Dale Parnell was born and raised in Norwich, and moved to Staffordshire in 1999. He has been writing for almost thirty years, but it wasn’t until 2017 that he self-published his first collection, “The Green Cathedral”, a selection of seven contemporary fantasy short stories.

This was followed by a second collection in 2019, “Bramble and other stories”, this time branching out to include horror and science-fiction as well as fantasy.

Dale’s first foray into poetry came in 2018, when he was fortunate enough to have three pieces accepted for the anthology “Further Within Darkness & Light” from Nothing Books. Since then, Dale has featured in over forty fiction and poetry anthologies from some of the best independent publishers around the world.

In 2022, Dale released his third collection, “Foundations”, featuring a variety of short stories that have been featured in previously published anthologies, along with a brand new, exclusive tale.

Dale lives in Staffordshire with his wife and their imaginary dog, Moriarty. He is currently working on a second science-fiction novella whilst he waits for the first one to be published, and his strangest wish is to find a copy of one his books for sale in a charity shop.

A lifelong writer, Nicholas Wilkinson lives in Kearny, Arizona where he writes almost every day against the backdrop of the beautiful desert vistas. Nicholas Wilkinson, along with his wife Kate, wanted to find something that they could do together as a couple, and so, "Inappropriate Children's Stories" was born. With a daughter of their own, the couple quickly realized how boring and unappealing children's books can truly be. Using rhyming couplets, the husband and wife team put their own unique twist on the everyday adventures of modern parenting.

Nick spent over 10 years working with "at-risk" youth, and Kate has worked with pre-school-aged children for as long as she can remember. Nick Wilkinson has authored books on child abuse and teens in crisis, and helping survivors of child abuse and neglect is a passion that his both personal and rewarding.

In 2018 Nick's sister Yolanda passed away because of a tragic accidental overdose, thus the book "H is for Heroin" was created to honor his sister's memory and help combat the nationwide crisis of opioid abuse and addiction

https://ramseseternal.wixsite.com/nicholaswilkinson

As an author, Laura Shenton is probably best known for her music non-fiction. In particular, Dance With The Devil – The Cozy Powell Story (Wymer Publishing) and Tommy Bolin – In and Out of Deep Purple (Sonicbond Publishing). She feels that preserving the legacies of musicians who have contributed something amazing to the field is imperative.

For readers who want to enjoy the ride of letting their mind get lost in a good story without having to commit to a lengthy read, then it might just be that Laura's fiction books could be your cup of tea. They are character-driven with a short and punchy narrative that gets to the point. They are all novellas or novelettes. Genres include gothic, fantasy, and adventure (mostly, but with a few diversions too).

And finally, Laura's children's books... They are simple, accessible and fun. A good choice for youngsters with a fertile imagination who are at the very start of their reading journey.

Bernardo is primarily a filmmaker. His formal filmmaking education was received at Fairleigh-Dickinson University as well as Long Island University - C.W. Post. His first film, "Suffer the Little Children," has won 4 awards and has been officially selected by 13 festivals worldwide (www.sufferproductions.com). Bernardo has also directed and edited seven short films, spanning many genres, at Stonestreet Studios an affiliate studio of NYU. He was selected to direct a staged reading of a screenplay for the HotINK reading series and has directed staged readings of feature-length screenplays and plays he has written.

Bernardo's experience includes feature film and short film editing, and well as television commercial copy-writing, direction and editing.

Bernardo has also branched out into the world of theatre, including a stage adaptation of "Peter and the Wolf" he authored, which premiered as part of the Pillow Play series, while another children's play he wrote, "The Walled City," premiered in the same series. He has also written two other short plays one "Dementia Unlimited" participated in the Chrysalis One-Act Festival winning 4 awards and "The Grasshopper Child," which was selected for the First Draft Playwright's Circle.

Bernardo most recently wrote and directed the award-winning short film "The Watermelon Wagon Killer," and published his premier novella, "The Isle of Helyr." Bernardo is currently in pre-production on the original horror feature "All Hallows' Eve."

He has a few more fiction and non-fiction offerings in the works.

