✍🏼 Screenwriter ✍🏼 🎬 Cinefile 🎬 🤓 Nerd 🤓 🐾 MKL 🐾 Jaimie Engle is a multiple award-winning writer of stories with a magic touch. With 15 published books, she is a seasoned storyteller who has taught at national conferences, state libraries, and local schools on writing, publishing, and marketing books. In 2021, she began writing for film & television and optioned her first feature film JUST JAKE was produced by True Brand Entertainment and streamed on the UpTV Faith & Family Network in 2023. She sold the book rights with publication through Vinspire Publishing on August 29th 2023 (add JUST JAKE to your TO READ SHELF). Several of her award-winning tv shows, based off her published work, were also optioned and in the hands of major producers and networks, with a comic book adaptation that caught the eye of the producer of “The Stand” and “Thinner” plus King’s next venture “The Gingerbread Man.” When not telling stories, Jaimie spends time with her husband, watches her oldest son on the stage and cheers her youngest son on Varsity football. Fun fact? Jaimie danced at the Aloha Bowl halftime show. Follow the journey on social @JaimieEngleWrites and www.JaimieEngle.com.

Shawna L. Bernard, better known as Sydney Leigh, is a writer, editor, and English teacher native to the North Shore of Massachusetts. Her short fiction, poetry, and reviews have been published in various anthologies and magazines, including Shock Totem, The Library of the Dead, Shroud, Darkness Ad Infinitum, Enter at Your Own Risk: The End is the Beginning, Demonic Visions 1-4, Widowmakers, and more. She currently works for Villipede Publications and as the Chief Editor of Eldritch Press’ Novel Division. She is an Active member of the Horror Writers Association. She recently edited Michael Bailey’s Inkblots and Blood Spots, a collection of short stories and poetry illustrated by British Fantasy Award-winning artist Daniele Serra and with an Introduction by the legendary Douglas E. Winter. Her short fiction has been appeared in audio format on The Wicked Library and is due to be podcast on Tales to Terrify as part of their annual Stoker Awards celebration. In 2015, “Baby’s Breath” was nominated for a Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in Short Fiction and won the Best Horror Short Story Award in the Preditors & Editors Readers’ Poll. The first two episodes of a show she co-hosts with her local writers group called “The Taco Society Presents” (a nod to Peter Straub’s Ghost Story) can be found online at the following links: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SnbyU... (Episode 1) and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gje5Q... (Episode 2). Forthcoming work is due to appear in Chiral Mad 3, Our World of Horror, the HWA Poetry Showcase Volume II, and the third volume in the Quick Shivers series from the DailyNightmare.com. You can find a full bibliography of her work on her website at http://thespiderbox.shawnaleighbernar.... She is currently working on her first novel.

Lily Childs... writes dark fiction, horror and chilling mysteries. She is currently completing her first novel, a supernatural asylum thriller set in the south of England. Her gothic horrors, ghost stories and crime tales have been published in anthologies, most recently: The House of Three: a Short Story (Ganglion Press), The Twistweaver’s Son in The Demonologia Biblica (Western Legends Publishing), The Ossillatrice Shift in Bones (James Ward Kirk Fiction), Strange Tastes in Fresh Fear (James Ward Kirk Fiction), Girl Don’t Come in Thirteen (Soul Bay Press), Rapture in The Bestiarum Vocabulum (Western Legends Publishing) and Bad Exposure in Phobophobias 2 (Western Legends Publishing) Cabaret of Dread: a Horror Compendium (2012) is a gathering of Lily’s terrifying tales, and a selection of her poems was published in Courting Demons - A Collection Of Dark Verse in 2011. Lily is also author of the Magenta Shaman dark urban fantasy, short story series. Her psychological crime thriller Carpaccio was nominated for a Spinetingler Award in 2011. She is a member of The British Fantasy Society and former Horror Editor at Thrillers Killers 'n' Chillers e-zine. Blog: The Feardom http://lilychildsfeardom.blogspot.com Twitter @LilyChilds and Facebook.com/LilyChildsFeardom

In een grijs verleden heeft Michael wel eens meegedaan aan een King Kong Award. Daarnaast assisteert hij de schrijver Mike Jansen met proeflezen, redigeren en adviezen en deed hij voorheen een aantal van de juridische zaken voor uitgeverij Babel Publications, tegenwoordig Verschijnsel. Zijn voornaamste schrijfwerk vindt plaats in het LARP circuit, waar hij drijvende kracht en creatief verantwoordelijke is achter een aantal LARP events zoals onder andere 7 Gates, Ravenskeep en Vortex Adventures. Daarnaast is hij voor deze events veelal de spelleider. Sinds 2012 schrijft hij zelf ook voor diverse genre-wedstrijden in Nederland, waarmee hij inmiddels een publicatie in Fantastisch Strijdtoneel III heeft gewonnen. Hij heeft een boek in de planning, maar da's lange termijn...

L.A. Sykes is a writer from Atherton, Greater Manchester, UK. He studied psychology and criminology before working in acute psychiatry. He’s been up or due at the likes of Shotgun Honey, Powder Burn Flash, The Big Adios, Blink Ink, Close To The Bone, Dark Dreams Podcast, Nightmare Illustrated, and Spelk Fiction and others.

David Eccles is an author who was born in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, and he still lives there to this day. Raised on a diet of pulp comic books, graphic novels, classic literature of all genres and contemporary fiction and horror, he always wanted to be a writer, but real life always seemed to get in the way, until recently. After giving up his job in the security industry to care for his elderly father, he finally found time to realize his dream of becoming a writer and so began writing his first novel, which has yet to see the light, because floods of ideas for short fiction pieces kept coming to the fore of his mind and so for the immediate future, the novel has been put to one side. After writing chapter two of a twenty-part episodic flash fiction project entitled "Easter Bunny Apocalypse" for author Ksenia Anske on her blog, he wrote "The Teeth Police", which was featured by author and publisher James Roy Daley on his BOOKSoftheDEADPRESS website. He had this to say about David: "I've been keeping my eye on David Eccles for a while now; he's clearly one of the good guys. His flash fiction piece "The Teeth Police" is awesome, reminds me of early Stephen King. If you've read "Night Shift" you might know what I'm talking about." Author M.C. O'Neill says that David's writing style reminds him of the writing of "Necroscope" author Brian Lumley. The praise from authors goes on, and author and publisher James Ward Kirk recently accepted two of the stories presented here in this slim volume for inclusion in two of his anthologies. "Doing It For JRD" is currently available in the "Sex, Drugs & Horror" anthology, and Eyes is to be included in the forthcoming anthology "Serial Killers Tres Tria". Both anthologies are published by James Ward Kirk Fiction. "All Sunshine Makes the Desert" is due to be published later this year in "Echoes of the Wasteland", an anthology of apocalyptic fiction stories based on a common theme. There will be at least twelve authors taking part in this venture which will hopefully raise money for a nominated charity.