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Yvonne writes suspenseful novels that explore themes of trust, deception, and betrayal. Her young adult thriller, BLACK FLOWERS, WHITE LIES (Sky Pony Press) won a National IPPY Gold Medal for YA fiction. Her debut novel, PANDEMIC, won a Crystal Kite Award from the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators. Ventresca's other works includes two nonfiction books and several short stories selected for anthologies such as VOYAGERS: THE THIRD GHOST, 30 SHADES OF DEAD, HERO LOST: MYSTERIES OF DEATH AND LIFE, and PREP FOR DOOM.

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Jon Messenger (Born 1979 in London, England) serves as an United States Army Major in the Medical Service Corps. Since graduating from the University of Southern California in 2002, writing Science Fiction has remained his passion, a passion that has continued through multiple combat and humanitarian deployments. Jon wrote the "Brink of Distinction" trilogy, of which "Burden of Sisyphus" is the first book, while serving a 16-month deployment in Baghdad, Iraq.

Cameo was born in San Francisco, raised in Maui, Hawaii, and now resides with her husband in Las Vegas. She is a dreamer and caffeine addict who loves to laugh and loves to read to escape reality.

One of her greatest satisfactions is creating fantasy worlds filled with adventure and romance. It is the love and incredible support of her family and fans that keeps her going. One day she hopes to uncover a magic wardrobe and ride away on a unicorn. Until then . . . she'll keep writing!

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E.R. Arroyo is the author of YA dystopian series, Antius Ascending, and co-founder of Band of Dystopian Authors and Fans, a Facebook community, blog, and company that champions dystopian, apocalyptic, and post-apocalyptic fiction. E.R. is passionate about books, music, and her family, and she loves to talk shop with other authors and with her readers.

Monica Enderle Pierce and her characters have been kicking the crap out of evil since 2012. She writes fantasy and science fiction. Her stories are filled with strong women, smart men, love, adventure, and magic. She has an English literature degree from the University of California, Los Angeles, and she lives in Seattle, Washington, with her husband, their daughter, and three crazy cats. When she's not sending characters into battle or off on an adventure, she's reading minds, seeing through walls, and reveling in the glorious Pacific Northwest rain.

John Gregory Hancock is a storyteller.

John Gregory Hancock is also a tall human. He has seen over sixty revolutions of his planet around its star. He has lost body parts and collected scars. He has gained and lost family, and gained family again. He knows the time left him is short, but fair. He writes down stories that come to him, in dreams or shadows, and he listens to the whispers of his characters. As a young human he wanted to achieve space. He desired to be the first human on the tiny red planet. Maybe the planet will come to him instead.

Luckily, several of his books will be shot into space to land on the moon, as part of the Writers on the Moon project, The time capsule is joining NASA payloads on Astrobotic's Peregrine Mission One, launching in late 2021 on a United Launch Alliance (ULA) rocket to the Moon

Back on Earth, Hancock (as of this writing) has eleven books, novellas and short stories under his own name available on Amazon. His short stories have appeared in anthologies of others, including The Future Chronicles anthology series, whose titles have hit the overall Amazon Top 10 Bestsellers list. The Immortality Chronicles - a Top 5 SF Anthology and Hot New Release - featured his story 'The Antares Cigar Shoppe', which was also separately nominated for Best American Science Fiction award.

His written work has appeared in additional anthologies, including; Prep For Doom, Bite-Sized Offerings: Tales & Legends of the Zombie Apocalypse, Flying Toasters - The DeadPixel Tales, and Off the Kuf.

He has illustrated three children's books in partnership with Robert J. Sweeney about puppies.

RONE Award-winning author Casey Bond lives on a rural farm in West Virginia with her husband and their two beautiful daughters. She writes phoenixes – gloriously flawed and morally gray characters that fiercely rise from the ashes of their circumstances.

Worldbuilding is one of her favorite pastimes. She thinks thunderstorms are better than coffee and that watching a meteor shower is the closest thing to magic you might ever see. She’s a firm believer that every amazing book needs a world you want to wrap yourself in, a character you want to win, and a love you would fight for.

Casey is the author of When Wishes Bleed, Gravebriar, House of Eclipses, Where Oceans Burn, and more.

I'm a mom of four, Air Force wife, and author of adult and young adult dystopian, post-apocalyptic, and science fiction. I love intense world building and character driven stories that feature strong female leads - as well as a side of romance - and any end of the world scenario. Zombies, aliens, a distant future where people have no clue how the world ended in the first place, you name it, I will create a story there!

