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Kinley MacGregor

Born in Columbus, Georgia, Kinley MacGregor has lived all over the South. When asked what made her want to become a writer, she will always smile and say her biggest inspiration was the hours she spent listening to her father spin yarns about American folk life and his adventures in the Army. Of course, her father (and family) would say that it’s the fact that she can’t seem to stop talking. Kinley loves to hear from her readers and answers every message personally. For more information on Kinley and her forthcoming releases, check out her website at http://members.xoom.com/Kinley.





Pamela Maddison

Born in South Wales, brought up in London and educated at a French school for four years, knowing three cultures from the inside and the outside has given Pamela an odd perspective on things, particularly English history. From degrees in Psychology and Law, she went on to a Masters in Human Communication and an abiding fascination with language and languages; her cousin pointed her in the direction of Archaeology, which is her other consuming interest, posing all sorts of fascinating questions like “Why are the French and the English not more similar?” Except when her two daughters were small, Pamela mostly taught remedial groups and classes, but after her husband’s death nine years ago she found the pressures too great and now works as a legal secretary. After finishing evening classes in archaeology, she did another in archaeological draughtsmanship, then started what turned out to be many years of Human Skeletal Remains in Archaeology. Pamela’s great pleasure is visiting places of archaeological interest in her camper van. Her great regret is not having the time to follow David and Anna’s journey through France (her characters in “Unicorn Evils”).





Priscilla Maine

A hopeless romantic, Priscilla has spent the best forty years of her life married to her hero, Russell. While raising their two children, she put aside her dream of writing. Yet through those years, characters, plots, and dialogue filled her nightly dreams. She promised herself that someday she would transfer those images to paper, breath life into them, and let their stories unfolded. When the fourth grandchild arrived she knew her someday had arrived. Since that momentous day she has written three manuscripts and is currently working on the fourth. Born and raised in Atoka County, Oklahoma instilled a love for its rich history in her. It is no accident that this area provides the setting for her historians. She lives near Ten Mile Creek in the foothills of the Kiamichi Mountains. Both the Texas Military Road and the Butterfield Stage route run through the area. She has trekked the wilds of Boogaboo Canyon, walked in the past surrounded by the whispered voices of Captain Atoka and Eliza Flack. She has also visited with moon shiners, and the now-abandoned sites of their stills. This first-hand knowledge allows her to deliver a strong, distinctive sense of place, giving readers a unique view of this region and its history. She is an active member of Women Writing the West, Romance Writers of America, Outreach International, EPIC, and a graduate of Writer’s Digest School. One of her short stories, “To Hell and Back,” was published in a collection of works by native writers, funded by the Lannan Foundation, for the Chickasaw National Library. She has published in Trends for Victims, a victim services newsletter and Better Homes and Gardens.





Marina Maxwell

Marina Maxwell was born and raised in Central Africa of Anglo-Russian parentage. She also lived in UK, USA and Canada before coming to Australia in the Seventies, and now lives in the capital, Canberra. “I have been married to the same wonderful man for 27 years and have two adult daughters. Apart from wife and mother, I’ve worn many hats, including BBC TV production assistant, Cunard Line booking manager, various executive assistant, editorial and para-legal jobs, and at present I operate a fast-food business with my husband, but would love to be able to write full-time and get paid swags of money for doing so! Ever since my schooldays, I’ve dabbled in various genres of writing, but historical fiction is my main passion, especially stories about real people. After several frustrating years of ‘near-misses’ with publishers and editors, as well as the death of an agent at a critical point, I recently decided to go it alone and self-publish an Australian historical novel. The opening chapter of Time and a Legend can be read on my website and I am hoping to have the final product available for sale within the next couple of months (depending on finances!). I’ve been told I’m nuts, that self-published fiction is a sure recipe for disaster, but I don’t have overly grandiose ambitions for this story and intend to begin by targeting it mainly in the region of New South Wales where the main character is very well known and where much of the action really took place—even though I do believe it would appeal to anyone, anywhere, who loves a story full of romance, intrigue, adventure. Other completed manuscripts awaiting publication include Land of the Long Grass, based in Colonial Central Africa, and my blockbuster, The Fatal Touch—a biographical novel on the life of Lola Montez. I also have other manuscripts in various stages of completion and which need more research time than I am able to spare at the moment, but I’ll definitely get them them completed eventually! My website address is http://www.users.bigpond.com/veemax/index.html.





