SHANE MOORE

CONTAMINATION IS HOSTING THE LAUCH OF HIS AMAZING

"END OF DAYS" ZOMBIE NOVEL SET IN ST. LOUIS! 

Shane toured little in 2011, taking on fourteen contracts for projects, including his genre smashing end of days novel; “The Apocalypse of Enoch.” This block buster of a zombie thriller features a scripture-based apocalypse with in depth guidance from pastors, doctors, and a molecular biologist. With every character in the novel being a person in real life, Shane inserted his professional peers into this rapidly destructing zombie armageddon based in St. Louis, Missouri. Be sure to attend his panels to learn how he flipped the zombie genre on its head without re-inventing the monsters we loved and how he tossed in celebrities such as Peter Mayhew (Chewbacca from Star Wars), Pete Koch (Former NFLer and actor who played Swede from Heart Break Ridge), fan favorite Matt Hill (Raphael from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Shanghai Knights with Jackie Chan) and many, many more!
A retired triple-A record holding, semi-pro football linebacker, Shane does not look like the stereotype you might assign a writer. However, if you speak with him at length, he will assure you he is a dork on the inside.

J. Travis Grundon

J. Travis Grundon is an author and a screenwriter with a focus on transgressive, speculative and general fiction.

He has served as an editor and contributor on Forrest J Ackerman's Anthology of the Living Dead and Fracas: A Collection of Short Friction.

His books Eclectic Collection and Happy Hour Blues illustrate his love, and craft of short stories.

His other work can found in the Silven Trumpeter, the Tecumseh Review, Scars, Paracinema, Twisted Dreams and The Monsters Next Door magazine.

Other works include stories for Help - An Anthology To Benefit Preditors and Editors, Concrete Blood: Dark Tales of the City and Toe Tags 2.

Mike Aloisi

Michael Aloisi is the author of several books ranging from dramas and thrillers to horror, non-fiction and children’s books. Having a background in filmmaking, Mike has written several acclaimed short films and a dozen live action children’s shows that have played around the world.  With his MFA in Creative Writing and a passion for stories, he created AuthorMike Ink publishing.  Currently, Mike over sees the day-to-day functions of the company while working on his own writing projects including scripts and staring in two upcoming reality shows.   

STEVEN A. LACHANCE

 He as well, konwn for one of the most horrific hauntings actually in MO, which aired on Discovery Channel's "A Haunting" called Fear House.  From that experience he endured, he wrote a worldwide popular book called "The Univited".  Recently released in France, after it swept the US.  As well, is in the Library of Congress at the Smithsonian in Washington, DC.  From that point, he was called upon to do Documentarian work, interviews and many other projects.

JOHN F.D. TAFF

John F.D. Taff is a born-and-raised St. Louis dark speculative fiction writer whose career spans 25 years, with more than 65 stories in print in magazines (Cemetery Dance,Eldritch Tales, Deathrealm, Aberrations, Morpheus Tales) and anthologies (HotBlood: Seeds of Fear, Hot Blood: Fear the Fever, Shock Rock II, and BestNew Vampire Tales.)  Four of his stories were chosen as honorablementions by Datlow and Windling in their Year’s Best Fantasy & Horroranthologies.  His short fiction has appeared so far this year in BestNew Werewolf Tales, Vol. 1, Big Pulp, Evil Jester Digest Vol. 1, and theAmFAR charity anthology Horror for Good.  More work will appear soon in Black Ink Horror #8, Call of Lovecraft and Horror Library V. 

His first collection, Little Deaths, has just been published by Books of the Dead Press (Toronto), and features 19 pieces of short horror fiction.  Some of the stories in Little Deaths have previously appearedin print elsewhere; others appear for the first time.

BRYAN THOMAS SCHMIDT

 I am the author of the space opera novel The Worker Prince, an honorable mention on Barnes & Noble’s Best SF Releases of 2011, the collection The North Star Serial, Part 1, and several short stories forthcoming in anthologies and magazines. My second novel, The Returning, is forthcoming from Diminished Media Group in 2012. I’m also the host of Science Fiction and Fantasy Writer’s Chatevery Wednesday at 9 pm EST on Twitter, where I interview people like Mike Resnick, AC Crispin, Kevin J. Anderson and Kristine Kathryn Rusch. He can be found online as @BryanThomasS on Twitter or via his website. Excerpts from The Worker Prince can be found on my blog.

  By summer I will have two SF novels out, an anthology I edited headlined by Mike Resnick, and have stories in magazines and 3 anthologies. I’d love to come and do panels, readings, etc.