Featured Guests
Rachel Fulton Brown
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 Mosaic Ark with co-host Kimberly Crilly. Visit DCR Books for details on their past and ongoing adventures!
www.dragoncommonroom.com
fencingbearatprayer.blogspot.com
Blaine Pardoe
Blaine Pardoe is a New York Times Bestselling and award-winning author of numerous books in the true crime, science fiction, military non-fiction, political thriller, paranormal, and business management genres. He has appeared on a number of national television and radio shows to speak about his books. Mr. Pardoe has been a featured speaker at the US National Archives, the United States Navy Museum, the US Naval Academy, and the New York Military Affairs Symposium. He was awarded the State History Award in 2011 by the Historical Society of Michigan and is a silver medal winner from the Military Writers Society of America in 2010. In 2013 Mr. Pardoe won the Harriet Quimby Award from the Michigan Aviation Hall of Fame for his contributions to aviation history. Mr. Pardoe has been a speaker at CrimeCon 2018 speaking about the Colonial Parkway Murders. He and his daughter run the true crime podcast, Tantamount. He has been an author and designer in the gaming industry since 1985. He has written countless sourcebooks for games including the Star Trek RPG, Space 1889, the Robotech RPG, BattleTech/MechWarrior, Twilight 2000, Renegade Legion Centurion, Interceptor, and Leviathans. He has authored numerous science fiction novels in the BattleTech/MechWarrior universe. In the last few years, he has been a regular contributor to American Thinker, PJ Media, American Greatness, Bizpac Review, and other conservative sites. In 2022 the current license holder for BattleTech, Catalyst Game Labs, cancelled him after complaints led by an online stalker whom he has a protective order against. His conservative political thriller series, Blue Dawn and his new military sci-fi series, Land&Sea, have been Amazon bestsellers. His books have been mentioned on the floor of the U.S. Congress. His works have been printed in six languages and he is recognized world-wide for his historical and fiction works.
@bpardoe870
Additional Guests
Patrick Abbot
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
@patrickkabbott
www.patrickabbott.net
Tony Andarian
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-winning adventure modules based on parts of the Sanctum saga. Their success helped convince him to explore his passion for storytelling in today’s new world of self and e-publishing.
publishing.andarian.net
D.S. Blake
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.
Jerry Boyd
I’m a house husband. I keep things together while my wonderful wife makes our living. I’ve worked as a machinist, short order cook, electronics assembly tech, and several other jobs. My hobbies include vehicle maintenance, (I’ve had the transmission out of my truck. Twice) free flight airplanes, electronics, and shooting. I was born and raised in the Ozarks, and now live in Mid-Missouri.
Declan Finn
As penance for his sins, Declan Finn spent over 40 years in New York City. He has since made his escape from New York to Texas. He is the author of books ranging from thrillers to urban fantasy to SciFi, including the Dragon Award Nominated Novel for Best horror in 2016, Honor at Stake, and the 2017 follow-up, Live and Let Bite. He was also nominated for "Best Apocalypse" novel at the Dragons in 2017. He also won the book of the year award with his novel Hell Spawn from CLFA.
Finn is known for being annoyingly Catholic, his action sequences, and writing faster than most readers can keep up with. In less than a decade, he has written over 30 novels, and is waiting for all of them to be published. He's been part of multiple anthologies, and will write for anyone
Dan Gainor
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 everything from Fox News to ABC. He has served as an editor at several newspapers including The Washington Times and The Baltimore News-American. Gainor also has extensive experience in online publishing, working online since before the world wide web. He held the position of managing editor for CQ.com and executive editor for ChangeWave. He has worked in financial publishing, launching new services for ChangeWave and Agora Inc. Gainor holds an MBA from the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business and a master’s in publications design from the University of Baltimore. As an undergraduate, he majored in political science and history at the University of Maryland Baltimore County.
Karl Gallagher
Karl K. Gallagher is a systems engineer, currently performing data
analysis for a major aerospace company. In the past he calculated
trajectories for a commercial launch rocket start-up, operated
satellites as a US Air Force officer, and selected orbits for
government and commercial satellites. Karl lives in Saint Cloud, MN
with his family.
