About the Author

Roxanne Hoffman left her old haunts on Wall Street to answer a patient hotline for a New York home healthcare provider, and observes that most folks would rather be dead than broke. A member of the Vampire Empire, the Bram Stoker Memorial Association and the International Society for the Study of Ghosts and Apparitions, she's always had a yen for Death and the unnatural. Her poems and stories have been sighted, on and off the net, appearing and reappearing in literary journals-"Champagne Shivers," "Danse Macabre," "Dark Eye Glances," "Dark Gothic Resurrected Magazine," "Hospital Drive," "House of Horror," "Lucid Rhythms," "Mirror Dance," "The Pedestal Magazine," "Scarlet Literary Magazine" and "SNM Horror Magazine"-and can be heard during the 2005 indie flick, "Love & The Vampire," directed by Dave Gold. Her take on divorce, "Macabre! Macabre!" was selected for inclusion in "House of Horror Best of 2009 Anthology." The lyrics to "Rattle Them Bones," a song celebrating ghostdom, were selected for "House of Horror Best of 2010 Anthology" and nominated for a 2010 Pushcart Prize. Edward Odwitt is an enigma. As an independent author/artist, his portfolio veers from symmetrical illustrations to graphics and pastels, as well as cartoons drawn primarily in black pen or pencil. His first book "Head for the Hills" is an illustrated book of poetry written for middle school audiences, and can be found on his website www.edwardodwitt.com. He is currently compiling a collection of his artwork into a book due out by the end of 2011.