Originally from Scotland, S P Mount travelled the far-flung corners of the world through a career in tourism before settling in Canada where he lives with his rescue dog ‘Quentin'–the senior party of the small business they own together.

S P considers himself ‘against the grain’–a disposition that bemuses lifelong friends. While some of the darker aspects of his writing often arise to surprise even him, he usually roots for the underdog and has a penchant for trying to write the bad guy likeable. He has an innate aversion to clichés such as apple pie that tastes ‘just like granny used to make’.

S P has studied the art of writing for many years and achieved his creative writing qualifications in British Columbia. He is published in numerous anthologies.

"I might have ‘multiple personality disorder’, but still, I know that 'we only ever need a table for one."

Suzanne Baginskie is the award-winning author of the "FBI Affair Series." Five books of mystery, suspense and romance set across her home state of Florida. Fascinated with strong FBI female agent characters and their male counterparts, her agents work in Cybercrime, Human Trafficking, and Homicide. The FBI Special agents investigate difficult life-threatening criminal activities and at times fall in love. A retired Florida office manager/paralegal, with 30 years of legal experience, she brings authenticity to her crime stories. Her standalone novels have earned five-star reviews and recognition from the Chatelaine International (CIBA) Finalist Awards, Windy City RWA Second Place Awards, FAPA 2024 Bronze Presidential Medalist Award, and InD’Tale Magazine’s 2023 RONE Finalist Awards.

She also writes using her pseudonym, Suzanne Alexander, and her publisher recently released her first western romantic suspense novel, "High Stakes Heiress," set in Colorado. Her second western novel, High Stakes Pursuit, came out on February 19, 2026. A voracious mystery reader, she has volunteered for eight years at the local county sheriff's office and also supports her local library association as a friend. She loves traveling, especially on cruise ships. Most sea days on board, you’ll find her plotting stories outside on the deck, gazing at the beautiful blue ocean. She also donates autographed copies of her books to each cruise ship's library she sails.

T.L. Tomljanovic is a freelance writer and communications consultant. Her work has been published in children’s non-fiction book series, literary magazines and anthologies, and trade publications. She lives in British Columbia, Canada.

Follow her on Twitter @TLTomljanovic or her blog tomljanovic.wordpress.com

Compiler and chief editor of 42 Stories Anthology Presents: Book of 42², Bertram Allan Mullin, or BAM, is also an award-winning author. His piece, Kindness & Decency was a Pushcart nominated short story. BAM is also a Ph.D. student at Temple University in Japan. He moved to Japan to have an artist illustrate ten novels he wrote in his 20s into manga, where he's lived for ten years. The first manga will be available in 2026, but he hopes sooner.

Inspirations:

Shakespeare, Elizabeth Cary the Lady Falkland, John Updike, Edward Lewis Wallant, Harper Lee, William Golding, Harvey Pekar, George RR Martin, Bryce Courtenay, Kurt Vonnegut, Jonathan Swift, Joseph Heller, Emily Dickinson, Edgar Allan Poe, Alice Walker, Maya Angelou, R.L. Stine's Goosebumps series, Kentaro Miura of Berserk, Akira Toriyama of Dragon Ball, Masashi Kishimoto of Naruto, Ichirō Sakaki, and a ton of grammar and syntax authors.

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Multi-award-winning author D I Jolly confessed that he wanted to be an author since the age of seven, thanks to a video game called Gabriel Knight.

But it wasn't until he was 23 that he would finish his first book, the comedic noir style detective novel 'A Guy, A Girl and A Voodoo Monkey Hand'.

Since then, he's moved away from humor and tends to tackle more serious topics under the guise of more pop-culture focused themes and genres.

His next book 'Counting Sheep and Other Stories' is a novel length sci-fi thriller which looks at capitalism and consumerism.

The 'Mostly Human' series uses lycanthropy to discuss mental health, specifically the positive and negative effects that bipolar disorder can have on a family.

And his award-winning novel ‘Bait’, takes the ever-popular format of a shifter-romance novel to discuss the importance of consent. ‘Bait’ won Top Preforming Paranormal Romance from Inkitt, and was selected by their best seller predicting algorithm for publication.

Alongside his novels D I Jolly founded and hosts a short story event in Berlin, Germany, and so far, has two short story anthologies published, titled 'Berlin Poetry Club'.

