Scott Bell writes because that way he can daydream and claim it on his taxes. A Certified Fraud Examiner and professional Suburban Man, Scott has a wife, two grown kids, and at least one cat sleeping on his keyboard. (The cat, not the wife and kids. They have their own keyboards to sleep on.)

His works include the mystery/thrillers Yeager's Law, Yeager's Mission, and April's Fool, along with the forthcoming Yeager's Getaway and May Day. He has a Science Fiction novel out called Working Stiffs, and his short stories have appeared in numerous anthologies and online publications.

Sharon Frame Gay grew up a child of the highway, playing by the side of the road. She is internationally published in several anthologies and literary magazines, including Chicken Soup For The Soul, Gravel, Biostories, Typehouse, Crannog Magazine, Lowestoft Chronicle, Thrice Fiction, Fiction on the Web, Saddlebag Dispatches, Literary Orphans,Typehouse and others. She has won awards at The Writing District, Rope and Wire, Owl Hollow Press and Wow-Women On Writing, and has twice been nominated for the Pushcart Prize.

A collection of her short stories, "Song of the Highway" is out now in paperback and Kindle.

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David Bowmore was born on a winter’s night with the sound of thunder and the flash of lightning welcoming him into a brightly painted Gypsy caravan. Forty-five years later he started writing fiction. After a steep learning curve, his short stories and flash fiction began to appear in various collections.

A classically trained chef, a personable teacher and unqualified landscape gardener, David has lived here, there and everywhere, but currently dwells in Yorkshire with his wonderful wife and a small white poodle.

David tends to write thrillers and mysteries as well as stories with a touch of the supernatural about them. He focuses on character and the oddities of being human, sometimes with humour, but more often with dark unreality.

When he was younger, he had a love of science fiction and fantasy. In adult life his reading tastes veered towards thrilling mysteries, particularly Golden Age crime. You know the sort of thing – country house murders where everyone is a suspect, impossible locked room mysteries with more red herrings than your local fishing hole.

David is an admirer of many authors including Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, Eric Ambler, Patricia Highsmith, Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman, Elmore Leonard, Stephen King, and P.G. Wodehouse.

Since his first published story, 'Sins of The Father' appeared in Vortex, published by Clarendon House in 2018, David has featured in more than seventy-five short story anthologies, journals and magazines.

In 2020, The Magic of Deben Market was enacted by BookStreamz with actors from across the globe comparing his work to 'Tales of The Unexpected' and 'Inside No. 9'

Umair Mirxa lives and writes in Karachi, Pakistan. His first published story, 'Awareness', appeared on Spillwords Press. 'Anonymous' in Zombie Pirate Publishing's anthology, 'Flash Fiction Addiction', is his first story in print.

The publication of these stories is the realization of a lifelong dream he first saw as a kid after reading 'Adventures of a Wishing-Chair' by Enid Blyton. The early dream, a casual hope of one day telling stories to the world himself, became a goal when his mother bought him the two-volume set, 'Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels and Stories' by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and it had transformed into a burning ambition by the time he'd finished reading 'The Hobbit' and 'The Lord of the Rings' by J.R.R. Tolkien.

He remains a massive Tolkien fan, loves everything to do with mythology, fantasy, and history, and wishes with all his heart that dragons were real. When he's not writing, he enjoys reading novels and comic books, playing video games, listening to music, and watching movies, TV shows, and football as an Arsenal FC fan.

RLM Cooper, a summa cum laude university graduate, writes short stories, and novel-length fiction. She is a member of International Thriller Writers and has been published in literary reviews both domestically and internationally and is included in the “Who’s Who of Emerging Writers 2020.” Her debut novel, Legacy 627, was published in September, 2020.

Her fave authors among whom are Michael Connelly, David Baldacci, and Lee Child. When she is not reading or writing she is either cooking up a new vegan recipe, watching football, softball, and/or providing a lap for her Tonkinese cat, better known as “The Boss.”

A.J. Lawdring's goal is to write funny stories and stories that make you feel good. She writes from the heart of Wisconsin, USA. Her core belief hinges on, “What if anything is possible for those who believe anything is possible?” Her stories are structured to make a reader think, to allow the reader a glimpse of the amazing things that happen every day, stories that include, “You’re never going to believe what happened to me today. At first I thought it was a bad thing but then a good thing happened.”

Hello! I'm Carmen. As if 36 years in the classroom weren't enough, I now "teach" from home, helping aspiring authors with their own manuscripts, researching marketing strategies, and working on my next book. You can find me in the mountains of northern New Mexico where my husband and I enjoy a peaceful, quiet life caring for our animal family and any stray that happens to stop by.

