Sweet, Sexy and Special Dark - Blerdrotica, #1

PENELOPE FLYNN Penelope Flynn is a speculative fiction author and 3D illustrator who enjoys mixed genre speculative fiction featuring elements of horror, suspense, science fiction, erotica and fantasy. Notable works can be found in the Dark Universe anthology, The Steamfunk anthology, Genesis: An Anthology of Black Science Fiction Book II, Scierogenous II, and Zane's Caramel Flava II. Penelope Flynn is author of Regarding Koescu; The Chronicles of Renfields, Revenant Lineage Book 1. Works in Progress include Chronicles of Renfields; The First Book of Ramona, an erotic romance, Katina's Revenge and a Dark Universe: Expansion novel. Penelope Flynn is cover artist and an interior artist for the second edition of Rorie Still's Flash Bang anthology, cover illustrator for Carole McDonnell's novelette, The Charcoal Bride and Stone P.
Mays' Blumeverse short "Ava Dianthus and her Minion of Evil." Listings of more creative works can be found at PenelopeFlynn.com. Cranston Burney considers himself an OG Blerd (and proud of it!) and, as a kid, used to eat the Sunday comics because the colors looked tasty. (This may explain much regarding how he eventually turned out.) When not staring at a blank word processing document he contributes media commentary to the Black Science Fiction Society's website and is a frequent contributor to Discussions from the Otherhood, the official podcast of the Other_Sci_Fi Magazine.
He wonders: If Anakin Skywalker grew up to be Darth Vader, when he encountered Luke Skywalker. Didn't he wonder. or is "Skywalker" the galactic equivalent of "Smith" or "Patel?"Cranston Burney considers himself an OG Blerd (and proud of it!) and, as a kid, used to eat the Sunday comics because the colors looked tasty. (This may explain much regarding how he eventually turned out.) When not staring at a blank word processing document he contributes media commentary to the Black Science Fiction Society's website and is a frequent contributor to Discussions from the Otherhood, the official podcast of the Other_Sci_Fi Magazine.
He wonders: If Anakin Skywalker grew up to be Darth Vader, when he encountered Luke Skywalker. Didn't he wonder. or is "Skywalker" the galactic equivalent of "Smith" or "Patel?" When not daydreaming about plot lines and characters, Andra Dill practices yoga, reads voraciously, writes, rewrites, and writes some more. She lets her friends talk her into all kinds of nonsense and loves road trips. Follow her on Twitter @aedill Born and raised in the Bronx now located in the Yorkville section of Manhattan, James has been writing speculative fiction since 2004.
After ten years as an artist representative and paralegal James decided in 2013 to make a better commitment to writing. Currently at work on The Passage of Time Saga a series of short stories in the occult detective genre featuring Madison Cavendish and Seneca Sue living vampire and werewolf occult detectives. James has written a series of twilight zone style short stories titled The artwork (I to V), a writer's page on Face book: Who gives you the Write and writes an annual series of blogs for black horror history month at www.horroraddicts.net He is also a member of the Black Science Fiction Society. William Hayashi is an international award-winning script writer, an accomplished author of short stories and novels, and the host of The Genesis Science Fiction Radio Show for the last nine years.
Hayashi's Darkside Trilogy, a series of novels detailing what happens in the United States when the country discovers African Americans living on the backside of the moon since before Neil Armstrong's arrival, has garnered critical acclaim and is under development for adaptation to television. Hayashi's first four movie scripts were produced, including his very first which won the Chicago leg of the 48 Hour Film Project in 2009, As the host of the Genesis Science Fiction Radio Show, he has interviewed hundreds of Black creatives in science fiction, fantasy, and horror across all forms of media.
In 2020, Hayashi will be releasing four new novels, sequels to his Darkside Trilogy His short stories can be found in science fiction publications and on various science fiction-related sites across the Internet. Hie can be found on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100014452304026 Valjeanne Jeffers is a speculative fiction author, a graduate of Spelman College and the author of nine books: including her Immortal series and her most recent Mona Livelong: Paranormal Detective series.
Her first novel, Immortal, is featured on the Invisible Universe Documentary time-line. She was also chosen as a Seer (2016) by the Horror Writers Association (HWA). Her writing has been published in numerous anthologies including: The City: A Cyberpunk Anthology; Steamfunk!; Genesis Science Fiction Magazine; The Ringing Ear: Black Poets Lean South (as Valjeanne Jeffers-Thompson); Griots: A Sword and Soul Anthology; Liberated Muse I: How I Freed My Soul; PurpleMag; Drumvoices Revue; Griots II: Sisters of the Spear; Possibilities; Say it Loud; Black Gold and, most recently, Luminescent Threads: Connections to Octavia E.
Butler (winner of the Locus Award, nominated for the Hugo award); Fitting In; Sycorax's Daughters (nominated for the Bram Stoker Award); 100 Black Women in Horror and Black Magic Women. She is also one of the screen writers for the horror anthology film, 7Magpies (in production). Rorie Still was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.  Having found a passion for writing since she was in the second grade, Rorie has been word weaving from her story trunk ever since.
In April 2013, Taking Wing, the story that seeded her first book, Flashbang, was first introduced to the public as a winner of the science and speculative fiction writing contest, Octavia City, organized by The Black Tribbles, then a G-Town Radio podcast. Rorie read the story live on the air for the program. Afterwards, Rorie was chosen to be one of the featured artists in Art Sanctuary's 2015 Celebration of Black Literature.
Rorie also published her second book, Hidden Melody, this same year (a co-authorship with Naila Mattison), Rorie was selected to present the poem "Star Children" for the Shaping Change: Octavia E. Butler Conference in La Jolla, CA. In November 2016, She produced a soundtrack EP for her first book, Flashbang which was released on Bandcamp in November 2016. Additionally, within 2017, Rorie had two short stories published within two different science fiction/hero anthologies.
Capes at the End of the World in Black Power: The Superhero Anthology, edited by Balogun Ojetade and Bees in the V-Trap: A Junkless Trunk Story in Scribes of Nyota: Our Voices, Our Imagination, A Compendium, edited by Shawn Alleyne and Maurice Waters. Also in 2017, she took first place in the East Coast Black Age of Comics Convention's First Pitch Room contest. In September of 2018, Rorie published the second edition of Flashbang with illustrations and three new stories.
Later, in March of 2018, Rorie Still applied for the. In 2018 she won a twenty-five hundred dollar grant from the Leeway Art and Change Grant to further fund the production of the Flashbang graphic novel. And in 2019, Rorie Still published her first graphic novel, Flashbang, that was based on the short-story book. In July of 2019, Rorie moved to Los Angeles, California in pursuit of a writing internship and is currently working on developing one of her short stories into an animated series as well as brainstorming her Dracula-based property into a live-action televsion show. Quinton Veal is a speculative fiction and erotica writer, an artist, and the author of six books, including his most recent book, Cybernetic Love. His art has also been featured in the O.
T. H. E. R. S. C. I. F. I. Magazine, and Genesis Science Fiction Magazine Summer Issue 2012, and his poetry has been published in Poetic Gumbo, I Want My Poetry To .