Authors

Karl Alexander

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Karl Alexander, a fifth-generation Angeleno, is the author of six novels, including “Papa and Fidel,” a novel of Hemingway, Castro and Cuba. His bestselling novel “Time After Time” was made into a hit film starring Malcolm McDowell and Mary Steenburgen, for which he was dubbed a Knight of Mark Twain for his contribution to American Literature. His second novel, “Missing Pieces,” was made into a CBS World Premiere movie starring Elizabeth Montgomery. He also produced and co-wrote the horror film, “Rattlers.” He received an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and served as a Marine Corps officer in the Vietnam Read More »

Steven W. Booth

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Steven has earned a BA in Economics (with an emphasis on Business) and a minor in History from the University of California at Santa Cruz. He has gone on to earn an MBA in Nonprofit Management from the University of Judaism in Los Angeles and a Masters of Arts in Teaching from National University. Steven has had many jobs and careers over the last two decades, including but not limited to, telephone installer, pizza chef, customer service and tech support rep, fundraiser, parking attendant, administrative assistant, computer repair technician, archery instructor, alarm system installer, taxi driver, teacher, short video producer, Read More »

Dr. Al Carlisle

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Al Carlisle, born and raised in Utah, got his BS and MS from Utah State University and his Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Brigham Young University. The majority of his career has been as a psychologist at the Utah State Prison from which he retired as the head of the Psychology Department in 1989. He was a consultant for the Salt Lake Rape Crisis Center for several years and he has conducted workshops on serial homicide and other crime topics. He has done research on serial killers and has interviewed the Hi Fi killers, Arthur Gary Bishop, Westley Allan Dodd, Read More »

David Dean

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David Dean’s short stories have appeared regularly in ELLERY QUEEN MYSTERY MAGAZINE, as well as a number of anthologies, since 1990. His stories have been nominated for the Shamus, Barry, and Derringer Awards and “Ibrahim’s Eyes” won the EQMM Readers Award for 2007. His story, “Tomorrow’s Dead”, was a finalist for the Edgar for best short story of 2011. He is a retired Chief of Police in New Jersey and once served as a paratrooper with the 82nd Airborne Division. David Dean is the author of The Thirteenth Child, which was released by Genius Book Publishing in October 2012. Read More »

Brian Knight

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Brian Knight lives in Washington State with his family and the voices in his head. Brian Knight has published over a dozen novels and novellas and two short story collections in the horror, dark fantasy, and crime genres. Several of his short stories have received honorable mentions in Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror. Brian is the author of Sex, Death & Honey — From the Misadventures of Butch Quick, which was released by Genius Book Publishing in August 2012. Read More »

Tim Marquitz

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Raised on a diet of Heavy Metal and bad intentions, Tim Marquitz has always been interested in writing, but it wasn’t until about 1995 the urge became a compulsion. However, it would be many years later before the ability matched the interest. Fortunately, the two have reconciled…mostly. Writing a mix of the dark perverse, the horrific, and the tragic, tinged with sarcasm and biting humor, he looks to leave a gaping wound in the minds of his readers like his inspirations: Clive Barker, Jim Butcher, and Stephen King. A former grave digger, bouncer, and dedicated metalhead, Tim is a huge fan of Mixed Read More »

Gene O’Neill

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Gene O’Neill lives in the Napa Valley with his wife, Kay, a retired primary grade teacher at St. Helena Elementary School. They have been married for 40-plus years. Their grown children, Gavin and Kay Dee, live in Oakland and Solana Beach. Gene has two degrees, neither having anything to do with writing (or much of anything else). At one time or another he has been a college basketball player, an amateur boxer, a Marine, carried mail, worked on seismic crews exploring for oil, a Right-of-Way Agent (appraised, acquired, condemned, and managed real property to build the interstate highway system around Read More »

Harry Shannon

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Harry Shannon has been an actor, a singer, an Emmy-nominated songwriter, a recording artist in Europe, a music publisher, a VP of Carolco Pictures (“Terminator 2,” “Total Recall,” “Rambo”), and worked as a free-lance Music Supervisor on films such as “Basic Instinct” and “Universal Soldier.” He holds an MA in Psychology and is currently a counselor in private practice. Harry has won the Tombstone, the Black Quill, and been nominated for the Stoker. Although primarily a novelist, the author has sold stories to a number of genre magazines including “Cemetery Dance,” “Horror Garage,” “City Slab,” “Crime Spree” and “Gothic.net.” He Read More »