02/26/13

Rob Balder is a professional webcomic creator who has also ventured into game design, comedy music, publishing and new media business development. Most of his time is consumed writing and producing Erfworld, an epic fantasy/comedy comic about an obsessive strategy gamer who is summoned to fight a real war. Erfworld was co-created in 2006 with illustrator Jamie...

01/21/13

Rachel Caine is the #1 internationally bestselling author of 42 novels, including 13 to date in the young adult Morganville Vampires series, most recently the late 2012 release Bitter Blood.   Two more books, Fall of Night and Daylighters, will be released in May and November 2013. In February 2014, she will premiere a new young adult fantasy novel, Prince of...

01/05/13

Jana Oliver has the perfect job—she listens to the voices in her head and then writes their stories. Her latest creation, BRIAR ROSE, is a dark steampunk retelling of Sleeping Beauty, complete with Hoodoo, a vengeful Civil War ghost, and metal magic (Spring 2014 Macmillan Children’s Books). In Jana’s young adult DEMON TRAPPERS Series, Riley Blackthorne,...

12/27/12

As the Rondo Award-winning author of Eiji Tsuburaya: Master Of Monsters (Chronicle Books, 2007), August has commented on Japanese film and popular culture on radio, television, in print, online, and at conventions and film festivals (on both sides of the Pacific) for more than thirty years. He has been called a “Walking Encyclopedia” of tokusatsu and anime....

09/23/12

Nebula Award winner Esther Friesner is the author of thirty-seven novels and over one hundred eighty-five short stories, in addition to being the editor of ten popular anthologies.

09/22/12

They don’t call writer, editor & publisher Lee Martindale “Hell on Wheels” for nothing  Since her first professional sale to Marion Zimmer Bradley’s Snows of Darkover anthology, Lee’s stories have appeared in numerous other anthologies and venues, including Turn The Other Chick, Witch Way To The Mall, and Fangs For The Mammaries (all edited by Esther...

09/22/12

Elizabeth Moon grew up in south Texas and started writing at an early age.   She attended Rice University, earning a degree in history,  then joined the Marines, serving on active duty from 1968-1971.  After that, she went for a second degree, this time in biology, from the University of Texas at Austin.  She did graduate work in biology at U.T. San Antonio....

09/20/12

Robin Wayne Bailey is a best-selling fantasy and science fiction author and a former president of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, Inc. (SFWA). Robin is the author of numerous novels and short stories. His works include the best-selling DRAGONKIN books, a series written in the tradition of WATERSHIP DOWN and the REDWALL, for adults, young...