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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://www.jason-sizemore.com.

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://mariadkins.com.

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.

Emily is a copyeditor and writer from Southern California; she brings to her work both an unhealthy level of interest in grammar and a love for science fiction. While working behind the scenes for various trade and academic presses, she also co-authors a savage, erratic review blog at http://community.livejournal.com/pleasedonot. Emily is one of the shoemaker’s elves at Apex, tinkering quietly at night and vanishing when seen. She is currently copyediting a business title for a major fast food chain and writing about pulp.

Born and raised in the dark woods and twisted apple orchards of New Hampshire, Maggie is a recent summa cum laude graduate of SUNY Albany with a double major in English and Asian Studies. She brings a bit of fresh blood to Apex from her experiences interning both in the marketing department of Tyco Electronics, and in the IT and marketing departments of SUNY Press. Her writing, both fiction and non-fiction, has been published in a number of small venues, and she has a short story coming out in the upcoming Fantastical Visions IV anthology.

A native of the land of Minnesota Nice, Sarah Brandel is an author, editor, and frustrated evil genius. (A BA in English from Stanford University and an MFA in Writing from Hamline University generally lead to slower, less cataclysmic methods of world domination, though attending Clarion West in 1999 and Viable Paradise XII in 2008 has given her a few ideas.) The emeralds in this picture–taken at Kohinoor Jewellers in Agra, India–were too small for her death ray, so it remains a work in progress, much like her web site, www.sarahbrandel.com. You can also read her work in Net Author’s E2K, Aberrant Dreams, and the anthology Thou Shalt Not… from Dark Cloud Press.

Jennifer Brozek, the creator and co-editor of the Grants Pass anthology, is a freelance author for many RPG companies including Margaret Weis Productions, Rogue Games and Catalyst Labs. Her contributions to RPG sourcebooks include Dragonlance, Castlemourn, Colonial Gothic, Shadowrun and Serenity. She has also co-authored three books (A Player’s Guide to Castlemourn with Ed Greenwood, 2006; Dragonvarld Adventures with Margaret Weis, 2008 and Chill, 3rd Edition with Mike Callahan, 2008). She is published in several anthologies and is the creator and editor of the semi-pro webzine, The Edge of Propinquity. When she is not writing her heart out, she is a loving wife to her husband, Jeff, and an indulgent ‘mother’ to their three cats while gallivanting around the Pacific Northwest in its wonderfully mercurial weather. You can visit her blog at http://jennifer-brozek.livejournal.com