JIM AVELLI’s first novel, A Spider’s Vow, was recently released and he’s hard at work on the follow-up.
KEITH R. A. DECANDIDO is the author of a truly absurd amount of stuff. Recent and upcoming work includes A Furnace Sealed, first in a new urban fantasy series about a nice Jewish boy from the Bronx who hunts monsters; the Marvel Tales of Asgard trilogy of prose novels starring Thor, Sif, and the Warriors Three; the Stargate SG-1 novel Kali's Wrath; Mermaid Precinct, the latest in his fantasy/police procedure series; the Heroes Reborn novella Save the Cheerleader, Destroy the World; the Super City Police Department novellas Avenging Amethyst, Undercover Blues, and Secret Identities; short fiction in Aliens: Bug Hunt, Altered States of the Union, A Baker's Dozen of Magic, BuzzyMag.com, Joe Ledger: Unstoppable, Limbus Inc. Book 3, Nights of the Living Dead, The Side of Good/The Side of Evil, V-Wars: Night Terrors, The X-Files: Trust No One, etc.; and twice-weekly rewatches of classic TV shows in the Star Trek and Stargate franchises, as well as the 1966 Batman, for Tor.com. Keith is also a second-degree black belt in karate, an editor, a musician, and probably some other stuff that he can't remember due to the lack of sleep. Find out less at his web site at www.DeCandido.net.
AUSTIN FARMER is a performer in Southern California, and his band's original music can be heard on ABC, Fox, and Nickelodeon. This is his first short story published in an anthology. You can find him online @mraustinfarmer.
DAVID GERROLD is a Nebula and Hugo award winning author of over fifty books, several hundred articles and columns, and over a dozen television episodes. TV credits include episodes of Star Trek, Babylon 5, Twilight Zone, Land Of The Lost, Logan’s Run, and many others. Novels include When Harlie was One, The Man Who Folded Himself, the War Against the Chtorr septology, The Star Wolf trilogy, The Dingilliad young adult trilogy, and more. The autobiographical tale of his son’s adoption, The Martian Child, won the Hugo and Nebula awards for Best Novelette of the Year and was the basis for the 2007 movie starring John Cusack, Amanda Peet, and Joan Cusack. His web page is www.gerrold.com.
New York Times-bestselling author JONATHAN MABERRY’s latest series, Rot and Ruin, has just been optioned for film, and other works of his are heading for the big screen as well. He’s a multiple Bram Stoker Award-winner and has written for Marvel comics. He’s been named one of today’s top ten horror writers. His website is www.jonathanmaberry.com.
GAIL Z. MARTIN is best known for her Chronicles of the Necromancer (Solaris Books) and Ascendant Kingdoms (Orbit Books) epic fantasy series, and her Deadly Curiosities urban fantasy series (Solaris Books). Her short stories have been in over 30 US/UK anthologies. Her web page is www.GailZMartin.com.
HEIDI MCLAUGHLIN is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author. Originally from Portland, Oregon and raised in the Pacific Northwest, she now lives in picturesque Vermont. Her works include: The Beaumont Series, The Archers and The Boys of Summer.
JODY LYNN NYE has published more than 40 novels and 150 short stories and may be best known for the books she has written in Robert Asprin’s Myth Adventures series as well as her own Mythology 101 series. Her latest books are Myth-Fits (Ace Books), Wishing on a Star (Phoenix Pick) and Rhythm of the Imperium, third in her Lord Thomas Kinago humorous space opera series (Baen Books) Her web page is www.jodylynnnye.com.
BETH W. PATTERSON’s most recent novel is Mongrels and Misfits. Her short stories have appeared in the anthologies Rise of the Goddess, Poets in Hell, and Tales of Fortannis: A Bard Day’s Knight.
MARTIN ROSE writes a range of fiction from the fantastic to the macabre. His early stories found homes in Necrotic Tissue and Murky Depths, and numerous anthologies such as Urban Green Man, Handsome Devil, Ominous Realities, and Dread. Bring Me Flesh, I'll Bring Hell is a noir, dark novel of a zombie private investigator, recognized as one of "Notable Novels of 2014" in Best Horror of the Year, Vol. 7. Upcoming work slated to appear in Vastarien: A Literary Journal and Heroic Fantasy Quarterly. He resides in the pine barrens of New Jersey, but believes the Jersey Devil was burned out long ago in the region's numerous wildfires. More details available at www.martinrose.org.
HILDY SILVERMAN is the publisher of Space and Time, a fifty-year-old magazine of fantasy, horror, and science fiction. She is also the author of several works of short fiction, including “The Vampire Escalator of the Passaic Promenade” (2010, New Blood, Thomas, ed.), “The Darren” (2009, Witch Way to the Mall?, Friesner, ed.), “Sappy Meals” (2010, Fangs for the Mammaries, Friesner, ed.), “Black Market Magic” (2012, Apocalypse 13, Raetz, ed.), “The Bionic Mermaid Returns” (2014, With Great Power, French, ed.), and “Tweets of the Damned” (2015, Sha’Daa Facets, McKeown, ed). In 2013 she was a finalist for the WSFA Small Press Award for her story “The Six Million Dollar Mermaid” (Mermaids 13, French, ed.).
Baen Books published RYK SPOOR’s first novel, the urban fantasy Digital Knight, as well as collaborations with Eric Flint on Diamonds are Forever and the hard SF Boundary series. In 2010, he released Grand Central Arena, his bestselling solo salute to the Golden Age of space opera. Two years later the first volume in his Balanced Sword epic fantasy trilogy, Phoenix Rising, was released.
MIKE STRAUSS is a part-time freelance writer with credits on Yahoo News and from Sword & Sorcery Studios. He has had four stories published in the Tales of Fortannis anthologies.
MICHAEL A. VENTRELLA’s third novel, Bloodsuckers: A Vampire Runs for President, was released in 2014. He edits the Tales of Fortannis short story collections, and has had his own stories printed in many anthologies, including Janet Morris’s Dreamers in Hell, Rum and Runestones, Twisted Tails, and The Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences Archives. His website is www.MichaelAVentrella.com.