Our Authors...
Colleen Alles, author of Master of Arts
Colleen Alles is a native Michigander and writer living in West Michigan. She is a graduate of Michigan State University and Wayne State University, as well as contributing editor for short fiction at Barren Magazine. When she isn't reading or writing, she's spending time with her family, including a beloved hound, Charlie. You can visit her online at www.colleenalles.com
Michael C. Keith, author of The Late Epiphany of a Low-Key Oracle, The Lonliness Channel, and Methods of Repair
Michael C. Keith is the author / coauthor of two dozen non-fiction books focused on media subjects and twenty fiction collections. His most recent story collection is Quiet Geography from Cervena Barva Press. In addition, he is the author of an acclaimed memoir, The Next Better Place, published by Algonquin Books. He also is the recipient of several awards for his scholarship as well as numerous nominations for his fiction. He is professor emeritus at Boston College.
Gregory J. Wolos, author of The Green Ray Gregory J. Wolos raised two children and spent more than three decades as an educator in upstate New York. He currently resides with his wife of forty-two years in a small town not far from Boston, Massachusetts. His daily regimen includes writing, running, and tending grandchildren. He holds a doctorate from the University at Albany. More than one hundred of his stories and reviews have been published in various journals and anthologies, and his work has won many awards. He is the author of three other story collections: Women of Consequence, Dear Everyone, and The Thing About Men, along with the novel Kika Kongus, The Dead White Males.
Antoinette Carone, author of Hotel of the Siren
Antoinette
Carone loves travel, particularly in Italy. Her journal, Ciao, Napoli: A
Scrapbook of Wandering in Naples is a memoir of time spent in Naples. She
maintains a blog https://italianscrapbook.wordpress.com Her stories have appeared in Ovunque Siamo, Fudoki Magazine, Foxglove Journal, Ellipsis
‘Zine, Real Women Write: Living on
COVID Time (the Story
Circle Network anthology for 2020), and The Thieving Magpie. She
lives with her partner Jim Mauro in New York City and Northport, Long Island.
Robert Scotellaro, author of Ways to Read the World
Robert Scotellaro’s work has been included in
W.W. Norton’s Flash Fiction International, Maryland Literary Review,
Gargoyle, Matter Press, New World Writing, Best Small Fictions 2016, 2017, and 2021, Best Microfiction 2020,
and elsewhere. He is the author of seven chapbooks, several books for
children, and five flash fiction collections. He was the winner of Zone 3’s Rainmaker Award in Poetry and
the Blue Light Book Award for his fiction. His flash collection, What Are the Chances? (Press 53), was a
finalist for the 2020 Big Other Book Award for fiction. A new chapbook of flash
and micro stories, God in a Can, is
scheduled for release in 2022 (Bamboo Dart Press). He has, along with
James Thomas, co-edited New Micro:
Exceptionally Short Fiction, published by W.W. Norton & Co. Robert is
one of the founding donors to The Ransom Flash Fiction Collection at the
University of Texas, Austin. He lives in San Francisco. Visit him at
www.robertscotellaro.com.
Julie Ann Rea, author of Crazybugs
Julie
Ann Rea’s work has appeared in Roanoke Review, The Intima: A Journal of
Narrative Medicine, Drunk Monkeys, and other places. She lives in the
Philadelphia area. You can find her on Twitter @phillylitgrl or at https://www.juliereawriter.com/.
Herm Rawlings, author of Follow the Moon, Family Tradition: An Adventure at Sea
Herm
Rawlings enlisted in the Coast Guard at age seventeen and retired
twenty years later at the rank of Chief Petty Officer, Hospital
Corpsman. He now works as the Navy Installation Housing Director for
the Surface Combat Systems Center, located at Wallops Island, Virginia.
He and his wife Kim have a son, Traise.
John Sheirer, author of Too Wild, Uncorrected, Fever Cabin, Positively Toward the Negative, The Oldest Male Kindergarten Teacher in America, So Many Shapes and Sizes: Stories (Small, Medium, and Large)
John
Sheirer (pronounced “shy-er”) lives in Northampton, Massachusetts, with his
wonderful wife Betsy and happy dog Libby. He has taught writing and
communications for 27 years at Asnuntuck Community College in Enfield,
Connecticut, where he also serves as editor and faculty advisor for Freshwater Literary Journal (submissions
welcome). He writes a monthly column on current events for his hometown
newspaper, the Daily Hampshire Gazette,
and his books include memoir, fiction, poetry, essays, political satire, and
photography. Find him at JohnSheirer.com.
