Aaron Emmel sold the single copy of his first hand-written book when he was eight years old, and he’s been writing and publishing ever since. His website is www.aaronemmel.com.

Hall Jameson is an American writer and artist who grew up in New England. She now lives in the Pacific Northwest.

Her formal study of fine art began at The Maine College of Art, where she studied the modern and traditional processes of fine art, majoring in photography. She completed her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree at the Metropolitan State College of Denver.

Her artwork is held in many private collections around the United States and has been shown at galleries and museums locally and nationally, including The Woman Made Gallery in Chicago, The Newspace Center for Photography in Portland, Oregon, and Marin Museum of Contemporary Art in California.

Hall's fiction has appeared in over seventy print and online publications. She is currently working on her second novel.

When she's not writing stories or taking photographs, Hall spends her hours on the beach, in a kayak, or playing the piano.

Jeanette O’Hagan enjoys writing fiction, poetry, blogging and editing. She is writing her Akrad’s Legacy Series—a Young Adult secondary world fantasy fiction with adventure, courtly intrigue and romantic elements. Her short stories and poems are published in numerous anthologies and her debut novel, Akrad's Children, and Under the Mountain novella series. Akrad's Children is included in the fantastic book bundle On the Horizon.

Jeanette has practised medicine, studied communication, history, theology and, more recently, a Master’s in writing. She loves reading, painting, travel, catching up for coffee with friends, pondering the meaning of life and communicating God’s great love. She lives in Brisbane with her husband and children.

Websites: jeanetteohagan.com/

jennysthread.com/

Facebook: www.facebook.com/JeanetteOHaganAuthorAndSpeaker

Twitter: @JeanetteOHagan

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bythelightof2moons/

Books & anthologies:

Akrad's Legacy series

Akrad's Children

Under the Mountain series

Heart of the Mountain: A short novella (2016)

Blood Crystal: a novella (2017)

Anthologies:

Like a Woman anthology, Mirren Hogan (2017)

The Quantum Soul, SciFi Roundtable (2017)

Tales From the Underground, Inklings Press (2017)

Futurevision, 1231 Press (2017)

Mixed Blessings: As Time Goes By, BOFA Press (2017)

Redemption anthology, Bent Banana Books (2017)

Poetica Christi: Wonderment, PC press (2017)

Crossroads anthology, Bird Catcher Books (2017)

Imagine anthology, Poetica Christi (2016)

Mixed Blessings: Genre-lly Speaking (2016)

Inner Child anthology, Poetica Christi (2015)

Brio anthology (FAWQ) SVS Concepts (2015)

Another Time Another Place anthology, Swinburne Students, (2015)

Let the Sea Roar anthology, By the Light Books, (2015)

Like a Girl anthology, Far Horizons (2015)

Tied in Pink romance anthology, Far Horizons (2014)

Coming soon

On the Horizon Book Bundle - available for pre-order

Ruhanna's Flight and other stories,

Stone of the Sea: a novella - Book 3 of Under the Mountain series

Rasel's Song, Book 2 of Akrad's Legacy series due to be published 2018 by By the Light Books

Jaleta Clegg was born some time ago. She's filled the years since with many diverse activities, such as costuming, quilting, cooking, video games, reading, and writing. She's been a fan of classic sci-fi books and campy movies since she can remember. Her collection of bad sci-fi movies is only rivaled by her collection of eclectic CD's (break out the disco accordion polka folk music, please!).

The Fall of the Altairan Empire space opera series starts with Nexus Point. All eleven books are available. Find updates and a complete list of titles at www.altairanempire.com

Links to her stories can be found at www.jaletac.com

Jaleta wants to be either Han Solo or Ursula the Sea Witch when she grows up. If she ever does.

She loves teaching kids of all ages about stars, constellations, nuclear fusion, space travel, mythology, writing, and rocks. She volunteers with the Boy Scouts of America among other groups. She was even on her local library board for a while. She believes in teaching people to think for themselves and to be self-sufficient. It's self-serving, though. Kids who know how to do housework, laundry, and cooking give her more time for writing.

