About the authors:

 

Author: Nicholas Bruner

Nicholas Bruner’s books will explore the lost world of Atlantis, delve into where shadows go at night, evoke ancient spirits of animal protectors, take you on a canoe trip trying to escape dark secrets, and a sixteen-year-old’s not-so-perfect invention to help find love.

 

Author: Angela D. Glascock

Angela D. Glascock occasionally emerges from the woods to write and share stories she collects from and about her family, essays about her personal apocalypse after losing her sister to suicide, and to work on the second part of her novella about a zombie apocalypse from a dog's point of view.

 

Author: Claudine Griggs

Claudine Griggs earned her BA and MA in English at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, and she has worked as the writing center director at Rhode Island College and a visiting professor of communication skills at Soka University of America.  She is currently a writing specialist at the Bush School of Government and Public Service in Washington, D.C.

 

Author: Dana King

Dana King is the author of fifteen novels, with Number Sixteen due out before year’s end. Dana writes the Nick Forte private detective novels – two of which received Shamus Awards nominations from the Private Eye Writers of America – as well as the Penns River series of police procedurals. His short fiction appears in numerous outlets and he is a frequent panelist at conferences across the country, as well as reading at Noir at the Bar events.

 

Author: Anita Klein

Anita Klein is a mom, wife, artist, and breast cancer survivor. She writes about her breast cancer journey, treatment, and "after" on her blog. Anita also likes to have fun with art and fill her space with color.

 

Author: S.C. Megale

S.C.Megale’s bold, emotional writing spans diverse topics: A YA romance featuring a protagonist in a wheelchair who desires the able-bodied star of her student film project, all the while tackling the inevitable humor, struggle, and heart that comes with a disability. Megale's own brother is the subject of the next book—a raw, firsthand account of opioid addiction which shares one family’s love and hope for helping others.

 

Author: Stephen H. Moriarty

Stephen H. Moriarty was raised in Falls Church and has lived in Virginia all his life. Married with four children and seven grandchildren, he is a writer disguised as a practicing lawyer. He recently published the first in a trilogy of courthouse mysteries, Restitution, available on Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble.com.

 

Author: Edwin (Ted) Mosser

Ted Mosser has had a multifaceted life and career. He has taught high school English and been a track coach at a few schools near Boston and in this area. He has also been a community theater participant, a public radio jazz and ballads DJ in Asheville, and more recently a freelance writer and photographer here in Northern Virginia. Now, at 78, he is enjoying teaching film, music, and poetry appreciation classes and also participating in two Northern Virginia writers’ groups.

 

Author: Ruth Hersh Perry, MSW

Ruth Hersh Perry is a gardener, professional frog hunter, and fearless cook. She is a retired Nursing Home and Assisted Living Administrator with more than twenty years' experience working in long-term healthcare. She is the coauthor of Didn’t Meet Any Geezers. She serves as Moderator for the Writers of Chantilly and has been featured in several of their anthologies. Ruth lives in Fairfax, Virginia, with her many dear friends and plans for future stories.

 

Author: Tom Sterling

Tom Sterling was born in the small town of Crisfield on Maryland’s Eastern Shore. He moved to Northern Virginia and worked as an engineer in the defense industry for forty years.

Tom writes a collection of short science fiction and fantasy stories describing ordinary people thrown into extraordinary situations. The series is called Postcards from Earth and can be found on Amazon.