Daniel lives in Portland Oregon. A software engineer by trade, he spends his free time reading, writing reviews, hunting down great authors to feature and working on his first novel: The 144,000.

Peter is the eccentric Englishman of the site and the author of Demon and Kumiho, and has several short stories published in UK, US and Canadian anthologies & magazines and his first US published novel Inheritance will be out in the fall of 2010.

Rachelle is the creator, producer and writer of the television series, LEGENDS, optioned by Invictus Films Inc. In her free time, Rachelle focusses her energy on various projects currently in development, such as two full length novels entitled, The Frozen Painter and Tarzwell. The latter being based on her real-life experiences living in a haunted house.

Irreparably scarred since viewing the original 'Salem's Lot miniseries when he was eight years old, Jess has nursed an enduring addiction to horror for the past thirty years. Particularly drawn to horror and sci-fi literature, Jess runs The Crawlspace Blog, an outlet for in-depth genre book reviews and author spotlights, out of Columbus, OH. In addition, he contributes to Bloody-Disgusting.com, is struggling through his Masters work, and is slowly-but-surely cranking on his first novel.

Jessica Coulter Smith is a writer and reviewer, a wife and mother, and works full-time at a local college. Add to that four published novels and several more in the works, and as you can see, she keeps pretty busy. Thankfully her husband and two children are pretty understanding; as long as she comes back to reality every now and then. The pets on the otherhand, are another story.

Deana Travetti resides in the suburbs of Philadelphia, PA, with her daughter and their bearded dragon Baby Jack. A single mom who works full time in the communications industry, outside of work Deana is her daughter's "social secretary," a Girl Scout leader and somehow finds the time for reading, writing short plays and finishing the elusive unfinished novel.

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Paul is the mystery columnist for the Chicago Tribune as well as a mystery, SF and fantasy reviewer for Publishers Weekly and BookPage. He is also the moderator for BarnesandNoble.com's Paranormal and Fantasy/SF online book forums.

Paul's personal accomplishments also include being an published author with Burning Sticks (1991) and two collections of poetry, in addition to being a guest reviewer for TheNovelBlog.com.

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