Mystical Maps

Uncollected Anthologies regularly has guest authors in their issues. For more information about this issue's author, click on Anthology Titles above, select Year Nine, then the issue title.

Dayle A. Dermatis is the author or coauthor of many novels (including snarky urban fantasies Ghosted and the forthcoming Shaded and Spectered) and more than a hundred short stories in multiple genres, appearing in such venues as Fiction River, Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, and DAW Books.

Called the mastermind behind the Uncollected Anthology project, she also guest edits anthologies for Fiction River, and her own short fiction has been lauded in many year's best anthologies in erotica, mystery, and horror.

She lives in a book- and cat-filled historic English-style cottage in the wild greenscapes of the Pacific Northwest. In her spare time she follows Styx around the country and travels the world, which inspires her writing.

To find out where she’s wandered off to (and to get free fiction!), check out DayleDermatis.com and sign up for her newsletter or support her on Patreon.

Robert Jeschonek is a USA Today-bestselling author whose fiction has been published around the world. His stories have appeared in Clarkesworld, Galaxy's Edge, Pulphouse, Escape Pod, and other publications. He has written official Star Trek and Doctor Who fiction and has scripted comics for DC and AHOY. His young adult slipstream novel, My Favorite Band Does Not Exist, won the Forward National Literature Award and was named one of Booklist's Top Ten First Novels for Youth. He also won an International Book Award, a Scribe Award for Best Original Novel, and the grand prize in Pocket Books' Strange New Worlds contest.

Visit him online at www.robertjeschonek.com.

Kari Kilgore writes fantasy, science fiction, romance, mystery, contemporary fiction, and everything in between. Kari’s stories have appeared in Fiction River anthology magazine, WMG Publishing’s Holiday Spectacular edited by Kristine Kathryn Rusch, and Sylvia Magazine. Kari’s mystery stories are regularly featured in Mystery, Crime, and Mayhem Magazine. For more information about Kari, upcoming publications, her travels and adventures, her house critters, and The Confidential Adventure Club, visit www.karikilgore.com.

Debbie Mumford is a prolific writer of fantasy, paranormal romance, historical fiction, time-travel romance, science fiction, and cozy mystery. Author of the popular Sorcha’s Children series, her work has been featured in many anthologies, including The 2017 Young Explorer’s Adventure Guide, Love is Like a Box of Chocolates, and multiple volumes of Fiction River: An Original Anthology Magazine. She writes about dragon-shifters, time-traveling lovers, and ghostly detectives for adults as Debbie Mumford, and science fiction and fantasy tales for children and young adults as Deb Logan. To learn more about Debbie (or Deb!), please visit DebbieMumford.com.

Award-winning author Annie Reed describes herself as a desert rat who longs to live by the ocean. Since she hasn’t yet convinced her family to relocate to a nice chunk of beachfront property, she’s done the next best thing—written a series of stories set in a contemporary Pacific Northwest city where magic and reality go hand in hand.

Private investigators Diz and Dee populate Annie’s more lighthearted stories, while denizens of a much rougher neighborhood lurk in her Tales From the Shadows.

A talented and versatile writer whose fantasy, science fiction, and mystery stories have sold to a wide variety of publications, including five of the first seven volumes of Fiction River’s inaugural year.

Based in Toronto, Canada, Rebecca M. Senese writes horror, science fiction and mystery/crime, often all at once in the same story. Garnering an Honorable Mention in The Year's Best Science Fiction and nominated for numerous Aurora Awards, her work has appeared in the anthology Tesseracts 16: Parnassus Unbound, the anthology Tesseracts 15: A Case of Quite Curious Tales, the anthology Imaginarium 2012, the anthology Ride the Moon, the TransVersions anthology, Deadbolt Magazine, On Spec, The Vampire's Crypt, Storyteller, Reflection's Edge, the anthology Future Syndicate, and Into the Darkness, amongst others.