Christopher J. Valin is a writer, teacher, artist, and historian living in the Los Angeles area. He received his masters' degree with honors in military history, and his first book, Fortune's Favorite: Sir Charles and the Breaking of the Line, is the expansion of his masters thesis on his 5x-great-grandfather, Rear-Admiral Sir Charles Douglas.

In addition to writing and inking for independent comic book companies and writing screenplays for production companies, Christopher has had numerous short stories published in anthologies such as Beyond the Stars and The Fans Are Buried Tales. His screenplays, teleplays, and stories have won multiple awards and contests. As CJ Valin, he is co-author of the popular Raptors young adult superhero series, the first of which won the BIBA award.

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Felix was born too late to be a knight in armor, and too early to be a space colonist. He makes up for it by writing action-packed science fiction epics that have sold hundreds of thousands of copies worldwide and become USA Today bestsellers. Restlessly driven to explore, he grew up in the UK, lived for 20 years in Japan, and now resides in the Deep South with his wonderful wife, three beautiful daughters, and their feline overlords. His books cover the spectrum of science fiction, from hard SF, through space opera, to comedic science fiction, but all deliver his trademark blend of rich characterization, witty dialogue, gripping plots, and unexpected twists. Until the day when we can vacation on Mars, this is as good as it gets!

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Samuel Peralta's work has hit the USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestsellers lists, and been shortlisted for Best American Science Fiction & Fantasy. His FUTURE CHRONICLES short story anthologies were all #1 bestsellers on Amazon, as was the collection of his own work, MEMORY'S CHILDREN. His award-winning poetry has been spotlighted by the BBC and Best American Poetry.

Physicist, entrepreneur, storyteller - Sam has designed robots and nuclear tools, built solar plants, and founded companies in optoelectronics, mobile software, and artificial intelligence. He's a producer of independent film, including Golden Globe nominee THE FENCER and Emmy Award winner REAL ARTISTS. He founded the LUNAR CODEX project, archiving art, books, music, and film from over 155 countries on the Moon alongside NASA's Artemis program.

And he cooks a mean lemon shrimp risotto.

Patrice Fitzgerald is the bestselling author of a number of books and short stories, primarily in the science fiction and speculative fiction realms. She's known for "Karma of the Silo," a book set in Hugh Howey's WOOL universe, and the STARSHIP NAMELESS series, co-written with author Jack Lyster. She's the Series Editor for the BEYOND THE STARS space opera anthologies, which currently consists of eight volumes. Her short stories have appeared in several volumes of Samuel Peralta's FUTURE CHRONICLES series.

Patrice is also an attorney with a background in intellectual property. She heads a boutique publishing company featuring mystery, romance, fantasy, and nonfiction books. In her spare time, she's a singer, performing jazz, Broadway, and opera with her husband. She lives in New England and is the dog mom to a cute rescue pup, as well as four human kids.

Peter is a New Zealand/Australian science fiction writer specializing in making hard science fiction easy to understand and thoroughly enjoyable.

His FIRST CONTACT series is topical rather than character-based, meaning each book stands alone. These novels can be read in any order, but they all focus on the same topic of First Contact with extraterrestrial lifeforms. In this regard, the series is akin to BLACK MIRROR or THE TWILIGHT ZONE.

Hard science fiction is a misnomer as far as categories of literature go, as it sounds harsh and difficult to understand, but that is far from reality. Hard science fiction is simply plausible science fiction, fiction that is written in such a way that it conforms to the known laws of science, and that makes it more interesting, as there's no magic wand the protagonist can wave to get out of trouble. Peter's forays into hard science fiction could best be described as informative science fiction or enjoyable science fiction.

Peter is a fan of such classic science fiction writers as Philip K. Dick, Arthur C. Clarke and Michael Crichton, and their influence on his style and storylines is readily apparent. You can follow Peter on Facebook or Twitter or find him posting some interesting tidbits on his thinkingscifi blog

I've always been thinking of stories for as long as I've been alive. I have way, way, way too many to tell and far too little time to tell them.

In 2011 I actually started shaping and weaving those random, jumbling, chaotic masses of thoughts into coherent narratives and began self-publishing.

I write a little science fiction, a little fantasy, a little humour and comedy, and a few other things all over the place.

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Matthew Alan Thyer is a SFF author who’s fiction has appeared in Oriental Excess, Windrift Books, Future Chronicles, and Kindle Worlds anthologies. He is an Army veteran who served as a signals intelligence analyst. He also worked as an operations engineer, wild-land firefighter, back-country ranger, kayak guide and river rat. Matt’s hobbies include trail running, backpacking, skiing, mountaineering, bicycling, and paragliding. Feed this author dark chocolate for short prose, good books and coffee for something longer.

Will Swardstrom is a speculative fiction author. He has two full length novels, Dead Sleep and Dead Sight, and is at work on the finale in the trilogy.

