ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Jeremy TeGrotenhuis is a writer from Eastern Washington State, where he grew up playing make-believe in the same desert that houses the most polluted nuclear waste site in America. He has lived in Beijing, where he studied Mandarin, and in Taipei, where he and his wife Hannah taught English. Currently he lives in Spokane, Washington, where he is pursuing a master’s in teaching at Whitworth University, his undergraduate alma mater.
The first story Jeremy remembers writing was a mash-up of Moonraker and Brian Jacques’s Redwall, which he wrote when he was too young to be watching Moonraker, and he has been writing ever since. His fiction has appeared in two anthologies from TWG Press, Peak Heat and Night Market, as well as in Weird Sisters: Lilac City Fairy Tales Volume 3 from Scablands Books, Pirates & Ghosts from Flame Tree Publishing, and in Beneath Ceaseless Skies magazine. He is currently revising a fantasy novel set in the same world as “The Minarets of An-Zabat” and finishing the first draft of another, and has half a dozen short stories out on submission at any given time.
You can follow Jeremy online at jeremyteg.wordpress.com and twitter.com/jeremyteg.
ABOUT THE ILLUSTRATOR
Brenda Rodriguez was born in Mexico, but moved to the US before her first birthday and has been here ever since. She started drawing as a child and has never stopped loving it. Brenda attributes her passion for character creation to her interest in video games. Her favorites include The Legend of Zelda, Kingdom Hearts, and Final Fantasy. She recalls being inspired by them at a young age as a child, and on throughout her life thereafter. To this day, she can thank Nintendo and Square Enix for fueling her aspiration of getting into the entertainment industry as a character artist.
Brenda graduated in spring of 2017 with a degree in Computer Graphics Technology from Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis. She is now working as a freelance artist and polishing her portfolio to officially break into the industry.