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. Founder/Executive
Editor, Babs Lakey . Publisher, Lida E. Quillen
. Co-Publisher, Ardy Scott .
. Art Director, Gin E.L. Fenton
. Managing Editor, Barry Ergang
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. Fiction Editor, Virginia Lo Monaco . Fiction
Editor/Reviewer, Marlene Satter .
. Fiction Editor, Chick Lang . Copyeditor,
Mary Schenten .
. Editorial Consultant, Earl Staggs
. List Moderator , Kimberly Brown .
. Book Reviews Coordinator, Cynthia Clark . e-Book
Reviews Coordinator, Christine Speakman .
. Book Reviews
Columnist, Harriet Klausner .
. FMAM
Artists and Illustrators .
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Founder/Executive
Editor, Babs Lakey
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Babs on a bike tour across the US with her husband
Lou (Lewis is taking the picture) "My dream for FUTURES was not
to make a copy of those that precede and surround it, but an archetypal
first edition. This magazine has been created, exists, to give
you juice. To spark your creative power. As a group, we will ignite
what is inside our core, our soul." You can reach Babs through
Futures or by email.
Click here
to view an interview with Babs and learn more about her. Spirit
of the Straightedge, Spirit of the Silent Butler, and Spirits
of the Once Walking are now all available. To learn more about
Babs and her novels or to order online go to www.suspenseunlimited.net
Babs, the featured author on The 3rd Degree from
Volume
2 Issue 4 would love to have you read her story THE RED BLOOD
SALOON from their archives and let them know if you enjoy it.
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Lida E.
Quillen, Publisher
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Lida
E. Quillen is an author, editor, literary agent, publicist and publisher.
She is the founder and owner of Twilight
Times Books and Paladin
Timeless Books. Lida started publishing in 1998 with an online
magazine, Twilight Times.
Then she kept meeting talented novelists who could not get published
and founded Twilight Times Books January 1999.
Lida says, "Rest assured we will keep FMAM as a mystery magazine.
The emphasis will be at least 70% mystery for the foreseeable future.
Twilight Times primarily publishes SF/F stories and we would like
to keep the two ezines just as they are now - focused on different
areas of speculative fiction."
Contact Lida: publisher@fmam.biz
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Ardy Scott,
Co-Publisher
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Ardy
always considered herself a jack-of-all-trades and master of a few.
She is author of Prophecy: The Awakening, a New Age Fantasy
novel, available at Twilight
Times Books. Click here
to visit her author site.
Ardy currently runs two businesses from her home: FantaSeeWorks
Graphics & Design with her partners in Australia & Canada,
and Fantasy In Wood (wood sculpting). More, she is also a freelance
artist/illustrator, doing original art, unique cards and cover art
for herself and other authors. You can check out Ardy's
artwork.
Contact Ardy: ardy@fmam.biz.
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Art Director,
Gin E L Fenton (GinELF)
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GinELF
~ Ginnie E.L. Fenton is a professional artist who specializes in
illustrations, glamour portraits, pinup, mystery, crime, and fantasy
art. A few years ago, she brought her conventional art skills to
the new digital medium, and now creates her mostly romantic, sensuous
studies of beauty and drama, with the aid of her computer, drawing
tablet, and stylus. Her style and subject matter are particularly
suited for use as magazine and book illustration and cover art.
In the past couple of years almost all of her paintings and illustrations
have been published. Her illustrations are now featured in the outstanding
Futures Mystery Anthology Magazine and FAME, its wonderful online
sister. She has recently been appointed to the position of Art Director
for FMAM. Gin is a member of the Graphic Artists Guild, and lives
in an oak woods by a lake, in rural northeast Texas, with her retired
doctor husband, and pets.
For more Information Contact: Ginnie E.L. Fenton at artwork@fmam.biz
Art by GinELF ~ Artist Home Studio
Email: fmam@artisthome.com
Website: http://www.artisthome.com/
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| Editorial
Consultant, Earl Staggs |
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Earl previously served as FMAM’s Managing Editor and also
did a term as President of the Short Mystery Fiction Society. His
short stories have appeared in a number of magazines and anthologies,
and he proudly adds that one of them brought home a Derringer Award
for Best Short Mystery Story in 2002.
