Meet Our Staff
Antonio Simon, Jr.
Head of Business Development & General Counsel
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Mr. Simon is an entrepreneur, attorney, and seasoned multidisciplinary professional. He has over ten years of legal and business experience, and fifteen years in sales and customer relations. He is one of the founders of Darkwater Syndicate, and has been involved in the company's operations since its inception in 2008. Apart from attracting new talent, Mr. Simon oversees sales in the business-to-business and retail sectors. He has established strategic partnerships with over twenty international retailers and distributors. He is also an accomplished multi-genre author, with several books and over thirty short stories published. His debut novel, The Gullwing Odyssey, became an Amazon Kindle Top 5 Bestseller in 2014.
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Ramiro Perez de Pereda
Head Acquisitions Editor & Chief of Editing Staff
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Born in Cuba in 1941, Ramiro Perez de Pereda has seen it all. Growing up in a time when then-democratic Cuba was experiencing unprecedented foreign investment, he was exposed to the U.S. pop culture items of the day. Among them: pulp fiction magazines, which young Ramiro avidly read and collected. Far and away, his favorites were the Conan the Barbarian stories by Robert E. Howard. Ramiro, now retired from the corporate life, is a grandfather of five. He devotes himself to his family, his writing, and the occasional pen-and-ink sketch. He serves Darkwater Syndicate as its Head Acquisitions Editor—he heads the department, he does not collect heads, which is a point he has grown quite fond of making. Indeed, it’s one reason he likes his job so much. He writes poetry and fiction under the name R. Perez de Pereda, often signing his work with a single, enigmatic "R."
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Douglas Fairbanks
Associate Editor & Assistant to Mr. Perez
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Douglas Fairbanks (no, not the Douglas Fairbanks, it should be noted) is an enigmatic individual. If there are two things he enjoys above all, they are being different and telling a good story. Perhaps he gets it from having been conceived on an oil platform off the coast of South America to a Belizean mother and an American expatriate father, a claim that serves these purposes splendidly, despite his unwillingness to corroborate it. Regardless, he is an unnervingly talented individual, in the sense that he is at his best when he is getting things done for others, so long as they don't ask how he does what he does. That would "spoil the magic," as he is wont to say, and might also lead to indictments, which he is often quick to add. Ever cool and collected—sometimes to disturbing levels—Douglas serves Darkwater Syndicate as an associate editor working closely with Ramiro Perez de Pereda. He writes horror and bizarro fiction.
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Apara Moreiya
Associate Editor & Assistant to Mr. Simon
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Thrill seeker. Unbridled optimist. Sushi aficionado. Lover of terrible jokes. Free spirit. Friend to all. Sporting an outlook on life as unique as he, Apara writes equally distinctive poetry and fiction, and from time to time delves into the genres of fantasy and horror. Apart from being Darkwater Syndicate's unofficial mascot (and unintentionally running up the company's fire insurance premiums), he is an associate editor working closely with Antonio Simon, Jr.
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