Robert Jeschonek is an envelope-pushing, USA TODAY bestselling author whose fiction, comics, and non-fiction have been published around the world. His stories have appeared in CLARKESWORLD, STARSHIPSOFA, PULPHOUSE, and many other publications. He has written official STAR TREK and DOCTOR WHO fiction and has scripted comics for DC, AHOY, and others. His young adult slipstream fantasy novel, MY FAVORITE BAND DOES NOT EXIST, won the Forward National Literature Award and was named one of BOOKLIST's Top Ten First Novels for Youth. He also won an International Book Award, a Scribe Award for Best Original Novel, and the grand prize in Pocket Books' Strange New Worlds contest. Visit him online at www.bobscribe.com. You can also find him on Facebook and follow him as @TheFictioneer on X (Twitter) and on BlueSky as @bobscribe.bsky.social. Subscribe to the Blastoff Books Newsletter: http://newsletter.blastoffbooks.net/.

A writer, editor, and project manager, Robert Greenberger has been working in publishing since 1980. A lifelong fan of comics and science fiction, he watched dreams become reality when he first joined Starlog Press in 1980. There, he created Comics Scene which he edited during its initial run. In 1984, he moved to DC Comics where he worked as an editor or administrator until 2000, earning plaudits for his work on the Star Trek comic book. After a brief sojourn to the Internet, he returned to comics in 2001, this time working as an executive at Marvel Comics. This turned out to be a stormy, frustrating year and in 2002 he returned to DC as a senior editor in their growing collected editions department. In 2006, he left DC and found himself having the time of his life as Managing Editor at Weekly World News unitl its clueless management shuttered the paper.

Since then he has been a freelance writer, working on media tie-in properties, original fiction, non-fiction for your young adults and adults, and whatever else has come his way. He has cofounded the digital Crazy 8 Press.

He currently teaches, writes, and edits.

He makes his home in Maryland. For more, check out his website: www.bobgreenberger.com.

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Kirsten Beyer is the New York Times Bestselling author of the Star Trek Voyager novels To Lose the Earth, Architects of Infinity, A Pocket Full of Lies, Atonement, Acts of Contrition, Protectors, The Eternal Tide, Children of the Storm, Unworthy, Full Circle and String Theory: Fusion. She also penned the Buffy novel, One Thing or Your Mother, the Alias APO novel, Once Lost, and she contributed the short story "Isabo's Shirt" to the Distant Shores anthology as well as the short story "Widow's Weeds" to Space Grunts. She has also written several articles for Star Trek Magazine.

Kirsten is a co-creator of Star Trek: Picard and is a current writer/producer on Star Trek: Picard and Star Trek: Discovery. So co-wrote the Star Trek short, Children of Mars with Alex Kurtzman and Jenny Lumet. She has co-written several Star Trek Discovery comics with Mike Johnson.

Kirsten appeared in Los Angeles productions of Johnson over Jordan, This Old Planet, and Harold Pinter's The Hothouse, which the L.A. Times called "unmissable." She also appeared in the Geffen Playhouse's world premiere of Quills and has been seen on General Hospital and Passions, among others.

Kirsten has undergraduate degrees in English literature and theater arts, and a master of fine arts from UCLA.

She lives in Los Angeles with her husband, David, and their daughter.

Ilsa J. Bick is a child psychiatrist, as well as a film scholar, surgeon wannabe, former Air Force major—and an award-winning, best-selling author of dozens of short stories and novels. (Really, no one is more shocked about this than she...unless you talk to her mother.)

Ilsa's work spans established universes such as Star Trek, Battletech, Battlecorps, Mechwarrior Dark Age, and Shadowrun while her original novels include such critically acclaimed and award-winning books as The ASHES Trilogy, Drowning Instinct, The Sin-Eater’s Confession, and Draw the Dark. The first novel in her DARK PASSAGES series, White Space, was long-listed for the Stoker, and the concluding volume of the series, The Dickens Mirror, is now out in paperback.

Most recently, Ilsa’s proud to be included in the launch of New York Times best-selling author Elle James’s BROTHERHOOD PROTECTORS Amazon Kindle Worlds Series. Ilsa’s book, SOLDIER’S HEART: PART ONE, will be available June 8, 2017 to be followed by Part Two (September 7, 2017) and Part Three (January 11, 2018), with two additional BroPro titles to follow in 2018.

Ilsa will also be debuting in New York Times best-selling author Susan Stoker’s SPECIAL FORCES: OPERATION ALPHA (March, 2018).

Currently a cheesehead-in-exile, Ilsa lives in Alabama with the husband and several furry creatures. On occasion, she even feeds them.

Drop by for a visit at www.ilsajbick.com and check out her Friday’s Cocktails and Sunday’s Cakes and other assorted effluvia on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/ilsa.j.bick and https://www.facebook.com/ilsajbickauthor/ ), Twitter (@ilsajbick), and Instagram (@ilsajbick).

The author's own story remains unfinished and ongoing. You'll probably need to wait for the obituary or epitaph to find out how it all ends. In the meantime, here are some AWESOME books he wrote.

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Kim Sheard is the published author of many short stories and confessions, personal experience pieces, and Christian devotions. She got her start with a Star Trek story published in a Pocket Books anthology. By day, she owns a pet sitting company in northern Virginia, where she lives with her husband Henry and dog Scout.