www.mikebrotherton.com.
Mary A. Turzillo
Mary A. Turzillo’s novelette “Mars Is no Place for Children” won a 1999 Nebula, and, along with her novel An Old-Fashioned Martian Girl, is recommended reading on the International Space Station. She has been nominated for the British Science Fiction Association Award (“Eat or Be Eaten, a Love Story”) and the Pushcart (Your Cat & Other Space Aliens, vanZeno), the Stoker, the Elgin, and Dwarf Stars. She won a third place for long poem in the 2011 Rhysling awards and has recent and forthcoming work in Asimov’s, Analog, and Stamps, Vamps and Tramps. Her latest book is Lovers & Killers, Dark Regions 2012.
Jay Lake
Jay Lake was a popular, critically acclaimed Pacific Northwest author known for his novels and short fiction. He won or was nominated for the Writers of the Future Award, the John W. Campbell Award, the Hugo Award, the Nebula Award, and the World Fantasy Award. His books include Kalimpura, Last Plane To Heaven, Love in the Tme of Metal and Flesh, and his last novel, METAtropolis: The Wings We Dare Aspire, a collaboration with Ken Scholes, which was released in 2014 by WordFire Press, shortly before his death after a long battle with colon cancer.
Tiffany Trent
Tiffany Trent is the award-winning author of the young adult novels The Unnaturalists and The Tinker King, as well as the Hallowmere series. Her stories have appeared in numerous anthologies including Corsets & Clockwork, Magic in the Mirrorstone, and Willful Impropriety. When not writing, she is out playing with bees. Visit her at:
www.tiffanytrent.com.
Jake Kerr
Jake Kerr is a science fiction author of short fiction whose works have appeared in Lightspeed, Fireside, Escape Pod, Zui Found, and other publications and anthologies. His first published story, “The Old Equations,” was nominated for the Nebula, Theodore Sturgeon Memorial, and StorySouth Million Writers awards. He lives in Texas with his wife and three daughters.
Michael Kurland
Michael Kurland writes fantasy, SF and mysteries with equal hubris. He is the recipient of two Edgar scrolls and was nominated for an American Book Award for his first Moriarty novel, The Infernal Device. Among his other works are The Last President (With S.W. Barton), Death by Gaslight, Ten Little Wizards, A Study in Sorcery, The Unicorn Girl, and Star Griffin. His most recent work of nonfiction, an idiosyncratic history of Forensic Science called Irrefutable Evidence, has enjoyed a European vogue. The latest Moriarty novel, Who Thinks Evil, will be released February 2014 to great acclaim. He is the author of It’s a Mystery to Me, an entertaining and informative work on how to write mystery and suspense fiction. His works have been translated into Chinese, Czech, Danish, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, and some alphabet full of little pothooks and curlicues. Mr. Kurland presently lives in a Secular Humanist Hermitage in a secluded bay north of San Francisco, California, where he kills and skins his own vegetables. He may be communicated with through his website:
michaelkurland.com.
Sandra McDonald
Sandra McDonald’s first collection of fiction Diana Comet and Other Improbable Stories was a Booklist Editor’s Choice, an American Library Association Over the Rainbow Book and winner of a Lambda Literary Award. Her story “Sexy Robot Mom” recently won an Asimov’s Readers’ Poll award. Four of her stories have been noted on the James A. Tiptree Award Honor List for exploring gender stereotypes. She is the published author of several novels and more than sixty short stories for adults and teens, including the award-winning Fisher Key Adventures and the gay asexual thriller City of Soldiers. She holds an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from the University of Southern Maine and teaches college in Florida.
Doug Farren
Doug Farren is an indie author publishing his books through Amazon, Smashwords, and Createspace. His other works include: The Galactic Alliance series (Translight, Chroniech, Honor Thy Enemy, and soon-to-be released Peacekeeper); the Dragonverse series (Dragonverse—The Adventure Begins and Ishnef’s Revenge); Off Course; and When Ships Mutiny. Doug is a U.S. Navy veteran having served as a nuclear propulsion plant operator (nuclear ET) aboard surface vessels for 11 years. He currently resides in Northeast Ohio and works as an instrument technician at a nuclear power plant. His wife, Cheryl, has been proofing his books since shortly after they were married in 2003. He dreams of retiring from a “working” life so he can spend more time writing.
Matthew S. Rotundo
Matthew S. Rotundo’s stories have appeared in Intergalactic Medicine Show, Jim Baen’s Universe, and Writers of the Future Volume XXV. Matt also plays guitar and has been known to sing karaoke. Although he lives in Nebraska, he has husked corn only once in his life, and has never been detasseling, so he insists he is not a hick. Learn more about Matt at:
www.matthewsrotundo.com.
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