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Authors listed alphabetically by last name.
K. Anders
K. Anders is currently a medical doctor, double-boarded in Anesthesia and Critical Care Medicine at a major hospital system in Fort Wayne, Indiana. On the side, he is the head firearms instructor and general manager for Condition Red Response, LLC--a highly respected firearms training company. He also enjoys training in martial arts and creating medieval and Renaissance leatherwork.
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K's first work accepted for publication was a short story called “Shrink” which was published at Brigham Young University. At BYU he majored in Exercise Physiology and acquired minors in English, Psychology, Chemistry, and Zoology while participating on the Ballroom Dance Company. “Shrink” was featured in Inscape, BYU’s competitive literary magazine, in 1997.
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He began writing again in earnest in 2023 and published “The Warlock’s Daughter,” a story featuring the protagonist of his first novel"Dragonsworn," in a Dragon Soul Press Anthology titled "Pirate Gold."
After that K published four stories in anthologies with Raconteur Press. Additional publications include a 2023 story called "The Legend of Mahi Kino" which appeared in the Camden Park Press Anthology "They Hunt By Night" and "Foxtrot Protocol" in Three Raven's Publishing's Anthology "A Touch of Aether."
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A new novel called "Resurgence of Light" is set to be published next summer to keep his fans busy reading while he finishes "Dragonstone," book 2 in the Vassal Series
Ben Berwick
Ben Berwick was born in the 1980s, and grew up in a small town called Stevenage, north of London, but was formed by the 1990s. It was in the 90s that he found Star Trek, Nintendo, and in his humble opinion, the very best Disney had to offer. He found football and became a Liverpool FC supporter. He also loves Formula One racing.
Ben lives in Essex, with his wife Michelle, and daughter, Evangeline. Since meeting Michelle, he has learned of love's enduring, noble qualities, and since becoming a father, known the highest possible levels of joy a man can experience. He shares his life's adventure with them both, and with his daughter, his love of Nintendo!
Steve Dahill
Steve Dahill is a direct descendant of the privateer Brother of Revolutionary War hero John Barry cited as the “Father of the United States Navy”. Steve is also a direct descendant of revered rebels hanged by the British during the Irish Rebellion of 1798.
Dahill spent many years as an executive in the software industry in Boston, Massachusetts where he lives, overlooking theUSS Constitution in Boston Harbor, and sails Riva, his racing sailboat, along the southern New England coast with his family.
C.S. Devereaux
C. S. Devereaux’s love for the history of ordinary people grew out of listening to her grandmothers tell about their lives. An artist-turned-writer, she studied people throughout her life. She has published essays in The Sun magazine, short stories in the Chattanooga Writers’ Guild 2020 Anthology, and has a short story in the Realms of the Fantastic fantasy anthology from Jumpmaster Press. Her previous novels were memoirs, Another Adventure, and Idelle. C. S. Devereaux lives in Chattanooga, Tennessee with her husband Tom, Zoe cat, and Ninja dog.
Saph Dodd
Saph Dodd has been writing for as long as she’s known how. Since she first picked up a pencil and learned to string sentences together, she’s been creating fantastic and intriguing stories.
This twenty-six-year-old writer adores reading, especially action-adventure, fantasy, and horror stories, as well as lore and mythology.
Her first novel, published when she was sixteen, spurred her to continue to do what she loves. Writing is her passion.
She lives in a small Tennessee town with her family: a younger sister, Jennifer, a constant source of inspiration, and supportive parents.
Erik Dreiling
Erik Dreiling, a native of California, enlisted in the United States Army in 2009. He completed basic training and Advanced Individual Training (AIT) at Fort Jackson, South Carolina. His first duty station was Fort Bliss, Texas, where he served as a Wheeled Vehicle Mechanic with the 1st Armored Division. He served honorably for five years until 2013 when his focus shifted to his young family. He and his family still reside in West Texas.
In 2014, Dreiling attended American Military University. In 2018, he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in English concentrating in Writing. Currently, he is still enrolled in AMU, working toward his Master of Education in Teaching.
