The 2015 Ladies of Horror
The following Ladies will be contributing to
The Ladies of Horror 2015
S. W. Fairbrother
S.W. Fairbrother is an avid reader whose love of stories couldn't help but spill over into writing them. She reads and writes almost every genre, but has a special love of the strange and fantastical.
Her first novel, The Secret Dead, was published in April 2014, and the sequel, A Murder of Crones, was published later the same year.
She lives in London where she spends most of her spare time word-wrangling in one form or another. You can find out more about S.W. Fairbrother at her website: http://swfairbrother.com/
Berti Walker
Berti Walker was born in the armpit of California. She settled down on the penis of America, where she now resides in God's Waiting Room, Florida, with her husband, three cats, and baby.
Berti is an avid bookworm, author, and artist. She writes science fiction, fantasy, horror, bizarro, and erotica, often combining the genres.
Follow her on Facebook or Twitter. Don't be afraid to send her a message!
Sandy Rozanski
Sandy Rozanski has been writing since she was eight years old. She is a wife of forty-four years, a mother to grown children and a grandmother. Born in Boston, MA. Sandy moved to Maine, where she still resides after twenty-five years, with the love of her life.
Magan Rodriguez
Magan lives in Metro Detroit with her husband Jerry and their three spoiled rotten cats. She has been a writer since age 8. Though, her passion for writing began even before that, thanks to her mother and grandparents. She learned to read and write while singing along with her mother to records and reading lyrics sheets, which helped foster her affection for writing and poetry.
Her first novel (unpublished and lost) was written when she was 17-18. Her first work was published in mid 2007, with her second published work in 2008. Both pieces were published online by Dark Reveries magazine (sadly lamented.)
She loves the gothic, loves dark psychology and working with psyches and open ended stories. She is very very influenced by Japanese horror, which often focuses on the 'why' of a situation. She can be found on Facebook at: https://www.facebook.com/blubeagle
Mandi M. Lynch
Mandi M. Lynch started writing at the tender age of five, pecking away at her mother's typewriter to make little books. While the crayon drawings have improved marginally, the spelling has not.
Now, she lives in the 'burbs of Nashville, Tennessee, with three cats, none of which write due to lack of thumbs. Aside from writing, she is an editor, and also publishes Ink Monkey Mag and several anthologies a year. She is programming director for Hypericon, a speculative fiction, gaming, and art convention held yearly in Nashville.
Currently, you can find her writing horror (which was a surprise to her, too) and her next publishing projects are a new issue of Ink Monkey, and The Tomato Anthology. She'll be working on a cool charity project after that.
M. S. A.
M.S.A’s soul was stirred with rhyming words when she was just a few years old. Her maternal grandfather, a doctorate in literature and her father, a rocket scientist laid the first few stones in the foundation of her writing career. Her dad would inspire her and challenge her to find rhyming words similar to the rhymes she used to sing. Dry listing of words was tedious and did not mean much to her. With her feeble diction and broken grammar, M.S.A was able to string words into her very first poem on her mother. Her grandfather would offer encouragement and tips of how to improve her writing.
Born into a family of avid readers, M.S.A could do nothing but take up the family tradition of reading. Storybooks enthralled her! She loved reading stories, but loved to write poems. She did not read poems much because she noticed that the usage of rhymes can sometimes influence your own creations. That seemed to compromise M.S.A’s own creativity and sabotage her thrill of discovery of rhyming words by using dictionary to find new words and ways to use them in her poems. She did not like writing stories or essays since there was this cumbersome grammar that she had to satisfy. Poems gave her the artistic license to ignore it. Totally! But then one day she finds her mother craft a brilliant short story! Her world changes entirely. Her mother’s story lured her into storytelling because here she could create her own world with endless possibilities! Anything could happen; anything she liked! As she ventured into this enchanting world, she realized that an effective story obeys most of the rules of the real world, but slightly deviates to deliver a powerful message. And thus she embarked on a story telling mission.
Stories can be told in many ways. If writing is one way, speaking is another. M.S.A is a member of Toastmasters where she gets to speak regularly. Here she learnt the importance of humor, well placed anecdotes and other story telling techniques. Her brother was her first experience in incorporating humor in daily banter. His timing is spectacular. M.S.A originally lacked that timing. Gaining inspiration from her brother, M.S.A managed to get a foothold in humor and uses it in both speeches and writing. Motivated by her driven husband to reach the stars, M.S.A hones her speaking and writing skills to utilize even in her professional world. Becoming a mom only fueled her drive to achieve… She says “If ever my daughter questions her ability to manage her profession, her family, her hobbies, her responsibilities and others, she needs to look at me and think ‘if my mom can do it, so can I’ and continue her pursuit of her goals”
Amanda J Spedding
Amanda J Spedding is an editor, proofreader and award-winning author whose stories have been published in local and international markets earning honourable mentions and recommended reads. She won the 2011 Australian Shadows Award (short fiction) for her steampunk-horror, 'Shovel-Man Joe'.
Amanda is the owner and editor-in-chief of Phoenix Editing and Proofreading. She also works with Cohesion Press as co-editor of their SNAFU series where the first in the series - SNAFU: an Anthology of Military Horror - was a finalist in the Australian Shadows Awards (edited collection) and earned a Bram Stoker recommended read.
Between bouts of editing, she is writing (and rewriting) her first novel - an apocalyptic fantasy. Her horror comic, 'The Road to Golgotha' was launched at Oz ComicCon in June of this year, which was as amazing as it sounds.
Amanda lives in Sydney with her sarcatstically-gifted husband and two very cool kids.