Sarah A. Hoyt was born (and raised) in Portugal and now lives in Colorado with her husband, two sons, and a variable number of cats, depending on how many show up to beg on the door step.

In between lays the sort of resume that used to be de-rigueur for writers. She has never actually wrestled alligators, but she did at one point very briefly tie bows on bags of potpourri for a living. She has also washed dishes and ironed clothes for a living. Worst of all she was, for a long time, a multilingual scientific translator.

At some point, though, she got tired of making an honest living and started writing. She has over 40 -- the number keeps changing -- published novels, in science fiction, fantasy, mystery, historical mystery, historical fantasy and historical biography. Her short stories have been published in Analog, Asimov's, Amazing Stories (under a previous management), Weird tales, and a number of anthologies from DAW and Baen. Her space-opera novel Darkship Thieves was the 2011 Prometheus Award Winner, and at this moment the third novel in the series, A Few Good Men, is a finalist for the honor.

Sarah also won the Dragon Award for Uncharted (With Kevin J. Anderson.)

She also writes under the names Sarah D'Almeida and Elise Hyat.

To learn more about Sarah A. Hoyt and read samples of her work, visit http://sarahahoyt.com

Cedar Sanderson's long and checkered career started with being paid in plants. Since then, she's come to prefer money, and has tried many ways to earn it: balloon twister, face painter, children's librarian, scientist, cosmetic chemist, author, artist, and many more. Currently she writes for a living with facts, and on the side she writes fiction for fun.

Author of ten novels, countless short stories, and a children's book, she has also edited an anthology, and illustrated five coloring books. A born researcher, Cedar's passion for reading metamorphosed into writing, fueled by her long interest in history, infectious disease, food anthropology, and human behavior. After her four children had reached a suitable age, Cedar returned to higher education and obtained a Bachelor's of Science in Forensic Science and Investigation with minors in Chemistry and Molecular Biology, which enabled her to finally display the credentials to match her passion for scientific research.

She currently resides somewhere in the north of Texas with a retired husband (who brings her coffee in the morning), a teenage son and his cat, and the family dog. She creates art daily, and writes fiction as often as she can make time. Her business, Sanderley Studios, offers her an umbrella under which she offers graphic design services, publishes her fiction and art books, and enables her to edit anthologies on occasion.

Nationally Best Selling Author Quincy J. Allen, is a cross-genre author with numerous short story publications in multiple anthologies, collections, and magazines. His first short story collection "Out Through the Attic," came out in 2014 from 7DS Books. He made his first short story pro-sale in 2014 with “Jimmy Krinklepot and the White Rebels of Hayberry,” included in WordFire’s "A Fantastic Holiday Season: The Gift of Stories," and his most recent short story sale, “Sons of the Father,” appears in Larry Correia’s "Monster Hunter: Files" from Baen, published in October of 2017.

"Chemical Burn," his first novel and the first volume of the sci-fi detective noir series Endgame, was a finalist in RMFW’s Colorado Gold Contest in 2011. His latest installment of the Blood War Chronicles, "Blood Curse," is book 2 in an epic fantasy series starting in the Old West and featuring a clockwork gunslinger. His first media tie-in novel, "Shadow of Ruin," set in the Aradio brothers’ Colt the Outlander universe, is expected out in early February of 2018.

He is the publisher and editor of Penny Dread Tales, a short story collection in its fifth volume that has become a labor of love. He also runs RuneWright, LLC, a small marketing and book design business out of his home in Charlotte, North Carolina, and hopes to one day be a full-time writer in Baen’s stable of fantastic authors.

Christopher Nuttall has been planning sci-fi books since he learned to read. Born and raised in Edinburgh, Chris created an alternate history website and eventually graduated to writing full-sized novels. Studying history independently allowed him to develop worlds that hung together and provided a base for storytelling. After graduating from university, Chris started writing full-time. As an indie author, he has published fifty novels and one novella (so far) through Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing.

Professionally, he has published The Royal Sorceress, Bookworm, A Life Less Ordinary, Sufficiently Advanced Technology, The Royal Sorceress II: The Great Game and Bookworm II: The Very Ugly Duckling with Elsewhen Press, and Schooled in Magic through Twilight Times Books.

As a matter of principle, all of Chris's self-published Kindle books are DRM-free.