The ‘Heart of Gold’ books are high fantasy adventure novelettes which follow a powerful warlock, and are a return to D I Jolly's sense of fun.

For more information you can visit his personal website.

Fiction Noir-13 Stories Anthology

(Original edition of God Makes Lemonade)--N/A

Goose River Anthology

My Funny Valentine-Anthology

"Kidnapped Writer"

"Front Page Kiss"

Wit and Humor Magazine on iTunes-"The Fishy Face of Spam"

Open Doors-Fractured Fairy Tales-Anthology-"Mirror, Mirror"

Rusty Nail Magazine--September 2012

Not Your Mother's Book on Dogs-Anthology

Not Your Mother's Book on Travel-Anthology

Hope Springs A Turtle-Anthology

Anything Prose and Poetry Too-Anthology

Another Left Shoe Anthology"

PnP Authors Short Stories and Poems-Anthology

Poetry in Motion Pnp Author Anthology

The Way the Light Slants-Anthology

"In the Trenches" (The Psychological Impact of War)-Anthology

Dove Tales-'Nature' Edition-An International Journal of the Arts

Poets & Writers in Action-Anthology

Third place winner in Pnp Author contest & anthology: Our Treasured Stories

& Poems-Anthology

Honored by author Craig Hart to write the introduction to the Anniversary Edition of his printed novel, "Becoming Moon"

Three poems in Theories of Her An Experimental Anthology

Her novels are "Penniless Hearts" and..."Penniless Souls" and "The Happy War"

A novella titled, "The Fifth Commandment"

"River of Love" in A Bridge of Shadows-An anthology published by Creativia

"Texting at the Gate" in Once Upon a Broken Dream-another anthology published by Creativia. Creativia is now known as Next Chapter Publishing.

Bardsy Press award winning story titled, "Spell of the Kiss" in Bardsy Romance Anthology

Winners: A Compilation of Award-Winning Stories by SOOP publishing-"Crocheting in Heaven"

"Serving my Lord" in Agape Review

Contributed to Life on the Sunny Side by Sunny Simon

42 Stories Anthology-Mackenzie Publishing, in Clown chapter,

Community Anthology by A Beautiful Place Publishing--"Recycled Community Center"

Magazines such as Portfolio 395 and Heart Magazine, plus a column in In2ition Magazine.

and more....

Veronica Smith is a lover of all things horror. Whether she’s reading, writing, or watching; that’s what you will find her doing when she isn’t at her day job. She treats every day as if it was Halloween and hasn’t yet been fired for decorating her office as if it’s a haunted house. She’s been writing since 2014, when her first short story was published, and works on several projects simultaneously. She lives in Katy with her husband of over thirty years.

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D.J. Kozlowski is a writer and speaker living in Connecticut, United States and working in New York City. While seeing the good in everyone, D.J. often writes about the bad—it’s cathartic. More work can be found on Every Day Fiction and Daily Science Fiction, among other places.

Nadia Ali is a freelance writer, author and blogger. She was born in London, UK, and now resides in the Caribbean. Her work has been published online and in print. She is the author of children's books. She has contributed to a number of books with a story, article, biography or feature.

Twitter: @NadiaAwriter

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Ellie A.Goss lives and works nestled between the Tarkine Forest and the Cradle Mountain National Park. She first published in 2016, the folkore children's story,The Bunyip's Bath. Ellie has since contributed in magazines, e-zines & anthologies across genres, with an increasing number of books credited to her pens; Ellie A and Elias Ag. Join her on FB@EllieAGoss

Hákon Gunnarsson is an Icelandic writer who has done a little bit of everything with words, even though he originally intended to become a photographer. He has translated, written fiction, but also written about cinema, and literature. Over the years he has worked in various fields, he has stacked fish, sliced cheese, re-stacked papers, and watched paint dry, but his dogs will tell you that his main job is to walk them.

Harker Jones is the author of the award-winning love story “Until September” and the acclaimed young-adult thriller “Never Have I Ever.” His short thrillers “Cole & Colette” and “One-Hit Wonder” have been accepted into more than 60 film festivals combined, garnering several awards. He was managing editor of “Out” magazine for seven years and is currently a theater critic for Broadway World. A published poet, he is a member of both the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle and Mensa. He loves cats and carbs and would like to be a pop star but would settle for being killed in a slasher movie.

