J.R. Murdock is the author of V&A Shipping, the Giant Robot Planetary Competition, Supernatural Learning, as well as Billy Barbarian, Golden West, and many more. He grew up in backwoods of Minnesota, spent a few years living in Colorado, lived on both coasts while in the Navy, and now resides in San Diego with his lovely wife, favorite daughter and their dogs. He writes as often as possible and usually with reckless abandon. You can find more information about him and his work at http://jrmurdock.com or http://ofgnomesanddwarves.com.

A full-time author and podcaster from Houston, Texas, Paul E Cooley produces free sci-fi, suspense, and thriller fiction, essays, and reviews available from Shadowpublications.com and iTunes.

His best-selling novel, The Black, was released in 2014 and won the 2015 Parsec Award for Long-Form Fiction. Since then, he has published six novels in both the urban fantasy and hard sci-fi genres, including The Derelict Saga as well as two sequels to The Black.

He has collaborated with New York Times Bestselling author Scott Sigler on the series "The Crypt" and co-wrote the novel "The Rider." In addition to his writing, Paul has contributed his voice talents to a number of podcast productions.

He is a co-host on the renowned Dead Robots' Society writing podcast and enjoys interacting with readers and other writers.

For more information about current and upcoming projects, please visit Shadowpublications.com.

To stalk Paul on social media:

Mastodon: @paulecooley@mastodon.social

Email: paulATshadowpublications.com

Mailing List: http://mailinglist.shadowpublications.com

I'm Tim Niederriter.

As you've no doubt gathered, I write books of science fiction, fantasy, and combinations of the two for fun and novelty.

I'm the son of two physicists from Pennsylvania, transplanted to Minnesota. My parents read me the Hobbit (repeatedly) at a young age. The math adds up. I love both far-flung science fiction and epic fantasy of all kinds.

Diagnosed with an autism spectrum disorder at a young age, I've always surrounded myself with fictional worlds. I studied writing and literature at Gustavus Adolphus College and have a strong interest in history and politics as well.

I co-host the roleplaying game podcast "Of Mooks and Monsters" and talk with other authors each week on my other podcast, "Alive After Reading."

And now you can read my stories on Vella! Check out Warrior Online here: https://www.amazon.com/kindle-vella/product/B094GQPWDS

Rick Partlow is that rarest of species, a native Floridian. Born in Tampa, he attended Florida Southern College and graduated with a degree in History and a commission in the US Army as an Infantry officer.

His lifelong love of science fiction began with Have Space Suit---Will Travel and the other Heinlein juveniles and traveled through Clifford Simak, Asimov, Clarke and on to William Gibson, Walter Jon Williams and Peter F Hamilton. And somewhere, submerged in the worlds of others, Rick began to create his own worlds.

He has written over 40 books in a dozen different series, and his short stories have been included in twelve different anthologies.

He is currently writing the best-selling Drop Trooper series for Aethon Books, a mil-SF alien invasion series, as well as the Earth at War series for Pramantha Publishing.

He lives in northern Wyoming with his wife and a goofy blackmouth cur. Besides writing and reading science fiction and fantasy, he enjoys outdoor photography, hiking and camping.

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The following are the series in Partlow's Birthright universe with a suggested series reading order:

Holy War

Drop Trooper

Birthright

Recon

Acheron

Psi War

J. R. Frontera has been telling stories in some form or another since she could hold a crayon and draw. Her love of science fiction and fantasy originated with her early exposure to the worlds of Star Wars, Star Trek, Lord of the Rings, and Dune. Exploring the potential and pitfalls of humanity in future or fantastical worlds is a temptation she’s just never been able to resist. She writes dark scifi, funny scifi, weird westerns, romantic fantasy, and pretty much every other genre in-between under the same name.

She co-founded a local writing group known as The Wordwraiths and is co-owner of their publishing imprint Wordwraith Books. In January 2017, after noticing a lack of writing resources tailored to fit within the specific restraints of motherhood, she helped start the Writer Mom Life podcast alongside fellow author Daphne James Huff.

She has been writing and learning the craft and business of writing for over twenty years, and fully embraced indie authordom in 2013. She has taken writing workshops with Stephen Mertz, Angela James of Carina Press, and the late Ann C. Crispin. She has short stories published in five anthologies, and her science fiction and fantasy shorts have placed in three out of four years in the Story in a Bag contest at the ConQuesT convention held in Kansas City, Missouri.

