Samuel Peralta's work has hit the USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestsellers lists, and been shortlisted for Best American Science Fiction & Fantasy. His award-winning poetry has been spotlighted by the BBC and Best American Poetry. His 'Future Chronicles' anthologies were all #1 bestsellers on Amazon, as was the recently released collection of his own work, 'Memory's Children'.

Physicist, entrepreneur, storyteller - he's designed nuclear robotic tools, built solar plants, and founded companies in optoelectronics, mobile software, and artificial intelligence. He's a producer of independent film, including Golden Globe nominee 'The Fencer' and Emmy Award winner 'Real Artists'. And he cooks a mean risotto.

I've always been thinking of stories for as long as I've been alive. I have way, way, way too many to tell and far too little time to tell them.

In 2011 I actually started shaping and weaving those random, jumbling, chaotic masses of thoughts into coherent narratives and began self-publishing.

I write a little science fiction, a little fantasy, a little humour and comedy, and a few other things all over the place.

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Hugh Howey is the author of the award-winning Molly Fyde saga and the New York Times and USA Today bestselling WOOL series. The WOOL OMNIBUS won Kindle Book Review's 2012 Indie Book of the Year Award — it has been as high as #1 on Amazon — and 40 countries have picked up the work for translation. Ridley Scott and Steve Zaillian are adapting the work for 20th Century Fox.

I'm the hermit that has too many cats. I'm the fanatic that becomes way too involved in science fiction and fantasy films and dramas (Battlestar Galactica, Helix, True Blood, Marvel Films, etc). I'm the kind of guy that, once the biscuit packet is open, I eat the entire lot - yes, I have a sweet tooth.

I'm Geoff Wakeling; a gardener, conservationist and writer. If you read my work and you'll likely spy many creatures, whether centre stage or simply in the setting....I'm the man man that steps over ants and rescues languishing worms that have strayed onto the hot pavement. I'm also still awaiting the arrival of my Hogwart's Owl!

The world is sometimes a battle to deal with, so I escape into books. Try out Inside Evil; the fantasy series with fantastical creatures, parallel worlds and doppelgangers. If you're looking for a zombie story, then try Pacifier 6; a world where mutants have been pacified into a docile slave force through medicine. Or, if you love a little science fiction and dystopian, pick up CRYO and follow John's journey as he enters cryonic sleep and awaits his future.

Peter is a New Zealand Australian science fiction writer, specialising in making hard science fiction easy to understand and thoroughly enjoyable.

His FIRST CONTACT series is topical rather than character-based, meaning each book stands alone. These novels can be read in any order, but they all focus on the same topic of First Contact with extraterrestrial lifeforms. In this regard, the series is akin to BLACK MIRROR or THE TWILIGHT ZONE.

Hard science fiction is a misnomer as far as categories of literature go, as it sounds harsh and difficult to understand, but that is far from reality. Hard science fiction is simply plausible science fiction, fiction that is written in such a way as it conforms to the known laws of science, and that makes it more interesting, as there's no magic wand the protagonist can wave to get out of trouble. Peter's forays into hard science fiction could best be described as informative science fiction or enjoyable science fiction.

Peter is a fan of such classic science fiction writers as Philip K. Dick, Arthur C. Clarke and Michael Crichton and their influence on his style and story lines is readily apparent. You can follow Peter on Facebook or Twitter or find him posting some interesting tibit on his blog http://thinkingscifi.wordpress.com/

In a former life, Lesley Smith was a freelance journalist, but now writes fiction full time as Asha Bardon.

Asha's hobbies include baking, archery and binge-watching box sets. She lives in a quaint Norfolk market town with an ever-growing number of cats and her guide dog, Unis.

Find Asha at:

Twitter: @AshaBardon

Facebook: /tenthmusepublishing

Pinterest and Instagram: AshaBardon

Blog: www.ashabardon.com

The Ashteraiverse Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1607302972847560

Deirdre Gould lives in Central Maine with her three children and husband. She's also resided in northern Idaho, coastal Virginia and central Pennsylvania, but all of them just led her back home.The winters sure are cold, but that just means the zombies run slower. The area is isolated, but that just means the apocalyptic diseases don't spread as quickly. And the storms are bad enough that no one thinks you're crazy for "prepping." It's kind of ideal for a post-apocalypse writer when you think about it.

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Will Swardstrom is a speculative fiction author. He has two full length novels, Dead Sleep and Dead Sight, and is at work on the finale in the trilogy.

