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ABOUT LOIS GRESH

LOIS GRESH is the New York Times Best-Selling Author (6 times), Publishers Weekly Best-Selling Paperback Author, and Publishers Weekly Best-Selling Paperback Children's Author of 27 books and 45 short stories. Her books have been published in approximately 20 languages. Current books are THE HUNGER GAMES COMPANION (Nov 2011) and dark short story collection ELDRITCH EVOLUTIONS (2011), and thriller TERROR BY NUMBERS (2012). She's also the editor of anthology DARK FUSIONS: WHERE MONSTERS LURK (2012). Lois has received Bram Stoker Award, Nebula Award, Theodore Sturgeon Award, and International Horror Guild Award nominations for her work.

Novels and Fiction Collections

1. The Termination Node, co-author Bob Weinberg, Random House/Del Rey, thriller, adult, 1999 hc/pb, on Nebula preliminary ballot for Best Novel of 1999, on USA Today Best-Seller List for 1 week
2. TechnoLife 2020, novella, ECW Press, adult, 2001 trade
3. Chuck Farris and the Tower of Darkness, novel, young adult, ECW Press, 2001 trade
4. Chuck Farris and the Labyrinth of Doom, novel, young adult, ECW Press, 2001 trade
5. Chuck Farris and the Cosmic Storm, novel, young adult, ECW Press, 2002 trade
6. Romance Novel #1 (written under a pseudonym), 2010
7. Romance Novel #2 (written under a pseudonym), 2011
8. Blood and Ice - Weird Science Fiction Vampire Novel, Elder Signs Press, January 2011
9. Eldritch Evolutions - 26 Weird Fiction Reprints + Originals!, Chaosium, April 2011
10. Dark Fusions: Where Monsters Lurk, PS Publishing, 2012
11. Terror by Numbers, a thriller

Science Books and Other Pop Books

12. The Computers of Star Trek, co-author Bob Weinberg, Basic Books, science, adult, 2000 hc/trade
13. DragonBall Z, St. Martin's Press, young adult humor, 2000 trade
14. The Science of Superheroes, co-author Bob Weinberg, John Wiley & Sons, speculative science, adult, 2002 hc/trade
15. The Science of Supervillains, co-author Bob Weinberg, John Wiley & Sons, speculative science, adult, 2004 hc/trade
16. The Science of James Bond, co-author Bob Weinberg, John Wiley & Sons, speculative science, adult, 2006 trade
17. The Science of Anime, co-author Bob Weinberg, speculative science, adult, 2005 trade
18. Exploring Lemony Snicket, St. Martin's Press, young adult, 2004 hc
19. The Unauthorized Eragon Guide, St. Martin's Press, young adult, 2006 trade
20. The Unauthorized Guide to His Dark Materials, St. Martin's Press, speculative science, young adult/adult, 2007 trade
21. The Science of Stephen King, co-author Bob Weinberg, John Wiley & Sons, speculative science, adult, 2007 hc
22. The Fan's Unauthorized Guide to the Spiderwick Chronicles, St. Martin’s Press, young adult, 2007 trade
23. The Unauthorized Guide to Artemis Fowl, St. Martin’s Press, young adult, 2008 trade
24. The Many Mysteries of Indiana Jones, co-author Bob Weinberg, John Wiley & Sons, adult, 2008 trade
25. The Twilight Companion - The Unauthorized Guide to the Series, St. Martin's Press, young adult, 2008 trade
26. Second Edition of The Twilight Companion - The Unauthorized Guide to the Series, St. Martin's Press, young adult, 2009 trade
27. The Hunger Games Companion - The Unauthorized Guide to the Series, St. Martin's Press, adult, 2011 trade

