In October of 2011, my career in holding down office furniture came to an end with the sweep of a budgetary axe. Now I write, edit, and review fiction and non-fiction. I am much happier. The cats tolerate me being at home more often. I work with amazing, awe-inspiring, and creative people. I'm a woodworker and toy builder in my spare time.

Dr. Anthony G. Francis, Jr. is a science fiction writer and computer scientist who started writing urban fantasy because he likes it. The Dakota Frost series combines Anthony's love of hard science, fantastic magic, alternative culture, and strong, feisty women. Even though the siren call of computing eventually pulled him out to the San Francisco Bay Area, he still chose to set the Dakota Frost series in Atlanta, Georgia, where he spent nearly half his life and which he has learned to love like no other place on Earth. When not making computers smarter or writing science fiction and fantasy, Anthony blogs about his life, his writing and his research at The Library of Dresan. He also writes an occasionally updated webcomic, f@nu fiku. He currently lives in San Jose with his wife and cats.

Amazon bestselling author Kirsten Weiss writes laugh-out-loud, page-turning mysteries. Her heroines aren’t perfect, but they’re smart, they struggle, and they succeed. Kirsten writes in a house high on a hill in the Colorado woods and occasionally ventures out for wine and chocolate. Or for a visit to the local pie shop. She's best known for her cozy and witch mystery novels. So if you like funny, action-packed mysteries with complicated heroines, just turn the page…

A TV, feature film, comic book writer, and novelist, Madeleine is the winner of the Sloan Fellowship for screenwriting, and the Gold Aurora and Bronze Telly for a PSA produced by Women In Film. She also won numerous awards while completing the UCLA MFA Program in Screenwriting. Having run a number of successful crowdfunding campaigns for her comic, Boston Metaphysical Society, has guest lectured at Scriptwriters Network, Dreamworks Animation, and the UCLA Professional Program. She has also published the book, Kickstarter for the Independent Creator. Boston Metaphysical Society: A Storm of Secrets was awarded a Silver Medal in the 2019 Feathered Quill Book Awards in the Science Fiction and Fantasy category as well as The Write Companion Award for Best Overall TOP PICK - Adult, Children's and Young Adult categories. She also has an anthology of short stories and novellas called Boston Metaphysical Society: Prelude based on the Boston Metaphysical Society universe. The Boston Metaphysical Society short story, Here Abide Monsters, is part of the Some Time Later anthology from Thinking Ink Press. Source Point Press is set to publish the first six issues and the trade paperback of the graphic novel, Boston Metaphysical Society, in 2019/2020. She is currently writing a story for Lady Mechanika. Other comic projects include: The Scout (The 4th Monkey anthology) The Sanctuary (The Edgar Allan Poe Chronicles anthology) The Marriage Counselor (Cthulhu is Hard to Spell anthology) The Infinity Tree (Menagerie: Declassified anthology) The Glob (Night Wolf Vol. 1) Monster (The Dark Side of Purity anthology) Formerly a nationally ranked epee fencer, she has competed nationally and internationally. She is an avid reader of comics, steampunk, science fiction, fantasy, and historical military fiction.

BJ Sikes is a 5'6" ape descendant who is inordinately fond of a good strong cup of tea, Doc Marten boots, and fancy dress. I live with one large cat, two sweet teenagers, and one editor-author, plus an array of chickens in a place very unlike my homeland. My fave genre is historical fantasy with themes of a woman’s struggle for agency. After writing a dissertation on avocado root rot, I was drawn back to my first love, fiction. My debut novel, the Archimedean Heart, is the first book in the Roboticist of Versailles world, a French Belle Epoque that never was. The Vitruvian Mask is the second full novel set in that world and The Electric Prophet occurs between those two books. The Cultist's Wife is a departure from that story world and genre, but still features women trying to find independence. I am the Author Head for Clockwork Alchemy, a steampunk convention in the San Francisco Bay Area. For anyone who loves sci-fi with an alternate history spin, Clockwork Alchemy presents three days of immersive entertainment. I happily wrangle the cats called authors who share their amazing knowledge at the event. In my day job, I write and edit scientific publications for a university. I’m married to a novelist/freelance editor and our children are composing their own fiction in the NaNoWriMo Young Writers’s Program. I like words. I also like tea, chocolate, cats, and chickens, not necessarily in that order. When I am not playing with words, you might find me mucking about in the garden or making herbal concoctions in the kitchen.