Off the Beaten Path: Eight Tales of the Paranormal (9 page)

Contributors

Sharon Sant
was born in Dorset, but now lives in Stoke-on-Trent. She graduated from Staffordshire University in 2009 with a degree in English and creative writing. She currently works part time as a freelance editor and continues to write her own stories.  An avid reader with eclectic tastes across many genres, when not busy trying in vain to be a domestic goddess, she can often be found lurking in local coffee shops with her head in a book. Sometimes she pretends to be clever, but really loves nothing more than watching geeky TV and eating Pringles. She is the author of a string of YA novels including
The Memory Game
,
Runners
and the
Sky Song
trilogy.

To find out more you can follow her on twitter: @
sharonsant or find her on Facebook. You can also go to her website:
www.sharonsant.com

Angela
Roquet
 is the author of the Indie Reader approved urban fantasy novel, 
Graveyard Shift, 
the first book in the 
Lana Harvey, Reapers Inc. series, 
as well as 
Pocket Full of Posies
 and 
For the Birds
. Book four of the series, 
Psychopomp,

will
be
 
available February 2014.

Angela is also the author of
 
Crazy Ex-Ghoulfriend, 
a YA zombie comedy, available October 2013.

Angela is a great big weirdo. She collects Danger Girl comic books, owls, skulls, and random craft supplies. Her favorite book/movie is
The Wizard of Oz
. She likes a little coffee in her cream, and her favorite food is sushi, even though it’s takes her FOREVER to make. Angela is a peace loving, tree hugging hippy who tries to buy organic and local as often as possible. She’s a fan of renewable energy sources, marriage equality, and religious tolerance. As long as whatever you’re doing isn’t hurting anyone, she’s a fan of you, too. 

Angela lives in Sedalia, Missouri with her husband and son. When she’s not swearing at the keyboard, she enjoys painting, goofing off with her family and friends, and reading books that raise eyebrows. You can find Angela online at
 
www.angelaroquet.com

Chip Putnam
– After graduating from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte in 1993, I have taught high school science for twenty years.  I have had the pleasure of meeting wonderful and fascinating people over the years that have provided inspiration for many characters in my writing.

While the field of science is not the area of expertise normally associated with an aspiring author, I’ve always been a dreamer and would often enter into a fantasy world of my own imagination at a moment’s notice.  This love of dreaming, coupled with a passion for books and a tendency to weave storytelling into my lessons, created a desire to write.  However, I never seemed to find the time.  My life as a teacher, husband, and father seemed to interfere with this goal.  Four years ago, however, I decided to follow the encouragements I had given to countless students and follow my own dreams. 

On a personal note, I have been married for twenty years and have two daughters, ages nine and eleven.  We live in Clemmons, North Carolina.

Kath
Langdon
is a writer, crafter, midnight chalk graffiti artist, and connoisseur of all things art and color. Kath keeps one foot in the Midwest and the other on the East Coast, and hopes to one day amass the world’s largest collection of easily lost small objects. They went to college at University of Connecticut where they learned not to party with sopranos, the intricacies of rune reading, and how to spot a Shakespeare reference at fifty yards.  Currently living in Sedalia, Missouri, Kath hopes someday to conquer the world with their fiancée Ashley Mitchell.  In their free time, Kath overanalyzes various media, sews and embroiders, and researches character tropes in girl-oriented fiction.

Monica La Porta
is an Italian who landed in Seattle several years ago. Despite popular feelings about the Northwest weather, she finds the mist and the rain the perfect conditions to write. Being a strong advocate of universal acceptance and against violence in any form and shape, she is also glad to have landed precisely in Washington State.

She is the author of
The Ginecean Chronicles
, a dystopian/science fiction series set on the planet Ginecea where women rule over a race of enslaved men and heterosexual love is considered a sin. She has published the first three books in the series,
 
The Priest, Pax in the Land of Women
, and
 
Prince at War
. She also wrote and illustrated a children’s book about the power of imagination,
 
The Prince’s Day Out
. Her latest published short,
 
Linda of the Night
, is a fairytale love story celebrating inner beauty. 
 
In her free time, she likes to build miniatures, sculpting, and painting. She also likes to go walking with her beloved beagle, Nero.

Debra R. Johnson
was born July 20
th
, 1976 in Oklahoma City. She lived the first 30 years of her life in Oklahoma before moving to the Dallas Metroplex. She currently resides in Grand Prairie, Texas. She is an avid reader and her favorite authors include Stephen King, R. A. Salvatore, Robert Jordan, and George R. R. Martin.

Debra writes supernatural and paranormal stories under the
name D.R. Johnson. She is currently working on the next installment of
 
The Phoenix Curse
 
series while working her day job in procurement as an Inventory Investor.

You can find more information about Debra and all her upcoming projects at
: 
http://drjpublishing.blogspot.com
 

Or follow her Facebook fanpage at
: 

http://www.facebook.com/DRJohnsonwriter

Jason T. Graves
lives in North Carolina with his family and a menagerie of small, domestic animals.  He takes his coffee black, and, when he is not conducting mysterious, mad-scientist experiments with his students, he writes mysterious and beautiful fiction.

He is the author of
Blood Roses
and
Morning Stars
, the first two books of
The Noctivagas Chronicle
.  He also penned the paranormal fantasy novella
On the Bridge:  The Complete Gretchen Thyrd Novella
, which is soon to be joined by a Gretchen Thyrd novel.  As with most writers, there are also a bunch of other stories simmering on the back burner, soon to be released as Indie projects.

Find him online at: 
http://www.jasontgraves.com