He received Best Story of the Year honors from Mysterical-e Magazine,
a Pushcart Prize nomination, the Kathey Clarey Mystery Writer Memorial
Award for Best First Chapter of a Novel, and was a Finalist for
the Derringer Award in 2003.
His novel, "Memory of A Murder," will be published in
the summer of 2005 by Quiet Storm Publishing.
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Managing
Editor, Barry Ergang
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Barry Ergang is permitted to share his home in the western Philadelphia
suburbs with Alfie, Lord of the Manor: the terminally cute little
guy in the photo.
He -- Barry, not Alfie -- has been writing since he was
12 and has had fiction, poetry, and non-fiction appear in a variety
of publications, print and online, including Philly Talk, Erehwon,
Pulpsmith, Stereophile, Proof Rock, Ketchup and Other Vegetables:
American Poets on President Reagan, Gold Dust, Potpourri, Z Miscellaneous,
The Sunday Suitor, Maelstrom, Moondance, Tucumcari Literary Review,
The Listening Eye, Barbaric Yawp, QPB Presents the World's Best
Shortest Stories, Nefarious, Word Chowder, Mysterical-E, Whispering
Spirits, Flashquake, Mind Fire Renewed, Web Mystery Magazine, and
Futures Mystery Anthology Magazine.
Writers he admires include John Dickson Carr, Raymond Chandler,
William Faulkner, Langston Hughes, Ross Macdonald, Bernard Malamud,
Wallace Stevens, Dylan Thomas, and William Butler Yeats. (Christopher
Marlowe and William Shakespeare are almost too obvious for inclusion.)
Befitting a mystery/suspense buff, his favorite film director is
Alfred Hitchcock.
Most of his working life has been spent selling high-end audio/video
equipment, his personal preference being for musical-reproduction
components over home theater and video gear. Admittedly a dinosaur,
he favors the sound of vacuum-tubed over transistorized amplification
and analog (vinyl LPs) over digital (compact discs) sources.
Contact Barry: Barry@FMAM.biz
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| FMAMWriters-artists
List Moderator, Kimberly Brown |
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Kimberly Brown is shown with her crowning achievement so far, the
Mickey Mouse medal she earned in the 2004 Walt Disney World Marathon.
Besides running, Kimberly's favorite thing is writing. Some of the
publications she's appeared in are Futures, Orchard Press Mysteries,
mysterynet.com, and a Barnes and Noble anthology. She even has a
poem to be published in an upcoming edition of T-Zero Writer's Ezine.
Kimberly's favorite thing to read is short stories, but she'll read
just about anything, from cereal boxes on up. She spent over six
years earning a computer science degree, then another few years
earning a master's in Management Information Systems. After spending
all that time in school, she gleefully quit work when her husband
retired and became a highly educated retirement companion. They
now live in a cabin in the mountains with a cat named Buffy who
controls Kimberly's life, as only a feline can.
Come Join the Discussion: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FMAMwriters-artists
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| Fiction
Editor, Virginia Lo Monaco |
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A
native Californian, Virginia Lo Monaco has in the past worked for
the Orange County Sheriff's Department as a Fingerprint Technician
and for the Orange County Probation Department as a Juvenile Hall
Group Counselor. She has also been employed as a computer programmer,
systems analyst and opera singer (her first love). She has recently
returned to California after residing in Italy for almost 16 years
where she directed the church choir in the town where she lived.
She also sang on Italian TV and gave concerts in many cities. "A
Man of Honor," one of the short stories she has had published in
Futures MYSTERY Anthology Magazine, was nominated for a Pushcart
Prize and, after she translated it into Italian, she won 2nd place
in the Akery National Literary Competition in Acerra, Italy. Her
SF short story, "Intermezzo a Cappella" won an Honorable Mention
in the Writer's Digest 2001 Writing Competition in the Genre Short
Story classification. She has also published poetry in "The Shining
Light," an anthology. She has completed two mystery novels which
are, at this very moment, in the hands of her agent.
