Matt Ellis is a reformed Army intelligence officer and diplomat paying his dues with freelance interviews and literary criticism while grinding it out as a crime and thriller writer. He’s a 2021/2022 National Book Critics Circle Emerging Critic Fellow and holds an MFA in Fiction at the University of California at Riverside’s Palm Desert program in Creative Writing and Writing for the Performing Arts. His work has been featured in Publishers Weekly, The Los Angeles Review of Books, The Coachella Review, Thought Catalog, and Sein und Werden. He and his wife recently abandoned their newly emptied nest for a life of wandering as digital nomads. If you see them out in the world, flag them down and invite them for a drink.

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Harold “Hal” Ellson (1910 – October 31, 1994) was an American author of pulp fiction whose work primarily focused on juvenile delinquency, a field in which he has been described as “one of the most popular” writers and as “legendary.”

Ellson was a social worker, recreational therapist, and nurse’s aide at Bellevue Hospital, where he encountered the adolescent psychiatric patients on whom he based much of his fiction; he subsequently stated that many of the patients viewed him as a “father confessor”, and eagerly told him their stories while trusting that he would not report them to law enforcement.

Harlan Ellison cited Hal Ellson’s work as having inspired his own interest in juvenile delinquency — an interest which led directly to the writing of Ellison’s first novel, Web of the City. Ellison also stated that in the earliest days of his career as a writer, he was often mistaken for Ellson writing under a pseudonym — and that decades later, when Ellison had become much more known and Ellson’s career had waned, Ellson was often mistaken for Ellison writing under a pseudonym.

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Nicolas Escobar is a Registered Nurse in Seattle Washington. When he’s not working the night shift he’s at home with his wonderful wife Emily. He developed a passion for writing after attending a meeting of “The Notion Club” run by Professor Will Mari of Northwest University. Nicolas believes in spooks and thinks you should too. He is currently working on a horror novel called THE EMPEROR OF SEATTLE, which should be out in December 2016.

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Sandra Espinoza is a New York born and raised voice actress with a background in English literature and writing. After a childhood where video games were banned from the house, she one-eighty’d so hard she’s finally in them and never leaving. Voice over training in between jobs, fan projects she created for her favorite games soon gained recognition and lead to her first paid role with Wadjet Eye Games.

Some games Sandra’s voiced for include the Primordia, Apotheon, Heroes of Newerth, Marvel’s Avengers Academy, and most recently Brawl Stars by Clash of Clans developer Supercell. She also provides voice over and editing services for countless lifestyle and education podcasts. When she’s not voice acting you can catch her on Twitter or Facebook under the handle “DustyOldRoses,” obsessing over good food, good games and the color pink.

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Eric Esser lives in San Francisco with his wife Courtney. When he was small he used to wander the perimeter of his elementary school soccer field every recess imagining stories set in other worlds, and for some reason no one ever made fun of him for it. He suspects they discussed him secretly. He’s dabbled in Elizabethan Gothic, dystopian, urban fantasy, and horror. He is a graduate of the 2012 Clarion Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers’ Workshop, an associate member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, an affiliate member of the Horror Writers Association, and a member of the Codex Writers’ Group. His fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Schoolbooks & Sorcery, Pseudopod, and Fictionvale, among others.

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Justine Eyre is a classically trained actress who has narrated over three hundred audiobooks. With a prestigious Audie Award and four AudioFile Earphones Awards under her belt, Justine is multilingual and is known for her great facility with accents. She has appeared on stage in leading roles in King Lear and The Crucible, and has starring roles in four films on the indie circuit. Her recent television credits include Two and a Half Men and Mad Men.

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An Iranian author who loves stories — the more they take her away from the world, the better.

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LynnCee Faulk has more stories available at Points In Time And Space

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