JONATHAN MABERRY is a New York Times bestselling author, 5-time Bram Stoker Award-winner, 3-time Scribe Award winner, Inkpot Award winner, anthology editor, writing teacher, and comic book writer. His vampire apocalypse book series, V-WARS, was a Netflix original series starring Ian Somerhalder. He writes in multiple genres including suspense, thriller, horror, science fiction, epic fantasy, and action; and he writes for adults, teens and middle grade. His works include the Joe Ledger thrillers, Kagen the Damned, Ink, Glimpse, the Rot & Ruin series, the Dead of Night series, The Wolfman, X-Files Origins: Devil’s Advocate, Mars One, and many others. Several of his works are in development for film and TV. He is the editor of high-profile anthologies including The X-Files, Aliens: Bug Hunt, Out of Tune, Don’t Turn out the Lights: A Tribute to Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, Baker Street Irregulars, Nights of the Living Dead, and others. His comics include Black Panther: DoomWar, The Punisher: Naked Kills and Bad Blood. His Rot & Ruin young adult novel was adapted into the #1 comic on Webtoon and is being developed for film by Alcon Entertainment. He the president of the International Association of Media Tie-in Writers, and the editor of Weird Tales Magazine. He lives in San Diego, California. Find him online at www.jonathanmaberry.com

USA Today Best-selling author Weston Ochse has been hailed by the American Library Association as “one of the major horror authors of the 21st Century (Seigel).” His work has won the Bram Stoker Award, been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, and won four New Mexico-Arizona Book Awards. A writer of more than forty books in multiple genres, his Burning Sky Duology has been hailed as the best military horror of the generation. His military supernatural series SEAL Team 666 is being shopped to be a movie with Dwayne Johnson and his military sci fi trilogy, which starts with Grunt Life, has been praised for its PTSD-positive depiction of soldiers at peace and at war. The books have also been characterized by scholars as the "perfect description of why it is not possible for soldiers to ever return to civilian life (Cooper)."

Weston's shorter work has appeared in DC Comics, IDW Comics, Soldier of Fortune Magazine, Cemetery Dance, Weird Tales, and peered literary journals. His franchise work includes the X-Files, Predator, Aliens, Hellboy, AVP, Joe Ledger, Sherlock Holmes, Clive Barker’s Nightbreed, and was a core author that established the Netflix V-Wars Series.

Weston holds a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing and teaches in the graduate program at Southern New Hampshire University. He is also a veteran with a combined 37 years of service, including multiple deployments, including two recent deployments to Afghanistan. He lives in Arizona with his wife, and fellow author, Yvonne Navarro and their many animals.

Feel free to reach out to him regarding any of his experiences, or if you just want to talk about your service.

CITE:

Cooper, Benjamin. “Conclusion.” Veteran Americans: Literature and Citizenship from Revolution to Reconstruction, University of Massachusetts Press, Amherst, 2018.

Siegel, Becky, and Spratford. The Readers’ Advisory Guide to Horror (Ala Readers’ Advisory Series). American Library Association, 2012.

W.D. Gagliani is the author of the horror/thriller WOLF'S TRAP, a past Bram Stoker Award nominee, as well as the Nick Lupo series WOLF'S GAMBIT, WOLF'S BLUFF, WOLF'S EDGE, WOLF'S CUT, and WOLF'S BLIND, plus the novella WOLF'S DEAL. Gagliani is also the author of the supernatural thriller THE JUDAS HIT and the hard-noir thriller SAVAGE NIGHTS, the collection SHADOWPLAYS, the pulp fantasy novella THE GREAT BELZONI AND THE GAIT OF ANUBIS (two versions), and various holiday-themed short stories such as "The Christmas Wolf," etc. His novella "Stranger Roads" will be published by Cemetery Dance Publications novella paperback and ebook line in January 2024.

Gagliani has written numerous short stories published in many anthologies, such as FEARFUL FATHOMS, ROBERT BLOCH'S PSYCHOS, UNDEAD TALES, MORE MONSTERS FROM MEMPHIS, THE MIDNIGHTERS CLUB, etc.

