J. Michael Major's novel ONE MAN'S CASTLE won the 2014 Lovey** Award for BEST FIRST NOVEL **Love is Murder READERS CHOICE AWARD. His story "A Letter To My Ex" in the multi-5-star reviewed SPLATTERLANDS anthology, edited by Anthony Rivera and Sharon Lawson, is singled out in most reviews as one of the best and most disturbing stories in the collection. His other stories have appeared in the anthologies DeathGrip 3: It Came From the Cinema and New Traditions in Terror, and such magazines as Hardboiled, Bare Bone, Pirate Writings, Into the Darkness, Outer Darkness, and The Sterling Web. He is a member of the Mystery Writers of America and the Horror Writers Association, and he lives with his family outside of Chicago. Visit his website at www.jmichaelmajor.com, Like his Facebook page at www.facebook.com/MajorWriter, and follow him on Twitter at www.twitter.com/Major Writer.