by C. Vandyke
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Diana C. Gagliardi helps run the world-building as one of the Game Masters for each book when not writing herself. When not gaming on board, table, or in-person Diana enjoys singing in harmony and quoting Monty Python in and around Philadelphia with her personal child who is now a teenager. (Skullgate Staff, Game Master)
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Debbie Iancu-Haddad is currently querying a couple of YA SFF novels, participating in three different anthologies, writing vss on Twitter and buying way too much stuff on Aliexpress. For her day job she gives lectures on humor and serves as a personal chauffeur for her two teenagers. Resides in Meitar, Israel. Follow @debbieiancu or her author website. (Skullgate Staff)
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S.L.Parker: world builder, wonderer and as a result, writer. Plays well with words and others. Prior publications in poetic and academic veins. WIP exploring creation of civilization and what if step-sisters of the divided ruling family were Fear and True Love. Tweets via @isparkit. (Vol. 1 & 2 Alum, Guest Staff)
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C.D. Storiz is a Teacher by day, writer at night. As a member of the skullgatemedia.com team, she helps to slay em dashes. She also has work published through various other outlets. You can follow her on Twitter @LeChatGris3 or at cdstoriz.com where she posts writing and rants about her cat. (Skullgate Staff)
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Chris “Prime” Vandyke is the founder and president of Skullgate media and the Editor-in-Chief of TFYB. He always has more ideas than is good for him, and needs the others to help restrain his naive enthusiasm. You can see things he writes at cvandyke.com and follow him at @aboutrunning. (Skullgate Staff, Founder, President, et cetera)
About “Tales From the Year Between”
Tales from the Year Between is the flagship publication of Skullgate Media, an indie-publishing company dedicated to changing the way authors collaborate and publish.
Part literary magazine, part writing club, part cult, and all creativity, Tales From the Year Between is a semi-annual speculative fiction anthology with a unique premise. Each volume gathers a disparate group of authors from all across the globe to collaborate in shared world-building and creative writing. Using hacks of collaborative games as writing prompts, each volume of The Year Between begins with nothing more than a simple premise (“a desert fantasy world, like D&D’s Dark Sun” “a crew lost in space aboard a sentient ship” or “pirates!”). Contributors participate in a week-long “game” to create a shared canon of people, places, events, and themes. From this chaotic melange of ideas, each participant creates their own stories, poems, letters, and even recipes, all set in the world they created together. Intrigued? Sound like fun? See our website on how you could help us make our next world…
A Note on the Font
Crimson Text is a font family for book production in the tradition of beautiful old-style typefaces created by Sebastian Koch and available for free via Google.
Inspired by the wild gyring of the inter-dimensional space Kraken, the small flourishes invoke the tenuous veil of sanity that serves to shield our fragile human minds from the horror that throbs betwixt the stars.
Also Available From Skullgate Media
Multidimensional pirates are only some of the adventures waiting for you at Skullgate Media! If you are in the mood for a dark, bizarre fantasy, take a trip to Achten Tan at Amazon or wherever fine books are sold!