Tom Monteleone has been a professional writer since 1972. He has published more than 100 short stories in numerous magazines and anthologies—they have been nominated for many awards, and have appeared in lots of best-of-the-year compilations. His notorious column of opinion and entertainment, The Mothers And Fathers Italian Association, currently appears in Cemetery Dance magazine. He is the editor of seven anthologies, including the highly acclaimed Borderlands series edited with his wife, Elizabeth, of which, Borderlands 5, won a Bram Stoker Award in 2003. He has been an Instructor at the Borderlands Press Writers Boot Camp since its inception ten years ago, and witnessed more than 50 graduates of the program go on to get their books published.

He has written for the stage and television, having scripts produced for American Playhouse (which won him the Bronze Award at the International TV and Film Festival of New York and the Gabriel Award), George Romero’s Tales from the Darkside, Sony’s The Unkown, and an execrable series on Fox TV entitled Night Visions. He has written many feature-length screenplays, none of which have been produced, but have made him plenty of money anyway.

Of his forty books, his NYTimes bestselling novel, The Blood of the Lamb received the 1993 Bram Stoker Award, and The New York Times Notable Book of the Year Award. His four collections of selected short fiction are Dark Stars and Other Illuminations (1981), Rough Beasts and Other Mutations (2003), The Little Brown Book of Bizarre Stories (2004), and Fearful Symmetries (2004),which won the 2004 Bram Stoker Award. His novels, The Resurrectionist and Night of Broken Souls, global thrillers from Warner Books, received rave reviews and have been optioned for films. The Reckoning (2000), a sequel to The Blood of the Lamb, and The Eyes of the Virgin (2002) have been published by Forge. His omnibus volume of essays about the book and film industries entitled The Mothers And Fathers Italian Association was published by Borderlands Press (www.borderlandspress.com) and won the 2003 Bram Stoker Award for Non-Fiction. He is also the author of the bestseller, The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Writing a Novel (2004, 2010), and recently turned in his latest latest novel, a thriller entitled Submerged. His books and stories have been translated into fourteen foreign languages. He’s a writer—please  don’t call him an “author.”  Writers write.  Authors merely “auth.”          

He likes the Baltimore Ravens and the Orioles, computers, sour mash whiskey, fine wines, comics, tons of books to read, movies, all kinds of music (except the stuff sung by people wearing big hats or pants down to their knees), and teaching his daughter how to be an independent thinker. He also likes to talk to big crowds of people and read his stories to them. Despite being dragged kicking and screaming into his sixties (and losing his hair), he still thinks he is dashingly handsome—humor him.