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Featured Art by Rick Berry
Please note: Copyrights to all of the artwork reproduced at the top of the page or on
"view art" pages of DarkEcho 4.0 and in the left
column under the DarkEcho Horror logo on DarkEcho 3.0 is held by the
individual artist, Rick Berry and is used by his permission.
Nothing may be reproduced, linked, or transmitted in any form without
written permission from the artist. If you are interested in rights for
these works, please include the title of the piece, specific use and
rights you require and email art@braid.com. Mr Berry is also
available for original illustration, design and concept work. Please
visit the Braid Art site to view more
of his work.
Each "page" of both DarkEcho 3.0 and 4.0 is graced with the incredible art of Rick
Berry. Berry is an accomplished oil painter, draftsman, and a pioneer in
new media. In 1984, he created the world's first digital cover
illustration for a work of fiction, William Gibson's Neuromancer.
He left school at age 17 to begin a career in underground comics. After
hitching east to Boston from Colorado, he shifted his artistic focus and
has produced hundreds of illustrations for books, magazines, games, CDs,
and comics. In addition to illustration, Berry's early experience in the
print production trenches of comics has evolved into specialty editions
design work, and has sent him to some interesting places. He was flown
to Hong Kong in 1993 to supervise presses and advise the Chinese on
current electronic press capabilities. His fine art work can be seen in
galleries internationally and online at
Braid Media Arts.
Berry has an abiding interest in collaborative work, and, in 1993,
joined with Phil Hale to produce Double Memory, an 110 page book
that Peter Straub called "...a dazzling achievement." Berry and William
Gibson worked together again in 1995 when Braid Media Arts (Berry,
Darrel Anderson, and Gene Bodio) designed and executed the CGI
cyberspace climax of TriStar Productions' film, Johnny Mnemonic. The sequence
was featured in SIGGRAPH's animation revue, 1996.
Berry also has a long-term collaboration with fellow professional
artist/illustrator/designer for 30 years. The founders of Braid, their
work has received awards from The Society of Illustrators, Communication
Arts, Spectrum, MacWorld Macintosh Masters, Computer Graphics World, and
the Truevision International Videographics Competition. It has appeared
in nearly every major computer graphics/media/arts magazine, as well
many other publications including books, comics, posters, and a few
doorstops.
Berry teaches Digital Art: A Collaborative Approach at Tufts University,
as well a conducting lectures and workshops at colleges and corporations
nationally on the nature of creativity. He lives with his wife and three
children in Massachusetts.
CONTENT
DarkEcho, in general and currently, focuses on literature of the fantastic science fiction, fantasy, horror, speculative
fiction, whatever you want to call it. It features a blog, reviews, interviews, and essays. There is a free
e-mail newsletter that you may subscribe to.
In the last ten years there have been three major site constructions:
the original tacky little site (v.1.0), the first makeover with Rick
Berry art during the OMNI era (v.2.0), the massive remodel of about 3.5 years ago
(v.3.0), and now the new "white site" (v.4.0).
DarkEcho 3.0 (re-designed and re-launched 1 May 2002)focuses primarily on horror. It incorporates professionally
published content from several sources including
all of the content of DarkEcho OMNI
Horror, originally produced (1996-1998) under editors Ellen Datlow
and Pam Weintraub for pioneering professional Web publication OMNI
Online (no longer an active site).
Universal Studios' HorrorOnline went on the Web in October 1998
and existed in a monthly format through the spring of 2001. Now that
HorrorOnline no longer exists, most of the content produced for its
horror literature area -- monthly interviews, essays, and reviews -- is
also republished here.
Other content came from Spook magazine, the "Waves of Fear" column in Cemetery Dance magazine, the
DarkEcho Horror site (established 1995) that was produced
in support of DarkEcho, a weekly email newsletter for horror
writers and others, and from the newsletter itself.
Further original material from writers Colleen Crary, Hank Wagner,
Justin Norton, Fiona Webster, John Grant, M. Christian, and Thomas Roche
is also included.
DarkEcho version 4.0, emphasizing science fiction and fantasy (including horror)
was launched in October 2005. Along with some original content, there are re-printed reviews and interviews
from CFQ magazine, Fantasy Magazine, and "Waves of Fear" column in
Cemetery Dance magazine.
About Paula Guran
Currently
Editing:
Editor - Juno Books
Best New Paranormal Romance (anthology series)
Warrior Women (Juno Books, forthcoming winter2008)
Continuing freelance writing gigs:
Publishers Weekly (reviews)
Cemetery Dance ("Waves of Fear" column)
Fantasy Magazine (review editor & reviews)
Writers.com monthly newsletter
Publishing:
Infrapress (Fiction)
Cælum Press (Nonfiction)
Writers.com Books (Writing-Related)
Web Site Design and Webmastering:
DarkEcho
John Shirley
Ellen Datlow
Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
Writers.com
Messages from Michael
Juno Books
Signs of Witness
Infrapress
Caelum Press
Writers.com
Writers.com Books
International Horror Guild (Design by Chad Savage)
Literary Agent for author John Shirley
Teaching/one-to-one tutoring for Writers.com/Writers On the Net (see below)
Volunteer Work
Adminstrator, International Horror Guild Awards
The Mirabundus Project (Member, Board of Directors)
DarkEcho Blog/Newsletter
The Very Short Bio (Less than 100 words)
Paula Guran (www.darkecho.com)
is the editor of fantasy imprint Juno Books
(www.juno-books.com) and its
Best New Paranormal anthology series. She reviews
regularly for Publishers Weekly, is review editor for Fantasy magazine,
and a columnist for Cemetery Dance magazine. In an earlier life she produced
weekly email newsletter DarkEcho (winning two Stokers, an IHG award, and a
World Fantasy nomination), edited Horror Garage (earning another IHG and
second a World Fantasy nomination), and has been a contributed to numerous
professional sf/f/h publications. She's a publisher [Infrapress (www.infrapress.com)],
teaches, and is author John Shirley's (
www.john-shirley.com) literary agent.