Additionally, the creative team of W.D. Gagliani and David Benton published the novel KILLER LAKE (Deadite Press, 2019), which was nominated in 2020 for both the Splatterpunk Award for Best Novel and the Indie Horror Book Award (Splatterpunk novel). The team of Gagliani and Benton has also published fiction in SNAFU: DEAD OR ALIVE, A FISTFUL OF DEMONS, THE X-FILES: TRUST NO ONE, SPLATTERPUNK: FIGHTING BACK (also translated into Italian), SPLATTERPUNK: PAST INDISCRETIONS, SNAFU: AN ANTHOLOGY OF MILITARY HORROR, SNAFU: WOLVES AT THE DOOR, ZIPPERED FLESH 2, MASTERS OF UNREALITY, DARK PASSIONS: HOT BLOOD 13, and more, including webzines such THE HORROR ZINE and DEAD LINES.

Gagliani has also written numerous book reviews, articles, and interviews that have been published in places such as THE MILWAUKEE JOURNAL SENTINEL, CHIZINE, CEMETERY DANCE, HORRORWORLD, PAPERBACK PARADE, CINEMA RETRO, HELLNOTES, FLESH & BLOOD, BOOKPAGE, BOOKLOVERS, THE SCREAM FACTORY, HORROR MAGAZINE, SF CHRONICLE, BARE BONES (first and second version), and others. His work was also published in the Writers Digest book ON WRITING HORROR, THEY BITE!, ZOMBIE WRITING!, and in the Edgar Award-nominated THRILLERS: 100 MUST READS. THE WRITER magazine published his article on writing werewolf epics in October 2011.

His interests include old and new progressive rock, a pile of analog synthesizers and his Theremin, weapons, history (and alternate history, secret history, and steampunk), military history, movies, book reviewing, and plain old reading and writing. He is a member of the Horror Writers Association (HWA), the International Thriller Writers (ITW), and the Authors Guild. He lives and writes in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Find him on Facebook and Twitter.

Copywriter by day, horror writer by night and surfer at the weekend, Kirsten Cross is based on the wilds of Exmoor and is surprisingly good natured for a horror writer. She is a serial contributor to the SNAFU military horror series, as well as the 2015 Steampunk tome 'Steamworld'. In between writing web content, getting battered by the Atlantic and practicing martial arts, she is currently exploring the wonders of Steampunk comedy, military vampire stories and a really disturbing little tale about a surfing vampire that spent time in the Catering Corps in the 19th century.

I made that last bit up.

Geoff is an award-winning Australian writer and Australian Shadows Award finalist-editor raised in Melbourne’s gritty Western Suburbs. He is a trained nurse, and holds a Cert. IV in Professional Writing and Editing, as well as a Dip. Arts (Professional Writing and Editing).

Geoff writes fiction across various genres, and is the author of many published short stories. He has had numerous articles published in newspapers, both regional and metropolitan.

He is the past president of the Australian Horror Writers Association (2011-2013), as well as the past director of the Australian Shadows Awards.

He owns Cohesion Press, an award-winning Australian publishing house focused on fast-paced military horror, and currently works with Tim Miller, director of Deadpool, as a senior story consultant.

He is also the owner of Asylum Ghost Tours.

Outside of his writing, David Benton has worn many hats, finding employment as a warehouse worker, landscaper, printing press operator, cheese maker, bricklayer, and janitor (long nights, impossible odds…). He is also a musician. Current projects include a collaborative novel with Bram Stoker Award-nominated author W.D. Gagliani and playing bass guitar with the heavy metal novelty act Beatallica.

“James A. Moore is the new prince of grimdark fantasy. His work is full of dark philosophy and savage violence, desperate warriors and capricious gods. This is fantasy for people who like to wander nighttime forests and scream at the moon. Exhilarating as hell."

—Christopher Golden, New York Times bestselling author of SNOWBLIND and ARARAT

“Gripping, horrific, and unique, James Moore continues to be a winner, whatever genre he’s writing in. Well worth your time.”

– Seanan McGuire, New York Times bestselling author of the InCryptid and Toby Daye series

James A. Moore’s, The Last Sacrifice, the 1st book in The Tides of War series, delivers on every level. A pulse quickening dark fantasy ripe with fascinating, multifaceted heroes and villains, and a vein of the horrific that barely hides, squirming just below the surface of it all. I can’t wait to see where this goes in Book 2.

Thomas E. Sniegoski – New York Times Best Selling author of The Fallen series, and the Remy Chandler books.

