Hot Biscuit Productions

Beecher has made Memphis, Tennessee his home where he served as Elvis Presley's personal attorney and represented "the Estate" up until his retirement in 2007. Stephen King says only Beecher "really knows that Elvis has left the building." With a B.A. in English Literature from Millsaps College, he has appeared in over 30 magazines, including Crossroads, Writer's Block Magazine, The Black Rose, Bardic Runes, Medusa's Hairdo, Freezer Burn Magazine, Renaissance, and The Black Lily. His work has been published in fantasy and horror anthologies such as Strange Wonderland (Zero Hour Publications; Vancouver, B.C., 1996) and The King is Dead: Tales of Elvis Postmortem (Delta Books, 1994). He is a member of the Horror Writers' Association, with Active Status. Winner of numerous awards at writers' conferences and lecturer at the Arkansas Writers' Conference, MidSouthCon, the Mid-South Writers' Convention, and the Mid-South Poetry Festival, Beecher has also served as a moderator and panelist at several HWA conventions, and at MidSouthCon for the past several years.Beecher is a past Poet Laureate of both the Poetry Society of Tennessee and the Mid-South Writers' Association. Beecher has won the prestigious Darrell Award for Best Horror/SF/Fantasy short story from the Memphis Science Fiction Association for his stories "Don't Look Back" (Medusa's Hairdo) and "The Shadow People" (Freezer Burn Magazine). Beecher also received the Mid-South Writers' Association's Prose Writer of the Year Award.Besides being actively engaged in the profession of law, he also operates a small press, Hot Biscuit Productions, Inc., under the aegis of which he edited the horror/SF/fantasy anthology, Monsters from Memphis (Zapizdat Publications: Palo Alto, CA), and the sequel, More Monsters from Memphis (Zapizdat Publications, Palo Alto, CA). A third anthology is planned, to be entitled Even More Monsters from Memphis. Beecher also wrote a collection of poetry and short stories, Recovering My Sanity (Zapizdat Publications), printed by Xlibris. setstats 1