You can follow Bernardo on:

Twitter: @bernardovillela

Youtube: www.youtube.com/bernardoproductions

and read his movie blog at: http://www.themovierat.com

or visit his production company's page:

www.miller-villela.com

‘Audacious stories marinated in macabre, magic and mayhem.’

From the heart of Scotland, Natasha Sinclair is an independent writer, editor and artist. Working under her brand ‘Clan Witch’ for her creative endeavours and ‘Word Refinery’ for editorial works.

Her writing is often woven with horror, sex and psychological elements. She loves to frolic in the darkness with folklore and the macabre and rich history of her homeland.

Art is unrestrained freedom, as is how storytellers choose to wield the fluid movement and global diversity of language to carve captivating and authentic tales that woe, excite or terrorise an audience. Sinclair passionately embraces that, painting original characters with true form, dialect and depth. The devil is in the details.

Sinclair is the co-conspirator of ‘Brazen Folk Horror’ with her writing partner, Ruthann Jagge. The Brazen Folk Horror duo’s debut collaborative novel, Delevan House released February 1st 2023. Book II in the trilogy is underway. Keep up to date by subscribing to the #BeBrazen newsletter.

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Patrick Winters is a graduate of Illinois College in Jacksonville, IL, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in English Literature and Creative Writing. As a student, he was a two-time co-editor in chief of the college's literary and art magazine, Forte, and is a member of the international English honors society, Sigma Tau Delta.

Winters is now a proud member of the Horror Writers Association. His works have been published in numerous anthologies and magazines and have been featured on various web-based offerings, including the Horror Tree, the Sirens Call, Deadman's Tome, Fantasia Divinity Magazine, Sanitarium Magazine, and many more. While appreciating an array of genres, his favorite to both read and write in is Horror, because he's just plain weird like that!

Winters is an avid listener of all things hard-rock and heavy-metal, a compendium of comic-book knowledge, can (and will) do a perplexing array of voice impersonations, and can bend his thumbs further back than any person should have the right/capability of doing. It is all quite odd . . .

A full list of his publications can be found at: http://wintersauthor.azurewebsites.net/Publications/List

A.S. Charly writes speculative fiction from her home 1,100m above the sea. To date, her works have been published in various online literary outlets and appeared in more than 50 print anthologies. When she’s not dreaming up new worlds, she's busy running the European half of Starry Eyed Press.

Find her at: www.starryeyedpress.com or https://www.facebook.com/A.S.Charlydreams/

Brandi Hicks was born and raised in West Virginia, where she still lives as a single mom with her two incredible children. Her works so far have been with Black Hare Press, but has a few stand alone books in the works. She finds motivation and inspiration through her friends and family. She loves everything from dark and twisted to romance and supernatural.

Member of the Johnson Society of London and run a small literary website. Please visit rudderlessmarinerpoetry.com

Evan Baughfman works in a very scary place: a middle school! (He’s a teacher.) He writes all genres, but horror is where he’s most comfortable. His horror fiction has been published in numerous anthologies, including titles from Improbable Press, 4 Horsemen Publications, No Bad Books Press, and Grinning Skull Press. Evan has penned a collection of 13 short scary stories titled THE EMACIATED MAN AND OTHER TERRIFYING TALES FROM POE MIDDLE SCHOOL, published by Thurston Howl Publications. His spooky novella, VANISHING OF THE 7TH GRADE, is now available from D&T Publishing. D&T has also published Evan's first full-length novel, BAD FOR YOUR TEETH.

Evan has also adapted a number of his short prose works into screenplays, of which "The Tell-Tale Art," “A Perfect Circle,” and “The Creaky Door” have won awards in various film festival competitions.

Additionally, much of Evan's writing success has been as a playwright. He’s had many different plays produced across the globe. His children's play, “R.O.M.3.O. and Julia” (Romeo and Juliet with robots) has been published in PLAYS Magazine. His play for young adults, “Lipstick and Heroics,” is available through YouthPLAYS, as is Evan's all-ages script, "Sprout Wants Out". In addition, his middle grade play, "Percy Pangolin Wants to Go Viral," is published by Heuer Publishing. Heuer has also published Evan's play, "A Taste of Amontillado"(an adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Cask of Amontillado") and his script, "Untragically Ever After". Next Stage Press has published Evan's horror-plays-for teens, "Fear Pressure" and "The Dodo Challenge".

