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Bio

JONATHAN MABERRY is a multiple Bram Stoker Award-winning author. He is a professional writer and writing teacher and since 1979 has sold more than 1100 articles, twenty nonfiction books, six novels, as well as short stories, poetry, song lyrics, video scripts, greeting cards, and two plays.

His nonfiction works include VAMPIRE UNIVERSE: The Dark World of Supernatural Beings That Hunt Us, Haunt Us and Hunger For Us (Citadel Press, 2006), and THE CRYPTOPEDIA: A Dictionary of the Weird, Strange and Downright Bizarre (Citadel, 2007 -winner of the Bram Stoker Award for Outstanding Achievement in Nonfiction). Scheduled nonfiction books include ZOMBIE CSU: The Forensics of the Living Dead (September 2008); THEY BITE! (2009) and VAMPIRE HUNTERS AND OTHER ENEMIES OF EVIL (2010).

His fiction includes the Pine Deep Trilogy, which began with GHOST ROAD BLUES (winner of the Stoker Award for Best First Novel in 2006), and includes DEAD MAN'S SONG (2007) and BAD MOON RISING (due May 2008).

Jonathan recently made a major three-book deal with St. Martins Press for a news series of bio-terrorism thrillers featuring action hero Joe Ledger. The first in that series, PATIENT ZERO, will debut in early 2009 and has received high praise from James Rollins, David Morrell, and other bestselling thriller writers.

Jonathan is the Executive Director of The Career Doctor for Writers (www.careerdoctorforwriters.com), which provides workshops, classes and editorial services for writers of all genres. He tours libraries and independent bookstores giving his Careers in Writing lecture to packed houses. Jonathan is a speaker for the National Writers Union, and an active member of SFWA, MWA, and HWA. Jonathan is a founding partner of The Writers Corner USA at 4 West Oakland Avenue, Doylestown, PA 18901 (www.writerscornerusa.com), a writers' education center. Jonathan is also the co-founder of The Wild River Review, an online literary magazine (www.wildriverreview.com).

Jonathan is frequent writers conference speaker and has appeared at PennWriters, PhilCon, HorrorFind, BackSpace, Monster Mania, Philadelphia Writers Conference The World Horror Convention, LunaCon, Dragon*Con, Wildwood Writers Conference, University of Pennsylvania Writers Conference, and many others and in 2008 he was the keynote speaker for the Write Stuff writers conference in Allentown, PA, (hosted by Greater Lehigh Valley Writers Group) and the Sisters in Crime symposium in New Jersey.

Visit his author website at www.jonathanmaberry.com and on MySpace at www.myspace.com/jonathan_maberry