Having lived in a lot of different places after more than a decade as an Air Force wife, I love setting my books in cities I've actually lived in to give them authenticity. I've resided in: Indiana, Georgia, Mississippi, South Carolina, California, and Oklahoma but am currently back in my home state of Ohio where I live with my husband, four kids, two dogs, and three cats.

When I'm not writing, you can find me by my pool (in the summer), getting lost in some binge-worthy show or at a play with my husband, patronizing one of the great restaurants in my small town of Troy, Ohio with my family, or traveling. I want to see everything and make a point of visiting a new place every year!

Some of my favorite books are The Hunger Games, Pride and Prejudice, The Host, and The Stand. My favorite movies are Aliens, Jaws, Signs, Say Anything, Everything Everywhere All At Once, and The Greatest Showman.

WHEN WE WERE HUMAN

2015 Children’s Moonbeam Book Awards Silver Medal winner for Young Adult Fantasy/Sci-Fi Fiction

2016 Readers’ Favorite Gold Medal winner for Young Adult Science Fiction

OUTLIERS

Winner in the 2018 Kindle Books Awards for Sci-Fi/Fantasy Fiction

B.R.A.G Medallion Honoree

Top 10 Finalist in the 2018 Author Academy Awards for Sci-Fi/Fantasy

Finalist in the 2018 Wishing Shelf Book Awards

Cover Finalist in the 2019 RONE Awards from InD’tale Magazine

Finalist in the 2020 TopShelf Book Awards

TRIBE OF DAUGHTERS

Honorable Mention in the 2018 SPR Book Awards

2019 Readers' Favorite Bronze Medal Winner for Science Fiction

2020 RONE Awards Winner for Time Travel/Science Fiction

SPECIES TRAITOR

2021 RONE Awards Nominee for Time Travel/Science Fiction

SPECIES SAVIOR

2021 RONE Cover Awards Finalist for Fantasy/Sci-fi

THE GOLDEN CAGE

Finalist in the 2023 Kindle Book Awards for Sci-Fi/Fantasy

Kelsey D. Garmendia, author of the Burn Our Houses Down Series, Disenchanted and Positive, strives to provide a look at humanity through the eyes of someone different, unexplained or out of place in a world like our own.

While Garmendia’s main genre is speculative fiction, many of her stories blend genres and bend the rules to tell the story. Her works are featured in Prep For Doom, Untamed and Unleashed Paranormal Twists Anthology, Confettifall, Embodied Effigies, Pendulune Press, The Stonesthrow Review, My Unfinished Novel, Potsdam Review, and Midnight Screaming.

Garmendia obtained her bachelors degree in English with a concentration in creative writing from the State University of New York at New Paltz in 2012. Currently, she attends Southern New Hampshire University and is in the MFA program for Professional Writing.

Although Garmendia is still a New Yorker at heart, she resides in San Antonio, T.X. with her husband, three sons, two dogs and one cat. Her three sons are still her hardest critics.

Amy Bartelloni is a reader, writer, & coffee addict who lives with in the northeast US. When she's not playing mom-taxi, you can find her with her nose in a book or her head in the clouds. A people watcher and science fiction junkie, she still believes dreams can come true. Some of her favorite authors include Neil Gaiman, Jasper Fforde, Paulo Coelho, and Stephen King.

Harlow C. Fallon

Real Magic takes courage.

Life takes courage, sometimes the smallest things make all the difference.

Loyalty, love, and laughter are the gifts we give each other.

I try to capture that in my writing: The tremendous power of the Family we choose. Mixing that theme in with passion, a need for justice, and a desire to save the world from terrible wrong. Mystical powers aren't a birthright.

Wonder is earned.

Magic is found over and over through sacrifice for those we love.

I mix a smattering of all of that into my novels. The magic of houseflies, the dreams of an AI, the gutter child determined to save her family, the tired soldier who returns home without purpose only to be taken for an unimaginable ride. A vampire hunter who fails to save his father and tries to save the world. An orphan who doesn't know the greatest magic is already within herself.

And then I top the whole story off with a smattering of the unexpected things, chaos, and a dash of determination.

My heroes aren't born powerful. My heroes are made through blood, tears, accident, and sacrifice.

Five children, a cockatoo, a cockatiel, a conure, and two leopard tortoises pretty much take all of my time and most of my sanity. The good bits... the fragments of dreams and of longing--those I save for my novels.

I started writing again when I was 36. I wrote a thousand pages before I started on Flying Away. Before Iolani Bearse took over a bit of my world. And then Valen Kildrake showed up. And Adelinde. And Rora. And Kyrie, and Cheesie. They just keep knocking on the door of my imagination, and I keep answering that summons.

