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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.

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Will Swardstrom is a speculative fiction author. He has two full length novels, Dead Sleep and Dead Sight, and is at work on the finale in the trilogy.

He also has three stories in The Future Chronicles anthology series (Uncle Allen in The Alien Chronicles, Z Ball in The Z Chronicles, and The Control in The Immortality Chronicles). Each of those anthologies has charted in the Top 5 on the SF Anthology list and The Alien Chronicles reached as high as #6 on the Overall Top 100 List. The Control from The Immortality Chronicles has been nominated for Best American Science Fiction.

He also has a few stories set in Hugh Howey's WOOL Universe among his various other short stories and novellas. He lives in Southern Illinois with his wife and two kids.

A.K. Meek is a reader, reviewer, and writer, mostly speculative fiction. He lives in the South with his wonderful family and menagerie of dogs and cats.

S. Elliot Brandis is an engineer and author from Brisbane, Australia. He writes post-apocalyptic, horror, and dystopian fiction, often blurring genre lines. He is a lover of bourbon, baseball, and horror movies.

His novels are about outlaws, outcasts, and outsiders.

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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.

Bob Williams currently lives in Nashville, Tennessee after stops in Mississippi, Louisiana, Ohio, and Washington. He lives with his beautiful 9 year old daughter Kate, dog Hank, and two cats Mittens and Wally. Bob sincerely hopes you enjoy reading his words as much as he enjoys writing them.

Jon Frater is an academic librarian by day, a Sci-Fi writer by night and an old school gamer with thirty years experience reviewing, designing, writing and playing video games and tabletop RPGs. He's worked to produce fiction, academic non-fiction, journal articles and blogs. He's worked as a game writer, and developer, cranking out numerous game and book reviews and tried his hand at writing for the screen and audio. His short work has been published in such anthologies as the Future Chronicles and Tales From the Canyons of the Damned. His forthcoming military fiction series Battle Ring Earth will be published by Aethon books.

Ernie Howard was born on January 29, 1977, during a Minnesota blizzard. His two story-telling parents almost didn't make it to the hospital in their beat-up blue Cadillac.

Ernie is the author of The Pool, A World Without, Walter, and The Night Portals Series—17 stories with a twist.

All of these books are available on Kindle.

Ernie lives with his wife and 3 boys in Henderson, NV, where he dreams up new stories and tries to live every day to the fullest.

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.

Jessica West specializes in short fiction. Her comfort zone is somewhere dark, brutally honest, and populated with troubled or chaotic characters who are usually compelled by a need for justice and aren't too picky about how they get it.

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/

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Peter is a New Zealand Australian science fiction writer, specialising in making hard science fiction easy to understand and thoroughly enjoyable.

His FIRST CONTACT series is topical rather than character-based, meaning each book stands alone. These novels can be read in any order, but they all focus on the same topic of First Contact with extraterrestrial lifeforms. In this regard, the series is akin to BLACK MIRROR or THE TWILIGHT ZONE.

Hard science fiction is a misnomer as far as categories of literature go, as it sounds harsh and difficult to understand, but that is far from reality. Hard science fiction is simply plausible science fiction, fiction that is written in such a way as it conforms to the known laws of science, and that makes it more interesting, as there's no magic wand the protagonist can wave to get out of trouble. Peter's forays into hard science fiction could best be described as informative science fiction or enjoyable science fiction.

Peter is a fan of such classic science fiction writers as Philip K. Dick, Arthur C. Clarke and Michael Crichton and their influence on his style and story lines is readily apparent. You can follow Peter on Facebook or Twitter or find him posting some interesting tibit on his blog http://thinkingscifi.wordpress.com/

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).

Jason LaVelle is a father, photographer, and animal wrangler from West Michigan. They’re one of those restless souls who has tried out just about every job there is, which at one time earned them the moniker, ‘Most interesting person in Holland.’ ADD folks, that’s all it is. That and they can’t stomach the thought of being a real adult with a real job. Throughout all the years and the many changes, a desire to create has been one of the few constants in their life. Though an award-winning habit of procrastination did everything in its power to stop them, LaVelle has authored five novels and one large collection of short stories. Drawing from a lifelong love of horror, thrillers, and mystery, all of LaVelle’s works aim to give readers a dark ride on a rickety coaster. LaVelle is one of those people who would definitely ‘like,’ their own posts, were it acceptable to do so. More than anything, as they enter their twilight years (early forties), LaVelle wants to do whatever they can to help those who are oppressed in this world.