Partial List of Short Stories

1. Cafebabe, INFINITE LOOP SF ANTHOLOGY, Miller Freeman hardcover, 1993
2. Watch Me If You Can, INFINITE LOOP SF ANTHOLOGY, Miller Freeman hardcover, 1993
3. Digital Pistil, TALES OF THE UNANTICIPATED, November 1994; THE CYBORG HANDBOOK, Routledge Press, 1995 (story was sole winner of national contest and represents future of cyborg SF); 1994 YEAR'S BEST FANTASTIC FICTION
4. AnOde to Thee: or Surfing those Tubular Waves, MINDSPARKS SF, 1994
5. Mandelbrot Moldrot, MISKATONIC UNIVERSITY, DAW Books, November 1996; Mythos Anthology, Centipede Press, 2012
6. Let Me Make You Suffer, INTERZONE, Spring 1995
7. Algorithms & Nasal Structures, ABORIGINAL SF, Summer 1998
8. Sole Man, HOT BLOOD: FEAR THE FEVER, Pocket Books, July 1996 (story was on the 1996 HWA Stoker Award Ballot; story received Honorable Mention in 1996 YEAR'S BEST FANTASY & HORROR, St. Martin's Press)
9. Snip My Suckers, 100 VICIOUS LITTLE VAMPIRES, Barnes & Noble, 1995 (story was on the 1995 HWA Stoker Award Ballot; story received Honorable Mention in 1995 YEAR'S BEST FANTASY & HORROR, St. Martin's Press)
10. Psychomildew Love, 100 WICKED LITTLE WITCHES, Barnes & Noble, 1995 (story was on the 1995 HWA Stoker Award Ballot)
11. Cocci's Blood-Fueled Feud, 100 VICIOUS LITTLE VAMPIRES, Barnes & Noble, 1995
12. Fish Witch, 100 WICKED LITTLE WITCHES, Barnes & Noble, 1995
13. Birches & Murk, HORROR A DAY, Barnes & Noble, August/September 1998
14. Engorged Pereute, HORROR A DAY, Barnes & Noble, August/September 1998
15. Little Whorehouse of Horrors, DARK REGIONS VIRTUAL REALITY, 1998
16. Instant Gratification, MANIFEST DESTINY, Winter 1994
17. The Last Real Rat, THE URBANITE, 1997
18. Lucky Albumin, THE URBANITE, 1997
19. Where I Go, Mi-Go, SINGERS OF STRANGE SONGS, Chaosium Press, 1997
20. Memories of Home, TERMINAL FRIGHT, 1993
21. The Adventure of the Parisian Gentleman, NEW SHERLOCK HOLMES ADVENTURES, Robinson Publishing (London) and Carroll & Graf, Mike Ashley, ed., 1997
22. Julius Caesar: Three Meetings and a Funeral, SHAKESPEAREAN DETECTIVES (also: MORE SHAKESPEAREAN WHODUNNITS), Robinson Publishing (London) and Carroll & Graf, Mike Ashley, ed., 1998
23. Death Rides the Elevator, LOCKED ROOM MYSTERIES AND IMPOSSIBLE CRIMES, Robinson Publishing (London) and Carroll & Graf, Mike Ashley, ed., 2000
24. Nada Nother Nite, INHUMAN MAGAZINE, AllenK, ed., October 2009
25. Murder in Monkeyland, LOCKED ROOM MYSTERIES AND IMPOSSIBLE CRIMES -- VOLUME 2, Robinson Publishing (London) and Carroll & Graf, Mike Ashley, ed., 2006
26. There's No Place Like Void, TALES OUT OF MISKATONIC, Mythos Books, 2010 - forthcoming
27. The Lagoon of Insane Plants, ANCIENT SHADOWS, Elder Signs Press, 2010 - forthcoming
28. Julia Brainchild, HUNGRY FOR YOUR LOVE: AN ANTHOLOGY OF ZOMBIE ROMANCE, e-format from Ravenous Romance, Oct 2009; print edition from St. Martin's Press, Oct 2010
29. Cuspid Cupid: What's the Difference?, FANG BANGERS, e-format from Ravenous Romance, August 2010
30. The Scourge of the Sea, HIGH SEAS CTHULHU 2, Elder Signs Press, 2011
31. Debutante Ball, ELDRITCH EVOLUTIONS, Chaosium, 2011
32. Smokestack Snout Neurology, ELDRITCH EVOLUTIONS, Chaosium, 2011
33. The Battle of Batbrew Bulge, ELDRITCH EVOLUTIONS, Chaosium, 2011
34. Underground Pipeline, ELDRITCH EVOLUTIONS, Chaosium, 2011
35. Lust of the Giant Sloth, ELDRITCH EVOLUTIONS, Chaosium, 2011
36. Geisha Black, ELDRITCH EVOLUTIONS, Chaosium, 2011
37. Skinhead Bonehead, ELDRITCH EVOLUTIONS, Chaosium, 2011
38. Wee Sweet Girlies, ELDRITCH EVOLUTIONS, Chaosium, 2011
39. Showdown at Red Hook, ELDRITCH EVOLUTIONS, Chaosium, 2011
40. Cthulhu Mhy'Os, HORROR FOR THE HOLIDAYS, Miskatonic River Press, 2011

