Weekly Artist

Name: Joe Mynhardt

Joe Mynhardt is a South African horror writer and teacher. With multiple publications and a tome of story ideas scraping for a chance to be written, Joe is definitely a writer to keep an eye on. In his spare time Joe blogs about haunted buildings as well as scary movies. Be sure to check out his collection of eerie photographs.


Joe Mynhardt took up writing at the end of 2008 and has enjoyed remarkable success. Joe contributes to horror fiction in more ways than his own work. He maintains a constant presence on several of the major horror writer’s forums as a contributor and adviser. He’s also a moderator for a foremost writer’s group, Mywriterscircle. All in all, he keeps his finger on the active pulse of current horror.


In his non-fictional life, Joe is a primary school teacher who enjoys reading, watching movies and collecting rare coins. After matriculating in 1998, he moved to Bloemfontein, South Africa, where he received an honors degree in Education Leadership and Management.

Joe devotes himself to his wife, his work, and to feeding his two dogs. I’m sure if something happened, and he was incapacitated, he wouldn’t mind if his dogs ate him. After all, it would be a shame to let all that talent go to waste.


Experience more of Joe’s creations (Including ghost photos, links to published work, and a horror blog.) at www.joemynhardt.com


Feel free to contact me at Joemynhardt@yahoo.com. I love chatting with people from all walks of life, so don’t hesitate to look me up on facebook.



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A New Englander by upbringing and inclination, Kenneth Weene is a teacher, psychologist, and pastoral counselor by education. He is a writer by passion. Ken’s poetry has appeared in numerous publications – most recently featured in Sol and publication in Spirits, Palo Verde Pages, Vox Poetica and Clutching at Straws. An anthology of his writings, Songs for my Father, was published by Inkwell Productions in 2002. Ken’s short stories have appeared in many places, including Legendary, Sex and Murder Magazine, The New Flesh Magazine, The Santa Fe Literary Review, Daily Flashes of Erotica Quarterly, Bewildering Stories and A Word With You Press. In 2009 Ken’s novel, Widow’s Walk, was published and in 2010 a second novel, Memoirs From the Asylum, both by All Things That Matter Press.

My writing is a combination of super-realism and literary fiction. It is typically character driven and with great attention paid to the sound of language.

KWeene1941@Gmail.com

I'm available on most of the social media, but particularly on FaceBook - just look for Kenneth Weene; I'm the only one.

I have two more novels ready to go to the publisher and another under way. Writing has become a way of life.

Name: Lori Van Pelt

Website:  http://www.lorivanpelt.com 

Lori Van Pelt is an award-winning poet, fiction and nonfiction writer.  Her short fiction won the Western Writers of America Spur Award in 2006 and was named a finalist by that same group in 2008.  Short stories have appeared in a half dozen national anthologies, most recently in How the West Was Wicked (Pill Hill Press) and Ghost Towns (Pinnacle Books).  Her biography, Amelia Earhart:  The Sky's No Limit (Forge, American Heroes series) was named to the New York Public Library's "Best Books for the Teen Age" list, and she has also authored two books on Wyoming history published by High Plains Press. Recent short nonfiction has been published in The Wyoming Woman and WyoHistory.org. Lori won a 2010 Creative Writing Fellowship in Poetry from the Wyoming Arts Council and has completed her first book of poetry. She lives with her husband, Eugene Walck, Jr. on their cattle ranch near Saratoga, Wyo.

Lori enjoys reading short fiction by a wide variety of authors including Louis L'Amour, Ron Carlson and Lorrie Moore.  She uses free-writing techniques to produce rough drafts that help lead her to her finished poetry and prose. Lori's high school English teacher encouraged her early poetry-writing efforts and was instrumental in Lori's becoming a writer.  Lori continues to correspond with Mrs. Edens, who remains a cherished friend. Lori received her Associate's degree in business from Nebraska Western College in 1981, worked in the banking industry for a decade and then earned a B.S. in Finance with honors in 1993 from the University of Wyoming.  She plays classical music on her flute in duet with local trombonist Robby Follum and is learning to play bridge.