Eamon Ambrose is an Irish sci-fi and horror author based in Limerick Ireland. Best known for the hit sci-fi serial Zero Hour, the novella Love and Other Algorithms and several short stories. Published in anthologies such as Samuel Peralta's Chronicle Worlds and Daniel Arthur Smith's Tales From the Canyons of The Damned both of which have been selected as part of the Lunar Codex time capsule project to be sent to the Moon in 2023.

Lover of all things weird and wonderful.

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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Christopher J. Valin is a writer, teacher, artist, and historian living in the Los Angeles area. He received his masters' degree with honors in military history, and his first book, Fortune's Favorite: Sir Charles and the Breaking of the Line, is the expansion of his masters thesis on his 5x-great-grandfather, Rear-Admiral Sir Charles Douglas.

In addition to writing and inking for independent comic book companies and writing screenplays for production companies, Christopher has had numerous short stories published in anthologies such as Beyond the Stars and The Fans Are Buried Tales. His screenplays, teleplays, and stories have won multiple awards and contests. As CJ Valin, he is co-author of the popular Raptors young adult superhero series, the first of which won the BIBA award.

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USA Today bestselling author D.K. Cassidy scribbles daily in various genres including Science Fiction, Magical Realism, & Urban Gothic. Her goal? Messing with your mind by transforming the voices in her head into odd stories.

D.K. Cassidy lives in the Pacific Northwest with her greatest fans: her husband Mark, twin sons Aidan and Jared, and four cats. When not writing, she loves to travel, run, knit, use the Oxford comma, and of course read!

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When I write I am looking to go on a journey. Sometimes it is a journey of discovery and sometimes it is an adventure. Whatever the journey I hope that it is a journey that the reader will want to travel with me.

I am a husband and a father, a music teacher by day and family man at night. I write when I can and am enjoying the ride.

A Sun Devil who grew up all over but remembers Michigan fondly, I have settled in Oregon.

Terry R. Hill, a Texas native, was trained with two degrees in aerospace engineering. He has worked for NASA since 1997 with a very satisfying career as an engineer and project manager spanning programs from the international space station's navigation software, to next generation space suit design, to exploration mission planning, to mitigating the health effects of space on astronauts. While supporting the manned space program has been a lifetime passion, writing of different worlds, alternate futures and the human condition has filled his spare time.

Philip Harris was born in England but now lives in Canada where he works for a large video game developer. Not content with creating imaginary worlds for a living, he spends his spare time indulging his love of writing. His published books include The Girl in the City Trilogy and an homage to the old pulp science fiction serials - Glitch Mitchell and the Unseen Planet.

His short fiction has appeared in numerous anthologies and magazines including The Jurassic Chronicles, Bones, Uncommon Minds, The Anthology of European SF, and Peeping Tom.

He has also worked as security for Darth Vader.

You can find free fiction and his blog at his website.

Website: http://www.solitarymindset.com

Twitter: @SolitaryMindset

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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/.

Kevin G. Summers is the author of Legendarium, The Man Who Shot John Wilkes Booth, and The Bleak December.

Jeff Bowles is a science fiction and horror writer from the mountains of Colorado. The best of his outrageous and imaginative short stories are collected in Godling and Other Paint Stories, Fear and Loathing in Las Cruces, and Brave New Multiverse. He has published work in magazines and anthologies like Tales from the Canyons of the Damned, Podcastle, the Threepenny Review, and Dark Moon Digest. Jeff earned his Master of Fine Arts degree in creative writing at Western State Colorado University. He currently lives in the high-altitude Pikes Peak region, where he dreams strange dreams and spends far too much time under the stars.

David Alan Jones is a veteran of the United States Air Force, where he served as an Arabic linguist. A 2016 Writers of the Future silver honorable mention recipient, David’s writing spans the science fiction, military sci-fi, fantasy, and urban fantasy genres. He is a martial artist, a husband, and a father of three. David’s day job involves programming computers for Uncle Sam.

You can find out more about David’s writing, including his current projects, at his website: https://davidalanjones.com

Lorna Wood was raised in Oberlin, Ohio, by a composer and an art historian. She received degrees in violin performance and English from Oberlin College and a Ph.D. in English from Yale University. After graduate school, she was an instructor for six years at Auburn University.

