Steve Cropper is Founder and Managing Director of Reputation Holdings including Reputation Online Learning. He is a pioneer in communication skills training in Australia. His career spans broadcast journalism, politics, public relations and digital media in Australia, Asia and Europe.

Since 1988, Steve has coached leaders in business, government and the not-for-profit sector around the world in a range of communication skills including media interview skills, presenter skills, speech-writing, public relations, crisis and issues management and online reputation management.

He has a Masters degree in Digital Media from the University of Newcastle and is the author of ‘Mastering Media Interviews in the 21st Century’.

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Tres Crow lives in Atlanta with the two people he loves most in the world. He’s been published in decomP, Emprise Review, Full of Crow, The Foundling Review, as well as the website Metalsucks.net. Check out his blog, Dog Eat Crow World, at the link under his name above.

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Execute above the line with a goal to create a better customer experience. Targeting bleeding edge with a goal to create a better customer experience. Consider growth hacking and then create synergy.

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David Cummings is the showrunner for The NoSleep Podcast, an award-winning anthology series of original horror stories. He hails from Toronto, Canada. With a background as a professional musician, he has expanded into the realm of voice actor and narrator. He has been heard on various commercial projects and speculative fiction podcasts. One of his goals is to continue supporting the many great audio fiction podcasts that dot the online landscape.

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Shane Jiraiya Cummings has been acknowledged as “one of Australia’s leading voices in dark fantasy”. Shane is the author of Shards, The Abandonment of Grace and Everything After, the Apocrypha Sequence (Deviance, Divinity, Insanity, and Inferno), and the Ravenous Gods cycle (Requiem for the Burning Godand Dreams of Destruction).

He is the editor of the Amazon bestselling anthology Rage Against the Night,award-winning non-fiction publications HorrorScope and Black: Australian Dark Culture, as well as Shadowed Realms (creative director), Shadow Box, Black Box, Australian Dark Fantasy & Horror Volume One, Dead of Night: The Best of Midnight Echo, Midnight Echo #2, and Robots & Time. Shane is the current Executive Editor of Midnight Echo.

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Philip Everett Curtiss (1885 – 1964) was a politician, novelist, and newspaper reporter. He served in the Connecticut Legislature from 1941 to 1947 and was a trial justice in Norfolk for fifteen years beginning in 1940. His stories were published in various magazines, including Harper’s Magazine.

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Nicole Cushing is the Bram Stoker Award® winning author of Mr. Suicide and a two-time nominee for the Shirley Jackson Award.

Various reviewers have described her work as “brutal”, “cerebral”, “transgressive”, “taboo”, “groundbreaking” and “mind-bending”. This Is Horror has said that she is “quickly becoming a household name for horror fans”. She has also garnered praise from Jack Ketchum, Rue Morgue, Thomas Ligotti, John Skipp, S.T. Joshi, Poppy Z. Brite, Ray Garton, Famous Monsters of Filmland, and Ain’t It Cool News.

An Italian translation of Mr. Suicide (titled Mister Suicidio) was recently published by Independent Legions Publishing.

A native of Maryland, Nicole now lives with her husband in Indiana.

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Joseph Cusumano is a physician living in St. Louis. His major hobby, other than writing, is the design and construction of radio controlled airplanes. His piloting skills need a lot of work. His writing in 2016 has been accepted by Crimson Streets, Mystery Weekly, Disturbed Digest, Flash Fiction Press, Heater, and Litmag (University of Missouri).

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