Amanda J Spedding is an editor, and award-winning author and comic writer. Her stories have been published in local and international markets earning honourable mentions and recommended reads. She won the 2015 Australian Shadows Award for written work in a graphic novel (The Road to Golgotha), and the 2011 Australian Shadows Award (short fiction) for her steampunk-horror, 'Shovel-Man Joe'. Amanda is the owner of Phoenix Editing, and Editor-in-Chief for Cohesion Press. Between bouts of editing, she is currently writing the first draft of her apocalyptic fantasy novel. Amanda lives in Sydney with her sarcastically-gifted husband and two very cool kids. And cats. She has cats. And a rabbit. We don't talk about the rabbit.