The Good, the Bad, & the Cute: The Secret Ways of Dolls

Piers Anthony, whose web site is www.hipiers.com, has been writing and and publishing since 1963, with 139 books and counting. He was on the New York Times bestseller list in the 1980s with 21 titles. He and his wife of 52 years live on their small tree farm in central Florida, which resemble his fantasy land of Xanth.

K.B. Bailey is a professional writer who currently resides in Colorado with her husband, also a creative type, and their two cats. She loves to read, work on stories, hike, and play video games.

She's worked as a journalist, marketing coordinator, content writer, and more. She's also done quite a bit of freelance work.

When she's not writing for work, she creates fiction in a variety of genres, and she loves to write short stories specifically.

Matthew Brady is a young writer currently living in Nashville, Tennessee. He attended Belmont University, where he studied writing and literature before earning his bachelor's degree. He is the author of four novelettes and one novella through Mannison Press, with his shorter works appearing in various anthologies. His short story, "Midnight Oil," was published in the second volume of Nosetouch Press's "The Asterisk Anthology" (2018), where it won first prize in the Southern Gothic genre.

Benjamin Michael Greene lives in America's Heartland, where he spends his days doting upon his daughter and two sons. Aside from creative writing, he also enjoys discovering new board games, gorging himself every Taco Tuesday, and getting lost (on purpose, to his wife's ire) in bookstores.

Benjamin has a number of other works published under the pseudonym Ashleigh Hatter. You can learn about some of these other publication by visiting the Smashwords profile here: https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/AshleighHatter

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I'm Connor Kuntz! I am a Canadian writer of mostly horror, fantasy and sci-fi. I graduated from the University of Waterloo in 2018 with an honours degree in Recreation and Sports Business, but I found that I enjoyed writing stories more than studying. I am currently working on a horror novel and a fantasy series.

My short story, O Sister, Where Art Thou, published by Mannison Press as one of their signature minibooks is out now! It can be purchased on Smashwords and on Amazon.

Ronald Linson was born and raised in western Connecticut. He now lives in New York City working as a freelance editor and is co-founder and Editor-in-Chief at Mannison Press. He writes primarily science fiction, fantasy, and horror, but has been known to dabble in other genres as well. In November 2017, Ron won first place in the On the Premises Mini-Short Story Contest 35. Many of his short stories and poems can be found for free online.

Rhiannon Lotze is a Canadian author from Windsor, Ontario, which means she's 97% maple syrup and 3% Timbit. She's been a writer (and huge nerd) since she was nine years old and writing her first Star Wars fanfiction, although she didn't know it was called "fanfiction" at the time. Her first short story, The Vampire with Braces, was published when she was 13 years old in Narwhal Magazine. Since then, she has gone on to win multiple Windsor-based writing competitions for short stories, including "Offline," and "Golf with the Gods." Her short story "Barrens and Brine," is soon to be published in the Little Girl Lost anthology from Mannison Press.

Tim Mendees is a horror writer from Macclesfield in the North-West of England that specialises in cosmic horror and weird fiction. A lifelong fan of classic weird tales, Tim set out to bring the pulp horror of yesteryear into the 21st Century and give it a distinctly British flavour. His work has been described as the love-child of H.P. Lovecraft and P.G. Wodehouse and is often peppered with a wry sense of humour that acts as a counterpoint to the unnerving, and often disturbing, narratives.
Since breaking onto the scene in December 2019, Tim has had over seventy published stories in anthologies and magazines with publishers all over the world including Eerie River Publishing, HellBound Books, Lovecraftiana Magazine, and Madness Heart Press. His critically acclaimed debut novella, Burning Reflection (Mannison Press,) is currently available on Amazon. He is also the project leader and twisted mastermind behind the Jack The Ripper and Cthulhu Mythos mashup anthology, 13 Victims (Black Hare Press.) His novelette, Carpe Detritus (Black Hare Press,) releases on May 15th.
This year will see Tim release several stand-alone books, including the short story collection, The Pseudopod That Rocks The Cradle (Mannison Press,) and the novellas, Spiffing (Red Cape Publishing) and The Creeping Void (Eerie River Publishing.)
When he is not arguing with the spellchecker, Tim is a goth DJ, crustacean and cephalopod enthusiast, and the presenter of a popular web series of live video readings of his material and interviews with fellow authors. He currently lives in Brighton & Hove with his pet crab, Gerald, and an army of stuffed octopods.
https://timmendeeswriter.wordpress.com/

Rachel Nussbaum is a writer and artist from the Big Island of Hawaii (and recent California transplant). She writes horror, science fiction and urban fantasy--basically anything with monsters. Rachel's short fiction has appeared in multiple anthologies including Night Terrors III from Blood Bound Books and The Mammoth Book of Dieselpunk from Running Press.

Rachel likes her coffee at all times of the day, loves animals, and hopes one day to write and illustrate her own novels and comic books.

Deidre J Owen was born in Lexington, Kentucky, but aside from a stint in the Canadian Maritimes she has spent a majority of her time in the Tampa Bay area in Florida. A versatile writer, Deidre has taken joy in a variety of genres including science fiction, weird fiction, speculative fiction, horror, humor, children's books, and Christian themes. She has a published children's picture book series called "The Heaven Zoo" as well as a number of short stories, novelettes, and novellas.

In 2019, she partnered with editor and fellow indie author Ronald Linson to establish independent publishing house Mannison Press. Specializing in short-form fiction, Mannison Press publishes in a wide variety of genres of varying lengths, including flash fiction, short stories, novelettes, and novellas.

Although formerly a certified veterinary technician by trade (with a quirky history of random interests), Deidre is currently loving life with her husband in Lithia, Florida, as a writer, publisher, and work-from-home mother to the couple's young daughter.

Gary Power is a UK based author who lives in Sussex with his wife, a cat that stares (a lot) and a tortoise, Phinneas, that bites (a lot). In his professional life he is a radiographer specialising in neurosciences. His weird, wonderful and often shocking short stories have appeared in popular anthologies such as When Graveyards Yawn (Crowswing Books), several volumes of 'The Black Book of Horror' (Mortbury Press), Jeani Rector's, The Horror Zine for which he was featured author of the month, and the 'Years Best Body Horror 2017'.
Gary has been a member of the British Fantasy Society since 2006 and attended World Fantasycon 2013 in Brighton where he participated in a memorable signing for the BFS nominated Tenth Black Book of Horror.
He has been shortlisted for the Ian St James short story award and is a registered Amazon author. He is also a member of Allen Ashley's 'Clockhouse London Writers' group.
For more information and a rogue's gallery visit www.garygpower.com