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.

USA Today Bestselling Author, M. Louisa Locke, is a retired professor of U.S. and Women's History who embarked on a second career as an historical fiction writer. Her Victorian San Francisco Mystery series feature Annie Fuller, a boardinghouse owner and pretend clairvoyant, and Nate Dawson, a San Francisco lawyer, who together investigate murders and other crimes. Her short stories and novellas give secondary characters from this series a chance to get involved in their own minor mysteries.

As Louisa Locke, she has written a coming of age science fiction trilogy in the open source science fiction world of the Paradisi Chronicles. To learn more about her historical mysteries or the new science fiction series go to http://mlouisalocke.com/. If you wish to be notified of new publications subscribe to her newsletter or click the yellow FOLLOW button under her photograph on her Author Page.

Dr. Locke is an active member in the Alliance of Independent Authors, a Director of the Historical Fiction Authors Cooperative, and a founder of the Paradisi Chronicles. For those of you who have read her work, Locke would love to hear from you at mlouisalocke@gmail.com.

Author of dozens of science fiction and fantasy books, Joseph R. Lewis enjoys creating worlds in which history, science, imagination, and humanity collide in unpredictable ways. Series include the dying earth fantasy Dungeon Age, humorous fantasy Elf Saga, the steampunk thriller Aetherium, urban fantasy Zelda Pryce, and epic fantasy Angels and Djinn.

www.josephrlewis.com

Sign up for Felix R. Savage's mailing list to receive a FREE library of subscriber exclusive stories, set in four of his fictional universes: Earth's Last Gambit, Extinction Protocol, Sol System Renegades, and the Interstellar Railroad. These stories are not available anywhere else! http://felixrsavage.com/library

Felix was born too late to be a knight in armor, and too early to be a space colonist. He makes up for it by writing action-packed science fiction epics that have sold over 130,000 copies worldwide and become USA Today bestsellers. Restlessly driven to explore, he was born in the Deep South, grew up in the UK, and now lives in Japan with his wonderful wife, two beautiful daughters, and their feline overlords. His books cover the spectrum of science fiction, from hard SF, through space opera, to comedic science fiction, but all deliver his trademark blend of rich characterization, gripping plots, and unexpected twists. Until the day when we can vacation on Mars, this is as good as it gets!

Lindsay Edmunds lives a quiet normal life in southwestern Pennsylvania after more than twenty interesting years in Washington, D.C. In 1988 she acquired a used Mac Plus. It changed her life.

Speculative fiction, literary fiction, magical realism, spirituality, social commentary, humor, alternative history, coming of age—all those labels apply to her writing, sometimes simultaneously. She writes the kind of stories she likes to read: tales that mix it up, that show a lot of colors.

Her ambition is that her stories be true “in the way that stories are true,” to quote Nancy Willard, who wrote the wonderful novel Things Invisible to See.

She believes that everybody has stories to tell. If you doubt it, get someone talking about their job. You will hear tales of intrigue, heroics, deviltry, and lessons learned.

Everybody sees a lot. Everybody knows a lot.

USA Today and Wall Street Journal Bestselling Author Cheri Lasota is a freelance author, designer and editor. Her bestselling debut novel, Artemis Rising, is a 2013 Cygnus Awards First Place Winner and a 2012 finalist in the Next Generation Indie Books Awards. Cheri also helped found the Paradisi Chronicles, a massive open-source sci-fi universe set on the fictional planet, New Eden. Her Paradisi Exodus series focuses on the early years of the human exodus from Earth to the new planet. Cheri’s most recent project is her ambitious Historical Fantasy series, Immortal Codex, which explores the lives of immortals throughout history.

Sign up to receive news of Cheri’s latest book releases via her newsletter at CheriLasota.com.

Jeff Seymour writes hopeful, heartfelt fantasy that blends modern characters with timeless plots and offers something new and fantastic on every page. His debut middle-grade novel, Nadya Skylung and the Cloudship Rescue, will be published by Putnam Young Readers in 2018, and his epic fantasy Soulwoven got over a million reads while being featured on Wattpad.

Jeff has also edited sci-fi and fantasy for clients including Jennifer Foehner Wells, Felix R. Savage, Samuel Peralta's CHRONICLES series, Harlequin's digital-first imprint Carina Press, and the Nelson Literary Agency Digital Liaison Platform. In his free time, he plays more video games than he should, serves as support team to a wife with an incredible career of her own, pretends he knows anything about raising children, and gathers ideas for stories everywhere he goes.

David Bruns earned a Bachelor of Science in Honors English from the United States Naval Academy. (That's not a typo. He's probably the only English major you'll ever meet who took multiple semesters of calculus, physics, chemistry, electrical engineering, naval architecture, and weapons systems just so he could read some Shakespeare. It was totally worth it.)

Following six years as a US Navy submarine officer, David spent twenty years in the high-tech private sector. A graduate of the prestigious Clarion West Writers Workshop, he is the author of over twenty novels and dozens of short stories. Today, he co-writes contemporary national security thrillers with retired naval intelligence officer, J.R. Olson.

Find out more and download a free Starter Library at www.davidbruns.com.

Born in Bradford, England, Andy settled in Luxembourg in 1981, where he married and has three lovely and talented daughters.

Andy was abducted by American science fiction pulp magazines in his teens. Soon he was mainlining Asimov, Bradbury, Clarke and the whole author alphabet via Tolkien through to Zelazny — those long-gone heroes of 20th-century science fiction.

After graduating, he worked in marketing, franchising and computing in London and Luxembourg before launching his own web design company. In 2011, he sold the company and retired early to write, travel and act (several stage and movie credits).

