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[Horrorboo]

Name: Tara-Lea Aleszczyk

Website: NONE

Email Address: horrorboo@me.com

A Little About Yourself: I'm a writer, hoping to be published, that pays the bills by teaching English at a local community college.

Worked on a Womanthology Project before?: Yes. Last time I just helped with some organizational stuff.

Sample of Work: I would describe my writing as kooky magic realism with a tendency toward the creepy.

[Faerie_Queen]

Name: Tatiana Christian

Email Address: MsChristian88@gmail.com

A Little About Yourself: I love cats, science-fiction/fantasy novels the MOST. Video games and anime are cool too!

Worked on a Womanthology Project before?: Heroic

Sample of Work: I have a story in the first edition of the comic anthology!

[Kirsten_ish]

Name Kirsten Thompson

Website http://very-ish.tumblr.com, Pink Raygun, Word Of The Nerd.

Email address k.thompson@y2cl.net

A Little About You I'm a writer of fiction and poetry. I've also done my own web comic. I am the Social Media Coordinator for Television Tropes and Word Of The Nerd, and an Assistant at Black Label Comics.

Worked on a Womanthology Project before? No. Have written a review of the first volume.

Sample of Work A young woman who works in a junkyard finds out she can communicate with machines, and has to come to grips with the fact that she may be creating life.

[Elena Andrews]

Name: Elena Andrews

Website: http://www.elenaandrews.blogspot.com/

Email Address: elenaandrews11@gmail.com

A Little About Yourself: I'm a writer living in PA. I wrote a few comic book stories for an anthology called The Gathering and I just recently published my first ebook a YA Thriller called Run Like Hell.

Worked on a Womanthology Project before?: No

Sample of Work: I'd be interested in doing a short using characters from my upcoming novel or a 'slice of life story'. Here's a sample from my book:
Seventeen-year-old Morgan Butler has already violated two of her mother's sacred rules. First, don’t talk to strangers and second, never get in a car with someone you don’t know. Now she's comtemplating rule number three - If taken, do whatever you can to get away from a captor – fight, claw, scratch, scream. . .then run like hell

[magiktori]

Name:
Victoria (Tori) Pagac
Website:http://www.rayespellbound.com/

Email Address:magik88285@aol.com

A Little About Yourself:
I have cerbal palsy but i haven't let that stop me from trying to get a job in comics after working on a buch of projects that never made it any where I self published Raye Knight Spellbound
Worked on a Womanthology Project before?:No

Sample of Work:
I have a handicap superhero i made that i think might work she was made as a kid's book also i do horror stories i've been lurking here and have been waiting for a opening to join the converstion I really really love comics but i have been burned by the business end quite a bit

[Ma'at]

Name: Ma'at Crook

Website: maatcrook.deviantart.com

Email Address: maat@maatcrook.com

A Little About Yourself: Right now a three-legged dog is sleeping next to me and has the sweetest face. My heart is melting.

Worked on a Womanthology Project before?: Totally.

Sample of Work: A girl and her older brothers go on an adventure in the woods. When her brothers hop a train and she can't catch up, she must find her way back home and has an adventure all her own.

[Whes]

Name: Sandra Mellott

Website: whes.deviantart.com

Email Address: brave_intrepid_hero@hotmail.com

A Little About Yourself: University student, age 24, majoring in English, with a concentration in creative writing, fiction. I love storytelling more than anything, and I'm not picky about the medium, though I tend to mostly watch movies and write novels. I'm particularly obsessed with characters. My favorite story of all time is the manga Eyeshield 21. I prefer drama over comedy, and I like dark themes and adult subjects. I have a background in acting.

Worked on a Womanthology Project before?: Yes, Heroic.

Sample of Work: An abused boy runs away to a wooded clearing and befriends a stray animal, promising to never become the sort of person who would ever hurt anyone or anything.

[LorGraham]

Name: Laura Graham

Website: www.themarketplaceofopinions.com

Email Address: graham.laura@hotmail.com

A Little About Yourself: I am a Japanese graduate with a keen interest in music, fantasy, and all things creative. I am in the habit of having about 10 writing projects on the go at any one time, but I wouldn't have it any other way. I currently write monthly articles for Fantasy-Faction.com, who are lovely enough to let me ramble on about whatever comes to mind.

Worked on a Womanthology Project before?: no, but I followed the creation process of the first project closely.

Sample of Work: Every pirate captain needs a ship, right? It's amazing the lengths some will go to to get their ship back.

[Becky Chambers]

Name: Becky Chambers

Website: otherscribbles.com

Email Address: beckymchambers@gmail.com

A Little About Yourself: I'm a freelance writer by trade. I'm writing a webcomic called Uncommon (uncommoncomic.com), and I write sci-fi stories, too. I'm also a contributing writer for The Mary Sue, where I write about video games and geek culture. To pay the bills, I write tech guides and web content.

