Samuel Peralta's work has hit the USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestsellers lists, and been shortlisted for Best American Science Fiction & Fantasy. His FUTURE CHRONICLES short story anthologies were all #1 bestsellers on Amazon, as was the collection of his own work, MEMORY'S CHILDREN. His award-winning poetry has been spotlighted by the BBC and Best American Poetry.

Physicist, entrepreneur, storyteller - Sam has designed robots and nuclear tools, built solar plants, and founded companies in optoelectronics, mobile software, and artificial intelligence. He's a producer of independent film, including Golden Globe nominee THE FENCER and Emmy Award winner REAL ARTISTS. He founded the LUNAR CODEX project, archiving art, books, music, and film from over 155 countries on the Moon alongside NASA's Artemis program.

And he cooks a mean lemon shrimp risotto.

Susan Kaye Quinn is a PhD Environmental Engineer turned speculative fiction author and the host of Bright Green Futures, a podcast that lifts up stories about a more sustainable and just world. Sue writes hopeful climate fiction, futuristic spec fic, cyberpunk, and steampunk romance. Her novels have been optioned for Virtual Reality and translated into German and French, while her short stories have been published by Grist, Little Blue Marble, Reckoning and more. Sue believes being gentle and healing is radical and disruptive. She writes full-time, trying to build a better world by imagining it first.

Newest release: Halfway to Better, a collection of short solarpunk stories.

NOTHING IS PROMISED (hopeful climate fiction)

• When You Had Power (Book 1)

• You Knew the Price (Book 2)

• Of Kindness and Kilowatts (Book 3)

• Yet You Cry When It Hurts (Book 4)

SINGULARITY

• The Legacy Human (Book 1)

• The Duality Bridge (Book 2)

• The Illusory Prophet (Book 3)

• The Last Mystic (Book 4)

STORIES OF SINGULARITY (novellas)

• Restore

• Containment

• Augment

• Awakening

• Harvest

• Defiance

• Résistance

MINDJACK

• Open Minds (Book 1)

• Closed Hearts (Book 2)

• Free Souls (Book 3)

• Locked Tight (Book 4)

• Cracked Open (Book 5)

• Broken Wide (Book 6)

Mindjack Short Story Collection (Novella Box Set)

THE ROYALS OF DHARIA

• Third Daughter (Book 1)

• Second Daughter (Book 2)

• First Daughter (Book 3)

DEBT COLLECTOR

• LIRIUM (Season One)

• WRAITH (Season Two)

MIDDLE GRADE FANTASY

• Faery Swap

Author, Criminologist, Terrorism Expert, Jeet Kune Do Black Sash, Runner, Dog Lover.

Amazon best-selling author R.D. Brady writes supernatural and science fiction thrillers. Her thrillers include ancient mysteries, unusual facts, non-stop action, and fierce women with heart.

Prior to beginning her writing career, RD Brady was a criminologist who specialized in life-course criminology and international terrorism. She’s lectured and written numerous academic articles on the genetic influence on criminal behavior, factors that influence terrorist ideology, and delinquent behavior formation.

After visiting counter-terrorism units in Israel, RD returned home with a sabbatical in front of her and decided to write that book she’d been thinking about. Four years later she left academia with the publication of her first book, The Belial Stone, and hasn’t looked back since. Her books are listed below and if you'd like to hear first about upcoming publications sign up for her mailing list on her website (rdbradybooks.com).

The Belial Series:

The Belial Stone

The Belial Library

The Belial Ring

The Belial Recruit

The Belial Children

The Belial Origins

The Belial Search

The Belial Guard

The Belial Warrior

The Belial Plan

The Belial Witches

The Belial War

The Belial Fall

The Belial Sacrifice

The ALIVE Series:

A.L.I.V.E.

D.E.A.D.

R.I.S.E.

S.A.V.E.

