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Authors: Janet L. Cannon

Mission Mars (38 page)

Laura K. Luttrell - “Exit Interview”

Laura has owned several small businesses, raised two children, and survived a short military career. She voraciously reads anything she can get her hands on from cereal boxes to technical manuals but prefers science fiction and fantasy.
Currently, she is writing a YA fantasy novel about a boy whose mentally-ill mother can only be cured if he can master his ability to control his own emotions.

Daniel Marcus - “Growing Skyline”

Daniel Marcus is a mobile application developer and science fiction enthusiast from North Carolina. He's Jewish, vegetarian, loves locally brewed beer, and has a passion for open source software.

Nick Nafpliotis - “Red Camera One”

Nick is a music teacher in and writer from Charleston, South Carolina. During the day, he instructs students from the ages of 11-14 on how to play band instruments. At night, he writes about weird crime, bizarre history, pop culture, and humorous classroom experiences on his blog,
RamblingBeachCat.com
. He is also a television, novel, and comic book reviewer for
AdventuresinPoorTaste.com
.

Bethany Nuckolls - “The Girl Who Colonized Mars”

Bethany is an ESL and Creative Writing instructor in Charlotte, NC and earned her Master's in Creative Writing at Queens University in 2013. She has published several short stories and is currently seeking an agent for her science fiction YA novel. Bethany's hobbies include dressing up as Doctor Who and singing on stage like a total nerd.

Kristin Procter - “The Necessities of Life”

Kristin lives in Massachusetts, was born Canadian, partnered with a Brit, and birthed two Australian babies. She
has writing published or forthcoming in
Mom Egg Review, 3elements
, and
Zest
.

Jonathan Shipley - “Into Thin Air”

Jonathan is from Fort Worth creates short stories and novels in the genres of fantasy, science fiction, and horror. In terms of output, he has written over a hundred short stories in a vast story arc that ranges from Nazi occultism to vampires to futuristic space opera. On the publication front, he has had almost forty short stories published in magazines and anthologies, including the Bram Stoker Award-winning
AFTER DEATH
horror anthology. A full listing can be found at
http://www.shipleyscifi.com/publishedworks
and most of these publications can be purchased at
http://www.amazon.com/author/shipley
.

Kara Race-Moore - “Betting the Boot”

Kara studied history at Simmons College as an excuse to read about the soap opera lives of British royals. She worked in educational publishing, casting the molds for future generations' minds, and has moved into the more civilized world of litigation. She attended sixth grade in a one room schoolhouse on an island, an experience which taught her how to live with limited resources on any planet. She first came to science fiction through Anne McCaffrey and is still grateful to her for showing an impressible teenager that woman can be in and write science fiction too. Her publications include: “And a Pebble In Her Shoe,” in
Redshifted
, Third Flatiron Press, anthology, 2013, Science Fiction; “From Scratch,” in
Dying to Live
, Diabolic
Publications, anthology, 2013, Horror;
“A Passing, Pleasing Tongue,”
podcast,
Tales of Old
website, 2012, Historical Fiction; and “The Undead Pay the Bills,”
It Was A Dark and Stormy Night
, anthology, Pill Hill Press,
2011,
Horror.

Chuck Regan - “Storm Season”

Chuck is a part-time writer/editor, full-time designer/illustrator in the Philadelphia area. His short fiction has appeared in
Zelmer Pulp, Shotgun Honey, The Big Adios, Gutter Books, Dark Corners Magazine
, and
Space & Time Magazine
. His novel-in-progress called
Little Agony
is a sci-fi western about colonizing Mars. See more at
www.chuckregan.com
.

M. T. Reiten - “Last Resort Pioneers”

M. T. Reiten is a research scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory and works in the same lab that developed the ChemCam currently in use on the Mars rover
Curiosity
. He has published professionally in the
Writers of the Future XXI
, Baen's Universe, and S. M. Stirling's forthcoming
Change
anthology.

Lloyd Vancil - “Hell's Deep”

Lloyd is a Vietnam veteran, father of three wonderful children, and an independent publisher with two novellas, a collection of short stories, and an anthology of poetry and essays available on line. He won an award for flash fiction, had a technical article published in a national magazine, and edited and published
The Listening Post
newsletter for the Vietnam Veterans of Ventura County for several years. His
loving wife of forty-three years helps to edit and proofread the stories and encourages his flights of fancy.

ABOUT THE ANTHOLOGIST

Janet L. Cannon has been a technology instructor for both children and adults for the past ten years. Her Master's degree is in English with an emphasis in technology integration. She has edited several newsletter including one for the public schools, one for the local runner's club, and one for the state writers' guild. Janet has been active in the Southeast Missouri Writers' Guild serving as an officer since it was reestablished as an active chapter in 2010. She has also been one of the chairs of the All Write Now! Writer's Conference in Cape Girardeau, Missouri for the past two years.

Her publishing credits include a technical manual, short stories, flash fiction, and Twitter fiction. She is currently finishing a YA urban fantasy novel, and lives with her very patient husband a several fish. Find out more online:

http://janetcannonwriter
.
wix.com/in-the-write-world
revisionisadishbestservedcold.blogspot.com

https://www.facebook.com/ janet.cannon.10

janetcannonwriter @gmail.com

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