Scott A. Butler is a hard of hearing and AuDHD multi-genre author who proves that a carbon-based life-form can run almost entirely on tea and quietly brilliant ideas. (Mostly tea, though.) Scott’s unique journey into storytelling began after losing his hearing as a child. This led to a very active imagination and, let's be honest, a dash of social awkwardness. To avoid having his sanity constantly questioned, he decided to stop sharing his imaginative worlds out loud. Instead, upon discovering an old typewriter at his grandparents' house, he put it all down on paper. He found the simple truth that writing about made-up people is significantly less complicated than trying to talk to real ones. When he’s not busy constructing alternate universes or being productively awkward, you can usually find Scott engaged in one of his other serious pursuits: being a servant to various household animals, filling his brain with an alarming quantity of useless Doctor Who facts, perfecting the art of tea and cake consumption, or quietly pretending not to be jealous of other authors' success.

Symphony of the Wind is Steven McKinnon's first fiction novel, and is Book One of The Raincatcher's Ballad. The Fury Yet To Come is a prequel novella set in the same world. His first book, the true-life tale Boldly Going Nowhere, was released in 2015. Steven is 32 years old, and was born in the bathroom of a Glasgow flat in the year 1986. He has since moved out. To get the Raincatcher's Ballad prequel novella—The Fury Yet To Come—for free, sign up to the author's newsletter at http://subscribe.stevenmckinnon.net/

For someone with an English degree, Mike Reeves-McMillan has spent a surprising amount of time wearing a hard hat. He lives in Auckland, New Zealand, the setting of his Auckland Allies contemporary urban fantasy series; and also in his head, where the weather is more reliable, and there are a lot more wizards.

9 out of 10 say I was mad. The 10th was a Doctor.

Robert McKelvey is a strange, somewhat funny fellow and science-fiction fan from North Yorkshire who loves to tell stories and make stuff up, but it wasn't until he went away to university that he really started to write any of it down. Since then, he's created comedy sketches and stand-up sets for the Edinburgh Fringe, written some highly opinionated critiques of films and games, and currently enjoys working as a freelance critic and aspiring novelist. By mixing a twist of crime and comedy, a dash of dark fantasy and a measure of magic and machinery, he hopes to offer you a truly marvelous concoction that you'll either want to savour slowly or down in one.