Steve Wiley
Steve is a purveyor of the finest in speculative literature from Chicago. He has authored five novels and his short fiction has been published everywhere from Crannóg magazine in Galway, Ireland, to Papercuts Magazine in Pakistan. His most recent novel, The Curious Case of the Village in the Moonlight, an unconventional fantasy set within Vincent Van Gogh’s Starry Night, was released in September 2023.
For new title release and other information, visit Steve’s author website at https://www.absurdistfiction.com/.
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Lee was hired as a staff nurse at the London Hospital in Whitechapel in the early 1950s. With the Sisters of St John the Divine, an Anglican community of nuns, she worked to aid the poor. She was then a ward sister at the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital in Bloomsbury, and later at the Marie Curie Hospital in Hampstead.
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A native of Cardiff, Wales, Paul Antony Jones now resides near Las Vegas, Nevada, with his wife. He has worked as a newspaper reporter and commercial copywriter, but his passion is penning fiction. A self-described science geek, he’s a voracious reader of scientific periodicals, as well as a fan of things mysterious, unknown, and on the fringe. Paul is the author of six books, including the bestselling Extinction Point series and Toward Yesterday.
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