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Ian Watson, born 1943, has 40 or 50 books to his credit, mainly SF, including almost a dozen story collections, now available as ebooks through Gollancz´s www.sfgateway.com (except for the 4 lurid psychotic Gothic space operas which he wrote for Games Workshop´s Warhammer 40K universe). Almost a year spent eyeball to eyeball with Stanley Kubrick resulted in screen credit for the Screen Story of A.I. Artificial Intelligence, directed by Steven Spielberg after Kubrick´s death.

Nowadays Ian lives in the north of Spain, with a lively website at www.ianwatson.info

The photo shows him in the ancient library of the University of Salamanca in November 2012.

His most recent novel, in collaboration with Andy West, is The Waters of Destiny in the form of 3 ebooks, Assassins, Tongue of Knowledge, and Death Overflows (see www.watersofdestiny.com) about the true cause of the Black Death.

L J Goulding was born in London, grew up in Burton-upon-Trent, then experienced a slight regression in Winchester, before eventually settling in Nottingham to become a full time writer and editor in 2011. In addition to managing the New York Times bestselling series 'The Horus Heresy' for Games Workshop, he wrote many e-shorts and full cast audio dramas for their various Warhammer franchises, as well as the novel 'Slaughter at Giant's Coffin'. Now, as a narrative director at Riot Games, he still makes time to work on short stories and lore for the League of Legends universe, including the 2019 debut companion book 'Realms of Runeterra'.

He currently endures the torments of the blazing California sun in Los Angeles, where he has yet to find a pint of ale that can satisfy his refined Midlands palate.

Originally hailing from the rainswept land of the Picts, Steve Parker currently resides in Tokyo, Japan. His novels to date include Rebel Winter, Gunheads, Rynn's World, Deathwatch and its first sequel, Deathwatch: Shadowbreaker, plus a gauntlet-covered fistful of short stories and novellas (listed below):

'Stray Dog Swordsman on Redemption Road' in Talebones 31

'Starfish' in Apex Magazine/Best of Apex

'The Falls of Marakross' (Warhammer 40,000)

'Mercy Run' (Warhammer 40,000)

'The Citadel' (Warhammer 40,000)

'Headhunted' (Warhammer 40,000)

'Exhumed' (Warhammer 40,000)

'Survivor' (Warhammer 40,000)

'Pedro Kantor: Vengeful Fist' (Warhammer 40,000)

'Culling the Horde' (Warhammer 40,000)

'Messiah Complex' (Warhammer 40,000)

Anthony (Tony) Reynolds was born on the edge of the Canadian prairies in Winnipeg, Manitoba. His mother, Norah, was the first white child born in the area of northern Saskatchewan where her father, a Presbyterian minister, rode horseback to his scattered congregations. Her grandfather, an immigrant from Scotland in 1871 at the age of 27, and on whom the principal character in this novel is based, wrote 30,000 words of letters back to Scotland over the next 30 years, chronicling the opening of the Canadian West.

Tony won a scholarship to Princeton University to study Chinese history. A fascination with Asia led him to India (the Maoist Cultural Revolution was in full swing making China inaccessible), initially to do volunteer work which morphed into contracts with Canadian newspapers. Seven years later, after nearly being expelled for revealing that India was on the verge of making nuclear weapons, he returned to Canada. In a total career change, he joined the Finance Ministry in the Government of Canada and then the Industry Department, rising to the rank of Assistant Deputy Minister. He was appointed the Executive Director of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples, a five year, $50 million examination of the issues that will determine the future of Canada's indigenous peoples.

Pursuing a life-long interest, Tony and his wife, Rachel, bought an organic farm on Vancouver Island and tilled the land for a dozen years. They continue to live in Comox, where he writes, bikes and volunteers many hours with L'Arche, an NGO supporting adults with developmental disabilities.

Chris Wraight is a writer of fantasy and science fiction. He's published many books set in the Warhammer Fantasy, Warhammer 40,000 and Stargate:Atlantis universes. He's based in the south-west of England.

Chris Roberson is the co-creator with artist Michael Allred of iZombie, the basis of the hit CW television series, and the writer of several New York Times best-selling Cinderella miniseries set in the world of Bill Willingham’s Fables. He is also the co-creator of Edison Rex with artist Dennis Culver, and the co-writer of Hellboy and the B.P.R.D, Witchfinder, Rise of the Black Flame, and other titles set in the world of Mike Mignola’s Hellboy. In addition to his numerous comics projects, Roberson has written more than a dozen novels and three dozen short stories, and has been a finalist for the World Fantasy Award four times; twice a finalist for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer; three times a finalist for the Eisner Awards; and has won the Sidewise Award for Best Alternate History in both the Short Form and Novel categories. He lives with a teenager, two cats, and far too many books in Portland, Oregon.

