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 Dawn Andrews
- artist and poet, published in literary magazines from UK to USA including Smoke and Stride. She is presently working on a painting commission and plans to visit Florence.
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 Andy Black
- editor of the successful Necronomicon book series "discovering the dark underbelly of transgressive cult, horror & erotic cinema", author of The Dead Walk (Noir Publishing), Andy writes for magazines such as Shivers, Men Only, Samhain, Marquis and Terrorizer.
Richard Bowden
- presently works in magazine publishing, runs a couple of on-line music groups, and once had a story published in Panurge. He now lives in a half-finished Edwardian house in North London amidst books, videos, tapes and the confusion created by twin daughters.
James Brooke-Smith
- postgraduate philosophy layabout who has recently taken to submitting work to various magazines and websites because it's a lot more exciting than writing my dry as dust dissertation on abstruse French theory. Cinema visits offer a welcome escape from the ivory tower, with the dark fantasy of the likes of Cronenberg and Lynch at the top of my favourites list.
Paul Broome
- was editor of The Small Hours magazine. Recently relocated to Fife, Scotland. Currently trashing networks by day, and making music with his "nu-folk" project Bona Dea by night.
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 Mark J. Cairns
- co-producer of the Airwolf themes CD, owner of the related Airwolf site.
Ellen Cheshire
- has written Pocket Essentials chapbooks on the Coen Brothers, Jane Campion, and Ang Lee (read review) and she is currently putting the finishing touches to books on Audrey Hepburn, and a revised second edition of the Coen brothers.
Jai Clare
- writer, published in magazines such as Barcelona Review, Roadworks, Voyage, etc. Doesn't get to the movies as often as she'd like!
Craig Clarke
- after spending his formative years in northeastern Tennessee, Craig now lives 850 miles away in Massachusetts and feels much more at home. He lives with his wife, three cats, two dogs and a chinchilla, and spends his free time reading, writing, listening to music, watching movies, and updating his website - often simultaneously in order to make up time. He is also a regular contributor to Green Man Review.
Gary Couzens
- has reviews and articles in magazines The Third Alternative, Zene, and online at Movies on Dowse and DVD Times, also much short fiction published. He was a recent Chairman of the British Fantasy Society.
Thomas Cropper
- "started off as 'work experience boy' at Time Out. There, I wrote a couple of slapdash pieces for the suspiciously entitled Kids Out publication before becomming the news editor for a small media industry magazine called The Soho Independent. Currently trying to eek out a living as a freelancer writing mainly on film."
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 Barbara Davies
- reviews fantasy books for Starburst magazine. Her website is www.barbaradavies.co.uk.
Chris Doelle
- a professional consultant and freelance writer whose most recent publications include articles in the Richmond, Texas newspaper The Herald-Coaster, and articles covering the Houston arena football team in ArenaFan Magazine.
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 Phil Emery
- writer and lecturer teaching English, writing and drama, with stories, poetry, nonfiction, plays and comic-strips published.
Noell Wolfgram Evans
- an American playwright and winner of the Thurber Treat Award for humour writing, Noell has written about film history and written film reviews for a number of print and on-line publications.
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 Ian R. Faulkner
- was born in the West Midlands in 1966 and he has yet to escape. His hobbies include obsessively collecting books, comics, CDs and films on DVD, and, if he’s not watched closely, anything else he can lay his hands on. Ian has been writing since the dinosaurs ruled the earth and as a young mammal he produced a multitude of novels and stories, all of which are best left buried with the bodies in the basement. His published work has appeared in Crimewave #8 and #9, The Best British Mysteries volume IV, and is scheduled to appear in Black Static #1 and The Macabre Underground volume II. He can be contacted via his website.
Barry Forshaw
- edits Crime Time magazine and writes on books for Publishing News, Amazon, The Good Book Guide, The Independent and The Express. Films, however, are as close to his heart as any work of literature.
Emma French
- lives in London full-time with baby daughter, but would normally be devoting more time to travelling and watching movies. She is a film studies lecturer and film writer for other online sites. Emma has a PhD in Shakespeare on film, and her first full-length book on film, Selling Shakespeare To Hollywood, was published in February 2006. Emma is also researching a new book on Oscar Wilde.
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 Alan Garside
- edited and published small press genre magazine Orion, and was a regular contributor to Pigasus Press magazines like Fax 21 and Strange Adventures.
Christopher Geary
- reviews movies for VideoVista, and SF books for The ZONE. Chris is editor of FAX 21 webzine, and recently had an article published in Free For All, official magazine of The Prisoner Appreciation Society, Six of One.
