. He enjoys finding ways to use his diverse life experience to enhance his story-telling.

 

A pet project involves St. Herman's House, a men's homeless shelter in Cleveland. Always a bit controversial, the home ran into bad press, through no fault of the men living there. Nevertheless, donations dwindled dangerously in 2011. Marty saw a financial need he could not fill. So, over four years, he wrote short Christmas stories which he published and sold online to raise money for St. Herman's. He continues to look for ways to help the home.

 

Marty lives in northern Illinois with his wife, Becky, and their eccentric cat, Fritz. Mortal Foe is his first novel.

Gary Starta is a former journalist who studied English and Journalism at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst.

His love for science fiction compelled him to write his first novel What Are You Made Of? published in 2006. Inspired by Isaac Asimov, the science fiction novel focuses on intelligent artificial life and whether sentient androids should possess the same rights as humans. The androids in Starta's novel are created as hybrids - part machine, part human - further blurring the line between human and machine. Starta foresees a near future where humans will be forced to decide if intelligent machinery is indeed a life form. Possibly, in this near future, some humans will possess computer enhancements to overcome disabilities becoming hybrids themselves. The line between biological life form and mechanical life form continues to be examined in 2010's Gods of the Machines.

9 Incarnate, along with its preceding Caitlin Diggs (series) novels, Demon Inhibitions, Extreme Liquidation and Blood Web are reminiscent of the The X-files television/movie series. Contemporary authors Laurell K. Hamilton, Rachel Caine, Jim Butcher and Kelly Armstrong also fuel his aspiration to create paranormal suspense. Watch for Diggs and Shay books soon.

Starta's crime novella ' Murder By Association' blends mystery with forensic investigation. It is a departure from previous books because it contains no science fiction or paranormal elements. Its follow up is 2012's Kindred Killers. Additionally, Starta foresees his 2008 novella ' Alzabreah's Garden ' - a fantasy romance - as another out-of-the-box effort. 

Coalescence begins a trilogy including forthcoming Time Wanderer and Obsolescence. If you like zombies, check out Dead Market, as a vice cop battles the evil machinations of Big Pharma.

Chad lives in Battle Creek, MI. with his wife, children.  For over two decades, he has been a contributor to several different outlets in the independent music and film scene, offering articles, reviews, and artwork. He has written for Famous Monsters of Filmland, Rue Morgue, Cemetery Dance, and Scream magazine. His fiction can be found in a few dozen magazines and anthologies including his own 18-story collection NIGHT AS A CATALYST. Lutzke is known for his heartfelt dark fiction and deep character portrayals.  In the summer of 2016 he released his dark coming-of-age novella OF FOSTER HOMES AND FLIES which has been praised by authors Jack Ketchum, James Newman, and many others.  Later in 2016 Lutzke released his contribution to bestselling author J. Thorn's AMERICAN DEMON HUNTERS series, and 2017 saw the release of his novellaWALLFLOWER. His latest, STIRRING THE SHEETS, was published by Bloodshot Books in spring 2018.

John Isaac Jones is a retired journalist currently living at Merritt Island, Florida. For more than thirty years, "John I.," as he prefers to be called, was a reporter for media outlets throughout the world. These included local newspapers in his native Alabama, The National Enquirer, News of the World in London, the Sydney Morning Herald, and NBC television. He is the author of five novels, a short story collection and three novellas.

Sasha Lauren, a writer of flash fiction, screenplays, poetry, and articles on health currently lives in California where she works passionately as a patient safety activist. As founder of Epiphany Scripts, she was as a script doctor in Hollywood where she did page one rewrites for individuals and studios. Several of her stories written in her signature whimsical prose won contests, and poems, articles, and stories have been published. She looking for an agent for The Paris Predicament her first full-length literary fiction about Camille, a gamine twenty-seven year old American ex-pat who chalked portraitures on the sidewalk in front of the Louvre and led an enchanting life until she committed an unintentional crime and headed out for a life on the run. 

She has three creative pages -- for poetry, flash fiction / short stories, and art. https://www.facebook.com/PoetryIsMyPrayer/

https://www.facebook.com/SashaLaurenFlashFiction/ 

https://www.instagram.com/sasha_lauren_artist/

Derek Borne lives in Paris, Canada (thought it was going to say France, right?) with his wife and moody bearded dragon Ziggy. When he isn’t writing superhero spy novels, he’s belting out Phantom of the Opera, playing his guitar, and watching Marvel superhero movies and TV shows, playing hockey, and making movie references daily.

Bio: Ronnie Allen is a New York City native transplanted to rural Central Florida nine years ago. A licensed NYS school psychologist, and teacher in New York City for 33 years, she's also a board certified holistic health practitioner. Miss Allen uses her education, expertise, alternative therapies in her novels in the plots and characters development. Her two thrillers, Gemini and Aries, in The Sign Behind the Crime series are published by Black Opal Books. Scorpio is coming in September and she is currently working on Libra.

"The Music God" CJ Plain is a lifelong music fanatic. Since receiving his first Slade record at the age of six, he's been hopelessly addicted to the pursuit of all things music. During his life he's performed as a musician in numerous bands, worked as a music journalist for a number of well known industry publications, and has now taken on the role of radio show host for two weekly shows.

The Big Ass Monster Rockin' Metal Show (formerly The Mental Metal Trivia Show) is a 2 hour weekly show, focusing on all forms of modern hard rock, metal, and punk music. It is now in year number 6.

The Motor City Glam Slam is a 2 hour, weekly show highlighting the best in Hard Rock, Glam, Sleaze, AOR, and Melodic Rock music from across the globe. From the early classics like Slade up to the brand new stuff, If it rocks...You'll hear it here!

You can contact him directly at his email: [email protected] or find him on twitter @musicgodcjplain

After being a corporate trainer for fifteen years, our next guest went into shock when she got remarried and was trying to blend 2 households, 4 kids, 2 dogs and several guinea pigs. Luckily, she saw the humor in it all and wrote The Amy Binegar-Kimmes-Lyle Book Of Failures. The funny memoir opens with "I've been married for twenty years, not to the same people, but twenty years nonetheless." The book has been a best seller on Amazon for over a year, sitting next to some of her heroes like Trevor Noah, David Sedaris, Tina Fey, Amy Poehler and Jenny Lawson. 

 

Amy enjoys being public speaking on the topic, "Why I Shared My Most Mortifying Moments and Why You Should Too," which has a message of seeing the humor in our failures and being more authentic in a very filtered world.  She's a regular on Atlanta's popular morning show, Atlanta and Company, and is a frequent guest on radio and podcasts. She just starred in her first movie short, The Interviewers. The film was written and directed by Atlanta filmmaker Sam Juergens. Amy's own film, #FakeMom, which is a Bridesmaids meets Bad Moms female-centric comedy is in development with Executive Producer Suzanne Jurva.

 

Book link https://www.amazon.com/Am y-Binegar-Kimmes-Lyle-Book-Fai lures-inadequacies-ebook/dp/ B072J3327X/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_ 0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=152348416 0&sr=8-2

Contact: www.amylyle.me.

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Haven Cage lives in the Carolinas with her husband and son. After many years of dabbling with drawing, painting, and working night shift in the medical field, she decided to try her hand at writing. Unfortunately, her love for books came later in life and proved to add a healthy challenge during her writing journey. Determined to hone her craft though, she soaks up as much information as she can, spends her free time tapping away in her favorite local coffee shop, and keeps a good book in hand whenever possible. What began as a hobby has grown into a way of escape and the yearning to take her journey farther, her love for writing and reading deepening along the way.