Tim McKay
Tim McKay is an author, editor, and part-time writing professor from Ottawa, Canada. A lifelong pursuer of meaning and joy through the written word — with a small helping of thrills and adventure on the side.
He has degrees in history and public policy, along with a diploma in professional writing, but likes nothing more than hiking in the woods, running along the Rideau Canal, and connecting with the people he loves.
Oh, and reading a good book.
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Dave Lawson
Dave Lawson is an Oklahoma-based fantasy novelist. He received an MFA in Fiction Writing from The New School in 2009 and published some contemporary literary fiction, before spending several years doing absolutely nothing with his degree. Now, he's returned to his first love--and what he enjoys reading--fantasy. His first fantasy novel, The Envoys of War, will be published in October of 2024. He enjoys writing about conniving rakes and creative liars who do whatever they must to get what they desire. However, Dave's not like his characters. Pinky swear.
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Jay Veloso Batista, based in Ocean View, Delaware, has published for over 20 years, including the Forerunner Viking Age Historical Fantasy novels, technical manuals and teaching materials for the Society of Motion Pictures & Television Engineers (SMPTE), multiple Role-Playing Games, short stories and poetry. His first book of The Forerunner Series, 'Thorfinn and the Witch's Curse' won the 2020 Wishing Shelf Bronze Award for YA Fantasy and the 2021 Reader's Favorite Bronze Award for General Fantasy Novels. With 35 years of executive experience in Media & Entertainment technology, Jay is currently the EVP for an international maritime domain awareness company specializing in radar solutions. A proud grandfather and father, Jay lives on the Mi
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Mike Mollman
Mike Mollman is a charming individual graced with good looks, undeniable charisma and humility. These descriptions come straight from his keyboard, so they must be treated as unimpeachable facts. When he’s not self-aggrandizing, Mike lives in the Richmond, Virginia area with his two dogs and the many voices in his head.
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Bella Dunn
When she was a child, Bella believed she could control the wind.
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One day, when she was about 6 years old, she read The Snow Queen and fell in love with books. She wrote her first “award winning” story in 2nd class (her teacher used her story as a reading test. Not sure her peers were very happy…)
After that, she never stopped writing.
Bella graduated in Biology, joined a postgraduate school, and decided to pursue a career in Science, but her passion for the written word never dimmed and she continued to scribble here and there, drafting several novels and short stories in the past years. Although her preferred genre is fantasy, she dips into other genres as the stories "finds her".
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J.L. Odom
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Calum Lott
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S.R. Arrkewey
S.R. Arrkewey is an epic fantasy author who wishes to captivate readers with intricate worlds and compelling characters. Living in a quiet, secluded cottage nestled by an imposing mountain, Arrkewey finds inspiration in the wonders of the cosmos and the whisper of the stories that flow over the whole of the multiverse. Known for a keen ability to blend lore and wonder, Arrkewey’s works transport readers to realms where the line between reality and fantasy blurs. Seeing the stories of all on every world, this author writes what they perceive. Arrkewey continues to enchant and inspire, weaving tales that linger in the mind long after the final page is turned.
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Eamonn Bradley
Eamonn H Bradley is an Irish born suspenseful horror writer. He now lives in Jersey CI with his wife. Eamonn reads everything from Cormac McCarthy, Richard Matheson, Stephen King to Dean Koontz. Formally a Carpenter, Eamonn is co-founder of the Dark Veil Society, an indie horror collective of the finest up and coming writers, he hopes to launch his career as an indie author and bring the indie horror scene to light in 2025. With two novels coming this year The Veil and a thrilling infected epic, Eamonn is hard at work bringing his visions to life, with many more books planned for the foreseeable future.
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Bill Adams
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Calum Lott
Born and raised in Australia, Calum Lott is the science-fantasy author of a Dirge For Cascius, Arkoma, and the series My Mortal Memories, all set in the vast Valsollas galaxy. His greatest inspirations are the video game Bloodborne, the manga Berserk and The Lord of the Rings. In his spare time, you'll find Calum adequately playing the guitar, reading at a snail's pace, watching movies (LOTR over and over), annoying his gorgeous partner or sitting at his laptop writing stories whilst getting a sore arse.
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Eamonn Bradley
Eamonn H Bradley is an Irish born suspenseful horror writer. He now lives in Jersey CI with his wife. Eamonn reads everything from Cormac McCarthy, Richard Matheson, Stephen King to Dean Koontz. Formally a Carpenter, Eamonn is co-founder of the Dark Veil Society, an indie horror collective of the finest up and coming writers, he hopes to launch his career as an indie author and bring the indie horror scene to light in 2025. With two novels coming this year The Veil and a thrilling infected epic, Eamonn is hard at work bringing his visions to life, with many more books planned for the foreseeable future.
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Grace Walker
Grace Walker is a YA sci-fi author who loves writing dystopian galaxies, fast-paced action, romance, and character-driven stories. She debuted at fourteen with her first sci-fi fantasy novel for teens. Since then, she’s released her latest dystopian sci-fi series, Rogues: Legends.
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Erik D. Goodwyn
By day, Erik Goodwyn is a practicing psychiatrist and a scholar published in anthropology, dream analysis, mythology, ritual, philosophy, and archetypal psychology. He has been invited to give lectures in Ireland, Switzerland, Germany, and all over the United States. But by night...his passion for the imagination in all its manifestations has led him to write award-winning fantasy fiction! He feels the symbolic and fantastical imagery of the imagination is the only way to depict some of the most important and mysterious truths of the human soul, as depicted in his Raven's Tale series. For more, visit his website at www.erikgoodwyn.com
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Tagai Tarutin
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He has worked most of his life in sales but has always had an interest in Arts and Humanities. Things that are beautiful and appealing play an essential part in his imagination.