He also has three stories in The Future Chronicles anthology series (Uncle Allen in The Alien Chronicles, Z Ball in The Z Chronicles, and The Control in The Immortality Chronicles). Each of those anthologies has charted in the Top 5 on the SF Anthology list and The Alien Chronicles reached as high as #6 on the Overall Top 100 List. The Control from The Immortality Chronicles has been nominated for Best American Science Fiction.

He also has a few stories set in Hugh Howey's WOOL Universe among his various other short stories and novellas. He lives in Southern Illinois with his wife and two kids.

Christopher Boore writes to a punk rock beat...the aspiring Mandalorian Merc, husband, father, electrician/chef, has dipped his foot into the literary swimming-pool with his first self-published sci-fi short, Next Up, and is currently working his way up to a solid doggie-paddle amongst the warm waters and sandy beaches of South Florida's Treasure Coast.

Theresa Kay writes stories that feature flawed characters, found family, and a bit of romance in science fiction, urban fantasy, and paranormal worlds. She's constantly lost in one fictional universe or another and is a self-proclaimed "fangirl" who loves being sucked into new books, movies, or TV shows. Living in the mountains of central Virginia with her husband and two kids, she spends her free time reading tons of books, binging anime and Doctor Who, and playing Tomb Raider and Assassin’s Creed.

Connect with Theresa by joining her Facebook Reader's Group (theresakay.com/booklink/743601).

Jennifer Foehner Wells' debut novel, Fluency, rocketed up the Amazon charts in 2014 and was a frequent KDP Select All-Star. Her sequel, Remanence, was a finalist in the 2016 Goodreads Choice Awards.

Jen is a serial hobbyist (Handy to have around in any upcoming zombie apocalypse). She cooks, bakes, knits by hand, dyes fiber, spins yarn with a spinning wheel, paints with watercolor, and cares for aquaria and houseplants. In the past she has also made beer and wine, quilts and hand-hooked rugs, socks with antique sock machines, soap, gardens, paper, and bound books. She also games. And reads science fiction and fantasy almost exclusively.

Jen currently lives in Pennsylvania with the geekiest literature professor on the planet, two video-game crazed teenaged boys, a couple of unhinged cats, a very barky Great Pyrenees, and a Pekingese/Chihuahua mix that will steal your heart, if you let him.

To find out more about Jen, visit: www.jenthulhu.com.

Hello, and welcome. I'm a novelist, a writer of short stories and occasional media articles.

In October 2014, my short story, 'Crowning Glory', was the winner of the International Writing Award at the SMHAFF festival. In 2016, I was shortlisted for the Escalator Fiction Prize.

The same year, I released my first novel, 'What Comes From the Earth', a thriller set in contemporary South Africa. There are some unedited extracts available on my website at www.4thousandwords.blogspot.com.

In 2017, I released a new sci-fi novella called 'This Burning Man', set in post-nuclear Arizona. Go to www.thisburningman.blogspot.com if you would like to know more!

In 2019, the first edition of my co-written serial, 'The Caribou Chronicles' became available on Kindle.

I'm currently based in Norwich, England's only City of Literature.

Angela is a Best Selling Kindle and Amazon SF/F Author. She is a two time recipient of an Honorable Mention in the L. Ron Hubbard Writers of the Future Contest. Her debut novel, Otherworlders, has been well received. She is a contributor to Amazon Best Selling anthology The A.I. Chronicles, as well as two other editions from The Future Chronicles.

Ellen Campbell is a lifelong bibliophile whose love for the written word crosses genres. A standout editor in the independent scene since 2013, Ellen’s credits include over two hundred and fifty titles, a feat that has landed her (briefly) in Amazon’s Top 10 sci-fi authors on several occasions. She edited six volumes of the international best-selling Future Chronicles, five volumes of Beyond the Stars and was Editor-in-Charge of the Apocalypse Weird Metaverse. Now Senior Editor, producer, and contributor at Keystroke Medium.

She currently resides in Rocket City, USA, with her long-suffering husband and a half-grown Catahoula Leopard Dog.

Find her at ellencampbelledits.com or keystrokemedium.com

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Ann Christy is a retired Navy officer and secret science fiction author. A USA Today and Wall Street Journal Bestselling author of speculative fiction for both young adult and adult audiences, her work is known for deep themes as well as action packed adventures. She lives by the sea under the benevolent rule of her canine overlord and the less benevolent rule of an incredibly foul-mouthed cat.

Contact Ann Christy via her website: http://www.annchristy.com. You can find sneak peeks and a great deal of randomness suitable for killing at least 20 minutes of work time.

USA Today #14 and Wall Street Journal #4 - August 2017 - Dominion Rising