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The Sha’Daa Crew
“I had been the author of unalterable evils; and I live in daily fear, lest the monster whom I had created should perpetuate some new wickedness.”
- VICTOR FRANKENSTEIN, MD
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-Michael H. Hanson is the author of numerous screenplays, poems, and short stories. His brain-child, The Sha'Daa, represents his first foray into novel length fiction. He lives and works in Piscataway, NJ.
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-Edward F. McKeown is a native son of NYC from which he draws much of the color and attitude of his stories. He moved to Charlotte, North Carolina in search of reasonable housing prices and a commute free of the “non-bathing public.” In Charlotte, he developed an interest in the martial arts, achieving a black sash (belt) in Kung Fu and now studies Taekwando. He's proved less adept at ballroom dancing but continues to plug away at it. Writing was always a desire and became a passion after his muse took up full time residence behind his eyeballs. He's fortunate to be married to the noted artist, Schelly Keefer. Edward has authored both fiction and non fiction and is represented by The Faye Swetky Literary Agency for novel length work.
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-Nancy Jackson. From her home in Ontario Nancy edits, writes, reviews, and reads all manner of fiction. The anthologies she has edited include Trip the Light Horrific, Dream the Dark Majestic, Travel a Time Historic, Mind Scraps, Bleed My Heart Romantic, Goremet Cuisine, Vintage Moon, Dreams of Flesh, and Morbid Acts of Kindness. Jackson is a full time author with works in TWILIGHT TIMES, ANOTHEREALM, LOST SOULS, and various anthologies including LABOR POOL HORROR TALES, BROKEN MIRRORS, and the ROMANCING THE SOUL series.
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-Deborah Koren writes fiction from California's Sierra Nevada mountains. When she's not writing or reading (or working at her pesky day job), she is out hiking, playing with her dogs and cats, fencing, watching Combat! reruns, shoveling snow, and frequenting the local library. Her fiction has appeared in several ezines, including Anotherealm, AlienSkin, RaggedEdge Publishing, Gateway, and Kenoma, several of which have won awards. Several anthologies, such as Best of AstoundingTales.com, Ghelenden Revisited, and Cybertales: Live Wire, have included her stories.
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-Wilson “Pete” Marsh, the man, was born in 1953. Wilson “Pete” Marsh, the writer, was born in 1976 when he lived for two years in isolation atop the Rocky Mountains of Montana, in a tipi. Using a felt tip pen he inscribed his words on the bleached skulls and scapulas of elk, deer, and the occasional unknown creature he found across the mountainsides. His readership was limited. They were also concerned and disturbed about his methods and style. In response to the concerns, he discontinued using the felt marking pen. Later he worked for two newspapers; the Boulder Monitor and the Jefferson Courier. Deciding the writing styles imposed were too limiting, he started his own newspaper, the HighCountry Reporter. As a whim, due to his political reporting, he entered the race for mayor of Boulder, Montana, and remarkably won by a landslide. Remarkable, because his platform was, "An honest politician is hard to find. Elect me, and we will hunt for one together." Now Marsh resides in Arizona where he works for a property management company as advertising agent, webmaster, and leasing agent.
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-Arthur Sanchez was born and raised in Manhattan and though he hasn't resided on that overpopulated island for close to two decades, he still regards it as “Mother Concrete.” He has a degree in Theater and another in Political Science from Fordham University at Lincoln Center. He is, or has been at one time or another: an Actor, a Copy Writer, a Customer Service & Internet Services Manager, a Day Camp Leader, a Documentation Specialist, a Doorman, a Fiction Writer, a Grocery Clerk, a Playwright, a Project Manager, a Poet, a Receptionist, a Record Department Sales Clerk, a Secretary, a Security Guard, a Stained Glass Craftsman, a Technical Writer, and a Webmaster. He currently resides in Florida.
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-Jamie Schmidt has written many tales of the fantastic. A master of the short form, her sci-fi, horror, and fantasy stories are always delightful.
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-D.R. MacMaster is a writer/filmmaker/cartoonist and occasional pop-culture columnist. Currently he's keeping with his tradition of doing way too much at one time, by rewriting two novels while writing a first draft of an original screenplay. He's a graduate of the Ryerson University Film Studies Program and currently lives in Nova Scotia, Canada.
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-Adrienne Ray is a graduate of Mary Washington College. She lives with her husband, Mick, and their two children, Mike and Elizabeth. Mike is in college now and Elizabeth is in high school. Adrienne is the Director of Religious Education at St. Peters Catholic Church and is also a Eucharistic Minister. She has written several short stories for online magazines. Adrienne is a sly humorist with a keen mind for funny characters.
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-Lee Ann Kuruganti, a former mountaineer and kayak guide, is a talented Digital Artist and graduate of the University of Colorado. Lee Ann has written a host of wonderful short stories and two unpublished novels. She works and lives in Colorado.
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-Rob Adams is a civil servant who lives in Newcastle, U.K. He is the devilish author of many frightening and creepy tales of the dark side. Adams is a civil servant whose alter ego is a writer. He was born in the north-east of England way back in the mists of time (the mid 1970s, anyway), and has lived there pretty much his whole life. At present, he's living the life of a contented bachelor in the not-so picturesque northern town of Gateshead. He graduated from DeMontfort University in 1998, with a 2:1 degree in History and very little idea of what he wanted to do with it. He moved to Derbyshire and worked on and off (mostly off) for the next two years, including a spell as a football writer for a local newspaper, following non-league Ripley Town FC. He moved back up north to Newcastle in December 2000, and joined the civil service as an administrator in 2001. As Rob says “Being a (very) junior civil servant is a lot like being unemployed: you seem to do very little all day for very little money. Still, it gives me nearly as much time to write as I had when I was at Uni, and this time I've started to take it seriously.”
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-T Anthony Truax was born in Hammond, IN and raised in and around the south side of Chicago, IL. He attended Northern Illinois University (go Huskies!) and finished with a Business degree in Banking/Finance and a minor in Communications from Cleveland State University. He presently works as an Analyst for a large bank. He lives with his wife and children outside of Cleveland. He is the author of A WHOLE NEW BREED, which is Book One in “The Naphtali Chronicles.” Since AWNB was accepted by Publish America, he's done a TV interview for the show “Another Look” as well as interviews for the Sun Newspapers, Reader's Nook Web-Zine, and West Life newspaper. Some of his short stories have been published in web-zines such as SHADOWGLASS and THE WRITER'S NOOK AND READER'S CORNER. Besides writing fiction, Mr. Truax also enjoys studying history and religion and lives with his family in Northeast Ohio.
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-The late James I. Wasserman was born on Halloween, October 31, 1974, and started reading at the age of 3. In elementary school, he was prevented from bringing a short story to a Young Writer's Convention because the plot involved a decapitation. He wrote short stories as long as he could remember -- with his “prodromal period” ages 14-16 when he started submitting short stories to various print magazines [and actually received a handwritten response from W. Paul Ganley despite the manuscript's rejection]. The majority of his writing centered on supernatural/horror fiction. Before his death, he had published a scientific article in the journal Schizophrenia Research (his Masters’ Thesis at Queen’s University) in 2003 and his latest fictional work had appeared in the Lovecraft issue of Simulacrum Magazine. James received the Ph.D. degree in Behavioral Neuroscience from Queen's University, Kingston, ON, Canada, shortly before his tragic death at the age of 31. “Sha’Daa: Last Call” is dedicated to the memory of James.
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