About the Authors
Lara Biyuts
Lara Biyuts, from Russia, is a translator. She writes in English, and her books are available on Smashwords and Lulu. Her blog Revue Blanche is dedicated to the joy of creativity, beauty of originality, power of curiosity, wonder of diversity and the delight of imagination. Read her blog Revue Blanche here: http://revueblanche.blogspot.com/ Revue Blanche
Carol Sumilas Boshears
A native of Scranton, PA, now living in the great city of Rochester, NY, Carol is now into antiques and collectibles and has had articles published on those subjects. Her children’s story about Greyhounds was published in “Celebrating Greyhounds” quarterly. Having written since third grade and always wanting to be a writer, she can do it now. Two novels off the burner and two on right now, she says; one is about ancient Egypt, her passion. Bleary eyed at the computer, writing, Carol smiles- here at last, WRITING. Roc-info@democratandchronicle.com
Monica Brinkman
Monica Brinkman is one of the hosts of the It Matters radio show http://www.blogtalkradio.com/monicabrinkmanandoana and writes the blog A Touch of Karma http://theturnofthekarmicwheel.blogspot.com/
Ralph Ewig
Born and raised in Western Europe, Ralph Ewig immigrated to the US in 1992 at the age of twenty. He has lived in both the Seattle and Los Angeles metropolitan areas, and holds three degrees in the field of aeronautics and astronautics from the University of Washington. To date, he has worked as a musician, a roadie, a lumberjack, a vineyard apprentice, and with many government and commercial space organizations; he is currently a Mission Operations Engineer at Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX). Ralph currently lives in California together with his wife, continuing his pursuits of space exploration, creative writing, motorsports, martial arts, and sailing. He maintains an active blog on ralphewig.tumblr.com
Candy Korman
Candy Korman is a freelance writer. After working in advertising, promotion and for a virtual reality company, she settled down to write. Her freelance projects include text for websites, newsletters and ghostwriting. Her Candy’s Monsters ebook novella series began in October 2011 with “The Mary Shelley Game” and continued in 2012 with “Bram Stoker’s Summer Sublet” in July and POED in December. More Candy’s Monsters are in the works. Candy lives with her cat, Chief Inspector Morse (for the Colin Dexter detective) in Greenwich Village. She loves to travel, dances Argentine Tango and drinks too much coffee. Candy’s Monsters Blog: http://candysmonsters.com/ Twitter @CandyKorman
Erin Lale.
Lale's publishing career began in 1985. Her published works and paid works for hire include fiction, nonfiction, poetry, technical writing, speeches, catalog copy, puzzles, songs, films, academic papers, cartoons, print ads, TV commercials, operations & procedure manuals, photos, art, newsletters, jokes, recipes, translations, and web content. She wrote for The Sonoma Index-Tribune, and was the publisher and editor of Berserkrgangr Magazine, and is currently the Acquisitions Editor at Eternal Press and Damnation Books. She owned The Science Fiction Store in Las Vegas, invented a number of technical processes in iDEN and CDMA wireless communications technology, ran for Nevada State Assembly in 2010 and for Henderson City Council in 2013. A complete list of her publishing credits is available on her yahoo page http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LaleLibrary/
Ian Miller
A New Zealander, Miller is the owner of Carina Chemical Laboratories Ltd. and inventor of Nemidon gel and algal biofuel. He is the author of Aristotelian Methodology in the Physical Sciences, and has a revolutionary new take on the quantum observer effect. His book Puppeteer is on this link http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0058B97M8 and his author website is http://www.ianmiller.co.nz
Don Nelson
About the writer: Born high in the Colorado Rockies, Don Nelson now lives on the central coast of California with his wife Karen and an American foxhound named Yankee Doodle. He specializes in writing picture books, chapter books and is writing a MG novel series called: A Boy and His Creature. He has completed over 60 short fictional stories for children’s magazines. For inspiration - he writes only in public places. He retired from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in 2007 after 35 years of service. Don Nelson’s website: http://donnelson.writerfolio.com/ and his blog: Donniesworld
Humberto Sachs
Born into the horse and carriage culture of the Brazilian Pampas in 1930, Sachs went into the U.S. aerospace industry and helped design passenger jets, the F-18 fighter jet, and the International Space Station. Sachs is now deceased.
Giampietro Stocco
Giampietro Stocco was born in Rome in 1961. Active as an author from the beginning of XXI st Century, he works as a journalist in the Italian public broadcasting service (RAI-tv) since 1991. He published his first novel in 2003: Nero Italiano (Fratelli Frilli Editori) is an alternate history novel based in Italy in the '70's, supposing fascism never went down. Dea del Caos (Fratelli Frilli Editori, 2005), is the sequel of this story. In 2007 Stocco published the sf novella Figlio della Schiera (Chinaski), in 2008 another alternate history novel, La corona perduta (Edizioni Scudo). Based in Genoa, the novel starts with Bomaparte's assassination during the Italian Campaign and imagines a completely different present world, still based on monarchies and empires. In 2009 the author publishes another novel, Dalle mie Ceneri (Delos Books). It is based in Argentina, and imagines that Britain had lost the Falkland war. In 2010 Stocco published another alternate story with Bietti. Nuovo Mondo is placed in the Renaissance at the times of Columbus discoveries and the events go quite another direction... In 2006 Stocco won the Alien prize for the best science fiction short story (Premio Alien per la fantascienza) with L'Ospite, The Host, which you're about to read...
Tony Thorne MBE.
Tony Thorne MBE is an Englishman, born and technically educated in London, England, as a Chartered Design Engineer. He lives in Austria in summer and the Canary Island of Tenerife in winter. Earlier in life, he wrote science fiction and humorous stories, was an active SF Fan, and a spare time lecturer for the British Interplanetary Society. For developments in the field of low temperature (cryo)surgery instruments, and very high temperature processing furnaces for carbon fibre, the Queen awarded him an MBE. After many subsequent business adventures, including the development of AI computer software for business applications, he is now a part-time author of quirky speculative fiction; mostly tall Science Fiction and Macabre tales, with over 100 short stories on file plus a first novel. His prize winning stories and other works have appeared in many magazines, various collections, and anthologies, as listed on his website... www.tonythorne.com
J.L. Toscano
J.L. Toscano (1975-Present) was born in Northhampton, Massassachusetts. He is a teacher with the Scarsdale Schools in N.Y. and he writes Science Fiction and children's stories. In addition, he enjoys coaching soccer and lacrosse. He published a Science Fiction novel called Travelers of the Void, in 2011. http://www.amazon.com/Travelers-of-the-Void-ebook/dp/B0057OG5G2/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1311541270&sr=1-1
Gordon Yaswen.
Gordon Yaswen is a self-taught writer, poet, and artist with work published in periodicals and anthologies, and self-published in CD, note-cards, 16 books and 26 chapbooks. He has taught autobiography techniques since 1983, and claims to create as a form of human hygiene. Catalog & offerings available at: 740 First St., Sebastopol, CA 95472 or YASWEN@AOL.COM, where reader feedback is also welcomed. He teaches at a college in California.