I am a speculative fiction author, mostly writing fantasy, science fiction, and some mix of the two. I'm probably best known for the Forgotten Realms series SHADOWBANE (the tale of a thief turned vigilante paladin, sworn to a dead god), as well as a growing body of short stories in various anthologies and available for download on the web. (Seriously, check my website, it's pretty awesome.)

I am also a known quantity in the gaming industry, designing for the legendary tabletop RPG Dungeons and Dragons as well as other systems.

When I'm not writing, gaming, or more writing, I compose technical documentation by day and fight injustice by night. I lives in Seattle and am married with pets

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Minerva Zimmerman enjoys writing tragically funny fiction. She is statistically chaotic neutral, but all her good deeds are done in secret. She had an evil career all picked out, but accidentally became a respectable museum professional. She’s touched 5000 year old fingerprints, fallen on her head, chipped frozen squid off the floor, and been mistaken by druids for the avatar of a fiery goddess. She thinks bears should not wear pants and spiders make great minions. She grew up thinking that scary things are there to protect you and pretty, helpless looking things are a trap. She’s been unable to shake this theory as an adult. Someday she hopes to swim with platypus.

Shanna Germain claims the titles of writer, editor, leximaven, girl geek, she-devil, vorpal blonde, bisexual brainlicker, and Schrodinger's brat. Her short stories, essays, poems, novellas and more have appeared in hundreds of books and publications, including Best American Erotica, Best Bondage Erotica, Best Erotic Romance, Best Gay Romance, Triangulation, Salon, Storyglossia and more. Her most recent books and games include As Kinky as You Wanna Be, Predation, No Thank You, Evil!, and The Poison Eater.

Visit her online at www.shannagermain.com

A voracious reader from the age of three, Torah Cottrill discovered Robert Heinlein and science fiction and never looked back. But it was the original three Women of Wonder anthologies that most influenced her experience as a reader and, later, a writer. Her short fiction spans a number of different styles (urban fantasy, science fiction, fairy tale), connected by a focus on strong female protagonists.

In addition to writing her own fiction, Torah has also worked as a professional editor for many years on a diverse range of publications, including the Journal of Democracy, the women's magazine Redfruit, and numerous roleplaying game rulebooks for the Star Wars and Dungeons & Dragons brands. She has also contributed as an author for the websites of several popular MMOs.

Although her nomadic life has taken her to Saudi Arabia, Jordan, and Japan, as well as half a dozen U.S. states, Torah, her three children, and a stray cat they adopted in Okinawa have happily resided in the Pacific Northwest for the past several years.

Born and raised in the American Southwest, to an existentialist librarian and a teacher/child-care specialist, Nathan was pretty much doomed from the start. Drawn to working class heroes, lurid ghost stories, urban planning, UFOs, architecture, history, and the underdog, he found writing as a way to entertain these interests.

Due largely to his love of movies, his first serious writing was screenplays, of which he's written five over the past several years. He has also written over a dozen novels, including several super-hero within his Cobalt City world. His short fiction has appeared in such places as Thuglit.com, Byzarium, Crossed Genres, Absent Willow Review, WilyWriters.com, and the anthologies Close Encounters of the Urban Kind, Rigor Amortis, Cthulhurotica, Cobalt City Christmas, and Cobalt City Timeslip.

Nathan currently lives in the Bohemian wilds of north Seattle, where micro-brew beer flows like water and everyone wears ironic t-shirts and mustaches--even the women. He lives alone with his cat, Shiva, who is currently managing his career in exchange for fresh kibble.

Scott Gable lives in the beautiful underwater city of Seattle. He is publishing serialized novels and anthologies, such as Nowhereville, Welcome to Miskatonic University, Ride the Star Wind, Tomorrow's Cthulhu, Ghost in the Cogs, and By Faerie Light, via Eyedolon magazine. He runs the independent press Broken Eye Books, publishing the odd, strange, and offbeat side of speculative fiction from many wonderful authors, and is lead designer on the forthcoming The Faerie Ring roleplaying game from Zombie Sky Press.

James L. Sutter is a co-creator of the Pathfinder and Starfinder Roleplaying Games. From 2004 to 2017, he worked as an editor and developer for Paizo Publishing, starting on Dungeon Magazine, moving on to do foundational work for Pathfinder, and eventually becoming the original Creative Director in charge of launching Starfinder, as well as the Executive Editor of the Pathfinder Tales novel line. In 2017, after guiding Starfinder through the most successful game launch in Paizo's history, he resigned from the company in order to write full-time.

James is the author of the novels Death's Heretic—ranked #3 on Barnes & Noble's Best Fantasy Releases of 2011 and a finalist for the Compton Crook Award for Best First Novel—and The Redemption Engine, which won the 2015 Scribe Award for Best Original Speculative Novel. In addition to a wealth of award-wining tabletop gaming material, he's also written comics, video games, and short stories for such publications as Escape Pod, Apex Magazine, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, and the #1 Amazon best-seller Machine of Death. His anthology Before They Were Giants pairs the first published short stories of science fiction and fantasy luminaries with new interviews and writing advice from the authors themselves.

For more information, please visit www.jameslsutter.com.