Sarah Arnette writes fantasy and science fiction and a reader of everything. She is a wife and mommy to two loving pitbulls, and an imagination powerful enough to create galaxies of wonder. Surrounded by her books, it was only a matter of time before their whispers found their way into her mind, creating worlds that had to escape through her.

Sarah Arnette has also been published in several Raconteur Anthologies, including Moggies in Space, Or All Will Burn, You See, What Happened Was, and He Was Dead When I Got There. She has independently published a book, Princess Victory Rules and has another coming out in the spring of 2024.

Peter Delcroft is an author from Winnipeg, Manitoba. Hailing from the center of Canada, he spent a few years in the Pacific Northwest, going to design school and growing his repertoire as a writer and artist. Peter then returned to his frozen home, infusing all he had learned into his lifelong obsession with storytelling, and has since been writing for over 10 years in a variety of mediums and genres.

Peter loves to create fantastic and terrifying worlds, drawing on his lifelong fascination with the human condition and the extreme elements of the human experience to transport his reader into places they may have never ventured before. He specializes in fantasy and science fiction prose, with a bent for mixing elements of both together with horror storytelling fundamentals to create vivid and lifelike characters, engaging and engrossing stories, all in the most fantastical places you could imagine.

Why do I write?

I've been a reader all my life and I grew up with my nose in a book at least half of the time. Two of my biggest loves in life, growing up, were science and music. So I read a lot of science fiction, fantasy, and listened to a lot of music, as well as played some myself.

When the time for college came, I decided to go into engineering, because like many of you, I had hopes of seeing so many of the things we'd only read about, become fact as science marched on.

I write for fun, and yes, I write now to make a living. I have once again in my life escaped the cubical farms that in recent years become so much the standard way of work for so many of us, working on computers where we once worked on amazing pieces of hardware that did things we only once read about in stories.

So come with me to strange and exotic worlds, places of fantasy or the far future, or even our modern world, with just a few little changes. Lets dream of the worlds that could be, not the worlds that are, because it is only from our dreams that we may change our world to a new and better reality.

Dream big, and keep smiling.

-John Van Stry

vanstry@gmail.com

Go to my website to see each series broken out, along with maps, and some extras at: http://www.vanstry.net

http://jvanstry.blogspot.com/

Mailing list: http://eepurl.com/2qrO9

Rita Beeman lives with her wiener dogs in Texas, where she loves to tend plants that thrive on her level of neglect.

John D. Martin is a professional translator and freelance writer with an academic background in Germanic Philology. He has written academic articles on Middle High German and Old Norse literature, and has written freelance for magazines since the 80s. He lives in Bavaria with his family.

Rodney L. Smith is a native Texan retired from 33 years serving in and working for US Army Military Intelligence in Texas, Germany, and Washington DC. He currently resides in the Texas Hill country with his wife, cat, deer herd, barn swallow colony, hummingbird flock, an occasional roadrunner, a kettle of vultures or two, and geckos, lots of geckos. When not sitting on his philosopher's bench in the swimming pool thinking up a new plot line, he dabbles in RVing and other outdoor pastimes. In the Spring and Summer 2018, he, wife, cat, and friends completed a three month RV trip to Alaska and back. Rodney writes science fiction and historical fiction. He published his first work, Scout Force (Kelly Blake Series Book One) as an ebook in August 2011 and as an audiobook in December 2015. Follow-on Kelly Blake Series books: First Command, was published in December 2011; Where The Stars Are Few And Far Between was published in May 2012; All Enemies Foreign and Domestic was published in May 2013. His latest book, Like Seed Cast on Fertile Ground, (Galactic Republic Series, Book One) was published in December 2017 (First book available in ebook and hardcopy). Rodney is the current vice chairman of the Canyon Lake Area Writers (CLAW). Rodney and wife are members of The North Texas Troublemakers and its affiliate, The Hill Country Rough Writers. As of August 2018, Rodney is working on the fifth and final book in the Kelly Blake series. Tying all the loose ends of four previous books is a slog, so it will be a while.

Rhiain O'Connell lives near the geographic center of the US with her husband and two daughters.

Bex Ironwood writes fantasy and sci-fi fiction, inspired by the likes of C.S. Lewis and Robert Jordan. She currently resides in the weird and wild lands of the Midwest, along with her parents and sister. When she isn’t writing, she is usually drawing or painting. She has written a couple of short stories for Raconteur and Chris Kennedy Publishing, and hopes to someday publish a full-length novel.