Off the Beaten Path: Eight Tales of the Paranormal by Sharon Sant, Angela Roquet, Jason T. Graves, Monica La Porta, Chip Putnam, D.R. Johnson, Kath Langdon

 is the author of the Indie Reader approved urban fantasy novel,  Graveyard Shift,  the first book in the  Lana Harvey, Reapers Inc. series,  as well as  Pocket Full of Posies  and  For the Birds . Book four of the series,  Psychopomp,
    will be   available February 2014.
    Angela is also the author of   Crazy Ex-Ghoulfriend,  a YA zombie comedy, available October 2013.
    Angela is a great big weirdo. She collects Danger Girl comic books, owls, skulls, and random craft supplies. Her favorite book/movie is The Wizard of Oz . She likes a little coffee in her cream, and her favorite food is sushi, even though it’s takes her FOREVER to make. Angela is a peace loving, tree hugging hippy who tries to buy organic and local as often as possible. She’s a fan of renewable energy sources, marriage equality, and religious tolerance. As long as whatever you’re doing isn’t hurting anyone, she’s a fan of you, too. 
    Angela lives in Sedalia, Missouri with her husband and son. When she’s not swearing at the keyboard, she enjoys painting, goofing off with her family and friends, and reading books that raise eyebrows. You can find Angela online at   www.angelaroquet.com

Chip Putnam – After graduating from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte in 1993, I have taught high school science for twenty years.  I have had the pleasure of meeting wonderful and fascinating people over the years that have provided inspiration for many characters in my writing.
    While the field of science is not the area of expertise normally associated with an aspiring author, I’ve always been a dreamer and would often enter into a fantasy world of my own imagination at a moment’s notice.  This love of dreaming, coupled with a passion for books and a tendency to weave storytelling into my lessons, created a desire to write.  However, I never seemed to find the time.  My life as a teacher, husband, and father seemed to interfere with this goal.  Four years ago, however, I decided to follow the encouragements I had given to countless students and follow my own dreams. 
    On a personal note, I have been married for twenty years and have two daughters, ages nine and eleven.  We live in Clemmons, North Carolina.

Kath Langdon is a writer, crafter, midnight chalk graffiti artist, and connoisseur of all things art and color. Kath keeps one foot in the Midwest and the other on the East Coast, and hopes to one day amass the world’s largest collection of easily lost small objects. They went to college at University of Connecticut where they learned not to party with sopranos, the intricacies of rune reading, and how to spot a Shakespeare reference at fifty yards.  Currently living in Sedalia, Missouri, Kath hopes someday to conquer the world with their fiancée Ashley Mitchell.  In their free time, Kath overanalyzes various media, sews and embroiders, and researches character tropes in girl-oriented fiction.

Monica La Porta is an Italian who landed in Seattle several years ago. Despite popular feelings about the Northwest weather, she finds the mist and the rain the perfect conditions to write. Being a strong advocate of universal acceptance and against violence in any form and shape, she is also glad to have landed precisely in Washington State.
    She is the author of The Ginecean Chronicles , a dystopian/science fiction series set on the planet Ginecea where women rule over a race of enslaved men and heterosexual love is considered a sin. She has published the first three books in the series,   The Priest, Pax in the Land of Women , and   Prince at War . She also wrote and illustrated a children’s book about the power of imagination,   The Prince’s Day Out . Her latest published short,   Linda of the Night , is a fairytale love story celebrating inner beauty.    In her free time, she likes to build miniatures, sculpting, and painting. She also likes to go walking with her beloved beagle, Nero.

Jason T. Graves lives in