You can email Virginia at: lomonaco@lo-monaco.com.
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| Fiction
Editor, Chick Lang |
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Chick Lang spends most of his spare time writing fiction. In the
last three years hes garnered over a hundred-seventy writing
credits, including stories accepted for Futures MYSTERY Anthology
Magazine, Hardluck Stories, The Writers Post Journal and others.
He is currently a fiction editor for FMAM and Coffee Cramp Magazine.
Presently he lives in Laurel, Mississippi with wife Cheryl and daughter
Natalie. Contact Chick at chick_lang@yahoo.com.
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Editor/Reviewer, Marlene Satter |
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Marlene
Satter finds that she gets the most done, whether writing or editing,
when Tribby is in her customary spot by the computer and there's
harp music playing in the background. Marlene's nonfiction has appeared
everywhere from The News of Salem, Arkansas to Investment Advisor
Magazine, Horsesmouth.com,
SpaReviewMag.com, and
various technical manuals; editing, technical writing, and journalism
have been day jobs, on and off, for more years than she likes to
think about.
Fiction and poetry, on the other hand, have been Marlene's true
loves in the writing field, and she's been working at them since
childhood. Under the name Lee Barwood, her fantasy, horror, and
mystery fiction and poetry have appeared in anthologies and magazines
ranging from Horsefantastic, Catfantastic III and V, and Sisters
in Fantasy II to Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, Weirdbook, Space
& Time, Fantasy Book, and Fantasy Tales. She's won awards, including
Andre Norton's Gryphon Award for her suspense thriller novel
A Dream of Drowned Hollow, and been nominated for a Balrog for
fantasy poetry (check out www.leebarwood.com
for more information). She combines her love of music (she's a harpist
-- you can see more about that at www.harpsdesire.net)
with her devotion to animals in many of her stories, and finds that
animal characters have just as much to say as human ones.
Making sure copy is in the best possible shape before it sees print
has been her job and her mission for years; doing so for FMAM's
fine writers is a pleasure. So is reviewing books to let folks know
about all the "good stuff" that's available.
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| Copyeditor,
Mary Schenten |
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Mary Schenten has had a love of reading since she was a little girl,
but she didn’t give a thought to writing until she was middle-aged.
She’s had a short story published in “The
Northern Reader” magazine and hopes to have more published
one day.
Too much of her time is spent at a full-time job that consists
of crunching numbers and running compliance testing on retirement
plans. She considers herself something of a loner and was
delighted to be offered the opportunity to work from her home since
February 2005.
She lives with her Significant Other, Marty, in St. Cloud, MN
and longs for the day they can both retire and escape – or
at least ignore – the long, cold winters.
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| Book Review Coordinator,
Cynthia Clark |
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Former
Miss Chicago (Miss USA), Cynthia Lea Clark continued school,
graduating from Northwestern University (multiple degreed), attended
nursing school, and became a Firefighter Paramedic. After working
as an actress in Chicago, she moved to Los Angeles where she worked
on many television shows, such as DAYS OF OUR LIVES and STAT, while
continuing her education with a Masters in Psychology and then a
Doctorate of Psychology. While working on STAT, she was stalked
which led her to work in Forensic Psychopathology. She has over
70 interviews with serial killers, mass murderers, etc. Today she
mixes Forensics with writing and acting. She is a member of
Mystery Writers of America, Romance Writers of America, Kiss of
Death Chapter of RWA, International Thriller Writers, Sisters in
Crime, and the American College of Forensic Examiners International.
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Review Coordinator, Christine Speakman |
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Christine
Speakman is addicted to books. She's returned to the writing
and reviewing arena after a four year hiatus.
Christine will be specializing in E-book reviews for FMAM.
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| Book Reviews
Columnist, Harriet Klausner |
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Harriet
Klausner, was chosen the number one reader in the entire USA
by BOOK Magazine. What does that mean to you? She reads constantly
and knows what's out there and wants to let you know, too
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