He writes both science fiction (the Torchship Trilogy and Fall of the
Censor series) and fantasy (The Lost War). The Torchship Trilogy and
first five books of the Fall of the Censor series were finalists for
the Prometheus Award for best Libertarian SF novel. His books are
available on Amazon and Audible.
gallagherstories.substack.com/t/shortstory
Eric M Hamilton
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.
Frederick Heimbach
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
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.
@NerdKing52
www.daniel-humphreys.net
Herman Hunter
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.
Ann Margaret Lewis
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 Letters Award. She followed that with another Sherlock Holmes novel entitled The Watson Chronicles: A Sherlock Holmes Novel in Stories. Her current work in progress, a space trilogy entitled Warrior of the Kizan, is set to be published by Chris Kennedy Publishing’s Theogony Books. Ann is also a classically trained soprano, and she works a day job for the Archdiocese of Indianapolis at their award-winning newspaper The Criterion. She and her husband Joseph Lewis have been married for 27 years and have raised a son together who is a student at Purdue, West Lafayette.
http://annmargaretlewis.com/
Joe Lewis
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 bicycle manufacturer in Wisconsin. A player of role-playing and strategy games for over forty years, he is a three-time national champion tabletop war-gamer. He has been married 27 years to author Ann Margaret Lewis (whom he met at GenCon). Joe and Ann have over 100 long format podcast episodes on YouTube covering tabletop war-gaming. Despite his accomplishments, Joe believes his most rewarding role has been that of a husband and father.
Morgon Newquist
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 ongoing saga of sword and sorcery short stories called The School of Spells and War. The first novella, Down The Dragon Hole, is highly rated and continues to introduce many new fans to the series. Morgon has worked as a freelance writer off and on since 2007, and written for video game mythologies, table top RpGs, online game guides, and blogs as well as her own short works. She has several published short stories and is currently working on several novels.
Russell Newquist
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.
Sarah Pierzchala
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.
Her Beyond Cascadia techno-thriller series showcases her love for the Northwest and her concerns about mankind's future, as well as her drive to tell stories that resonate with relatable themes both intimate and universal.
skirkpierzchala.com
skirkpierzchala.substack.com
Lawrence Railey
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.
@FloridaThales
Hans Schantz
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, The Hidden Truth. The sequel, A Rambling Wreck, was a finalist for the Conservative Libertarian Fiction Alliance 2018 Book of the Year, and third in the series is The Brave and the Bold. His most recent novel is The Wise of Heart, an illustrated courtroom drama of biological science versus transgenderism that updates the Scopes Monkey Trial for the twenty-first century. He is serializing his next work, Fields & Energy: How Electromagnetism and Quantum Mechanics Work and Where Physics Went Wrong at Substack, where he also hosts the quarterly Based Book Sale.
t.me/aetherstream
amzn.to/3FI5mdn
aetherczar.substack.com
Jonathan Shuerger
Disclaimer: Jon is a Marine. You may therefore be exposed to intense battle sequences, epic struggles of good vs. evil, and blistering appraisals of humanity’s flaws. If you love stories of entire solar systems detonating or desperate last-ditch defenses against shrieking diabolical hordes, this be the place for you. If you experience seizures as a result of exposure to flashing lights, please consult your doctor before reading these novels. If you experience nausea at the thought of alien slime or demon blood spraying everywhere, take a Tums, bite a belt and buckle up. If, however, you like Midwestern Amish romances where the nurse missionary gets the Mountie after his brave bout with diphtheria, you might wanna go someplace else. Just saying.
Ryan Williamson
Ryan Williamson is an avid indoorsman, Canadian expatriate, U.S. Army veteran, and is happily married with four children, one of whom is actively serving in the military. His day job as a software engineer focuses on pushing the boundaries of user experiences with artificial intelligence. When he’s not writing, which is rare, he enjoys exploring the backroads of the Pacific Northwest on his motorcycles, shooting holes in paper with cowboy guns, and building and fixing things that would probably best be left unbuilt and unfixed.
@rywilwrite
Jamie Wilson
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 Virginia Beach, VA, with her retired military husband and two teenage daughters as well as a tortoiseshell kitten named Ruby and a candy albino ball python named Honeycomb. Two dogs will soon join the menagerie. She aspires to have peace and quiet some day, but that looks unlikely at the present.
www.jamiewilsonbooks.com
eepurl.com/bvt11L