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In between teaching academically gifted students, raising her own two children, being a wife, and reading AND writing YA SciFi/Fantasy/Paranormal, in her "spare time" you can most likely find CJ rocking out, stalking fictional characters, & Fangirling books, TV shows/movies. She... Read More →

Small, independent publishing. Fantasy, Science Fiction, Horror, Thrillers, and Mystery novels.

Rachel is a transgender woman and writer living in the Midwest. She writescontemporary YA stories under her given name and fantasy/science fictionunder the name R. J. Eliason. Her contemporary YA novels published as RachelEliason include: Run, Clarissa, Run; The Case of Nikki Pagan... Read More →

Author (Rhymer, Shadowbridge, Fitcher’s Brides, Tain) and many short stories as well. Taught the fiction workshop at Swarthmore College for 18 years, acted in a notorious “B” horror film, and served as the principal researcher for episodes of Science Frontiers.

Best known in Iowa for his long career as a radio personality, Dennis’s on-air adventures were covered by newspapers from Anchorage to Los Angeles, and he has received awards from Billboard Magazine, JazzWeek, and many community organizations.His first novel, "Traveler," a sci-fi... Read More →

Joe Haldeman is an American science fiction author and combat veteran of Vietnam. He is best known for his 1974 novel The Forever War. That novel, and other of his works including, The Hemingway Hoax (1991) and Forever Peace (1997), have won major science fiction awards including... Read More →

Patty Templeton is a Certified Archivist with a MSLIS from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She was a 2020 Library of Congress Junior Fellow. She is excited by all things audiovisual and metadata management.

Jim C. Hines began writing in the early 90s, while working on a degree in psychology from Michigan State University. His first professional sale was the award-winning “Blade of the Bunny,” which took first place in the 1998 Writers of the Future competition and was published in... Read More →

Beth is a fantasy writer who has published a number of short stories inanthologies and small press magazines, as well as an illustrated chapbook,Following Seas (originally released by Sam's Dot Publishing, and reprinted in2013 by Alban Lake Publishing's Outposts of the Beyond), and... Read More →

Gregga J. Johnn is a transient writer and performer. She has traveled around Australia performing in schools with poetry and puppets, and has over twenty years of experience on stage and small screens, in Australia and the USA, both acting and directing. Currently, she lives on the... Read More →

Jones started her academic career as a science geek, earned a degree in art, and, when she's not making quilts or herding cats, writes grisly thrillers. Her award winning Dubric Byerly Mystery series, “Ghosts in the Snow”, “Threads of Malice”, and “Valley of the Soul... Read More →

Michael Koogler was born in Dayton, Ohio and resides today in Iowa with hiswife and children. His first full-length novel, Hade’s Gambit, was co-written withfellow authors Jed Quinn and Jaren Riley and debuted in 2012. It has beenrecently re-released as two books entitled Kingmaker... Read More →

Ann is the author of the Hugo, Nebula, and Arthur C. Clarke Award winning novel “Ancillary Justice”.  She has also published short stories in: Subterranean Magazine, Strange Horizons, and Realms of Fantasy.  Her story, Hesperia and Glory, was reprinted in Science Fiction: The... Read More →

A.R. Miller’s contemporary fantasy series, Fey Creations, has been compared to potato chips. ‘Absolutely no nutritional value, but fun to read and highly addictive.’ A great complement considering potato chips are in the top five of her favorite foods and she strives to do nothing... Read More →

D. Moonfire is the remarkable intersection of a computer nerd and a scientist.He inherited a desire for learning, endless curiosity, and a talent for being apolymath from both of his parents. Instead of focusing on a single genre, hewrites stories and novels in many different settings... Read More →

Sarah is the author of the award winning middle-grade fantasy Magic Thief series, which has been published in 19 languages around the world. In addition to being a 2009 E. B. White Read-Aloud honor book and an NCTE notable book, The Magic Thief  is on sixteen state reading lists... Read More →

Author, historian, world traveler and raconteur, Jed Quinn is a man of obscuretalents and strange associations. Jed spends his days teaching as a communitycollege history professor, being a father to five ridiculously awesome kids,serving on his local school board, writing, and traversing... Read More →

Mickey is a pediatrician and author whose claims to fame include being theproduct of two rocket scientists and having performed brain surgery, whilebeing neither a rocket scientist nor a brain surgeon.Mickey's novels include the I, Robot trilogy (To Protect, To Obey, To Preserve)authorized... Read More →

Shannon lives in Marion, Iowa. He writes weird, funny stories in the urban fantasygenre. He currently has three novels out: Minion of Evil about satanictelemarketers, and Fangs for Nothing which follows a loser vampire “living” in hisparents’ basement. His latest book Panic... Read More →

Catherine Schaff-Stump writes books for adults and children. Her short fiction has appeared in The Mammoth Book of Dieselpunk, Spirit's Tincture, various publications from Paper Golem Press and on Drabblecast. She is the author of the Klaereon Scroll series. Catherine is a graduate... Read More →

T.J. is a young, eclectic writer who pens unique and fascinating works. From horror, to fantasy, to fiction built around real mysteries, the tales are tall and incredulous. Silver's first novel, Thunderstorm and the Elementals, provides sheer heart racing entertainment for young fans... Read More →

Erik Therme has thrashed in garage bands, inadvertently harbored runaways, and met Darth Vader. When he’s not at his computer, he can be found cheering for his oldest daughter’s volleyball team, or chilling on the PlayStation 3 with his eleven-year-old. He currently resides in Iowa City, Iowa—one of only seven places in the world UNESCO has certified as a City of Literature.https://www.goodreads.c... Read More →

Tara lives in Cedar Rapids, Iowa with her husband and four children (two humans and two canines) and where she spends her days shaping the minds of impressionable fourth graders; She spends her nights and summers shaping the lives of her make-believe characters. Tara loves to escape... Read More →

Adam J. Whitlatch is a speculative fiction writer, freelance editor, and aspiringmusician. A fantasy enthusiast from a young age, his interest in science fictionwas first sparked at the age of ten when his father played the infamous 1938 OrsonWelles War of the Worlds radio broadcast... Read More →