AUTHOR BIOGRAPHIES

BRYAN THOMAS SCHMIDT (Editor and Co-Author “Drug War”) is a Hugo-nominated editor and author. His anthologies include Shattered Shields with Jennifer Brozek, Mission: Tomorrow, Galactic Games, Little Green Men—Attack! with Robin Wayne Bailey, Joe Ledger: Unstoppable with Jonathan Maberry, Monster Hunter Files with Larry Correia, Infinite Stars, and Predator: If It Bleeds. His debut novel, The Worker Prince, achieved Honorable Mention on Barnes & Noble’s Year’s Best SF of 2011. It is followed by two sequels in the Saga of Davi Rhii space opera trilogy. His short fiction includes stories in The X-Files, Predator, Larry Correia’s Monster Hunter International, Joe Ledger, and Decipher’s WARS, along with original fiction. He also edited The Martian by Andy Weir, amongst other novels. His work has been published by St. Martin’s Press, Titan Books, Baen, and more. He lives in Ottawa, KS. Find him online as BryanThomasS at both Twitter and Facebook or via his website and blog at www.bryanthomasschmidt.net.

TIM LEBBON (“Devil Dogs”) is a New York Times bestselling writer with over thirty novels published to date, as well as dozens of novellas and hundreds of short stories. Recent releases include The Silence, The Hunt, The Family Man, and The Rage War trilogy (licensed Alien and Predator novels). Forthcoming novels include the Relics trilogy and Blood of the Four (with Christopher Golden). He has won four British Fantasy Awards, a Bram Stoker Award, and a Scribe Award, and been shortlisted for World Fantasy and Shirley Jackson awards. A movie of his story Pay the Ghost, starring Nicolas Cage, was released in 2015, and other projects in development include My Haunted House, Playtime (with Stephen Volk), and Exorcising Angels (with Simon Clark). Find out more: www.timlebbon.net.

JEREMY ROBINSON (aka: Jeremy Bishop and Jeremiah Knight, “Stonewall’s Last Stand”) is the international bestselling author of more than fifty thriller, horror, science fiction, fantasy and action-adventure novels and novellas including Apocalypse Machine, Hunger, Island 731, SecondWorld, and the Jack Sigler thriller series, which is currently in development to be released as a major motion picture. His bestselling kaiju novels, Project Nemesis and Island 731, have been adapted as comic book series from American Gothic Press/Famous Monsters of Filmland. His novels have been translated into thirteen languages. He lives in New Hampshire with his wife and three children. For the latest news about his novels, comics, movies and TV projects, and the Beware of Monsters podcast, discussing all things monstrous, visit www.bewareofmonsters.com.

Prior to working full-time as a freelance writer, STEVE PERRY (“Rematch”) worked as a swimming instructor, lifeguard, assembler of toys, clerk in a hotel gift shop and car rental agency, aluminum salesman, martial art instructor, private detective, and physician’s assistant.

Perry has written sixty-odd novels and scores of short stories. He has written books in the Star Wars, Aliens, Predator, Indiana Jones, and Conan universes. He was a collaborator on the New York Times bestselling Tom Clancy’s Net Force series. Other writing credits include articles, reviews, and essays, animated teleplays, and several unproduced movie scripts. One of his teleplays for Batman: The Animated Series was an Emmy Award nominee for Outstanding Writing.

He is a practitioner of the Indonesian martial art pentjak silat, and plays blues and geezer rock on the tenor ukulele.

WESTON OCHSE (“May Blood Pave My Way Home”) is a former intelligence officer and special operations soldier who has engaged enemy combatants, terrorists, narco smugglers, and human traffickers. His personal war stories include performing humanitarian operations over Bangladesh, being deployed to Afghanistan, and a near miss being cannibalized in Papua New Guinea. His fiction and non-fiction has been praised by USA Today, The Atlantic, New York Post, Financial Times (London), and Publishers Weekly. The American Library Association labeled him one of the Major Horror Authors of the 21st Century. His work has also won the Bram Stoker Award, been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, and won multiple New Mexico-Arizona Book Awards. A writer of more than 26 books in multiple genres, his military supernatural series SEAL Team 666 has been optioned to be a movie starring Dwayne Johnson. His military sci-fi series, which starts with Grunt Life, has been praised for its PTSD-positive depiction of soldiers at peace and at war.

