Yes, I went to college and learned a lot about literature and history. Yes, I am a badass about writing and fighting. But what really matters? My business is WORDS. I destroy dragons and sequence fight scenes. I delve into unknown magical worlds and find homes for misplaced modifiers. I develop cures for apocalyptic diseases …
Don’t forget — there are Writers Cantina T-shirts for order! Pre-orders will close at the end of May (to give us time to print them up) — we’ll also have some extras at the event, but you’re not guaranteed to find your size available. Pre-order them here!
Steve Diamond is a Horror, Fantasy, and Science Fiction author for Baen, Gallant Knight Games, and numerous other small publications. His two most recent works are a collection of short fiction, What Hellhounds Dream, and a Dark Fantasy/Horror novel co-written with Larry Correia, Servants of War. He is also the co-host of the writing advice …
Winner of the Diamond Quill (2022), and Silver Quill (2019, 2020) awards from the League of Utah Writers for her multi-author anthologies, Lyn Worthen is a freelance editor, published author, and full time writer. Lyn has been reading since before she can remember, and began her career as a freelance writer and editor sometime in …
Jana S. Brown entered the world of publishing in the mid-90s and has never looked back. She’s worked as a fiction writer, technical writer, editor, presenter, author coach, and a host of other positions. In the last several years, she’s assisted in the creation of bestselling and award-winning novels in the self-publishing space as well …
The noted French person Camus said the absurd hero rebels simply by living. David Dunwoody is 43, making him less a hero than a legend. Over the past 20 years Dave has written seven novels, four collections, and appeared in dozens of anthologies and magazines. Very few reprints, which is why he is broke and …
Update: D.L. Campanile has to bow out. We’ll miss her business acumen. D.L Campanile writes both fantasy and science fiction, and reads just about anything she can get her hands on. She loves history, dragons, spaceships, magic, thrillers, computers, politics, humor, and psi powers – and sometimes mixes them all up in pretty strange ways. …
Angie Lofthouse went to college with every intention of becoming a particle physicist, but through a series of misadventures, found herself studying Shakespeare instead. After college she combined her love of science and her love of words into a science fiction writing career. She is the author of Defenders of the Covenant, The Ransomed Returning, …
J.C. Chambers III writes about heroic characters doing heroic things in intricate fantasy & science-fiction worlds. He believes that fictional worlds should inspire wonder, that action should be bombastic, and that romance should give you diabetes from the overwhelming sweetness. In addition to dreaming up over-the-top fantasy novels, J.C. passes the time as a professional …
Gracie York is the guild founder and head editor of the York Editing Guild, offering editorial services to self-published authors. She also has experience proofreading and copyediting traditionally published material, including medical textbooks, homeschool curriculum, and sci-fi/fantasy books. Gracie accidentally writes things in her spare time. It’s definitely not an attempt to disprove the old …