Sean Hayden
Born the son of a fire chief, Sean naturally developed a love of playing with fire. His family and friends quickly found other outlets for his destructive creativity. Writing is his latest endeavor.
Always a fan of the macabre, mythical, and magical, Sean found a love of urban fantasy and horror. After writing several novels in this genre, he found, fell in love with, and immersed himself in steampunk. He has always wanted to rewrite history and steampunk gave him that opportunity.
Sean currently lives in Florida as a fiber-optic engineer as well as an author. He was blessed with the two most amazing children he could ever hope for, has met the absolute love of his life, who coincidentally is his partner in everything. His hobbies include grand designs on world domination as well as a starring role in his own television sitcom.
Find out more about Sean at seanhayden.org and follow him on twitter @shaydenfl
Untold Press works: The Games We Play, Flashy Fiction and Other Insane Tales Vol 1 & 2, My Soul to Keep, The Ghost of Christmas Last
Jen Wylie
Jen Wylie resides in rural Ontario, Canada with her two boys, Australian shepherd and a disagreeable amount of wildlife. In a cosmic twist of fate she dislikes the snow and cold.
Before settling down to raise a family, she attained a BA from Queens University and worked in retail and sales.
Thanks to her mother she acquired a love of books at an early age and began writing in public school. She constantly has stories floating around in her head, and finds it amazing most people don’t. Jennifer writes various forms of fantasy, both novels and short stories.
Find out more about Jen at www.jenwylie.com and follow her on twitter @jen_wylie
Untold Press works: Ring Around the Rosie, Flashy Fiction and Other Insane Tales Vol 1 & 2, Broken Aro
Katy O’Dowd
Katy is an arts and entertainment journalist and has worked for Time Out, Associated Newspapers and Comic Relief and her articles have appeared in The Times (London), Metro (London) and many other arts and entertainment publications, paper and online.
Alongside writing with her Dad under the pen-name Derry O’Dowd, whose first book ‘The Scarlet Ribbon’ was chosen to launch the History Press Ireland’s fiction line, she writes under her own name.
Katy reviews for the Historical Novels Review and the British Fantasy Society. She is a commissioning editor at Pendragon Press and is co-editor of the Nasty Snips II project for that press.
Find out more about Katy at www.katyodowd.com and follow her on twitter @katyod
Untold Press works: The Lady Astronomer
Angela McPherson
Born and currently residing in Midland, Texas, Angela shuffles three busy children (not including her husband) all over the place. She works in a busy pediatric doctors office as a nurse during the day, and writes at night. She is addicted to coffee——who isn’t? And firmly believes chocolate can fix all——especially chocolate ice cream. She laughs a lot, often at herself and is willing to try anything once (she thinks). When Angela isn’t rushing kids around, working or writing, she’s reading. Other than life experience, Angela turns to a wide variety of music to help spark her creative juices. She loves to dance and sing, though her kids often beg her not to.
Find out more about Angela on her blog and follow her on twitter @abt3mcpherson
Untold Press works: Fated (coming 2013)
J.A. Campbell
Julie has been many things over the last few years, from college student, to bookstore clerk and an over the road trucker. She’s worked as a 911 dispatcher and in computer tech support, but through it all she’s been a writer and when she’s not out riding horses, she can usually be found sitting in front of her computer. She lives in Colorado with her three cats, her vampire-hunting dog in training, Kira, and her Irish Sailor.
She is the author of many Vampire and Ghost-Hunting Dog stories and the young adult urban fantasy series The Clanless.
Find out more about Julie at www.writerjacampbell.com and follow her on twitter @Pfirewolf
Untold Press works: Dragonthology, Sabaska’s Tale (Coming 2013), Happily Ever Afterlife (Coming 2013)
Troy Lambert
Troy began his writing life at a very young age, penning the as yet unpublished George and the Giant Castle at age six. He grew up in Southern Idaho, and after many adventures including a short stint in the US Army and a diverse education, Troy returned to Idaho, but the north end of the state this time, where he currently resides.
Troy works as a freelance writer and researcher by night, and the Museum Operations Specialist and Head of Research at the Wallace District Mining museum by day. He truly loves to write dark, psychological thrillers and released Broken Bones, a collection of his short stories, last September to great acclaim and with reasonable success. His new thriller Redemption is available now.
Troy lives with his wife of eleven years, two of his five children and two very talented dogs. He is a skier, cyclist, hiker, fisherman, hunter, and a terrible beginning golfer. The sequel to Redemption, titled Temptation will be released early in 2013.
Find out more about Troy at www.troylambertwrites.com and follow him on twitter @authortroy
Untold Press works: Dragonthology, Happily Ever Afterlife (Coming 2013)
G.L. Jackson
G.L. Jackson lives on the west coast with her family and a somewhat bizarre assortment of creatures, in a clear attempt not to become that crazy cat lady your friends and family always warned you about. She writes wherever she can sit and will try any style and any genre on for size, sometimes twice in a day. More than a bit irreverent and always appreciative of a good dose of humor, she calls a Sector 9 Bamboo Secrets skateboard her current weapon of choice. When she’s not writing she’s either reading, taking photographs, traveling, or finding new and exciting ways to make her characters come alive. For years now people have been trying to call her Susan, but the name refuses to stick.
