A Revolutionary’s Guide to Practical Conjuration
Auston Habershaw
SHUANGJIAN LIU
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Auston Habershaw has always wanted to tell stories, and so he always has, for as long as he can remember speaking. The only question was what kind of stories he ought to tell, and that was settled by fate: on the day he was born, Skylab fell from orbit. It was pretty much destiny that he found himself writing science fiction and fantasy.
In his quest to be a professional writer, Auston has worked as a lifeguard, swim teacher, dog walker, video game tester, slum lord minion, office temp, theme park performer (he dressed like a pirate), coffee barista, waiter, SAT tutor, and pedicab driver until eventually settling on English professor. Now he teaches at Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences.
Auston has published stories in Analog, Stupefying Stories, Sword and Laser Anthology, and other places, too. His debut fantasy novel, The Iron Ring, was released on February 10, 2015 by Harper Voyager Impulse. Its two sequels will be following along shortly. You can stalk him on his blog if you are thusly inclined. It’s okay—he likes attention.
Auston lives, writes, and works in Boston with his wife and two children.
ABOUT THE ILLUSTRATOR
Shuangjian Liu was born in 1992 and raised in Guangzhou, China.
At eighteen, he moved to California and started college. He loved playing video games, so he played them a lot, and as he did, he gained an appreciation for the wonderful computer graphic illustrations in them.
So, when he went to college, he started to teach himself how to draw digital art, and got his first freelance drawing job while in school.
He’s always excited while drawing because as time passes, he gets to see the picture grow more and more vivid. He enjoys creating new art from abstract ideas. Even though he has been working and studying toward this career for many years, Shuangjian still loves it and hopes to create his own video game.