| The Staff |
| Greetings And Merry Christmas to all. Welcome to issue 2 of Wicked Karnival. |
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| Brian Yount is a fledgling author. He is webmaster of an online writing forum, The Carnival of Wicked Writers, http://freezenerve.proboards32.com/index.cgi
His first publication was in the critically acclaimed anthology Small Bites and you can look for him in the Halloween 3.0 anthology, also from Cyber-Pulp. Any comments, suggestions, and/or critiques are welcome at: bewisedesigns@hotmail.com |
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| Keith Gouveia recently finished Small Bites an anthology to benefit Charles Grant, which he co-edited with Garrett Peck. Inside this tome is nearly two hundred short-short stories from some of Horror's brightest stars. You can learn more about Keith here: http://hometown.aol.com/gohan1140/ |
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| Louise Bohmer: Louise does interviews and reviews for CWW/Wicked Karnival. Also a writer of dark fiction and poetry, her work has appeared in Camp Horror, Enter the Realm, ( A Freaky Frights Anthology scheduled for release in October) Nevermore Magazine and House of Pain. |
| Nancy Jackson: Nancy has works in Corpse Magazine, Macabre, Cyber Pulp Magazine, and various anthologies including Small Bites, Cyber Pulp Halloween Anthology 3.0, Maelstrom I, and Strange News. She is an editor with Cyber Pulp and her book collection Reading my Mind will debut January 2005. Lurk at her website http://www.nancyajackson.com if you dare! |
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| Lisa Ulibarri is a mutimedia artist whos talents range from her artisian like creations of her booming business to writing and graphics. Her debut is in Raging Horrormones (not out yet), As an artist she debuted in The Corpse magazine and Black Petals . She now is columinst.artdirector/head of promotions & advertising for Black Petals, a story and 2 illos being published in the Halloween Cyber Pulp antho. is also part of the crew of Carnival of Wicked Writers, among many other things. A taste of her talents can be seen at: http://www.oocities.org/lisaannulibarri |
| Steve Vernon was born and raised in the Northern Ontario shield. His stories have appeared in The Horror Show, Cemetery Dance, Karl Edward Year's Best Horror, Horror Garage and many other markets. He has worked as a roustabout and loves carnivals. He is armed and dangerous, and if seen should be approached with large slices of donair pizza, heavy on the sauce. |
| It all began in the mid 80’s in the city of Atlanta, Ga. A film entitled “Poltergeist” traumatized a young boy by the name of Paul Danda. Bad dreams ensued, and the fear of horror films and novels was born. If being traumatized by a Spielberg and Kahn film wasn’t enough, a little shocker from a man named Tobe Hooper, solidified the fear that was seeded in his brain. That film was “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.”
As Paul Danda grew up, a natural love for music crept to the surface, and he took to it like stink on shit. A place to vent his creativity, the guitar took over his life from the ages of twelve to twenty-three. Numerous bands, stints with different genres, lots of sex, drugs, and rock & roll took its toll on him causing a natural shift in his attention, bringing Paul to find a new outlet for his creativity. And that begins the start of his love for reading, writing, and film. The traumatized Paul Danda, now a grown man, began reading lots of Stephen King books, Clive Barker’s “Books of Blood,” and discovered Edward Lee’s sick sense of humor. Now he can’t get enough of it. Along with his love for terror, his love for film blossomed to the point of wanting to direct and write for the screen. At some point down the line you’ll be watching a freakish film, and wonder what kind of sick fuck could direct something so atrocious… that’ll be me. Be afraid. Be very afraid. Paul is a cynical, sarcastic, lovable soul that seeps in negativity and spits it out glorified. Delighting in reader's discomfort, his writings of the disturbing kind make him revel in the knowledge of your disgust at what you read. Stay twisted, and be happy. Paul is watching… Paul's magazine of Dark Fiction is debuting October 31st. Visit the site here: http://www.insidiousreflections.com |
| Although he’s been producing copious amounts of work for the past ten years, Tom Moran has only recently taken the long cruel road to becoming a respected horror author. His first novel, the horror/satire Acquired Taste$, hit the market in June of 2004. In the coming months, his stories will be appearing in Cyber-Pulp Halloween Anthology 3.0, Mind Scraps, Vintage Moon, as well as Sam's Dot publishing's Potter's Bay anthology. Find out more about this new talent at www.grimamericana.com |
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| Laurel Starling is a budding author who resides in Atlanta, Georgia. She debuted in Wicked Karnival and is soon to be read in Goremet Cuisine and Vintage Moon in 2005. In addition to moderating at Carnival of Wicked Writers, Laurel is a professor and administrator at university. She spends what little free time she has writing, reading teaching yoga and practicing karate. |
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| John Scalera Currently I'm living in NJ employed as Graphic Artist. I have always loved horror and scary films, fiction and whatever else seems to freak most other "normal" people out. I began creating horror/macabre digital artwork about a year ago. I find it's a great way to express the dark side which I believe resides in all of us to a degree. I sually don't have a blue print for any of the pieces, I start working and each one develops on it's own. http://www.johnscalera.com/ |
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| Patrick Malone was born in Seattle, Washington, and grew up in Corvallis, Oregon. In 1987, Malone joined the U.S. Navy through the nuclear engineering program, and left sub school first in his class; an Honorman bound for the fleet. He wandered through six countries, and ultimately five different universities and colleges before working at GENENTECH as a research assistant. Later, he took a faculty position at the UCSF School of Medicine, under Nobel laureate Dr. Stanley Prusiner. In 1999, a terrifying laboratory accident convinced him to seek new frontiers.
After modeling and acting for two years, first in Portland, Oregon, and then in Hollywood, Malone continued to develop his presence in the entertainment community as production assistant for film and television, and later as production coordinator in an independent SAG feature film (occasionally fulfilling the role of 2nd assistant director, and executive assistant). Since that time, Malone has discovered a great passion for writing. In the last two years he has published one horror novel with a Bram Stoker nomination, finished two more for this spring, completed 3 TV pilots (two currently under producer review), 4 episodics for current TV series (one produced), 14 feature-length screenplays, with a few garnering several important awards and one now under option contract. Malone recently authored the United States Independent Film and Television Production Incentive Act of 2005, and now works closely with Senator Richard Alarcon and Vice President Vans Stevenson of the Motion Picture Association of America, State Legislative Affairs, to see the new bill to fruition. This year, he plans to sleep. Maybe. http://www.malonescripts.com/index.htm |
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