James Musgrave
(a.k.a. Efraim Zimbalist Graves) is an author and college educator
in San Diego, California. His recent non-fiction title, The Digital
Scribe: a Writer's Guide to Electronic Media (AP Professional, ISBN
0-12-512255-1) has been internationally published. He has a M.A.
degree in Creative Writing from San Diego State University. He was
awarded the Ebook of the Year Award,
2001-2002 from Bookbooters for his thriller, Russian
Wolves. In addition, Mr. Musgrave has finished as a Finalist in the
New Century Writer Awards for his novel excerpt, Iron Maiden, and
Runner-Up in the $10,000 Annual Heekin Foundation Awards for New
Fiction Writers (1994). He has published short fiction in many
literary journals, including: San Diego Writer's Monthly, Shroud
Anthology Beneath the Surface, Stone Magazine, FirstDraft, Sniplits
Audio Short Stories 2 Go, Back Channels, Pacific Review, California
Quarterly and Cowles Mountain Journal. He has also been published
at CIC Publishers with four novels: Sins of Darkness, Russian
Wolves, Iron Maiden and Lucifer's Wedding and a
collection of short fiction, The President's
Parasite and Other Stories. Mr. Musgrave's
story, "Speculum" was an Honorable
Mention in the Fog City Writer's Awards, and
"Turning the Law Wheel" was an
Honorable Mention in the Cedar Hill Press Short Fiction
Contest. His literary fiction appears in Best New Writing 2011, published by Hopewell Press, Titusville, N. J.