Christopher Paul Carey is the coauthor with Philip José Farmer of "The Song of Kwasin," and the author of "Exiles of Kho," "Hadon, King of Opar," and "Blood of Ancient Opar," all works set in Farmer’s Khokarsa series. He is the author of the ERB Universe novel "Victory Harben: Fires of Halos," as well as "Swords Against the Moon Men," an authorized sequel to Edgar Rice Burroughs' classic science fantasy novel "The Moon Maid." He has scripted several comic books set in Burroughs’ worlds, including "Carson of Venus: The Flames Beyond," "Pellucidar: Dark of the Sun," and "Pathfinder Worldscape: Dejah Thoris." His short fiction may be found in various anthologies. He is Director of Publishing at Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc., the corporation founded by Burroughs in 1923, and he has edited more than 60 novels, anthologies, and collections for a variety of publishers. He lives in Southern California. Find him online at cpcarey.com.

James Lowder’s publications include the bestselling, widely translated dark fantasy novels Prince of Lies and Knight of the Black Rose; short fiction for such anthologies as Shadows Over Baker Street and Tales of the Lost Citadel; game design for TSR, White Wolf, Chaosium, and Steve Jackson Games; as well as comic book scripts, film reviews, and critical essays about pop culture. On the other side of the publisher’s desk, he's served as executive editor for Chaosium and Green Knight Publishing and line editor for the Forgotten Realms, Ravenloft, and Pendragon novel series. He's edited RPG projects, including 1st and 2nd edition D&D releases, and helmed more than a dozen critically acclaimed anthologies, including Madness on the Orient Express, Hobby Games: The 100 Best, and The Munchkin Book. His work has received five Origins Awards and two ENnie Awards, and been a finalist for the International Horror Guild Award and the Stoker Award.

Jonah Buck wanted to study eldritch knowledge and commune with pale, semi-human creatures that flit across the sunless landscape to terrorize the living, so he became an attorney in Oregon. His interests include history, professional stage magic, paleontology, and exotic poultry. He is the author of several novels, including Carrion Safari & Substratum, and over one hundred short stories.

Wendy Nikel is a speculative fiction author with a degree in elementary education, a fondness for road trips, and a terrible habit of forgetting where she's left her cup of tea. Her short fiction has been published by Analog, Nature, Daily Science Fiction, and elsewhere. Her series of time travel novellas, beginning with THE CONTINUUM, was published by World Weaver Press. For more info, visit wendynikel.com

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Scott Fitzgerald Gray is a writer, fiction editor, story editor, RPG editor and designer, and man about town. He shares his life in the Canadian hinterland with a schoolteacher, two itinerant daughters, and a large number of animal companions.

More info on Scott and his work (some of it even occasionally truthful) can be found by reading between the lines at insaneangel.com.

Emily C. Skaftun’s tales of flying tigers, space squids, and evil garden gnomes have appeared in Clarkesworld, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Asimov’s, Daily Science Fiction, Strange Horizons, and more. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing and attended the Clarion West Writers Workshop in 2009. Emily lives just north of Seattle with a mad scientist and their Cat, Astrophe. She is the former editor of a Norwegian newspaper and practices norsk bokmål by translating comic strips. In her decade-plus editing career, she’s co-founded two online magazines, edited a tie-in anthology, and judged a Scandinavian haiku contest (haikuff-da!).

T. Mike McCurley lives in a suburb of Oklahoma City, occasionally banging out superhero prose on a battered laptop.

His stories of the Emergence - a worldwide explosion of metahumanity beginning in 1963 with a scared little girl - were first published online beginning in 2004. From them came the character of Francis Drake, an Emerged cop born in the form of a humanoid dragon. The stories of Firedrake first saw light online in 2008 and spanned numerous chapters, eventually becoming a series of books.

The Adventures of Jericho Sims stem from long-ago discussions and have at last seen the light of day! Featuring the exploits of a cursed gunslinger in a wandering search across the American Old West as he seeks the demonic doctor who killed his comrades. Paranormal and supernatural events and creatures assail him on all fronts, and Jericho finds himself drawn deeper and deeper into a world he never knew existed.

Smaller, unaffiliated short stories have been published on various sites, and some of them are now available for perusal at www.tmikemccurley.com .

Folly Blaine is a writer and narrator living in the Pacific Northwest. Her fiction has been published at Mad Scientist Journal, InfectiveInk.com, and Flashes in the Dark. You can find her short story, "British Guiana, 1853," in the Bram Stoker-nominated anthology, Dark Tales of Lost Civilizations, and her story, "Last of the Soul Eaters," in the e-book anthology, Fresh Blood, Old Bones, edited by Kasey Lansdale.

Folly Blaine attended the 2014 Clarion West Writers' Workshop in Seattle, WA.

Between April 2012 and August 2014, Folly served as the Podcast Manager for EveryDayFiction.com. Since then she has provided narrations for Beneath Ceaseless Skies and Wily Writers, and has also recorded and mastered six audiobooks.

For more information visit her blog, Maybe It Was the Moonshine, at www.follyblaine.com.

Scott Gable lives in the beautiful underwater city of Seattle. He is publishing serialized novels and anthologies, such as Nowhereville, Welcome to Miskatonic University, Ride the Star Wind, Tomorrow's Cthulhu, Ghost in the Cogs, and By Faerie Light, via Eyedolon magazine. He runs the independent press Broken Eye Books, publishing the odd, strange, and offbeat side of speculative fiction from many wonderful authors, and is lead designer on the forthcoming The Faerie Ring roleplaying game from Zombie Sky Press.

Spencer Ellsworth has been writing since he learned how, starting with the sweeping epic "Super Tiger" in crayon on scratch paper. He is the author of the Starfire Trilogy, a series of space opera novels from Tor.com publishing. His short fiction has been published at Lightspeed Magazine, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Tor.com and many other places. He lives in Bellingham, Washington with his wife and three children.

Twitter @spencimus

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