Grand Central Noir

CONTRIBUTORS

Jen Conley has had stories published in Thuglit, Needle, Out of the Gutter, Big Pulp, SNM Horror, Protectors, Plots With Guns, Yellow Mama, Beat to a Pulp: Hardboiled 2, Shotgun Honey Presents: Both Barrels, and others. She is one of the editors of Shotgun Honey and has been nominated for a Best of the Web Spinetingler Award. Born and raised in New Jersey, she lives in Ocean County, where she teaches middle school and writes in her spare time.

W. Silas Donahue is a writer based in New York City and has an avid interest in the history and operation of Grand Central Terminal.

Ron Fortier is a veteran comic book creator. He is best known for writing The Green Hornet and Terminator: Burning Earth, with Alex Ross, for Now Comics, in the ’80s. Today, he writes and edits new pulp anthologies and novels via his Airship 27 Productions. He won the Pulp Factory Award for Best Pulp Short Story of 2011 for “Vengeance Is Mine” which appeared in The Avenger – Justice Inc. from Moonstone Books.

Jessica Hall is a social worker in NYC who wakes up grateful every day for her home and a hot shower.

Matt Hilton is the Cumbrian author of the Joe Hunter thriller series, including Dead Men’s Dust, Judgement and Wrath, Slash and Burn, and Cut and Run, with more books in the series coming soon. He is a high-ranking martial artist and has been a police officer and private security specialist, all of which lend an authenticity to the action scenes in his books.

J. Walt Layne resides in Springfield, Ohio, with his wife and three daughters. He is a 2008 graduate of Urbana University (Urbana, Ohio), a veteran of the United States Army, and is active in his church. His fiction work includes the Champion City Series (Pro Se Press) and the forthcoming Crimson Mask vs. Mr. Mnemonic (Airship 27). He has several fiction and nonfiction projects in the works, including political and military thrillers. His homesteading articles appear occasionally in Backwoodsman magazine, and he is a guest political columnist for The Albany Journal.

Amy Maurs (Ann-Marie DiGennaro) grew up in Brooklyn. When her goal of working as an FBI Agent or NYPD officer did not come to pass, she became a CPA. She also earned a Professional Certificate in Forensic Accounting. Is it any wonder she was drawn to write crime fiction? These days you can find her sitting front and center at the NY Chapter of the MWA meetings. With her as the registrar, no one gets in without paying.

Terrence P. McCauley is an award winning crime writer. Three of his novels Prohibition (Airship 27), Fight Card: Against the Ropes (Fight Card Books) and Slow Burn (Noir Nation Books) are currently available on Amazon.com. His short stories have been published in Thuglit, Shotgun Honey, Out of the Gutter, and Big Pulp as well as other anthologies. He is currently writing his next work of fiction.Please look for him on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TerrencePMcCauley and Twitter: @tmccauley_nyc.

R. Narvaez was born and raised in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. His work has been published by Faultline, Mississippi Review, Murdaland, Plots with Guns, Spinetingler, and DC Comics, as well as in Long Island Noir, Indian Country Noir, and Hit List: The Best of Latino Mystery. His book Roachkiller and Other Stories received the 2013 Spinetingler Award for Best Short Story Collection.

Kathleen A. Ryan is a retired 21-year veteran of the Suffolk County Police Department on Long Island.

Charles Salzberg is the author of the Shamus Award-nominated Swann's Last Song as well as Swann Dives In and his latest novel, Devil in the Hole. He teaches writing in New York City.

Seamus Scanlon is a Galway-born writer who admires the stylish noir masters like Chandler, Hammet, and Cain. His first crime fiction collection As Close As You'll Ever Be was published in 2012 to almost zero fanfare, despite a tremendous book launch at The Mysterious Bookshop in New York and a Book Salon with 18 readers at the Cell Theater. Peter A. Quinn described the collection as a masterpiece. He may have over stated the situation. It earned a starred review from the Library Journal in January 2013 and positive reviews from other publications such as The Irish Examiner, The Irish Post, and January Magazine. His novel Who Shot Who? is about to be completed.

S.A. Solomon has published short crime fiction in New JerseyNoir (Akashic Books) and other work in the Dos Passos Review, Exquisite Corpse, the New York Quarterly, etc. She’s a freelance writer on legal and financial topics. She ♥s Grand Central Terminal. You can find her day and night on twitter @sa_solomon.

Marcelle Thiébaux, born in Jersey City, is the author most recently of the historical romance novel Unruly Princess. She has stories in Twisted, Karamu, The Cream City Review and other mags. Her fiction reviews are in The New York Times Book Review and Publishers Weekly. She’s done books and articles on medieval literature, among them, The Stag of Love: The Chase in Medieval Literature; The Writings of Medieval Women; and Dhuoda: Handbook for her Warrior Son. She has written about women of all centuries, including British feminist Mary Wollstonecraft and American Pulitzer Prize winner Ellen Glasgow. At work on her next novel, Thiébaux lives with her photographer husband in Sag Harbor and New York.

R.J. (Ralph) Westerhoff, known as “Cookie” to his intimates, has been writing since he first scrawled with a purple crayon on his green bedroom wall. He spent more than two decades in advertising as a copywriter and creative director. He is currently working on pieces in both the noir and the historical mystery genres, though his success can be judged by the deep furrows of consternation scratched into his Klingon-like forehead.

I.A. Watson first passed through Grand Central in the summer of ’94. Since then he’s published the novels Robin Hood: King of Sherwood, Robin Hood: Arrow of Justice, and the forthcoming Robin Hood: Freedom’s Outlaw; Blackthorn: Dynasty of Mars and the upcoming Blackthorn: Spires of Mars; and contributed to anthologies including five volumes of Sherlock Holmes: Consulting Detective, Gideon Cain, Demon Hunter, Blackthorn: Thunder on Mars, The New Adventures of Richard Knight, Blood-Price of the Missionary’s Gold, Monster Earth, and The New Adventures of Sinbad. He even got awards or award nominations for a lot of them. He’s not claiming this was all down to visiting Grand Central, you understand, but you can see why he might want to write a story about the place for a good cause.


A full list of I.A. Watson’s publications, some free material, and lots of notes are available online at http://www.chillwater.org.uk/writing/iawatsonhome.htm