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In late 2008, Lachesis Publishing released McCarty's second novel, Out Of Time, cowritten with Connie Corcoran Wilson. His first solo novel is the 2009 satirical vampire tale Liquid Diet (Black Death/Demonic Clown Books). McCarty’s
fiction collections include Dark Duets (Wildside Press), All
Things Dark And Hideous, cowritten with Mark McLaughlin (Rainfall
Books, UK), Little Creatures (Sam’s Dot Publishing),
and A Little Help From My Fiends (Sam’s Dot Publishing). In 2005, he was a Bram Stoker Award finalist in the nonfiction category for More Giants of the Genre. Other nonfiction books by McCarty include Esoteria-Land (Bear Manor Media), Giants of the Genre (Wildside Press), Modern Mythmakers (McFarland & Company), and Ghostly Tales of Route 66, cowritten with Connie Corcoran Wilson (Quixote Press). He also writes the Vampire Mania column for GravesideTales.com. McCarty lives with his wife, Cindy, in Rock Island, Illinois, and is a former stand-up comedian, musician, and managing editor of a music magazine. He can be contacted at Mike McCarty, P.O. Box 4441, Rock Island, IL 61201, or by e-mail at mikelmccarty@hotmail.com.
Social Media: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1158897579 Good Reads http://www.goodreads.com/michaelmccarty MySpace http://www.myspace.com/monsterbook Blog http://cafehorror.ning.com/profile/MichaelMcCarty
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Michael
McCarty has been a professional writer since 1983 and
is the author of numerous books of fiction and nonfiction, as
well as hundreds of articles, short stories, and poems. In 2009,
he was named as a finalist, along with collaborator Mark McLaughlin,
in two different Bram Stoker Award categories: Best First Novel
of 2008 for Monster Behind the Wheel (Corrosion
Press/Delirium Books), and Best Poetry Collection of 2008 for Attack
of the Two-Headed Poetry Monster (Skullvines Press). In 2008,
he received the David R. Collins Literary Achievement Award from
the Midwest Writing Center. 
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