George Mann is a Sunday Times bestselling novelist and scriptwriter.

He’s the author of the Newbury & Hobbes Victorian mystery series, as well as four novels about a 1920s vigilante known as The Ghost. He’s also written bestselling Doctor Who novels, new adventures for Sherlock Holmes and the forthcoming supernatural crime series, Wychwood.

His comic writing includes extensive work on Doctor Who, Dark Souls, Warhammer 40,000 and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

He’s written audio scripts for Doctor Who, Blake’s 7, Sherlock Holmes, Warhammer 40,000 and more.

As Editor he’s assembled four anthologies of original Sherlock Holmes fiction, as well as multiple volumes of The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction and The Solaris Book of New Fantasy.

His website is at www.george-mann.com, and you can find him on Twitter at @george_mann

Josh Reynolds is a professional freelance writer. In addition to his own work, he has written for several tie-in franchises, including Gold Eagle's Executioner line and Black Library's Warhammer Fantasy and Warhammer 40K lines. He has also written numerous non-fiction articles and reviews.

A complete list of his published works can be found at http://joshuamreynolds.wordpress.com/

James Swallow is a New York Times, Sunday Times and Amazon bestselling author, a British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) nominee, a former journalist and the award-winning writer of over fifty books, along with numerous scripts for video games, radio and television.

His Marc Dane novels are fast-paced action thrillers featuring a former MI6 field officer turned private security operative; NOMAD, the first in the series, is published in the US by Forge. Book two - EXILE - will be on sale in May 2019.

For exclusive content, information on new releases and a FREE deleted scene from NOMAD, sign up to the Readers’ Club here: www.bit.ly/JamesSwallow

You can also follow James on Twitter at @jmswallow for more updates or visit his official website at https://jswallow.com/.

Dan Abnett is a novelsit and award-winnig comic book writer. He has written twenty-five novels for the Black Library, including the acclaimed Gaunt's Ghosts series and the Eisenhorn and Ravenor trilogies, and with Mike Lee, the Darkblade cycle. His Black Library novel Horus Rising and his Torchwood novel Border Princes (for the BBC) were both bestsellers. He lives and works in Maidstone, Kent.

John French is an award winning script writer, novelist, and games designer. He has written twelve novels over a decade long career, notably the Ahriman series and Horusian Wars trilogies set in the dystopian far future of Warhammer 40,000, and five novels in the New York Times Bestselling The Horus Heresy series, most recently with The Solar War. His other work includes cosmic horror in the Lord of Nightmares Trilogy from Fantasy Flight Publishing, and detective fiction in The Last Visitor in Further Associates of Sherlock Holmes from Titan Books (writing as Stephen Henry). In 2018 he won a Scribe Award for Best Audio with the audio drama Agent of the Throne: Blood and Lies.

JONATHAN GREEN is a writer of speculative fiction, with more than seventy books to his name. Well known for his contributions to the Fighting Fantasy range of adventure gamebooks, he has also written fiction for such diverse properties as Doctor Who, Star Wars: The Clone Wars, Warhammer, Warhammer 40,000, Sonic the Hedgehog, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Moshi Monsters, LEGO, Judge Dredd, Robin of Sherwood, and Frostgrave.

He is the creator of the Pax Britannia series for Abaddon Books and has written eight novels, and numerous short stories, set within this steampunk universe, featuring the debonair dandy adventurer Ulysses Quicksilver. Steampunk and dieselpunk have left their mark on his latest gamebook publications as well, 2015’s Alice’s Nightmare in Wonderland, and the forthcoming The Wicked Wizard of Oz.

He is the author of an increasing number of non-fiction titles, including the award-winning YOU ARE THE HERO – A History of Fighting Fantasy Gamebooks, and he has recently taken to editing and compiling short story anthologies, including the critically-acclaimed GAME OVER, SHARKPUNK, and Shakespeare Vs Cthulhu, all published by Snowbooks.

To find out more about his current projects visit www.JonathanGreenAuthor.com and follow him on Twitter @jonathangreen.