My first book, El Hermano, published in 2017 and was selected as historical fiction finalist in the NM-AZ Co-op Book Awards program. That book inspired many ideas for stories which I subsequently wrote and am still writing. Since 2017, I’ve published six more. My 3rd book, Cuentos del Cañón, received first place in short story anthology category from the NM-AZ Co-op Book Awards program. I’ve also published 64 short stories, poems, essays, CNF, and articles in literary magazines, journals, and anthologies between books (to date 10.19.2022).

Wes Blalock, author of the award-winning Ranger Birdie McLaren short story series, is a retired university police sergeant and recipient of both Valor and Lifesaving awards. As a young man, he had wanted to become the next great horror author, while paying the bills as a school teacher. He had even received 2nd place in a national short story contest in 1983, but life had other plans. Needing medical insurance and a stable income, he instead became a university police officer and his writing became a lot less creative as it was focused on crime and administrative reports. He did continue part of his dream by teaching Field Training and Background Investigation at the local police academy and was a regular instructor for the police cadet program at his agency.

As he neared retirement, however, his wife recommended that he return to creative writing and he discovered that he was more in tune with crime fiction following his law enforcement career. Since retirement, Wes has published several short stories and two stories from the Ranger Birdie McLaren series have won awards from Writers Digest and from Bewildering Stories. He is also an active member of the Author’s Guild and Sisters in Crime organizations.

He currently lives in Northern California with his wife (his four children are scattered to the wind, but keep in touch) and works for a national insurance company, while he types out new crime fiction.

For more information about Wes Blalock and his work, please visit www.wesblalockauthor.com

Told by a high school teacher that he had writing talent, Steve Carr’s career as a writer began right after graduation. He spent three years in the Army as a military journalist, writing articles for newspapers all over Florida, and followed that up with four years in the Navy where he taught in the Psychiatric Technician Program at Portsmouth Naval Hospital, training Hospital Corpsmen how to provide care and support in an inpatient setting for young men with psychiatric disorders. He then finished college, majoring in English/Theater and then spent the next 13 years working in non-profit health care development and management, mostly in rural communities, during which time several of his plays that he wrote in his spare time were produced in several states. He gave up the steady income to pursue his dream of writing/producing/directing his own plays and began a theatrical production company in Arizona. He retired early and in June 2016 began writing short stories. Since then he has had over 550 short stories published internationally in over 280 different print and online magazines, literary journals and anthologies. Collections of his short stories, Sand, Rain, The Tales of Talker Knocks, and the hardback edition The Very Best of Steve Carr: 52 stories, was published by Clarendon House Publications. His collection of short stories, Heat, was published by Czykmate Productions. His self-published debut novel, Redbird, was released in November, 2019. He independently published LGBTQ: 33 Stories, which was released in January, 2020. In May of 2020 his short story collection The Theory of Existence: 50 short stories, was released. His guidebook Getting Your Short Stories Published was also published by Clarendon House. He has over 130 publications and books that contain his short stories listed on his Amazon bibliography. He has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize twice. In 2019, he was on the cover of the Inner Circle Writers’ Magazine inaugural issue and dubbed “The King of Short Stories.” He’s a native of Cincinnati but has traveled extensively in the United States and abroad. He currently lives in Richmond, Virginia where when he’s not writing he frets about his writing peers not getting the attention they deserve. He is the founder of Sweetycat Press, a Facebook Group, that produces publications as promotion tools for emerging writers

Kelli J. Gavin lives in Carver, Minnesota. She is a Writer, Blogger and Professional Organizer.

Her first book called I Regret Nothing- A Collection of Poetry and Prose - was published in July of 2019.

My Name Is Zach- A Teenage Perspective on Autism (August, 2019) - is co-authored with Zach Gavin (Illustrator), her son who has Autism.

7 Journals/Magazines most of which have been published on Amazon.com.

She has also co-authored 30+ anthology books. Most of these fantastic anthology collections are available on Amazon.com and Lulu.com.

Two new books from Kelli are planned for 2022 and 2023.

"One of the Best Special Needs Books of All Time" - BookAuthority- My Name Is Zach- A Teenage Perspective on Autism

"Best New Special Needs Book of 2019" - BookAuthority- My Name Is Zach- A Teenage Perspective on Autism

"Best Special Needs Books for 2020" - BookAuthority- My Name Is Zach- A Teenage Perspective on Autism

"13 Best Special Needs Books To Read In 2021" - BookAuthority- My Name is Zach- A Teenage Perspective on Autism

Kelli's blog can be found at www.kellijgavin.blogspot.com

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