PETER J. WACKS (“Storm Blood”) is a cross-genre writer and world traveler. In his spare time he enjoys Scotch, beer, swords, magic, and absurdist philosophy. Over the course of his life he has worked across the creative fields, and in the pursuit of character research has done side jobs ranging from I.T. break-fix to private detective. You can find him online on both Twitter and Facebook, where he occasionally pops in to crack jokes about the state of the world. Or if you just want to stalk him a little you can go to www.peterjwacks.net.

DAVID BOOP (“Storm Blood”) is a Denver-based author. He’s also an award-winning essayist and screenwriter. Before turning to fiction, he worked as a DJ, film critic, journalist, and actor. As Editor-in-Chief at IntraDenver.net, David’s team covered Columbine, making them the first Internet-only newspaper at such an event. They won an award for excellence from the CPA for their design and coverage.

His debut novel, the sci-fi/noir She Murdered Me with Science, returned from WordFire Press after a seven-year hiatus. Additionally, David edited the anthology Straight Outta Tombstone for Baen. Predominately a weird western author, he’s published short fiction in horror, fantasy, mystery, and media tie-ins with The Green Hornet and Veronica Mars. His RPG work includes Flash Gordon and Deadlands: Noir for Savage Worlds.

He’s a single dad, part-time temp worker, and believer. His hobbies include film noir, anime, and the Blues. Find out more on his fanpage: www.facebook.com/dboop.updates or Twitter: @david_boop.

JENNIFER BROZEK (“Last Report of the KSS Psychopomp”) is a Hugo Award nominated editor and a Bram Stoker Award nominated author. She has worked in the publishing industry since 2004. With the number of edited anthologies, novels, RPG books, and nonfiction books under her belt, Jennifer is often considered a Renaissance woman, but she prefers to be known as a wordslinger and optimist. When she is not writing her heart out, she is gallivanting around the Pacific Northwest in its wonderfully mercurial weather. Read more about her at www.jenniferbrozek.com or follow her on Twitter: @JenniferBrozek.

S. D. PERRY (“Skeld’s Keep”) writes novelizations and tie-ins for love and money; she has worked in the shared universes of Star Trek, Resident Evil, and Aliens, among others, and in her spare time reads and writes horror. S. D. lives in Portland, Oregon, with her husband and two children.

KEVIN J. ANDERSON (“Indigenous Species”) is the author of 140 novels, 55 of which have appeared on national or international bestseller lists; he has over 23 million books in print in thirty languages. Anderson has co-authored fourteen books in the Dune saga with Brian Herbert; he and Herbert have also written an original SF trilogy, Hellhole. Anderson’s popular epic space opera series The Saga of Seven Suns, as well as its sequel trilogy The Saga of Shadows, are among his most ambitious works. He has also written a sweeping fantasy trilogy, Terra Incognita, accompanied by two rock CDs (which he wrote and produced). He has written two steampunk novels, Clockwork Angels and Clockwork Lives, with legendary Rush drummer and lyricist Neil Peart. He also created the popular humorous horror series Dan Shamble, Zombie P.I., and has written eight high-tech thrillers with Colonel Doug Beason.

He holds a physics/astronomy degree and spent 14 years working as a technical writer for the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. He is now the publisher of Colorado-based WordFire Press. He and his wife, bestselling author Rebecca Moesta, have lived in Colorado for 20 years; Anderson has climbed all of the mountains over 14,000 ft in the state, and he has also hiked the 500-mile Colorado Trail.