Chris has a blog where he published updates, snippets and world-building notes at http://chrishanger.wordpress.com/ and a website at http://www.chrishanger.net.

Chris is currently living in Edinburgh with his partner, muse, and critic Aisha.

A Webster Award winner and three-time Dragon Award finalist, Chris Kennedy is a Science Fiction/Fantasy author, speaker, and small-press publisher who has written over 55 books and published more than 400 others. Get his free book, “Shattered Crucible,” at his website, https://chriskennedypublishing.com.

Called “fantastic” and “a great speaker,” he has coached hundreds of beginning authors and budding novelists on how to self-publish their stories at a variety of conferences, conventions, and writing guild presentations. He is the author of the award-winning #1 bestseller, “Self-Publishing for Profit: How to Get Your Book Out of Your Head and Into the Stores.”

Chris lives in Coinjock, North Carolina, with his wife, and is the holder of a doctorate in educational leadership and master’s degrees in both business and public administration. Follow Chris on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/ckpublishing/.

Christopher Woods, writer of fiction, teller of tales, and professional liar was born way too long ago to be talking about it and has spent the majority of his life with a book in hand. He is known for his popular Soulguard series and creating the shared universe in The Fallen World series. He has also written the Legend series in the Four Horsemen Universe as well as several works in the Salvage system universe. With books ranging from fantasy to post apocalyptic and military science fiction, there should be something for everyone. He lives in Woodbury, TN with his wife Wendy. As a former carpenter of thirty years, he spends his time between various building projects and writing new books. To contact him, go to www.theprofessionalliar.com and send him a message.

Jon R. Osborne is a veteran gamemaster and journalism major turned science fiction and fantasy author. The second book in the Jon’s The Milesian Accords modern fantasy trilogy, “A Tempered Warrior”, was a 2018 Dragon Awards finalist for Best Fantasy Novel. Jon is also a core author in the military science fiction Four Horseman Universe, where he was first published in 2017.

Jon resides in Indianapolis, where he plays role-playing games, writes science fiction and fantasy, and lives the nerd life. You can find out more at jonrosborne.com and at https://www.facebook.com/jonrosborne.

Bill grew up in West Tennessee, riding his bike on narrow rural roads lined with wild blackberry bushes, in the days before urban sprawl. He spent those long rides dreaming of new worlds of adventure. Childhood for him was one interesting activity after another, from front yard football to naval miniatures, but from the very beginning reading was the central pillar of his life.

Any and all military history books fascinated him, beginning before age 8. By his teenage years he had discovered J.R.R. Tolkien and Robert E. Howard, Robert Heinlein and Fritz Leiber. Teachers ripped comic books out of his hands during Spanish and Accounting class. Oops!

After majoring in Creative Writing in college, he turned to writing history and non-fiction and was published a number of times, including in World War Two magazine.

In September of 2014 he wrote the first pages of what would become Standing The Final Watch, and its prequels and sequels in the Last Brigade Universe. Thus, at age 60, his career in fiction had just begun.

Still living in West Tennessee with his wife of 42 years and 8 dogs, four of which are Search and Rescue certified police dogs, life has turned out better than he could ever have dreamed. Yet Bill never forgets that it is you, his readers, who make this possible. There is a covenant between writer and reader that is always uppermost in his mind. Readers who spend their time and money to read an author's works, deserve the best that author has to offer, and he never forgets that.

Bill is proud to be a member of the International Authors of Science Fiction Authors, the Science Fiction Writers of America, the Society For Military History and the Alliance of Independent Authors. To keep up with the latest news, including new releases, join the mailing list at his website, www.thelastbrigade.com.

In a previous lifetime, William Joseph Roberts was an F-15 mechanic and Staff Sergeant in the United States Air Force. He has traveled the world and experienced many things in his few years. During this lifetime, he has been called a Jack of all trades, a Renaissance man, and an insane squirrel wrangler by his peers.

Since his enlistment ended, he has perused careers as an industrial and architectural designer, design engineer, award winning author, editor, and publisher with Three Ravens Publishing.

William Joseph Roberts currently resides in the quaint southern town of Chickamauga, Georgia with his loving wife, three freaky-smart nerd children, and a small pack of fur babies.