Alexandra Ely
Alexandra Ely is a fantasy and dystopian author who learned the craft of storytelling from a Russian playwright. Her writing has appeared in niche publications and an international anthology. She is happily married with two children in Kentucky. You can connect with her at alexandraelybooks.com
Sara A. Freites
Sara is a mixed Latina, born in Virginia. As part of a military family, she’s lived all over the U.S. and also in Okinawa. She moved to Tennessee in 2001, where she later went on to study Psychology in Memphis. She’s been writing short stories and poems for as long as she can remember, but her YA fantasy novel Rise of Midnight is her first published work.
Sara is currently working on one other unrelated fiction book. She is also working to expand the Rise of Midnight series.
When Sara is not writing, she’s painting, acting in short films on YouTube, playing the piano and violin, and appearing as princesses and superheroes for little girls' birthday parties and children’s hospital visits with her local charities in Tennessee, where she lives with her husband.
Jeff Friedlander
Rabbi Jeff Friedlander is a Jewish believer in Yeshua (Jesus). Rabbi Jeff and his wife Sherri have been married since 1990. They began their journey together at the University of Georgia. After graduating with a B.S. in Hospitality Management, they were married and now have four adult children, four grandchildren and Sherri’s dog, Rosie. Yes, the dog is that important. Dedicating their first year of marriage to the L-rd, they attended a ministry leadership program called The Master's Commission in Phoenix, Arizona. In addition to the Berean Bible College curriculum, each student participated in practical hands-on ministry.
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Rabbi Jeff received a Christian Worker's License and was ordained through the International Assemblies of God Fellowship as a minister. Rabbi Jeff also attended Rabbinical training and was ordained as a Messianic Rabbi and Teacher. In addition to ministry, he owned and managed several businesses for over two decades.
Today he leads Be One Ministries and Fellowship in Birmingham, Alabama.
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G.G. Garth
New England author, G.G. Garth has authored, ghostwritten, and development edited over 50 books for other authors published by Scala Arts Publishers, Center Street Press/Hachette, and others. Her Young Adult novels Nightmare Matinee, Driven to Kill!, Bad Dog: A Vampire’s Canine, and Party Till You Scream! published by Jumpmaster Press™ (2020) were first published by Bantam Doubleday Dell (1994-1995). She graduated from Wells College, Aurora, New York, with a B.A. in German and Spanish literature. In high school she graduated from Holderness School, Plymouth, New Hampshire, and attended Berkhamsted School for Girls in Hertfordshire, England. Extensive travel on four continents inspired many of her stories. G.G. Garth is the proud mother of talented writers, Alden, a comedienne, and Jack, a journalist.
R. Kyle Hannah
With a face for radio and a voice for silent movies, writing was his only recourse.
R. Kyle Hannah is a self-professed geek and lover of most things sci-fi. He began writing in high school as an outlet for an overactive imagination. Those humble beginnings, combined with real life experiences from a 29-year career in the Army, have spawned a dozen full-length adventures and short stories.
His 2019 release, Harvest Day, won Best Sci-Fi Novel at the 2000 Imadjinn Awards.
He was named One of the 50 Great Writers You Should be Reading by the Author’s Show in 2016. He is also the winner of two Pinnacle Book Awards (Time Assassins and The Jake Cutter Conspiracy).
“Reminiscent of Arthur C. Clarke” is how Writer’s Digest describes his first novel, To Aid and Protect.
He is a founder and Vice President of Jumpmaster Press. www.jumpmasterpress.com.
He is married, with two children, and lives in the suburbs of Birmingham, Alabama.
Jeanne Hardt
Jeanne Hardt has always been involved in the arts in one form or fashion. In 1993, she moved to Tennessee from North Idaho to pursue a career in music and acting, but she soon found her true passion…writing.
She wrote songs, plays, and musicals, then in 2010, a dream inspired her to write her first historical fiction novel. Since that time, she has also branched out to both contemporary and young adult fiction.
Jeanne still lives in Tennessee with her husband and her writing buddy, Jax, a spunky chihuahua mix.
Dale Kesterson
A native of New York City, Dale Kesterson is a writer, actress, singer, and character voice artist currently living in the middle of nowhere in a Kansas town so small it doesn’t have a red-yellow-green traffic light. Although a science major in college, she enjoys the creative side of life.
Staged for Death is the second novel in the Lauren Kaye Mystery series; it follows the debut novel, Resort to Murder, published in 2021. Other published works include her first science fiction short story in the award-winning Tales of the Interstellar Bartenders Guildand she co-authored a two-part time travel series with Aubrey Stephens: The Devil to Pay: Time Guards Volume One and Four Score and Seven: Time Guards Book Two.