Lorna's debut poetry collection, The Great Garbage Patch: Reflections on Fascism, is out on Alien Buddha Press. She also has a novel, The Jesus Wars, on Amazon, and a novella, Family Values, available on Kindle. She was a featured writer in the 2022 erbacce-prize, won second prize in the 2018 Loquat Literary Festival contest, co-won third prize in Online Writing Tips' 2019 fiction contest, and was a finalist in the 2022 rinky dink chapbook contest, the 2017 Jerry Jazz Musician contest, the 2016 Neoverse Short Story Competition, and the 2016 Value' Sigil contest at Sharkpack Poetry Review. The Dumping Grounds named her poem "Mercy" a feature of the month (2022), and her poem, "Reflux," was shortlisted for Into the Void's 2016 contest. Lorna has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net. Her poetry has been favorably reviewed on New Pages (15 Dec. 2016), and her blog, "Word Music," was featured in Mslexia. Her stories, creative nonfictions, and poems not included in The Great Garbage Patch have appeared in Green Splotches, Half Hour to Kill, 100subtexts, t'ART, Personal Bests Journal 5, Coalition Works, The Pine Cone Review, Grand Little Things, 2% Milk, WhimsicalPoet, Otherwise Engaged, FEED, Litterateur, Fevers of the Mind (Wolfpack Contributor), Poetic Sun, Kindle Vella, Right Hand Pointing, Quaranzine, Schlock!, Nevermore, MacQueen's Quinterly, cc&d, 34 Orchard, Lucky Jefferson (365), Coffin Bell, Doubleback Review, Poems for the Thoughtful Young (B Cubed Press), Daikaijuzine, Litro (USA) Lab, Courtship of Winds, Brave New Word, M58, Scarlet Leaf Review, NoSleep Podcast, Canyons of the Damned, Five:2:One (#thesideshow), Poetry WTF?!, Mysterical-E, Wild Violet, Cacti Fur, Every Writer, and the following anthologies: Contemporary Poems--2022 (Fresh Words), Bullshit Lit 01, Love (Pure Slush), A Monster Told Me Bedtime Stories (Soteira Press), Escape Wheel (Great Weather for MEDIA), Horror USA: California (Soteira Press), What We Talk About When We Talk About It (Darkhouse), and Dark Magic (Owl Hollow Press), among others. She has also published scholarly essays on the American Renaissance, children's literature, and Lolita.

Lorna's son, William Wehrs, wrote Five Scary Adventures in Playtime (illustrated by Lorna and now on Kindle) for his art class when he was eight. William is a social studies teacher with a master's degree in education from Lehigh University. In 2022 he was a winner in the Kansas Horizon Awards, which recognize outstanding first-year k-12 teachers. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa and summa cum laude with a B.A. from Ursinus College, where he majored in history and minored in film studies. His essay on film music appears in the Palgrave Handbook of Affect Studies and Textual Criticism, and his honors thesis, "Rape Culture: Tools of Oppression," and Summer Fellows paper, "The Rise of Political Factions in the United States: 1789-1785," are digitalcommons dot ursinus dot edu.

Jeremy Essex is a member of the Horror Writers Association of America. He is the author of the sci-fi/horror novella ‘The Sound Of Time’, as well as multiple short stories which have appeared in Deep Magic, Kzine, Tales From The Canyons Of The Damned, and 9Tales Told In The Dark. He originally hails from the misty hills of Lancashire in the UK, where he lived for a while in a genuinely haunted house, but now lives in the warmer climes of Suffolk where, when not writing or walking, he can usually be found in an Indian restaurant.

"The time has come," the Writer said, "To read of many things:

Of sheers and souls and sealing spells, of poisoned herbal tea."

M. Regan has been writing in various capacities for over a decade, with credits ranging from localization work to scholarly reviews, advice columns to short stories. Particularly fascinated by those fears and maladies personified by monsters, they enjoy composing dark fiction and studying supernatural creatures. Find them on Facebook and Twitter @MReganFiction.

Just an author who writes books.

Gustavo Bondoni is an Argentine writer with over three hundred stories published in fifteen countries, in seven languages. His latest novel is Jungle Lab Terror (2020). He has also published another monster book Ice Station: Death (2019), three science fiction novels: Incursion (2017), Outside (2017) and Siege (2016) and an ebook novella entitled Branch. His short fiction is collected in Pale Reflection (2020), Off the Beaten Path (2019) Tenth Orbit and Other Faraway Places (2010) and Virtuoso and Other Stories (2011).

