Guide

Books have been Kendra Merritt’s escape for as long as she can remember.  She used to hide fantasy novels behind her government textbook in high school, and she wrote most of her first novel during a semester of college algebra. Older and wiser now (but just as nerdy) Kendra writes retellings of fairytales with main […]

Kelly McCarty is a graduate of Hollins University who has lived in Roanoke, Virginia her entire life. She is a reading addict who crushes the 50 Book Challenge every year. Her favorite book of all-time is Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Márquez. She loves to bake and describes herself as “the kind of […]

K. Ceres Wright received her master’s degree in Writing Popular Fiction from Seton Hill University and her published cyberpunk novel, Cog, was her thesis for the program. Her short stories, poems, and articles have appeared in Luminescent Threads: Connections to Octavia Butler (Locus Award winner; Hugo Award nominee); Sycorax’s Daughters (Bram Stoker Award nominee); Emanations: 2+2=5; Diner […]

John Edward Lawson’s novels, short fiction, and poetry have garnered nominations for many awards, including the Stoker and Wonderland Awards. In addition to being a founder of Raw Dog Screaming Press and former editor-in-chief of The Dream People, he currently serves as vice president of Diverse Writers and Artists of Speculative Fiction.

Most days, Jennifer Lee can be found with a few thousand words on her computer screen at any given time. She writes professionally in the healthcare sector, then writes more when she comes home. Her interests run the gamut from advances in veterinary medicine to which character had the best one-liner in the latest Marvel […]

Janicu is a book blogger (somewhat on hiatus) whose favorite genres are Speculative Fiction and Romance. She enjoys chatting with fellow readers about stories they have loved, and has trouble not buying extra copies of treasured books. When not reading, she writes code, drinks lots of caffeine, and obsesses over fountain pens and ink. She […]

Howard Kleinman is a writer, educator, and full-time nerd. His writing has been published in Tablet Magazine, The Forward, and the New Jersey Jewish News. He has also ghost-written as other people for other publications that he won’t tell you about even if you ask nicely. Additionally, he’s written TV promos for Spike TV and […]

Gina Anderson is a media relations specialist by day and a young adult sci-fi/fantasy writer on nights and weekends. After graduating from The George Washington University, she taught English in Nara, Japan for two years where she wrote a short story series, The Adventures of Bianca Sukiyama. She received her MFA in Writing Popular Fiction […]

Erin S. Bales graduated from Illinois State University with degrees in English and Children’s Literature. After a few years spent working in libraries, she returned to school and graduated from Seton Hill University with an MFA in Writing Popular Fiction. She currently lives in a suburb of Chicago, where she writes epic fantasy, science fiction, […]

Erika works at a public library mending books, which sounds a lot more romantic than it actually is: reading at her desk, talking about books all day long, and lovingly walking down aisles and aisles of possibility — wait, nevermind. She does all of those things. Surrounded by bookworms. © 2015 Erika A.

Cecilia Dockins is a native of Tennessee where she grew up fishing in the creeks and rivers deep in the backwoods of her hometown. She earned her B.A. in English from Middle Tennessee State University in 2010 and is a graduate of the Odyssey Writing Workshop. She has passed instruments in surgical suites and slung […]

Calie Voorhis is a life-long fanatic of the fantastic, and internationally published short story writer and poet, with work in the anthologies Anywhere But Earth, D.O.A. Tales of Extreme Terror (Volumes I and II), Specter Spectacular, and the Urban Green Man Anthology, among others. She holds a BS in Biology from UNC-Chapel Hill, an MFA […]

Photo Credit: Jared Hagan, 2017 Betsy Whitt is tall, blonde, and easily distracted, which probably accounts for the wide variety of things she keeps attempting to accomplish. Most of her time is consumed chasing her two young children these days, but she also writes novels (which she hopes to publish sooner rather than later), hikes, […]

Barbara A. Barnett is a writer, musician, orchestra librarian, Odyssey Writing Workshop graduate, coffee addict, wine lover, and all-around geek. Her short fiction has appeared in publications such as Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet, Intergalactic Medicine Show, Daily Science Fiction, and Flash Fiction Online. Barbara lurks about the Philadelphia area, where she lives with her husband […]