William King lives in Prague, Czech Republic with his lovely wife Radka and his sons Dan and William Karel. He has been a professional author and games developer for almost a quarter of a century. He is the creator of the bestselling Gotrek and Felix series for Black Library and the author of the bestselling Space Wolf books which between them have sold over three quarters of a million copies in English and been translated into 8 languages.

He has been nominated for the David Gemmell Legend Award. His short fiction had appeared in Year’s Best SF and Best of Interzone. He has twice won the Origins Awards For Game Design. His hobbies include role-playing games and MMOs as well as travel.

Justin was born in the Bahamas, a luxurious beginning to life, of which he has almost no recollection. His first proper memories are of rainy Yorkshire, instead.

After stumbling across Dungeons and Dragons when he was ten years old, he bought his first White Dwarf #32 for an article about Rings of Power. He has grown up with the Warhammer hobby and as a long-time IG player, its a rare honour to add a little bit more of blood to the Grim Dark future.

For more information see www.justinhillauthor.com

Twitter: @JHillAuthor

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/justinhillauthor/

Interview: https://www.trackofwords.com/2017/09/23/rapid-fire-justin-d-hill-on-cadia-stands/

In the RealWorld™ Justin D. Hill writes under the cunning pseudonym Justin Hill.

Toby Frost is the author of the Dark Renaissance and Space Captain Smith series, and two stand-alone novels.

The Dark Renaissance series tells the story of Giulia Degarno, mercenary and assassin, in a fantasy world full of hardboiled action and grimdark intrigue. Expect devious princes, deadly plots and magically-enhanced technology.

The Imposters tells the story of two mismatched secret agents - a memory-wiped spy and a reprogrammed android - trying to unravel a conspiracy that spans the galaxy. Full of adventure and dry humour, it's a fast moving espionage novel - in space!

The six Space Captain Smith novels, published by Myrmidon Books, are comedy space opera set in a space empire threatened by giant ants and enraged lemming-people. Think "Blackadder meets Flashman in space" and you've got the idea.

Straken is a Warhammer 40,000 novel published by Games Workshop's Black Library. Colonel Straken of the Imperial Guard campaigns against the vicious orks in a tale of black humour and grim adventure. Colonel Straken's adventures continue in several short stories.

Cavan Scott is a New York Times bestselling author whose work includes novels, television, comic books and award winning audio dramas. He has written for a large number of high-profile series including Star Wars, Doctor Who, Assassin's Creed, Pacific Rim, Transformers, Back to the Future, Star Trek, Vikings, Adventure Time, Sherlock Holmes and more.

His latest creator-owned comic book series, the supernatural urban fantasy Shadow Service, launched in 2020 from Vault comics.

In 2018, Cavan became one of the five story architects selected to create Lucasfilm’s new multi-media initiative, Star Wars: The High Republic and he is currently writing the ongoing Marvel comic of the same name, as well as numerous books in the series. Cavan has written widely in the galaxy far, far away, from the Tales from Vader's Castle series to the Audie nominated Star Wars Dooku Jedi Lost. In 2020, he joined the writing team for Star Wars Kid's children’s game show, Star Wars: Jedi Temple Challenge and was the co-writer of Audible’s original audio drama Sherlock Holmes: The Voice of Treason. He is currently developing a number of original comic book and television properties.

Before becoming a full-time writer, Cavan was a magazine editor for Future Publishing in the UK, launching a number of successful magazines including Countryfile, based on the hit BBC One series.

A member of The Society of Authors and the Horror Writer's Association, Cavan lives in the west of England with his wife and two daughters. His passions include learning the concertina, folklore, the music of David Bowie, and scary movies. He builds far too much LEGO.

He can be found on twitter @cavanscott. Come and say hello!

Alec Worley is an author from South London. He writes stories for readers (and listeners) of all ages who like smart, funny and – above all – thrilling tales of fantasy, horror and sci-fi.

If you’re into stories about swords, fangs and lasers, then you’re in luck!

Best known for his work on 2000 AD (the home of Judge Dredd), Star Wars and Games Workshop's Warhammer, he’s also created many stories of his own. He is the co-creator of apocalyptic werewolf saga Age of the Wolf (with Jon Davis-Hunt for 2000 AD), paranormal comedy Dandridge (with Warren Pleece for 2000 AD), and plenty more either in the pipeline or waiting to be announced on his website www.alecworley.com

Having served in a hundred different offices as a keyboard monkey Rob J. Hayes finally decided to follow his life long passion of daydreaming. After writing a small horde's worth of short stories, he released his debut dark fantasy trilogy "The Ties that Bind" in 2013 as an indie publication and followed it up with the steampunk caper "It Takes a Thief to Catch a Sunrise" in 2014.