He also has three stories in The Future Chronicles anthology series (Uncle Allen in The Alien Chronicles, Z Ball in The Z Chronicles, and The Control in The Immortality Chronicles). Each of those anthologies has charted in the Top 5 on the SF Anthology list and The Alien Chronicles reached as high as #6 on the Overall Top 100 List. The Control from The Immortality Chronicles has been nominated for Best American Science Fiction.

He also has a few stories set in Hugh Howey's WOOL Universe among his various other short stories and novellas. He lives in Southern Illinois with his wife and two kids.

Ralph Kern is the author of nine novels, and numerous short stories. From hard science fiction, to military, to mystery thrillers with a twist.

By day (and night), he is a frontline police officer with over fifteen years of experience which gives his writing and characters an authentic feel. To add to his science fiction, he draws on his degree in aerospace engineering, and work placements with the ESA.

He has served in both the British army reserves as an officer cadet, and the RAF as a civilian instructor, giving air experience flights to cadets in motor gliders.

He is a crazy cat guy, and is the indentured servant of two exotic shorthairs. He loves running and keep fit, as well as seeing the world.

Jon Frater is an academic librarian by day, a Sci-Fi writer by night and an old school gamer with thirty years experience reviewing, designing, writing and playing video games and tabletop RPGs. He's worked to produce fiction, academic non-fiction, journal articles and blogs. He's worked as a game writer, and developer, cranking out numerous game and book reviews and tried his hand at writing for the screen and audio. His short work has been published in such anthologies as the Future Chronicles and Tales From the Canyons of the Damned. His forthcoming military fiction series Battle Ring Earth will be published by Aethon books.

J.E. Mac worked as a screenwriter in Los Angeles. Now, he bludgeons his soul onto the page and sells it off pennies at a time.

Growing up in Southern California, people often asked him where he was from. Uh, Southern California. His answer was met with a look of disappointment. "Oh..." Apparently, no one is from Southern California.

In light of that response, he wanted to concoct a biography about how he was a lonesome hermit living in the wilderness of Alaska. His only company was a stiff glass of whisky, his hunting dog Conan, and a great white bear that was stalking him. (That's not a metaphor. Polar bears, man! Polar bears!) He also wanted to say he was a New York Times Bestselling author. But that's a pipe dream. Besides, he wanted to be himself.

At a young age he toured the world sailing. (Didn't you just say you aren't going to make up stories?) No, this is true. He grew up sailing out of Newport Harbor. His high school was Newport Harbor High School (You probably know it better as, "Hey! That's the school from The OC"). He competitively sailed and traveled to London and New Zealand.

So far, he has had an eclectic career. From inking comics for DC, to boom operating on Felicia Day's The Guild, to climbing masts of sailboats to install new rigging, it's obvious there's little he says, "No," to.

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Twitter: @J_E_Mac

"We can talk about books, video games, comics, you name it. I probably enjoy it."

Nick became a scientist so that he could build starships. Unfortunately, his ship is taking longer to build than he'd hoped, so fictional starships will have to do for now. When he's not adding to his starship collection, you can find him tweeting and facebooking about Nasa, science, space, SciFi, and quoting Star Trek II.

He lives in western Washington.

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KJ Fieler is known for her exceptional storytelling and captivating narratives. She's won multiple awards, including:

* Literary Titan Gold

* Firebird Award for Women's Issues and Weird Genre

* 2023 Historical Fiction Company, 5-star Reader's Choice and Silver Award for Fantasy

* The 20th Annual "Best Book" Awards, Finalist

* Reader's Favorite, 5-star Reader's Choice and Finalist

* The Maxy Award

KJ Fieler’s award-winning debut novel, Shadow Runner, is the first installment in a riveting three-book Victorian adventure series draws readers into the glittering world of upper-crust Victorian London before plunging them into the brutal underworld of the Shadows, a secret criminal society that steals children, strips them of innocence, and trains them to prey upon the aristocracy as thieves, spies, and assassins. The highly anticipated second book in the Shadow Series, Shadow Hunter, is set to debut in December 2026.

* KJ Fieler is no longer represented by Black Rose Writing.

K.J. Heritage is a bestselling British author of mystery science fiction, crime, action-adventure and epic fantasy. His fiction blends suspense, pace, big ideas and dark wit. His first short story, Escaping the Cradle, was runner-up in the 2005 Clarke-Bradbury International Science Fiction Competition, and his short fiction has appeared in anthologies alongside writers including Hugh Howey and Samuel Peralta. His story Churchill’s Rock, from Chronicle Worlds: Legacy Fleet, travelled to the Moon as part of the Lunar Codex Peregrine mission in 2024.

Originally from Derbyshire, he now lives in Brighton. Before writing, he worked across manual labour, tech, design, publishing and performance. He also creates retro-hybrid New Wave and synthpop electronica as Kick Lizard.