Jack Bates grew up in the northern suburbs of Detroit, Michigan, and began writing at an early age. He is an award winning writer of short fiction, screenplays, stage plays, and children's books. He is a three time nominee for a Derringer Award from the Short Mystery Fiction Society.

People wishing to stage his plays may contact him at jacktheauthor@gmail.com .

Deborah Lacy loves modern speakeasies, Mickey Mouse and writing short mystery fiction.

She runs a blog called Mystery Playground (http://www.mysteryplayground.net).

A graduate of the University of Western Ontario, C. F. Carter owns several internet companies and publishes MysteryWeekly magazine. When he’s not writing crime fiction, he enjoys badminton, photography, and TV crime shows. He currently lives with his wife and daughter near Hamilton, Ontario, but feels most at home in Old Quebec, where he hopes one day to retire.

Arthur Davis is a management consultant with an MBA in Corporate and Investment Finance whose practice specialty is Corporate Planning and Reorganization. He has been quoted in The New York Times and in Crain’s New York Business, taught at The New School and interviewed on New York TV News Channel 1.

He has managed engagements in the United States and overseas, advised The New York City Taxi & Limousine Commission, the Department of Homeland Security, Senator John McCain's investigating committee on boxing reform, testified as an expert witness before Senator Roy Goodman’s New York State Commission on Corruption in Boxing and lectures on leadership skills to CEO's and entrepreneurs.

Since 2012, over a hundred and twenty original tales of horror, fantasy, magical realism, science fiction, speculative fiction, mystery, crime, epic adventure as well as literary fiction have been published, with another forty as reprints. Nine novels are available and include tales of mystery, fantasy, horror, romance and mainstream fiction.

He was featured in a single author anthology, nominated for a Pushcart Prize, twice nominated he received Honorable Mention in The Best American Mystery Stories 2017, and received the 2018 Write Well Award for excellence in short fiction.

Looking to partner with cable/TV companies to develop proprietary properties based on the novels and short stories in www.TalesofOurTime.com, where great storytelling is at the heart of great entertainment.

Additional background is available at the Poets & Writers Organization (https://www.pw.org/content/arthur_davis) at linkedin, facebook and at www.TalesOfOurTime.com.

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Sherry D. Ramsey is a bestselling speculative fiction writer, editor, publisher, creativity addict and self-confessed Internet geek. When she’s not writing, she makes jewelry, gardens, hones her creative procrastination skills on social media, and consumes far more coffee and chocolate than is likely good for her.

Her books include her Nearspace series from Tyche Books; the urban fantasy series Olympia Investigations; science fiction and fantasy for middle grade and young adult readers, and several collections of short fiction. With her partners at Third Person Press, she has co-edited several anthologies of regional short fiction. A member of the Writer’s Federation of Nova Scotia Writer’s Council, Sherry is also a past Vice-President and Secretary-Treasurer of SF Canada, Canada’s national association for Speculative Fiction Professionals.

Sherry lives in Nova Scotia with her husband, children, and dogs. You can visit her online at www.sherrydramsey.com, find her on Facebook, and keep up with her much more pithy musings on Twitter @sdramsey.