Members

Current Members

Melanie Fletcher

Melanie Fletcher writes, knits, quilts, bellydances, fences, herds cats and functions on far too little sleep. She has sold over a dozen stories, has been published in three countries, and has three novels in various stages of completion. Her most recent sale is "A Touch of Ginger" in the specfic anthology The Ladies of Trade Town (ed. Lee Martindale, HarpHaven Publishing, 2011), for which she also did the cover art.

Visit her website at www.melaniefletcher.com.

Paul Lamarre

Paul Lamarre is originally from Connecticut but has found a new home in Texas with his wife and three kids. He served in the Navy as a nuclear mechanical operator spending many months at sea tucked away in the engine room of the USS MISSISSIPPI. He has degrees in Nuclear Engineering and Marketing. He writes speculative fiction and loves science fiction most of all. Known by friends as “Paul red shirt” his main goal is to survive the next away mission, or at least get through with minimal damage.

Bill Ledbetter

Bill lives near Dallas with his wife, the one kid who has still not left the nest, and way too many animals. He writes mostly science fiction and his short stories have been published by Jim Baen's Universe, Yard Dog Press, Continuum Science Fiction, Quantum Muse, Distant Worlds and Sci-Fi Dimensions among others. In addition to writing, he is also the associate publisher/editor at DARK ENERGY SPECULATIVE FICTION and the current president of his local National Space Society chapter.

Visit his website at www.williamledbetter.com.

Michelle Muenzler

Michelle Muenzler's goal in life is to bring forth the bunny apocalypse and bury the earth with furry-soft goodness. When not working toward this goal, she experiments on her husband with new recipes and builds blockades around her NetBook to protect it from her cats. Her fiction leans toward dark fantasy with a twist of new weird, and if nobody dies in a story, then it probably wasn't written by her.

Gloria Oliver

Gloria Oliver lives in Texas making sure to stay away from rolling tumbleweeds, freak storms, and bowing to the wishes of her feline and canine masters. She is the author of In the Service of Samurai, Vassal of El, Cross-eyed Dragon Troubles, Willing Sacrifice, and The Price of Mercy, all fantasy and YA fantasy novels. She is a member in good standing of EPIC and BroadUniverse, but hasn’t yet made it onto the list for Cat Slaves R Us.

For sample chapters, free shorts and more information, please come visit her at www.gloriaoliver.com.

Delilah Rehm

Delilah Rehm, a Texas native, lives with her husband, Steven, and two children, Roland and Emily. She received a Bachelors of Arts degree in psychology from the University of North Texas with a minor in history. Winning the FenCon short story contest with "Double Edge" was best part of 2006! She has 24 short stories within the game, Depths of Peril (www.depthsofperil.com), soon to be released September 2007.

Laura Seaborn

Laura waited for the aliens at Manchu Piccu on the Millennium. Only the President of Peru with his heavily armed body guard arrived. (I've a story there.) Giving the aliens another chance, Laura visited Rosewell, NM. Laura's decided the aliens have already arrived, and live amongst us. Surely you suspect a few.

Being a CPA, the creative juices of Laura's mind simmered for twenty years suppressed by a hard shell of accounting principles and tax codes. A crack in the shell allowed a seepage of imagination that swelled to a raging torrent. (Well, raging something.) This spewage became a fantasy thriller trilogy, now in revision. Combining a love of history with fantasy, Laura just completed a YA fantasy time travel novel. She also writes short stories, dabbling in science fiction and horror — Beware the SHELL.

S. Boyd Taylor

I’m a writer of strange and exotic stories, a martial artist, and a Texan. My growing but so far brief writing resume includes a Writers of the Future Semifinalist Q1 2008 placing, and Commended Q2 2010 placing.

My family has lived in the East Texas Piney Woods since the 1840′s, and my great-great Grandmother was a Cherokee Indian in the region, who hid with Irish friends to prevent being relocated to Indian Territory at gunpoint. Best evidence indicates the Cherokee side of my family may have relocated westward with Chief Dragging Canoe after his failed bid to help the British win the revolutionary war.

