The Shadowfire Press Staff

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Michael Barnette: Editor-in-Chief
Michael has been a writer since the mid-1990s, starting out as a poet and graduating to prose in 1997. He is multi-published in several genres including a few professional short story sales. Back in the 1990s he also published a small horror and poetry zine, evernight, under the Shadowfire Press imprint, which is where the company got its name. In addition to publishing evernight the former incarnation published quite a few poetry chapbooks by different poets. The current incarnation has published one poetry ebook, Michael's Children of Evernight which contains a selection of his vampire poetry. Additional prior experience includes acting as a first reader for several other publishers, and serving as an editor for one of them. Michael is in charge of all submissions, some editing and acts as the art director as well as doing the bulk of website programming for Shadowfire Press. Coyote and he also work together to create photo manipulated cover art for most Shadowfire Press books.

Coyote Osborne: Book Layout and Design
Coyote created our book layout template and helps us by doing the formatting of our ebooks. He also helps create cover art, all on a voluntary basis. He's a professional web programmer and also helps us from time to time when we get stuck working out the more complicated programing for the site. He teams up with our Editor-in-Chief to create photo manipulated cover art.

GJ Woodrum: Payment Processing and Customer Service
GJ is one of our authors, and she has graciously offered to process payments for Shadowfire Press. She also handles some customer service related issues and questions.

Our Editing Staff

Helen Ravell: Acquisitions Editor/Managing Editor
Helen formerly worked with Michael at a now defunct publisher. She agreed to continue editing for us at Shadowfire Press. Helen holds a degree in English and she hails from Down Under. We're pleased to have her working with us.

Jeremy Black: Editor/Proof Reader
Jeremy Black is obsessed with apostrophes, and so enjoys proof reading and other nitpicky pursuits. Besides fixing typos and shoring up punctuation, Jeremy can be found generally enjoying life in Michigan with his long-time partner and their furbabies.

Kathryn Ross: Copy Editor
Lives in England and holds a degree in English.

Additional Staff

Dawn: Review Coordinator
You may know Dawn from her work with Love Romances and More's Yahoo Group. Dawn has been a Shadowfire Press fan since the day we opened our doors. She joined our staff to help our authors get their books out to reviewers. We're very happy to have her as part of our staff. Dawn is also our liason to Manic Readers and does wor on theGLBT Bookshelf wiki.

Judie: Lead Promotions Staff
Judie joined our staff after doing volunteer promotions work for quite a few authors through her very own Honey Bunny Promos so when she volunteered to do promotions for us here at Shadowfire Press we happlily welcomed her aboard. Judie has eight children and a devoted husband. She loves to read m/m books and Michael is one of her favorite authors.

Katica: GLBT Promotions Specialist and Anti-pirating Team Manager
Katica is one of our talented authors who volunteered to post all of our GLBT titles to the GLBT Bookshelf wiki and she's doing a terrific job. She also just took over the postition of Anti-piratiing Team Manager here at Shadowfire Press which frees up more of Michael's time so he can focus on editing and writing. We're really glad to have Katica working with us.

Levi: 3rd Party Distribution Manager
Levi comes to us from newspaper distribution and is a friend of both Coyote and Michael. He lives a mile or so down the road from the Shadowfire Press headquarters. He handles all uploads of information and books to both our third party vendors and the 'books in print' listing agency. We're happy to have him aboard.

Tiho: Cart Manager
Tiho is a close friend of several Shadowfire Press staffers, including Michael. He lives with Levi not far from the Shadowfire Press headquarters. Currently he's working closely with Michael on learning how to do uploads to the company shopping cart.

Our Art Department

Coyote Shadow Studio: Senior Cover Art Team
Coyote Shadow Studio is comprised of Coyote Osborne and Michael Barnette. Michael does the image selection and composition and Coyote does the technical work. Together they turn out most of Shadowfire Press' cover art.

Kat Haeske: Cover Artist
Kat lives in Germany. Her first published book, Diamond Wolf was released on October 6th of 2008 through Lyrical Press.

Fiona Jayde
Fiona Jayde received a Bachelors degree in Studio Arts with an emphasis was in Digital Media-primarily in web and graphics design.

Marteeka Karland
Emergency Room tech/clerk by day, artist and erotic author by night, Marteeka craves the creative outlets of the latter.

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