Nikki Mitchell is a writer, editor, and high school English teacher who happily spends her life traipsing through fantasy worlds. She began writing at the early age of five, but it was not until she discovered The Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan that she truly found her passion in words.

When not writing or lesson planning, Nikki is busy bookstagramming, hiking with her two German Shepherds, or playing D&D and board games.

Published Works:

“Dreameaters” in Beneath the Twin Suns: An Anthology

“How to Survive the Zombie Apocalypse” in The New Normal: A Zombie Anthology

“Ascension” in Star Crossed: An Anthology of Romantic Science Fiction

"The Great Battle of the Little Mermaid" in Heads and Tales: The Other Side of the Story

Social Media:

Twitter: @TheBookDrag0n

Instagram: @TheBookDrag0n

Facebook: The Book Dragon

BookBlog: thebookdragon.blog

Born in Tegucigalpa, Francisco Morazán, Honduras, Ian Martínez Cassmeyer’s short fiction has appeared in several anthologies and small speculative fiction magazines and websites, including Wyngraf: The Magazine of Cozy Fantasy and The Angry Noodle. Tor.com and Every Writer’s Resource have also published several of his articles on SFF authors and writing-related topics. He earned his BA in English from the University of Missouri – St. Louis and attended the James Gunn Center for the Study of Science Fiction Short Fiction Writing Workshop at the University of Kansas – Lawrence. Other jobs he's held include tax preparer, landscaper, and cantankerous deli clerk. He lives and works in St. Louis, Missouri.

Follow his thoughts and activities on his active social media, including Twitter (@Ian_SMC), Instagram (@ian_s.m.c), and his blog, Two Cents on Blogger.

Born on the west coast of the United States, I am inspired by the endless sunshine to create fantastical words of science fiction and fantasy.

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Austin Valenzuela is the author of the Dragonspeak series and other science-fiction/fantasy novels. He enjoys reading and writing fiction, gaming, and learning about psychology and other non-fiction areas. He grew up in the suburbs of Rosemount, Minnesota, then moved to his current residence in Tampa, Florida. He earned his bachelor's degree in psychology from Grand Canyon University.

Joseph P. Garland was born and grew up in Westchester County, just north of New York City. He moved to Manhattan for Columbia Law School and remained there for over a decade when he began practicing law.

He has since returned to Westchester and is continuing to practice law as well as continuing as a runner and musician. More recently, he took up writing fiction. His first novel is "Róisín Campbell: An Irishwoman in New York." It takes place in the 1870s, around the time when one of his great grandparents arrived in New York from Ireland. He is at work on a related novel as well as a contemporary story that takes place in Manhattan and Westchester.

He has a facebook page, JPGarlandAuthor and is @JPGarlandAuthor on Twitter.

Chapel Orahamm is an Editing Service and the Pen Name for Thornton Gibson who is a Line & Substance Editor, Slipstream Author and Illustrator. With a degree in Liberal Arts - Asian Art History and Asian History and a minor in sociology, they end up getting stuck into research when writing.

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Chris Vandyke is the founder and president of Skullgate Media, an indie-publishing collective dedicated to changing the way writers work together. He is also the Editor-in-Chief of Tales from the Year Between, a weird-fiction anthology and Skullgate's flagship publication.

He was born in 1979 and spent the first 16 years of his life in the small coastal town of Gold Beach, Oregon. Since 2002 has been a High School English Teacher in the New York City Public School System, which is, needless to say, somewhat different than his hometown. He lives in Brooklyn with his partner, two children, and a menagerie of animals. They are currently one goat shy of a petting zoo.

Currently, he has two novellas available in his Post Cards from NeoTokyo series, cyberpunk noir adventures following the adventures of a private eye in a robot-ruled dystopian future. He is currently querying "Love Songs for the Robot Apocalypse," a YA Sci-Fi romance involving time-travel, 90's alt-rock mixed tapes, and teenage lesbians falling in love, as well as "Dragon's Curse," the first installment in an epic fantasy trilogy. He has also finished a number installments in his "Farhome Elf Chronicles," a ten-part Middle-Grade series aimed at reluctant readers. He has also published a translation of the medieval viking saga, "The Saga of Ragnar Lodbrok," under the name Christopher Van Dyke

You can learn more about him at CVandyke.com.

You can learn more about The Tales From the Year Between at www.YearBetween.com

He tweets as @aboutrunning.

Renée Gendron is a multi-genre romance author. She's a contributor to A Muse Bouche Review, where she posts stories and advice on writing.

Feel free to reach out to her on Twitter @reneegendron to discuss writing.

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Kim Plasket is a Jersey girl at heart relocated to sunny Florida. She enjoys writing mainly horror and paranormal stories. She lives with her husband and 2 kids. When she is not slaving away at her day job, she can be found drinking coffee and planning the demise of some poor character. She has moved from horror to paranormal romance. It’s a switch but so far it’s been fun.

Don McEnery is a Canadian author who enjoys exploring ideas for fantasy fiction. His enjoyment of the genre started with pen and paper gaming and he brings some aspects of role playing into his works.

M.A. Faraday aka M. Andrew Faraday has published in two anthologies, BENEATH THE TWIN SUNS, a Sci-fi/fantasy with romance; THE NEW NORMAL, a zombie anthology; Inclusion in a third anthology, THE RED ROOM: A Crime Anthology with a Heart.

My country of origin is the USA.

I can be reached on Twitter as DeuxBleu.

Mark Gelinas was born in New England but didn’t stay there long. As an Air Force dependent and while in the Navy, he lived throughout the United States and Canada. During his Navy career, he enjoyed three tours as an instructor. This prepared him for later work as a technical writer.

While enlisted, he wrote shorter pieces for various magazines. In 2005, NaNoWriMo showed him he could write longer pieces.

Mark now lives in Georgia.