In 2017 he released his piratical duology, Best Laid Plans, and in 2018 the first book, Where Loyalties Lie won Mark Lawrence's Self Published Fantasy Blog Off.

Rob has now tried his hand at Science-Fiction (Drones, 2018) and Military Fantasy (City of Kings, 2018), and even East-Asian influenced fantasy (Never Die, 2019).

"One of self publishing's rising stars" - Mark Lawrence, author of Prince of Thorns

"Hayes spins a tale like a wushu master spins a kick - with deft speed, grace, and bone-crushing impact." - Dyrk Ashton, author of Paternus

“Books like this deserve to be read by all lovers of fantasy. It’s got just about everything you could ask for in the genre; and a few things you’d never think to ask.” – Filip, BookNest.eu

“Hayes writes some of the darkest and most brutal fiction around." - Fantasy Book Review

“Rob J. Hayes remains one of the best writers of grimdark fantasy around and should always be mentioned with Erikson, Lawrence, Abercrombie, and Morgan. He is a master of making compelling and memorable characters that always capture your attention.” – BookNest

Justin Woolley has been writing stories since he could first scrawl with a crayon. When he was six years old he wrote his first book, a 300 word pirate epic in unreadable handwriting called 'The Ghost Ship'. He promptly declared that he was now an author and didn't need to go to school. Despite being informed that this was, in fact, not the case, he continued to make things up and write them down.

Today Justin is the author of the Australian set dystopian trilogy The Territory Series consisting of the novels A Town Called Dust, A City Called Smoke and the recently released finale A World of Ash. He also writes the web serial Listening to the Other Side, a fictional blog about talking to the dead.

Justin lives in Melbourne, Australia with his wife and two sons. In his other life he's been an engineer, a teacher and at one stage even a magician. His handwriting has not improved.

Author of the Ecko trilogy (a sardonic CyberPunk/Fantasy mashup) and Children of Artifice (an LGBT science fantasy). Also writes Sisters of Battle for the Black Library and Judge Anderson for Rebellion, plus numerous short stories.

Single Mum, original geek, champion platespinner. Role-player, re-enactor, cat-lover and fitness freak.

Edoardo Albert is a writer of Sri Lankan and Italian extraction based in London. He writes about history and archaeology, particularly of the early Medieval period, as well as writing historical and speculative fiction.

Find out more about him and his work at https://edoardoalbert.com. Follow him on Twitter @EdoardoAlbert or like him on Facebook.

Gavin G. Smith is the Dundee-born author of the hard edged, action-packed SF novels Veteran, War in Heaven, the Age of Scorpio trilogy, the Bastard Legion series, as well as the survival horror novel Special Purposes: First Strike, the fantasy novella Chivalry, and the short story collection Crysis Escalation. He has collaborated with Stephen Deas as the composite personality Gavin Deas and co-written Elite: Wanted, and the shared world series Empires: Infiltration and Empires: Extraction.

Praise for his writing:

"Age Of Scorpio announces loud and clear that in Gavin Smith an exceptional talent has arrived to uplift SF. The book is a master class of twisting plot lines that celebrate both the weird and astounding, amid a future that's deeply unnerving yet equally compelling." (Peter F Hamilton)

"Gavin Smith's writing is a brutal kaleidoscope of imagination, with the raw energy of a heavy metal album cover: equally dazzling with bloodthirsty ancient Picts and the fallen post-humans of tomorrow." (Hannu Rajaniemi, author of The Causal Angel)

"Brutatlity, mind-expanding concepts, imaginative aliens and provocative themes..." (SFX)

"Gavin Smith changes the rules of engagement." (Stephen Baxter)

Marc Collins is a speculative fiction writer from Glasgow, Scotland, covering diverse topics from Norse werewolves to the grim darkness of the far future. When not working in Pathology, he enjoys a dram and pondering our transhuman future, inspired by writers such as Iain M Banks.

Darius Hinks is an author, primarily in the science fiction and fantasy genres. He was born near Birmingham, England, in 1972. He works and lives in Nottinghamshire. Hinks' first novel, Warrior Priest, won the David Gemmel Morningstar award.