You can find him at:

Website: HarkerJonesLA dot com

IG: @harker_j

Cheryl Zaidan is a full-time marketer and Pushcart Prize-nominated author who writes about awful people doing terrible things. Follow her at www.cherylzwrites.com

Lisa is a Texas-born, Kansas-bred, Maryland-resident writer of fantasy, science fiction and horror. She is a member of SFWA (Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America) and HWA (Horror Writers Association).

Lisa H. Owens, a retired Delta Airlines flight attendant and former syndicated monthly humorist columnist, resides in North Texas with two rescue dogs and a long-suffering air plant named Airy Potter (AKA, Claw, may he rest in peace). She began writing in earnest at the age of 56. Her first published story was a real-life horror about the time she was nearly abducted by Ted Bundy while her family managed a shady motel in Pensacola Florida in 1978.

Her stories and poems have been published in magazines and anthologies by Coping Magazine, Sweetycat Press, Owl Canyon Press, Zombie Works, Grinning Skull, Stone Pony Press, Barrio Blues Press, Clarendon House Publications, Gypsum Sound Tales, Black Ink Fiction, Black Hare Press, Savage Realms Press, Heavenly Flower Publishing, Iron Faerie Publishing, Joe Pawlowski Publishing, Mackenzie Press, Weird Christmas, The Poets’ Lounge, House of Loki and CultureCult Magazine & Press.

Her award-winning work is also featured online by Globe Soup, Black Hare Press’ Dark Moments, Black Ink Fiction, The Drabble, 100-Word Story, 101 Words, The World of Myth Magazine, Beneath the Surface News, Spillwords, WOW! (Women on Writing), International Lockdown Journal, Horror Tree’s Dark Nowhere Series, Short Story Avenue, The NZ Dream, Short Story Town, Coping Magazine and narrated on Scare You to Sleep, Weird Christmas Podcast, Creepy Pod, World of Myth Bits and in The Poet’s Lounge—a channel on YouTube

Lisa writes multiple genres, recently discovering a new audience for her odd combination of mild horror and humor: children and young adults. Her stories are typically inspired by true events, often including private jokes, family secrets and nicknames

A software engineer by day, a photographer by afternoon, and an aspiring writer by night, Luke Dodge has been writing stories since high school. He lives on the Kansas (not Missouri, that’s important) side of the Kansas City metropolitan area with the ghost of his one-eyed corgi Sian. Both of them are constantly finding new and exciting places/things to eat.

Liam A Spinage is a former philosophy student, former archaeology educator and former police clerk who now spends most of his spare time on the beach gazing up at the sky and across the channel while his imagination runs riot. Sometimes this imagination has been known to spill out onto paper.

Chris S. Burns (he/him) is a fiction and science fiction author who lives in San Francisco. He has an MFA in Prose from Mills College in Oakland, CA, and has previously worked as a public school teacher, newspaper researcher, and street performer. You can find his website and social medias through Linktree at /chris_s_burns.

Shawn M. Klimek is an internationally published poet and short story author specializing in science-fiction, fantasy, horror, and humor, frequently blended. Over 250 of his works have been published in anthologies and e-zines. Hungry Thing is his first, self-published book. Follow him on Facebook/Instagram @shawnmklimekauthor, or via his blog: A Jot in the Dark

Born in Tegucigalpa, Francisco Morazán, Honduras, Ian Martínez Cassmeyer’s short fiction has appeared in several anthologies and small speculative fiction magazines and websites, including Wyngraf: The Magazine of Cozy Fantasy and The Angry Noodle. Tor.com and Every Writer’s Resource have also published several of his articles on SFF authors and writing-related topics. He earned his BA in English from the University of Missouri – St. Louis and attended the James Gunn Center for the Study of Science Fiction Short Fiction Writing Workshop at the University of Kansas – Lawrence. Other jobs he's held include tax preparer, landscaper, and cantankerous deli clerk. He lives and works in St. Louis, Missouri.

Follow his thoughts and activities on his active social media, including Twitter (@Ian_SMC), Instagram (@ian_s.m.c), and his blog, Two Cents on Blogger.