Weekly Artist

Name: Matt Shaner

I am a writer, father, husband, and hopefully soon to be full time English teacher living in the suburbs of Reading, PA. I met my wife in high school and we have a son with a second child arriving in December. I love reading and writing, movies and music, basically anything that can motivate me to create. This month I will start as a student in Fairfield University's MFA program in Creative Writing.

I have twenty-one short stories published online and in print including one selected for anthology. I also have a novel and novella available from Eternal Press. My writing is really a mix of genres. I have a sci fi novel, horror novella, literary fiction novel, and a number of other short stories that are making the rounds to publishers, magazines, and presses to find a home. I hate to hit the old cliche, but I loved reading and writing ever since I was little. In a stressful world it has always served as an escape and I think that every story can teach us something about life and our society. Stephen Gaghan, writer of the movie Traffic, said "all writers have a need to explain themselves to the world." This is my passion and my hope is that one day my son can say he is proud to call his dad a writer.

My blog: http://shanerwriting.wordpress.com/
Novel and novella available here: http://www.eternalpress.biz/people.php?author=322

Recent Short stories here:

War, LINGUISTIC EROSION, June 2012, http://www.linguisticerosion.com/

Flood, LINGUISTIC EROSION, July 2012
Theorist, http://www.weirdyear.com/


Contact Email address: ms349437@yahoo.com

Twitter: @ShanerMatt, on facebook also

Favorite Authors: Graham Greene, Dennis Lehane, Peter Straub, Don Winslow, Clive Barker, Flannery O'Conner, Shirley Jackson, Sara Gran, Richard Thomas, basically anyone that can hook me on a good story!



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NAME: Chris Sharp

BIO: I was born in San Francisco in 1948. So I am at an age where I feel the need to make active defenses for hanging around and getting even older. The main players in my life have been women. In addition to my mother and my wife, they include my daughter and my wonderful previous wives as well as some of my passing acquaintances with some of the great women of the world. Jacqueline Onassis, Catherine Deneuve and Vanessa Redgrave are among those who have somehow been involved with and have inspired my professional writing and journalism. For many years I was a theater critic in New York City as well as once a president of the Drama Desk. I am spending my semi-retirement putting in part-time teaching in Southern California and writing whatever I want. I have many short stories all over the Internet archives, with.perhaps the best ones being found by Googling my name with “short stories.”

WHAT I WRITE: At an early age I was overwhelmed with the sound of Elvis Presley, where he brought into his own musical world the world of Chuck Berry and the African-American popular music of his day. In my own little way I write stories as a form of gratification to the great African-American writing in our time, such as that of Edward P. Jones, August Wilson and Toni Morrison.

MY EMAIL ADDRESS: LBloomsday@yahoo.com

LIKES: Edith Wharton, plus the writers named above. Plus so many things on the earth and in the sky I like that I can’t start to list them

HATES: Anything that is promoted as “free.”



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Name: T. Gene Davis

T. Gene Davis is an author. He has played at managing businesses, software engineering, graphic design and other utility paying endeavors, ... but only when he’s not writing. He has a smattering of published articles, stories, poetry, and books spanning the 1990’s to present.

When pursuing his craft, T. Gene Davis looks for powerful writing and studies the styles of masters. For inspiration, he looks at the classics, and finds the stories and tales that inspired them. For themes when writing, he looks to current events and technological breakthroughs.


Education: Bachelor of Arts in English

Likes: Attending folk music festivals, reading anything by Neil Gaiman, celebrating all the Autumn holidays with family and friends

Dislikes: Wasting time without a book (If he has a book, then it’s all good.)

Website: www.tgenedavis.com

Twitter: @TGeneDavis




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