Online theater education resource, Drama Notebook, has added many of Evan’s children’s plays to its catalog. His plays can also be found at New Play Exchange.

Dorian J. Sinnott is the author of numerous works of horror and dark fiction. His stories have appeared in over 250 literary magazines and journals around the world and have been nominated for the Best of the Net and Eric Hoffer Book Award. A few of his works have been turned into audio productions through Chilling Tales for Dark Nights and Nightshift Radio, as well as graphic novels. He is a member of the Horror Writers Association and Horror Authors Guild. A graduate of Emerson College's Writing, Literature, and Publishing program, Dorian currently lives in Ravena, NY with his two cats. For more information, visit doriansinnott.com.

Dawn DeBraal lives in rural Wisconsin with her husband, Red, a rescued dorky dog, and a stray cat. Dawn also writes under the pen name of Garrison McKnight. Along with the books on these pages, Dawn has been published in many online magazines, was runner-up in the 2022 Short Story Horror Contest, Author of the Month Spillwords x2, Member of the Month in The World of Myth x2, Your Daily Poem contest winner, 2000. She was nominated by the Falling Star Magazine for the 2019 Pushcart Award, a song published in the House of Harmony, International Habitat for Humanity Song Book, and, was a finalist in the "Great American Song Writing Contest." 2016.

Stephen Johnson is a retired Naval Officer, husband, father, and Chihuahua dad serving 22 years on four different ships over his career. Episode One from the Terror Tales from the Bluff City, The Deal With Madame Marguerite was released in January of 2022. The second episode, Let the Good Times Roll, was released in July. Jumpmaster Press will publish his first novel, The Fizz Prophecy, in 2023. His short stories appear in anthologies from Scare Street’s Night Terrors Volumes 8 and 17, No Bad Books’ Released, Red Penguins Pet on the Prowl, and Breaking Rules Europe’s Death Ship. His Drabbles have appeared in publications from Macabre Ladies, Black Hare Press, Brilliant Flash Fiction, Raven and Drake, Crow’s Feet Journal, Ghost Orchid Press, Black Ink Fiction, and Iron Faerie Publishing

Author of twisted horror tales as well as innovative science fiction and epic fantasy stories. Chisto is a genre author with an unstoppable imagination who writes 7 days a week and tries to write at least one story or chapter every single day. It's his biggest passion. The only thing that means as much as his writing is being a dad to his awesome kids. He also dabbles in art and music and being an interesting person. His fiance refers to his dog as his other girlfriend. His baby refers to him as urrrrghhaaaa. People that know him share the opinion that he's a little crazy and he doesn't necessarily disagree with them. It makes for good art. He loves hearing from people that enjoy his work. He loves networking and connecting with authors, artists, publishers, agents, and readers. He is living his dream and recommends that you go live yours and be your best self. It's the key to happiness.

Originally from Cincinnati, Lamont Turner now resides in the swamps just outside of New Orleans where he collects all manner of occult and arcane lore, and performs forbidden and blasphemous experiments. When not busy communing with the damned, he tells scary stories to the four little demons who claim to be his children.

Destiny Eve Pifer is a published writer whose work has appeared in numerous anthologies by Black Hare Press, Black Ink Fiction, Nordic Press, Macabre Ladies Publishing, Crow's Feet Journal, Raven and Drake Publications, Nocturnal Sirens, Zimbell Publishing, Fun Dead Publications and Temptation Press. Her work has also appeared in FATE Magazine, The World of Myth Magazine, Sirens Call Magazine, Reader's Digest, Country Magazine, Autism Parenting Magazine, Spotlight on Recovery and True Confessions. She recently had a story on mental health published on The Mental Health Foundation site. Her horror story Deep in the Forest was featured on The Morbid Forest Podcast. She currently resides in a small rural Pennsylvania town with her son Dartanyan.