K. G. McAbee

K. G. (Gail) has been writing for about a year, and has had short fiction published in Challenging Destiny, 12th Planet, Crimson, Sepulchre, and other magazines. Her first book, a dark fantasy entitled Escape The Past, will be available in August 1999 from Starlight Writers Publications, and she has two additional novels (A Doleful Kind Of Singing and The Plausible Prince) placed with SWP and one with Sansip Publishing.





P. M. McAbee





Mark Mellon

Mark Mellon is a novelist who supports his family by working as an attorney for the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. He has led a checkered life with past experience as a mover, lifeguard/swimming instructor, door-to-door salesman, carpenter’s helper, Russian translator, soldier, phone solicitor, collections counselor, and teacher. He has had the following short stories published: “Harry’s Car” in Retard; “Trophy of the Hunt” in Aberrations; “Conversations With an Old Man” in Chasm; and “The List of Caliban Cade” in Gothic.Net, an e-zine. Another story, “Viva La BigAss,” has been accepted for publication by Terra Incognita. He has also written a science fiction novel, The Empire of the Green, and is currently writing a novel about World War II.





Rosalie More

Rosalie More writes about independent women and courageous men of the Old West. Today she wonders what Zane Grey would think about the high-tech world of electronic publishing. For the past four years, she has served as news-letter editor for Heart of the Rogue Chapter/RWA.





Anthony Mudge

Born of British parents in France, Anthony Mudge is a self-confessed arty type who revelled in the arts, notably music, long before he considered trying his hand at creative writing. Set in Victorian Britain and France, Wilting daffodils (the working title for his novel, appearing in the June Issue) started off as a variation on the Don Juan story, was briefly the first tome of a four-part family saga, and has since been sculpted into something altogether more reasonable which draws its inspiration from anything and everything. Further information on Daffs, as Anthony likes to call it, is available at his homepage, as are further chapters (on application).





Vella Munn

Vella writes Native American historicals for Tor. Her book, Wind Warrior, is currently available in paperback, while Blackfeet Season is a hardcover release.





P. G. Nagle

P.G. Nagle was born and raised fifty miles from Glorieta Pass in the mountain town of Los Alamos, New Mexico. An avid student of music, history, and computer science, Nagle has a special love of the outdoors, particularly New Mexico’s wilds, where many of her stories are born. Nagle’s work has appeared in the Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction and in several anthologies, including collections honoring New Mexico writers Jack Williamson, who lives in Portales, and the late Roger Zelazny, who lived in Santa Fe. Her short story "Coyote Ugly" was honored as a finalist for the Theodore Sturgeon Award. Nagle currently resides in Albuquerque, and is at work on The Guns of Valverde (Forge Books, 2000), the sequel to Glorieta Pass.





Valerie Nicholls

Valerie used to write both short stories and poetry when she was young. Now that her children are older, this recent widow has come back to writing with a vengeance. “I have always enjoyed the hint of the paranormal and cannot resist bringing it to much of what I write.”





Robin Nobles

Robin Nobles is a freelance writer whose articles on surfing the Web are published in six newspapers regularly. She also writes articles about the Web and Internet in publications such as Internet Newsroom, InfoAlert, WebVantage, CompuNotes, ChipNET, The Sunshine Post, Bridges Initiatives, and more. She can be reached at robin@robinsnest.com or through her website: Robin’s Nest for Writers and Web Surfers.





Sally Odgers

Sally Odgers is the most-published author ever to have come out of Tasmania, the island state of Australia. In fact, she hasn’t come out of Tasmania, and still lives in the historic town of Latrobe with her husband Darrel and their daughter Tegan. Son James is in the Royal Australian Air Force. Sally is the author of more than 160 published books, including historicals, paranormal, children’s and romance. Her most recent historical romance is Powderflash, published by New Concepts Publishing in 1999. Check it out at http://www.newconceptspublishing.com/powderflash.htm. You can visit Sally’s home page at http://members.xoom.com/Sallyo/Index.html.





Liz Palmer

Liz Palmer is an Australian writer, who lives just outside Canberra. She is currently working on a collection of historical short stories, all set in Australia. She has been interested in Australian history for many years and would like to see more of her fellow Australians take a greater interest in their heritage.





Owen Parry

Owen Parry turned his back on a successful career to write. From early childhood, he was told of his ancestors who fell in Union blue, and each years his parents took him to our great battlefields. His own military service taught him about the unreported valor of the common man.





Cindy Penn

Cindy Penn has been writing for over twenty years, including essays, poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and reviews. She pays the bills working as a technical writer for Mapics, Inc. Previously, she was a multimedia specialist developing computer based training programs for IBM. Cindy is the Web Wizard behind Word Weaving, having designed and built the site. She dreams of the day Word Weaving can pay the salary of herself and her editors, as well as the fabulous contributors that make the zine possible. Visit Cindy’s resume and personal pages at http://www.wordweaving.com/penn_index.html!





