Our Experiment Continues

We'll Start With the "Straight" Bios

Here Are Our Baseline Bios

To establish the conceit — a short story based on the typical About the Contributors section of an anthology — we must open with some very straight versions of author Bios. This is the foundation. Our blandish baseline. Our next round of Bios will riff off of these. The next round can go a little crazy, but don’t go off he rails. We still want to leave room to escalate in the next couple rounds.

These ground-floor Bios must not give away our intentions. We must not enter screaming. I looked for a certain blandness, and Bios of various lengths.

My Choices for the Foundation

Cheryl Chatterton, author of “Salutations of Distant Remembrance,” is the editor of the online magazine ‘Encouraging Good Behavior through Somatic Reinforcement.’ She penned her debut poetry collection, ‘Fond Embraces’ in the span of a sleepless weekend. When she is not organizing a family reunion as the Chatterton matriarch, Cheryl enjoys desert herb gardening and pebble painting. Cheryl lives in Sheridan, Wyoming with her son and daughter-in-law.

Genevieve S. Small, “Blink Twice If You See Me,” is also the author of several to-do lists she hasn’t gotten around to. She and her cat Lucy make their home in Brooklyn. This is her first published work.

Helena Ellison: Contributing author of 'Historia Veneficii'. Enjoys rose gardening and country side driving. Winner of the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians Book Prize. Member of the Latin National Honor Society and the International Guild of Knot Tyers North America. Currently working on a modern translation of the Heptameron. Collects antique blades and spring lancets. Earned a bachelors degree in history and masters degree in historical forensics at Miskatonic University.

J. J. J. Jackson, author of "Nosferatu on the Shore", writes unapologetic fiction in his cabin in the woods, and lives completely off-grid and self-sufficient. His work has been called, ‘intimidating’ by Witness Magazine, and ‘unfathomable’ by That Books Guy. Jackson does not have a web profile or an email address. All book queries should be sent to PO Box 115, Arden, Texas. Internet Search Engine results will not report that all charges were dropped, but they were.

Larry Finkel, author of "The Everyday Politics of Candyland" can be found on his YouTube channel "Boardgame Everything." There he takes the time to explain the complexity of Clue to the rise and fall of the British Navy in Battleship. Please join us there.

Liasa Leuken, ‘Her Story Wasn’t History’ and ‘Sheets of Sapphic Sheets of Yonic Sheets of Spells’ and ‘Unphallic Hill’ Is an MMC Trinity graduate who completed her double PHD studies in ‘Traditional Power Pre-Patriarchal Constructs’ along with a medical/anthropological/non-secular PHD in ‘Dianic Phallo-Constructs’. She runs a coastal-forest resort dedicated to the sacred connection that can only be found between HER with the Gaiaic Body. For inquiries: She inquires only.

S. S. Riley, 'The Undead Mistress of the Kennedy's', M.Ed., MT(ASCP)SM, working on a PhD in Supernatural Science. Look forward for their debut novel, "Ghost Abortions for Sale!", coming this winter. Preferring to let their work speak for itself, S. S. Riley is a pseudonym.

Note, I placed these in alphabetical order.

In This Next Round

I’ll post each of the above, bland Bios in Comments. You post a Bio of a new author, but use it to riff off one of the baseline Bios. For example:

S. S. Riley, 'The Undead Mistress of the Kennedy's', M.Ed., MT(ASCP)SM, working on a PhD in Supernatural Science. Look forward for their debut novel, "Ghost Abortions for Sale!", coming this winter. Preferring to let their work speak for itself, S. S. Riley is a pseudonym.

Alfred Previn, ‘Bounty Paid 4 Vampyrs,’ is a three-time nominee for the Finger Lakes Regional Arts Award. He’s the organizing force behind the class-action lawsuit against S. S. “Stan” Riley who defrauded hundreds of ticket buyers who trustingly paid Stanley Phillip Riley hundreds of thousands of dollars for a 2021 Weekend Stanley Hotel Horror Fest that Stanley Riley — pseudonym, my ass — failed to host.

Feel free to post as many fake Bios after each as you like. I’ll choose my faves and include those in the next generation of the growing story. We’ll continue this process until we reach absurdity — but not too crazy too soon.

Explore unrequited love. Anger. Plagerism. Any political or interpersonal beefs your fake authors can muster. For now, the first-round Bios are going into Comments. Add your rejoiner as a response to the applicable Comment.

Note, as I cut-and-paste additional Bios into the story, they need not immediately follow a Bio they riff on. A riff Bio might land a couple slots below the original, but the fake author’s name should be later in the alphabet than the original — so the response falls somewhere after that set-up. Got it?

This is all simpler than it sounds. We’re just the first writers who’ve tried this experiment. We’re pioneers.