I taught at San Lorenzo Middle School in King City, California for thirty-six years before retiring in June of 2006. Phyllis, my wife of 43 years, and I still reside in King City. We have two sons – Jeremy and Jon.

I am a life-long rock-climber and mountaineer. I've made numerous ascents in the Sierra Nevada and Yosemite, though my home crags are in Pinnacles National Monument. Three of my short stories about climbing were published in the Sierra Club's Ascent. I converted a story named "Three's a Crowd" into a radio play and it was broadcast on KUSF on November 22nd, 2006.

Five of my books have been published: Joel in Tananar, Flower Tumbles, The Dragon and the Lemon Tree, Chaos Gate and Dawn Drums. Dawn Drums awarded both the New Mexico Book Awards 2014 Tony Hillerman Award for Best Fiction and the Arizona Authors Association 2014 First Place Award for published fiction.

My writing has won a number of other awards. "Dogwood Dream" won first place in New Millennium Writing's 2011 short fiction contest. My novella "Vienna Station" won the 2011 Galaxy prize and was published as an e-book. It is available for Kindle here on Amazon. My short story "Lulu Garlic, Contraband" was broadcast on KVPR, an NPR affiliate. Here’s the link: http://kvpr.org/post/lulu-garlic-contraband-robert-walton-valley-writers-read

Last year, my "Sockdologizer" was awarded first place in the 2020 Saturday Writers Everything Children's contest.

Please do contact me via my blog if you have questions about my writing!

Rie Sheridan Rose multitasks. A lot. Her short stories appear in numerous anthologies, including Killing It Softly I and II, On Fire, and Hides the Dark Tower. She has authored twelve novels, six poetry chapbooks, and lyrics for dozens of songs. Most of her lyrics were written for Marc Gunn and can be found on "Don't Go Drinking with Hobbits," "Pirates vs. Dragons," and "As Long as I'm Flyin'" for the most part--with a few scattered exceptions.

Her favorite work to date is The Conn-Mann Chronicles Steampunk series with five books released so far: The Marvelous Mechanical Man, The Nearly Notorious Nun, and The Incredibly Irritating Irishman, The Fiercely Formidable Fugitive, and The Elderly Earl's Estate. Book Six, The Grieving Groom's Gambit, is in the queue, but other cool things are coming before that! (Like the first book in a spin-off series.) Keep up with the series on https://theconnmannchronicles.com/ or Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/TheConnMannChronicles/

Rie lives in Texas with her wonderful husband and several spoiled cat-children.

Her fan page on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Rie-Sheridan-Rose/38814481714 allows fan interaction and offers occasional news and contests.

You can find her official website at http://www.riewriter.com--a constant work in progress. She was recently accepted into HWA and SFWA.

Follow her on Twitter at @RieSheridanRose.

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Adam lives in the expanse of the Mid-West with his large family. He's taken to writing SciFi & Fantasy. Only recently has he discovered the giants of the genres. Now he writes incorporating the spirit of the classics with his own twists. Pulp fiction as well as the SciFi giants of the 80s and 90s are his exemplars.

His novel Collateral Damage is currently available.

He can be found on Twitter @AdamsFurman.

J.D. lives behind the pine curtain of East Texas with his wife and children. He earned a BFA in Theatre from Texas State University. Currently, J.D.'s working on a novel. His short fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Switchblade #11, TECH NOIR by Pulp Modern, Mystery Weekly Magazine Jan 2019, Black Mask Spring 2018, Switchblade #3 & #4, Tough Crime #1, Broadswords and Blasters #6, Santa Cruz Weird, and others. His play TALL PINES LODGE was produced most recently at the 2016 New York International Fringe Festival (FringeNYC), before that at the 2007 FronteraFEST in Austin, TX.

When Marcus was sixteen, he wrote his first short story in English, and it was monumentally terrible. He likes to think he got all bad writing out of his system in that single efficient sitting. Now, he has several publications, and more on the way.

So far, he's lived in six different countries. Perhaps as a result, his stories usually involve strange new worlds, often threatening, and the characters that somehow cope with living in them.