Who are the reviewers?

Here is a list of our reviewers, in no particular order.  Feel free to contact the ones whose names are linked with an email address.

Larry W. Chavis: Larry is a 54-year-old high school physics and mathematics teacher who spends his spare time reading, shooting black powder firearms, and writing. Besides writing short fiction, he also reviews books. He has had stories and reviews published in Crime and Suspense and TEN FOR TEN, as well as non-fiction in other venues.

Marlene Pyle: Marlene is a wife and mother who works in healthcare and welcomes her frequent bouts of insomnia because it gives her time to write. Her work has appeared in Caregiver magazine, All You, and Quick & Simple, as well as Crime and Suspense and Prodigal Son Magazine. She writes book reviews for a local newspaper and the vast majority of her son’s college essays.  (Marlene was one of Tony’s creative writing students for five terms.)

Agnes Dee: Agnes is happily retired from advertising and lives with her husband among the cornfields in the Midwest.  Her stories have appeared in Crime and Suspense, FlashShot, and Flashes of Speculation.

Amanda Capper lives in Ontario, Canada, with her musician husband and their mangy mutt.  She works, reads, writes and reviews full-time but every now and then she stops and actually carries on conversations with complete strangers.

Gray Bridges: Gray is both a rabid reader and a writer, although she seldom foams at the mouth.   She and her husband recently completed their new home, and are very happy to be settling in there.

Allan Leverone is a two-time SMFS Derringer Award Finalist whose short fiction has appeared in Shroud Magazine, Crime and Suspense, Twisted Dreams, Black Hound and Mysterical-E, among others, as well as in the print anthologies Ten for Ten, Northern Haunts and Mausoleum Memoirs. His debut novel, a thriller titled FINAL VECTOR, is scheduled for  release in February, 2011 by Medallion Press.

Sue Ann Connaughton is a former corporate librarian. She writes poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. Her work has appeared in the South Boston Literary Gazette, American Tanka, Modern English Tanka, Computers in Libraries, Intelligence Insights, You and Me: America’s Medical Magazine, and Underwired Magazine.

Von Pittman: Von is a university administrator and professor.  He writes fiction in order to atone for his other writing, which is academic and obscure.  One of his mystery stories won the 2008 Missouri Writers Guild Short Story competition, in spite of having been published in a trade journal for educational bureaucrats.

Karoline Barrett lives in Connecticut with her husband. Besides her two sons and writing, she loves traveling, the beach, reading, and the New York Yankees. Her long fiction has been published by Wild Horse Press and her short fiction has appeared in Read-A-Romance; Flashshot; True Love Magazine; Bent Pin Quarterly; The Storyteller; Slow Trains Literary Journal; and Long Story Short. Her non-fiction has appeared in Brazzil; Dovetail and The Jewish Magazine. Her poetry has appeared in The Helix and A Time of Singing.

Tony Burton: Tony is an author of both fiction and non-fiction, and the chief editor of Wolfmont LLC, a small-press publishing company.  He is the founder of the Crime and Suspense ezine, Vice President of the Southeast Chapter of the Mystery Writers of America (SEMWA), and lives in NW Georgia with his beautiful wife, Lara.