Plus approximately 6 more written under pseudonyms

SOME HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE PAST FEW YEARS

Writer Guest, Ancient Aliens, History Channel, first aired in November 2011
Writer Guest, I-Con, Stony Brook University, NY, April 15-17, 2011
Writer Guest of Honor (GOH), Roc-Con, Rochester, NY, September 24, 2011
Writer Guest of Honor (GOH), Eeriecon, Niagara Falls, NY, April 2012
Writer Guest of Honor (GOH), Roc-Con, Rochester, NY, September 2012
Writer Guest, DragonCon, Atlanta, GA, 2010
Staff novel reviewer - www.scifi.com, Science Fiction Cable Channel, Nov 2004-Dec 2009, RIP
Writer Guest, Batman Tech, History Channel, airs often
Writer Guest (GOH) Speaker, Hofstra University Conference, November 2007
Writer Guest (GOH) Speaker, New York Academy of Sciences, NYC, November 2007
Writer Guest (GOH) Speaker, The Century Club, Rochester, NY, September 2007
Writer Guest (GOH) Speaker, University Librarian Conference, Colorado, June 2007
After Dinner Speaker, Ninth Rochester International Conference on Coherence and Quantum Optics, June 2007
Writer Guest (GOH) and Speaker, Perugia Science Festival, Italy, 2006
Featured by Scientific American Book Club, Science Fiction Book Club, and Library of Science Book Club
Featured in New York Times Book Review, USA Today, Science News, Publisher’s Weekly, National Geographic, Physics Today, New Scientist, U.S. News and World Report, Entertainment Weekly, many others
On Nebula preliminary ballot for Best Novel of 1999, Science Fiction Writers of America, Inc.
On national fiction ballots six times for Best Story of the Year
Won national award for best modern cyborg science fiction; story published in international graduate-level Cyborg Handbook/Routledge Press
Television: Interviewed on national Fox News television, BBC World Science News, live news programs & talk shows in NYC, Connecticut, Virginia, Rochester, Canada; featured in Batman Tech, History Channel; interviewed by television producers from Discovery Channel, ABC News
Radio: Interviewed by hundreds of radio stations, including National Public Radio, the BBC, 5 cable networks in Canada
Best of Show Award (top award given), Rochester Society for Technical Communications, 2003, for The Science of Superheroes; entry went to the International Competition
Teen science books and novels endorsed by the American Library Association, Voice of Youth Advocates, School Library Journal, Today's Librarian
Books published in approximately 20 languages & available worldwide: Italy, Japan, Spain, Russia, Germany, Portugal, France, Brazil, Thailand, Korea, China, Estonia, England, Canada/French, Finland, Poland, Czech, etc.

WHO IS LOIS GRESH? THE REAL DIRT!

I worked in programming, engineering, and technical writing positions fulltime while writing books and stories fulltime for as long as I can remember. My crazy Schedule from Hell began when I was 17 years old (photo left).

Graduating from high school a year early, I wanted to major in Genetics and/or Biochemistry in college. But fate was not on my side.

I wrote a non-fiction book about poverty at age 16 that netted $2,000 (enough for a year's tuition in those days). A year later (photo right), I compiled and edited a graduate macroeconomics textbook for a Harvard professor.

However, I had one of those infamous Dark Clouds over my head, and some Evil Entity must have descended and cast me into Hell.

Long story short, I was left with no college money, so I got a minimum-wage job at a U.S. government library, where I wrote (and programmed the software to produce) a biweekly medical newsletter for 2 years. I also started attending college 4 nights/week (Genetics, Chemistry), which cost almost everything I earned. Needless to say, the early version of my Schedule from Hell was supplemented by Living Conditions from Hell. On a good day, I could afford to eat half a chunk of mozzarella from the 7-11.

I quickly gravitated toward Assembly, C, machine language, and electronics/engineering. After several years, I switched my studies to Computer Science.

Juggling a fulltime job and college classes 4 nights/week, I also started writing weird science fiction and horror stories. I wrote most of the stories during class. Many sold, which absolutely thrilled me.

Still juggling a fulltime job, college classes 4 nights/week, and what turned into fulltime writing, I had 2 children and transformed into a single mother.

For 15+ years, I was a lead systems analyst and a multimedia director; and for 4-5 years, a senior science writer. I cranked out a lot of software, 200+ technical manuals, 60+ science newsletters, a pile of science brochures, and several science "booklets" ranging from 50 to 100 pages.

Circa 2010, I no longer have the Schedule from Hell.

I'm now very happy and writing what I want -- weird science fiction, thrillers, dark fantasy. I'm no longer juggling 2 fulltime jobs, night college, 2 children, and household responsibilities. Wow, I'm actually having fun! It's about time!