Find out more about Gwynne at gwynnejackson.wordpress.com and follow her on twitter @notsuestorm
Untold Press works: Dragonthology, Happily Ever Afterlife
Shoshanah Holl
A literal child of the corn, Shoshanah originally hails from rural Nebraska. Making the radical decision to relocate a whole state away, she now lives in Des Moines where she is attending university and hopes to escape with either a degree or her sanity intact. Her first story was lovingly penned in red crayon some twenty years ago and while she may now have a better vocabulary, she does miss the rainbow stickers and doodles of cats. In her non-existent spare time she reads too much, watches scary movies, attempts to cook without setting anything (important) on fire, struggles with helping people pronounce her name, and works as an illustrator and designer.
Find out more about Shoshanah at Shollwriter.blogspot.com and follow her on twitter @snhollart
Untold Press works: Happily Ever Afterlife
Tilly Boscott
Tilly Boscott is a freelance writer, poet and blogger. She won her first writing competition at the age of seven, choosing bouncy, green goo as her prize; she does not regret her decision. Tilly grew up on a diet of Enid Blyton and R.L. Stine, which explains her curious nature and love of fantasy. She does not belong to a library, in case her book addiction becomes a problem in the legal sense. From a young age, she dreamed of becoming an author or a unicorn, and she is determined and certain that at least one of these dreams will come true.
Find out more about Tilly on her BLOG and follow her on twitter @TillyBoscott
Untold Press works: Happily Ever Afterlife
Michelle Boise
M. K. Boise is an Ohio native and recently finished her MFA in creative writing at the University of San Francisco where she was the fiction editor for the university’s graduate literary magazine, Switchback. Her short story “The Drive” won the 2011 anthology competition for the University College of Dublin (Ireland) in Everything Its Own. She resides in San Francisco and is currently at work on her first novel.
Untold Press works: Happily Ever Afterlife
Emmalyn Greyson
Emmalyn grew up in Southern Arizona where she spent her childhood scaring her friends with stories of ghosts and witches. Now that she’s all grown up she has a husband, cat, and four year old daughter to entertain with her stories. She currently resides in Omaha, Nebraska where the weather never makes sense and she yearns for the tepid climate of her youth.
Emmalyn spends most of her time playing with her daughter, adding to her excessive herbal tea collection, and sating her unhealthy obsession with mystical creatures while crouched over her laptop.
You can find her studying for her Creative Writing degree or in her office working on another book.
Find out more about Emmalyn at emmalyngreyson.com and follow her on twitter @emmalyngreyson
Untold Press works: Happily Ever Afterlife (Coming 2013)
Amanda Carman
Amanda Carman is a 24 year old aspiring author and illustrator currently residing in Atlanta, Georgia. She graduated from Berry College in 2011 with a B.A. in Studio Art and an English minor, but it was an introduction to the writings of Joseph Campbell in a World Religions course that had the most profound influence on both her writing and art. She believes strongly in the power of story in all of its forms, from the monomyth to the abstract stories told in music, dance, and paint. While she takes her work seriously, and much of it has a dark bent to it, she considers herself something of a goof. When she’s not working, she can be found performing improv, flailing like a Muppet, or playing a game of hide-and-seek with her kitten, Cricket.
Find out more about Amanda at http://carmandaartsthings.com/
Untold Press works: Happily Ever Afterlife (Coming 2013)
Marian Allen
Marian Allen writes science fiction, fantasy, mystery, humor, horror, mainstream, and anything else she can wrestle into fixed form.
Allen has had stories in on-line and print publications, on coffee cans and the wall of an Indian restaurant in Louisville, Kentucky.
Allen is a member of Quills and Quibbles and the Southern Indiana Writers Group, and is a regular contributor to SIW’s annual anthology.
Find out more about Marian at http://MarianAllen.com and follow her on twitter @MarianAllen
Untold Press works: Dragonthology
Jay Wilburn
Jay Wilburn lives in Conway, South Carolina with his wife and two sons. His novel, Loose Ends: A Zombie Novel, is available now. He has a novella, Circuit Rider, in the acclaimed anthology Realms of the Undead. He has published a number of horror and speculative fiction stories.
Follow his many dark thoughts @AmongtheZombie on Twitter or at JayWilburn.com.
Untold Press works: Dragonthology
Jason Andrew
Jason Andrew lives in Seattle, Washington with his wife Lisa. He is a member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, the Horror Writers Association, and the International Association of Media Tie-In Writers. His short fiction has appeared in markets such as Shine: An Anthology of Optimistic SF, Frontier Cthulhu: Ancient Horrors in the New World, and Dark Tales of Lost Civilizations. In 2011, Jason received an honorable mention in Ellen Datlow’s List for Best Horror of the Year for his story “Moonlight in Scarlet”. Jason also writes for awesome RPG games such as Vampire: the Masquerade and Shadowrun
Find out more about Jason at www.jasonbandrew.com and follow him on twitter @jasonbandrew
Untold Press works: Dragonthology
Sandra Graves
Raised in Colorado by European immigrant parents who passed on their love for both great literature and great music, Sandra has had her nose in a book since she first learned to read. When she isn’t reading, she’s either writing fiction or designing her latest artwork project. She also owns and operates her own business.
Sandra spent her school years in Denver and her summers attending musical events in the mountain valley of Aspen. Throughout her youth she was a talented cellist, achieving first chair position in the Colorado Youth Symphony as well as a position in a semi-professional symphony while in high school. She earned an MA degree in Anthropology from Eastern New Mexico University where she met her husband. They have been married for more than thirty years.
She currently lives in Minnesota, a state far away from her beloved mountains but featuring thousands of lakes and rivers. She is combating homesickness by writing a novel that takes place in the years of the Colorado gold rush. She’s looking forward to the necessity of doing on-site research within the next year.
Find out more about Sandra at www.IsisRising08.com
Untold Press works: Dragonthology