"You emerge from any Moore novel feeling like you've spent some time in that world––traumatised, beaten up, bloodied from battle––and The Last Sacrifice is no exception. Brilliantly imaginative, intricately drawn, this is a novel and an experience you won't forget in a hurry." - Tim Lebbon, author of The Silence and Relics

“THE LAST SACRIFICE is brilliant, devious, dark and compelling. This is epic fantasy at its very best. Highly recommended!” –Jonathan Maberry, NY Times bestselling author of KILL SWITCH and MARS ONE

JAMES A. MOORE is the author of over forty novels, including the critically acclaimed Fireworks, Under The Overtree, Blood Red, Blood Harvest, the Serenity Falls trilogy (featuring his recurring anti-hero, Jonathan Crowley) Cherry Hill, Alien: Sea of Sorrows and the Seven Forges series of novels. He has twice been nominated for the Bram Stoker Award and spent three years as an officer in the Horror Writers Association, first as Secretary and later as Vice President.

Never one to stay in one genre for too long, James has recently written epic fantasy novels in the series SEVEN FORGES (Seven Forges, the Blasted Lands, City of Wonders and The Silent Army). He is working on a new series called The Tides Of War. The first book in the series The Last Sacrifice, came out this last January and the sequel, Fallen Gods, is due out in late December. Pending novels also include A Hell Within (a Griffin & Price Novel) co-written with Charles R. Rutledge and an apocalyptic Sci-Fi novel tentatively called Spores. Why be normal?

Being a confirmed Luddite, he is working up the nerve to plunge completely into the electronic publications age.

David W. Amendola is a lifelong pulp fiction fan and history nerd who has written short stories since his retirement from the U.S. Air Force to keep from going stir crazy. He writes science-fiction, fantasy, western, horror, occult, military horror, hardboiled mysteries, and mashups of all these genres. His short story “The Secret War” was adapted into an animated feature for the Emmy-award-winning Netflix anthology Love, Death + Robots.

His website can be found at http://dwamendola.wixsite.com/authoramendola

Neal Litherland is a Northwest Indiana author who works primarily in science fiction, fantasy, and horror. He started his career as a freelancer and ghostwriter in 2008, and it took until 2012 for his fiction to see the light of day under his own name.

Brian W. Taylor is a former soldier turned genre fiction author with a soft spot for the horror genre, black Labs, and soul patches. He grew up in Rochester, New York watching movies like The Evil Dead with his grandmother before Cancer took her, which naturally led him to seek out horror in literature. It was then that he stumbled upon Dean Koontz, and never looked back. While horror is his first love, Sci-Fi/Fantasy is a close second. Authors like Margaret Weis, Tim Lebbon, and Will McIntosh line his shelves. Oh, and never ask him to touch an Ouija board, because he won’t. Ever.

He spent six years in the US Air Force as an aircraft fuel systems specialist. His time in the military hammered home a commitment to excellence as well as instilling a “can do” attitude. Brian still holds on to many of the core values he learned while serving.

When he was younger, Brian believes he saw the ghost of his great-aunt. He found out the next day she had passed the night before. He’s been a believer ever since. In his opinion, horror should be intelligent, play off reader’s fear of the unknown, and also be based around some kind of truth. He tries to bring those same characteristics to his stories and can’t imagine a life without monsters and the people who battle them.

He’s currently hard at work on his next book.

Once a Silicon Valley software engineer, Curtis C. Chen (陳致宇) now writes stories and runs puzzle games near Portland, Oregon. His debut novel Waypoint Kangaroo (a 2017 Locus Awards and Endeavour Award Finalist) is the first in a series of funny science fiction spy thrillers. He has written for the Realm originals Ninth Step Station, Machina, and Echo Park 2060 (forthcoming).

Curtis' short fiction has appeared in Playboy Magazine, Daily Science Fiction, Oregon Reads Aloud, and elsewhere. His homebrew cat feeding robot was displayed in the "Worlds Beyond Here" exhibit at Seattle's Wing Luke Museum. He is a graduate of the Clarion West and Viable Paradise writers' workshops.

Want to know a secret? There are visual clues hidden in the Kangaroo book covers that lead to online puzzle trails! Finding the rabbit holes is left as an exercise for the reader.

Learn more about Curtis at: https://curtiscchen.com