Besides writing, Dale is active in her local community theaters. Her most recent stage role was as Cornelia Sawyer, the store psychologist in The Miracle on 34th Street; she has been stage manager and assistant director for two productions.
A professional photographer and seasoned traveler, Dale lives with her husband of over thirty years and their hairless cats, and if she’s not otherwise busy she does handcrafts—she hates being bored!
Dawn Kirby
Dawn Kirby is a native West Texan. She lives with her husband of twenty-five years and their three children. By day she’s a typical working mother and wife. At night she turns in the car keys and calculator and turns on her imagination.
She began writing eight years ago when an idea planted itself inside her head and refused to stop growing. Since than she’s written and published several anthologies and three novels. With a passionate curiosity for all things that go bump in the night, she plans to write many more.
Travis Kuffel
The spirit of adventure has always compelled Travis to search for the next mountaintop view or another river to jump into for the perfect fishing hole. Riding a motorcycle on country roads or cresting the ocean’s waves, there’s always something worth searching for. Travis was raised about as blue-collar as it gets, working in his grandfather’s New England sawmill from an extremely young age, so you won’t find any doctorates or degrees here; every lesson he’s learned has left a tapestry of scars across his hands and reveals itself through the passion in his heart. These days, when he isn't climbing trees and running a residential tree service, he's serving in his local church, playing music somewhere, or out on another quest with his wife of over twenty-five years and their five kids.
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That same zeal Travis has for experiencing the thrills of life flows into his Tales of Ganden books. Time might be short in such a busy life, but who needs sleep when the characters need their stories written?
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Starting with his hard-charging debut, Unleashed, Travis drags his readers right into the pages and through the perilous realm of Ganden. Keep an eye out for the next two books in the Baksa series, as everything leads up to the Shadow War Saga, another three-book arc already deep in development.
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Go over to www.talesofganden.com if you want to stay up to date on any upcoming events or releases. You can also sign up for the monthly newsletter for sneak peeks and insights into the writing process.
Now go grab a book and start reading!
Angel LaPoint
Angel LaPoint was born and raised in Alabama and spent many happy holidays in Louisiana with her Cajun father’s relatives, so she knows what it is like to live in two different worlds. She currently lives in Alabama with her two cats while she patiently waits for God to bring her Prince Charming into her life.
She has been creating worlds and characters her entire life. She studied fairy tale literature and history in high school, and took creative writing and playwriting courses in college. She enjoys many other creative interests, such as crochet and cosplay. She and her best friend are currently crafting the foundation for a tabletop adventure RPG set in their shared fantasy realm.
Though Hidden Identity is her first published work, many more stories are certain to follow.
Art Lasky
Art Lasky is a retired computer programmer; after forty years of writing for computers he decided to try writing for people—it’s much harder than it looks.
He is a Manhattan cliff dweller. Sharing an apartment with his spouse, his muse, and his best friend; Manhattan apartments are small, so, fortunately his wife is all three of those. Art’s favorite pursuits are being silly with his grandchildren, visiting the American Museum of Natural History, and wandering Central Park. There he often visits the statues of Mother Goose, Alice in Wonderland and Hans Christian Anderson. He denies all rumors that he talks to them; he does admit to listening closely, though.
Art is the founder of the Algonquin Rectangular Table, a group of writers who get together to talk about the craft, write tag-team stories, solve the world’s problems, and shoot the breeze. He is also an editor at SciFi Lampoon, the premiere magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction humor.
J.L. Lawrence
J. L. Lawrence lives near Nashville, Tennessee with her family including three rambunctious teenagers. She loves reading and exploring new places. Her imagination has always provided her greatest adventures. She finally decided to capture some of the stories on paper to create the Mystic Series. Please explore the website and check out her Facebook and Instagram.
Elden lee
Elden Lee has been telling stories in a variety of mediums for decades. As an actor, radio host, and teacher, he has always been plagued by the need to entertain and amuse. Lee has been recognized by the Imadjinn Awards, the L. Ron Hubbard Writers of the Future Contest, and the Darrell Awards. When not writing, he spends his time reading pulp and watching noir. Lee lives in West Tennessee with his wife, son, and way too many cats.
