As a youngster, Jared Garrett toiled in the Mines of Moria, cleansed a shire, ran across icy steppes with a battleaxe in hand, and raced down a train platform to catch his true love. Several times. Books of daring and adventure and romance saved Jared’s sanity and transported him from a bleak, lonely childhood to …
J.L. Curtis was born in Louisiana and was raised in the Arkansas-Louisiana-Texas area. He is a retired naval flight officer who served over twenty years in postings all around the world. Jim is also a retired research and development test engineer for the defense industry. A long-time NRA instructor, he now lives in north Texas …
Holli Anderson has a Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing—which has nothing to do with writing, except maybe by adding some pretty descriptive injury and vomit scenes to her books. She discovered her joy of writing during a very trying period in her life when escaping into make-believe saved her. She has multiple published books of differing …
Aaron Canton is a freelance writer who specializes in fantasy and science fiction stories as well as written content for games and other interactive works. He has written and sold over 150 short stories to Eduland, an edulit company, and over 16 stories to Tellest, an online high fantasy universe. He has also sold game writing …
John M. Olsen edits and writes speculative fiction across multiple genres and loves stories about ordinary people stepping up to do extraordinary things. His short stories have appeared in dozens of anthologies. He’s also written several novels across multiple genres, including the Polecat Protocol science fiction series (Discovery, Breakdown, Emergence), the Riland Throne fantasy series …
Kirkus Reviews may have said of Janiel Miller: “Miller is a remarkably unknown writer. So much so that we aren’t even saying this about her.” Because they didn’t. In any case, Janiel started her career co-writing an autobiographical comic book series with her best friend when she was twelve. In it she named herself FlashGirl, …
Brad R. Torgersen is a multi-award-winning science fiction and fantasy writer whose book A Star-Wheeled Sky won the 2019 Dragon Award for Best Science Fiction Novel at the 33rd annual DragonCon fan convention in Atlanta, GA. A prolific short fiction author, Torgersen has published stories in numerous anthologies and magazines, to include several Best Of …
Colby Dunn has been at his author career for 15 years while working local and international jobs. He completed his first epic fantasy trilogy, The Eyes of Fate, in 2022 and published his next stand-alone novel, The Brink, in 2023. His unnecessarily random hobbies range from illustrating to gaming to card magic, but most of …
D.J. (Dave) Butler has been a lawyer, a consultant, an editor, a corporate trainer, and a registered investment banking representative, and he is now a Consulting Editor for Baen Books. His novels published by Baen Books include the Witchy War series (Witchy Eye, Witchy Winter, Witchy Kingdom, and Serpent Daughter), In the Palace of Shadow …
Stanley Wheeler has been a vacuum cleaner salesman, window washer, construction site lackey, cow milker, farmhand, customer support representative, software documentation writer, law clerk, lawyer, and is currently a deputy prosecuting attorney in Idaho who writes books and short stories. His novels include the Tomahawks and Dragon Fire series (Threading the Rude Eye, Power to …