Author of Frame Shop, a mystery thriller set in a suburban writers' group, Net Impact, Wet Work, and Flash Drive, a series of spy thrillers which incorporate real-world conspiracy theories, GREENSWORD, a dark comedy about global warming, and Forced Conversion, a military science fiction novel set in the near future. Co-author of The Love-Haight Case Files, Books 1 and 2, paranormal legal thrillers about lawyers protecting the rights of supernatural creatures in a magic-filled San Francisco. Edited the ghost anthology, Familiar Spirits. Also author of a variety of short fiction in the science fiction, fantasy, thriller, horror, mystery, steampunk, romance, and comedy genres, including stories in the Dragonlance and Transformers universes and in a variety of DAW themed anthologies.

World's top-ranked player of RPGA Classic roleplaying game tournaments from 1985-2000.

See my writing and gaming resumes at www.donaldjbingle.com., including a listing of about fifty anthologies in which I have stories. Some of my previously published stories have been collected by theme in my Writer on Demand TM series and published on Kindle, including Tales of Gamers and Gaming, Tales of Humorous Horror, Tales Out of Time, Grim, Fair e-Tales, Tales of an Altered Past Powered by Romance, Horror, and Steam, Not-So-Heroic Fantasy, and Shadow Realities. My award-winning short memoir, Father's Day, is also available on Kindle, as is Gentlemanly Horrors of Mine Alone, the ninth story in Mike Stackpole's Chain Story Project.

I also have a series of humorous critiques (Season's Critiquings; Merry Mark-Up, Holiday Workshopping, and Santa Clauses and Phrases) of Christmas classics which writers, aspiring authors, and NaNoWriMo participants will find especially amusing.

Past Bram Stoker Award(R) nominee James Dorr combines the charm of a gentleman born in the US South with the wiles of a near-New York City upbringing, the canniness of a one-time New England resident, and the guile of an outwardly stolid Midwesterner, or so he says. It is known that he was born in Florida, grew up in New Jersey, went to college in Massachusetts, and currently lives in Indiana where he harbors a Goth cat named Triana. He is a short story writer and poet working mainly in dark fantasy and horror with forays into science fiction and mystery, an active member of HWA and SFWA, and has previously worked as a technical writer for an academic computing center, associate editor on a city magazine, a nonfiction freelance writer, and a semi-professional Renaissance musician.

See http://jamesdorrwriter.wordpress.com for more information on James's doings, past, present, and possible future. Feel free to drop a note as the spirit moves -- he's always happy to hear readers' comments, and often will answer, so let your friends know too.

"At his best Jeffreys writes memorable, perturbating prose with an overwhelming sense of menace. The stories stay with the reader, touching something in the psyche that is both troubling and intriguing." Bristol Review of Books.

"I've never before encountered a new author (new to me, in any event) whose work...grabs me so significantly from page one. When on his top form as demonstrated here...(Tim Jeffreys)...has the precious ability to grapple, I sincerely believe, with a writing gear in the horror or weird fiction genre beyond the reach of most."

D.F. Lewis.

http://timjeffreys.blogspot.co.uk/

An ardent short story reader and writer, Michael has had stories appear in the Sidekicks!, Deep Cuts, and Kwik Krimes anthologies as well as in periodical publications such as Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Nature, and Daily Science Fiction. His website is http://michaelhaynes.info/.

Thea Hutcheson explores far away lands full of magic and science with one hand holding hope and the other full of wonder while she burns up pages with lust, leather, and latex, brimming over with juicy bits. She lives in an economically depressed, unscenic, nearly historic small city in Colorado. She is a factotum when she is filling the time between bouts at the computer.

Brian K. Lowe is a member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association (SFWA), with over 50 publications to his credit. He has published eight novels, including his Stolen Future trilogy: The Invisible City, The Secret City, and The Cosmic City; and three books in the continuing adventures of Nemesis, a 1930s pulp hero. He has recently begun a new series in the Stolen Future universe, the Fugitive Future trilogy. Book one is titled The Valley Beneath the World. Recently he has added to his bibliography by posting two serials to Kindle Vella: sci-fi comedy Alien House, and pulp action series The Grey Phantom.

He says: It seems I've been writing all my life, and for some reason I've always been attracted to the odd, the unusual. In junior high English, I wasn't satisfied with using the characters from our grammar books for my exercises; I had to use Tarzan and Jane. I guess the teacher was amused, at least, because she never complained. In tenth grade I wrote a "novel" featuring my two best friends and me as space cadets. (No comments from the peanut gallery; it got me 100 extra credit points. Come to think of it, that was the first time I got "paid" for a story.)