She also detests referring to herself in the third person, but sometimes she bows to necessity.

Maria Haskins is a Swedish-Canadian writer of speculative fiction. Her work is available in the short story collections WOLVES AND GIRLS (2023) and SIX DREAMS ABOUT THE TRAIN (2021). Her short fiction has appeared in The Best Horror of the Year Volume 13, Nightmare, Lightspeed, The Deadlands, Black Static, Interzone, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Cast of Wonders, Shimmer, Flash Fiction Online, Gamut, Capricious, Kaleidotrope, PseudoPod, and elsewhere.

Maria currently lives just outside Vancouver with a husband, two kids, several birds, a snake, and a large black dog.

Kerry Buchanan is a retired vet who lives in a small harbour village in County Down with her husband (when they’re not off sailing in the Med).

Kerry’s crime series is published by Joffe Books, with four novels released so far. She’s happily working away on Book 5 at the moment.

Tom Jolly's short SF and fantasy stories have appeared in Analog, Daily Science Fiction, Something Wicked, Compelling SF, Amazing Stories, and elsewhere. He also designs board and card games, such as Wiz-War, Drakon, Cavetroll, Got It!, Cryo, and Manhattan Project: Energy Empire (co-designed with Luke Laurie). When he isn't doing either of those, he's making obnoxious puzzle designs, which he encourages those with woodcrafting skills to produce (over 40 to date).

His next book will be "Unnatural Remedies," to be released October 2023, a sequel to his book, "An Unusual Practice."

He retired as an astronautical and electrical engineer in 2015 after working at Lockheed-Martin for 27 years on launch support for the Titan program, and satellite transportation for the Payload Transportation Systems group. His first launch in February of 1986 (a Titan 34D) blew up.

He lives in Port Orchard, WA, with his wife of 40+ years.

You can find more of his short fiction at https://sites.google.com/view/tomjolly/stories-and-articles

Brent A. Harris is a two-time alternate history Sidewise Award finalist. He writes of time-traveling astronaut dinosaurs, misunderstood orcs, conflicted AIs, and a universe where Dickens meets steampunk.

When not harried behind a keyboard chugging caffeine, Brent enjoys nerdy stuff like board games, DnD, and arguing why there's still hope for Marvel movies. He holds a Masters in Creative Writing and Film from National University because the school liked his writing enough to pay for his degree.

As part of a military family, he's traveled the world and lived in four different countries yet still can't speak a second language. Heck, the guy can hardly write in English. He currently lives abroad with a broad and a brood in Okinawa, Japan.

Ricardo Victoria is a Mexican writer with a Ph.D. in Design –with emphasis in sustainability- from Loughborough University, and a love of fiction, board games, comic books, and action figures. He lives in Toluca, Mexico with his wife and pets, working works as a full-time lecturer and researcher at the local university. He writes mainly science fantasy.

His first novel, Tempest Blades: The Withered King, was released in August 2019 by Shadow Dragon Press, an imprint of Artemesia Publishing. The sequel, Tempest Blades: Cursed Titans is due for publication in August 2021. He has a number of stories published by Inklings Press, and other indie outlets.

His short story Twilight of the Mesozoic Moon, jointly written with Brent A. Harris, was nominated for a Sidewise Award for short form alternative history.

You can find out more at his website, http://ricardovictoriau.com, or follow him on Twitter, @Winged_Leo

Rob Edwards is a British born writer and podcaster, living in Finland. His podcast, StorycastRob, features readings from his short stories and excerpts from longer work. His work can also be found in anthologies from Inklings Press and Rivenstone Press.

His debut novel, the scifi superhero adventure The Ascension Machine launches September 2020.

His greatest geek pride is his entry on wookieepedia, the a result of writing several Star Wars RPG scenarios back in the day.

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