Spooky is a demi-bi tattoo apprentice, mental health advocate, and tea lover. She specializes in drawing flora, fauna, and skulls! Most of her work is inspired by her own mental health journey as well as the tattoo culture she’s surrounded with. Catch her on Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/spookydraws/ Check out her: Instagram Website Store ...
Andres Perez is the creator and writer of the giant robot indie comic "Primal Warrior Draco Azul." He is also a freelance editor who has worked on projects such as the giant monster comic "Nagoraiar: Against the Terror of the Moon" as well as the mythology-themed novel series "Gods' Wrath: Tournament of the Divine." In addition to comics, he has also cowritten several novels including “Primal Warrior Draco Azul: Soulless Blood” and “Atomic Rex: Ballad of Bravura.” Outside of literature and comics, Andres is an aspiring film critic who makes reviews and podcasts covering movies, television, comics, and games on his YouTube channel, "KaijuNoir." In 2018, both Andres and thriller novelist Matthew Dennion started the ongoing Kaiju vs Cancer charity where...
My name is Steve Santos. I’m a model building enthusiast. I have been building model kits since I was 6 years old. My life changed for the best as my family was stationed over in Yokohama Japan in 1986-1989. There I found the wonders of the Japanese culture and people. There I was introduced to Gundam, Macross, Saint Seiya, and many more Anime titles to name. Fast forward to 2000. Toonami and Gundam wing were huge! Fell down into the rabbit hole they call Gunpla. Took a family trip to my father's home in the Philippines. Found an overwhelming amount of models to buy and my addiction grew. 20 years later here I am still building and painting!...
Richard Baxstrom is Professor of Anthropology and the Humanities at the University of Edinburgh. His work engages art, cinema, and popular culture, everyday life in urban settings, Malaysia and Southeast Asia, the history of ideas in anthropology and the human sciences, and the anthropology of neoliberalism and ‘entrepreneurial’ forms of life. His first book, Houses in Motion: The Experience of Place and the Problem of Belief in Urban Malaysia was published by Stanford University Press in 2008. Realizing the Witch: Science, Cinema, and the Mastery of the Invisible (Fordham University Press, 2016) concerns Benjamin Christensen's notorious 1922 film Häxan. Written with Todd Meyers (McGill University), the book shows how Häxan and its expression of the witch in 16th century Europe serves as an important window onto...
R.L. Merrill brings you stories of Hope, Love, and Rock 'n' Roll featuring quirky and relatable characters. Whether she’s writing about contemporary issues that affect us all or diving deep into the paranormal and supernatural to give readers a shiver, she loves creating compelling stories that will stay with readers long after. Winner of the Kathryn Hayes “When Sparks Fly” Best Contemporary award for Hurricane Reese, and a Foreword INDIES finalist for Summer of Hush, Ro spends every spare moment improving her writing craft and striving to find that perfect balance between real-life and happily ever after. She writes diverse and inclusive romance, contributes paranormal hilarity to Robyn Peterman’s Magic and Mayhem Universe, and works on various other writing and...
Bru Baker writes sophisticated gay romantic fiction with strong characters, real-world problems, and plenty of humor. Bru spent fifteen years writing for newspapers before making the jump to fiction. Whether it’s creating her own characters or getting caught up in someone else’s, there’s no denying that Bru is happiest when she’s engrossed in a story. She and her husband have two children, which means a lot of her books get written from the sidelines of various sports practices. Visit Bru online at www.bru-baker.com or follow her on Instagram, Facebook, or Twitter....
Author A.C. Greenlee is an award-winning creator of Paranormal Romance, High Fantasy, AMBW Romance and Adventure novels. In 2012, Greenlee‘s debut novel, Guardian of the Hellmouth, was released via Lillium Publishing House LLC and quickly became a fan favorite. With short stories and novellas like Dead Like Me, Blood Fantasy and Cocaine and Catwalks published under the same house, she draws in readers from all over the world with her unique story-telling style and penchant for detail and descriptive writing. An avid gamer, you will most frequently find her farming experience in an online multiplayer game, or progressing up the military ranks in competitive first-person shooters–when she’s not writing of course. With a Graduate degree in Creative Writing under her belt, A.C. is extremely enthusiastic...
Right Stuf, Inc. is an independent video publisher that specializes in packaging and distributing pre-recorded programming to English-language audiences – from Japanese animation (anime) to foreign live-action content. In addition to selling its own publishing division’s products, Right Stuf, Inc. also resells and distributes anime-related and Asian live-action merchandise – including DVDs, Blu-ray discs, books, apparel, artwork, audio CDs and more – on behalf of other North American suppliers. Right Stuf’s unique position as a publisher, distributor and retailer gives it a distinct advantage in the anime marketplace, as it operates in both the business-to-business and business-to-consumer sectors. Right Stuf is the largest of North America’s anime-specific retail and distribution companies, selling products both direct to fans and to other retailers, via...
S.C. Parris is the author of the DARK WORLD SERIES & horror short story, A NIGHT OF FRIVOLITY.She is currently writing the sixth and final book in her dark fantasy/horror series, and working on a new book tentatively titled, JUDGMENT, which is being uploaded as a chapter serial on her Patreon. She also wrote several short stories for the month of October 2019, that went into a collection of vampire-themed stories for the Halloween season. She graduated from SUNY Old Westbury with Honors in Multicultural English Lit, a minor in Business Marketing, and is a member of Sigma Tau Delta, the National English Honor Society. She lives in Georgia with her husband. She is always writing. Links to her social media: Website: https://scparris.net/ Facebook: https://m.facebook.com/parrisblood/ Books: https://www.simonandschuster.com/series/The-Dark-World Twitter: https://twitter.com/writingvampires Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/parrisblood Youtube: https://youtube.com/sheronparris/ Teespring: https://teespring.com/stores/scparris Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scparris ...
Alisa Freedman is a Professor of Japanese Literature, Cultural Studies, and Gender at the University of Oregon and the Editor-in-Chief of the U.S.–Japan Women’s Journal. Her books include Japan on American TV: Screaming Samurai Form Anime Clubs in the Land of the Lost, Tokyo in Transit: Japanese Culture on the Rails and Road, an annotated translation of Kawabata Yasunari’s The Scarlet Gang of Asakusa, and co-edited volumes on Modern Girls on the Go: Gender, Mobility, and Labor in Japan, and Introducing Japanese Popular Culture. She is writing a book on Cold-War Coeds: The Untold Story of Japanese Women Sponsored by the U.S. Military about an influential but forgotten group of exchange students right after the war. Alisa has been nationally recognized for excellence in mentoring and has won an award for...