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ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Editor Gary Poole has worked in the entertainment and publishing industry for his entire adult life. He’s worked directly with John Ringo and several other authors on over a dozen novels and anthologies. He is also a film and television screenwriter, the managing editor of a successful alternative news website in Tennessee, hosts a popular radio morning show, and has voiced well over three thousand radio and television commercials. He lives in the burbs, worries too much about his lawn, and seems to attract every cat within a ten-mile radius of his house.

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John Birmingham wrote features for magazines a decade before writing Weapons of Choice, working for Rolling Stone, Playboy and The Independent amongst others. He won Australia’s National Award For Non-Fiction with Leviathan: The Unauthorised Biography of Sydney. Mostly though, he likes to make up crazy stuff.

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Jody Lynn Nye lists her main career activity as “spoiling cats.” When not engaged upon this worthy occupation, she writes fantasy and science fiction, most of it in a humorous bent. Since 1987 she has published over fifty novels and more than one hundred seventy short stories. She has also written with notables in the industry, including Anne McCaffrey and Robert Asprin. Jody teaches writing seminars at SF conventions, including the two-day intensive workshop at Dragon Con, and is Coordinating Judge for the Writers of the Future Contest.

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Jamie Ibson is from the frozen wastelands of Canuckistan, where moose, bears, and geese battle for domination among the hockey rinks, igloos, and Tim Hortons. After joining the Canadian army reserves in high school, he spent half of 2001 in Bosnia as a peacekeeper and came home shortly after 9/11 with a deep sense of foreboding. After graduating college, he landed a job in law enforcement and was posted to the left coast from 2007 to 2021. He retired from law enforcement in early 2021 and moved clear across the country to the Maritimes where he is now a full-time writer and part-time Foodie. Jamie’s website can be found at www.ibsonwrites.ca, where he has free short stories available for download. He is married to the lovely Michelle, and they have cats.

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Sarah A. Hoyt has written pretty much everything except Men’s Adventure and Children’s Picture Books. Those are unlikely, but she’s not making any promises. Her first novel, Ill Met By Moonlight, was a Mythopoeic Award finalist. Her novel Darkship Thieves won a Prometheus Award, and her novel Uncharted (with Kevin J. Anderson) won a Dragon Award. She’s still writing in her many series and starting new ones, when not herding her clowder of cats or going off on a cross-country adventure with her husband Dan Hoyt.

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Brian Trent is the author of the acclaimed sci-fi thriller Redspace Rising, and his short fiction regularly appears in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Analog Science Fiction and Fact, The Year’s Best Military and Adventure SF, Daily Science Fiction, Escape Pod, Galaxy’s Edge, Nature, and numerous year’s-best anthologies. His story “Descent into the Underworld” appeared in the Black Tide Rising anthology We Shall Rise and chronicled another episode in the life of apocalypse-survivor Silvio Cipriano. A winner of the 2019 Readers’ Choice Award from Baen Books and Writers of the Future, Trent lives in New England. His website and blog are at www.briantrent.com.

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Dave Freer is the author of some twenty-four novels and many shorter works. He lives a largely self-sufficient life on an island in the Bass Strait between Tasmania and mainland Australia, which involves a lot of hunting, fishing, diving and watching his plants die. His long-ago military past caught up with him, making him into part of his local Ambulance Service (he was a medic). He’s been a finalist in the Prometheus and Dragon Awards. He reads too much and writes very slowly.

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Griffin Barber spent his youth in four different countries, learning three languages, and burning all his bridges. Finally settled in Northern California and retired from a day job as a police officer in a major metropolitan department, he lives the good life with his lovely wife and needy, if tiny, Bengal. True to his eclectic background and tastes, Griffin has written stories across the SF&F field, from Hard SF, Space Opera, Dark (very dark) Fantasy, to zombie fiction.

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Lydia Sherrer is the award-winning and USA Today best-selling author of the Love, Lies, and Hocus Pocus universe of books which has sold over half a million copies worldwide. Most recently she has published a GameLit series, TransDimensional Hunter, with NYT best-selling author John Ringo. Lydia subsists on liberal amounts of dark chocolate and tea, and hates sleep because it keeps her from writing. She is the mother of three, and due to the tireless efforts of her husband and her fuzzy overlords—i.e. cats—she remains sane and even occasionally remembers to leave the house.

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Mel Todd has over twenty-seven titles out, her urban science fiction Kaylid Chronicles, the Blood War series, and the urban fantasy Twisted Luck series. With short stories in various anthologies and magazines, she hopes to keep writing tales that will capture your heart and imagination. You can sign up for her newsletter and follow her blog at www.badashpublishing.com.

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A native Texan by birth (if not geography), Christopher L. Smith moved “home” as soon as he could. Attending Texas A&M, he learned quickly that there was more to college than beer and football games. His short stories can be found in multiple anthologies, including John Ringo and Gary Poole’s Black Tide Rising, Mike Williamson’s Forged in Blood, Larry Correia and Kacey Ezell’s Noir Fatale, and Tom Kratman’s Terra Nova. Christopher has cowritten two novels, Kraken Mare with Jason Cordova, and Gunpowder & Embers with Kacey Ezell and John Ringo. His cats allow his family and their dogs to reside with them outside of San Antonio.

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Mike Massa has done a lot of traveling in uniform and out. He’s visited ninety countries and lived in several large cities for protracted intervals. Big cities have a certain flavor and energy. This is especially true for New Orleans, where Mike spent some years growing up. The inhabitants of New Orleans have a certain, unique je ne sais quoi—and incorporating that flavor in a Black Tide story has been on Mike’s to-do list for a while. Besides his writing, Mike works for an award-winning research university, integrating machine learning and artificial intelligence technologies into practical applications for cyber defense. Or, you know, Skynet. Whichever comes first.


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