H. David Blalock has been writing speculative fiction for over 50 years. His work has appeared in novels, novellas, stories, articles, anthologies, reviews, and commentary both in print and online. Since 1996, his fiction has appeared in over two dozen magazines including Pro Se Presents, Alternate Realities, Alternate Species Magazine, Aphelion Webzine, Quantum Muse, Shelter of Daylight Magazine, The Harrow, The Three-Lobed Burning Eye, The Fifth Di...,The Martian Wave and many more. Anthologies featuring his work include The Big Bad, Dreams of Steam, Southern Haunts, and many others. His current novel series is the three book Angelkiller Triad from Seventh Star Press. He has edited several anthologies and is currently the lead editor of parABnormal Magazine from Hiraeth Publishing. His work continues to appear on a regular basis through multiple publishing houses.

Find out more about David and his work at his website (http://www.thrankeep.com).

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.

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).

April Jones has read, written, or edited her way through numerous fictional worlds. When she's not teaching or writing, she spends her time trying to learn other languages or keeping her mischievous cat from eating the house plants. She received her bachelor's in English and her M.F.A. in creative writing.

A Tennessee native, April currently lives in South Carolina with her husband and three children. You can find her poems and short stories published in various literary magazines across the internet and in print. You can also check out her debut novel, The Curse Breaker.

Justin Oldham is a blind writer who lives in Anchorage Alaska. He holds bachelor's degrees in History and Political Science. His interests include science fiction and civics. He is the creator of the post-apocalyptic tabletop role-playing game A.C.: AFTER COLLAPSE. Other works include Tales from the Kodiak Starport, Crisis at the Kodiak Starport, Showdown at the Kodiak Starport, and Bibix.

My writing inspiration started with Neil Armstrong's first footsteps on the Moon. I was serving in the U.S. Air Force in 1969 when Apollo 11 touched down, and I remember thinking that we had finally made it. I'd been reading science fiction since grade school, and now all those wonderful stories of space travel --as told by Heinlein, Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke -- were about to come true. We'd soon be on Mars and have manned missions going to the asteroid belt and the outer planets. Star travel? Well, why not -- we'd already met and conquered so many scientific and engineering challenges we'd probably figure out how to get around Einstein as well.

Of course, that didn't happen. 1972 saw the last landing on the Moon, and when another decade saw no attempt to return I felt like a dream had been lost. That's when I started writing, and the Lunar Free State series is the result -- stories about people who didn't lose the dream.

There's no limit to what we can achieve if we put our minds to it, and so far there's no limit to the stories I want to write. The original series is now eight novels published to date and another one in the works. Meanwhile, I've been doing something I never thought I'd do -- writing stories in someone else's "universe." I've got two novels in the raw and gritty urban fantasy series known as Hit World, created by William Alan Webb and Larry Hoy. That series begins with Webb's The Trashman and my two are titled The Ferryman and The Dragons of Styx. I've promised Bill Webb another one in that series, hopefully to be out in 2023.

... and then, I've got two short stories in the anthologies Standing Fast and Standing and Standing Defiant, stories in Webb's Last Brigade series. For those who like post-apocalyptic SF, these are two great collections of stories by a bunch of great writers. If you want to get started in the Last Brigade, look for Standing the Final Watch by William Alan Webb.

Check them out. I hope you enjoy reading my books as much as I enjoyed writing them.

John E. Siers, Author, Oakland, Tennessee

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.

Paul Sparks served as a combat medic in the US Army with three combat deployments overseas. He has been a lifelong geek, plays various RPG's and enjoys reading and writing military science fiction. He lives with his cats in Ohio, where he volunteers with various animal adoption agencies.

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

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Kayla Krantz is an author of fantasy, horror, and thrillers. Like her inspiration, Stephen King, she is fascinated by the dark and macabre. Kayla was born and raised in Michigan but traveled across the country to where she currently resides with her son and fur babies in Texas.