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New Babel Books is proud to acquaint you with the creative and talented people who make our books happen. We use the term "author" here in the broadest sense, as our cover artists are vital to tell the story within these pages.
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Elizabeth Donald is a writer of dark fiction, novels and short stories ranging from horror to paranormal romance to science fiction.
Her first novel, NOCTURNAL URGES, was published in 2004 by Ellora’s Cave Books. It went on to win the Darrell Award and was a finalist for the Prism Award. The second book in the NOCTURNAL URGES series was titled A MORE PERFECT UNION, published in September 2005.
Her short stories and essays have been published by numerous online and print magazines, including Thirteen Stories and Panorama Magazine.
By day, Elizabeth is a reporter for a Midwestern daily newspaper that shall remain nameless to protect its good reputation.
NBB releases: Setting Suns
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Andrew Dimitt is an artist, writer, musician, a reclusive urban-clown-philosopher, a poet, an outlaw, a junky, and an ordained minister of the church of spiritual humanism.
He’s been struck by lightning, seen a U.F.O. the size of a shopping mall, played semi-professional football, ate an entire box of chocolate laxatives, let his toenails get too long and he sleeps on the floor next to his bed.
He’s illustrated both professionally and otherwise for nearly twenty years.
NBB releases: Swan Song
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Frank Fradella is an author, editor, artist, and poet whose works include the fantasy adventure novel, Valley of Shadows (Cove Press, 2004) and the epistolary romance, The Absent Lover (New Babel Books, 2004). His most recent releases include Vespertine 1912 and Swan Song. His short story, "The Ritual of Vesta," was voted the Best Short Fiction 2004 in the Preditors & Editors Poll. His award-winning poetry volume, Dead Things, has been taught in high schools here and abroad. Frank's other short fiction has appeared in such anthologies as Fantasy Readers Wanted: Apply Within (an EPPIE winner) and Coscom Entertainment Annual No. 1: Elements of the Fantastic. He is the author and illustrator behind the upcoming Complete Idiot's Guide to Drawing (3rd Ed., Alpha).
Frank is also the founder and president of iHero Entertainment, whose illustrated prose magazine, Cyber Age Adventures, has won numerous awards including the Writer's Digest Grand Prize and the Preditors & Editors Award for Best Fiction Magazine 2004.
Fradella also teamed up with Canadian artist JP Dupras to create the world's first complete superhero tarot deck, The Fradella Adventure Tarot (U.S. Games Systems, Inc., 2003), featuring the heroes and villains of the iHero Universe. His next tarot deck, The Undersea Tarot, will be available from U.S. Games Systems, Inc. in late 2006/early 2007.
NBB releases: The Absent Lover, Dead Things, Swan Song, Speaking in Tongues
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Born in North Bay, Canada, Darren Holmes artist developed very quickly a passion for the immediacy of expression that photography allows. The subjects he portrays are often enveloped in light and texture which seem to evoke ageless voices from times past, interplay between space and subject being an omnipresent quality in his works. Darren often appears as his own subject in his work as well as working with others, which gives his expression an even more personal, solitary feeling. Empty yet eloquent looks, simple and subtle poses, the attitude of his subjects shows little but says much, deepening the mystery which seems to emanate from his imagery. Lines which we normally rely on blur and disappear. Both femininity and masculinity, light and dark, the beautiful and the repellent...these are works of contradiction which make them, somehow, more coherent.
The body of work of this artist remains difficult to define and well beyond words. "I would say that emotion is the only thing that has motivated me to do anything" affirms Darren Holmes, reminding us that his work should be simply felt rather than studied or described. Shhh.
Bio written by Alyz Tale
(translated from original french text)
NBB releases: Setting Suns, Speaking in Tongues
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Hannah Jones is a student of East Asian Languages and Cultures at Barnard College/Columbia University. She has won multiple poetry awards, including the Louise Louis/Emily F. Bourne Award of the Poetry Society of American in 2003 and a Portfolio Gold Award from the Alliance of Young Artists and Writers in 2004. Her work has been published in Hanging Loose Press, "Where We Are, What We See, The Best Young Writers and Artists in America" and The Best Teen Writing of 2004. She is the editor of the recently released anthology, The Best Teen Writing of 2005.
NBB releases: Cinquefoil
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Having grown up in rural Korea and urban America, Susie Oh synthesizes elements of folk art and modern pop culture kitsch in her paintings. She is an odd-jobber, an autodidact, a bibliophile, and [yet another] young artist trying to "make it" in the Big Apple.
NBB releases: Cinquefoil
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