Angela Sylvaine is a self-proclaimed cheerful goth who writes speculative fiction and poetry. Her debut novel, Frost Bite, is out now, and her debut short story collection, The Dead Spot: Stories of Lost Girls is forthcoming from Dark Matter INK. Her short fiction and poetry have appeared in or on over fifty anthologies, magazines, and podcasts, including Southwest Review, Apex, and The NoSleep Podcast. She lives in the shadow of the Rocky Mountains with her sweetheart and three creepy cats. You can find her online angelasylvaine.com.

Anika, better known as Thing 2 to listeners of the podcast, joined us as our first guest!

Christina Bergling has been writing since childhood. More than anything, she is a horror author, crafting creepy stories anywhere from psychological to horror-comedy.
Crystal Lake released her last novel, Followers. Limitless Publishing published her novel The Rest Will Come. HellBound Books published her two novellas, Savages and The Waning. She co-wrote Screechers with Kevin J. Kennedy. She is also featured in numerous anthologies, including Collected Christmas Horror Shorts, Demonic Wildlife, Colorado’s Emerging Authors, and Graveyard Girls.
Bergling lives with her family in Colorado and spends her non-writing time working in IT, hiking mountains, dancing, and sucking all the marrow out of life.

Find her at her website: http://christinabergling.com or her Linktree: https://linktr.ee/chrstnabergling

David R. Slayton grew up in Guthrie, Oklahoma, where finding fantasy novels was pretty challenging and finding fantasy novels with diverse characters was downright impossible. Now he lives in Denver, Colorado and writes the books he always wanted to read. His debut, White Trash Warlock, was published in October 2020 by Blackstone Publishing. The sequel, Trailer Park Trickster, will be released in October 2021. Read more about David at Davidrslatyon.com. 

DeAnna Knippling is an eclectic bookworm who writes mystery, horror, science fiction, fantasy, romance, and classic-style pulp adventure stories with plot twists to die for!

Recently divorced and living in Florida, she has lived a number of strange lives, working as a nursing home assistant, a technical writer for a military program, a mom and freelance ghostwriter with over seventy novels under her belt, a marketer for a company staffed with former intelligence agents and Special Forces, and more.

She is the author of The House Without a Summer, The Clockwork Alice, A Murder of Crows, and more. Find her at www.WonderlandPress.com.

J.L. Campbell is an avid reader,  who writes contemporary, paranormal, and writes sweet romance, romantic suspense, inspirational and women fiction, thrillers, as well as new and young adult novels. She had penned over forty books and is a certified editor, and book coach. When she’s not writing, Campbell adds to her extensive collection of photos detailing Jamaica’s beauty.

Born of steel, fire and black wind, J.V. Hilliard was raised as a highlander in the foothills of a once-great mountain chain on the confluence of the three mighty rivers that forged his realm’s wealth and power for generations. Hilliard’s training and education readied him to lift a quill that would scribe the tale of the realm of Warminster, filled with brave knights, harrowing adventure and legendary struggles. He lives in the city of silver cups, hypocycloids and golden triangles with his wife, a ranger of the diamond. They built their castle not far into the countryside, guarded by his own two horsehounds, Thor and MacLeod, and resides there to this day. His book, The Last Keeper, is available at bookstores and online retailers. You can find him at: www.jvhilliard.com.

Jennie Marts is the USA TODAY Best-selling author of award-winning books filled with love, laughter, and always a happily ever after. She is living her own happily ever after in the mountains of Colorado with her husband, two dogs, and a parakeet that loves to tweet to the oldies. She’s addicted to Diet Coke, adores Cheetos, and believes you can’t have too many books, shoes, or friends. Her books include the contemporary western romance Hearts of Montana series, the romantic comedy/ cozy mysteries of The Page Turners series, the hunky hockey-playing men in the Bannister family in the Bannister Brothers Books, and the small-town romantic comedies in the Lovestruck series of Cotton Creek Romances. Jennie loves to hear from readers. Follow her on Facebook at Jennie Marts Books, or Twitter at @JennieMarts. Visit her at http://www.jenniemarts.com and sign up for her newsletter to keep up with the latest news and releases.

Retired military, avid MMA fan, father of three, and the crazy fun uncle of many. His first book, Crazy is as Crazy Does: The Life of a Serial Killer was awarded an eLit Book Awards Silver Medal in the Horror Category for their 12th annual awards program which honors the very best of digital publishing. He can be found on Facebook.

…she’s writing dirty, steamy, sometimes kinky and somehow sweet NSFW short romance. USA Today Bestselling Author Kameron Claire writes stories with witty tongues, wicked needs, and wild deeds.

Her full length and short, steamy contemporary and paranormal romances emphasize strong female leads and the protective alpha men who know how to love and support kick-ass, take-charge women. “She” may not NEED him to save her, but she WANTs him to love, support, and most of all, RAVISH her.

Kim has loved reading widely and voraciously as far back as she can remember. Eventually she realized she had stories in her head she wanted to read that no one had written yet. Kim writes speculative fiction, mostly, and is a frequent victim of “shiny idea syndrome” which causes her to work on multiple projects at a time. Her debut novel, Flipped: A Jillian McElroy Flipping Mystery is now available.