Denny Flowers is a science fiction and fantasy writer writing primarily for the Black Library. He is the author of the novel Fire Made Flesh, the novella Low Lives, and numerous short stories.

He enjoys writing fiction but struggles with author bios, being naturally introverted and uncomfortable referring to himself in the third person. It feels unsettling, as though inviting a Dark Half-style scenario.

He lives in Kent and is ever watchful of sparrows.

Robert Rath is an author and screenwriter from Honolulu, Hawaii. Though primarily known as head writer of the popular YouTube show Extra History—where his scripts have attracted more than 150 million views—he's also written numerous stories set in the Warhammer 40,000 and Warhammer: Age of Sigmar universes, including the necrons novel THE INFINITE AND THE DIVINE, the Warhammer Crime novella "Bleedout," and numerous short stories. He lives in Hong Kong with his family and a growing pile of models that he *swears* are for research.

Maria Haskins is a Swedish-Canadian writer and reviewer of speculative fiction. Her short story collection SIX DREAMS ABOUT THE TRAIN is out now from Trepidatio Publishing. Maria's short fiction has appeared in The Best Horror of the Year Volume 13, Black Static, Interzone, Fireside, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Cast of Wonders, Shimmer, Flash Fiction Online, Gamut, Capricious, Kaleidotrope, PseudoPod, and elsewhere.

Maria currently lives just outside Vancouver with a husband, two kids, several birds, a snake, and a very large black dog.

Peter McLean was born near London in 1972, the son of a bank manager and an English teacher. He went to school in the shadow of Norwich Cathedral where he spent most of his time making up stories.

He has since grown up a bit, if not a lot, and spent 25 years working in corporate IT. He is married to Diane and is still making up stories.

He is the author of the War for the Rose Throne series, beginning with Priest of Bones, and is represented by Jennie Goloboy at DMLA.

Jonathan D. Beer is a science fiction and alternative history writer, whose most recent stories for Black Library appear in the anthologies BROKEN CITY and SANCTION AND SIN. Equally obsessed by the nineteenth century and the 41st millennium, he lives with his wife and assorted cats in the untamed wilderness of Edinburgh, Scotland.

J. S. Collyer is science fiction writer from Lancaster, England where she lives since graduating with an MA from Creative Writing from Lancaster University.

She has always had a taste for stories that are larger than life, but enjoys creating relatable, human narratives.

Her first novel, Book 1 in the Orbit Series, Zero, an action-packed, character-driven SciFi novel described as ‘Firefly meets James Bond’ was released by Dagda Publishing in 2014 and made it into Northern Soul Magazine’s Best Reads of 2014.

The sequel, Haven, was released October 2015 and the third and final instalment, Silence, was released July 2016.

Jude lives in the UK and writes to fill the gaps between full time work, running after her kids and trying to wear out a border collie. She loves Zombies, Run, ITF Tae Kwon Do, playing D and D and drinks a powerful load of coffee.

You can listen to some of her audiodrama work here:

www.hunterhoose.co.uk

Victoria Hayward is a historian by training, publicly funded artist and mother of birds. She is the author of ‘The Carbis Incident’ and ‘The Siege of Ismyr’ for Black Library and is a contributor to the academic anthology ‘Travel Writing in an Age of Global Quarantine.'

When not writing SFF she works in science communication, helping academics tell stories about their research whether it be on black holes or the palaces of despots. She spent one weird summer working in Westminster which has absolutely nothing to do with her interest in writing about dystopian bureaucracies.

Adrian Tchaikovsky was born in Woodhall Spa, Lincolnshire before heading off to Reading to study psychology and zoology. For reasons unclear even to himself he subsequently ended up in law and has worked as a legal executive in both Reading and Leeds, where he now lives. Married, he is a keen live role-player and occasional amateur actor, has trained in stage-fighting, and keeps no exotic or dangerous pets of any kind, possibly excepting his son. Catch up with Adrian at www.shadowsoftheapt.com for further information about both himself and the insect-kinden, together with bonus material including short stories and artwork. Author Website: http://shadowsoftheapt.com/

Cameron Johnston is a Scottish writer of fantasy and horror and lives in the city of Glasgow in Scotland. He is a student of Historical European Martial Arts, a member of the Glasgow Science Fiction Writers' Circle, and enjoys exploring ancient sites and camping out under the stars (when Scottish weather allows).