Jason was raised in Southern California before moving to Utah to attend high school. While a teenager, he created and began writing his teen adventure series, The Starriders Saga. Considering himself a bit obsessive as a Creator, he ended up with a list of story ideas over 150 titles long, at last count. Among them …
Sandy got his start in the game industry at Chaosium in 1980, working on tabletop roleplaying games. His best-known work from that time is the cult game Call of Cthulhu, which has been translated into many languages and is still played worldwide. He also worked on many other published projects such as Runequest, Stormbringer, Elfquest, …
Nathan Shumate is the insane sod who decided to put together a new no-frills writers conference, involving a whole bunch of people more accomplished than he is. A high-function dilettante, he’s continually poised to be the Next Big Thing, eventually. He’s earned the ire of proud indie publishers worldwide by running LousyBookCovers.com for the past …
Nick Nethery spent twenty years in the US Army as a bomb technician. After a full career traveling the world, seeing incredible things, and blowing them up, he retired home to Texas. He lives with his wife and many, many children. When he’s not chasing them or giving them all the money in his wallet, …
After retiring from a globe spanning career of swashbuckling adventure in the U.S. Marine Corps, Spearman Burke decided to try his hand at this GI Bill thing he had been hearing about. He earned an interdisciplinary degree in English Literature and Creative Writing with a minor in Theatre. Interestingly, he learned more about storytelling in …
Since it’ll come up at some point, yes: Benjamin Card is Orson Scott Card’s nephew. He has also been a Counterintelligence Special Agent for the US Army, an “overpriced government consultant” for PricewaterhouseCoopers, and the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) and Security Consultant for a global software development and hosting company. He is currently working …
Eric James Stone is a past Nebula Award winner, Hugo Award nominee, Writers of the Future Contest winner, and two-time finalist for the Association for Mormon Letters Awards. Over sixty of his stories have been published in venues such as Year’s Best SF, Analog Science Fiction and Fact, and Nature. His science fiction thriller Unforgettable, …
Bing Bruce is the creator of Rise Above the Noise Podcast Academy and the author of Rise Above the Noise: A Beginner’s Guild to Podcasting. Through a program of hands-on instruction, helps individuals and groups master the art of professional podcasting. His extensive background in radio, television, and live production includes hosting morning radio shows, …
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 …
USA Today bestselling author Andrea Pearson has been a leader in the indie author arena since early 2011, with 85+ titles under her belt and over a hundred articles published on professional blogs and websites. She co-hosts the popular Six-Figure Authors podcast, and she offers multiple online courses that surround her favorite topic: marketing. Andrea …