Nancy Holder, New York Times Bestselling author of the WICKED Series, has just published CRUSADE - the first book in a new vampire series cowritten with Debbie Viguie. The last book her her Possession series is set to release in March 2011. Nancy was born in Los Altos, California, and her family settled for a time in Walnut Creek. Her father, who taught at Stanford, joined the navy and the family traveled throughout California and lived in Japan for three years. When she was sixteen, she dropped out of high school to become a ballet dancer in Cologne, Germany, and later relocated to Frankfurt Am Main. Eventually she returned to California and graduated summa cum laude from the University of California at San Diego with a degree in Communications. Soon after, she began to write; her first sale was a young adult romance novel titled Teach Me to Love. Nancy’s work has appeared on the New York Times, USA Today, LA Times, amazon.com, LOCUS, and other bestseller lists. A four-time winner of the Bram Stoker Award from the Horror Writers Association, she has also received accolades from the American Library Association, the American Reading Association, the New York Public Library, and Romantic Times. She and Debbie Viguié co-authored the New York Times bestselling series Wicked for Simon and Schuster. They have continued their collaboration with the Crusade series, also for Simon and Schuster, and the Wolf Springs Chronicles for Delacorte (2011.) She is also the author of the young adult horror series Possessions for Razorbill. She has sold many novels and book projects set in the Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Saving Grace, Hellboy, and Smallville universes. She has sold approximately two hundred short stories and essays on writing and popular culture. Her anthology, Outsiders, co-edited with Nancy Kilpatrick, was nominated for the Bram Stoker Award in 2005. She teaches in the Stonecoast MFA in Creative Writing Program, offered through the University of Southern Maine. She has previously taught at UCSD and has served on the Clarion Board of Directors. She lives in San Diego, California, with her daughter Belle, their two Corgis, Panda and Tater; and their cats, David and Kittnen Snow. She and Belle are active in Girl Scouts and dog obedience training.

Christian, writer, artist I combine my passion for literature with my love for teaching & learning in my work as an educator/curriculum developer, book critic, and writer. I write and review material for both children and adults, mainly in the areas of poetry, nonfiction, and literary fiction, centered around spiritual, artistic, environmental, and historical subjects/themes. As an artist, I bring a creative lens of seeing the world to everything that I do. My goal is to share the beauty of the written word with all audiences, illuminating it in every way that I can. Before writing, my first love was reading. I adore the classics. Additionally, as a lifelong learner, I enjoy reading about many disciplines, including theology, art history (Impressionism, Dutch Golden Age, Baroque, etc.), U.S. and global history, psychology, education, film, theater (especially about my favorite playwrights, Arthur Miller, Henrik Ibsen, and Eugene O’Neill), and nutrition/wellness. I’ve read avidly throughout my life, experiencing the artistry of a broad range of authors who have come to influence my work. Above all, they taught me the importance of being unique; the ways in which they innovated and created their own niches in the literary world were what inspired me most, encouraging me to blaze my own trail, being authentically myself as a writer. As for my own authorly endeavors, I love writing across a variety of genres. In particular, I love writing poetry, devotionals, essays, and short stories (sometimes, though, they can be rather verbose!) for both children and adults. I am committed to sharing messages of positivity, faith, community, peace, hope, joy, and love in my work. I explore such themes as the beauty of nature, childhood memories, time, and grace in my written pieces. My goal is to inspire others and honor God through writing. Thank you for reading! I hope you enjoy my work! Disclaimer: Works of other contributors within the secular anthologies and magazines where my writing appears may not necessarily reflect my personal views.

Margie Deck (@margiedeck) lives in the Pacific Northwest with too many books, exactly the right number of husbands, and not enough dogs. She is co-editor (with Nancy Holder) of Sherlock Holmes of Baking Street. Her short stories and essays have been published by Belanger Books, Wildside Press, and Doyle's Rotary Coffin Books.

Stephen is an IT Geek, writer, actor and film maker based in Canberra Australia. He has been writing for over twenty years and has completed a couple of dodgy novels, sixteen feature length screenplays and dozens of short stories and scripts. Stephen’s scripts, TITAN, Dark are the Woods, Control and Death Spores have found success in the international screenwriting competitions with a win, two runner-up and two top ten finishes. His horror stories have featured in Sproutlings, Hells Bells, Below the Stairs, Trickster’s Treats #1 and #2, Shades of Santa, Behind the Mask, Beyond the Infinite, Beside the Seaside, The Body Horror Book, Anemone Enemy, Petrified Punks and Beginnings. His Sherlock Holmes stories have been published in Sherlock Holmes in the realms of H.G. Wells, Sherlock Holmes: Adventures beyond the Canon, The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes stories: Part XI and will soon be seen in Sherlock Holmes: Adventures in the realms of Steampunk, The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes stories: Part XIV & XVI. Later this year, Stephen will appear in A Tribute to H.G. Wells, and has had over twenty drabbles accepted for the Curses and Cauldrons, Blood and Bitemarks, Worlds, Angels and Monsters anthologies.