Lizzy Shannon admits a fascination with stories with themes where people have been thrust completely out of their element, such as the astronauts on the Planet of the
Apes futuristic Earth, the lone half-Vulcan Spock in Star Trek, and the English Captain Blackthorne in Shogun, a pilot adrift in ancient feudal Japan.
Thrown out of her own element when she emigrated from Northern Ireland to the United States, Time Twist grew from a facetious 'what if' into a full-blown science fiction/time travel tale.
Alma A. Hromic (who now writes as Alma Alexander) was born in 1963 in Novi Sad, Yugoslavia, on the shores of the river Danube. Her father's employment with international aid agencies meant that the family spent twenty years living in various countries in Africa, including Zambia, Swaziland, and South Africa.
Davis Levine is a science fiction and fantasy writer who's sold over thirty short stories so far. He has won the Hugo Award for Best Short Story, the Writers of the Future Contest, James White Award, and Phobos Fiction Contest, and has been nominated or shortlisted for the Nebula Award, the
At the age of ten, Dragon Dronet won a year-long scholarship to the Renaissance School of Art in Oakland, California. Ten years later he began a career In the entertainment industry in Seattle, where he shared a business designing and manufacturing costumes, and honing his skills as a Sci-Fi artist and illustrator. He was also entering and winning science fiction costume contests all over America. At the same time he was studying martial arts and swordsmanship.
Ken Scholes grew up in a trailer outside a smallish logging town not far from the base of Mount Rainier in the Pacific Northwest.
Soldier, casual laborer, merchant seaman, logger, student, district forester, ecological research, novelist, and beloved friend to so many in the Northwest. He's our Onkel Sven.
Jay Lake lives in Portland, Oregon, where he works on numerous writing and editing projects. His 2009 novels are Green from Tor Books, Madness of Flowers from Night Shade Books, and Death of a Starship from MonkeyBrain Books. His short fiction appears regularly in literary and genre markets worldwide. Jay is a winner of the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, and a multiple nominee for the Hugo and World Fantasy Awards. He is represented by Jennifer Jackson of Donald Maass Literary Agency.
Irene has been writing stories ever since she figured out what a pencil was for. Combining a love for Medieval history and a fascination with paranormal, Irene concentrated on fantasy writing.