When I was in high school, I devoured the works of Piers Anthony, Terry Brooks, and the Dragonlance Chronicles by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman. I just couldn’t get enough. But no matter what I read, it never seemed to have enough action in it, so in my senior year I resolved to write my own fantasy novel “with enough action in it." It was pretty bad, but at the time I thought it was awesome, so I wrote a second novel. It was also pretty bad, but I thought it was awesome so I wrote a third (aaaaand repeat).

Now, many novels later, I’m a full-time writer. I have a few accolades. I’m a winner of the New York Public Library’s Books for the Teen Age Award. My Tower of the Four, Threadweavers and The Whisper Prince epic fantasy series have all been bestsellers. My time travel novel, Charlie Fiction, was a finalist in the Colorado Authors League Best of 2019. But as fun as all of those things are, the best accolades are when I talk face-to-face with a fan. I go to a lot of cons, and when a fan takes the time to come up and tell me they liked my stories, it puts me up in the clouds.

This is why I write: to spend time with heroes in worlds where anything can happen and to get those stories to readers who want to spend time there, too.

In my spare time, I’m a black belt in Taekwondo and I teach at the Family Taekwondo Center of Littleton. I spend as much time as I can with my quirky family, swapping bodily-function-humor with my teenage son and scribing this generation’s colorful slang from my teenage daughter. I’ve also been known to play Ticket to Ride to excess with my wife (and online with friends). I also often wrestle with Galahad the Weimaraner, my dog.

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Amazon bestselling author and editor L. J. Hachmeister writes and fights - although she tries not to do them at the same time. L. J. is a world champion stick-fighter, a black belt in Doce Pares Eskrima and Taekwondo, and a brown belt in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, but maintains that no opponent is as daunting as the last 30% of a manuscript.

L. J. is a cross-genre author under the umbrella of science fiction/fantasy. Her Cuban roots and LGBTQA+ ties greatly impact her writing, as well as her career as a registered nurse. However, her love for rescuing puppies and working with charity organizations drives her passion to succeed as an author so she can continue to give to those in need. L. J. is an avid sponsor for "Lifeline Puppy Rescue."

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Neo Edmund is a Non-Binary international best-selling author, screenwriter, comic book scribe, and actor. Neo began their Hollywood career as an actor appearing on numerous television shows, most notably 100 episodes of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers.

Opting to pursue their passion for writing, Neo transitioned into the creative side of the film and TV industry. Neo is the author of the bestselling novel series The Red Riding Alpha Huntress Chronicles. His most recent works include three Power Rangers novels for Penguin Books and a new comic book series / TV development with Storm King Productions titled The Grimms Town Terror Tales.

Neo has written for companies including Hasbro, Saban, Penguin Random House, History Channel, Discovery Channel, Animal Planet, Spike TV, JumpStart Interactive, Zenoscope, and most recently Storm King Productions.

Sarah A. Hoyt was born (and raised) in Portugal and now lives in Colorado with her husband, two sons, and a variable number of cats, depending on how many show up to beg on the door step.

In between lays the sort of resume that used to be de-rigueur for writers. She has never actually wrestled alligators, but she did at one point very briefly tie bows on bags of potpourri for a living. She has also washed dishes and ironed clothes for a living. Worst of all she was, for a long time, a multilingual scientific translator.

At some point, though, she got tired of making an honest living and started writing. She has over 32 -- the number keeps changing -- published novels, in science fiction, fantasy, mystery, historical mystery, historical fantasy and historical biography. Her short stories have been published in Analog, Asimov's, Amazing Stories (under a previous management), Weird tales, and a number of anthologies from DAW and Baen. Her space-opera novel Darkship Thieves was the 2011 Prometheus Award Winner, and at this moment the third novel in the series, A Few Good Men, is a finalist for the honor.

Sarah also won the Dragon Award for Uncharted (With Kevin J. Anderson.)

She also writes under the names Sarah D'Almeida and Elise Hyat.

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Russell Nohelty is a USA TODAY bestselling author of science fiction and fantasy books that are both entertaining and thought-provoking. He fills his books with action, adventure, mystery, and thrills.

Russell was born in northern New Jersey, grew up in Northern Virginia, went to college in Maryland, and now lives in Los Angeles with his wife and dogs, which he loves.

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Dave (D.J.) Butler writes adventure stories for all readers. He has been a lawyer, a consultant, and a corporate trainer. His interests include languages, guitar, hanging out with his wife and kids, astronomy, and history.

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Author, editor, and freelancer Josh Vogt has been published in dozens of genre markets with work ranging from flash fiction to short stories to novels that cover fantasy, science fiction, horror, humor, pulp, and more. He also writes for a wide variety of RPG developers such Paizo, Modiphius, and Privateer Press. His debut fantasy novel, Forge of Ashes, adds to the RPG Pathfinder Tales tie-in line. His urban fantasy series, The Cleaners, is published by Story Strong Press and includes Enter the Janitor, The Maids of Wrath, The Dustpan Cometh, and Fellowship of the Squeegee. Other works include Solar Singularity from WordFire Press and the Fate's Fangs tie-in novel. A Compton Crook Award and Scribes Award finalist, he’s a member of SFWA as well as the International Association of Media Tie-In Writers. Find him at JRVogt.com or on Twitter @JRVogt. He is made out of meat.

R.R. Virdi is a USA Today Bestselling author, two-time Dragon Award finalist, and a Nebula Award finalist. He is the author of two urban fantasy series, The Grave Report, and The Books of Winter. The author of the LitRPG/portal fantasy series, Monster Slayer Online. And the author of a space western/sci fi series, Shepherd of Light. He has worked in the automotive industry as a mechanic, retail, and in the custom gaming computer world. He's an avid car nut with a special love for American classics.

The hardest challenge for him up to this point has been fooling most of society into believing he's a completely sane member of the general public.

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Yudhanjaya Wijeratne is the Nebula Award-nominated author of Numbercaste, The Inhuman Race, and several other stories. He works as a researcher with the Data, Algorithms and Policy team at LIRNEasia, a think tank working across the Global South; he also cofounded Watchdog Sri Lanka, a factchecker.

Find him online at www.yudhanjaya.com or @yudhanjaya on Twitter.

E.A. Copen is a coffee addict living in West Virginia with her cats and books. When she’s not writing, she enjoys cooking and watching just about everything but romantic comedies (unless there are zombies in them).

She’s been a film school dropout, a professional puppeteer, and retail rebel, all of which allowed her to develop a cynical sense of humor. She is also an unapologetic nerd and occasional enjoyer of comic books and anime.

She is a prolific writer of inclusive, action-oriented urban fantasy, horror, and science fiction with several Amazon bestselling novels.

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