Cora Buhlert was born and bred in Bremen, North Germany, where she still lives today – after time spent in London, Singapore, Rotterdam and Mississippi. Cora holds an MA degree in English from the University of Bremen.

Cora has been writing, since she was a teenager, and has published stories, articles and poetry in various international magazines. She is the author of the Silencer series of pulp style thrillers, the Shattered Empire space opera series, the In Love and War science fiction romance series, the Thurvok and Kurval sword and sorcery series, the Helen Shepherd Mysteries and plenty of standalone stories in multiple genres.

Cora is the winner of the 2022 Hugo Award for Best Fan Writer and the 2021 Space Cowboy Award. When Cora is not writing, she works as a translator and teacher.

Visit her on the web at www.corabuhlert.com or follow her on Twitter under @CoraBuhlert.

I come from a short line of mental health professionals, which may explain why I write "mostly true nonsense". I'm American, but for now I live in a fishing village on the coast of Turkey with my husband Boo -- the world's most over-educated fisherman -- and a fat cat named Sammy. Here I write at my desk overlooking the Aegean Sea (nice work if you can get it!) and also illustrate covers for books by authors whose writing I admire. Please check out those great books: Love Among the Tomatoes, The Broccoli Eaters, Bad Apple Jack, Thief's Odyssey, and Dell Zero.

If you read a Rinelle Grey story, you can trust in a happy ending. Love will always triumph, even if it seems impossible... Rinelle Grey writes feel-good romance usually in science fiction or fantasy settings. Her heroines are independent and headstrong, and her stories are hard to put down.

She grew up in a remote area of Australia, without power, hot water, or a phone, but now lives with all of those and her (happily ever after) husband, daughter, chooks, ducks and veggie garden.

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Rinelle Grey also writes fantasy as Rin Grey.

John L. Monk lives in Virginia, USA, with his wife, Dorothy. A writer with a degree in cultural anthropology, he boldly does the dishes, roots out evil wherever it lurks, and writes his own stunts.

Folks say you should write what you know. That’s damned good advice, so I write about ordinary Midwesterners making an extraordinary mess of things. Hey- if the flannel fits…

Oh, one more thing. “Ordinary” totally includes vampires, werewolves, zombies, witches, shapeshifters, aliens and more!

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I'm also usually hanging around karaoke bars and bowling alleys in the Midwest. Come visit!

Hi all,

You can call me Toby. I've put in about 7,000 of the 10,000 hours it's supposed to take to become a virtuoso at writing, which is good, unless the whole 10,000 hour idea is hooey. Here are a few things you'd probably rather not know about me:

+ I drove a car for the first time when I was four years old. My mother was really, really angry with me.

+ When I was a kid, most children's daytime hours were unsupervised. Otherwise, I would never have been able to participate in the great, not world famous, two-day-long, full neighborhood MudFight.

+ My family moved to Long Island when I was six. Making the transition was traumatic. For example, if I had any hope of scoring a red crayon in kindergarten, I had to learn to say "Dibs!" (No one understood when I called "Eggies.")

+ I lived my childhood years in the days before personal game machines. I suspect you don't know what that means, because the kids I lived near were a bit odd. We didn't play "Cops and Robbers." We didn't play "Cowboys and Indians." No, we played "Death to the Infidel."

+ My childhood dentist had a rare, unusual name: Withal Rossein. His friends called him "With."

+ I have worked at least 75,000 of the 10,000 hours it's supposed to take to become a virtuoso computer programmer, and yes, I got very good at it. Once, I even programmed a computer that was built with vacuum tubes, rather than transistors.

+ I prefer writing novels to writing software, because novels are easier to debug.

+ For many years, I have been a classical music DJ. You can hear me at WPRB.COM (103.3 FM in central New Jersey.)

A.A. Leil is an Egyptian-American author of speculative and contemporary fiction. His work often explores the intersection of East and West, waiting to see what happens when – at the same time – all the lights turn green. He began writing, like most hormonal teenagers do, to impress a girl. The girl wasn’t very impressed, but his high school English teachers were, and awarded him a certificate.

He then abandoned writing for the next two decades, succumbing to the notion that one’s life should be devoted to the pursuit of a good, steady job (in his case, as a bioinformatics analyst where he had the honor of working on the Human Genome Project) to pay the bills and support a family regardless of whether one loves that job or not.

Fortunately, he came to his good senses and realized that passion is the engine of success and has devoted his life to creative pursuits. This includes writing for both human (fiction) and computer (programs) consumption as well as a innovating products and services as a budding entrepreneur.

A.A. Leil is tolerated by his loving wife and two children. Together they live somewhere west of Boston, Massachussetts.

Tattooed vegan dog lover writing in and about the Pacific Northwest & Alaska.