About the Authors

For twenty years, Canadian author/ former biologist JULIE E. CZERNEDA has shared her curiosity about living things through her science fiction, published by DAW Books, NY. Julie’s also written fantasy, the first installments of her Night’s Edge series (DAW)A Turn of Light and A Play of Shadow, winning consecutive Aurora Awards (Canada’s Hugo) for Best English Novel. Julie’s edited/co-edited sixteen anthologies of SF/F, two Aurora winners. Her latest is SFWA’s 2017 Nebula Award Showcase, out May 2017, and her next SF novel, To Guard Against the Dark, will be in stores October 2017. Visit www.czerneda.com for more.

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BRANDON DAUBS is a science fiction and fantasy writer whose work has appeared in Nameless Magazine, 4 Star Stories and Grimdark Magazine, and whose stories have won honorable mention from Writers of the Future several times so far. He lives near San Francisco with a dog and three kids, a wife who has been very supportive of his craft, and a cat who has not. If artificial intelligence ever offers to clean for him, he will politely decline.

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ROSEMARY EDGHILL can truthfully state that she once killed vampires for pocket change. She has been a professional and occasionally award-winning author since disco was king, and her brain is where Western Popular Culture goes to die. Her hobbies include dogs, bad television shows, and the Oxford comma. She spends far too much time on Facebook. (Don’t tell her editor.) Find out more at:

HOMEPAGE: http://www.rosemaryedghill.com/

FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/rosemary.edghill

DREAMWIDTH: http://rosemary-edghill.dreamwidth.org/

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LAUREN FOX lives with her wife, twin sons, and geriatric cat in British Columbia on the unceded territory of the Esquimalt and Songhees First Nations. During the day, she works as an occupational therapist, specializing in and writing about mental health, cognition and technology. In the evenings, she paints, writes fiction, and tries to clean up Lego. Her artwork can be found at www.laurengracefox.com

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HELEN FRENCH is a part-time digital producer for a media company (which basically means she looks after their websites and newsletters) and a full-time writer, book-hoarder and TV-soaker-upper. You can find her on Twitter @helenfrench.

Born in Yorkshire, Oxford graduate PHILIP BRIAN HALL is a former diplomat and teacher. He has stood for parliament, sung solos in amateur operettas, rowed at Henley Royal Regatta, completed a 40 mile cross-country walk in under 12 hours and ridden in over one hundred horse-races over fences. He lives on a very small farm in Scotland. He has published more than a dozen short stories and his novel, ‘The Prophets of Baal’ is available as an e-book and in paperback. Philip blogs at The View From Sliabh Mannan (sliabhmannan.blogspot.co.uk/).

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TANYA HUFF lives in rural Ontario with her wife, Fiona Patton, nine cats, and two dogs. Her 30 novels and 75 short stories include horror, heroic fantasy, urban fantasy, comedy, and space opera. Her Blood series was turned into the 22 episode BLOOD TIES and allowed her to finally use her degree in Radio & Television Arts from Ryerson Polytechnic – a degree she holds in common with Robert Sawyer. Her latest novel is A PEACE DIVIDED (DAW, June 2017), the second Torin Kerr Peacekeeper book. She can be found @TanyaHuff on twitter or at Tanya Huff on facebook.

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GINI KOCH writes the fast, fresh and funny Alien/Katherine “Kitty” Katt series for DAW Books, the Necropolis Enforcement Files, and the Martian Alliance Chronicles. She also has a humor collection, Random Musings from the Funny Girl. As G.J. Koch she writes the Alexander Outland series and she’s made the most of multiple personality disorder by writing under a variety of other pen names as well, including Anita Ensal, Jemma Chase, A.E. Stanton, and J.C. Koch. She has stories featured in a variety of excellent anthologies, available now and upcoming, writing as Gini Koch, Anita Ensal, Jemma Chase, and J.C. Koch. www.ginikoch.com

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SF convention favorites SHARON LEE & STEVE MILLER have been writing SF and Fantasy together since the 1980s, with dozens of stories and several dozen novels to their joint credit. Steve was Founding Curator of Science Fiction at the University of Maryland’s SF Research Collection while Sharon is the only person to consecutively hold office as the Executive Director, Vice President, and President of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. Their newest Liaden Universe® novel, The Gathering Edge, is their twenty-sixth collaborative novel. Their awards include the Skylark, the Prism, & the Hal Clement Award.

See http://www.korval.com

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SEANAN MCGUIRE lives and works in the Pacific Northwest, where she attempts to keep her massive blue cats from eating people. She writes a lot of things, because otherwise she stops sleeping. Sleep is good. She is the author of quite a lot of books, and takes quite a lot of naps. Keep up with her on Twitter at @seananmcguire or at www.seananmcguire.com

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L.E. MODESITT, JR., is the New York Times bestselling author of more than 70 science fiction and fantasy novels, as well as a number of short stories and technical articles. He has been a U.S. Navy pilot; a market research analyst; a real estate agent; director of research for a political campaign; legislative director and staff director for U.S. Congressmen; Director of Legislation and Congressional Relations for the U.S. EPA; and a consultant on environmental, regulatory, and communications issues. His website is www.lemodesittjr.com

, and his most recent book is Assassin’s Price.

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RICK OVERWATER is a Calgary-based writer and musician who spends his days trying to keep up to his talented wife and children. His fiction spans different genres including weird-western, fantasy, crime-noir and sci-fi. As well, he co-publishes the independent weirdo space comic, Futility. He likes guitars. And short sentences. You can find him online and through social media at:

www.overwater.ca

amazon.com/author/roverwater

Tumblr: roverwater.tumblr.com

Facebook: Rick Overwater (Calgary)

Twitter: @rjoverwater

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JASON PALMATIER, a certificated helicopter pilot and stay-at-home-dad, holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Penn State University. He is co-creator/co-writer of the epic comic fantasy series Plague published by AAM-Markosia and a contributor to the indie comic Lords of the Cosmos by Ugli Studios. His short story “Heart of the Empire” appeared in the anthology Clockwork Universe: Steampunk vs Aliens published by Zombies Needs Brains LLC. He just completed his first novel, War Mind, a near future military thriller that will be shopped around as soon as the beta readers are done with it.

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JEZ PATTERSON is a teacher and writer who divides his time between the UK and Spain. Links to other things with his name at the end can be found at:

jezpatterson.wordpress.com

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BRIAN TRENT’s speculative fiction appears regularly in ANALOG, Fantasy & Science Fiction, Orson Scott Card’s Intergalactic Medicine Show, Great Jones Street, Daily Science Fiction, Apex (winning the Story of the Year Reader’s Poll), Escape Pod, COSMOS, Galaxy’s Edge, Nature, Pseudopod, and numerous year’s best anthologies. The author of the historical fantasy series RAHOTEP, he is also a 2015 Baen Fantasy Adventure Award finalist and Writers of the Future winner. Trent lives in New England, where he works as a novelist, screenwriter, and poet. His website and blog are located at www.briantrent.com