From Within the Mist

Overview

From Within the Mist is an anthology of stories by five of the top rated new blood in fantasy/SF (Speculative Fantasy) today; Jeanine Berry (The Sex Gates Trilogy), Sheri McGathy (Twilight Crossings), Rie Sheridan (The Blood that Binds), Lazette Gifford (The Dark Staff Series) and K. Allen Cross (Wolfheart). Selected by the editor for their proven accomplishments in the field, From Within the Mist presents for your enjoyment six stories of varying lengths that embody the true spirit of Speculative Fantasy. Taking place in the past and future, each tale will transport you to a realm that will not only entertain, but make you speculate on the possibilities.From Within the Mist will bring you back to the purity of Speculative Fantasy!

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Author Information

Bio of Jeanine Berry

Words are Jeanine Berry ' s passion. Perhaps it is genetic since she comes from a family of writers. An avid reader all her life, she started scratching pen to paper at an early age. Once she learned to type, she kept her family awake late at night with the clicking of keys. Eventually, she left home, studied English and journalism and went on to a career as a journalist. The hard-charging, deadline-driven world of journalism left her little time for her own writing. But the desire to put her fantasy worlds down on paper in novel form never left her. When the Internet was born, she was hooked by the idea of ebooks. She dug out one of her old manuscripts from long ago, polished it up and sent it in to an epublisher. Her creative writing career was soon launched. She is now the author of three fantasy novels, and three SF novels, as well as a contributor to two anthologies. Dayspring Destiny, the final book of her Dayspring series, took the 2004 Eppie for best fantasy novel. Jeanine lives in the Chicago area with her husband and two very spoiled Australian Silky Terriers.

Bio of K. Cross

Keith lives in rural Pennsylvania with his wife Susan, and Dinky, their Lab/Great Dane mix. Retired from the USN, he now has the time for his passion of writing.

Bio of Lazette Gifford

On the day Lazette was born The Muses wept, mostly because they knew that one of them would have no rest for a long time. The Graces, always anxious to be certain their poor cousins had enough to do, dropped off the notice themselves. When The Muses saw the snippets of the future, they quailed at the work ahead. The Graces smirked, and quickly left before they were coerced into a new little project like that one that had somehow mutated into the Renaissance. The most difficult decision remaining to The Muses turned out to be which of them would take up the challenge of the little insomniac with far too much imagination. When they turned to Aoede, she pointed out that a new age of music had barely begun, and she already had her hands full preparing Elvis and Ringo. Erato, Euterpe, and Terpsichore -- who had all been rather disdainful of Rock and Roll until now -- suddenly found a true and abiding interest in it, and threw themselves into the work with Aoede before someone suggested that one of them take the problem child. They thought Calliope, being the oldest might stand a chance, but she (rather too quickly, the others thought) pointed out that the age of Epic Poetry was in abeyance, and it would hardly be fair to start a baby along that path. They almost argued... but Calliope always had the last word. Epic poets were like that. Clio waved them away and went back to the proliferation of post-war historians, and the others decided maybe she had more than enough already. Melete and Mneme took their cues from Earato, Euepre and Terpischore and decided that history needed all the help it could get. And that left Melpomene, who began to wail as soon as they turned to her -- but then she, being the muse of Tragedy, tended to do that quite often anyway. When the others pressed her anyway, she began to panic until she spotted her sister, Polymnia, busy with quill and paper, and so immersed in her work that she never even noticed the ruckus around her. Melphomene rushed to her side and put a hand on Polymnia ' s shoulder. "What now " Polymnia demanded, looking at Mel with utter exasperation. "I ' m in the middle of a scene! Why is it I can ' t get two pages written without some interruption For the love of the Gods, don ' t you eight have anything better to do than bother me " "We have a problem," Calliope said, barely able to hide a malicious grin. She ' d been waiting for the moment to get even ever since prose replaced poetry as the favored form, and now she knew she had her chance. "We ' ve been handed a child who needs a muse. We ' re all so busy, Poly. Maybe you... " "Yes, yes, fine. Just put the name in with the others." And she went back to writing, and sealed the baby ' s fate, as well as those of several poor, unsuspecting keyboards.

Bio of Sheri McGathy

"Born a buckeye, I was uprooted in 1971 and replanted amongst sunflowers, tornadoes, and college football. It ' s a good life." ~ Sheri L. McGathy Sheri is married and has one grown son. She works in prepress in a graphic design department as a Graphic Arts Coordinator/Copy Editor. When not working, she enjoys reading, writing, drawing, and spoiling, not only her granddaughter, but also her dogs Brenna and Hershey. Sheri is a member of The Kansas Writer ' s Association, EPIC, and IFWA - Internet Fantasy Writers Association, Partner ' s in Prose and the Coffeeshop Writer ' s author group. She is also Managing Editor at The Fractured Publisher. http://www.fracturedpublisher.com In addition to her ghost stories published within TRESPASSING TIME: Ghost Stories from the Prairie, she is the author of the fantasy novels, WITHIN THE SHADOW OF STONE, SEASON OF GOLD -- ELFEN GOLD Book One, SEASON OF SILVER -- ELFEN GOLD Book Two, novellas Thief of Dreams, Where Lies Beauty, and The Ancient One, as well as the short THE BIRTH OF SPRING, all published by Double Dragon Publishing. To visit her website: http://www.sherilmcgathy.com

Bio of Rie Sheridan

Rie has been writing since she first picked up a crayon. She has had stories published in The Eternal Night, ShadowKeep and Verge e ' zines, as well as the EOTU and Planet Relish websites. Her poetry has appeared in the print magazines Mythic Circle and Dreams of Decadence, and in the Electric Wine e ' zine. A children ' s story was published in the Half ' Price Books 1999 Say Good ' Night to Illiteracy Anthology. Both her short story anthology RieVisions and poetry collection Dancing on the Edge were finalists in the 2003 EPPIE awards. A series of illustrated children ' s books under the name Adrienne Rose is scheduled for release by Writer ' s Exchange Epress. And tomorrow Who knows '

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Additional Info

Imprint

Double Dragon Publishing

Filesize

618.90 KB

Number of Pages

180

eBook ISBN

9781554040797