MIRA GRANT (“Blood And Sand”) lives and writes in the Pacific Northwest, where her home overlooks a large swamp filled with frogs. Truly the best of all possible worlds. When not writing as herself, Mira writes under the name Seanan McGuire, and releases a truly daunting number of books and stories during the average year. She regularly claims to be the vanguard of an invading race of alien plant people; any time spent with her will make this surprisingly credible. Mira shares her home with two enormous blue cats, a lizard, some very odd bugs, and a daunting number of books about dead things. She loves horrible diseases, and is not always a good dinner companion. Keep up with Mira at www.seananmcguire.com, or on Twitter at @seananmcguire. Mira would very much like to show you what lurks behind the corn, but for some reason, the editors won’t let her.

JOHN SHIRLEY (“Tin Warrior”) is the author of numerous novels and books of short stories including the Bram Stoker Award winning collection Black Butterflies. His novels include Bleak History, A Splendid Chaos, BioShock: Rapture, Predator: Forever Midnight, Halo: Broken Circle, and Black Glass.

LARRY CORREIA (“Three Sparks”) is the New York Times bestselling author of the Monster Hunter International series, the Grimnoir Chronicles, the Saga of the Forgotten Warrior, the Dead Six thrillers with Mike Kupari, The Adventures of Tom Stranger Interdimensional Insurance Agent, novels set in the Warmachine universe, and a whole lot of short fiction. Before becoming an author, Larry was an accountant, a gun dealer, and a firearms instructor. Larry lives in Yard Moose Mountain, Utah, with his very patient wife and children.

ANDREW MAYNE (“The Pilot”) is the author of the ITW Award-nominated Jessica Blackwood series and star of A&E’s magic reality show Don’t Trust Andrew Mayne.

A life-long nerd, WENDY N. WAGNER (“Buffalo Jump”) is also a writer and Hugo-winning editor. Her novels include An Oath of Dogs and the Pathfinder tie-in adventures Skinwalkers and Starspawn. Her short fiction has appeared in over thirty venues, including Cthulhu’s Daughters, Shattered Shields, and The Way of the Wizard. An avid tabletop gamer and gardener, she lives in Portland, Oregon, with her very understanding family.

HOLLY ROBERDS (Co-author “Drug War”) is a science fiction and romance writer who lives in Colorado. Always juggling five jobs at any one time, Holly has worked for a private investigator among other things. Holly enjoys bunnies, books, and booze, but not necessarily in that order.

DAYTON WARD (“Recon”) is a New York Times bestselling author or co-author of more than twenty novels, often working with his best friend, Kevin Dilmore. His short fiction has appeared in more than twenty anthologies, and he’s written for various magazines including Kansas City Voices, Famous Monsters of Filmland, Star Trek, and Star Trek Communicator, as well as the websites Tor.com, StarTrek.com, and Syfy.com. Dayton lives with his wife and two daughters in Kansas City. Visit him on the web at http://www.daytonward.com.

JONATHAN MABERRY (“Gameworld”) is a New York Times bestselling suspense novelist, five-time Bram Stoker Award winner, and comic book writer. His books include the Joe Ledger thrillers, The Nightsiders, Dead of Night, The X-Files Origins: Devil’s Advocate, as well as standalone novels in multiple genres. His YA space travel novel, Mars One, is in development for film; and his Monk Addison short stories and V-Wars shared world vampire apocalypse series are being developed for TV. He is the editor of many anthologies including The X-Files, Aliens: Bug Hunt, Nights of the Living Dead (co-edited with zombie genre creator George A. Romero). His comics include Captain America, the Bram Stoker Award-winning Bad Blood, Black Panther, Punisher, Marvel Zombies Return, and more. His Rot & Ruin novels were included in Booklist’s Ten Best Horror Novels for Young Adults. His first novel, Ghost Road Blues, was named by Complex one of the 25 Best Horror Novels of the New Millennium. A board game version of V-Wars: A Game of Blood and Betrayal was based on his novels and comics. He was a featured expert on the History Channel’s Zombies: A Living History and True Monsters. He is one third of the very popular and mildly weird Three Guys with Beards podcast. Jonathan lives in Del Mar, California with his wife, Sara Jo. www.jonathanmaberry.com.