Born and raised in Birmingham, Alabama, Laura Hayden is the author of more than 18 books, as well as short stories. She’s also the owner of Author, Author! Read more about Laura at suspense.net. Her latest release is available at Amazon: Darkwood Crossing: Bailey: The Critter Sitter.

Lou J. Berger lives in Denver, Colorado with his high-school crush, two Sheltie dogs, and a brilliant rescue mutt with a nefarious agenda. He has been published in a variety of anthologies and magazines, including Clarkesworld. A member of SFWA, he is now working on his first novel.

Mark Leslie writes Twilight Zone style fiction, urban fantasy, and true ghost story explorations, claiming he was drawn to dark literature because he simply couldn’t stop thinking about the monster under the bed that calls to him whenever the lights go out. When he is not cowering beneath the sheets or committing his fears to paper, he can be found wandering awestruck through libraries, bookstores, and craft beer establishments.

Find Mark at his website: http://markleslie.ca/bibliography/

M.R. Rutter was born in the mountains of Colorado to an ex-hippy and former Marine. After studying forensic anthropology and ancient history in college, she left the field to pursue a career as a writer. She now lives and works on a sustainable agriculture research farm in Minnesota with her husband, daughter and a menagerie of animals where she is a full time farmer, research assistant, mother and writer. Happily for M. R. she can still fill her novels with mummies, skeletons and corpses. Her novel Dangerous Ground is available now from Amazon.

Patrick Hester is an author, blogger, 2013 & 2014 Hugo Award Winner, and an all around Functional Nerd. He writes fiction of all shapes and sizes, but his heart belongs to Science Fiction and Fantasy. He is the Producer and co-host for The Functional Nerds Podcast. His fiction is available online. He can usually be found on social media under ATFMB. He lives in Colorado with a puppy named Ronan who makes him laugh each and every day. He can be found on the web and social media as ATFMB

Peter M. Klismet, Jr. is a U.S. Navy Vietnam veteran, having served two submarine tours in the South China Sea. He served in the Ventura Police Department for nine years before being accepted as a Special Agent for the FBI. He was trained as a firearms instructor, hostage negotiator, and was one of the first to be trained in “Psychological Profiling,” serving until 1999, when he retired after being named 1999 Law Enforcement Officer of the Year.

He then became Department Chair and Associate Professor of the Criminal Justice Department at PPCC, retiring as Professor Emeritus.

He now consults and has authored four award-winning books.

Sam Knight has worked for at least three different publishers, started his own publishing house, Knight Writing Press, curated over a dozen anthologies, authored six children’s books, four short story collections, four novels, and over 75 short stories, including three co-authored with Kevin J. Anderson, two of which were media tie-ins: a Planet of the Apes story and a Wayward Pines story.

A stay-at-home father, Sam attempts to be a full-time writer, but there are only so many hours left in a day after kids. Once upon a time, he was known to quote books the way some people quote movies, but now he claims having a family has made him forgetful, as a survival adaptation.

Stephanie Kane is a lawyer and award-winning author of seven crime novels and a true crime memoir. After graduating from law school, she was a corporate partner at a top Denver law firm before becoming a criminal defense attorney.

Her crime novels have won a Colorado Book Award for Mystery and two CAL Awards for Genre Fiction. She belongs to the MWA, RMFW, and the CAL. She lives in Denver with her husband and two black cats.

Find Stephanie at her website: https://www.writerkane.com/

Susan Mitchell lives in the high desert immersed in folklore, ghosts and monsters. She tunes into that wavelength to write poetry, horror and thrillers. She thrives on music, stories, road trips, thrift shopping and horror movies. Susan has a degree in English from Northern Arizona University and her writing has appeared in some brave literary magazines. She is a Multi-Media Producer and has written, produced and directed projects for PBS, TLC, ABC, NBC, CBS and Telemundo affiliates. She can be found on Facebook.

Torie Fox-Phillips is a Data Analyst, more commonly referred to as the “Report Guru” at a local bank headquarters in Denver, CO. An aggressive multi-tasker by day, and a social moth by night, she either traverses the world, or ignores it entirely, with her husband and small army of pets. When she’s not writing, or re-writing, or re-writing the re-writes, she is devouring books of all genres. With her main inspirations being R.L. Stine’s Goosebumps series and the TV show Supernatural, it’s a fun twist of fate that she’s now deep into the RomCom genre, where almost no one dies.

Author, filmmaker, poet, biker, Travis Heermann is a graduate of the Odyssey Writing Workshop, an Active member of SFWA and the HWA, and the author of the Shinjuku Shadows series, Ronin Trilogy, and other novels. His more than thirty short stories appear in Amazing Monster Tales, Apex Magazine, Tales to Terrify, and others. In 2022, his film production company Bear Paw Films premiered its first project, the horror-comedy short Demon for Hire.

Find Travis at his website: www.travisheermann.com

Tyrean Martinson lives and writes on the Washington State Peninsula and likes to daydream about flying on griffins or spaceships. She loves stories where monsters (human or otherwise) can be defeated by a clever heroine, a bar of chocolate, or a band of unlikely allies. She writes fantasy, scifi, novels, stories, poetry, and some nonfiction. In 2024, she started her first solo podcast The Truth About Storytelling. You can find her work and writing at tyreanstales.com and most online stores. Her newsletter currently resides at substack.