Meet Our Authors

Staff Members at Golden Visions Magazine- online edition & print edition

Christine Lajoie Golden- Chief Editor editorgvm@hotmail.com

Ted Golden- Senior Editor , CFO & General Manager

Ute Musselman-Copy Editor (Print Edition) Print Ad Manager

Jeannie Patrick- Printing Consultant (Print Edition) Staff Writer (online & print editions)

Holmes Gray- Staff Writer- Asst. Proofreader (online edition) Contest Editor- all around handyman and gopher. Online Ad Manager easywriter4u@yahoo.com

occasional assistance from numerous other individuals not officially on staff:

Regular contributions by Crystalwizard- Editor of Abandoned Towers online & print magazine- as well as artist and author of multiple publications.

If you are interested in helping proofread, edit and provide material for our online edition, please contact the editor and state your qualifications and expectations....No salary offered at this time, only online recognition for your contributions. Also- free print edition (or pdf) each issue that you offer your services. Artwork, cartoons, and any written material offered must be original work and available. Contract will be offered- must be agreed upon by both parities.

If you wish to advertise online or in print- please send a note to our Ad Manager- Holmes Gray and put 'Ad Info' in the subject line. easywriter4u@yahoo.com (click on the address)

Reasonable rates! Free print issue to all who advertise in print. Writers- this could be a great way to promote your own book- contact Holmes and learn how to make the magic happen.

For only $10.00 your ad can appear for three months online with a link to your site and information on how to order your publications. Contact Holmes for complete details. Serious inquires only.

Adam Colston had a story in our April 2009 print issue, that received many favorable reviews via email from readers.

A talented young man from England- he spins a fine tale with rich characters and pulse racing action.

Check out his site and find out more about this up and coming talented writer, just click on his name in the scroll.

Adam recently won the Writers of the Future contest for third quarter of 2009. He was the second place winner and will get to go to LA in 2010 for the award ceremony.

Congratulations!

Irene L. Pynn was a Featured Author in 2008 and had a story appear in our October 2008 print issue. This young woman delves deep into the emotional aspect of her characters weaving wicked tales of our darker sides.

From Light to Dark, the newest release from Irene L. Pynn, became available January 13 through Wild Child Publishing.

The people of Light World and Dark World live in fear of one another, blindly hating what they don't understand, until Eref leaves Light World and meets the beautiful Caer—in Dark World. Suddenly, the worlds are thrown into chaos as Eref and Caer struggle to do what is right.

Marked for death, the two teens must work together against an evil institution that has kept Light World and Dark World apart for hundreds of years.

Visit http://www.wildchildpublishing.com to get your copy!

Frank Roger was born in 1957 in Ghent, Belgium. His first story appeared in 1975. Since then his stories appear in an increasing number of languages in all sorts of magazines, anthologies and other venues, and since 2000, story collections are published in various languages. Apart from fiction, he also produces collages and graphic work in a surrealist and satirical tradition. By now he has more than 700 short story publications (including a few short novels) to his credit in 29 languages. Find out more at www.frankroger.be

09.04.09: (that's April 09, 2009 for us in the US) His story “Hellish Paradise” was just published in the April 2009 issue of Estonian e-zine Algernon (http://zzz.ee:8080/docs/ROOT/Algernon), translated into Estonian as “Põradiis”. Estonian is the thirtieth language in which he's been published.

Gustavo Bondoni was born in Argentina,his publication credits include Flashing Swords, Darwin's Evolutions, Every Day Fiction, Ruins Extraterrestrial, Desolate Places and many others.

He has over thirty publications to his name in five countries and two languages.

Just click on the scroll with his name on it to visit his site and learn more about the author and his work.

Vera Zubarev has a Ph.D. in Russian literature from the University of Pennsylvania. She teaches courses dealing with systems thinking and predispositioning theory based on chess, literature and film. She is a scholar, a writer, and a filmmaker.

V. Ulea is her penname and she was our first featured author in print, along with her dear friend and brilliant artist- Irene Frenkel, who provided the artwork for the January 2009 cover.

This artwork was so inspiring and amazing, it is also featured on the cover for Vera's collection of poetry, available for purchase when you visit her site.

"After procrastinating for almost 20 years," C L Rossman tell us

"I have two books out about my favorite people: Rengade the Hunter and Renegade the Warrior, and have sold short stories to "Aiofe's Kiss" (The Treestand), "Kidvisions" (Between the Rows) and won a third place in a apiring authors' contest online for The Old Hunter, and honorable mention for The Light Dancer. Two anthologies, Fiction Cache and Fiction Tape, carry examples of my short fiction, available on Lulu.com while this year's Dan River Anthology has a couple of my poems."

Richard S. Levine has had short stories published in _Golden Visions Magazine_, _OG's Speculative Fiction_, _Raygun Revival_, _The Martian Wave_, _The Fifth Di_, _AlienSkin_, _The Lorelei Signal_, and other online and print magazines.