In 2008, I attended the Taos Toolbox advanced writing workshop offered by award-winning author Walter Jon Williams, featuring Kelly Link as his co-instructor and Stephen R. Donaldson as guest lecturer. It was there that I learned about the Codex Writers Group, an invaluable source of news, advice, and support that I recommend to all newly-minted SF authors.

Look for me on Twitter @brianlowewriter. If you like what I do, leave a comment on my blog, Graffiti on the Walls of Time (brianklowe.wordpress.com), or write me at brianklowewriter@aol.com. If you don't like what I do, please be sure to buy everything I publish so you can help me improve.

Holly Schofield's stories have appeared in Analog, Lightspeed, and Tesseracts and many publications throughout the world. For more of her work, see hollyschofield.wordpress.com .

Julie Frost grew up an Army brat, traveling the globe. She thought she might settle down after she finished school, but then she married a pilot and moved six times in seven years. She's finally put down roots in Utah with her family--a herd of guinea pigs, two other humans, and a "kitten" who thinks she's a warrior princess--and a collection of anteaters and Oaxacan carvings, some of which intersect. She enjoys birding and nature photography, which also intersect. Utilizing her degree in biology, she writes werewolf fiction while completely ignoring the physics of a protagonist who triples in mass. She also writes other things, on occasion, as the fancy strikes her.

Her short fiction has appeared in Monster Hunter Files, Writers of the Future, The District of Wonders, StoryHack, Unlikely Story, Stupefying Stories, and too many anthologies to count. Her novels are published by WordFire Press and Ring of Fire Press. She whines about writing, a lot, at http://agilebrit.livejournal.com/

Tenacious and incorrigible, Kimber’s insatiable curiosity has led her to be a Jill of all Trades, dipping her toe in many walks of life. From her birth in California in the early 80’s, to her current residence in Corn Hell, Indiana, she has watched, listened, and learned all she could from the throngs of ubiquitous and unique humans along the way. Unable to contain her creative spirit, she began writing and painting in grade school, and now lives to create worlds with the brush and written word. She published her first fantasy novel Quietus, in 2009, and her second fantasy novel Seeking Destiny in 2012.

G. D. Penman is the author of more books than you can shake a reasonably-sized stick at, including series like Witch of Empire, Savage Dominion, Deepest Dungeon and The Last King.

Before finally realising that the career’s advisor lied to them about making a living as an author, G. D. Penman worked as an editor, tabletop game designer, and literally every awful demeaning job that you can think of in-between.

They are a veteran of the battlefields of Azeroth, Lordran, Tamriel and Thedas, but they left their heart in Baldur’s Gate.

Nowadays they can mostly be found writing fantasy novels and smoking a pipe in the sunshine.

They live in Dundee, Scotland with their partner, children, dog and cats. Just… so many cats.

www.gdpenman.com

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Wendy Nikel is a speculative fiction author with a degree in elementary education, a fondness for road trips, and a terrible habit of forgetting where she's left her cup of tea. Her short fiction has been published by Analog, Nature, Daily Science Fiction, and elsewhere. Her series of time travel novellas, beginning with THE CONTINUUM, was published by World Weaver Press. For more info, visit wendynikel.com

Liam Hogan was abandoned in a library at the tender age of 3, only to emerge blinking into the sunlight many years later with a head full of words and an aversion to loud noises.

London based and with a first class degree in Physics from Oxford, Liam is an award winning (Quantum Shorts 2015 & Roswell Award 2016) short story writer, appearing in over 50 anthologies, including the Amazon chart topping Political/Sci-Fi Anthology "Alternative Truths", and NewCon Press's "Best of British Sci-Fi 2016".

His twisted fantasy collection "Happy Ending NOT Guaranteed" is published by Arachne Press.

His work has been performed at Liars' League, NoSleep Podcast, and White Rabbit's "Are You Sitting Comfortably". You can find it in print at DailyScienceFiction, Gallery of Curiosities, and OpenPen, as well as the anthologies listed here and at http://happyendingnotguaranteed.blogspot.co.uk/.

He dreams in Dewey Decimals.

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John Taloni lives in Southern California with his wife and daughter. Three of their four cats share suspicious similarities with the main characters of "Crisis on Stardust Station." John's daughter also swears one of the cats can teleport, a trait you just might see in the sequel. "Shadow on the Moon" the second book in the Cats of Space series, is available on Kindle.