Norm Sherman is the multi-talented master of all things weird and wonderful. In addition to founding, hosting, and producing the Drabblecast, hosting and co-editing Escape Pod, and creating his own original music, he also runs a non-profit organization. Norm lives on a small ship circling Phobos with his Nigerian princess Tinunbu. He occasionally lands long enough to read stories for us.
Jeremy C. Shipp is the Bram Stoker Award-nominated author of Cursed, Vacation, and Sheep and Wolves. His shorter tales have appeared or are forthcoming in over 60 publications, the likes of Cemetery Dance, ChiZine, Apex Magazine, Withersin, and Shroud Magazine. Jeremy enjoys living in Southern California in a moderately haunted Victorian farmhouse called Rose Cottage. He lives there with a couple of pygmy tigers and a legion of yard gnomes. The gnomes like him. The clowns living in his attic–not so much.
Jordan Shiveley is the author of the novel Hot Singles In Your Area which was unfortunately published by the embezzling thieves at Unbound. Their work has also been seen in a variety of short fiction venues such as The Best Horror of the Year Vol. 15, Nightmare Magazine, Voidjunk, Baffling Magazine, The Crawling Moon: Queer Tales of Inescapable Dread (Neon Hemlock), and tabletop roleplaying games. The audiobook of their novel Hot Singles In Your Area is available to order now and was NOT published by the thieving embezzlers at Unbound. They live and work in Minneapolis, Minnesota. More at jordanshiveley.com
Christopher Shultz writes dark, weird horror fiction. His stories have appeared both online and in print, including in Apex Magazine, freeze frame flash fiction and Grievous Angel, and other places. He has also contributed articles, columns and reviews to LitReactor, Cultured Vultures and Tor.com. Christopher lives in Oklahoma City with his wife Lauren and their two mostly well-behaved cats.
ELIZABETH SIEDT is a writer, playwright, and improviser in Chicago, and performs at iO Chicago with her team, Stag. Her plays have been performed all around the city of Chicago, and she’s currently the managing director of a new theater company for women, The Jades. Additionally, you can hear her sillier musings at the podcast she co-hosts, So You Don’t Have To. She blogs at Honestly Doing Her Best.
Rich Sigfrit is one of the suspected secret identities for Mr. Adventure, who is the hero the overlooks the streets of Sapphire City.
Scott Sigler is the New York Times best-selling author of fifteen novels, six novellas and dozens of short stories. His works are available from Crown Publishing and Del Rey Books.
In 2005, Scott built a large online following by releasing his audiobooks as serialized podcasts. A decade later, he still gives his stories away — for free — every Sunday at scottsigler.com. His loyal fans, who named themselves “Junkies,” have downloaded over thirty-five million individual episodes. (more…)
Your reader this week is James Silverstein was born and grew up just outside of Chicago and has been writing fiction since the age of 9, the day he was given his first typewriter (and ‘Dragonman‘, the draconic superhero was born!). He has been involved in theater from the same age, including some professional Shakespeare in the 90’s and now does community theater). He has written for various role playing games, including 7th Sea, Stargate, and, most recently, Cairn. He is working with Dave Robison on his SHATTERED WORLDS project, and Antimatter Press on his own novel; NECROPOLIS, a hard-boiled private eye tale with the undead.