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 Steven Hampton
- former assistant editor of The ZONE, a keen science fiction fan, and regular contributor to Pigasus Press magazines.
Amy Harlib
- is a 40-something, lifelong, avid reader of SF and fantasy literature, and graphic novels - retired with plenty of time to indulge in her passion for reading and cinema. She lives in NYC and welcomes intelligent feedback and discussion about the genre. Other enthusiasms: cats, archeology / anthropology / paleontology, folklore and mythology, genre films, science for intelligent laypersons, and memoirs / narratives as literature.
Mimi Hendrix
- works from home "as a freelance hack", onetime reviewer for The ZONE in hardcopy, contributor to Fax 21. Claims her Native American name is 'Flirts with Spiders'.
Cristopher Hennessey-DeRose
- has had over 100 pieces published in magazines like H.P. Lovecraft's and Filmfax. He is a staff writer for the Sci-fi Channel and books in print include his novella The Pale and novel Lives Of Future Past. His James Bond guide, Martinis, Girls And Guns, will be going from e-book to print in Nov 2003 from CyberMan Books. Visit this writer's homepage.
Paul Higson
- is returning to film writing after an absence of 10 years stockpiling the literary new for the big break. He was the editor of Bleeder's Digest and contributed to many other quaint paper-set small press publications. His abattoir play Swine was staged in Derby by No Half Measures Theatre Company of Derby, and a novel nears completion. Abuse and opprobrium is welcome via: paul_higson2003@yahoo.co.uk
Patrick Hudson
- was brought up in New Zealand, but currently lives and works in London. He has published a number of articles and short stories in various venues both here and in New Zealand, and is the author of Bridges of New Zealand (before you ask, it has nothing to do with The Bridges of Madison County). In addition to his entusiasm for SF and fantasy, he is a keen gamer, a museum fan, and a lover of art and music or all sorts.
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 Lucinda Ireson
- has a first-class degree in creative and professional writing, and was recipient of the university's outstanding writer award. Enjoys theatre, cinema and 1980s' nostalgia, and has a life-long passion for horror films, as well as B-movies and trash classics. Has written for Talking Pictures and the university newspaper, and edited a procedures manual. She aspires to work in editing/publishing.
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 David James
- a pen-name of Dave W. Hughes, editor of Modern Dance magazine and website
Jen Johnston
- is one of those lucky few who make a living at making sarcastic comments about films she loves, trying to remember them later, and writing them down. In her spare time she plays saxophone and piano, ballet dances, does yoga, paints, reads, runs, does endurance races with her horse, and (completely destroying her sweetness and light image) boxes competitively. Jen lives in Nova Scotia.
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 Roger Keen
- works in TV production, mainly in the field of documentaries, several of which have won awards in recent years. He began writing about film in the early 1990s, and his articles and reviews have appeared in Critical Wave, The Third Alternative, Prism and others. He reviews current SF, fantasy and horror films for Alien Online, and does other reviewing and feature work for Infinity Plus. You can find out more about Roger at his own website.
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 Robin Landry
- a former singer, songwriter and musician. "I recorded two albums while in the band Widow. I've written one young adult novel called The Conspiracy Page (the first in a series of five) published under the name R.J. Taylor, and I'm currently shopping a romance novel, a suspense novel, and writing my first script.
Michael Lohr
- for information, please visit Michael's website.
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 Antony Mann
- Australian writer, his award-winning short fiction has appeared in journals and anthologies from Crimewave to London Magazine. He wrote for The Guardian for two years and is currently working on a novel.
Rob Marshall
- describes himself as "a closet optimist", boasts of having "black belts in hokum and chagrin", and writes for a number of fanzines, both print and online.
Tom Matic
- is a writer and performer of self-penned songs, with a precarious toe-hold on the Brighton scene. His debut CD of acoustic songs, and incorporating a reading of his short story Burning Time, is shortly to be released on his own label.
Jonathan McCalmont
- is from London and is almost completely alive. He is currently trying to leave academia where he has swashbuckled his way into post-graduate degrees in philosophy and war studies. He hopes to get a job in publishing because he wants to help genre novels not only attain a wider audience but also the intellectual acclaim that some so richly deserve.
Gary McMahon
- has placed fiction in many magazines and anthologies in the UK and US. His cinema-themed horror novella Rough Cut is available now from Pendragon Press, andd he has further books due out in the near future. Gary loves the horror genre, and is especially fond of Asian cinema and the films of Takishi Miike. Gary's website can be found at: www.garymcmahon.com.
Carl Meewezen
- movie enthusiast, contributes reviews and articles to such magazines as The ZONE.
