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Jason V Brock is an award-winning and nominated writer, editor, filmmaker, composer, artist, scholar, and speaker. He has been widely-published online, in comic books, magazines, and anthologies, such as Famous Monsters of Filmland, Disorders of Magnitude (nonfiction finalist for both the Bram Stoker and Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Awards), The Dark Sea Within, Fungi, Weird Fiction Review (print edition), Fangoria, S. T. Joshi’s Black Wings series, and many, many others. He describes his work as Dark Magical Realism.
He was Art Director/Managing Editor for Dark Discoveries magazine for more than four years, and publishes a pro journal called [NameL3ss], which can be found on Twitter: @Nameless_Digest. In addition, Brock and his wife, Sunni, run Cycatrix Press (a few of their books include A Darke Phantastique [Bram Stoker Award nominee], The Bleeding Edge, and the Bram Stoker Award nominated The Mirrors by author Nicole Cushing). They also have a technology consulting business.
As a filmmaker, his work includes the critically-acclaimed documentaries Charles Beaumont: The Life of Twilight Zone’s Magic Man, The AckerMonster Chronicles! (winner of the 2014 Rondo Hatton Award for Best Documentary), and Image, Reflection, Shadow: Artists of the Fantastic. He is the primary composer and instrumentalist/singer for his band, ChiaroscurO.
Popular as a speaker and panelist, he has been a special guest at numerous film fests, conventions, and educational events, and was the 2015 Editor Guest of Honor for Orycon 37, the largest science fiction convention in Oregon. Brock loves his wife, their family of herptiles, travel, and vegan/vegetarianism. He is active on social sites such as Facebook and Twitter (@JasonVbrocK).
Sunni K Brock writes speculative fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and edits digital video. She has been published in several anthologies and periodicals, and edited three films, including the Rondo Award-winning documentary, The Ackermonster Chronicles!.
Her strong technical background includes working for Microsoft, Adobe, and Sonic Solutions with expertise in multimedia, intelligent learning algorithms, and exploration of virtual reality and lucid dreaming. She has written nearly a thousand technical articles, created multimedia training, and developed numerous software tools.
In spite of her strong background in Computer Science, she’s not just a writer and a geek: Sunni is also a talented vegetarian cook. If she had spare time, she would spend it working with genealogy, doing crafts, shopping at the farmer’s market, and conducting experiments on controlled randomness.
As one-half of the team of JaSunni Productions, LLC, her main functions are editor and sound technician. She is also a guiding force behind the company’s computer consulting vision and direction along with her husband, author/filmmaker Jason V Brock. She enjoys spending her days working alongside Jason, tending to their pet herptiles, and aggravating friends on Facebook.