Joyce Ellen Armond loves sappy love songs and face-eating monsters with equal enthusiasm. Her personal passion is melding the genres of romance and horror. From her home base in rural Pennsylvania, waiting for the zombie apocalypse, she edits the Speculative Romance Online website and newsletter.

You can read more of her short romantic speculative fiction at Quantum Kiss (www.quantumkiss.com)  and her debut novel BONDS OF DARKNESS at Liquid Silver Books (www.liquidsilverbooks.com).  You can visit her website at www.joyceellenarmond.com.

Armond's contribution to SUM3 is the contemporary paranormal....or is it an urban fantasy....or science fiction story entitled "Attraction of Otherness”, wherein the vampire legend is revised in a very extraterrestrial way.  For the story behind this story, visit Joyce's note to readers here.  For an excerpt click here.