Magazine Contributors
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Magazine Contributors
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Diane Andrews Laura Bickle Ben Chadwick Jeff Crook Jeff Crouch Lawrence Dagstine Sean & Craig Davis Mark E Deloy Trevor Denyer Bruce Hesselbach Polly Jebson Eric R Lowther Dan Kopcow Sam Leng Richard K Lyon Caroline Marwitz David McGillveray Michael McNichols Jacob Miller Robert Neilson Andrew J Offut Vicki Proserpine John Shanks Lisa Shopland Sarah Singleton Janice Slonczewski W.D. Sparrow Benjamin Sperduto Sarah Stone Wayne Summers Diane, our first ever antipodean contributor, was the writer of "The Speed of Darke", which saw publication in TQF#17. Details of her first published book, an account of a long journey in a small boat, Little Ship – Big Trip, can be found at www.adventureyarns.com.au. At the time of Laura's story "Pumpkin Jack" appearing in TQF#19, she lived in the Midwestern US with her chief muse, where they were owned by four reformed feral cats. She had worked in politics, criminology, and technology for several years. Her work had recently appeared in Midnight Times (April 2007), Down in the Cellar (Summer 2007), and MicroHorror (June 2007). She had also been featured in an author interview for Midnight Times (July 2007), and had upcoming work appearing in Ballista (Spring 2008). Born in the Lancashire shoe-making town of Rawtenstall, Ben had been expected to follow his father in the family sandal business, but when the teenage Chadwick developed a leather allergy the family were forced to relocate, eventually settling in Eastbourne on the Sussex coast. He took a degree in Fine Art at the University of Brighton, an traumatic experience that he later drew upon in his unpublished memoir, “Art: the Fascism of the Brush”. Nevertheless his final year exhibition caused a certain amount of interest, and was eventually destroyed by Brighton Council after a lengthy correspondence in the local press. Soon after graduation Ben declared himself a Futurist in a public announcement (the declaration was made in a public house), and quickly founded IMAB ( the International Movement for the Adoption of Binary). An alliance with the Hove based Workers for the Abolition of Decimal Numeracy ended in 1993 in bitter recriminations, but by this time Chadwick had already joined the Situationist group People Against Humanity. It was during this halcyon period that Chadwick produced some of his best known works. Unfortunately, due to the collective nature of cultural production in the PAH, the copyright of many important pieces is now the subject of a legal dispute between Chadwick and his former collaborators. It was in 1995, after a fallow period in which he made his living from a “Your Name on a Grain of Rice” stall on Brighton seafront, that the young Chadwick reached what he later described as the pivotal moment in his career as a writer. He discovered a discarded copy of New Words #1 stuffed down the back of a sofa in the smoking lounge of a local drinking hole (possibly the Mitre Tavern in Baker Street, Brighton, for any literary historians reading). This revolutionary magazine galvanised the young artist, and soon his contributions were pouring in. The New Words editorial board were astonished by the boldness of Chadwick’s vision, and though they did not understand a word of his writings, they agreed to risk the inclusion of one of his less experimental efforts. “21 Reasons”, described by its author as “a love song to Kafka” was published in New Words #2, to the complete indifference of the bovine reading public. Issues 3’s photo-montage manifesto/poem “Car Bomb” gained a little more attention and produced a snort of disgust from the picture editor of Interzone magazine, a moment that Chadwick counts amongst his proudest. After the well-publicised royalties dispute which led him to denounce the New Words team as the running-dogs of the capitalist small-press fanzine oligarchy, Chadwick joined the Civil Service and did not put pen to paper for the next five years. He still lives in Eastbourne and now runs a successful whelk business. His turbulent genius could be found in a more elegiac mood in his subsequent story, or “entity” as he prefers to call it, “The Man who Found a Comprehensive Solution to the Fundamental Problem of his Existence”. Ben submitted one further work for publication: "Otherwise Detritus", published in 2007 in Theaker's Quarterly Fiction #15. It is not known whether this was a new piece of writing, or one that had been rejected by other publications during the earlier phase of his writing career. At the time when "Ananke" was being published in Theaker's Quarterly Fiction #18, Jeff Crook's short fiction had recently appeared (or was scheduled to appear) in Nature, Nature Physics, Hub magazine, The Rose & Thorn, Eclectica and Pindeldyboz, and the following anthologies: Futures from Nature (Tor Books), Tattered Souls (Cutting Block Press), Black Dragon, White Dragon (Ricasso Press), Triquorum (Pendragon Press), Stalking Shadows (Hole in the Wall Press), and an untitled Kerlak anthology. Two of his stories had been recognized as Notable Stories by the 2006 storySouth Million Writers Award. He is the author