The H.A.L.T. Series:

Into the Cage

Into the Dark

Hominid

The Belial Rebirth Series:

The Belial Rebirth

The Belial Spear

The Belial Restored

The Belial Blood

The Belial Angel

The Gates of Artemis Series :

The Key of Apollo

The Curse of Hecate

The Return of the Gods

The Unwelcome Trilogy:

Protect

Seek

Proxy

The Steve Kane Series:

Runs Deep

Runs Deeper

The Nola James Series:

Surrender the Fear

Escape the Fear

Tackle the Fear

Return the Fear

RYSA WALKER is the award-winning author of many books, including the bestselling CHRONOS Files. Timebound, the first book in that series, was a Grand Prize winner in the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Awards. The Delphi Effect was an Amazon Editors' Pick and a finalist in the 2018 ITW Thriller Awards. Rysa's books have sold nearly a million copies worldwide and have been translated into fourteen languages.

In addition to speculative fiction, Rysa writes mysteries as C. Rysa Walker. She currently resides in North Carolina.

Daniel Arthur Smith is a USA Today bestselling author. His titles include Spectral Shift, Agroland, The Cathari Treasure, and a few other novels and short stories. He also curates the phenomenal short fiction series Tales from the Canyons of the Damned and Frontiers of Speculative Fiction.

He was raised in Michigan and graduated from Western Michigan University where he studied philosophy, with focus on cognitive science, meta-physics, and comparative religion. As a young man Daniel was a bartender, barista, poetry house proprietor, teacher, then became a technologist and futurist for the Fortune 100 across the Americas and Europe.

Daniel has traveled to over 300 cities in 22 countries, residing in Los Angeles, Kalamazoo, Prague, Crete, and now writes between Manhattan and Connecticut where he lives with his wife and sons.

For more information, visit danielarthursmith.com

P.K. Tyler is the author of Speculative Fiction and other Genre Bending novels. She's also published works as Pavarti K. Tyler and had projects appear on the USA TODAY Bestseller's List.

"Tyler is essentially the indie scene's Margaret Atwood; she incorporates sci-fi elements into her novels, which deal with topics such as spirituality, gender, sexuality and power dynamics." - IndieReader

Pav attended Smith College and graduated with a degree in Theatre. She lived in New York, where she worked as a Dramaturge, Assistant Director and Production Manager on productions both on and off-Broadway. Later, Pavarti went to work in the finance industry for several international law firms.

Now located in Baltimore Maryland, she lives with her husband, two daughters and two terrible dogs. When not penning science fiction books and other speculative fiction novels, she twists her mind by writing horror and erotica.

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Hank Garner is the author of Bloom, Mulligan, The Witching Hour, Seventh Son of a Seventh Son, Writer's Block, and has contributed to several anthologies. He also hosts a weekly podcast called Author Stories where he interviews successful authors each week about writing and the creative process. Find the podcast at http://hankgarner.com/category/podcast/

Hank's days are filled with interviewing the bestselling authors of today for The Author Stories Podcast and writing stories about life. Hank lives in Mississippi with his wife of over twenty years and five children.

Nathan M. Beauchamp started writing stories at nine-years-old and never stopped. From his first grisly tales about carnivorous catfish, mole detectives, and cyborg housecats, his interests have always delved into strange waters. Nathan is an academic mercenary (Adjunct Professor of English), and earns paltry sums in exchange for warping young minds. His hobbies include photography, reading, arguing for sport, pondering the eventual heat death of the universe, and sarcasm. He has published many short stories in magazines and anthologies and holds an MFA in creative writing from Western State Colorado University. Nathan co-created the award winning YA science fiction series Universe Eventual where he writes under the pseudonym N.J. Tanger (www.njtanger.com).

I’m a pathologically curious sci-fi and fantasy geek. Most of my writing portrays ethical crises packaged in nail-biting thriller and mystery story lines, taking place in super-detailed story worlds. I love this stuff.

Connect with me at joshuaingle.com!

Michael Patrick Hicks is the author of several horror books, including the Salem Hawley series and Friday Night Massacre. His debut novel, Convergence, was an Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award Finalist in science fiction, and his short stories have appeared in more than a dozen anthologies.

Connect with Michael at:

Substack: https://michaelpatrickhicks.substack.com/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/MikeH5856

Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/7909523.Michael_Patrick_Hicks

Instagram: http://instagram.com/mphicks79