Kerrie L. Hughes has been writing and editing professionally since 2001. Currently she is working on a multi book universe of contemporary urban fantasy called Great Lakes Grimoire which will start releasing in 2020, and another Jim Butcher anthology, Heroic Hearts, that will be out in 2022. You can follow her on Facebook and Twitter.

Author of Net Impact, Wet Work, and Flash Drive, a series of spy thrillers which incorporate real-world conspiracy theories, GREENSWORD, a dark comedy about global warming, Forced Conversion, a military science fiction novel set in the near future, and Frame Shop, a mystery thriller set in a suburban writers' group. Co-author of The Love-Haight Case Files, Books 1 and 2, paranormal legal thrillers about lawyers protecting the rights of supernatural creatures in a magic-filled San Francisco. Edited the ghost anthology, Familiar Spirits. Also author of a variety of short fiction in the science fiction, fantasy, thriller, horror, mystery, steampunk, romance, and comedy genres, including stories in the Dragonlance and Transformers universes and in a variety of DAW themed anthologies. Also produced Morse Code Mysteries and Missives, with three tales presented first in 311 pages of Morse Code text, then via links in almost 12 hours of audio dots and dashes, then in clear text.

World's top-ranked player of RPGA Classic roleplaying game tournaments from 1985-2000.

See my writing and gaming resumes at www.donaldjbingle.com., including a listing of about fifty anthologies in which I have stories. Some of my previously published stories have been collected by theme in my Writer on Demand TM series and published on Kindle, including Tales of Gamers and Gaming, Tales of Humorous Horror, Tales Out of Time, Grim, Fair e-Tales, Tales of an Altered Past Powered by Romance, Horror, and Steam, Not-So-Heroic Fantasy, and Shadow Realities. My award-winning short memoir, Father's Day, is also available on Kindle, as is Gentlemanly Horrors of Mine Alone, the ninth story in Mike Stackpole's Chain Story Project.

I also have a series of humorous critiques (Season's Critiquings; Merry Mark-Up, Holiday Workshopping, and Santa Clauses and Phrases) of Christmas classics which writers, aspiring authors, and NaNoWriMo participants will find especially amusing.

A science fiction legend, Lois McMaster Bujold is one of the most highly regarded speculative fiction writers of all time. She has won three Nebula Awards and six Hugo Awards, four for best novel, which matches Robert A. Heinlein's record. Bujold's Miles Vorkosigan saga is a massively popular science fiction mainstay. The mother of two, Ms. Bujold lives in Minneapolis.

Kelly Swails is an author, editor and reader who lives in Chicago with her husband and kitties. She enjoys storytelling in all its forms, so she can usually be found watching movies, television, and plays. In her spare time she likes to hang out with friends and play games. It's been rumored that she sleeps on occasion, but that has yet to be proven.

Sylvia Kelso lives in North Queensland, Australia. She writes fantasy and SF often set in analogue or alternate Australian settings. She has published six high fantasy novels, two of which, *Amberlight* and *The Moving Water*, were finalists for best fantasy novel of the year in the Australian Aurealis genre fiction awards. The third Amberlight novel, *Source*, was released in 2010. Her most recent novel-length work is the contemporary fantasy duo of Blackston Gold, *The Solitaire Ghost* and *The Time Seam* released by Fivestar Books in 2011.

Sylvia Kelso's short fiction has appeared in Australian and US anthologies, including *Love and Rockets* from DAW in 2010 and *Beyond Grimm: Tales Newly Twisted* from Bookview Cafe in 2012. Her short story "The Honor of the Ferrocarril" in *Gears and Levers 3* was released in June 2013 by Skywarriors Books, and "Spring in Geneva," a novella-length riff on *Frankenstein*, from Aqueduct Press in October 2013. "The Price of Kush" for the US anthology *Griots: Sisters of the Spear* was released as an ebook in December 2013. Her most recent short story release is "Crow" in the Spring Equinox 2014 issue of *Eternal Haunted Summer* e-zine.http://www.sylviakelso.com.

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