N.B.: Once upon a time this site had several contributors. This time has passed, but I’m leaving this page up in case anyone is still curious about what once was but is no longer. Very little of this information was ever accurate, and since it was written the amount of truth contained below has only decreased.
If you want to know why the contributors to The Bitter Quill are known as the Slush-Pile All-Stars, you may find this link interesting.
(Until certain worthless sacks of juice and gristle can get me their bios, some of these descriptions may be a little less than accurate.)
The Slush-Pile All-Stars are:
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Anju Kanumalla:
A frequently relapsing PBS junkie, Anju holds a day job in the pharmaceutical industry as a medical writer, and also has experience with various forms of scientific, academic, and science writing. She aspires to greatness as a bringer of knowledge to the masses. For now, however, she’ll settle for a few bylines and a check or two.
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Cynthia Taylor:
Cynthia Taylor is currently working on a PhD in Computer Science at the University of California, San Diego. Not content to merely build robots that elicit significant emotional response from human beings, she wishes to write short stories that do the same. The fires were not her fault.
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Genevieve Cogman:
Genevieve Cogman is a clinical coder by day, a freelancer by night. She is also English, which explains the accent. In the meantime, she has written for White Wolf (Exalted, Orpheus, Dark Ages), Steve Jackson Games (In Nomine, and the forthcoming GURPS Vorkosigan), and Guardians of Order (Hearts, Swords, and Flowers). She hopes some day to write novels; she also writes fanfiction.
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Jessica Haralson:
A heartbreaker, soultaker and big-playmaker, Jessica Haralson also edits and publishes a stellar, though ridiculously filthy magazine at the University of Pennsylvania. While she’s not corrupting the future elite of this nation, blogging for the Gothamist network or flogging the poor (and not in a sexy way, damn her eyes), Jessica pursues her dream of being the world’s first female NFL quarterback with a savage and relentless determination forged in the squirming brood-pits of distant Yuggoth.
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Luke Crane:
A brobdingnagian titan of the independent-game publishing world and universally-praised auter of the Burning Wheel Fantasy Roleplaying System, Luke Crane is also a semi-professional underground pit-fighter. His fists are as two mighty engines of destruction, and his teeth gleam with the light of a thousand dead suns. Luke Crane does not sleep. He waits.
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Michelle Klein:
If being a comely and popular mother and author with a bizarre fascination with one-armed, child-murdering, incestuous prettyboys is wrong, Michelle Klein doesn’t want to be right. Though she suffers from an old family ailment in which her left hand is constantly plotting her death, Michelle still manages to work the words “squamous” and “batrachian” into conversation as often as possible, especially when she’s talking about her immediate relations. Hey, she just wrote a comic book!
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Mike VanHelder:
The man with the plan and the reason for the season, Mike VanHelder writes reviews of books and movies to pay the bills (but only the small ones). He is a Canadian living in the United States, and thus feels of inherently finer quality than almost everyone around him. His politics are as radical as they are radical, and just because he writes reviews of food, drink and perfume for fun, he’s not gay. Seriously. One day he’d like to be a successful fiction writer, but until then he’ll settle for being wicked smart and dead sexy.
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Star Foster:
An internationally acclaimed blogger, Star Foster is also the co-creator of some really quite smashing interactive fiction that’s won some sort of really important awards if you care about that sort of thing, you nerd. She has minions, I tell you, robotic minions that cut and tear and smash and burn and can’t be stopped! We’re all very sure to stay on her good side at all times, and you ought to be too.