Michael McCarty is the author of more than fifty books of fiction and nonfiction, including Ghosts of the Quad Cities (with Mark McLaughlin), Eerie Quad Cities (with John Brassard Jr.) and Modern Mythmakers: 35 Interviews with Horror and Science Fiction Writers and Filmmakers . He is a five-time Bram Stoker Finalist and in 2008 won the David R. Collins Literary Achievement Award from the Midwest Writing Center. His blog site is at http://monstermikeyaauthor.wordpress.com. Kristin DeMarr is a college English/film instructor and a freelance writer/editor who won the 2019 Iron Pen Contest in nonfiction.

She is the author of First Impressions: In Fifty Words and The Funny, the Serious, and the Seriously Funny: Collected Writings . Her newsletter is at https://kristinwritesmuch.substack.com.