New York Times bestselling author Alethea Kontis is a princess, storm chaser, and adventurer. She has authored over 20 books and 40 short stories, including AlphaOops: The Day Z Went First (Candlewick), Enchanted (HMH) and Prince Phillip’s Birthday Waltz (Disney). Alethea is the recipient of the Jane Yolen Mid-List Author Grant, the Scribe Award, the Garden State Teen Book Award, and two-time winner of the Gelett Burgess Children’s Book Award. She has been twice nominated for both the Andre Norton Nebula and the Dragon Award. She was an active contributor to The Fireside Sessions, a benefit EP created by Snow Patrol and her fellow Saturday Songwriters in 2020. Alethea also narrates stories for multiple award-winning online magazines and contributes regular YA book reviews to NPR. Born in Vermont, she currently resides on the Space Coast of Florida with her teddy bear, Charlie. Find out more about Princess Alethea at aletheakontis.com

Tony Jones has dined with royalty, supped Slings in Singapore and been taught by several Nobel Prize winners (though he could have paid more attention). He is a writer and blogger based in the early 21st Century.

An award winning author, he was Audio Drama Editor for Starburst Magazine, now reviews for CultBox and TheDoctorWhoCompanion. He wrote the Big Finish Companion Chronicles: Tactics of Defeat, Short Trips Doctor Who story Rulebook and the Doctor Who Subscriber Short Trips stories Helmstone and Tuesday. He also contributed a short story to the collection A Treasury of Brenda and Effie (thanks Paul Magrs and all at Obverse Books)!

He writes about creativity and produces the kind of science fiction and fantasy he liked to read in the 1970s. He released a Bradbury style psychological drama set on Mars called Jezero Station and has stories in the Castle of Horror 4 and 5 collections. He followed this with a set of short stories for Halloween — Recollections of Fear! This has spawned Recollections of Fear 2. More to come!