Unexpected Histories

Jason A. Adams writes across the spectrum. Besides crime fiction, his stories include science fiction, fantasy, horror, Appalachian folk tales, and romance. You can find more of his work and sign up for updates from his Brain Squirrels at www.jasonadams.info. His stories have also appeared in Pulphouse Magazine, Mystery, Crime, and Mayhem, and the Winter Holiday Spectaculars from WMG Publishing. Jason, a recovering Air Force brat who grew up all over the US and Japan, now perches in the mountains of Southwest Virginia with his beautiful wife, Kari Kilgore; various spoiled house critters; and assorted wild visitors from the nearby forest.

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.

Leah Cutter writes page-turning, wildly imaginative fiction set in exotic locations, such as a magical New Orleans, the ancient Orient, rural Kentucky, Seattle, Minneapolis, and many others.

She writes fantasy, science fiction, mystery, literary, and horror fiction. Her short fiction has been published in magazines such as Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine and Talebones, anthologies such as Fiction River, and on the web. Her long fiction has been published both by New York publishers as well as small presses.

Read more books by Leah Cutter at www.KnottedRoadPress.com.

Follow her blog at www.LeahCutter.com.

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.

Jamie Ferguson focuses on getting into the minds and hearts of her characters, whether she’s writing about a saloon girl in the old West, a man who discovers the barista he's in love with is a naiad, or a ghost who haunts the house she was killed in—even though that house no longer exists.

Jamie lives in Colorado, and spends her free time in a futile quest to wear out her two border collies since she hasn’t given in and gotten them their own herd of sheep.

You can find her at jamieferguson.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.