DelSheree Gladden was one of those shy, quiet kids who spent more time reading than talking. Literally. She didn't speak a single word for the first three months of preschool. Her fascination with reading led to many hours spent in the library and bookstores, and eventually to writing. She wrote her first novel when she was sixteen years old, but spent ten years rewriting it before having it published.

Native to New Mexico, DelSheree and her family spent several years in Colorado for college and work before moving back home to be near family. When not writing novels, you can find DelSheree reading, painting, sewing and working with other authors.

DelSheree has several bestselling young adult series and has hit the USA Today Bestseller list twice as part of box sets. DelSheree also has contemporary romance, cozy mystery, and paranormal new adult series. Her writing is as varied as her reading interests.

TK Carter is a Southern born-and-bred middle child with all the complexes that accompany this birth order. Tami, as she is casually known, was raised in mid-Missouri and now lives in Troy, MO with her husband and their blended family. She has two bio-babies, two bonus babies, a mortgage, and a dream. She loves the color red, anything shiny, and has an unnatural love for peanut butter Snickers and Diet Coke. After spending over half of her life obsessing over diet and weight loss, she has now fully embraced body positivity and laid claim to her newfound, unapologetic happiness in her middle-aged, plus-sized body.

She loves her Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, and thanks God every day that in her darkest times, He never gave up on her.

Brea Behn is very passionate about reading and writing in all genres. She started writing at the age of fifteen, when she wrote a memoir for her twin brother. Currently, she writes fiction of several genres, nonfiction, and is building her career as an author and public speaker.

When Brea is not writing, she is reading, usually several books at the same time. She also volunteers at her local humane society, gardens, and homeschools her children.

Brea lives in Wisconsin with children and cats.

Casey Hays lives on the plains of New Mexico. A former high school English teacher turned YA and NA author, she loves Young Adult Fiction as well as historical, supernatural, fantasy sci-fi, and dystopian--all with a twist of contemporary romance. She is the author of nine books. Her short story "Edge of a Promise" is featured in the collaborative anthology PREP FOR DOOM, published June 18, 2015. Casey is the mother of two adult children and has been married to the love of her life for thirty years.

When she isn't writing, you'll find her in Zumba class, skiing the slopes, or singing at the top of her lungs. She loves Jesus Christ and never passes up a good cup of coffee.

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The Cadence

~Arrow's Flight Series~

Breeder

The Archer

Master

~Arrow's Fight Novellas~

The Scent of Lilac

A Heart of Flesh

A Tongue of Fire (forthcoming)

A Soul of Stone (forthcoming)

~Firebloods Series~

Firebloods

Scorch Song

Singe

The Last Circle (The Cadence Rewrite... coming soon)

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Raised as a 'Military-Brat' I've had the pleasure of living in many different locals--some amazing and eye-opening, others boring and dull. Being raised in the military lifestyle gifted me the opportunity to meet people and see things I never would have otherwise.

I refuse to grow up and become a boring adult. It will never happen.

When not writing my stories you can probably find me advocating for Human Rights in many different venues. Some of those topics include the right to your own body, the right to love whomever you choose and the right to speak openly and freely without fear of persecution (whether that be personal or from the government).

But most of all, I'm just me and it's always hard to write a bio on myself. If there's anything you'd like to know feel free to ask!

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Kate Corcino is a reformed shy girl who found her voice (and uses it...a lot). She believes in magic, coffee, Starburst candies, genre fiction, descriptive profanity, and laughing over wine with good friends. She was raised around the world as an Army Brat, moving every three years. Perhaps that enforced flexibility is what led to her belief in the transformative power of screwing up and second chances. Cheers to works-in-progress of the literary and lifelong variety!

The nomad finally settled with her family in her beloved desert Southwest. She is currently celebrating the publication of IGNITION POINT and SPARK RISING , the first books in the Progenitor Saga, a near future dystopian adventure series with an urban fantasy feel with romantic elements, science, a hint of magic, and plenty of action.

Hilary used to be such a practical girl. Then she let the stories out.

Now she creates worlds, people, and problems that are grounded in real life, if you accept that real life has magic around every turn.

Hilary was born to parents who made a habit of taking roads less traveled. But she was also a first child, and an independent, willful child, so she's made a habit of taking a few roads on her own.

Now she teaches Creative Writing, English, and AP Literature, writes whenever and wherever she can, and reads as much as her eyes can handle. She plays superheroes and dress up games and reads books in bed with her own independent, willful children, and plays at homesteading and world traveling with her wonderful soulmate of a husband. She tends to ignore laundry and dirty dishes.