The Spiraling Worm

THE AUTHORS

David Conyers
http://www.davidconyers.com

David Conyers is an Australian based author of science fiction and dark fiction. His first novel The Spiraling Worm co-authored with was published by Chaosium Inc. in 2007. His short stories are found in the numerous anthologies including Agog! Ripping Reads, The Black Book of Horror, Black Box, Horrors Beyond, Macabre, Hardboiled Cthulhu, and Arkham Tales amongst others. He has also appeared in numerous speculative fiction magazines and journals. In 2004 he joined the team at Elder Sign Press as the Associate Editor for Book of Dark Wisdom, a role he kept for three years.

He was recently short-listed for the 2006-2007 Aeon Award for his science fiction story "Black Water" and the 2006 Aurealis Award for Best Science Fiction Short Story and Ditmar Award for Best Novella for "Aftermath". in 2007 he won the Australian Horror Writers Associations' Flash Fiction Award for his story "Homo Canis".

He is the author of Secrets of Kenya and co-author of Devil's Children both for the Call of Cthulhu game. He has contributed to other publications for the Call of Cthulhu role-playing game including Secrets of San Francisco and the expanded edition of The Stars Are Right! David is also an illustrator with his artwork appearing in many magazines and gaming books, including Secrets of Kenya.

Born in Sydney and growing up in the Adelaide Hills, David graduated with a Bachelor of Engineering (Civil) from the University of Melbourne. He worked on several remote projects in outback Western Australia including the construction of a gas pipeline and the commissioning of a mine processing plant. Afterwards he backpacked through Africa and Europe before returning to Australia where he worked in marketing and corporate communications, eventually managing a marketing services department for a global engineering company. Today he works in marketing communications.

In 2005 he relocated to Adelaide with his wife, daughter and two cats. During the last ten years David has been bitten by the travel bug, his first venture overseas was not enough to settle him, and since then has explored six continents and over twenty-five countries, all of them providing inspiration for his writing.

John Sunseri
http://www.freewebs.com/johnsunseri

John Sunseri lives in Portland, Oregon, with his wife and requisite two cats. He manages a restaurant for a living, and spends whatever free time he manages to snatch from real life jotting down fantastical images and scenes, including many that involve tentacles and slime, fangs and free-spilling blood. For all of that, he's a fairly mild-mannered fellow.

John's work has appeared in magazines such as Hardboiled, Dark Animus, Black Petals, Bare Bone, Night Terrors, Night to Dawn and many others. His tales have been published in the anthologies Horrors Beyond, Hell's Hangmen, Hardboiled Cthulhu and Hear Them Roar, and more stories are slated to appear in various publications upcoming in the near future. He's also completed a heroic fantasy novel and is seeking representation for it, and is hard at work on a hardboiled horror book...whenever he gets a moment free of short-story demands.

John attended Yale University for a couple of years before running out of money, abortively majoring in English, and spent most of his young- and mid-adult life drinking beer and watching bad horror movies. Luckily, he eventually ran into a woman who would marry him, and she turned out to be the best woman in the world - and now the beer-drinking has receded to manageable levels. The bad horror movies, though - there's no cure for that.