Suzanne Cowles was born and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana and now lives in Florida with her husband and dachshund. She graduated from Florida State University in Interior Design and holds a Masters of Fine Art from the Academy of Art University in San Francisco. Her twenty year professional career has spanned visual arts, 3D design and graphic arts.


One day her husband dared her to write a sequel screenplay for her favorite movie franchise.  With dedication and determination, ALIEN 5: TRANSFECTION was born in a summer. Enjoying the creative process of writing so much, she challenged herself to conceive an original story, producing SHALLOW BASIN, book one of a planned trilogy series.

David Mathew works in the Centre for Learning Excellence at the University of Bedfordshire, UK, and as an independent researcher and writer. His wide areas of interest include psychoanalysis, linguistics, distance learning, prisons and online anxiety. With approximately 600 published pieces to his name, including a novel based on his time working in the education department of a maximum security prison (O My Days), he has published widely in academic, journalistic and fiction outlets. In addition to his writing, he co-edits The Journal of Pedagogic Development, teaches academic writing, and he particularly enjoys lecturing in foreign countries and learning about wine. He is a member of the Tavistock Society of Psychotherapists and Allied Professionals, Evidence Informed Policy and Practice in Education in Europe (EIPPEE), and the European Association for the Teaching of Academic Writing. He was also a member of The Health Technology Assessment programme (www.hta.ac.uk), as part of the NIHR Evaluation, Trials and Studies Coordinating Centre at the University of Southampton (2009-2013). 

Upon graduating from high school, Kurt Schuett won the Gwendolyn Brooks Award for Poetry in 1993; this honour, coupled with professional publication in The American Goat literary anthology in 1993 with “The First Time” and Harmony literary magazine, where he won the esteemed Guy Cooper Poetry award for “Tree House Blues,” all fueled the realization that Kurt could and should write, dabbling in everything from poetry and short works of fiction to professional essays and lengthier works of fiction during and after his college years. He completed his undergraduate in English at Culver-Stockton College before tackling a Masters of Education at Graceland University. Currently, he is entering his eighteenth year as an educator, formerly as a German instructor and presently as a high school English teacher, working in the suburbs of Chicago. He lives in the northern suburb of Libertyville, Illinois.

Kurt recently published a Southern Gothic ghost story titled “Calamity James” in the Belle Reve Literary Journal, a work that was nominated for the Pushcart Prize. In addition, two of his poems, “A Response to Charles Bukowski: Yes I’m Drinking Today” and “The Bohemian Waitress” were featured in the 69th edition of the Burningword Literary Journal. Kurt’s short story “The Last Supper Redux” will be the top-slot in an upcoming anthology launching this fall, highlighting local Chicago horror writers. Kurt was also the featured author of the month for Burial Day Books as his short work of fiction “Dibs” held the top spot.

Insurgency is Kurt Schuett’s debut novel, a speculative work of fiction that encompasses elements of urban suspense, thriller, and horror. This novel was released by Bad Day Books, an imprint of Assent Publishing, on August 2, 2014, in print and all e-book platforms.

William Holloway was born and raised in the Great State of Texas and still resides there. His tenure as a writer began with a novel he wrote in 1999 entitled Death in Texas. It was intended to be a treatment for a screenplay, a surreal and grimily jaundiced cosmic horror view of the world preceding a zombie apocalypse. It has since vanished into the ashes of time.

He took a long, sad hiatus from writing in order to become a good corporate citizen, but took up his pen again and wrote The Immortal Body, the first novel of his harrowing Singularity Cycle, an actual Lovecraftian Epic. It was published in 2012, but has since been acquired, along with the follow up novel, Song of the Death God by British Horror Maven Graeme Reynolds' Horrific Tales Publishing.

His first novel published by Horrific Tales is to be Lucky's Girl in late 2014, followed by the re-release of The Immortal Body in early 2015 and Song of the Death God later that year. 

To many people of a similar age to me will cite Herbert or King as the horror author that first got them into horror.  And to be honest Herbert was my first, but my true love for the genre was cemented when I read Simon Clarke for the first time.  Nailed by The Heart was amazing, it was one of those rare books where I managed to devour it one sitting.  Ever since that fateful day where I signed up to The Mystery and Thriller Guild  and got that book as a buy one get four books free bundle, Simon Clark has remained a true love of mine. Whether his books are destroying the world, or showing the terror of a rural life, they have never been anything other than captivating, chilling and compulsive.  When I got the chance to interview Simon it was a dream come true, and when I got to met him, I was in fan boy heaven.  I just wish I wasn't so nervous around him, and actually managed to have proper chat with him.  Maybe by next year I'll have shaken the shyness. This weekend (13 Sep 2014) sees the release of the full audio drama of Simon's amazing novel Night of The Triffids.  The audio drama is released by Big Finish, and features Sam Troughton (Robin Hood, Alien vs Predator) who plays David Masen and is supported by a full cast with Nicola Bryant (Doctor Who) as Kerris Baedekker.  

So please read on for an amazing interview with a true giant of the genre.  

Jack Thomas Smith made his feature film-directing debut with the psychological thriller Disorder (2006). He was also the writer and producer of that film. Disorder (2006) was released on DVD by Universal/Vivendi and New Light Entertainment. It was released on Pay-Per-View and Video-On-Demand by Warner Brothers. Overseas, it screened at the Cannes Film Festival and the Raindance Film Festival in London. Curb Entertainment represented Disorder (2006) for foreign sales and secured distribution deals around the world.

As a young adult, he produced films for noted horror directors Ted A. Bohus and John Russo, co-creator of Night of the Living Dead. From that point on, it was only a matter of time for Jack's growth as a filmmaker to expand.

Smith's current project Infliction (2013) is the actual assembled footage taken from the cameras belonging to two brothers who documented a murder spree in North Carolina