Jennifer Word is an award winning poet, novelist and editor. She resides in Ventura County, CA with her two children, two cats, and a plecostomus. She holds a B.A. in Psychology from Pepperdine University, with minors in Education and English. She loves horror, both written and cinema. She has written multiple novels and dozens of short stories, half a dozen novellas, and award winning poetry. She works as an Associate Editor for the horror magazine Dark Moon Digest. www.darkmoondigest.com. As of February, 2015, she is proud to join the staff of Perpetual Motion Machine Publishing. www.perpetualpublishing.com as a Copy Editor. Her short stories and poetry have been printed in The Storyteller, The Klondike Sun, Dark Moon Digest e-Magazine (Dark Eclipse), Surreal Grotesque, eFiction, and multiple anthologies, including Slices of Flesh, Zombies Need Love, Too, & Frightmares c/o Dark Moon Books, and From Beyond the Grave c/o Grinning Skull Press.Most recently, she has launched her own independent professional editing service, 'Contract Editing Services', through Thumbtack. http://www.thumbtack.com/ca/oak-park/editors/contract-editing-servicesWorks available now are: The Society, Book One: Genesis c/o Stony Meadow Publishing, available in paperback on Amazon and for Kindle; http://tinyurl.com/ocwvft7The Society, Book Two: Transcription c/o Stony Meadow Publishing, paperback only. http://tinyurl.com/ksds89cRain by Jennifer Word, c/o Dark Moon Books, e-book only; http://tinyurl.com/lfwfgf4Higher Love by Jennifer Word, Amazon e-books; http://tinyurl.com/mkvbwx2The Poe Toaster, Amazon e-books; http://tinyurl.com/ol62oubAll Because of the Cat, Amazon e-books; http://tinyurl.com/qjxlory