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aJONATHAN MABERRY is a multiple Bram Stoker Award-winning author. He is a professional writer and writing teacher and since 1978 has sold more than 1100 articles, eighteen nonfiction books, seven novels, as well as short stories, poetry, song lyrics, video scripts, greeting cards, and two plays.

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’s next novel will be PATIENT ZERO (St Martins Press, March 2009), which launches a new series of action thrillers featuring Joe Ledger, a Baltimore cop recruited by a secret government agency to help stop a group of terrorists from releasing a plague that can turn people into murderous zombies. PATIENT ZERO has already received high praise from bestsellers like Peter Straub, Joseph Finder, James Rollins, Joe R. Lansdale, Sherrilyn Kenyon, David Morrell, Douglas Preston, and others! Jonathan is also writing a movie adaptation the details of which will be released in Spring 2009.

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).

Jonathan is the co-creator (with Laura Schrock) of ON THE SLAB, an entertainment news show for ABC Disney / Stage 9, to be released on the Internet in 2009.

Jonathan is a speaker for the National Writers Union, a chapter president of the HWA (Horror Writers Association), an editor for the ITW (International Thriller Writers), and an active member of SFWA (Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America ) and the MWA (Mystery Writers of America ). He’s also a 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, ThrillerFest, 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.

And Jonathan is a founding member of The Liars Club, a group of networking publishing professionals that includes NY Times bestselling author of legal thrillers William Lashner; NY Times bestselling paranormal romance author L. A. Banks; Emmy Award winning writer/producer Laura Schrock; crime novelist and Marvel comics writer Duane Swierczynski; fantasy author Gregory Frost, forensic crime novelist Jon McGoran (aka D H Dublin); book reviewer and Edgar Allen Poe scholar Ed Pettit; women’s contemporary novelist Kelly Simmons; crime writer Dennis Tafoya; writer/director Keith Strunk; and freelancer writer and social networking consultant Don Lafferty.

In 2004 Jonathan was inducted into the International Martial Arts Hall of Fame largely because of his extensive writings in that field. His martial arts books include E.S.M: Effective Survival Methods (Vortex Multimedia, 1985); Introduction to Asian Martial Arts (Vortex Multimedia, 1986); The Self-Defense Instructor’s Handbook (Vortex Multimedia, 1990); Judo and You (Kendall Hunt, 1991); Ultimate Jujutsu Principles and Practices (Strider Nolan, 2002); The Martial Arts Student Logbook (Strider Nolan, 2002); Ultimate Sparring Principles and Practices (Strider Nolan, 2003).

Jonathan can be found on the Internet at his author website: www.jonathanmaberry.com, on MySpace www.myspace.com/jonathan_maberry; and on Facebook, Twitter, Plaxo Pulse, and elsewhere.