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Allie Yohn

Allie Yohn lives in Phoenix with her wife and two rescue dogs. She’s a writer, voracious reader, and a collector of both books and decorative skulls. She believes the best thing in life is having a dog, with explaining the differences between the book and the movie to an interested audience a close second.

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Lisa Morton

Lisa Morton is a screenwriter, author of non-fiction books, and prose writer whose work was described by the American Library Association’s Readers’ Advisory Guide to Horror as “consistently dark, unsettling, and frightening.” She is a six-time winner of the Bram Stoker Award®, the author of four novels and over 150 short stories, and a world-class Halloween expert.

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Halloween Beyond: Piercing the Veil
Crystal Lake Publishing

https://smile.amazon.com/Halloween-Beyond-Piercing-Mysteries-Thrillers-ebook/dp/B0BGJKSX8G/

When Kayla’s sister Hailey went missing in the nearby Ghost Woods on Halloween night, the last person to see her was the solitary, elderly Brigid. Kayla, who has long suspected Brigid of being involved with Hailey’s disappearance, dreads the first anniversary of her sister’s vanishing even as her best friend Sophie urges her to put the past behind her. Halloween nears and Kayla pays a visit to the pop-up Halloween Beyond store, where an enigmatic clerk named Maeve convinces her to buy a talking-board. Kayla begins receiving messages which claim to be from Hailey, but is it actually something more sinister calling out from beyond the veil? Brigid—who may be a witch—offers to lead Kayla into the Ghost Woods on Halloween in search of answers. Kayla discovers dark truths about herself as she and Brigid confront the terrifying supernatural forces that claimed Hailey.


A Little Yellow Book of Carcosa and Kings
Borderlands Press (Lisa Morton, editor, and Robert Chambers)

https://www.borderlandspress.com/shop/books/hardcover/a-little-yellow-book-of-carcosa-and-kings-by-robert-w-chambers-edited-by-lisa-morton-signed-numbered-limited-edition/

The stories included in A Little Yellow Book of Carcosa and Kings —”In the Court of the Dragon”, “The Mask”, “The Yellow Sign”, and “The Repairer of Reputations” —are the four works by Robert W. Chambers that make up his “King in Yellow” cycle. These tales have influenced generations of writers, ranging from tribute anthologies to the first season of HBO’s hit series True Detective. Acclaimed editor and multiple Bram Stoker Award®-winner Lisa Morton provides an introduction and extensive annotations. Limited to 500 copies signed by the editor.


Night Terrors & Other Tales
Omnium Gatherum Press

https://www.amazon.com/Night-Terrors-Other-Tales-Morton/dp/1949054284/

Twenty-one stories, including the Bram Stoker Award-winning “Tested” and the never-before-published title story “Night Terrors”.

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Lee Call

Lee Call draws stuff for a living, and writes stuff for fun. Their favorite things to draw are monsters, animals, and things that make people laugh. Their favorite things to write have people dying at the end. Lee lives in the Desert Southwest with two dogs, one snake, 95 houseplants, and a bunch of tall people.

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The Angel Room
J Emrys Press

https://books2read.com/angelroom

Everyone has demons, but fifteen-year-old Eleanor can actually talk to hers. Creep’s always been there, her childhood best friend, and the only one who knows her secret. Fish-bone teeth and gravel-voiced. The monster under her bed. When Eleanor’s family moves to a new neighborhood, Creep won’t be left behind. Then she meets Virgil, a reformed bad boy with horses, and Mia, a queer goth-girl, and Eleanor begins to question everything. Can she find the courage to share her story and be rid of Creep forever?


Good Thing He’s Dead
J Emrys Press

https://a.co/d/fRYGmcx

When a new zombie accidentally swallows the head of a statue, he tries to solve the problem by eating an increasingly hilarious array of objects. This rhyming tale of ravenous reanimation — a parody of There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly — will have horror fans young and old giggling at the zombie’s efforts to improve his situation, with disastrous results.

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Angel Leigh McCoy

Angel Leigh McCoy writes paranormal suspense novels. She is the creative force behind the Wyrdwood dark fiction series and the Dire Multiverse world, including the “Dire Multiverse” audio drama, the Danika Dire video game (in production), and various works of fiction to come.

Wyrdwood

In her modern dark-fantasy Wyrdwood world, Angel has written a suspenseful trilogy, “The Wyrdwood Welcome“ trilogy, and two alternate history tales: a novelette titled “Charlie Darwin, or the Trine of 1809” and a short story, “Nurse Magdaleine.” She is currently working on a second trilogy set in Wyrdwood.