of four fabulous novels in the Dragonlance series – Dark Thane, Conundrum, The Thieves' Guild and The Rose and the Skull – and the editor of Southern Gothic and Postcards from Hell. If you would like to learn more about his work, you can find it all at jeffcrook.blogspot.com. Jeff Crouch is a one-man literary factory living in Grand Prairie, Texas. At the time of his contribution of "Glurp" to TQF#17, his writing had appeared in Above Ground Testing, Canopic Jar, The Cerebral Catalyst, Cordite, The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature, The Dream People, Laika Poetry Review, Literary Chaos, Lunatic Chameleon, Media Cake, MG Version 2, My Favorite Bullet, PFS Post, the puddle splashers, The Rose and Thorn, saucy vox, semantikon, SN Review, Spent Meat, Static Movement, Subterranean Quarterly, te_a_ tro, Underground Window, Venue – A Southern Forum, Unlikely Stories, and Wire Sandwich. Yet more of his work was due to appear in Chick Flicks, Concelebratory Shoehorn Review, Locust Magazine, The Persistent Mirage, and Vibrant Gray. Lawrence Dagstine began writing fiction and non-fiction in 1996. At the time of contributing "Our Plight on Amaros" to Theaker's Quarterly Fiction #16, he had appeared well over two hundred times in the genre press, in both print and online venues. Four of his books had been published at that time, three novels and a short story collection: Espionage First, Spencer Prague, Allegiance to Arms and Death of the Common Writer. He had also appeared in four SF-themed anthologies: Wondrous Web Worlds #3 and #5, Tabloid Purposes #3, and Silverthought Ignition Anthology. For a little while Lawrence ran a small press journal of his own called The Literary Bone, but it closed in mid-2007 following the controversy caused by the ill-considered publication on MySpace of a rather dodgy interview. He might not have been the most careful of editors, but his dedication to writing cannot be disputed: during March 2008 he received a very impressive 300th magazine acceptance, from Midnight in Hell. For further details read the blog of Lawrence Dagstine. Sean & Craig Davis come from a place called Jackson, in the United States. Their manly tale for men, "Live to Be Hunted", appeared in the otherwise slightly girly Theaker's Quarterly Fiction #18. I have no idea if this employee spotlight from 2004 is for the same Craig Davis, but he has a son named Sean, and enjoys hunting, so it's entirely possible! Mark E Deloy's "Winter’s Warm Blood", a story of vicious wolves attacking an isolated farm, appeared in Theaker's Quarterly Fiction #18. The author's website is called The Ghosts of Silence, whence the rest of this biographical note was shamelessly copied. He is the author of a paranormal thriller, also called The Ghosts of Silence. His short stories have appeared in such magazines as Dark Recesses, Nocturne, World of Myth, Shadowed Pathways, Thirteen, The Late, Late Show, Sinister Tales, Yog's Notebook and Estronomicon. Anthologies where his short stories have appeared include, Lighthouse V Stephen King Special, Damned in Dixie, Twisted Cat Tales, Ten Plagues, Our Shadows Speak and Horror Library Vol 1. When you've finished with "Winter's Warm Blood", do you want to read something else really scary? Here are Mark Deloy's recommendations. Trevor was 44 when New Words #4 was published, featuring his story “Goat Tale”. Another fine tale, “Glastonbury” (available online here on Trevor's own site), had previously appeared in New Words #3. He became a civil servant because he thought he’d be able to spend all day writing and drinking cups of tea. Before that he went to art school, but got fed up with having no money and left. His interests at the time those stories were published included watercolour painting, films and reading horror and sf novels. He had previously been published in Good Stories, an anthology entitled Shorts from Hampshire, and had had stories accepted for Geoff Lynas’s anthology, Dark Fantasy Special, and for the first issues of Urges and Footsteps. He was a member of the Farnborough, Fleet and District Writers’ Circle. Trevor went on to be the respected editor of his own magazines, Roadworks and Legend, and contributed to the anthology, Gravity’s Angels. Recently he launched a third magazine, Midnight Street. A partial bibliography of his work appears here. Bruce Hesselbach is a self employed attorney, practising in the following areas of law: General Practice in all State and Federal Courts, Commercial Litigation, Personal Injury, Negligence, Probate Law, Workers Compensation Law, Real Estate Law, Landlord and Tenant Law, Bankruptcy Law. Find out more from his legal profile. He wrote "The Tragical History of Weebly Pumrod, Witch Hunter", part of the Tales of Yxning series, for Theaker's Quarterly Fiction #18 and followed it up with "The Remarkable Life of Yren Higbe" in TQF#19. "Contrarieties" then appeared in TQF#20, completing a fabulous hat-trick of 2007 fabulations! He had previously written High Ledges, Green Mountains (Bondcliff Books 2005), a memoir about hiking in New England. Two fantasy poems by Bruce appeared in Spellbound. Numerous other poems and some humorous essays had also appeared in the small presses. His dog Dickens