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Science fiction, fantasy, books, and community — with a little more personality.
Patrick Abbott enjoys the easy life after multiple deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan. Currently he is spending his free time writing stories that deal with the experiences of war, homecoming, and religion. His first novel, Fallen, has been praised for realistic portrayals of PTSD and military liaisoning. When not writing, he can be found volunteering, hiking, or at his local parish. He blogs at www.patrickabbott.net and posts at www.x.com/patrickkabbott
Tony Andarian is the indie epic fantasy author of the Sanctum of the Archmage novels and games. Invested from a young age with an overactive imagination, he's had a lifelong love of science fiction, fantasy, computer games, and writing. In his (now retired) career as a computer scientist, he's worked in areas ranging from financial software to quantum computing. He's also an indie computer game developer. As Andarian in the Neverwinter Nights gaming community, he released two award-win...
D. S. Blake is the author of the "Exopreneurs", a series of sci-fi adventure books that dares to ask the question "Can this tag be removed without penalty of law?". Known for his sense of whimsy and the seemingly limitless supply of salt packets he carries at all times, his goal in life is to solve all the mysteries of the universe without working very hard at it.
As an author, artist and musician, M. D. Boncher has led a “Writer’s Life”. Several careers in many varied industries from security to hospitality to trucking logistics provided him a wide breadth of experience with the human condition to draw on for his work. He has a passion for history, philosophy, civics and his faith. Over the few years, he self-trained in AI art software to add to his artistic and graphic design skills. When time allows, he composes music for his writing. His hobbies in...
Rachel Fulton Brown is Associate Professor of History at the University of Chicago, where she teaches courses on the history of Christianity, medieval European religious, cultural, and intellectual history, and the works of J.R.R. Tolkien. She blogs as Fencing Bear at Prayer, and she lectures on Logos, Tolkien, and medieval history at Unauthorized.tv. The Dragon Common Room is her online classroom for training poets in the arts of the Christian imagination. She livestreams weekly on the Mosai...
Forged in darkest Massachusetts, Travis (“TJIC” to friends and enemies alike), escaped from the People’s Republik and managed to bribe his way across the border. He now resides with his wife and dogs on a 56 acre farm in New Hampshire where he writes code, forges knives, raises / slaughters / butchers goats and pigs, and tinkers with his 50 year old Bridgeport milling machine. His debut novel, The Powers of the Earth, won the Prometheus Award for Best Novel in 2018 – the first self-published ...
Dan Gainor is a veteran editor with more than three decades of experience in print and online media. He works part-time writing and editing for Fox Opinion. Gainor is a budding sci-fi/fantasy author with more than a dozen short stories published in several anthologies and one anthology on his own, “Our Heroes Through Tomorrow.” He is currently working on a book for the "Fae Wars" universe at Cannon Publishing. As a career media expert, Gainor made thousands of radio and TV appearances on ever...
Eric M. Hamilton is a writer of weird fiction, alternate history, and fantasy. His Presidents of the Uncanny States of America series blends historical figures with supernatural elements, creating a unique and unsettling exploration of American history. He is also the author of the upcoming fantasy novel, The Wrong Unicorn.
Look for Frederick Gero Heimbach’s fiction in Analog Science Fiction and Fact, Cirsova, Silence and Starsong, and at Mysterion Online. He was editor of the podcast Protecting Project Pulp throughout its run. He can be found on the internet as Fredösphere and in the real world as a resident of Ann Arbor, Michigan, along with his family. He is the author of six novels.
Daniel Humphreys is the author of the Z-Day series of post-apocalyptic sci-fi thrillers and the Paxton Locke urban fantasy series. His first novel, “A Place Outside the Wild”, was a 2017 Dragon Award finalist for Best Apocalyptic novel. Dan enjoys sci-fi movies, target shooting, and tinkering with computers. He has spent his entire career in corporate IT and suffers from elevated blood pressure due to a lifelong love of the Arizona Cardinals. Daniel lives in Indiana with his wife and family.
