Former Slice of SciFi Contributors Through the Years
Sam is a 30+ year veteran broadcaster and served as executive news director for 2 years and as lead Slice of SciFi news producer starting with its inception in March 2005.
In 2010, Sam stepped down as Executive News Director and Slice of SciFi Content Producer and went into semi-retirement, continuing to occasionally provide breaking space news, Star Trek news and poll questions. Responding to a crisis call, he returned from retirement in 2013 to take over as full content producer again, remaining until January 2015, when he chose to step into full retirement for good.
Mark Edlitz has written for The Huffington Post, Empire Magazine Online, Geeks Are Sexy and Superhero Cinema.
Mark is writing a book about actors who have played superheroes called HOW TO BE A SUPERHERO.
As a filmmaker, Mark produced and directed JEDI JUNKIES, an affectionate and funny film about extreme Star Wars fans. The film is available on Amazon, iTunes, Playstation and Hulu.
With Jerry Kolber, Mark Edlitz runs FanBoys Films, a company that acquires and provides distribution opportunities for high quality films that appeal to comic-con crowd.
Ro is a blerd with a law degree who stumbled into a career in healthcare regulatory compliance. She’s a pop culture junkie, social justice and political back-talker living and working in Southern California. In her free time, she reads and reviews books at shelfenvy.com, live tweets action, sci-fi/fantasy shows and often contemplate a career change so she can write that story that just won’t leave her alone.
Gini Koch writes the fast, fresh and funny Alien/Katherine “Kitty” Katt series for DAW Books, the Necropolis Enforcement Files, and the Martian Alliance Chronicles. She also has a humor collection, Random Musings from the Funny Girl. As G.J. Koch she writes the Alexander Outland series and she’s made the most of multiple personality disorder by writing under a variety of other pen names as well, including Anita Ensal, Jemma Chase, A.E. Stanton, and J.C. Koch.
She has stories featured in a variety of excellent anthologies, available now and upcoming, writing as Gini Koch, Anita Ensal, and J.C. Koch. Reach her via: www.ginikoch.com
Jackie writes for nerd blogs and publications all over the internet. An avid reader, she’s written reviews for What A Nerd Girl Says, a site dedicated to nerdy fiction. She’s also written for Krypton Radio and her own nerdy site, Seeking Bazinga. She writes stories for The Los Angeles Dumbledore’s Army’s publications of the Squibbler and The DA Prophet, copies of which have been sent to JK Rowling herself!
Covering subjects from pro wrestling to independent music and right back to home sweet science fiction & fantasy, Liz has been leaving her mark on blogs across the internet for the better part of a decade. Currently, she writes for sites such as Krypton Radio, Second Geekhood (where she also serves as editor), and previously served as co-host for the Doctor Who themed cosplay radios how THE CORSAIR’S CLOSET. She can be found on Twitter and on Tumblr.
Multiverse News:
Martin Collins, Writer/Producer/Creator, voice of Nigel Blackwood, cast of hundreds
Scott Purdy, Producer/Writer/Editor, voice of Lance Neutron, Skizbot
Mike McCafferty is an actor, writer, director and producer who has starred in such movie and television features as “The Invisible Man,” “National Treasure: Book of Secrets,” HBO’s “True Blood,” “The Shield,” “ER,” “Six Feet Under,” “Changeling” and on the internet with several episodes of “Acceptable TV” and “Chad Vader.”
Mike appeared as a guest on Slice of SciFi and was an instant hit with fans. Soon he began writing editorial pieces and offering up special on-site and on-location reports becoming one of Slice of SciFi‘s most read contributors.
Emilio D’alise
Emilio’s interests are as eclectic as they are numerous. Racquetball, photography, reading, shooting, traveling, eating, and writing are activities Emilio enjoys, all the while stressing his lack of expertise in any particular one. His first SciFi exposure came in 1983, at the age of thirty, when a friend loaned Emilio the book I, Robot by Isaac Asimov. That started a streak of nothing but Science Fiction reading that remains unbroken to this day.
Mur was born and raised in the south, but it’s not her fault. She is a writer of essays. magazine articles and role-playing-games. Someday she may actually publish some fiction. She’s been podcasting her essays since December, 2004. Most of her time is spent at home taking care of her toddler and playing games. She really likes talking in third person, it makes her feel important.
Joe Murphy was born and raised in Peoria, Illinois. He was practically weaned on science fiction, watching reruns of the original Star Trek and Lost in Space with his mother.
After high school, Joe went to college and jumped around from studying computer science, to education for the hearing impaired, to finally landing on a Bachelor’s degree in Speech Pathology and Audiology at Illinois State University. Three years later, he earned with his Master’s in Audiology from Western Illinois University.
Science fiction and (especially) fantasy had always been a part of Joe’s life, whether in movies, TV, or books. After writing a review of Lisa Lee’s and Tee Morris’s Morevi on the Dragon Page’s old forums, the Dragon Page made Joe the “official” book reviewer for The Dragon Page Radio Talk Show.
Joe passed away on April 1, 2007. He fought the good fight against leiomyosarcoma, but it eventually took him from us. He was our friend and colleague and we loved him very much. Joe will be greatly missed in our lives. We bid farewell to a dear and sweet man.
Nina’s love for science fiction started with the German television airing of Star Trek: The Next Generation in the late 1980’s. From that time on she was hooked and has enjoyed watching nothing else but sci-fi. Among her favorite programs are Farscape, Star Trek: TNG and Enterprise, Battlestar Galactica and Firefly.
Nina was responsible for the original website design from 2005-2008, and the images that branded Slice of SciFi at the time.
Michael Lohr
Michael Lohr is a professional journalist, outdoorsman, poet, whiskey connoisseur, music critic, treasure hunter and adventurer. His writing has appeared in such diverse magazines as Rolling Stone, Esquire, The Economist, Southern Living, Sporting News and Men’s Journal, to name a few.
Former Contributing Reporters & Reviewers: Kade Hutchinson, Cynthia Lee, Linda Craddock, Jay Hinkelman, Paul Puri, Stephen Carpenter, Raul Padron, S. F. Edwards, Laura Carroll, Tom Leveen, Andrea Rittschof