When she’s not writing, momming, podcasting, or working at her full-time day job, she’s often horseback riding, playing videogames, or cosplaying. She lives in rural Missouri with her husband, son, four ducks, three cats, one horse and one dog. You can find out more about J. R. Frontera and her books by visiting her website at jrfrontera.com.

I. Ronik is the pen name for a snarky and jaded women’s fiction and mystery writer who takes comfort in the absurd. No genre is safe! Hailing from eastern Kentucky, she’s been writing and publishing under various names for more than ten years. Using the I. Ronik misnomer, she produces short works that are full of ludicrous situations, vexing characters, and eye-roll-inducing moments that are so absurd, you’d almost think they were based on real life. When she isn’t writing, she’s stalking her coffee pot and tangling yarn with her cats. You can find her at ironikauthor.com.

J.R. Handley is a pseudonym for a family writing team. He is a veteran infantry sergeant with the 101st Airborne Division and the 28th Infantry Division. His family is the kind of crazy that interprets his insanity into cogent English. He writes the sci-fi while they proofread it. The sergeant is a two-time combat veteran of the late unpleasantness in Mesopotamia where he was wounded, likely doing something stupid. He started writing military science fiction as part of a therapy program suggested by his doctor, and hopes to entertain you while he attempts to excise his demons through these creative endeavors. In addition to being just another dysfunctional veteran, he is a stay-at-home parent, avid reader and all-around nerd. Luckily for him, his family joins him in his fandom nerdalitry.

Our web page is www.jrhandley.com.

Chris Winder is a United States Marine Corps veteran who spent nearly half his eight years training other Marines in the fine art of field wire and switchboard operation.

Each class was dosed with a big helping of humor, which he learned is the key to helping people absorb and remember information. Therefore, Chris tries to sneak some humor into every book he writes.

His first novel, Cloud Development, is a technothriller revolving around a ten-year-old boy, his parents and the corporation his father works for. For years, LumoTech has been trying to unlock a dangerous secret and when their research targets the little boy as the key, his parents aren’t given much of a choice.

Chris lives in a small town in northern Arizona with his wife and son, (his two oldest, daughters, are grown and live in the greater Phoenix area), his two cats, (Squeaker and Max), and his elderly dog, Scout.

Luke T. Barnett grew up on a steady diet of Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Superheroes. As an awkward kid with ADD, good stories, movies, and video games were his great escape. Star Trek to Star Wars, Dragonlance to Wizard of Earthsea, X-men to Teen Titans, Armitage III to Cowboy Bebop.

With all these good stories rolling around inside his brain, he longed to tell his own stories and began writing fanfictions and original works in grade school.

His first works, which were school assignments, were praised by his teachers. By adulthood, he had discovered anime and the world of pen & paper role-playing games. He wrote several short works based on his characters and fanfictions based on the video games and tabletop games he played. (You can find one of his most extensive works on fanfiction.net under the name bardoftoday.)

His first publication was in a local gaming newsletter which featured an early version of his Cryos & Jade series. His first full-length novel, Half-Orc Redemption, was based on a 3rd edition D&D character, a half-orc barbarian named Gash Bloodaxe. He published this novel in 2017 and had it revised and edited in 2019.

He has also resurrected Cryos and Jade, completely rewriting and enriching the story and characters to tie in with his Half-Orc series.

In 2021 he began work on a sweeping sci-fi epic called Galactic Core. It is inspired by the many sci-fi and anime movies and TV shows he has enjoyed over the years.

His current plans are to continue working on Galactic Core, the Half-Orc and Cryos & Jade sagas, Mutant Girl (a YA highschool, superhero series) and write short stories for different anthologies while doing ghostwriting and book blurb writing on the side to provide for his family.

As a writer who loves the Bible and Jesus Christ and does his best to follow Him, Luke believes that an excellent story exalts Christ whether it mentions Him or not.

He currently lives in Mentor, Ohio where he spends his days working towards a full-time writing career while working a day job and caring for his family. He has a beautiful, no no-nsense, star wars loving, writer wife, two slow-motion loving, story-telling-addict boys, and one dragon-slaying, unicorn-loving daughter. He regularly reads his stories to his boys who are constantly begging for more. He is happy to provide.

Corey D. Truax is an author, woodworker, and a family man. After spending more than ten years in the military and as a police officer, he is happy to be taking a "break" to raise a son. His wife, on the other hand, keeps them moving around the world as an active-duty Navy nuclear engineer.