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    WilyWriters.NET : https://wilywriters.net

    DEEP CUTS anthology : http://angelmccoy.com/blog/deepcuts

    Another Dimension Anthology : http://angelmccoy.com/blog/andim

More about Angel

The Dire Multiverse

Angel has her own indie game studio called Games Omniverse. This group of ninja artists and game designers have been plugging away for years with Angel at the helm, working on a puzzle adventure game set in a magical modern world of The Dire Multiverse.

Short Stories

Dark was the Night contains a collection of her short Horror stories, not for the weak of heart.

She has had more than 25 short stories published, one of which had the honor of being selected for the Best Women’s Erotica of the Year anthology (vol. 5, 2019). Her other credits include stories published in Changing Breeds: Wild West Tales—a shifter anthology for White Wolf’s World of Darkness, Dark Rainbow: Anthology of Queer Erotic Horror, Strange Aeons, Pseudopod, Necrotic Tissue, Beast Within 2, Fear of the Dark (edited by wily Jennifer Brozek) and Growing Dread: Biopunk Visions, among others.

Her list of publications spans three decades worth of overactive imagination.

Anthology Editor

She co-edited (with wily E.S. Magill and Chris Marrs) the Deep Cuts: Menace, Mayhem, & Misery, an anthology of fantastic short stories designed to pay tribute to women horror writers. It includes 19 stories by men and women both, as well as many recommendations for short horror stories written by women.

During her six years as the voice director and head editor at Wily Writers, she edited and produced more than 70 audio short stories, published two “Best Of” anthologies, and spearheaded the Twilight Zone tribute anthology: Another Dimension Anthology which won the Serling Award in 2017.

Video Game Narrative Designer

Angel has a long-standing history with designing and writing games, going back to 1992 when she wrote her first tabletop RPG content for White Wolf. She has worked for several AAA video game studios, including Remedy Games’ senior writer on CONTROL, ArenaNet’s (senior narrative designer on Guild Wars 2), Microsoft Game Studios, White Wolf’s World of Darkness, FASA, and other tabletop RPG companies. While working at Xbox.com, she was the official game correspondent Wireless Angel.

Audiobook Narrator

Angel got into story narration in 2012 when she launched Wily Writers, her speculative fiction e-zine. As the executive producer, she directed other narrators and produced stories she narrated herself. These days, she narrates novels and short stories for authors. Among her narration credits are The Year’s Best Hardcore Horror 3 by Comet Press, Behind the Mask: An Anthology of Heroic Proportions by Meerkat Press, and the Calamity Jayne series by Kathleen Bacchus.

Author Doula

In 2021, Angel built WilyWriters.NET as a private book-birthing space where dark-fiction writers can receive support, education, and encouragement for their publishing endeavors. The site provides members with promotional opportunities, education, tools, and support. She runs special events for members and produces content for the Wily Writers Youtube channel, including author readings, book recommendations, and roundtable discussions.

Personal

Angel lives with Boo, Simon, Stacey, Walter, Mama, and Lapis Lazuli (kitties) in Seattle, where the long, dark winters feed her penchant for all things spooky and cozy. (She/her, LGBTQ+)



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Looking for a theme for your next anthology? Browse away! For the Wily anthology series, one way we can make submitting easier would be to combine two themes, such as “Love and War” or “Courage and Cowardice.” 7 Deadly Sins Greed Sloth Lust Vanity/Pride Envy Anger Virtues humility kindness abstinence chastity patience liberality diligence love…


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View Angel’s Newsletter Sign up for it on her website. My newsletter is specific to my Wyrdwood novel series. I’ve branded everything around the word “Wyrdwood.” Strange, wonderful, and terrifying beings (and their stories) exist in Wyrdwood, often right next door. I try to relay this feeling in my newsletters. I don’t share a lot…


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View Lisa’s Newsletter Sign up for it on her website. Back about six years ago, I hired an expert in book promotion to help me with sales. Her biggest tip? I needed an author newsletter. The first thing you need to know: most internet service providers will limit the number of e-mails you can send…


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A newsletter is the absolute best way to reach those fans who love your work. You collect their email addresses then contact them directly when you have a new product on the market. Your fans opt in to receive these emails, so you know they want to hear from you, and you’re doing them a favor by keeping them apprised of your news.

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