In 2019, Gustavo was awarded second place in the Jim Baen Memorial Contest and in 2018 he received a Judges Commendation (and second place) in The James White Award. He was also a 2019 finalist in the Writers of the Future Contest.

His website is at www.gustavobondoni.com

M. M. De Voe holds an MFA from Columbia University, where she was a Writing Fellow who studied under Michael Cunningham as well as Joyce Johnson, Helen Schulman, Stephen Koch, Nicholas Delbanco, Matthew Sharpe, and Michael Scammel.

Her short fiction is internationally acclaimed and has won more than 20 mentions and awards, including four Pushcart Prizes in short fiction. Her debut short fiction collection, A FLASH OF DARKNESS, was published by Borda Books in 2023.

In urban fantasy, horror, and science-fiction, M. M. De Voe was included in the Shirley Jackson award-winning anthology Twisted Book of Shadows and nominated for a Bram Stoker Award. She also won the International Campaign for Real Fear hosted by Black Static Magazine and was subsequently published in Daily Science Fiction, BuzzyMag.com, SpeckLit, and various anthologies including The Lane of Unusual Traders (Tiny Owl Press, Brisbane Australia) and Great Britain's Ellipsis Magazine.

Anthologized alongside author-heroes Joyce Carol Oates and Margaret Atwood in "Stirring up a Storm" (Thunder’s Mouth Press), her story, "Overheard", was also nominated for a Pushcart Prize.

The manuscript for her novel "The Boy Who Loved Trees" was a finalist for The Bellwether Prize and The Dana Awards, and won a grant from the Arch & Bruce Brown Foundation for gay-positive historical fiction.

The founder of the literary nonprofit, Pen Parentis, she has co-hosted their monthly literary salons in Lower Manhattan for more than ten years. She has won more than ten arts grants (including grants from New York City and New York State and the NEA) for her work inspiring writers who are also parents to remain on creative track.

Her nonfiction guide to writing while parenting, BOOK & BABY, won first prize in writing/publishing at the 2021 Indie Book Awards. It was her first book and includes interviews with many famous writer-parents like Min Jin Lee, Helen Phillips, JP Howard, and Patty Dann.

She won the inaugural Regina Russo Outstanding Recent Graduate Award from her alma mater, and was awarded the Distinguished Alumna Award from the Sigma Tau Delta Alpha Alpha Chapter in 2014. She attended the Summer Literary Seminars in St. Petersburg Russia where she was a Fellow, and is a frequent attendee of the Lithuanian Writers of the Diaspora forum in Vilnius, Lithuania.

Molly Thynes has been everything from a student at an all-girl's Catholic school to a nanny, a purveyor of haunted artifacts, and a mental health counselor, but she has been a writer before she even knew how to write. Her first love is the horror genre, but has found inspiration in a few other genres too (just not romance). Currently, Molly lives in Saint Paul, MN with her husband and as many animals as their landlord will allow.

Wendy Nikel is a speculative fiction author with a degree in elementary education, a fondness for road trips, and a terrible habit of forgetting where she's left her cup of tea. Her short fiction has been published by Analog, Nature, Daily Science Fiction, and elsewhere. Her series of time travel novellas, beginning with THE CONTINUUM, was published by World Weaver Press. For more info, visit wendynikel.com

Amy Grech has sold over 100 stories to various anthologies and magazines including: 10 by 10 Flash Fiction Stories, A New York State of Fright, Apex Magazine, Even in the Grave, Gorefest, Hell’s Heart, Hell’s Highway, Hell’s Mall, Microverses, Punk Noir Magazine, Roi Fainéant Press, Tales from the Canyons of the Damned, Yellow Mama, and many others. Alien Buddha Press published her poetry chapbook, A Shadow of Your Former Self.

She is an Active Member of the Horror Writers Association and the International Thriller Writers who lives in Forest Hills, Queens.

Paul B Kohler is the International Bestselling author of the highly acclaimed novel Linear Shift. His recent work includes Turn, Detour, and Reversion, from The Humanity's Edge Trilogy, along with several short stories. His short story, Rememorations, was included in The Immortality Chronicles - The Best Anthology Of The Year as voted in the 2016 Preditors and Editors Readers Poll. Rememorations was also nominated for Best American Science Fiction.

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