has his own website at http://dickenshiking.bravehost.com, which includes photos and accounts of various hikes they have taken together. Polly Jebson was born in 1949 broke onto the literary scene in the mid-1960s when she edited an underground beat poetry magazine called The New Morsel. She was politically active during the 70s and 80s, leading a muscularly feminist movement, which was strongly linked with Valerie Solanas. In the 1990s she denounced all feminist thought and literature and took up writing Science-Fiction instead. Despite having a prolific literary output, her only short story ever to be published was “Cerebomni’s Memorine” and featured in New Words #2 in 1995. Polly now lives and works in California where she deputises a relaxation centre, putting people in touch with their Chi. At the time when "Gone English" appeared in TQF#17, Dan Kopcow was very proud of his stories having appeared in The Wild River Review, Silverthought, The Duck and Herring Company, The American Drivel Review, Gold Dust Magazine, and The Quirk. He had written many short stories, novels and screenplays, and he was a founding member of the Ambler Writers Group. Later the same year he contributed "Who Picked the Pope's Nose?" to TQF#19. At the time of his story, "The Spirits of '26", appearing in TQF#22 (during 2008), Robert Laughlin lived in Chico, California, in a Craftsman bungalow destined for restoration by some well-heeled future owner. His short stories have appeared in several American magazines since mid-2006; “The Spirits of ’26”, was his first publication in a British magazine. Mr Laughlin’s story, “In the Evening Made”, published in Atomjack Magazine, was voted a Notable Story of 2006 by the judging panel of the storySouth Million Writers Award. He is the creator and administrator of the Micro Award, an award for previously published short fiction not over 1000 words in length. His first novel, Vow of Silence, was due to be published by Trytium in the autumn of 2008. Sam Leng lives in Yorkshire, England. She has had fiction published in various print and online magazines, including Skive, Delivered and Steelcaves. During 2007, at the time when her story, "When the Sun and the Moon Did Not Shine", appeared in the fantasy section of TQF#19, she was producing her own webzine at www.neonbeam.org. In 2008 she contributed a slice of apocalypse on toast, "A Matter of Taste", to TQF#22.Eric's beefy western fantasy, "Rural Legend", appeared in TQF#19. He wasn't sure how it would go over with UK readers, but it went over very well with the editors of TQF! At that time his work could be seen in Blood Blade & Thruster magazine (July/August 2007), in separate anthologies from the producers of Magazine of the Dead and Dark Distortions respectively (set for publication Fall 2007) and in Night to Dawn magazine (Spring 2008). Richard K Lyon contributed "The Christmas Present War" to TQF#17. He had previously collaborated with Andrew J Offut on a trilogy of novels, and was an active member of the SFWA. A very interesting interview with him can be read on the Sword & Sorcery website. His work appeared again in TQF#19, this time a continuation with Andrew J Offut of the stories they had previously told of Tiana: this one was called "The Iron Mercenary". During 2008 a further series of Tiana stories saw publication in our pages - some had appeared in various venues before, but others were previously unpublished. In TQF#22 a young Tiana faced the terror of "Arachnis". Caroline Marwitz Caroline contributed "The Good Fortune Driving School for Men", an extract from her novel-in-progress, Chameleon Man Gets Lost, to Theaker's Quarterly Fiction #16. Her previous novel, Naming the Winds, was published by High Plains Press in 2001. David's story of a struggle for survival on an alien planet, "The Broadest Divide", appeared in TQF#19. He lived in London at the time, and there was some mystery as to whether he was the same David McGillveray who had made contributions to the film section of the Radio Times, a mystery which could admittedly have been cleared up by asking him about it. Michael McNichols has an MFA in fiction writing from Columbia College Chicago. His work has appeared in The Banana King, Worse Than Pulp, AfterburnSF, Lost Souls, Inclinations, The Externalist and Coyote Wild, but most importantly of all, his short fantasy story "Glimmerick" appeared in Theaker's Quarterly Fiction #18. He seems to be unfortunate enough to share a name with an unsavoury character or two, judging from the results of googling it. Jacob Miller wrote Frank and the Hermaphrodites in 1995 for New Words #1. Bob Neilson is the respected editor of long-running sf magazine Albedo One. His short story, The Final Throw, appeared in New Words #4. "The Iron Mercenary", a tale of Tiana that Andrew J Offut wrote with Richard K Lyon, appeared in TQF#19. He was the first author appearing in TQF to have his own Wikipedia page. During 2008 a further series of Tiana stories saw publication in our pages - some had appeared in various venues before, but others were previously unpublished. In TQF#22 a young Tiana faced the terror of "Arachnis". Vicki Proserpine's tribute to Adolphe, by Benjamin Constant, "Ellénore", was published in