Regular Book Review Contributors

Profiles Index

Clayton Moore
Clayton Moore is a freelance writer who is currently trying to escape from Boulder, Colorado. He's interviewed hard-boiled crime writers like Ian Rankin and Andrew Vachss and punctuates his business writing gigs with hard-hitting reviews for About.com and a monthly mystery column for Bookslut.com. His other publications include the late Atomic Magazine, Port Halcyon, Go World Travel Magazine, and the Rain Taxi Review of Books.

Brian Houle
While being crushed between the cogs of corporate America, Brian Houle dreams of becoming a full time writer. He would most like to find himself on a television writing team, but mostly just finds himself in front of his TV. Brian's favorite authors include Jack Kerouac, Nick Hornby, Graham Greene, Lemony Snicket, and Dorothy Parker.

John M. Formy-Duval
John M. Formy-Duval graduated from the University of North Carolina in the growing distant past; lived two wonderful years in Thailand, courtesy of the US Navy; spent a career in public school teaching and administration; and traveled whenever he and his wife could. Now retired, he works part time in a job which actually requires that he read on the job! How sweet that is.

Laura Tyler
Laura Tyler is an artist and a beekeeper. She reads a lot of books. Her favorites are those rooted in a vivid time or place. To visit her website go to: http://www.lauratyler.com.

Evan Dashevsky
Evan Dashevsky is a freelance writer in Brooklyn, NY. He has had two off-Broadway plays produced in very small venues that a stretch of the imagination could call theaters. He has been published all over the web and in print. Try Googling him - it's neat.

Shawn C. Stufflebeam
Shawn C. Stufflebeam is a mortgage broker in Atlanta, GA, and has been an avid reader of whatever he pleases ever since he finished the required reading lists at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Colleen AF Venable
A former book reviewer for Hybrid Magazine, Colleen AF Venable serves as the Programs Associate for the Children’s Book Council and also works as a playwright and photographer. Her plays have been produced Off-Broadway and her artwork has been exhibited in galleries around the world, including New York, London, Brazil and Australia.

Michael O'Connor
Michael's love of books was kindled in high school after discovering Hubert Selby Jr.'s Last Exit to Brooklyn, which taught him that there are millions of ways to tell a story and millions of stories to tell. He hopes that someday he'll be able to repay all the authors and artists who've made a difference in his life with a story of his own. Until then, he'll just keep reading.

Jayme Meyers
Jayme Meyers is a NYC research librarian and avid collector of antiquarian children's books.

Jon Lasser
Jon Lasser is the author of _Think_Unix_ (Que, 2000). He currently lives in Seattle, WA where he is trying to come up with innovative excuses for not writing his next novel.