ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Nadia Bulkin is the author of the short story collection She Said Destroy (Word Horde, 2017). She has been nominated for the Shirley Jackson Award five times. She grew up in Jakarta, Indonesia, with her Javanese father and American mother, before relocating to Lincoln, Nebraska. She has two political science degrees and lives in Washington, D.C.
D.J. (Dave) Butler has been a lawyer, a consultant, an editor, a corporate trainer, and a registered investment banking representative. His novels published by Baen Books include Witchy Eye, Witchy Winter, and Witchy Kingdom, and In the Palace of Shadow and Joy, as well as The Cunning Man and The Jupiter Knife, co-written with Aaron Michael Ritchey. He also writes for children: the steampunk fantasy adventure tales The Kidnap Plot, The Giant’s Seat, and The Library Machine are published by Knopf. Other novels include City of the Saints from WordFire Press and The Wilding Probate from Immortal Works. Dave also organizes writing retreats and anarcho-libertarian writers’ events, and travels the country to sell books. He plays guitar and banjo whenever he can, and likes to hang out in Utah with his wife and children.
Julian Michael Carver is the pen name for film editor Joey Kelly. A science fiction and media tie-in writer, Carver is a member of the International Association of Media Tie-In Writers. In 2021, Carver wrote the official film novelization for the movie Freshwater. In 2022, the novelization was nominated for the Scribe Award for Best Adapted Novel. Carver has also written several novels for Severed Press and has written licensed tie-in fiction for the franchise BattleTech through Catalyst Game Labs. He edited the 2022 film Alien Abduction: Answers starring world famous author Whitley Strieber. He is also a video content creator. Some of his content has been featured on Ancient Aliens, Forensic Files 2, Roseanne, and The Sinner.
Brenda W. Clough is the first female Asian-American SF writer, first appearing in print in 1984. Her novella May Be Some Time was a finalist for both the Hugo and the Nebula awards and became the novel Revise the World. Her latest time travel trilogy is Edge to Center, available at Book View Café. Marian Halcombe, a series of eleven neo-Victorian thrillers appeared in 2021. Her complete bibliography is up on her web page, brendaclough.net.
Larry Correia is the Dragon-award winning, New York Times bestselling author of the Monster Hunter International series, the Grimnoir Chronicles alternate history trilogy, the Saga of the Forgotten Warrior epic fantasy, the Dead Six thrillers (with Mike Kupari), the Gun Runner sci-fi novel (with John D. Brown), and the Monster Hunter Memoirs novels (with John Ringo). His most recent novel is the dark fantasy Servants of War (with Steve Diamond).
Freddie Costello graduated Harvard with a degree in Administrative Documentation Forensics. After school, he commissioned as a Coast Guard officer and served first aboard an icebreaker as the ship’s Beverage Accounting Officer, and in the Pentagon’s Planning Management Supervision office. He medically retired after receiving an eye injury from a binder clip battle, for which he earned a Meritorious Service Medal. He now works in the VA as a patient benefits analyst.
Steve Diamond is a horror, fantasy, and science fiction author who writes for Baen, WordFire Press, and a number of small publishers and game companies. He is known his dark military fantasy/horror novel, Servants of War (with Larry Correia), his YA supernatural thriller, Residue, and his collection of horror short fiction, What Hellhounds Dream & Other Stories.
Kevin Ikenberry is a life-long space geek and retired Army officer. As an adult, he managed the US Space Camp program and served in space operations before Space Force was a thing. He’s an international bestselling author, award finalist, and a core author in the wildly successful Four Horsemen Universe. His novels include Sleeper Protocol, Vendetta Protocol, Runs In The Family, Peacemaker, Honor The Threat, Stand or Fall, Deathangel, Fields of Fire, and Harbinger. He is also the author of the alternate history novel The Crossing from Baen Books. Kevin is an Active Member of SFWA, the International Association of Science Fiction and Fantasy Authors, International Thriller Writers, and SIGMA—the science fiction think tank. He lives in Colorado with his family and continues to work with space every day.
