L.L. Soares is a Bram Stoker Award-winning writer, working mostly in the horror field. He is a film critic (as well as the editor and publisher) at cinemaknifefight.com, a movie review site that focuses mainly on genre films. He has dozens of stories in magazines and anthologies. His first story collection (with Laura Cooney), IN SICKNESS, was released by Skullvines Press in October 2010, and features solo stories by Soares and Cooney, as well as the title novella, which they wrote together. His first novel, LIFE RAGE, was released in September 2012 from Nightscape Press, and won the Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in First Novel. His other novels include: ROCK 'N' ROLL (from Gallows Press) and HARD (from Novello-Blue). Read more about him at www.llsoares.com