Debbie Moon
- after some years writing fiction under the pen-name Ceri Jordan, Debbie moved into screenwriting, and currently has two feature scripts in development. As befits someone who's been writing SF and fantasy since the age of seven, and cites Brazil as the best film ever made, they're both pretty weird. She is also working on a TV comedy drama, and and her debut novel Falling is available from Honno.
Donald Morefield
- "amateur journalist, avid reader", reviewer for The ZONE, VideoVista, and frequent contributor to other small press publications.
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 Mike O'Driscoll
- ran a video shop for five years and started writing to stave off boredom. Since his auspicious fiction debut in BBR, his work has appeared in various magazines and anthologies including The Third Alternative, Interzone, and Darklands 2. He has written articles on the films of the two Davids, Cronenberg and Lynch. Mike is currently triggering a consensual hallucination within the horror community via the news column he edits for At The World's End.
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 John Percival
- "a child of 1980s TV and English Literature graduate based on the south coast of England feeding on any passing sci-fi material."
John M. Peters
- was editor & publisher of Flickers 'n' Frames small press magazine for ten years, he's now owner of The Borderland music website.
Mike Philbin
- world cinema enthusiast, with artistic day job in games industry, and much fiction published under his pen-name, Hertzan Chimera.
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 Octavio Ramos, Jr
- has been a technical writer/editor at the Los Alamos National Laboratory for close to 15 years. As a freelance writer, he has published several nonfiction books (Cerro Grande: Canyons of Fire, Spirit Of Community, and Raising Cane: Introductory Techniques, the latter of which can be obtained at Rainbow's End), a novel titled Scout, a short story collection (Smoke Signals), and a chapbook (Folio Of Edicts, which can be obtained at Undaunted Press). He also has accumulated more than 200 publication credits in magazines, such as The ZONE, VideoVista, Blood Samples, Vampire Nights, SOD Magazine, Pit Magazine, The Midnight Gallery, Glyph, Whispers From The Shattered Forum, Double Danger Tales, Sepulchre, Bizarre Bazaar, Weird Times, Imelod, The Police Marksman, Sheriff Times, Martial Arts Training, and Inside Karate/Kung Fu.
Mark Roberts
- writer and artist with work published by magazines Albedo 1, The Third Alternative, Crimewave, and The New York Review of SF. He works as creative director of Chimeric media consultants specialising in bringing together traditional and digital design and illustration.
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 Peter Schilling
- writes for the VideoVista web-zine, The ZONE website, and other genre magazines.
Pete Short
- currently editing a new edition of The Age Of Reason (unashamed devotee of Thomas Paine), Pete has also written music and movie reviews for UK fanzines Live and Panic Coma. He toys with a bad unpublished novel and chills out beside bonfires in his back garden.
Ian Shutter
- regular contributor to Pigasus Press publications.
Michael Marshall Smith
- acclaimed writer and novelist, author of many genre books.
James Starkey
- "I'm currently living in London where I write horror movie reviews and essays on a part-time basis. My main area of expertise is European horror. Apart from movies, I also write short fiction for which I am currently designing a web page to showcase my material. Favourite literature includes Poe, Lovecraft and Stevenson. During my spare time, I like to update my main horror movie-review site as well as play the guitar which I have been doing for some 11 years." Visit James' website
James A. Stewart
- born and raised in a small mining village on the outskirts of Glasgow, and still living there with his wife and son. Spends his free time reading, writing, recording music and partaking in a variety of sports. Only uses the 'A' middle initial as his name is so common in Scotland!
Alasdair Stuart
- is a freelance writer whose work has appeared in the Fortean Times, Valkyrie and Never Mind The Comics. He works as a film reviewer for a regional paper and lives in Yorkshire with his wife and a lot of computers.
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 Christopher Teague
- owner of Pendragon Press, composes "very bad Eno-esque soundscapes", lives in Wales.
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 Steve Urwin
- reviewer for the early (printed) version of VideoVista.
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 Richard G. Vander
- fan of 1960s' music, contributes features and reviews to music related websites.
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 Denise Wayne
- artist and writer who recently "got computerised... now struggling with complexities of the Internet."
Emily Webb
- Aussie-born writer and secondary school teacher. Lives in London with husband and thinks the test of a person's character is whether they enjoyed MI:2 or not. She is blogging her personal DVD collection here.
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 Jeff Young
- enjoys "trashy exploitation movies" (especially kung fu and low-budget action thrillers), and is a regular contributor to VideoVista. Jeff also edits and compiles biographical listings for Girls with Guns a fan site about female action movie stars.
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