Stephen Lawson served on three deployments with the US Navy and is currently a helicopter pilot and commissioned officer in the Kentucky National Guard. He earned a Masters of Business Administration from Indiana University Southeast in 2018, and currently lives in Louisville, Kentucky with his wife. Stephen’s writing has appeared in Writers of the Future Volume 33, Orson Scott Card’s InterGalactic Medicine Show, Galaxy’s Edge, Daily Science Fiction, The Jim Baen Memorial Short Story Award, The Year’s Best Military and Adventure Science Fiction, and Weird World War III. His blog can be found at stephenlawsonstories.wordpress.com.
Nick Mamatas is the author of several novels, including I Am Providence and The Second Shooter, and the novella The Planetbreaker’s Son. His short fiction has appeared in Best American Mystery Stories, Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy, Asimov’s SF, Tor.com, and many other venues—much of it was recently collected in The People’s Republic of Everything. Nick is also an editor; his anthologies include the Bram Stoker Award–winning Haunted Legends (with Ellen Datlow), and Wonder and Glory Forever: Awe-Inspiring Lovecraftian Fiction.
Dr. Theodore C. McCarthy (“T.C.”) is an award-winning and critically acclaimed author and technology development strategist. A former CIA weapons expert, T.C. is a recognized authority on the impact of technology on military strategy and his debut novel, Germline, won the Compton Crook Award. T.C.’s latest books, Tyger Burning and Tyger Bright, were recently published by Baen Books. Find out more at tcmccarthy.com.
Rob McMonigal’s fiction has previously appeared solo in Fireside Magazine and, with co-writer Erica Satifka, in the Broken Eye Books anthology, It Came from Miskatonic University. He’s also the editor-in-chief of the long-running comics review site, www.panelpatter.com. His Twitter handle is @rob_mcmonigal.
Kevin Andrew Murphy grew up in California, earning degrees from UCSC in anthropology/folklore and literature/creative writing, and a masters of professional writing from USC. Over the years he’s written role-playing games, short stories, novels, plays, and poems, and created the popular character Penny Dreadful for White Wolf, including writing the novel of the same name. Kevin’s also a veteran contributor to George R.R. Martin’s Wild Cards series. His Wild Cards story “Find the Lady” for Mississippi Roll won the Darrell Award for Best Novella for 2019, and he has a graphic novel featuring his character Rosa Loteria currently being illustrated, plus other projects in the works he can’t announce just yet. He brews mead, plays games, and now resides in Reno, Nevada.
Blaine L. Pardoe is an award-winning and bestselling author of military science fiction, true crime, alternate history, military history and political thrillers. He has been a featured speaker at the US National Archives, the Smithsonian, and has spoken at the US Naval Academy on his works. He was awarded the State History Award by the Historical Society of Michigan and is a silver medal winner from the Military Writers Society of America. Mr. Pardoe won the Harriet Quimby Award from the Michigan Aviation Hall of Fame for his contributions to aviation history. His books have been mentioned on the floor of the US Congress. While he is probably best known for his thirty-seven years of contribution to the BattleTech series, he is now focused on other projects. His latest works include the Blue Dawn series of alternate history novels and the upcoming Land & Sea military science fiction series. He can be reached at bpardoe870@aol.com, and on Facebook and Twitter.
Erica L. Satifka’s short fiction has appeared previously in the Weird World War series, as well as in places like Clarkesworld and Interzone. Her 2021 collection How to Get to Apocalypse and Other Disasters (Fairwood Press) has received praise from the Washington Post, Tor.com, and Locus, and she is the recipient of the 2017 British Fantasy Award for Best Newcomer. Visit her online at ericasatifka.com.