Worked on a Womanthology Project before?: Nope!

Sample of Work: On a dismal colony moon, a girl escapes from a life in a tech recycling plant. Getting off-world on a passenger ship is out of the question, but that's okay. She can just build transport of her own. She's got all the time in the world.

[Wolverina]

Name: Zoe Wadsworth

Website: Wolverina.net

Email Address: thewolverina@gmail.com

A Little About Yourself: I have a Bachelor of Arts, majoring in English and Geography. For work, I currently managing social media and website content, as well as general administration and events for an Australian university department. I also review books and comics on my website and my podcast, How I Got My Boyfriend To Read Comics.

Worked on a Womanthology Project before?: No, but I have reviewed them.

Sample of Work: A second-generation superheroine (think Wondergirl/Supergirl), after seeing the difficulties her mentor (Wonder Woman analogue) faces as a female superhero, decides to use a fake robotic suit to hide her gender. Her secret is closely guarded, but her relationship with her mentor struggles from the changed dynamic.

[Twyliet]

Name: Shelby Phillips

Website: None yet!

E-mail: twyliet@yahoo.com

A little about yourself: I'm a girl who loves writing comic books, novels, and other fun things.

Worked on Womanthology project before? No

Sample of work: The end has become the present. One angel looks the world over and finds the answer she seeks in renewing the world.

[LadiesMakingComics]

Name: Alexa Dickman

Website: http://www.ladiesmakingcomics.com

Email Address: ladiesmakingcomics[at]gmail.com

A Little About Yourself: I'm a blogger and amateur comics historian about women in comics. I put my ambitions of comics writing on hold while I was in law school, but that's almost over now. In real life, I will soon work in contracts negotiation.

Worked on a Womanthology Project before?: No, unless you count some early promotion and vague legal consulting at the beginning.

Sample of Work: Upon the outbreak of the Second American Civil War, a handful of (mostly women) college-aged shut-ins who only know each other via an MMORPG decide to take to the seas as privateers for the Union.

[Lburke]

Name: Lauren Burke

Website: http://pi-jane.com/

Email Address: Lburke706@gmail.com

A Little About Yourself: I’m a writer living in Chicago. I run Monkeys + Typewriters Small Press with my partner, Greg Sorkin. This year we’re publishing P.I. Jane, I See Monsters, the Prose & Cons Anthology, and a full-length version of I’m Not OmniGirl. When I’m not involved with comics, I work at the American Library Association.

Worked on a Womanthology Project before?: Yes, I wrote I’m Not OmniGirl for Womanthology Heroic.

Sample of Work: SUPER SITTERS WANTED! SuperSitters, New York’s premiere babysitting service for the super-powered, is looking for a NEW hero to add to our SuperSitters Squad! Applicants must have childcare experience, First Aid/CPRAED certification, and submit to a thorough background check. Full disclosure: sitting for capes and their children is serious work; many kids are prone to powers themselves, as well as kidnapping attempts. Pay is competitive but commensurate with experience and includes full benefits.

[angelic13]

Name: Anastasia Olashaya-Grill

Website: http://www.evernightcomic.com/

Email Address: hartsbay@gmail.com

A Little About Yourself: A fairly recent Drake University grad with a B.A. in Creative Writing and a Minor in Film, I write as often as I can between job searching and weathering the strange heat this March is getting. I write & co-create the webcomic Ever Night and love working in the sci-fi/fantasy genres the most. Besides Ever Night, I have other webcomics on the backburner with my cohort-in-crime, Sarah Obomsawin, along with short stories, a novel, and a couple screenplays/teleplays.

Worked on a Womanthology Project before?: I have not.

Sample of Work:

1) Each day this no-name girl changes her name and her entire outlook on life--along with her very identity. Whether this is mental disorder or simply a changelings shedding of skin, is there really a difference?

2) Charged with protecting the younger sister of a comrade, effeminate Christopher Lourdes, has to cross-dress in order to stick close to eighteen-year-old Ilsa Reed at an all-girl's high school in a time and place where fantasy and science fiction aren't all that far apart.

[PlayerProphet]

Name: Dawn Davis

Website: playerprophet.com

Email Address: playerprophet@gmail.com

A Little About Yourself: I also signed up at the artist board, but I fancy myself a little more of a writer! I have been intending to dip into comics - I only have prose written ad this point - so this would be a really exciting project for me. I actually have a minor in Creative Writing!

Worked on a Womanthology Project before?: Nope!

Sample of Work: Arienne realizes she is a goddess while drying the dishes in her downtown slum.