Inspired by pulp fiction, epic fantasy, Dungeons & Dragons, the Bible, and even the occasional scary movie, Herman P. Hunter seeks to blend these influences into everything he writes. His motto is: “Creating a world of Fantasy, one story at a time.” Herman can be found on most major social media sites. Book trailers and sample chapters can be found on his YouTube (Herman P. Hunter’s THE LORE FORGE) and Rumble channels.
Robert Kroese is the author of 35 novels. He's the founder of BasedCon and also runs the Based Science Fiction and Fantasy Book Club.
Ann Margaret Lewis began her writing career writing tie-in children’s books and short stories for DC Comics. She then published two editions of Star Wars: The New Essential Guide to Alien Species for Random House. Ann then began writing science fiction/fantasy, historical fiction, and Sherlock Holmes mysteries. Her first book, Murder in the Vatican: The Church Mysteries of Sherlock Holmes was the Independent Book Publisher’s Award Winner for 2010 and a finalist for the Catholic Arts and Lette...
Joseph P. Lewis is an IT professional with over 35 years of unique experience in business systems. Currently he is the Director of Information Technology for a multi-billion-dollar pork processing company in Indiana. Prior to working in “big ag,” he was the Chief Architect for Honda Logistics of North America where he headed various projects involving just-in-time auto parts delivery that earned him three US patents. He also has worked in New York City’s apparel industry and for a major bicyc...
Alexander Macris is an entrepreneur, game designer, author, and business executive. A graduate of Harvard Law School magna cum laude (2000), Alexander founded and ran the MMORPG consultancy Themis Group in 2001 as well as the videogame media websites WarCry and The Escapist in 2005. Under his leadership, The Escapist earned 6 Webby Awards and was named by Time Magazine as one of the top 20 websites on the internet. He has worked on more than 40 different videogame titles as a designer, market...
Morgon Newquist started life by causing an international incident in Central America, and has been marching to the beat of her own drummer ever since. She grew up in the Rocket City – Huntsville, Alabama. After a stint at the University of Georgia to study Latin, she has returned to the place of her upbringing where she wrangles two dogs, a cat, and four children daily. She is an avid fan of fantasy, science fiction, gaming of all types and other nerdy pursuits. Her current focus is an ongoin...
Russell Newquist is the editor of the #1 Amazon bestselling horror anthology Secret Stairs and author of the supernatural thriller War Demons. He moonlights by day as a software engineer and a martial arts instructor.
A lifelong resident of the Pacific Northwest, S. Kirk Pierzchala is no stranger to moss and damp. She has spent decades crafting fine art, weaving stories, and creating children. Her acclaimed short stories have appeared in Fellowship&Fairydust, Silence&Starsong , and Incarnation Journal. Her third novel, “Solitude of Light”, won a Catholic Media Association Book Award in 2023. Her non-fiction essays have appeared in both regional and national publications such as Catholic World Report. He...
Lawrence Railey is an AI developer, DJ, Byzantine historian, and graphic artist who has created novel covers, image generation models, and done voice overs and mastering for various audio books.He has also written stories in Tom Kratman's Carrera universe and is collaborating with Travis J. I. Corcoran on a trilogy set in a cybernetic Byzantine Empire that never fell.
Hans G. Schantz is a scientist turned engineer, inventor, entrepreneur, and science fiction writer. He was formerly a co-founder and Chief Technical Officer of the Q-Track Corporation, and co-inventor of the company’s near-field precision indoor location systems. A theoretical physicist by training, he wrote the book The Art and Science of Ultrawideband Antennas. More recently, he branched out into science fiction, authoring the Amazon top-ten alternate history science fiction techno-thriller...
Bill Willingham is probably best known as the creator and writer of the long running Fables comic series.
Jamie K. Wilson is a long-time supporter and enthusiast of right-wing fiction. She was pivotal in starting the CLFA and part of the original editorial crew of Liberty Island. Today she owns Conservatarian Press, also running Sonder Magazine and the upcoming Yggy database designed to make conservative writers and fiction easier to find for the general public. She’s published numerous short stories as well, though recently she’s written more marketing copy than fiction, alas. Jamie lives in...