Jessica Barone, author of Eternal Night, Shadow Cast, Dark Ascension, Dragon Slayer, and Once Upon a Blue Moon
Jessica Barone is an actor, author, cosplayer, educator, singer, and the mother of a warrior princess. Jessica is the author of The Shadowlands series and is proud to be one half of the YouTube channel Take 2 Productions Her one-time journey on the Galactic Starcruiser in Disney World inspired her to re-enter the world of performance, imagination and creativity. Jessica credits her Sicilian grandmother's stories of the old country as her earliest source of inspiration. Today Jessica is a mother who tells stories to her own child, and has kept her love of the supernatural alive by watching scary movies, melodramatic Netflix shows, and reading slightly disturbing novels in her spare time. You can find her at: https://jessicabaronewriter.blogspot.com/
Joel Reeves, author of Odd Birds
Joel Reeves
is a teacher and author living in Northwest Lower Michigan with his family and
guard animals, Big Chungus and Penguin.
His short stories have been published in several anthologies including Tales of the Unanticipated and Return to Deathlehem. His rollicking fantasy Quillogy, Of Quills and Kings, Walpole Unbound, and Dreams, Schemes, and Spiny Machines—
featuring a demented demon hedgehog with a vision—was recently published by
Double Dragon Press. His screenplay, Midnight Dreary, a biographical drama
about Edgar Allan Poe, was a winner in the WILDsound screenwriting
competition.
Maritza Garcia, author of Purretry
Maritza
García tragically passed away due to complications after surgery on September
14, 2019, as her book was being prepared for publication. In addition to
writing poetry, Maritza García was a scientist for twenty years, owned her own
business, and worked as a K-12 teacher. She held multiple patents all over
the world and spoke Spanish and Russian. She enjoyed painting, singing, and
playing piano, and she had the opportunity to sing backup for Elizabeth Von
Trapp at Woosley Hall and to sing with the Gold Tones Choral Group. She was
active at her church and held many board and committee positions, serving as
Deacon, Sunday school teacher, USS Representative, and Bible study leader. During
the last year of her life, Maritza studied creative writing at Asnuntuck
Community College in Enfield, Connecticut. She was beloved by her instructors
and fellow students, just as she touched everyone she knew throughout her life.
Bob Thurber, author of If You'd Like to Make a Call, Please Hang Up
Bob Thurber is an old “unschooled” writer with no degrees in anything. Born
in 1955 and raised in abject poverty, Bob graduated high school by the skin of
his teeth, then spent his early adult years working menial jobs while reading
obsessively and studying the craft of fiction. He served a lengthy
apprenticeship, writing nearly every day for twenty years before submitting his
work for publication. Since then his stories have received a long list of
awards and citations, among them The Marjory Bartlett Sanger Award and The
Barry Hannah Fiction Prize. Selections have appeared in over sixty
anthologies and hundreds of publications, including Esquire. Bob is the
author of Paperboy: A Dysfunctional Novel and three other collections of
stories. He resides in Massachusetts where, despite vision loss, he continues
to write every day. Visit him at BobThurber.net.
Trisha Hall-Muller, author of All The Feelings All At Once
Trisha
Hall-Muller lives in Connecticut with her two children (the miracle
minions that bless this book). She holds a B.S. in Elementary Education
and works as a teacher. In her spare time, she enjoys Facebooking,
vacationing in Old Orchard Beach, Maine, spending time with her family,
and advocating for Autism Awareness. This is her first (and hopefully
not last) book.
*April 20, 2024* We at Scantic Books are devastated by the death of our very first author, the delightful and talented Trisha Hall-Muller (Boucher). Her book All the Feelings All at Once is best summed up by its subtitle: "A moderately inappropriate parenting memoir in Facebook posts by a mom who couldn't make this sh*t up if she tried." Trisha died due to a sudden illness while traveling with her husband to celebrate her 47th birthday. She was a wonderful writer and a lovely person, taken too soon.
