The Half That You See by Rebecca Rowland (best summer reads .TXT) 📕

used bookstores, and would choose Wolverine-style healing abilities if he could have any superpower (or maybe just the ability to grow Wolverine-style sideburns).  Learn more at Luciano-Marano.com or visit his (sporadically updated) blog, CitMyWay101.wordpress.com. He tends to eschew social media but responds to serious correspondence via [email protected].

Matt Masucci is a writer and professor who lives with his family and three cats along the Gulf Coast of Florida. He writes horror and crime fiction. His work has recently appeared in Shotgun Honey, Weirdbook, Great Jones Street, Under the Bed, Mystery Weekly, Three Minute Plastic, and Shotgun, among others. Visit his website at www.MatthewMasucci.com.

Scotty Milder is a writer, filmmaker, and film educator living in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He received his MFA in Screenwriting from Boston University. His award-winning short films have screened at festivals all over the world, including Cinequest, the Dead by Dawn Festival of Horror, HollyShorts, and the H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival and CthulhuCon. He has developed screenplays with independent producers and major Hollywood studios, and his low-budget feature film Dead Billy is currently available on Amazon, Google Play, and other streaming platforms. His short fiction has appeared in Dark Moon Digest, as well as anthologies from Sinister Smile Press, AM Ink Publishing, Dark Peninsula Press, Soteira Press, Fantasia Divinity Press, DBND Publishing, and Gypsum Sound Tales. Visit him online at facebook.com/scottymilderwrites, or find his films at DeadBillytheMovie.com or vimeo.com/trifectaplus.

Mack Moyer is a dark fiction writer from Philadelphia. You can find him at MackMoyerAuthor.com. His new novella, Back to Her, is available on Amazon.

Lena Ng skulks around Toronto, Ontario and is a zombie member of the Horror Writers Association. When she’s not complaining about the winter, she’s complaining about the summer. Despite the fact that she’s a horrible person, many people are surprised that she writes horror, likely because she looks like a pharmacist. She has short stories in four dozen publications including Amazing Stories, in venues from Australia, Canada, the United States, and the United Kingdom. Her 2020 published and forthcoming publications include Mother Ghost’s Grimm, Beer-Battered Shrimp, The Bronzeville Bee’s Twisted Love anthology, What Monsters Do for Love, Hybrid Fiction, Strangely Funny VII, Thrilling Words, and The Community of Magic Pens. Under an Autumn Moon is her short story collection. She is currently seeking a publisher for her novel, Darkness Beckons, a Gothic romance. Join her mailing list by emailing [email protected].

Elin Olausson writes psychological horror and weird fiction. Her works have appeared in anthologies by Eerie River Publishing, Belladonna Publishing, and others. When she’s not writing, Elin works as a librarian. She lives in Sweden. Follow her on ElinOlausson.com and on Twitter: @elin_writes.

Robert P. Ottone is an author, teacher, and cigar enthusiast from East Islip, NY. He delights in the creepy. He can be found online at www.SpookyHousePress.com, or on Instagram (@RobertOttone). His collections Her Infernal Name&Other Nightmares and People: A Horror Anthology About Love, Loss, Life&Things That Go Bump in the Night are available now wherever books are sold.

Felice Picano is the author of more than thirty-five books of poetry, stories, novels, novellas, memoirs and non-fiction. His work is translated into seventeen languages. Several titles were national and international bestsellers, and four plays have been produced. Picano’s first novel was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award in 1975. Since then, he’s been short-listed and/or received awards for poetry, drama, short stories, and novels. An adjunct professor of Literature at Antioch University, L.A., he founded and taught at three West Hollywood Public Library Writing Workshops. He lectures throughout North America on LGBT Culture, Gays in Hollywood, and Screen Writing. In 2019, Justify My Sins: A Hollywood Novelin Three Acts was published. In 2020, Songs and Poems, a 50-year collection came out. His novel, Pursuit: A Victorian Entertainment, will be published in 2021, as will the re-publication of The Book of Lies. The first of his sci-fi trilogy, Dryland’s End, (2004, 2020) will be republished, to be followed by The Betrothal at Usk, and A Bard on Hercular in 2021. His strange stories are his special love and have been in OMNI, Twilight Zone, Best New Horrors, in many magazines and anthologies, and in three collections. Find him at FelicePicano.net.

Edward R. Rosick lives in the wilds of northern Michigan with his two Bouvier des Flandres companions. He has had multiple short stories published in various magazines and anthologies, including Trigger Warning, Creepy Campfire Quarterly, and A Winter Shivers Anthology. His first horror novel, Deep Roots, is currently searching for a publisher.

Susie Schwartz loves to motivate and encourage with words. Whether through her writing, blogging, speaking about living with Type 1 diabetes for 38 years, or through her music, sharing life with others is her passion. With both a fiction novel and a nonfiction work delving into life’s big questions on the go, Susie is in constant motion of artistic flux. After many years of poor choices and painful life events, Susie is determined to keep pushing forward. She’s been known to make people laugh and also cry. Sometimes the funny and the hard collide. Susie is a regular contributor to The Mighty, tackling all topics surrounding chronic illness. Fascinated by fashion, she can be found scouring the mall in pursuit of the latest trends. A Canadian citizen, Susie currently resides in Staffordshire England with her husband and puppy, Carlos the Chihuahua. Susie can be found on her website LessHealthStress.com, on her Facebook page: Things That Happen to Everyone That Only Happen to Me @whysusiewhy and @medicalmiss_stress on Instagram.

Mahlon Smoke, when she isn't writing original short stories, works for her local newspaper as a photographer and reporter, writing articles about local events and interviewing artists, actors, and upcoming talents. Mahlon was born and raised in Akwesasne, a Mohawk Reservation that lies between the U.S. and Canadian borders. All of her life, Mahlon wanted to write, travel the world, and tell stories about the people she met; her fiction genres of choice are