Award-Winning Director Reyna Young resides in San Francisco, California with her husband, musician John Gillette and son Logan. Together they both run Last Doorway Productions, an independent film company. She is also known as TV Horror Hostess Miss Misery of Miss Misery's Movie Massacre, author of the books Dislocated Thoughts and her Monsters book series which includes The Creature of Stowe Cabin, Mr. Torture and Horror Lullabies published by Black Bed Sheet Books. She also continues to publish horror comics through Scattered Comics.

Donovan “Monster” Smith is an author, writer, film producer, director, podcast host, cryptozoologist, and mixed martial artist from Chandler, Arizona.

Melody lives in Ontario, Canada and writes short, speculative fiction that has been published in several anthologies and online publications. She writes reviews and articles for The Horror Tree, and is a member of the Horror Writers Association. Melody also earned her Master of Arts studying Ancient Greek and Roman Studies and often infuses her work with elements of Greek mythology. Outside of writing she loves reading, embroidery, and martial arts.

You can find her at www.melodyemcintyre.com, and on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and Mastodon.

Jade Wildy is a lover of the arts in every form and holds several degrees. A swift change in the direction of her own career saw her return to creative writing after a hiatus of several years.

Through her writing, Jade addresses themes like death, psychological state and being different, and delights in slipping in the unexpected. She believes in the power of storytelling as a motivator for change, and her writing has been included in numerous publications internationally.

A self-confessed wallflower, Jade lives in South Australia on the traditional lands of the Kaurna People. She can be frequently be found writing or drawing in the local cafes.

She is a member of WritersSA, and as a wife and parent, she believes in the power of storytelling as a motivator for change.

To date, she has had numerous short fiction accepted for publication in 2021, including:

“Alices Hope” - Short Story in ‘Stories of Survival,’ Dead Set Press/Aussie Speculative Fiction;

“The Occam’s Razor” a Short Story in ‘Death Ship,’ Breaking Rules Europe;

“The Water Bloom Incident”, a novella included in Field's of Ruin, a fantasy Bundle, Black Ink Fiction.

And numerous Drabbles and other micro-fiction in anthologies by publishers including Black Ink Fiction, Raven & Drake, Ghost Orchid and Black Hare Press.

www.jadewildywordsmith.com

www.facebook.com/jadewildywordsmith

T.L. Beeding was born and raised in Sacramento, CA. She is co-editor of Crow's Feet Journal and Paramour Ink, and is a featured author for Black Ink Fiction. She has also written for several literary magazines, including The Black Fork Review, Vanishing Point Magazine, and Tales on the Moonlit Path. When she is not writing, T.L. seeks misadventure with her daughter, two cats, and boyfriend at their home in the Hudson Valley.

Twitter: @tlbeeding

Instagram: teresa.l.beeding

Brieanne O’Reilly developed a love for all things Fantasy at a young age. It should come as no surprise then, that she attended Drexel University—home of the Dragons, and graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in Digital Media. Her work has appeared in multiple anthologies from Black Ink Fiction and in Issue #1 of Hellhound Magazine.

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After being born on the flat and barren planes of Wichita, Kansas, Radar DeBoard had nothing but time on his hands. Plenty of time to hone his craft of writing stories that explored the darkest parts of his imagination. Once Radar had received his master's in economics, he took his works to another level, far more gruesome than the last. He can analyze your fear, truly find what keeps you up at night, and then give your greatest nightmares back to you in written form.

Nat Whiston is from Birmingham, England, and started her writing journey with submissions in Black Ink anthologies. Published her first short story What's Eating You on Godless Horrors and did a collaboration story with Ash Ericmore - Your Move. Has the first novel of her three-part Extreme Horror/Dark Fantasy series out called, Death Walks with Me. Published a Bizzaro horror called The Wilderness and has her own kid's series with Little Cape Publishing, called Niko's Nightmare Portal Pet. She also does Nat Whiston Reviews, to support other authors in the indie community, with co-host Creepy Bunny. Her favorite author is Clive Barker.

Black Ink Fiction is a female-led, US-based based speculative fiction imprint focused on releasing exciting horror, sci-fi, and fantasy. Check out our upcoming works at www.BlackInkFiction.com.