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Display a printable version Who Are We? We are the insane and the creative (Or is that insanely creative?) authors and photographers who have put together this webzine based on a common theme. We flirt with the darkness, the obtuse and those things hidden just below the surface of mundane life. We live that life of what could be. We are the slaves to our muses and we would not have it any other wayJennifer Brozek, Chief Editor & Author - Kendrick Seanan McGuire, Author - Sparrow Hill Road Amber Clark, TEoP Photographer Past Contributors Ryan Macklin, Author - Hidden City James M. Sullivan, Author - Santa Maria Jeremy Tidwell, Photographer Sasha Pixlee, Photographer |
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Jennifer Brozek, the creator and co-editor for the Grants Pass anthology (Morrigan Books, July 2009), is a freelance author for several RPG companies including Margaret Weis Productions, Rogue Games and OtherWorld Creations. She is also a freelance technical writer for Amazon.com. She has contributed to multiple RPG sourcebooks (Dragonlance, Castlemourn, Serenity, Cortex, Colonial Gothic) and has co-authored three books (A Player's Guide to Castlemourn with Ed Greenwood, 2006; Chill, 3rd Edition with Mike Callahan, 2008; and Dragonvarld Adventures with Margaret Weis, 2008). She is published in several anthologies and is the creator and editor of the semi-pro webzine, The Edge of Propinquity. When she is not writing her heart out, she is a loving wife to her husband, Jeff, and an indulgent 'mother' to their three cats. Other hobbies include serving as a kitten foster mom for the Seattle Animal Shelter and being a sidekick character in the webcomic, 
Nick Bergeron was born and raised in the state of Maine, which may explain why he rides to work on mooseback. He usually parks his moose in a Microsoft parking lot during business hours while on a contract. He spends his freetime pretending to be someone he's not and rolling polyhedral dice, or singing his lungs out at the local karaoke joint. From time to time he can also be found attempting to "master the game", as the kids these days say.
Ivan Ewert is a published poet and author of several pieces of short fiction, the end result of a lifetime's habit of exaggeration and flat-out falsehoods. Do not believe that he spent his early days in theatre, or that he passes his free time in games of skill and chance. Pay no heed to his insistence that anthropology and mythology must forever be considered a single field of study. Under no circumstance should you be fooled into believing that he lives in northern Illinois with a lovely wife and a tribe of miscellaneous house-spirits, for the man is an inveterate teller of tales.
Rick Silva grew up in Boston, Massachusetts, attended Cornell University, and currently teaches chemistry at a high school on Cape Cod, where he resides with his wife and two cats. He has been involved in small press publishing since his college days. As a co-founder of Pentegram Komix & Graphix, Rick published and edited Kinships magazine, a speculative fiction literary magazine that ran six issues under Rick?s editorship. Along with his wife Gynn, Rick is a partner in Dandelion Studios, a small press comic book company. Rick co-writes the Dandelion Studios comic Zephyr & Reginald: Minions for Hire, and he will also be writing scripts for several new Dandelion Studios projects scheduled for release in 2006. He writes a regular comic book review column for the comic fan site Comicwidows.com, and publishes his own zine, Caravan, on a somewhat irregular basis. Rick attends science fiction and gaming conventions around the northeastern states, and has been involved in the gaming scene for more than 20 years. Rick also writes and performs poetry. Prior to his recent move back to Massachusetts, Rick taught high school science in Jersey City, New Jersey, where he was a regular at several open mic events.
She's a blogger, an advocate, an advice columnist, a businesswoman. She's a dreamer, a philosopher, an artist, a madwoman. She's an award-winning composer and performer, a lifelong poet, and, sooner than she can really quite believe, a published author. Often described as a vortex of the surreal, many of Seanan's personal anecdotes end with things like "and then we got the anti-venom" or "but it's okay, because it turned out the water wasn't all that deep." She has yet to be defeated in a game of "Who here was bitten by the strangest thing?," and can be amused for hours by just about anything. Just about anything includes swamps, long walks, long walks in swamps, most of the things that live in swamps, horror movies, strange noises, musical theater, reality television, comic books, finding pennies on the street, and venomous reptiles. Seanan may be the only person on the planet who admits to using Kenneth Muir's Horror Films of the 1980s as a checklist. 
Amber takes a lot of photos. She is one of the photographers at Stopped Motion Photography in Kirkland, Washington and she specializes in fine art and live event photography including theater, dance, and musical performances. Amber has a deep love of playing with highlights and shadows in her photographic work and turning perception on its ear. Amber's work with the Edge of Propinquity has garnered her two awards so far, one in 2008 for the image "In, Through, Beyond" appearing the Kendrick series by Jennifer Brozek and another in 2009 for the piece "Her Return", created for James A. Sulivan's Santa Maria. When not at shoots, Amber spends her spare time belly dancing and studying and other styles of dance, writing software, playing games with her family and loved ones, and sleeping. No, scratch that last one, Amber doesn't have time for sleep. She lives in Kirkland with her partner and five children, three of which are cats. Amber has previously published work under the name Rory Clark.
If there is a polar opposite of a lobotomized ferret, Ryan Macklin would be it. In addition to having a full-sized brain and a lack of fur, Ryan also shares other anti-ferret traits such as creating fiction and playing all sorts of games -- board games, card games, role-playing games. He also ekes out a living as a cog in the giant machine that is the State of California, which suits him just fine as a sleeper agent for The New Inquisition. Word on the street is that Ryan has "an affinity with dangerous silverware," has been published in 
Jim Sullivan has been spinning tales since his formative years, entertaining his family with tape-recorded stories and skits. As he matured, so did his medium - from school book fairs to essays to short stories. Then Jim discovered gaming. He did not settle long for the role of participant and soon was creating plots and his own worlds. Live Action Role-Playing (LARP) was his next step. He has co-run a four-year fantasy LARP and a five-year vampire LARP. When a player asked Jim why he did not write stories and pointed out the plots he created were stories, he was convinced and returned to writing short fiction. He is a student at the University of Washington studying psychology, choosing to leave behind such jobs as network engineer, operator, and fundraiser. Jim enjoys volunteering at sci-fi/fantasy conventions, role-playing, cooking, reading, movie viewing, and spending time with friends and family.
Jeremy is an amateur photographer residing in Sacramento, California. He normally takes pictures of cute little puppies and kittens. When he returned from the initial Hidden City shoot, however, he was a horribly changed man. He hasn't left his basement since. His preferred repast is Red Stripe and sharp cheddar, if you are feeling generous.
Sasha is a professional swashbuckler, a seeker of adventure, and also a photographer. Amongst his interests are gin, historical research, rum, recommending books, film history, rolling dice to tell stories, and debauchery. Sasha lives in Sacramento with a pink-haired wife and two cats. The cats favor Sasha's nudes over his urban scenes.