Here's some news about two past Southern Fried Weirdness contributors:
Daniel Wallace has a new short story up this month in StorySouth here:
http://storysouth.com/2009/03/the-cancer-diet.html. Do yourself a favor. Swing by and give it a read. You won't be sorry. I enjoyed it very much. When you are done reading the story, you can also read a well-done interview with the author here:
http://storysouth.com/2009/03/interview-with-daniel-wallace.html.
Zombie author extraordinaire Eric S. Brown has a new novel coming out from Coscom Entertainment, The War of the Worlds, Plus Blood, Guts, and Zombies. A press release can be found here:
http://www.fangoria.com/home/news/13-books/2197-the-war-of-the-worlds-gets-zombified.html.