Chris Saunders (he/him), who writes fiction as C.M. Saunders, is a writer and editor from South Wales. He has worked extensively in the publishing industry, holding desk jobs ranging from staff writer to associate editor, and is currently employed at a trade magazine. His fiction has appeared in numerous magazines, ezines and anthologies worldwide including The Literary Hatchet, Crimson Streets, 34 Orchard, Phantasomagoria, and DOA volumes I and III, while his books have been both traditionally and independently published. He has several novellas and six volumes of short fiction available, while his latest release is The Wretched Bones: A Ben Shivers Mystery, on Midnight Machinations, an imprint of Grinning Skull Press.