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A young writer and editor from Appalachia Kentucky, Jason has seen his fiction appear in nearly two dozen books and magazines. He’s a prolific non-fiction writer, having dozens of essays, reviews, and editorials published in print and on the web on varied subjects such as gaming, geek culture, and politics. He earned his college degree from Transylvania University, making him an ideal candidate to head a horror magazine. He was a 2006 Stoker Award nominee for his work on the Aegri Somnia anthology.

In 2007, he published his first chapbook (under the newly formed APEX BOOKS division of Apex Publications) titled Webs of Discord. He has a second anthology titled Gratia Placenti that he is producing with co-editor Gill Ainsworth.
Jason invites you to visit his personal webspace at http://members.iglou.com/jasonb.

Gill hails from Britain, known for infusing her writing with clever and sassy ‘royal’ turns of phrase. Her writing has won several fiction awards and she has seen a number of her scientific papers published in respected research journals throughout the world (notably in pharmacology). Gill was a 2006 Stoker Award nominee for her work on the Aegri Somnia anthology. She has a second anthology titled Gratia Placenti that she is producing with co-editor Jason Sizemore.

Deb is a writer and editor whose work explores the shadowy side of human nature and the alien in the everyday. An editor for a trade magazine by day, by moonlight she becomes Queen of the Books at Apex. She is a graduate of the Clarion West Writers Workshop, and edits for them when she’s not sculpting, lighting dance shows, or playing with power tools. Her fiction has seen the dark of day in Apex Digest, Shadowed Realms, and various live readings; she rarely confesses the locations of her nonfiction. Every once in a great while she updates her blog at http://debtaber.livejournal.com. Mostly, she lurks in the Pacific Northwest.

Mari Adkins grew up in the foothills of southeastern Kentucky. Her poetry and other writing has appeared in the e-zine “Whispers of a Stone Circle”, Aegri Somnia, the e-zines associated with the defunct 3Sides Literary Agency, and in “Apex Online.” Mari is a member of the Toasted Cheese online writing community. You can visit her website and blog at http://harlanvampires.com.

Jodi Lee is a writer and editor from Manitoba, Canada. Her work has appeared in Apex Digest, Nocturnal Ooze, Night To Dawn and has been included in the anthologies Echoes of Terror (Lachesis Publishing) and Fried! Fast Food, Slow Deaths (Graveside Tales). She has recently taken over the reins as LBF Books editor in chief, and continues her work with Apex Publications and Lachesis Publishing. Her writing now centers around the dark and blood-soaked corners of her mind; her first novel is currently being shopped around.

Visit her website at http://www.jodilee.ca

Paul Jessup has been published in many magazines, including Apex Digest, Fantasy Magazine, Farrago’s Wainscoat, Post Scripts, Electric Velocipede, Psuedopod, Flashing Swords, Nanobison, Journals of Experimental Fiction, Jacob’s Ladder and the Harrow. He is also the recipient of the 2000 Kent State University Virginia Perryman Award. He currently is a content writer for http://whatitcosts.com and editor for Behind the Wainscot.

This Incredible Whirlwind of Beauty and Dynamite’s first in-print publication appeared in Apex Digest Issue #3. Since then she has gone on to publish a major picture book ( AlphaOops: The Day Z Went First), co-edit a critically-acclaimed all-star benefit anthology (Elemental: New Stories of Science Fiction and Fantasy, and be hand-picked to pen the official Compendium for Sherrilyn Kenyon’s bestselling Dark-Hunter universe. Her short fiction has been published in Realms of Fantasy and Orson Scott Card’s Intergalactic Medicine Show. Alethea works as a buyer for Ingram Book Company and an editor for Solaris Books in the UK. She continues to bring her in-depth knowledge of both the horror and science fiction genres to Apex and serve it out in the form of engaging interviews and whimsical and entertaining informal essays. Check out Alethea’s own plans for global domination at her website: http://www.aletheakontis.com

Justin publishes the popular webcomic Popped Culture where he eviscerates anything related to pop culture. Nothing is sacred. Especially not the Burger King or Scott Baio. He is a professional graphic designer and is the artistic vision behind the Apex brand. An active member of the independent comics movement, he commonly works with noted comic writers as Jim Lujan and Scott Hinze. Not just an artist, he will also take pen to paper and write the occasional review or opinion piece for Apex. In 2007, Justin was nominated for a Chesley Award for his unique vision and art direction he’s given Apex Digest. Visit PoppedCulture.net to read Justin’s excellent webcomic and to see more of his unique style of art.

Jim hails from the cornfields of Indiana, where he dabbles in the writing of dark genre fiction. Several of his flash fiction pieces have appeared in various e-zines like The Curveball Conspiracy and his own Flashes of Speculation. He also publishes a webcomic based in the Haloverse called Reclaimer. You can visit his website and blog at http://shamuswrites.com.