DEREK BEEBE is the author of the fantasy novel It’s a Wonderful Death, and his short stories have appeared in the Tales of Fortannis collections. His web page is www.DerekBeebe.com. He is a regular contributor to the podcast network WhenNerdsAttack.com. He lives in Pennsylvania and spends far too much of his life on television, movies, and books.
This is KEITH R.A. DECANDIDO’s second story with Shirley Holmes & Jack Watson, following “Identity” in the previous Baker Street Irregulars anthology. He hopes they will have many more adventures. He's written more than fifty novels, more than seventy-five short stories, more than fifty comic books, and a metric buttload of nonfiction that he hasn’t even attempted to count. His oeuvre ranges from media tie-in fiction in dozens of different licensed universes (among them Star Trek, Supernatural, World of Warcraft, Doctor Who, Aliens, Marvel Comics, and tons more) as well as original fiction in both the fictional cities of Cliff's End and Super City as well as the somewhat real locales of Key West and New York City. Find out less at his website at www.DeCandido.net.
NAT GERTLER is a professional Peanuts nerd, as well as the publisher of the About Comics line and the creator of Licensable Bear™. A graduate of Simon’s Rock Early College, he’s written or co-written about two dozen nonfiction books (winning a Ben Franklin Award in 2016), various short stories, over a hundred comic book tales, and a TV episode or two (well, one). He lives in Camarillo, California with his wife Lara and however many kids they have.
NARRELLE M. HARRIS writes crime, horror, fantasy, and romance. Her thirty-plus works include vampire novels, erotic spy adventures, queer romance, traditional Holmesian mysteries, and the Holmes/Watson romance The Adventure of the Colonial Boy. In 2017, her ghost/crime story Jane won the Body in the Library prize at the Scarlet Stiletto Awards. www.narrellemharris.com.
GORDON LINZNER is the founder and former publisher of Space And Time magazine. A lifetime member of SFWA, he is the author of three published novels and dozens of short stories in publications such as The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Rod Serling’s Twilight Zone Magazine, Eerie Country, Tales By Moonlight, Swords Against Darkness, 100 Wicked Little Witch Stories, Bruce Coville’s UFOs, Museum of Horrors, and Altered States of the Union, among other magazines and anthologies.
DANIEL M. KIMMEL’s book on the history of FOX TV, The Fourth Network, received the Cable Center Book Award. His other books include a history of DreamWorks, The Dream Team; I’ll Have What She’s Having: Behind the Scenes of the Great Romantic Comedies; and Jar Jar Binks Must Die…and Other Observations about Science Fiction Movies, which was shortlisted for the Hugo Award for Best Related Work. His first novel, Shh! It’s a Secret: a Novel about Aliens, Hollywood, and the Bartender’s Guide, was a finalist for the Compton Crook Award. His latest book is Time on My Hands: My Misadventures in Time Travel.
STEPHANIE M. McPHERSON is a writer whose work has appeared across a spectrum of media, including The Boston Globe Magazine, the PBS NOVA website, and the national radio show Living on Earth. She earned her Master’s degree in Science Writing from MIT in 2011 and has since written about everything from diabetes to 3D printers in space. This is her first published piece of fiction. She lives in the Greater Boston area with her husband, daughter, and calico cat. You can read more from her at www.stephaniemmcpherson.com.
JODY LYNN NYE lists her main career activity as “spoiling cats.” She lives northwest of Chicago with one of the above and her husband, author and packager Bill Fawcett. She has written over forty-five books, including The Ship Who Won with Anne McCaffrey, eight books with Robert Asprin, a humorous anthology about mothers, Don’t Forget Your Spacesuit, Dear!, and over 160 short stories. Her latest books are Rhythm of the Imperium (Baen Books), Moon Beam (with Travis S. Taylor, Baen), and Myth-Fits (Ace). Jody also reviews fiction for Galaxy’s Edge magazine and teaches the intensive writers’ workshop at DragonCon. Her web page is www.jodynye.net.
CHUCK REGAN is a big geek who writes a lot of pulp genre crap. www.chuckregan.com.
R. ROZAKIS has the amazing superpower of causing professors and technicians to stare at her lab equipment and say, “I’ve never seen it do that before!” Her current job in marketing in New York City seems so much safer, really. Her biggest argument with her exceedingly patient husband is in what order they should show Star Wars to their preschooler. Previous work has appeared in Daily Science Fiction, Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine, Allegory, Liquid Imagination, Every Day Fiction, and the anthologies Substitution Cipher and Clockwork Chaos.
HILDY SILVERMAN is the publisher of Space and Time, a five-decade-old magazine featuring fantasy, horror, and science fiction (www.spaceandtimemagazine.com). She is also a short fiction author whose most recent publications include, “The Great Chasm” (2016, coauthored with David Silverman, Altered States of the Union, Hauman, ed.), “A Scandal in the Bloodline” (2017, Baker Street Irregulars, Ventrella and Maberry, eds.), “The Show Killer” (2017, TV Gods 2: Summer Programming, Young and Hillman, eds.), and “Invasive Maneuvers” (2017, Love, Murder and Mayhem, Colchamiro, ed.).
SARAH STEGALL writes science fiction, fantasy, and mysteries. Her latest novel, Outcasts: A Novel of Mary Shelley, is about the night Mary Shelley sat down to write Frankenstein. She is the author of the Phantom Partners series, as well as the novel Chimera and the YA novel Farside. Her most recent short stories have been published in Deadworld: A Tribute Anthology to Deadworld and Comic Publisher Gary Reed, and The X-Files: The Truth Is Out There. She researched and helped write the first three Official Guides to The X-Files. Sarah lives in Northern California because the fog hides her better.
MIKE STRAUSS is a graduate of Carnegie Mellon, currently living in Pittsburgh. He works as a full-time freelance writer and content marketing specialist. He has had four stories published in the Tales of Fortannis anthologies, as well as in the previous Baker Street Irregulars.
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 as well. He’s been named one of today’s top ten horror writers. His website is www.jonathanmaberry.com.
MICHAEL A. VENTRELLA’s humorous novels include Bloodsuckers: A Vampire Runs for President and The Axes of Evil. 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 web page is www.MichaelAVentrella.com.