Misha Burnett has little formal education, but has been writing poetry and fiction for around forty years. During this time he has supported himself and his family with a variety of jobs, including locksmith, cab driver, and building maintenance.

His first four novels, Catskinner's Book, Cannibal Hearts, The Worms Of Heaven, and Gingerbread Wolves comprise a series, collectively known as The Book Of Lost Doors.

Major influences include Tim Powers, Samuel Delany, William Burroughs, and Phillip K. Dick.

More information about upcoming projects can be found at http://mishaburnett.wordpress.com/

Brian K. Lowe is a member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association (SFWA), with over 50 publications to his credit. He has published 11 (soon 12) novels, including his Stolen Future trilogy: The Invisible City, The Secret City, and The Cosmic City (soon to be reissued by Water Dragon Publishing); and three books in the continuing adventures of Nemesis, a 1930s pulp hero. Recently he has added to his bibliography by posting serials on Kindle Vella, including sci-fi comedies The Adventures of Soames & Webster, duology Alien House and Wasted Space, and paranormal mystery How to Murder a Corpse.

He says: It seems I've been writing all my life, and for some reason I've always been attracted to the odd, the unusual. In junior high English, I wasn't satisfied with using the characters from our grammar books for my exercises; I had to use Tarzan and Jane. I guess the teacher was amused, at least, because she never complained. In tenth grade I wrote a "novel" featuring my two best friends and me as space cadets. (No comments from the peanut gallery; it got me 100 extra credit points. Come to think of it, that was the first time I got "paid" for a story.)

In 2008, I attended the Taos Toolbox advanced writing workshop offered by award-winning author Walter Jon Williams, featuring Kelly Link as his co-instructor and Stephen R. Donaldson as guest lecturer. It was there that I learned about the Codex Writers Group, an invaluable source of news, advice, and support that I recommend to all newly-minted SF authors.

Look for me on X @brianlowewriter or my Facebook page @BrianKLoweWriter. If you like what I do, leave a comment on my blog, Graffiti on the Walls of Time. If you don't like what I do, please be sure to buy everything I publish so you can help me improve.

Michael Tierney has been writing since he learned to spell his first two words, Stop and Go, which he used to complete a crude comic strip about military tanks crossing hills and rivers. In High School he was editor of the school paper and went to the State Finals in Journalism .Even before that he had already published his first science fiction tale of the Wild Stars in the fan pages of Eerie magazine. By the age of 22 he was managing a printing division of International Graphics and had already released a self-published magazine of his art and stories: The Multiversal Scribe. Elected to multiple terms as a City Councilman, he has been a book retailer since 1982, was a finalist for multiple retailer awards, and has been an Overstreet Price Guide Advisor since 1999--writing over a thousand industry articles and reviews. His Wild Stars comics from the 1980s through the early 2000s have been collected into Wild Stars: The Book of Circles--Recalibrated. He also wrote a Wild Stars role playing game for Trolllords Games, and continues to release a new Wild Stars novel every year through Cirsova Magazine of Thrilling Adventure and Daring Suspense. Cirsova subsequently releases them in hardcover and magazine formats, and has collected his first four books into a massive Wild Stars Omnibus that includes a compendium of characters, places, and events. Cirsova also published other short stories and essays by Michael, including his posthumous collaboration with Edgar Rice Burroughs on Young Tarzan and the Mysterious She. He writes, letters, and colored the first 100 episodes of the ongoing online comic strip, Beyond the Farthest Star, for ERB, Inc., and created the four volume, 1200 page Edgar Rice Burroughs 100 Year Art Chronology. His four volume Robert E. Howard Art Chronology is even larger with 1600 pages and 360,000 words. He is a Master certified scuba diver, and this hobby includes underwater photography, with sharks being his favorite subject.

Jay is an author, game developer, and software engineer. A steady diet of Star Trek, Star Wars, and The Twilight Zone as a child, mixed with an addiction to the words and worlds of Robert E. Howard, Lovecraft, Heinlein, and of course Tolkien produced a mixed-up young man who went on to corrupt the youth making console and PC video games, and writing stories that grow out of bizarre questions that begin with the words, "What if...?"

While he tries to keep up on the newest speculative fiction by established and new authors, he'll often be found with his nose in pages of 70-year-old pulp magazines. Usually digital versions, because those old pulp magazines are delicate!

Jay is the winner of the 2016 DragonComet award for science fiction and fantasy.

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Shawn Hossein Mansouri is the author of roughly forty short stories, one collection, one novelette, one television pilot script, and has written more broken novels than he cares to remember. While he writes mostly in the realm of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror, he loves to mash-up everything and anything under the sun, and prefers to call it all fantasy, anyway. He earned a BS in Biology from The University of California, Riverside, and an MFA degree from the University of California, Riverside, Palm Desert Low Residency Program. Shawn lives in Southern California with his wife Cymphonee and their Ridgeback Atreyu.