His short story, "A Comic on Phobos", was nominated for the 2006 James Award.

To learn more about Mr. Levine's writings and his award winning classic video game, "Microsurgeon", please visit

http://www.rickslevine.com.

James P. Wagner is a young writer intending to go to graduate school in the fall to study comparative literature.

He has been a featured poet for Long Island's Performance Poets Association. In addition to writing, James is an active martial artist, painter, linguist and musician.

Recent publications of James P. Wagner include Static Movement April Online Issue, Golden Visions' April Print issue, and the first edition of Is this Reality due out in April as well.

http://jpwagner.webs.com/t.

To get the $3.00 deal on any 2008 issue ......Some issues are available now, all others will be ready soon. It's a deal too good to pass up! Order now...and get a copy sent to a friend at no extra cost! Great stories from authors you've come to know and love....order now...tell us which issue you want.

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Fran tell us:

I also run an online shopping website, Megaera’s Realm, named after one of the Greek furies (and my cat.) There I sell a range of hand painted glassware, mugs, mirrors and frames and handmade cards, prints and jewelry, as well as a small range of gothic and Victorian inspired clothing.

Everything I sell is ‘spooky,’ or fantasy or myth based, combining my first love, of ghost stories, black cats, bats and spiders and anything dark, and my passion for literature and mythology. It’s only a small business, but I enjoy running it because I get to express myself creatively in a different way, through the jewelery that I make and sell. And because it gives me an opportunity to meet different people who share the same interests as me, beyond writing.

One of the people who supply my shop, is an artist named Charlotte Thomson who designs the cards and prints that I sell, even went onto design my Shadow Seer cover for me.

The website address for the shop is: http://www.megaeras-realm.com/

Irene Frenkel is an artist whose astonishing fantasy is immediately recognized once you have seen her works. A rich universe of powerful forms in their whimsical relationships appears before the eyes of those who are open to anything unusual requiring creativity and free flights of imagination. Her art reveals dynamic space whose living matter perpetually generates novelty, the universe whose mutability challenges common sense and opens new perspectives.

Her amazing creativity is shown on our January 2009 and October 2009 cover- and we feel fortunate to be able to share this with you!

You can find more of her fantastic creations at their shared website...just click on the picture entitled Coexistence - below.

Christine Lajoie Golden has been running Golden Visions Magazine of Science Fiction & Fantasy since Jan. 2008. Working as Chief Editor and staff writer, she works at not only putting out a quarterly online magazine, but the print edition as well. Finding talented writers to fill the pages of both the online and print issues present quite a challenge- but she has been blessed to find many gifted writers over the past few years who offer a variety of unusual and unique stories.

Writing her own material has taken a backseat at many times, but she still finds time to hit the keyboards and put out a few things. Several pieces of flash fiction have appeared in Alien Skin (yes, she even got zapped!), two stories in Aoife's Kiss, one in FMAM, one in Crazy Little Magazine, and a few in Abandoned Towers, with a collection of stories coming out soon that will be available in pdf here at GVM.

Lee Gimenez is the author of two books and over fifty short stories. His first book, The Tomorrow Solution, is now available on Amazon.com. His second book, Azul 7, will be published by Whiskey Creek Press in 2009. Lee has been widely published in magazines in the United States, Australia, Canada and England.

His stories have appeared in these magazines: Cosmos ; Nature ; Afterburn SF ; Golden Visions ; Orion's Child ; Beyond Centauri ; Escape Velocity ; Bewildering Stories ; Fifth Dimension ; Antipodean SF ; Concept Sci-Fi ; AlienSkin ; Aphelion ; Ascent Aspirations ; Morpheus Tales ; Dark Fire ; The Cynic ; Abandoned Towers ; Calliope ; Sonar 4 ; Arcane Twilight ; New Voices in Fiction ; Expressions ; Skive Quarterly ; Writing Shift ; Green Wave ; Skiveflash. He is a member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA).

Lee earned a Bachelor of Science degree from Georgia Tech University and a Masters degree from Fairleigh Dickinson University. During his business career in marketing, he worked for three Fortune 500 companies, Verizon, Tech Data and M&M Mars. Lee lives with his wife in Florida. Visit his website at: www.leegimenez.com

Andrew Kirby tells us:

I'm running a competition in which ALL PURCHASERS of the novel have their name entered into a prize draw. The winner receives two free copies of my new book which will feature YOUR NAME as the name of one of the lead characters. Or if that doesn't float your boat, your name will grace the DEDICATIONS page right at the front of the book. So there you go; I'm offering you the chance to WIN IMMORTALITY (not in a Highlander sense, but in a real, bookshoppy way). All you have to do is purchase a copy of the book... Which you can do from all good online retailers including:

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E: andrewkirby92@btinternet.com

web: www.andykirbythewriter.20m.com

"Buy Now: Bully, A.J Kirby's new novel; a supernatural tale of revenge from beyond the grave."

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