• Author of the Toy World series, the CorpGov Chronicles, the Monarchy of America series, as well as one off novels such as Wayward School
• Editor of many anthologies
• Renaissance man
• Electrical engineer with BSEE
• Happily married to the love of his life
• As comfortable in a kilt as a suit or polo and slacks
• Father of 3; all grown and leading their own lives
• 30-year board gamer and roleplayer, mostly as GM
• Military brat who’s lived in ten different states
• Competitive table tennis, volleyball, and pickleball player
• Cooked for a living and experimentally at home
• Certified Flirt
• Dreams of an Australian vacation
• Inventive enough to never stop writing; 14 more novels already planned
• Favorite authors: Heinlein, Foster, Turtledove, Chalker, McCaffrey

T. A. Hernandez is a science fiction and fantasy author and long-time fan of speculative fiction. She grew up with her nose habitually stuck in a book and her mind constantly wandering to make-believe worlds full of magic and adventure. She began writing after reading J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings many years ago and is now is happily engaged in an exciting and lifelong quest to tell captivating stories. She is a clinical social worker and the proud mother of two girls. She also enjoys drawing, reading, graphic design, playing video games, riding her motorcycle, and making happy memories with her family and friends.

I am a sci-fi geek from upstate New York, where I crochet, watch Doctor Who, and threaten to run over people in my wheelchair. My work has been featured in several anthologies and my debut novella Anachronism is now available. I write weird and hopeful sci-fi and fantasy full of LGBTQIA+ characters, disabled characters, and the occasional Jurassic Park references. I hope my stories can be a safe and welcoming place no matter your gender, ability, race, religion, or orientation. I write stories I want my grandma to read without blushing - sex may be mentioned (I do love a good innuendo) but will never happen on the page, violence is handled with care and is not gory, and most stories do not contain swear words (the ones that do are used sparingly and only when appropriate to the character). I'm that nerd who can recite the periodic table backwards, can talk about dinosaurs for hours, and has a betta fish named Fincess Leia. My debut novel, JACK JETSTARK'S INTERGALACTIC FREAKSHOW, will be published by World Weaver Press in 2019. Find my work here. I'm on the Twitter and I have a blog.

Tash is a Welsh-Canadian author, activist and educator. Their publications include The Psionics (Nine Star Press), and the Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selections Blood Sport and Sink or Swim (Orca Books). They are also featured in multiple anthologies. Tash is a recipient of the Shoot for the Moon fund for trans writers, and a founding mentor with the Gender Generations Project. When they’re not writing or reading you can probably find Tash in a lake, lying on the carpet thinking about monsters, or getting a new tattoo. They enjoy regular cups of tea, existential philosophy, and sharp objects.

George Ebey first developed a passion for storytelling during college, when a creative writing course led him to produce a fully edited portfolio of speculative fiction stories. Since then, he has written numerous works in multiple genres and has had stories published in several anthologies. For over a decade, he has also served as a contributor to the International Thriller Writer's online magazine, The Big Thrill. George was born and raised in Ohio, where he still lives with his wife and an ornery cat. When he's not writing, he enjoys being outdoors, vlogging on his YouTube channel, and searching for new and interesting places to explore. He is the author of the Helen of Mars series published by Glass House Press. www.ebeybooks.com

Kate lives in Denver, Colorado with her husband, two-year-old daughter, and a chair-napping tabby cat named Maple. Her love for mysteries began when she devoured From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler as a young girl, and has grown from there. An award-winning short story author, her work has appeared in the Brave New Girls Anthology and the Crossing Colfax Anthology. She’s a member of Sisters in Crime and Mystery Writers of America, and is represented by Pamela Harty of The Knight Agency.

Nicole Iversen love to travel, Han Solo, and Italian food...oh, wait, this isn't a dating website. If Hobbiton were real Nicole would move in tomorrow. When the college thing didn't work out, she decided to concentrate on writing full time. (sorry mom) As well as being published in some wonderful anthologies, she has flash fiction published in the online Canadian magazine Polar Borealis Here: http://polarborealis.ca/wp-content/up... And here: http://polarborealis.ca/wp-content/up...

RUSS COLCHAMIRO is the author of Crackle and Fire, Fractured Lives, Hot Ash, and Blunt Force Rising, the first four books in the sci-fi mystery series featuring his hardboiled intergalactic private detective Angela Hardwicke. He is also the author of the rollicking space adventure, Crossline, the zany sci-fi backpacking series Finders Keepers, Genius de Milo, and Astropalooza, editor of the sci-fi mystery anthology, Love, Murder & Mayhem, and contributing author for his newest project, Murder in Montague Falls, a noir novella collection, all with Crazy 8 Press. Russ has contributed to several other anthologies including Tales of the Crimson Keep, Pangaea, They Keep Killing Glenn, Altered States of the Union, Thrilling Adventure Yarns, Brave New Girls vols. 3&4, Camelot 13, TV Gods 2, and Footprints in the Stars. He is now writing the third book in the Angela Hardwicke series. In addition, Russ hosts the Rockin' Rollercoaster podcast, where he interviews various Sci-Fi, mystery, crime, and horror authors. Russ lives in New Jersey with his wife and their twin ninjas. For more on Russ’s works, visit www.russcolchamiro.com, and follow him on Facebook, Twitter, Blue Sky, YouTube and Instagram @AuthorDudeRuss.

Kate Moretti lives in Pennsylvania with her husband, two kids, and a dog. She’s worked in the pharmaceutical industry for ten years as a scientist, and has been an avid fiction reader her entire life. She enjoys traveling and cooking, although with two kids, a day job, and writing, she doesn’t get to do those things as much as she’d like. Her lifelong dream is to buy an old house with a secret passageway.

Jason is a self-published author who grew up in PA. After graduating from Full Sail University in 2006 with a degree in 3D animation/film, he discovered a passion for the creative process. Jason started writing in 2012 when he stopped pursuing a career in animation and created a bucket list of life experiences to complete. He fell in love and became intoxicated by the process involved in world and character creation. After taking to social media to interact with other writers and polish his skills, his military sci-fi novel, VOK, received over one million views before securing the #1 spot in Sci-Fi and #2 spot in Fantasy on writing platform site Wattpad. He began working with a very talented concept artist by the name of Tyle Thull for a cover, and self-published VOK exclusively on Amazon and Kindle Unlimited shortly thereafter. After VOK’s publication, Jason started to branch out, and his first short story Fledging was published in the Brave New Girls Anthology, a collection of short stories featuring strong, STEM field related female protagonists. The proceeds for the Brave New Girls anthology are donated to a scholarship fund through the Society of Women Engineers. Jason’s second published short story, Red Blaze, was his first attempt at writing horror. Red Blaze was submitted into TNT’s Horror Contest on Wattpad, at the end of 2016. It rose through the ranks, making it to the top ten before the contest was over. TNT held the option to make Red Blaze into a TV series for a year but ultimately the rights reverted back to Jason. The Wrathic is Jason’s second full-length novel and first story written in the LitRPG or GameLit genre. He immediately fell in love with the genre, having grown up loving video games and movies such as Tron that centered around virtual reality and the games associated with them. The Wrathic recently reached #10 in on Kindle under the Action Adventure, Science Fiction category and climber to #11 on the Sci-fi what’s hot list, a mere three books stood between The Wrathic and Ready Player One which had a major motion picture released only a few months prior. Jason currently works as a Wireless Consultant, and lives in Pennsylvania, but is looking to write full-time in the future. He is working on several other books and short stories, examples of which can be found on his Wattpad page and person website. The proceeds from his work, help to fund Jason’s future editing, cover art, and marketing costs.