Dave Perry





Regina Phelps

Regina—Gina to her pals—has been seriously writing for just 6 years. She always wanted to be a writer but never had the chance—raising kids, working, basically all the things writers have to do. So, when she finally found the opportunity, she took a creative writing course, wrote a few short stories, and decided that this was the life for her. Since then, Gina’s been fortunate enough to get published in numerous small press magazines. Not only did The Fiction Primer publish her story,The Gardener, but selected it for its “Best Of” issue. Gina has also been published in Dogwood Tales, Housewife Writer’s Forum, and Happy, a literary magazine in New York City. Satire, Animal Trails, and The Storyteller, amongst other, have also published her work. This past year, Gina was also invited to do a reading in Soho from one of the magazines who published her work. Additionally, Gina has her work appearing on the Short Story Workshop and serves on their Review Board as well. She also won a grant to help with writing from The Jewish Association for the Aged regarding a story she sent them about an elderly woman. Though she hasn’t won any contests, Gina has received numerous honorable mentions in a few. “All in all what I thought would be a hobby for me has instead become a passion. I will continue to write and hope that readers enjoy my work half as much as I enjoy writing it.”





Victoria Prescott

Victoria lives in England. Still single, she enjoys living alone because there is no-one to complain when she stays up into the early hours and lets the washing accumulate while she is reading, writing, and surfing the Internet. Some people consider her eccentric because she finds it possible, even preferable, to live without owning a car. In 1990, she gained her doctorate in English economic and social history and now teaches all kinds of history to adult education classes. She has carried out academic research and has several pieces of academic writing published or forthcoming. Additionally, she has worked part time at her local county archives office. Victoria, who has wanted to write since childhood, has completed one manuscript, set in 1860, and is now working on a second novel, set in 1792. She’s still discovering what she wants to write about, but her preferred period is from the late sixteenth to early twentieth century, her favourite setting her own home county, and her characters are drawn from the middle classes and below.





Joseph R. Reuther

Joe is 32 years old, married, and lives in Flint, Michigan. He’s been writing for about a year and a half. “I haven’t limited myself to a particular genre, as I enjoy experimenting with various perspectives and characterizations. My work could probably be best classified as a sort of strange, philosophical fiction.” Joseph has benefitted greatly from his experience with the Short Story Workshop, and was recently elected to their Review Board. A compilation of Joseph’s work can be found at http://www.geocities.com/capecanaveral/cockpit/5633/index.html.





Dr Bob Rich

Dr Bob Rich is an Australian writer. He has had a regular column in a magazine since 1980, and articles in many others. He is the author of two successful non-fiction books. One of them has been continuously in print since 1987. He has won numerous prizes and awards in writing competitions. In 1995 he was asked to read a story to a writers’ group. The snippet he prepared came to life and swallowed him. Ever since, Bob has lived in the distant past, resenting the rude interruptions of the 20th Century. The result has been a planned series of 10 or more books, of which several are completed. Then he came up against the harsh reality of publishing fiction. He found that everyone loves his stories--except for readers hired by publishers. The big achievement of 1998 was finding an agent, but so far she has not been able to place the lead volume. Bookmice have published the novel Striking Back from Down Under, and are now preparing Bob’s historical adventure The Travels of First Horse for publication.





Kenneth Robbins

Kenneth Robbins is Director, School of the Performing Arts, Louisiana Tech University in Ruston, LA. He has published two novels and fifteen plays as well as numerous stories, articles, and reviews. He received the Toni Morrison Prize and the Associated Writing Programs Novel Award for his first novel, Buttermilk Bottoms. His most recent play, Atomica Field, was recently premiered in Tokyo, Japan. He wrote “The Crater” while living in Hiroshima, Japan in 1995 as a Japan Foundation Artists Fellow.





Colin Roberts

Colin Roberts is 33 years old and lives in Barnstaple, England. Married with one son, he began writing seven years ago. Primarily he writes in the supernatural/horror genre, but has dabbled in other fields. This award-winning author has produced one novel—Samhain—a tale based in ancient Irish mythology which is currently in the hands of his agent, and is working on a further two full-length stories. Short stories fill the gaps and help to break the block when it comes, and Colin is on the review board of Short Story Workshop, where he is also a regular contributor. You can see more of his work at his website, "The Otherworld," at www.the-otherworld.demon.co.uk.