Twisted Tongue Magazine

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CLAIRE NIXON

Claire Nixon, born on the unluckiest day of September 1973, is from the North-East of England. She is the mother of five children, six if you include her husband.

She started creating short stories and poetry a few years ago, inspired by her regular reading. Now she spends some of her spare time writing in many different genres. She's currently a full time student through Open University aiming for a BA in Literature.

She has had several short stories published in magazines, e-zines, audio and anthologies. In December 2004, she published her children’s tale ‘Tabitha and Pirate Jim’ as a present for her eldest child, Tabitha. Tabitha and Pirate Jim is now published as an audio tale with Audio Stories For Kids.

In between writing and studying, she works as marketing co-ordinator for Gold Dust Magazine. And is now the founder and editor of Twisted Tongue magazine, a magazine that pushes the boundaries.

STEVE UPHAM

Steve Upham has a traditional background in art & design and has been running his own craft workshop in South Wales over the past ten years. Recently he has also been pursuing illustration work, realising a lifelong ambition of producing cover art for books and magazines.

He is also the editor and publisher at Screaming Dreams, a website dedicated to all things fantasy, sci-fi and horror. Download the free Estronomicon eZine and be sure check out the paperback books available at:
www.screamingdreams.com

TIM REED

Tim Reed, a 24 year-old published author, his relevant educational qualifications include a BA in Media, Film and Creative Writing, and an A Level in English(Grade C). He has also studied, and acquired the Diploma in Proofreading and Copy Editing, from the Professional Proofreading & Editing Course run by Maple Publishing. 

Since leaving university his first young adult fantasy novel Everlace: Knives of the Night is published by Penpress Ltd. He has proofread work for Olympia Books, Quince Books, and Chipmunka Publishing. And he has studied on the Writer’s Bureau home teaching course, and proofread documents for his church.

TIM REED OFFERS HIS SERVICES TO THE PUBLIC 

Tim Reed's proofreading web page: www.tim-reed.co.uk 

Tim Reed is happy to offer a fully-qualified proofreading service to ensure your writing has correct spelling & grammar, as well as being professionally displayed, ready for writers, publishers, printers and editors. He specialises in fantasy & other fiction but is happy to proof read factual documents & essays when necessary.

If you have any questions or queries regarding how he can work for you, his rates, or his previous experience, please feel free to telephone or email Tim:

Email: online@tim-reed.co.uk

Telephone: 07931 130 212

Darren McCormick

DEBORAH REY

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PAUL ZEALAND

Over the last few years Paul has written one novel, many other shorter pieces of fiction and a small amount of non-fiction.  The time and effort involved was patchy and inconsistent as enthusiasm blew hot and cold until, two years ago, where he discovered an internet forum.  From then he became a serious writer.      

His successes include non-fiction work accepted to trade and professional publications, short stories published in internet e-zines, commendations in fiction and non-fiction competitions, one win in an article competition win and a runner-up place in the 2006 National Association of Writers’ Groups Open Short Story Competition.        

Paul runs an Internet writing forum known as The Grail and produces its newsletter-cum-minimag most months.  Both feature on the eponymous website.  The rest of his writing time for the last year has been devoted to his historical novel “Redeye”, the first of a proposed series following characters’ descendants from 1170 to the present day.  Their lives take place alongside real events and he fills in the gaps where the record is lacking.       

From time-to-time he returns to his Writers’ Bureau course assignments whilst bemoaning the time-killing activities of a full-time day job and daily three hour commute, then he slaps himself hard and remembers he cannot survive and thrive without paid employment.  Writing success – like everything else worth having – does not come without a price and if he achieves it the taste will be all the sweeter. 

LISA C HINSLEY

Lisa C Hinsley was born in Portsmouth, England in 1971. She won a scholarship to The American College in London, where she studied for a BA in Interior Design. She now works as an architectural technician, writing horror novels in her spare time.

Coombe’s Wood was runner-up in YouWriteOn.com’s 2008 Book of the Year Award and a semi-finalist in the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award.

She’s placed short stories and poems in several webzines, Twisted Tongue magazine, UKAuthors 2006, 2007 and 2008 Anthologies, and a series of children’s stories in La Fenetre. She won the Spinetinglers August 2007 monthly competition and her novel The Crocodile was short-listed in the Undiscovered Authors 2006 competition.

Lisa grew up in England, Scotland, and America. She now lives in Berkshire, England with her husband, three children and four cats.

MICHAEL ACTON

Mike has been writing for 25 years and won a national short story competition in 1982.From there it was downhill until 2001 when he kick started his writing. He has had several stories and poems in anthologies including the 'UKA Voices From The Web' 3 years on the trot. He won a poetry competition in 2005 run by Gold Dust magazine and was shortlisted for a national competition in 2004. A film agent has taken one of his short stories which is currently being made into a film.
 
In his spare time he helps families who have been split apart by adoption.

STEVE FITZSIMMONS

JOHN THOMSON

John Thomson lives near Glasgow and has been writing seriously for the past seven years. His interests(apart from producing reams of mostly unpublishable poetry) include history, theology, philosophy, football and beer. His work has been published in a number of lit mags including Carillon, Aesthetica, Parameters, Saw, Prose Toad, Round Table Review, ABC Tales and Cadenza. A collection of his poetry, "Glasgow Kisses" was published by UKA Press in 2005.

ALEXANDER JAMES

Alexander James has been a professional writer for forty years. During that time, he has authored, co-authored, ghosted and edited hundreds of books and shorter fiction works. For thirty years, he was also an international journalist writing for the biggest newspapers in the world and traveling to far flung places from bases in Fleet Street, New York and continental Europe. He now concentrates on novel editing and lives with his Monegasque partner, Skovia, where southern France meets northern Italy on the Mediterranean coast.

JAMES HAZLEHURST

James lives in the Black Country town of Bilston, near Wolverhampton. He began writing for fun in 1998. In 2003, he started to take the craft more seriously, during those five years he gained a diploma in criminal psychology. James has several short stories published in magazines. After setting up his webpage, in 2004, he regularly interviews other aspiring writers to feature on it, and found he enjoyed talking about writing just as much as doing it.