Who
We Are
You
may be wondering who’s behind all this.
To the left we
see what
Tarl Roger Kudrick, publisher and
co-editor of On The
Premises magazine, looks
like while resting on a stone wall. On The
Premises is all
Tarl’s fault.
When he was
young, Tarl had two pieces of fiction accepted for
publication, one of which never got published because the
magazine went under. Now he’s at it again. He has
sold fiction to Noneuclidean Cafe,
The Town Drunk, and
Chimaera Serials. The story
he sold to Spinning Whorl never
appeared because that
magazine
went under, but he recently sold a story to
Anotherealm. When
it’s published, you’ll find a link to it
here.
In his day job,
Tarl’s a PhD-holding Human Resources consultant for
the Federal government. And yes, he’s the same guy
who designed the “Blades of Exile”
scenarios Tatterdemalion
(first-prize
award winner!) and Islands of
the Wheel, just in case
you’re one of the fifty or so people on Earth who
knows what that means.
Bethany
Granger is our other
co-editor. She hates being photographed. During the day,
she’s a writer and editor for a multinational
engineering firm. She’s also an avid and
well-educated reader who loves helping people write better,
even though she (currently) has only a little interest in
writing fiction of her own.
Francis
J. Heaney is our main
illustrator. He wrote Holy Tango of Literature
and has been
responsible, in whole or in part, for a number of plays,
musicals, and puzzle books. He has been a professional
editor for nine years for many magazines and publishers,
except for that stretch when he was a writer for
“Who Wants to Be a Millionaire.” He also
draws an unpredictably updated cartoon,
“Six
Things”. Sometimes
the people from Boing Boing link to his blog, so you
know he must be cool.
Geoff Duncan is a
freelance editor and writer who’s been involved in
online publishing since the days before the World Wide
Web. He served as assistant editor for the seminal
online fiction magazine InterText, was
technical editor for the Macintosh publication
TidBITS, and has
worked as a development and story editor on historical
novels, screenplays, and games. In another life,
he’s a professional musician; in another life,
he’s someone not easily defeated at
Jeopardy!.
Blanche Kapustin is a
freelance editor for the Chronicle Newspapers,
Marlborough Publishing, and the National Guard Bureau.
She has published over 200 articles since early
2004, including some that she ghostwrote. Her highlights
of 2006 have been mentoring two 11-year-old budding
journalists, writing seven chapters for a client’s
book, and accepting an invitation to speak on the
history of Jamestown after completing a series of
articles for Jamestown’s 400th anniversary.
Blanche also participates in several writers’
groups, gardens, cooks, and tries very hard to learn
Russian.
And last but not least...
From time to time we’ll enlist the help of amateur
readers we know to assist our professionals when we choose
winning stories. Why? Because we want to publish fiction
that can be enjoyed by a wide range of readers, from the
MFA-holding professional to the avid but untrained reader.
We are discriminating, but we are not snobs.
