Christopher J. Valin is a writer, teacher, artist, and historian living in the Los Angeles area. He received his masters' degree with honors in military history, and his first book, Fortune's Favorite: Sir Charles and the Breaking of the Line, is the expansion of his masters thesis on his 5x-great-grandfather, Rear-Admiral Sir Charles Douglas.

In addition to writing and inking for independent comic book companies and writing screenplays for production companies, Christopher has had numerous short stories published in anthologies such as Beyond the Stars and The Fans Are Buried Tales. His screenplays, teleplays, and stories have won multiple awards and contests. As CJ Valin, he is co-author of the popular Raptors young adult superhero series, the first of which won the BIBA award.

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David J. Fielding is a writer and an actor.

His published works have appeared in Nevermet Press, Rebel ePublishers LLC, Alter Egos I & Alter Egos II from Source Point Press, the recently published Capes and Clockwork: Superheroes in the Age of Steam anthology from Dark Oak Press and the soon-to-be published Something Strange is Going On anthology from Flinch! Books. And most recently, his short novella "Buddy Holly and the Cold, Cold Ground" was published by Cool Beans, P&E.

He is also the actor who originated the role and provided the voice for Zordon of Eltar, the mentor to a group of teenagers with attitude on the hit television series, The Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers.

He is busy polishing a superhero novel, a series of paranormal stories and attending various Comic and Entertainment Conventions.

Konstantine Paradias is a writer by choice. At the moment, he's published over

100 stories in English, Japanese, Romanian,German, Dutch and Portuguese and has

worked in a freelancing capacity for videogames, screenplays and anthologies.

People tell him he's got a writing problem but he can, like, quit whenever he wants, man.

His work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize.

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Sean Taylor is an award-winning writer of stories. He grew up telling lies, and he got pretty good at it, so now he writes them into full-blown adventures for comic books, graphic novels, magazines, book anthologies and novels. He makes stuff up for money, and he writes it down for fun. He's a lucky fellow that way.

He's best known for his work on the best-selling Gene Simmons Dominatrix comic book series from IDW Publishing and Simmons Comics Group. He has also written comics for TV properties such as the top-rated Oxygen Network series The Bad Girls Club. His other forays into fiction include such realms as steampunk, pulp, young adult, fantasy, super heroes, sci-fi, and even samurai frogs on horseback (seriously, don't laugh). However, his favorite contribution to the world will be as the writer/editor who invented the genre and coined the term "Hookerpunk."

For more information (and mug shots) visit www.thetaylorverse.com and his writer's blog at seanhtaylor.blogspot.com.

In 1965, an object fell from space, somewhere near Kecksburg, PA. This was the same year that Alan was born. To date, no connection has been made between the two events but that hasn’t stopped the conspiracy theorists from speculating.

D. Alan Lewis is an ‘alleged’ native of Chattanooga, Tennessee who now resides in Nashville with his children. In 2006, Alan took the reins of the NWMG’s Novelist Group where he works with new and aspiring writers, leads writing and publishing workshops, and has worked to publish their 4 anthologies.

Alan’s debut novel, a fantasy murder mystery, The Blood in Snowflake Garden was a finalist for the 2010 Claymore Award and is currently being developed into a television series. Alan’s other books include, The Lightning Bolts of Zeus from Dark Oak and The Bishop of Port Victoria. He is also editor of 4 anthologies for Dark Oak Press, Luna’s Children: Full Moon Mayhem, Luna’s Children: Stranger Worlds, and Capes & Clockwork: Superheroes in the Age of Steam.

He also has short stories in a number of anthologies, including Dreams of Steam 4-Gizmos, Black Pulp, Nashville Noir, Beyond the Skyline, Comfort Foods, and Midnight Movie Creature Feature Vol.2.

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After nearly dying at birth, Jeremy Hicks gave up his ghost during the sorrowful autumn of his twelfth year. The outsider that occupied his body at that point did the best it could to imitate him. However, this being’s bizarre sense of humor and inability to fully mimic human emotions kept it an outsider. After many unhappy years of trying to assimilate to this plane of existence and its daily doldrums, he turned to the cadre of demons in his life for other options. He teamed up with one of them inhabiting a ginger known as Barry Hayes and together they turned their nightmares into fiction.

The writing team of Hicks & Hayes created an original horror-fantasy environment (Faltyr), wrote a screenplay (The Cycle of Ages Saga: Finders Keepers) to introduce it, and then adapted it into a novelization of the same name. As a result, their first novel was published by Dark Oak Press in August 2013; the second was published in September 2015. The third installment will be released in Summer 2017.

Jeremy co-owns Broke Guys Productions, and he is also a poet and short story writer. Three of his short stories are available in Dark Oak anthologies (Capes & Clockwork 1&2; Luna's Children). Another is available through Pro Se Press. His newest is a horror short featured in C.A.M. Charity Anthology Vol. 1: Horror & Science Fiction.

Robert J. Krog is a native of Memphis, TN, where he still resides with his family. He has been a climber for his father’s professional arborist company, a grocery store clerk, a waiter, an order out delivery guy, a legal runner, a substitute teacher, and a high school History teacher. He has a master’s degree in Ancient History. He currently works for a chemical lawn care and organic services company in Memphis, TN. He is a devout Catholic, and this influences all of his writing. His published works include the collection, The Stone Maiden and Other Tales, the novella, A Bag Full of Eyes, and numerous short stories in anthologies from various publishers. He edited the anthology A Tall Ship, a Star, and Plunder for Dark Oak Press, and Potter’s Field Five for Alban Lake Publishing. He is currently working as a freelance editor on Potter’s Field Six for Alban Lake Press. A Bag Full of Eyes won the Darrell Award for Best Midsouth Novella in 2013. His short story, “The One’s Who Remember,” won the Darrell Award for Best Midsouth Short Story in 2016.

Mr. Krog continues to write and has numerous, previously-unpublished works slated for publication in the next year. He is currently working on a pair of novellas, a screenplay, and a couple of novels. He is a regular author guest at science fiction and fantasy conventions in and around the Midsouth.

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