By day, Benjamin earns his bread as a necro-cartographer (which is a fancy way of saying he makes digital maps) for a cemetery software company, and by night, he writes about undead, aliens, and everything in between. Blue Crucible is his first novel. He had stories that were Baen contest finalists in 2018 and 2019. He is working on the sequel to Blue Crucible, as well as a Four Horsemen novel, both of which will be finished by the end of 2020.

Married to a saint of a woman, ruled by a benevolent calico countess, he can be found at benjamintylersmith.com, on Facebook, and on Twitter (@BenTylerSmith).

Kevin Steverson is a retired veteran of the U.S. Army. With several best selling novels, including the Salvage Title Trilogy, picked up for development into feature film, he is also a published songwriter. When he is not on the road, he can be found in the foothills of the NE Georgia mountains writing his next story.

Sign up for his newsletter at www.kevinsteverson.com and receive a free short story.

Don't miss out on his military SF trilogy, SALVAGE TITLE-- Everyone is familiar with salvage titles on old vehicles...But on a warship? Sometimes the system is against you, but there is always a loophole...you just have to find it. Harmon Tomeral and his crew make things happen, especially when there is no other choice.

The entire Salvage Title Trilogy is available and all three have audible versions. KC Johnston does a great job as the narrator.

Want more of the Salvage Universe?

SALVAGE FLEET Available now.

SALVAGE SYSTEM Available now.

HIDE THE LIGHTNING takes up after the trilogy and is available.

There are two anthologies with various authors, SALVAGE CONQUEST and THROUGH THE GATE

A book of five novellas titled, THE LONG AND SHORT OF IT.

SCALES OF JUSTICE, a novel by Alex Rath.

SALVAGE MIND, a novel by David Jones

Three novels by Nick Steverson, ACTION, HESITATION and CONSEQUENCES

SMUGGLER"S RUN, a novel by Christopher woods and William Joseph Roberts

and more!

For FANTASY readers:

BURNT book one of The Balance of Kerr. Cow-written with Tyler Ackerman

ACCEPTED book two of the Blanace Of Kerr.

Other military science fiction:

REDACTED AFFAIRS, Redacted Vice, and Redacted Weapon, 4 Horseman Universe books, co-written with Kevin is available now.

Follow Kevin Online

Website: www.kevinsteverson.com

Instagram: kevin.steverson

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/kevin.steverson.9

Twitter: @CallMeCatHead

Published by Chris Kennedy Publishing under Theogony Books.

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https://chriskennedypublishing.com

Rob Howell is the publisher of New Mythology Press (chriskennedypublishing.com/new-mythology-press/), including his work as editor of the Libri Valoris and Libri Mysteriorum anthologies of heroic fantasy.

He is one of the founders of the Eldros Legacy (eldroslegacy.com/) and an author in the Four Horsemen Universe (mercenaryguild.org). He writes primarily epic fantasy, space opera, military science fiction, and alternate history.

He is a reformed medieval academic, a former IT professional, and a retired soda jerk.

His parents discovered quickly books were the only way to keep Rob quiet. He latched onto the Hardy Boys series first and then anything he could reach. Without books, it’s unlikely all three would have survived.

You can find him online at: robhowell.org, on Amazon at amazon.com/-/e/B00X95LBB0, and his blog at robhowell.org/blog.

Dave (D.J.) Butler writes adventure stories for all readers. He has been a lawyer, a consultant, and a corporate trainer. His interests include languages, guitar, hanging out with his wife and kids, astronomy, and history.

Sign up to get updates about Dave and his books here: http://davidjohnbutler.com/mailinglist/

RJ Ladon is a nightshift writer (by choice) and a dayshift design engineer (by necessity) to pay for the aforementioned writing addiction. She is a self-proclaimed tree-hugger and animal-lover. If she is not in her garden, pasture, or woods you can find RJ watching movies or reading books. She lives with her husband, children, and a variety of animals on a farmette in Wisconsin.

A list of books, anthologies, and other oddities can be found at www.RJLadon.com

Tyler Ackerman is a singer/songwriter and an international touring artist as well as a author. He is one half of the duo Cypress Spring. He lives in Ohio, where he and Melissa are raising their two boys. A fan of the fantasy genre, his first foray into writing stories as opposed to songs is a collaboration with the novel Burnt.