Wendy Howard was born on August 17, 1965 in Roseland, Illinois (a south suburb of Chicago). She grew up in an average American middle-class home, raised by both her parents along with her two younger sisters. Today she lives near Denver, Colorado with her husband, two sons and three beagles. Her husband’s son, daughter in-law and daughter live in California.
At the age of twenty-two, Wendy joined the U.S. Air Force and began a career in computer technology that lasted nearly twenty years. During eight years of military service, she spent a few years in Germany before moving to Colorado Springs, Colorado in 1990. She settled in Colorado after leaving the service and doesn’t plan to live anywhere else until the wind carries her ashes from the mountains out of the state.
Wendy has been a professional writer for twenty-five years, but always dreamed of being a full-time fiction writer. In 2009 her dream came true when she put other businesses and projects on hold to write The Courier, which has become an award winning tale.
Networking and marketing are also passion of Wendy’s, and she actively teaches and assists writers and other creative professionals the best practices to market their works. On the Internet, she leads marketing campaigns for indie authors, artists, filmmakers, etc. Locally, she is the Director of The Creative Connector, a division of The Colorado Connector, one of the largest networking organization in the Denver Metro area.
With recent changes in the publishing industry, she is driven to support the rights of writers and artists to profit from their work. She works with various organizations on this effort and you should too.
Writing as W.J. Howard writes horror, fantasy and sci-fi with a bit of comedy thrown in at times. In addition, she is the author of the award winning novel, The Courier, a satirical, good vs. evil fantasy novel about Barry, who takes a job that seems too good to be true and soon finds out it pays to read the fine print. Vamplit Publishing will be publishing The Courier in quarterly serialized episodes starting with Episode One: Call for Obstruction. Many of W.J. Howard’s short stories are featured on Vamplit Blog.
You can also find out more about W.J. Howard on her own blog Minor Insanity, on Google+, on Facebook and also Twitter.
Timothy C. Hobbs is a semi-retired Medical Technologist living in Robinson, Texas. He wrote his first short story in the sixth grade and at the time he believed the title of The Vampire of England to be quite original. The main character, Alucard, was Dracula in reverse. He still has that penciled, long-hand manuscript.
Sue Mydliak was born and raised in Flint, Michigan. Writing was not her favorite thing to do; her hobby was drawing, which has grown through the years and many of her pieces have been published and sold.
Nicole Hadaway used to work as a lawyer, but now she only writes about such things as bloodsuckers and deals with the devil. Having lived in such varied places as Pennsylvania, Louisiana, Washington, D.C. and even Monaco, she currently makes her home with her family in Texas.
James Garcia Jr. was born in Hanford, California in 1969. In the mid 1970′s James Sr. began a Law Enforcement career just up the road with the Kingsburg Police Department, taking the family there. It was not until junior high school; however, that anything of significance occurred. Discovering authors Stephen King and Michael Slade, as well as hard rock music, began to form a spark of creativity within his adolescent mind. He began to play guitar and pen song lyrics, but soon found himself confined in that tight medium, desiring to do longer works.
Carole Gill wrote her first story at age 8 about a Martian invasion. She has been writing since although only seriously for the past ten years.
Veronica Kegel-Giglio has loved writing novels and short stories since age ten, especially scary stories. She is the author of six novels in print and numerous short stories for adults and children. Her poetry has been published in the Philadelphia Tribune, and many of her children’s works have been published in Spanish and English in EL TIEMPO HISPANO of Delaware, USA. She loves traveling and sailing with her husband Larry. Her son Robby also shares her love of horror movies and paranormal stories.
Kristofer Jakobs was born near dublin in 1968. The youngest of Six children he was raised in a family with a deep tradition in story telling and yarn spinning. Being the youngest he probably got the best perspective. His brother Pól used to terrify him at night with the stories he would tell. They all ended the same, with him shining a torch up his ugly face and the Kristofer running screaming to his mother. Kristofer tried to warn his wife when he was getting married, but she did not listen.
Wentworth M. Johnson (born 1939) is a Canadian writer. He was born in March, Cambridgeshire, England. W.M. Johnson is the great grandson of William Edward Bourne 1850-1925 (Playwright, dramatist and theatrical producer). Johnson has published newspaper and magazine articles, as well as a number of fiction and non-fiction books.
