Writer, publisher, slave of cats: Barbara Friend Ish is Publisher, Editor-in-Chief, and Wild-Eyed Visionary for Mercury Retrograde Press: a small press dedicated to unconventional authors and works that might undeservedly slip through the cracks at bigger houses. Books edited by Barbara have been covered by Library Journal, Publishers Weekly, Locus Magazine, and print and electronic outlets worldwide. She has been featured in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and Library Journal and has appeared at SF/F conventions across the southeast, mid-Atlantic, and mountain states.
Barbara’s debut novel, The Shadow of the Sun, appeared in Publishers Weekly, Library Journal and Locus and has been nominated for the 2012 Compton Crook Award. Information on this and other Mercury Retrograde Press books is available at www.MercuryRetrogradePress.com.
Barbara lives in a place called Lost Forest, in a purple house that is bigger on the inside than on the outside. Current projects include The Heart of the Darkness and The Lord of the Abyss, the next two novels in the Way of the Gods series; the electronic version of Fortunes, a Tarot-based game for The Way of the Gods; an ongoing competition with her husband to determine who is a bigger geek; and a search for the perfect bottle of champagne.