Jaym Gates: Publicity Manager

Jaym Gates snuck away from her grandparent's library with a book of religious horror when she was 10. She hasn't been right in the head since. She puts that scarring to good use and writes horror and dark fantasy in the darkest hours of the night.

During the day, she co-edits the erotica e-zine Little Deaths of Crossed Genres and contributes to Apex Books blog, Fantasy Magazine, Science In Your Fiction, Crossed Genres, Browncoats: Redemption, and her local Police Department newsletter.

Benjamin X. Wretlind: Web Spinner

Benjamin X. Wretlind ran with scissors when he was five. Since then, he's been a fry cook, range boy, greens maintenance technician, reservations agent, room service attendant, banquet server, meteorologist, instructor and currently attempts to squeeze psychotic thought processes into Internet applications for agencies that prefer not to be named. Oh, and he's written a myriad of shorts, had ten or so published, generated one novel, is working on another and would like a seven-figure advance just because he ran with scissors when he was five.

When not writing our web spinner is busy snaring web surfers. To witness the carnage visit Two Backed Books, or his own site.

Atlanta: Glory Hound

Our Glory Hound serves as a rallying point around which the heart of the new literary movement draws its inspiration. Also, she serves to make tile floors slick with "jowl juice" so that our enemies slip and fall to their doom.

Trivia: originally she hails from New Jersey, but now resides in Maryland. We would say that she founded Ankle-Biters Anonymous, but that would ruin the anonymity. During covert operations she is known as the Layabout Lipper.