With regards to martial arts, I’ve won 28 medals at multiple international tournaments, including Taiji Legacy and the Chicago International Wushu-Kungfu Federation Tournament. I specialize in the “Three Sisters” of the Chinese Internal Martial Arts: Taijiquan, Baguazhang, and Xingyiquan. I also have a Black Belt in Tae Kwon Do and a Brown Belt in Shorin Ryu Karate.

Kyle White

Kyle White, a native Texan and proud of it, writes dark speculative fiction. Once mistaken as a youth minister due to his quiet demeanor, people are often surprised by the twisted notions that appear in his writing. In fact, his sister refuses to read his work -- but still loves him. His stories have appeared in Cemetery Dance, AlienSkin, Sonar4 and the anthology From the Mouth. His goal is to break into the professional -- and higher paying -- markets before the zombie apocalypse.

Aelle Ables

Aelle is a speculative fiction writer who also indulges in a ghost story when an odd one comes to mind. She lives in North Texas with her husband and daughter, 4 cats, 2 dogs and a backyard full of birds. She has a Bachelor's degree from the University of Texas in Business Computers, and she spent several years as a DB2 data base administrator for a bunch of Fortune 500 companies. Leaving that behind, she now writes full-time, when time allows. Her latest publication was in Alien Skin Magazine's August/September 2007 issue, a story called "The Potion Maker". She likes to play online computer games, feed the birds, work crossword puzzles, walk in the woods and watch thunderstorms.

Dan Anders

The myths and legends of Appalachian Mountains combined with fundamentalist religious teachings to form a storytelling basis that Dan is just beginning to explore. He left the mountains to join the US Air Force which took him to Europe and opened his mind and heart to other world cultures. Currently Dan lives in the DFW area and works as a data manipulator for a marketing research company. The themes of humanity, time, existence and the hard choices of the future play heavily in his work.

Jerry J. Davis

The son of an inventor, a journalist kicked out of journalism class, and a computer technologist with a vivid imagination, Jerry's publications include the novel TRAVELS (iPublish, 2001) and the stories "Justification" and "The Penalties of Pirating," both of which appeared in Aboriginal Science Fiction Magazine. "Justification" was also translated to Dutch and printed in Visionair SF Magazine in the Netherlands. You can find out more than you'd ever want to know about Jerry at his website Blind Optimism or email him at me@jjdavis.net.

Elizabeth Hardage

I write fantasy, science fiction and the occasional horror story, as well as poetry. My poem "Galatea" was published in the November/December 2001 issue of Star*Line and I have sold two poems to The Magazine of Speculative Poetry. For the last two years I've helped moderate the Science Fiction Writers Workshop on AOL.

Derek James

By virtue of fate, Derek James lives in Dallas, Texas. He works by day as a technical writer for a huge gray corporation, and at night he scribbles his dreams on paper. His story "A Piece of Bamboo" has been published at Strange Horizons. He can be found on the web at http://www.derekjames.net, and contacted at blue5432@yahoo.com.

Robert Pickering

A reformed programmer and graduate of the Odyssey 2002 workshop, Robert fought off his friends' advice to take up writing until just a few years ago. He's spent most of that time recovering from the shock that comes with finding out how hard it really is to write something people will pay money for. Under the pen name "Robert Trentus" he's published (farce) fantasy at Dragonlaugh. His one try at SF sold to another site. . .but they didn't pay like they said they would, so no free plug.

Send him mean e-mails at robertpickering@attbi.com.

Jeff Turner

Jeffrey Turner grew up in Michigan, though he spent a good deal of his time in more exotic locales such as Narnia and Middle Earth. His first two novels, DRAGON'S BANE AND GOSSAMER and THE HUNDREDTH MAGIC will be available later in 2002. He now works for Microsoft and lives in Fort Worth with his wife Kerry, his daughter Merry and his two biggest fans, Shiloh and Cinder. When he's not writing Jeff plays ice hockey, juggles, and travels to SFF conventions around the U.S. His web page can be found at http://www.JeffTurnerFiction.com.