Douglas Smith is a five-time award-winning author described by Library Journal as “one of Canada's most original writers of speculative fiction.”

His work includes the multi-award-winning urban fantasy trilogy, The Dream Rider Saga (The Hollow Boys, The Crystal Key, The Lost Expedition); the urban fantasy novel, The Wolf at the End of the World; the collections Chimerascope, Impossibilia, La Danse des Esprits (translated), and Borderlanz; and the writer's guide, Playing the Short Game: How to Market & Sell Short Fiction.

His short fiction has appeared in the top markets in the field, including The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Amazing Stories, InterZone, Weird Tales, Baen’s Universe, Escape Pod, The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror, The Year’s Best Canadian Fantasy & SF, On Spec, and Cicada.

Published in 28 languages, Doug has won Canada's Aurora Award four times, as well as the juried IAP Award. He's been a finalist for the Astounding Award, CBC's Bookies Award, Canada's juried Sunburst Award, the juried Alberta Magazine Award for Fiction, and France's juried Prix Masterton and Prix Bob Morane.

“The man is Sturgeon good. Zelazny good. I don't give those up easy.” —Spider Robinson, Hugo and Nebula Awards winner

“A great storyteller with a gifted and individual voice.” —Charles de Lint, World Fantasy Award winner

“His stories are a treasure trove of riches that will touch your heart while making you think.” —Robert J. Sawyer, Hugo and Nebula Awards winner

“Stories you can't forget, even years later.” —Julie Czerneda, multi-award-winning author and editor

Armand Rosamilia is a full-time crime thriller and horror author who loves coffee, bourbon and bourbon-favored coffee.

He's written over 200 stories that are currently available, including crime thrillers, supernatural thrillers, horror, zombies, contemporary fiction, nonfiction and more. His goal is to write a good story and not worry about genre labels.

He also loves to talk in third person... because he's really that cool. Maybe.

Joanna Parypinski now writes under the name Jo Kaplan.

Jack Lothian is a screenwriter for film and television who currently works as the showrunner on the HBO / Cinemax series ‘Strike Back’.

His short fiction has appeared in a number of publications, including Weirdbook, Hinnom Magazine, the Necronomicon Memorial Book, and ‘The New Flesh: A Literary Tribute to David Cronenberg’. His graphic novel ‘Tomorrow,’ illustrated by Garry Mac, was nominated for a 2018 British Fantasy Award.

Cassidy Frost is predominantly a horror writer, but also meddles in other genres. Her tone is a mix between innocent and ghastly, and by switching between the two she creates a unique experience for the reader. She lives in New Brunswick Canada.

If you’d like to get in touch with her for writing and art related inquires, you can email her at cassidykfrost@gmail.com.

Micah Castle is a weird fiction and horror writer. He's an author of multiple books, and his stories have appeared in various magazines, websites, and anthologies.

While away from the keyboard, he enjoys spending time with his wife, playing with his animals, spending hours in the woods, and can typically be found reading a book or writing somewhere in his Pennsylvania home.

Charles R. Bernard is a writer who lives in Salt Lake City, Utah. He lives next to the largest city-operated cemetery in the United States; a necropolis that sprawls out over a square kilometer.

Charles is lively company, though.

Lee Clark Zumpe’s nights are consumed with the invocation of ancient nightmares, dutifully bound in fiction and poetry.

Lee’s work has been seen in distinguished genre magazines such as Weird Tales, Space and Time and Dark Wisdom, and in notable anthologies including Horrors Beyond, Corpse Blossoms, High Seas Cthulhu and Cthulhu Unbound Vol. 1. His stories and poems have earned Honorable Mentions in the Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror.

Lee’s inclination toward horror manifested itself early in his childhood when he began flipping through the pages of Forrest J. Ackerman’s Famous Monsters of Filmland and reading Gold Key Comic classics like Boris Karloff Tales of Mystery and Grimm’s Ghost Stories. Throughout the 1970s, Lee also watched his share of “horrible old movies” on Creature Feature, a locally produced horror movie series hosted by Dr. Paul Bearer (Dick Bennick Sr.).

In his teenage years, Lee discovered Edgar Allan Poe, H.P. Lovecraft, Ambrose Bierce, Richard Matheson and other masters of the genre.

By day, Lee is an entertainment columnist with Tampa Bay Newspapers. Covering the Tampa area entertainment beat, he has penned hundreds of film, theater and book reviews and has interviewed novelists as well as music industry icons such as Paddy Moloney of The Chieftains and Alan Parsons. His work for TBN has been recognized repeatedly by the Florida Press Association, including a first place award for criticism in the 2007 Better Weekly Newspaper Contest.

Lee earned his bachelor’s degree in English at the University of South Florida in Tampa. The author lives on the west coast of Florida with his wife and daughter.

Aubrey writes YA fiction ranging from fantasy to zombie thrillers to gothic romance. The more adventure, the better!

When she's not writing, she spends her time hiking, gardening, rescuing more cats for her growing collection, making art, and hoarding books for her TBR pile.

To find out more about her books, visit her website at acampbellauthor(.)com

Stuart Conover is a father, husband, rescue dog lover, blogger, published author, geek, entrepreneur, and horror fanatic. He works IT during the day and tries to battle the urge to sleep with a healthy consumption of caffeine.

I have weird ideas and I write stories about them.