Editor and Publisher

Shalla DeGuzman's short stories have appeared in Poetic Diversity, the Mosaic Literary Journal, the Mad Hatters Review, etc.; her articles in The Scriptorium and L.A. Freepress; her skits at the Stella Adler Theatre. Her flash fiction The Fish In My Bed recently won the FISH AND PLANE Competition and is featured in Issue 6 of Mad Hatters Review. Shalla, a former writer and producer of a health and fitness cable show, is currently writing a novel. She is President of The ShallaDeGuzman Writers Group where she interviews literary agents, publishers, editors, etc. News! Shalla has been nominated for the prestigious Pushcart Prize. SHALLA Magazine, which features short stories and excerpts from top, award-winning writers, is here! For more on Shalla: www.shalladeguzman.com

Fiction Editors

Carolyn Grasey received her BA from Delta State University and her MFA from Naropa University. Her work, under various names, has appeared in Columbia College Review, Echoes Quarterly, The Kenyon Review, Wordplay and more. She currently lives in Austin, Texas where she pursues community work and helping aspirant writers.

 

R.W. Weber received his Masters in MIS from the Otto-Friedrich University in Bamberg, Germany. His favorite authors are Carl Hiassen, Robert Ludlum, James Patterson, Scott Adams, Stephen King, and Terry Pratchett.

Poetry Editor

Keith Burke is on the Board of Trustees of Northern California’s Writers & Publishers Alliance and the Board of Directors of the Coffee Creek Poets Society. At present he does freelance writing and editing.

 

 

International Editor

Paul Gough

 

 

Acquiring Editor

Cynthia Alvarez is a bilingual author writing in English and Spanish. She is the author of two book in Spanish El Tiempo De Las Mariposas and Cuentos de la Puerto Rico. Her English short stories have also appeared in the London Journal, The New Republic, Story Quarterly, and numerous other periodicals. She was the 2001 recipient of the Witter Bynner Fellowship from the US Library of Congress. She currently lives in Chicago with her entrepreneur husband and their golden retriever.

 

 

 

 

 

Special Guest Editors

 

Literary Agent, Alana Lennie, of the
Lennie Literary Agency & Authors Attorney .

ALANA LENNIE is an agent with the Michael R. Lennie Literary Agency, founded by her husband, a noted NY/CA-licensed literary attorney and long-time advocate of authors' rights.
On the fiction side, Alana enjoys literary fiction, mysteries (cozies), and short stories. She always is thrilled to receive queries from young people.

As for nonfiction, her interests range from business books, child care and parenting, and anything involving travel (guidebooks to memoirs). "I believe it's as important for an agent to work at assisting the publisher and the author market their published book as it is to assist in the marketing of the unpublished book to an editor."

 

Literary Agent Kelly D. Sonnack from the Sandra Dijkstra Literary Agency

 

Kelly Sonnack is an agent with the Sandra Dijkstra Literary Agency, known for establishing and guiding the careers of many fiction and nonfiction authors, including Amy Tan, Janell Cannon, Lisa See, Diane Mott Davidson, Kevin Starr, Mike Davis, and many others.

The Los Angeles Times dubbed the Dijkstra Agency "the most powerful literary agency on the West Coast" and, in its 20+ years, it has developed a reputation for discovering new talent and representing quality work with great commercial potential.

Kelly began her career with the publishing giant Elsevier, under the Academic Press Imprint where she quickly worked her way up to Acquisitions Editor. At the Dijkstra Agency, she manages the submission cycle and also assists with foreign rights and PR. She is actively building her list and is especially interested in all areas of children's literature (YA, MG, picture books, graphic novels) and international women's fiction.

 

 

Special Guest Assistant Editors

 

Shoe Schuster, a screenwriter on Bravo TV's Sitcom Comedy. Recently, Shoe completed a pilot for NBC starring Maggie Wheeler (“Friends”) and David Deluise (“Third Rock from the Sun”).

Most recently, Shoe setup a comedy feature with Al Pacino attached, was hired by Bigfoot Entertainment to co-write a comedy feature with Monique Sorgen called, co-write a comedy feature with Monique Sorgen called, “The Babymaker,” that is set to go in production in the Fall of 2008, and sold a TV pilot based on a feature starring Bobby Brown and Lil ’ Kim.

Misty Day is a writer, poet, and teacher who contributes to E-zines around the world such as the Sabian Symbols International Quarterly.

Ms. Day holds a C.A.P. (Certified Astrological Professional) from the International Society for Astrological Research. She was initially accredited by Professional Astrologers, Incorporated and is a practitioner of the Timesmithing Method of Astrological Interpretation where she has over 28 years experience.

Reading DRACULA at the age of twelve ignited Margaret L. Carter's interest in a wide range of horror, fantasy, and science fiction. Vampires, however, have always remained close to her heart, beginning with her first book, CURSE OF THE UNDEAD, an anthology of vampire fiction.

Her dissertation for the University of California (Irvine) contained a chapter on DRACULA, and its publication in book form was shortly followed by DRACULA: THE VAMPIRE AND THE CRITICS and THE VAMPIRE IN LITERATURE: A CRITICAL BIBLIOGRAPHY.

Her fiction includes stories in small press magazines and in anthologies such as Marion Zimmer Bradley's Darkover and "Sword and Sorceress" volumes; a werewolf novel, SHADOW OF THE BEAST; a vampire novel, DARK CHANGELING, which won an Eppie Award (presented by EPIC, an e-published authors' organization) in 2000 in the horror category; CHILD OF TWILIGHT, its sequel, an Eppie finalist in horror in 2004; and other horror and paranormal romance novels.

Her first mass market novel, a vampire romance entitled EMBRACING DARKNESS, was published in March 2005 by Silhouette Intimate Moments. Her monograph DIFFERENT BLOOD: THE VAMPIRE AS ALIEN was a 2005 Eppie finalist in nonfiction. She has had several erotic paranormal romances released in the thriving e-publishing market, most recently two novelettes, an undine story, "Aquatic Ardor" (Amber Quill Press) and a humorous Lovecraftian tale, "Tentacles of Love" (Ellora's Cave).

 

 

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