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E.L. Lyons
Reader and writer of SFF, employee of several cats, feeder of raccoons and opossums.
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If you've finished Starlight Jewel and are wondering when the sequel, Austringer's Wrath, comes out, it's sometime this year (2024). I'm doing line edits and waiting on the cover art now, but the edits do take some time.
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Trafton Crandall
A lover of all things Science Fiction and Fantasy, Trafton Crandall lives in Mount Dora, Florida.
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Joshua Scott Edwards
Joshua Scott Edwards lives in Lansdale, PA with his wife, Rachel. He received an M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Rowan University, only afterward discovering that his true passion is for storytelling. Sadly, the topic was not covered in the engineering curriculum. By day, Joshua writes software to pay the bills. By night, he writes fantasy and science fiction stories, dreaming of a future in which he can do that by day as well.
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Jay Veloso Batista
Jay Veloso Batista, based in Ocean View, Delaware, has published for over 20 years, including the Forerunner Viking Age Historical Fantasy novels, technical manuals and teaching materials for the Society of Motion Pictures & Television Engineers (SMPTE), multiple Role-Playing Games, short stories and poetry. His first book of The Forerunner Series, 'Thorfinn and the Witch's Curse' won the 2020 Wishing Shelf Bronze Award for YA Fantasy and the 2021 Reader's Favorite Bronze Award for General Fantasy Novels. With 35 years of executive experience in Media & Entertainment technology, Jay is currently the EVP for an international maritime domain awareness company specializing in radar solutions. A proud grandfather and father, Jay lives on the Mi
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Bella Dunn
When she was a child, Bella believed she could control the wind.
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One day, when she was about 6 years old, she read The Snow Queen and fell in love with books. She wrote her first “award winning” story in 2nd class (her teacher used her story as a reading test. Not sure her peers were very happy…)
After that, she never stopped writing.
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S.R. Arrkewey
S.R. Arrkewey is an epic fantasy author who wishes to captivate readers with intricate worlds and compelling characters. Living in a quiet, secluded cottage nestled by an imposing mountain, Arrkewey finds inspiration in the wonders of the cosmos and the whisper of the stories that flow over the whole of the multiverse. Known for a keen ability to blend lore and wonder, Arrkewey’s works transport readers to realms where the line between reality and fantasy blurs. Seeing the stories of all on every world, this author writes what they perceive. Arrkewey continues to enchant and inspire, weaving tales that linger in the mind long after the final page is turned.
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Christopher Michael
Christopher Michael is an author, law enforcement, and a former soldier in the U.S. Army, where he completed multiple deployments in Afghanistan, East Asia, and Europe. Blending his real-world military experience with a love for cosmic horror, Christopher is the author of the self-published novel series Danforth: Eldritch Tales of WWII, a thrilling combination of historical fiction and Lovecraftian horror that marks his entry into the literary world.
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A.J. Calvin
A.J. Calvin is a science fiction/fantasy novelist from Loveland, Colorado known best for The Caein Legacy series and The Relics of War series. By day, she works as a microbiologist, but in her free time she writes. She lives with her husband, a turtle, and a salt water aquarium.
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When she is not working or writing, she enjoys scuba diving, hiking, and playing video games.
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Rohan O'Duill
Rohan is an Irish science fiction author descended from the oral storytellers of both the ancient Celts and Vikings… probably. Telling stories has been an essential part of human culture for thousands of years. Stories give us joy but they also teach us lessons and pass wisdom down through the generations.
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That yearning to become a storyteller started young in Rohan, but a school system designed for academics and not the chaotic brilliance of a dyslexic mind stymied that aspiration.
But that smoldering desire to pass on stories, to express his creative soul, couldn't be contained. Inspired by the words of Rohan’s doppelganger Commander Riker, “Fear is the true enemy, the only enemy,” he started to write. At first Rohan spewed words onto the -
Russell Carroll
Russell Carroll is an accomplished author focusing on dark, sword and sorcery fantasy. He passionately crafts tales of noble, but flawed heroes overcoming personal demons to vanquish wicked villains. The kind of adventures he and his friends lived while growing up playing Dungeons and Dragons. A hallmark of his writing is vivid combat so visceral it places the reader in the middle of the action.
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In 2020, he fulfilled a lifelong ambition when his short story, The Purple Heart, was published as part of the Days of the Dead fanthology, Nevada Necromance edition. He released his first novel, Relentless Blades: The Prophecies of Zarune, Volume I on October 21, 2024, to much success. Ashbound Oaths, the exciting sequel, releases in the fall of 202 -
Adam Bassett
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Adam Fernandez
Adam Fernandez was inspired to create the world of the Midnight War Series during long trail runs through other-worldly forests and desert canyons. As both a geologist and philosopher by training, Adam’s writing presents an interesting perspective on the crossroads of faith and progress.
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His debut novel, Vermilion Flames, explores what lengths people will traverse in support of their beliefs as they seek to create a better world.
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Noah Isaacs
Noah Isaacs is an American fantasy and science fiction author of the TALES OF AERYM. He currently resides in Tokyo, Japan, where he received an MSc in astrobiology, and pursues a PhD in the same field.
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