Theaker's Quarterly Fiction #13. Mike Schultheiss contributed “Darwin’s Corridor” to TQF#22, bringing adventure, ecology, colonialism, evolution and religion together in one steaming teapot of a tale. Though we had published many, many wonderful contributions over the previous year of TQF, this kind of intelligent adventure was so exactly what we were after that we were tempted to post it in full on our submission guidelines page. And it came with a scientific note. How wicked is that? Notably, the story contained the word erectus 91 times. If you laugh, it’s only because you’re as immature as I am. At the time of the story's publication (in 2008), Mike was living in Davis, California, and attending the university of the same name. He was looking forward to his graduation, and planned to pursue a career as a high school teacher of Social Studies and English through the UC Davis credentialling program in the fall. Having grown up in the foothills of California’s Sierra Nevadas, Mike is a long-time nature and animal enthusiast and is particularly fond of reptiles. At that time he was at work on a novel-length version of “Darwin’s Corridor” as well as a vampire novel, Blood Moon Queen. You can befriend (or just secretly spy on) him at www.myspace.com/mikeschultheiss. John produced the spectacular cover of Theaker's Quarterly Fiction #16, depicting a diver pursued by a giant sea creature, a scene drawn from the adventures of Howard Phillips. He has his own website - Homegrown Goodness - from which you can request bespoke cartooning, or purchase his hilarious animal encyclopedias. Lisa was the writer of "13 Definitions to Say What You Don't Mean", which appeared in New Words #3. Sarah Singleton contributed an excellent story to New Words #4, The Dove, her first published work. Since then she has gone on to greater things, with her novels The Crow Maiden and Moths in the Mirror seeing publication on both sides of the Atlantic. For further details of her work, see her page on Infinity Plus. Janice contributed "Flying Jim" to New Words #3. W(alter) D(ennis) Sparrow was born in 1946 in Swansea. He got married in 1965 and moved to Wood Green in North London where he worked as a Health and Safety Inspector for the next 30 years. In 1988 he appeared as a contestant on the popular television quiz show “Catch Phrase” . During the first section of the show Walter managed to win £100, but lost his nerve during the Ready Money Round, and when invited by the host Roy Walker to “say what you see” he inadvertently blurted out the words “I’m a big dog”. The correct answer was in fact “the tail that wags the dog”, and while his attempt was good, it wasn’t right. Sadly, because of Walter’s surprising confession the show could never be broadcast. Sparrow left his job in 1995 and spent most of his retirement honing his skills as a science-fiction writer. He submitted one story, “Revenge of the Post-Historic Skeletal Polyhedrons” to New Words, which was duly published in New Words #3. As far as we have been able to determine this constitutes his entire literary oeuvre. W.D. Sparrow died in 1999. Benjamin Sperduto is a freelance writer specialising in fantasy, science fiction and horror. His short story, "The Doom of Mournshire", appeared in The Sleepless Sands (Earlyworks Press, 2006). A graduate of the University of South Florida, he lives and teaches in Tampa, Florida. His story of pirates and sorcery, "La Tierra de la Sangre", appeared in Theaker's Quarterly Fiction #18. Sarah Stone was born in 1968 in Düsseldorf, Germany to English parents, and was educated in Austria. Over the years she has enjoyed a variety of careers, being involved in everything from mortuaries to Alchemy. Her first and only published story, “Blue Jeans and Moonbeams”, graced the very first issue of New Words in 1995 and dealt with the tricky subjects of murder, necrophilia and robots. Sarah’s literary output since then has been limited mainly to sports articles for local newspapers and work for industry trade magazines. She currently lives in Kensington and is married with no children. Sarah’s family has a fine literary tradition running down through the generations. Sarah’s Great, Great, Great, Great, Great, Great Grandmother, the very first Sarah Stone, was published in 1737 with her acclaimed “A Complete Practice of Midwifery” , which is still used in maternity wards today. Wayne's story of a mysterious garden surrounded by a wall, "The Walled Garden", appeared in TQF#19. At that time he was about to be published in On The Night Highways, Art&Prose Magazine and Creative Island. He grew up in rural Kojonup, Western Australia, where his writing career began. While in high school he'd write small articles and stories for the local newspaper. He now lives in Perth, Western Australia. Wayne is an English language teacher and is studying to be a counsellor. His focus remains writing and during 2007 he had more than 17 horror and fantasy stories accepted for publication. A second story, "The Exile from Naktah", an epic horror fantasy, appeared in TQF#21. "The Orphans of Time" is due to appear in TQF#23, making him one of the most frequent contributors to the magazine. |
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