The Long Bio
Paula Guran produced Darkecho, a weekly email newsletter for horror
writers and others, for over six years (1994-2001) and was recognized
with two unprecedented back-to-back Bram Stoker Awards for Nonfiction
from the Horror Writers Association (1998 and 1999) as well as an
International Horror Guild Award (1999), and a World Fantasy nomination
(1997). She began producing the horror portion of the pioneering
professional Web publication OMNI Online in 1996 and became the
Literature Editor of Universal Studios' HorrorOnline in October 1998.
Guran is current editing a line of fantasy that focuses on women: Juno Books.
Her first anthology for the imprint, Best New Paranormal Romance, received a starred review in
Publishers Weekly. Juno Books publishes two books a month.
She also edited edited Horror Garage for
three years. The print zine, an eccentric mix of original dark fiction
and garage/punk/indie music, received an IHG award for Best Publication
of 2000 and Guran was honored with a World Fantasy nomination for it in
2002. (Note: She is no longer connected with Horror Garage in any way.) Guran also edited the anthology Embraces: Dark Erotica
(Venus or Vixen) -- termed in a starred review in Publishers
Weekly: "Provocative, intelligent, subversive and, above all,
artful." It was an IHG nominee as Best Anthology. While with Stealth
Press she edited, designed, and executed the original promotional PDF
anthology All Hallows-E: Halloween Tales by Seven Masters of
Horror with stories by Ray Bradbury, Peter Straub, F. Paul Wilson,
Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, John Shirley, William F. Nolan, and Al
Sarrantonio. It was downloaded more than 20,000 times in the six-week
period it was available online.
In addition to the current freelance writing listed above, Guran was the consulting editor
for print (reviewing and writing articles about
sf/f/h) for Cinemafantastique and has written articles or
reviews for Icons of Horror, Supernatural Literature of the World, Locus, Locus Online, The Third Alternative (UK),
Event Horizon, Dark Wisdom,
Barnesandnoble.com, Gettingit.com, Mystery Scene, Inklings, SciFiEye,
Horror, Pulp Eternity, Cabaret, Tangent, ZENtertainment, The Market
List, Heliocentric Net, Into the Darkness, D8, for Writers Digest
books, and various convention programmes. Some of her work has been translated into German and Russian.
She mentored the
The Spook and was a
contributing editor for that publication.
She authored introductions for
the multiple award-winning collection Black
Butterflies by John Shirley, anthology Imagination
Fully Dilated 2, and Nancy Kilpatrick's
collection Cold Comfort. Her essay on the history of Halloween was featured
in the award-winning Cemetery Dance anthology, October Dreams. Her interviews have been translated into German and Russian
for foreign publication.
Dabs of fiction have appeared under pseudonyms for
professional webzines and, under her own name, in anthologies Eros Ex
Machina (soon to be republished) and the Stoker Award-winning 365
Scary Stories. Guran is the former fiction editor for Gothic.Net Webzine and previously
edited and published Wetbones, a print magazine of cutting edge
dark fiction. She has been award-winning author John Shirley's literary representative since January 1996.
She chaired the of the Horror Writers
Association Bram Stoker Awards Jury for two terms
and is a former member of the Board of Trustees. Guran served as a World Fantasy Award judge in
2001 and has administered the a
International Horror Guild Awards since 1997.
Guran has moderated and served on panels for the World Horror
Convention, SFWorldCon, World Fantasy Convention, the Horror Writers Association
Annual Meeting, Dragon*Con, Context, Death Equinox, and NeCon. She's also been
interviewed by media including the BBC, NBC-affiliate KVOA, The
Cleveland Plain Dealer, and several online and print magazines.
She worked for Stealth Press -- a publisher of sf/f/h & more -- in marketing,
as Online Content Editor and in other capacities. Guran is the author of
The Word Book from
Writers.com. She serves as publisher of Writers.com Books and its imprints
Infrapress and Cælum Press
In addition to her publishing duties,
Guran has worked, taught, and edited for Writers on the Net and produces a
monthly newsletter for them which garnered her a nomination as Favorite
Online Writer for Inscriptions Magazine's 2001 Engraver Awards. She currently teaches
Self-Editing: Strategies & Skills, Basic Writing Skills, Fantastic Fiction: Writing SF/F/H,
the Advanced SF/F/H Workshop, and Alternative Publication:
Small Press & Self-Publishing. A bio quite similar to this but with some lovely "blurbs"
from nice people can be found on her Writers.com
page as well as descriptions of her classes. If
you are interested in editing, critique, one-to-one work, or counsultation, Guran also
provides those services. Email writers@writers.com or
visit the Writers.com Web site for more information.