Philip Ligon
Philip Ligon’s love of fantasy began in earnest when he tried to read The Sword of Shannara for a book report in high school. Though his teacher made him choose a different book for the report, he was forever hooked on epic adventures, quests, and fantastic realms. He proceeded to devour every fantasy book he could find. He threw in a healthy dose of science fiction, too.
Philip calls the hills and valleys of north Alabama home, where modern science brings what was once considered impossible dreams and far-flung ideas to reality.
Will Neely
During his life Will has given concerts, managed concession stands, taught music lessons, worked in construction, preached sermons, created board games, designed and built websites, and probably more things he has forgotten. He can’t seem to stop his brain from conjuring up fun ideas, so he decided to start writing some of them down. He lives in the U.S. with his family and an oversized golden retriever.
Bryan Nowak
Bryan Nowak is a horror and mystery author from Northern Virginia whose stories explore the dark edges of human nature. Henrico House is his debut book with Jumpmaster Press. A lifelong fan of classic horror and speculative fiction, Bryan draws inspiration from real-world mysteries and the quiet dread of the unknown. When he’s not writing, he hosts the podcast All Things Writing, where he interviews authors and creators about their craft. He regularly appears at book events and conventions throughout Northern Virginia. He has been married to his wife Tanya since 1996 and they have three children and a stubborn terrier mix.
Tish Oliver
Frantiska Oliver currently resides in Texas with her husband, Billy, and their two children. Along with being a full-time mom, she is also a part-time veterinary technician and will do anything she can to help an animal in need. Her love of fantasy and science fiction books inspired her to write and to this day, when the sun sets and the stars appear, you will find her on the back porch with a notebook and pen, writing about the adventuring manifesting within her head.
E.G. Rowley
E.G. Rowley is a nationally recognized voice actor, radio host, award-winning playwright, novelist, and four-time nominee for Audiobook Narration of the Year - Best Voiceover, by the Society of Voice Arts & Sciences™.
He is a U.S. Army veteran and served in both Afghanistan and Iraq as an aviator. He is an avid outdoorsman and spends what little free time he has enjoying outdoor shooting sports, hiking, and camping.
E.G. Rowley is a sought-after public speaker and owns several successful businesses.
He and his beautiful wife, Mandy have been married for more than twenty-five years and have three incredible daughters. They live near Birmingham, Alabama.
Armin Shimerman
Though known to the world for his acting work, Armin Shimerman is a passionate bardologist. A graduate of UCLA, with a degree in English and a specialization in Shakespeare, Armin has performed a third of Shakespeare’s canon at many major Regional Theatres (and Shakespeare Festivals) around the country.
He is an Adjunct Professor at USC and a sought after Shakespeare acting coach. His past novels, The Merchant Prince series, are also based on John Dee, Elizabeth I’s controversial occultist and counselor.
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Heather-Rose Thompson
Born in Oregon and raised in Oklahoma, I have always been surrounded by books. My mother is an avid reader and my dad was fond of reading books such as The Hobbit to my brothers and I at bedtime. During my childhood, if I wasn't writing poetry or short stories, I could be found with my nose buried in a book.
Now that I'm a mother, I love reading to my sons, and I want them to grow up with the same kind of memories about books as I have. My hope with Donnie and Earl is to help parents create lasting memories with their children and instill in them a love of reading.
Finding time in my busy life for the things and people that bring me the most joy is incredibly important to me. So when I am not working, I love being with my husband and our sons, as well as spending time with my family and friends. Some of my other favorite activities include reading, crafting, playing games (both tabletop and video), watching TV shows and movies, and snuggling with my two kitties.
Brian Weimer
Born on the Summer Solstice, Brian Weimer is the author of The Citadel and the faith-based Nexus series, supernatural thrillers exploring the universal conflict between good and evil. A former writer for The Examiner, contributing articles on alternative news, spirituality in pop-culture and entertainment, health and nutrition, and emerging global threats. He is currently working on several projects.
Catherine Wells
Catherine Wells he is the author of numerous novels and short stories of speculative fiction, including two AnLab Award winners for best novella. Retired from a 20+ year in corporate libraries, she enjoys hiking, bicycling, playing bass guitar, and singing.
For more about Catherine, her books and short stories, visit her Facebook page at Catherine.Wells.733.