When he’s not using a handheld dosimeter to scan his family, he is dutifully creating new stories and worlds. Corey works to continuously improve and share his knowledge of the craft by offering writing tips to fellow scribblers on his author website.

You can find him on the web at www.coreytruax.com

R Max Tillsley grew up loving stories filled with adventure and monsters. Sadly, the mess on his bedroom floor never attracted a single tentacled beast—though a shark’s jaw once bit him. One day, he found himself sitting a Parisian cafe. Surrounded by a city full of famous art and beautiful buildings, he decided to write… about the undead. His fondest childhood memories are of watching Doctor Who on Saturday afternoons and David Attenborough documentaries on Saturday evenings. He lives in Australia with his wife, daughters, and two grumpy cats.

His latest release is the nail-biting, zombie apocalypse branching paths adventure, Brainz. Save the world, be munched by a zombie hippo, become one of the red-eyed undead, or choose a different fate altogether. Children and adults alike love this fresh take.

Nathan Pedde was born in central British Columbia, Canada. He went to Capilano University after high school and entered the film industry where he worked for two years as a lamp operator. He has worked in many different industries and jobs from working at a gas station to engraving picture frames, to working as a Flood Technician drying flooded homes. He is currently living on Vancouver Island with his wife and two kids.

He began writing in the seventh grade, he wrote an illustrated fairy-tale. He dabbled in it during High School and started writing in college. Life got in the way and little progress was made, however, the writing still happened. Fifteen years after high school, serious writing has begun.

Nathan writes in both Science-Fiction and Fantasy and has many novels written, and many novels planned. Expect more books in both of those genres in the near future.

You can find him at his website at nathanpedde.com where he keeps a weekly blog. He also has a newsletter that he posts when he releases new books.

Lawrence N. Oliver struggled in school. He has dyslexia and he hated reading, especially aloud. So, his father bought him a copy of The Foundation and The Hobbit. He can’t remember which was first but he fell in love with the genres. He'd always had a vivid imagination and a daydreamer’s attention span, they'd have called it ADD were he in school today. Even now he catches himself staring out of the window thinking about his characters, their misadventures and the other worlds they inhabit.

As he grew up it was life, responsibilities and procrastination that had kept him from ever putting any of his daydreams down on paper.

One day he found himself home alone with a few days off work. He was reading a book, sitting by the window in his overstuffed cliché suburban recliner. It was just good ole' space opera, high adventure, the good guy is always good and always right in the end kind of stuff. Nothing wrong with that but he kept finding himself drifting from the book, looking out the window thinking of a different story. One that was a little more in keeping with the accounts of conflict he’d grown up listening to. What he knew and had read about points of view and good people making bad decisions in impossible situations where no matter what you did it could end up wrong and people could die. But if you didn't do something you and your fellow soldiers would be the casualties. Things aren't black and white, even the good guys screw shit up and sometimes the good guys aren't really the good guys at all, again depending on your point of view.

So he put down the book he was reading and he started writing.

IQ Malcolm is a YA/NA science fiction and fantasy author. Prior to committing to the genre, he dabbled in the realms of psychological thrillers (The Draxler Program) and middle-grade fantasy (The Land of Unlived Dreams).

When he isn’t writing, Malcolm keeps himself busy by teaching middle schoolers in the southwest corner of Wisconsin. Outside of work, he enjoys spending time with his lovely wife, playing with their goldendoodle, and daydreaming of Jeff Probst putting an immunity necklace around his neck.

He lives in Platteville, Wisconsin.

For more information, you can visit iqmalcolm.com or follow him on social media.

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Walt is a long time Rhode Island resident who lives with his loving wife, loyal pup, and his annoying cat. When not spilling ink all over the page, he can be found not talking about Fight Club. After drinking lots of coffee in the army, he left to pursue his various interests.

Though always an avid reader, Rick’s interest in writing fiction started as a student in the community college system, with a pair of extraordinary English professors, who taught him to write effectively through creative writing. Thirty-plus years later, their impact is evident through two degrees in History, a Masters of Knowledge Management, doctoral study in Medical Information Science, and a career in higher education administration managing information technology operations.

Rick remains a life-long learner, writer, and professional geek; though somewhat creatively fickle. His interests span science fiction, alternate-history, adventure, and political thrillers, and his current work-in-progress, a novel, The Tunguska Deception, is anticipated for release in 2023

An USAF veteran, husband, and father to four amazing young men. Rick & his wife make their home just yards from the San Andres Fault.