Visit him on the web at:

www.donaldmichaelplatt.com

Donald Michael Platt

In Hollywood, Donald sold his writing to the TV series, MR. NOVAK, and worked for and with diverse producers. After moving to Jupiter, Florida, Donald co-wrote VITAMIN ENRICHED, 1999, for Carl
DeSantis, founder of Rexall Sundown Vitamins; and THE COUPLE’S DISEASE, 2002, for Lawrence S. Hakim, MD, FACS, Head of Sexual Dysfunction Unit at the Cleveland Clinic.

Born and raised in San Francisco and a graduate of Lowell High school and U.C. Berkeley, Donald also has taught History, English, and Creative Writing. An Adjunct Professor of Writing at Polk Community College. He currently resides in Winter Haven, where he is working on the sequel to ROCAMORA and crafting another dark novel. His horror novel, A GATHERING OF VULTURES, was published by Darkhart Press in 2007.

Visit her on the web at:

www.lisamannetti.com

Lisa Mannetti

Lisa Mannetti is a former magazine editor and adjunct college English instructor who discovered she preferred full-time writing to real work when she volunteered to be the family member who cared for her ailing mother. Her short story, Hungry for the Flesh (Space & Time, April 2007) was recommended for a Stoker Award. Additional short stories scheduled for publication in 2008 include The Blow-Up Job (TRAPS, Dark Hart Press) and Other Rooms (The Pretty-Scary Anthology, May 2008). Most recently she served as guest editor for Terrible Beauty, Fearful Symmetry, an anthology scheduled to be published by DarkHart Press in August 2008. She is currently working on a second novel, The Everest Hauntings.

When she isn’t writing, Lisa works on her haunted website, The Chancery House (www.thechanceryhouse.com) and constructs macabre gothic greeting cards based on her cemetery photos. She is also a Tarot reader.

Lisa lives in the house she grew up in Westchester County in New York with one highly rambunctious cat—Huckleberry Finn—and the Houdinis, Harry and Theo, two black kittens that are both charming and exasperating.

Visit her on the web at:

www.coraliehughesjensen.com

Coralie
Hughes Jensen

The author of seven novels including Passup Point and Lety’s Gift that take place in Newfoundland/Labrador, Coralie travels and even moves in order to understand her characters better. She has published in magazines and won honorable mention for two short stories in Writer’s Digest 2000 Writing Competition, which attracted over 19,000 entries. A Graduate in English from University of California at Berkeley, she has lived in California, Oregon, New Mexico, Texas, and The Netherlands and worked in Asia. She and her husband now live in Massachusetts.