Andy's novels are mainly science fiction, though his short stories cover a wide range of genres. He also started a 1950's LA detective noir series.

He hopes you enjoy reading the adventures of his Imaginary Friends!

Ellen Campbell is a lifelong bibliophile whose love for the written word crosses genres. A standout editor in the independent scene since 2013, Ellen’s credits include over two hundred and fifty titles, a feat that has landed her (briefly) in Amazon’s Top 10 sci-fi authors on several occasions. She edited six volumes of the international best-selling Future Chronicles, five volumes of Beyond the Stars and was Editor-in-Charge of the Apocalypse Weird Metaverse. Now Senior Editor, producer, and contributor at Keystroke Medium.

She currently resides in Rocket City, USA, with her long-suffering husband and a half-grown Catahoula Leopard Dog.

Find her at ellencampbelledits.com or keystrokemedium.com

Sign up for Claire's Newsletter at ​​http://eepurl.com/bEunvT

Claire can't remember a time when writing wasn't part of her life. From the time she was a pre-teen, she wrote stories, most of them romances. She used to write stories with her friends, with each of them choosing a famous person or a character from their favorite TV series, and model the novels around that. One of her earliest stories, unfortunately lost to time, centered around the 1970s series Starsky and Hutch (she was partial to Starsky).

Although she read primarily fantasy and science fiction as a teenager, it didn't take long for Claire to discover Harlequin romances and their happily-ever-after endings. In a time when book covers would be ripped off the books for returns and then the actual books resold on the second-hand market, Claire devoured these coverless romances (and she regrets her role in the copyright violation), but always wanted to know what happened behind closed doors.

Fast forward and life, as life will, took precedence over creativity. She continued to write on and off, but it kept taking a back seat to other priorities such as paying the bills. When she started reading romances again, several years ago, Claire was delighted to find that the bedroom boundary first got broken, using euphemisms, and then romances went to their natural place of plain English and intense sexual situations. To her, anything goes within the boundaries of a loving relationship. She decided, if she enjoyed reading it, then she could take that natural next step and write it. And so a revived writing career was born.

Early literary influences include Anne McCaffrey, most notably her Dragonriders of Pern series, Marion Zimmer Bradley, and Elizabeth Lowell. Current authors she admire include C.L. Wilson, Nalini Singh, and Marjorie Liu.

Claire has many irons in the fire, most notably her first foray into urban fantasy as well as a paranormal series and many contemporary romances. The books she has self-published are just the beginning of what she hopes will be a long and rewarding career that brings romance to people.

The first book in her paranormal series, called "Fire Danger" is now available on Amazon!

Originally from Brookline, Massachusetts, Claire now lives in Los Angeles. In addition to writing she has an office job she loves, does animal rescue, reads and goes to movies. She loves to hear from fans, so feel free to drop her a line!

Rey Wright. A child of the 80s and 90s. Raised in California. Currently living in western Washington. Has always had a love for dark fantasy and horror. Published a SyFy novella and short story as part of an anthology. Has also published a horror short story. Spends her time reading and writing and chasing her two boys. Currently working on writing a dark fantasy series and reading a mountain of books.

Why do I write? Why does anyone write? Because they have something to say. For me, I have ideas boiling around all the time–situations, cool concepts, occasionally diatribes, but overall, I have characters in my head that demand their chance at existence. Who am I to stand in their way?

I was born at a very early age. As part of a military family, we moved around a LOT. My dad’s last duty station was West Point, NY, and I was fortunate enough to be admitted to the Class of 1982 (“The Select Few”). It was at West Point that I met the woman I would marry, Barbara. We’ve been married since 1983. I was in the US Army for 6+ years, ending my tour in West Germany (how quaint that sounds!). I joined a civil engineering firm in NYC, then, six years later, a transportation company in NJ.

I ran into National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo.org) and actually wrote 50k words in one month. I looked around their website, looking for other opportunities to write. And found them.

I started writing short stories and submitting them to markets. I read blogs and learned craft. I went to events like Pitchapalooza to learn how to pitch agents and publishers. I had dozens of near-misses, and still do--some markets get flooded with hundreds of submissions. The key is perseverance--just keep working at it. You never know when a break will come.

I give back--by helping others who are just starting out, and encouraging others who are on the road to publication like me

NaNoWriMo: I am one of two Co-Municipal Liaisons to the Central NJ Region.

Princeton Writing Group: Since NaNo tends to peak in November and rapidly dies off thereafter, I help with the Princeton Writing Group, a Meetup.com group that has been going strong for years. Write-ins, daytrips, Book-Con outings, PWG does it all.

Three Day Novel: I got into this as a direct result of being in NaNoWriMo, finally taking the plunge in August of 2010. Insane! Write a 30k novella in 72 hours? But I did it, and haven’t missed a year. "The Longest Con" is my 2014 entry. I will polish and publish most of them during 2017.

Can you do what I have done? ABSOLUTELY! Want some guidance? Check out my blog, and feel free to contact me through the blog.

SJ Mayeski writes short stories and novels, edits all lengths of stories for others, and coaches other writers as well. He also offers non-fiction contract projects on a variety of topics.

Mayeski has enjoyed several other careers in his darkish past, managing a restaurant in San Francisco for many years, programming and managing software systems for a university, an insurance company, and a financial data system company. He managed database and web systems for a defense contractor for over ten years, and during political campaign years serves as treasurer for candidates in Southern California. Simon contributed a short story to the #1 SF anthology from The Future Chronicles, Chronicle Worlds: Paradisi. He has two novels due out in 2021, and has lots of short stories in the pipeline. Stay tuned!