Martin L. Shoemaker is a programmer who writes on the side . . . or maybe it’s the other way around. Programming pays the bills, but a second-place story in the Jim Baen Memorial Writing Contest earned him lunch with Buzz Aldrin. Programming never did that! His work has appeared in Analog Science Fiction & Fact, Galaxy’s Edge, Digital Science Fiction, Forever Magazine, Writers of the Future, and numerous anthologies including Weird World War III, Weird World War IV, Robosoldiers: Thank You for Your Servos, Year’s Best Military and Adventure SF 4, Man-Kzin Wars XV, The Jim Baen Memorial Award: The First Decade, and Avatar Dreams from WordFire Press. His Clarkesworld story “Today I Am Paul” appeared in four different year’s-best anthologies and eight international editions. His follow-on novel, Today I Am Carey, was published by Baen Books in March 2019. His novel The Last Dance was published by 47North in November 2019, and the sequel The Last Campaign was published in October 2020.
Brad R. Torgersen is a multi-award-winning science fiction and fantasy writer whose book A Star-Wheeled Sky won the 2019 Dragon Award for Best Science Fiction Novel at the 33rd annual DragonCon fan convention in Atlanta, Georgia. A prolific short fiction author, Torgersen has published stories in numerous anthologies and magazines, including several Best of Year editions. Brad is named in Analog magazine’s who’s who of top Analog authors, alongside venerable writers like Larry Niven, Lois McMaster Bujold, Orson Scott Card, and Robert A. Heinlein. Married for over twenty-five years, Brad is also a United States Army Reserve Chief Warrant Officer—with multiple deployments to his credit—and currently lives with his wife and daughter in the Mountain West, where they keep a small menagerie of dogs and cats.
Brian Trent’s work regularly appears in Analog Science Fiction and Fact, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, The Year’s Best Military and Adventure SF, Terraform, Daily Science Fiction, Apex, Pseudopod, Escape Pod, Galaxy’s Edge, Nature, and numerous year’s-best anthologies. The author of the sci-fi novels Redspace Rising and Ten Thousand Thunders, Trent is a winner of the 2019 Year’s Best Military and Adventure SF Readers’ Choice Award from Baen Books and a Writers of the Future winner. He is also a contributor to Baen anthologies Weird World War III, Weird World War IV, Worlds Long Lost, Cosmic Corsairs, and the Black Tide Rising anthology We Shall Rise. Trent lives in New England. His website and blog are at www.briantrent.com.
Michael Z. Williamson is, variously, an immigrant from the UK and Canada, a retired veteran of the USAF and US Army with service in the Middle East, the Mississippi Flood, and several cornfields and deserts. He’s an award-winning and bestselling author and editor of science fiction, and a #1 Amazon bestseller in political humor. His favorite administrative tool is a flamethrower.
David J. West writes dark fantasy and weird westerns because the voices in his head won’t quiet until someone else can hear them. Passionate about many interests he has written historical novels, Heroes of the Fallen, Bless the Child, and Blood of Our Fathers, and western horror in the Dark Trails Saga and the Cowboys & Cthulhu series. David also writes under the not-so-secret pen name of James Alderdice for his fantasy books in the Brutal Sword Saga. He is a great fan of sword & sorcery, ghosts and lost ruins, so of course he lives in Utah.
Deborah A. Wolf was born in a barn and raised on wildlife refuges, which explains rather a lot. She has worked as an underwater photographer, Arabic linguist, and grumbling wage slave, but never wanted to be anything other than an author. Deborah’s first trilogy, The Dragon’s Legacy, has been acclaimed as outstanding literary fantasy and shortlisted for such notable honors as the Gemmell Award. This debut was followed by Split Feather, a contemporary work of speculative fiction which explores the wildest side of Alaska. Deborah currently lives in northern Michigan. She has four kids (three of whom are grown and all of whom are exceptional), an assortment of dogs and horses, and two cats, one of whom she suspects is possessed by a demon. Deborah is represented by Mark Gottlieb of Trident Media Group.