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John Manning

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Born on Halloween, John has always been fascinated by the dark and scary world of horror fiction. His earliest favorites were Edgar Allen Poe, Dostoevsky, and Charles Addams. He discovered his passion for writing in the second grade. Through the years, however, publishers did not share his enthusiasm. As a staff member for many fan conventions, he was blessed to meet (and pick the brains of) authors such as Barry Longyear, Robert Asprin, Robert Adams, L. Sprague de Camp, C. Dean Andersson, John Steakley, Jr., Lynn Abbey, Andy Offett, Steven Barnes, and Larry Niven. Evidently osmosis works, for in 2011 his first novel, Black Stump Ridge, written with his long-time friend, Forrest Hedrick, was released on an unsuspecting public. It has gone o ...more

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