Journalstone's 2011 Warped Words: 90 Minutes to Live - Softcover

Contributors:  John La Rue, Brad Carpenter, Bruce Golden, Jeffrey Wilson, Jasmine June Cabanaw, Brett J. Talley, Timothy Miller, Bill Patterson, Peter Orr, Nu Yang, JG Faherty, David Perlmutter, Jennifer Phillips

John La Rue lives in Washington, D.C. with his fiancée, and writes frantically for a living. He has been called "one of the great science fiction writers of his generation," mostly by his mother.  This is his first published work, though he promises more will be available sometime between now and the inevitable robot uprising.

As a child, Brad Carpenter terrorized his little sister by telling scary stories right before bedtime. He judged his story-telling ability by the frequency of her nightmares. Twenty years later nothing has changed. Brad is currently hard at work writing his first novel. He lives in Los Angles with his wife and baby girl and, of course, Penny the Wonderdog.

Novelist, journalist, satirist, Bruce Golden's short stories have been published more than 100 times across nine countries.  Asimov's Science Fiction described his second novel; "If Mickey Spillane had collaborated with both Frederik Pohl and Philip K. Dick, he might have produced Bruce Golden's Better Than Chocolate." You can find more of Golden's stories in his recently published collection Dancing with the Velvet Lizard on his website.

Jeffrey Wilson has worked as an actor, a firefighter, a paramedic, a jet pilot, a diving instructor, a Naval Officer, and a Vascular and Trauma Surgeon. He also served two tours in Iraq as a combat surgeon with both the Marines and with a Joint Special Operations Task Force. He has published short stories, won fiction competitions, and his first novel, THE TRAITEUR'S RING, was released this year by JournalStone. His novel THE DONORS will be available the summer of 2012. Jeff and his wife, Wendy, are Virginia natives who, with children Emma, Jack, and Connor, now call Southwest Florida home. 

Jasmine June Cabanaw is an author and professional dancer. She combines her passions by writing dance history articles for gildedserpent.com. She is also a features writer at Juxtapoz magazine. Jasmine has worked as a freelance writer for ten years, with publications in various newspapers, websites, and magazines. Jasmine was included in JournalSstone's 2010 Warped Words for Twisted Minds and is thrilled to be a part of 90 Minutes to Live.

A native of Alabama, Brett J. Talley received a philosophy and history degree from Alabama U. before moving to witch-haunted Massachusetts and Harvard Law School.  Brett is the author of That Which Should Not Be, winner of JournalStone's 2011 novel contest.  He has been published several times in the 'Absent Willow Review', and his short story, 'The Substance of Shadow', won their 2011 short story contest.  Brett likes puppies and dragons and Alabama football.  He rarely eats cucumbers.

Timothy Miller has worked at a farm, a meatpacking plant, a pickle factory, a casino, and a rowdy nightclub as a bouncer.  Currently employed as a repair technician for a large telephone company, he writes in his spare time and has several short stories published in print and on the web. His biggest fans, his family, spend many frigid Wisconsin nights in their home, listening to his stories and encouraging him despite the nightmares.

Bill Patterson  West Point, '82 alumni, has been interested in writing science fiction ever since college.  The author of one commercially successful CAD software book, Bill was a magazine columnist in the same area.  Bill brings his love of language to science fiction in his work.  He and his wife of 28 years, Barbara, live with their two sons in Central New Jersey.

Peter Orr has been creating stories in his head for as long as he can remember, and has recently found out just how satisfying it is to actually write them down.  He lives with his fiancée, who acts as his de facto editor and audience-in-chief.  In his day job he is a barrister, and through that job and the situations he encounters he has come to realize how strange life can be."

Nu Yang resides in Southern California, although she is a Midwest girl at heart. She is the editorial assistant with The Log newspaper and Editor and Publisher magazine as well as the assistant editor with New Myths, an online speculative magazine. She has been published with Three Crow Press and Hic Dragones. Nu is a 2006 graduate of the Odyssey Fantasy Writing Workshop and a June 2009 graduate of the Writing Popular Fiction Master's program at Seton Hill University. When she's not writing, she sings karaoke, watches too much television, and daydreams about demon hunters, supernatural monsters, and the occasional love story.

JG Faherty grew up in the haunted Hudson Valley region of New York. Living in an area filled with centuries-old cemeteries, ghosts, and tales of monsters in the woods has provided a rich background for his writing. A life-long fan of horror, JG enjoys reading, movies, golf, volunteering as an exotic animal caretaker, and playing the guitar. JG's first novel, CARNIVAL OF FEAR, was released in 2010. GHOSTS OF CORONADO BAY, a YA supernatural thriller, was published in June 2011. THE CEMETERY CLUB, his third novel, will be released in early 2012. His other credits include more than two dozen short stories in major genre magazines and anthologies.

David Perlmutter is a freelance writer living in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, where he has lived his whole life. His passions are American television animation (the subject of his MA thesis and a projected historical monograph), literature (especially science fiction and fantasy) and music (rhythm& blues, soul, funk and jazz.) This explains why much of his writing is as nonconventional and defiant as it is. He is challenged with Asperger's Syndrome, but considers it an asset more than a disability.

Jennifer Phillips grew up bouncing around the globe as the offspring of US embassy personnel. She is an online media analyst and has worked in politics and public relations. Her passion is fiction, both reading and writing. She always has more ideas to write about than she has time to write. She lives in New Hampshire with her husband and two pets, an 18-year-old cat named Elle and a Shepherd mix puppy named Coco.