JONATHAN MABERRY is a multiple Bram Stoker Award-winning author. His new thriller, PATIENT ZERO (St. Martins Griffin) is included in March INDIE NEXT.

Jonathan is an author, magazine feature writer, playwright, comic book writer, digital media content creator, writing teacher and lecturer.

His novels includes GHOST ROAD BLUES (winner of the Stoker Award for Best First Novel in 2006), DEAD MAN’S SONG (2007), BAD MOON RISING (2008), and PATIENT ZERO (St Martins Press 2009). Upcoming novels include THE DRAGON FACTORY (2010) and THE KING OF PLAGUES (2011) and THE WOLFMAN (2009, Universal Pictures).

His nonfiction works include VAMPIRE UNIVERSE (Citadel Press, 2006), and THE CRYPTOPEDIA (Citadel, 2007 –winner of the Bram Stoker Award for Outstanding Achievement in Nonfiction); and ZOMBIE CSU: The Forensics of the Living Dead (2008). Upcoming books include THEY BITE! (August 2009) and VAMPIRE HUNTERS AND OTHER ENEMIES OF EVIL (2010).

His first comic for Marvel – WOLVERINE: GHOSTS will be released in April; to be followed in June by PUNISHER: NAKED KILL, and a run as co-scripter on THE BLACK PANTHER beginning mid-2009.

Recent short stories include “Pegleg and Paddy Save the World” (HISTORY IS DEAD, Permuted Press 2007), “Doctor Nine” (KILLERS, Swimming Kangaroo Press, 2008), “The Adventure of the Greenbrier Ghost” (LEGENDS OF THE MOUNTAIN STATE 2, Bloodletting Books, 2008), and “Clean Sweeps” (AND SO IT BEGINS, Dark Quest Books, 2008).

Jonathan is the co-creator (with Laura Schrock) of ON THE SLAB, an entertainment news show for ABC Disney / Stage 9, to be released on the Internet in 2009.

Jonathan is a Contributing Editor for The Big Thrill (the newsletter of the International Thriller Writers), and is a member of SFWA, MWA and HWA. He is a frequent guest at genre cons and writers conferences.

Jonathan is a founding member of The Liars Club, a group of networking publishing professionals that includes bestsellers William Lashner, L. A. Banks, Merry Jones, Gregory Frost, Jon McGoran, Ed Pettit, Dennis Tafoya, Keith Strunk, Don Lafferty, Kelly Simmons, Laura Schrock and Marie Lamba.

In 2004 Jonathan was inducted into the International Martial Arts Hall of Fame largely because of his extensive writings in that field. His martial arts books include E.S.M: Effective Survival Methods (Vortex Multimedia, 1985); Introduction to Asian Martial Arts (Vortex Multimedia, 1986); The Self-Defense Instructor’s Handbook (Vortex Multimedia, 1990); Judo and You (Kendall Hunt, 1991); Ultimate Jujutsu Principles and Practices (Strider Nolan, 2002); The Martial Arts Student Logbook (Strider Nolan, 2002); Ultimate Sparring Principles and Practices (Strider Nolan, 2003).

Visit his website at www.jonathanmaberry.com or find him on Facebook, Plaxo, Twitter, and MySpace.