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Joe Mynhardt started his writing career at the end of 2008, and has enjoyed considerable success ever since. With 38 short story publications, he still has a tome of story ideas scraping for a chance to be written. His influences stretches from Edgar Allen Poe, Arthur Conan Doyle and H.P Lovecraft to Stephen King, John Connolly and Joe Hill. Joe contributes to speculative fiction in more ways than his own fiction. He maintains a constant presence on several of the major horror writer’s forums as a contributor and adviser. He’s also a moderator for a major writer’s group, Mywriterscircle.com. All in all, like all horror writers should, he keeps his finger on the active pulse of current horror. He also moonlights as an Assistant Submissions Manager at The South African Literary Journal, New Contrast. By day Joe is a primary-school teacher who enjoys reading, jogging, and collecting rare coins. After matriculating in 1998, he moved to Bloemfontein, South Africa, where he received an honors degree in Education Leadership and Management. Joe devotes himself to his wife, his work, and to feeding his two dogs. I’m sure if something happened, and he was incapacitated, he wouldn’t mind if his dogs ate him. After all, it would be a shame to let all that talent go to waste. _______________________________________________ A Writer's Timeline:January 2012: A Final Request published at Indigo Rising Magazine. January 2012: Rise, Dead Man will be published in the Darker Minds anthology. January 2012: The Nature of the Beast received an honorary mention at Allegory Magazine. December 2011: Dark Minds anthology nominated for anthology of the year in the This is Horror Awards 2011. December 2011: The Great Wall of Rubin sold to Short-Story.Me. December 2011: By Any Means Necessary accepted by The South African Literary Journal, New Contrast. November 2011: The Other Side of the River published at Danse Macabre. October 2011: The Dead Don't Sleep Here Anymore published by Tales of The Zombie War. October 2011: The Battle in Osroth sold to Silver Blade Magazine. October 2011: Forever Nevermore published at Black Petals Magazine. October 2011: Always Come Back accepted for Dark Moon Books: Frightmares Volume 1. October 2011: Sold Our Tree to Fiction 365. September 2011: A Simple Certainty republished at B-Wasp. September 2011: Memoirs of a ghost published at B-Wasp. September 2011: A Mild Case of Possession included in Pill Hill Press's Daily Frights 2012 Anthology. August 2011: Covetous accepted by Morpheus Tales. August 2011: Food Fights published at Postcard Shorts. July 2011: A Simple Certainty published by The New Flesh. July 2011: Featured on WeeklyArtist.com July 2011: Come All to the River of Death accepted by Twisted Dreams Magazine. July 2011: Forgive me Now? published at Bewildering Stories. June 2011: The Harrowing Tides accepted by Flashshot. June 2011: Daddy's Little Boy published at The Fringe Magazine. June 2011: Higher Learning republished at The Fringe Magazine. June 2011: Love is Cruel is published at WeirdYear. April 2011: My first online interview. April 2011: The Stranger is published in the Spring Issue of Pages of Stories. March 2011: My flash fiction story 'Daddy' will be republished by Pill Hill Press in their 366 Days of Flash Fiction 2012. January 2011: 'No Man's Land' and 'Jaws of Integrity' republished at Machete Moonlight Horror Fiction Magazine. December 2010: 'Higher Learning' published at FlashesintheDark. December 2010: 'No Man's Land' and 'The Devil Made Me Do It' published in MWC's 'Rascals of the Red Barren Bar' charity anthology. November 2010: 'Jaws of Integrity' published in Pill Hill Press's 'Daily Bites of Flesh' anthology. November 2010: 'Dark Minds' anthology containing my story 'Vengeance of Hades' goes on sale. September 2010: 'Second Coming' accepted by Library of the living dead for a zombie anthology. September 2010: 'The Rolling of the Hearse' published in Pill Hill Press's 'Rotting Minds' zombie anthology. May 2010: 'Wicked Damnation' published at Microhorror. March 2010: 'The Last Hunt' published at FlashesintheDark. February 2010: 'Michael' published at Ghastly Door. January 2010: Became a global moderator on Mywriterscircle.com. November 2009: 'Winter of our mixed content' anthology containing my story 'Home for the holidays' goes on sale at Lulu.com. November 2009: Sold a filler to Reader's Digest. July 2009: Sent my first story off for possible publication. 'Daddy' was published two days later. November 2008: Started writing. If only I started when I was younger. Oh, well. Could've been worse. ________________________________________________ Link of the week: How to write horror comics by Jasper Bark.
________________________________________________ Contact me at Joemynhardt@yahoo.com 
Friends in fiction:
Jasper Bark
Robert Walker
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 10% of all my writing income goes to charity.
Quote of the week:
"The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more
followers." Ralph Nader Currently reading: 
South African Literary Magazine: New Contrast
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