Editor/author/game designer JOHN HELFERS lives in Green Bay, Wisconsin, and wears many industry hats. The co-creator, with fellow Origins Library author Dylan Birtolo, of Henchman (Clarion Game Studios), he is the Fiction Director of Catalyst Game Labs, and works with other game companies such as Nomnivore Games and Lynnvander Studios. He’s also written more than twenty-five novels and fifty short stories in just about every genre known to humankind. John currently works from home, where he spends much of his day pondering whether that is truly the case, or if he is just living at work.
TAYLOR KER was born in Columbus, Ohio, in 2003. She wanted to watch the Harry Potter movies, but her parents said she had to read the books first—which she did by age seven. Catching the writing bug, she cut her teeth on fanfiction before moving on to develop her own characters. She contributes regularly as author, editor and reviewer at online writing sites, and has attended every Origins since her birth. She is proud to be the first Aaron Allston Scholar recipient at Origins 2018.
NIK KORPON is the author of the Memory Thief series—The Rebellion’s Last Traitor and Queen of the Struggle—as well as The Soul Standard, among others. He lives in Baltimore.
DANIEL MYERS is a database programmer, author, dragon slayer, and food historian. Several years back he discovered a secret manuscript which would turn the culinary world upside down. Unfortunately he misinterpreted it as a recipe for clam chowder, left it on a table in a library, and completely forgot about it. He lives in Ohio with his family and an impressive number of Figgy-Fizz bottle caps. Currently he runs MedievalCookery.com, which is where he puts his research notes and recipes from medieval France and England. dmmyers.com
CHANTELLE AIMEE OSMAN is the former Editor-in-Chief of RT Book Reviews and freelance editor for over ten years, she is the co-host of the Crime Friction podcast as wells an instructor at the Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing, Authors at Large and LitReactor. Chantelle is the author of the non-fiction series on writing The Quick and Dirty Guide To… and has also published numerous works of short fiction and served as editor for several anthologies. She is currently editing an episodic thriller, Serial Killer, featuring a variety of authors including Jeffery Deaver, Eoin Colfer, Jason Starr and herself. Find her on Twitter @SuspenseSiren and on the web at www.chantelleaimee.com.
AARON ROSENBERG is the author of the best-selling DuckBob SF comedy series, the Dread Remora space-opera series, and, with David Niall Wilson, the O.C.L.T. occult thriller series. His tie-in work contains novels for Star Trek, Warhammer, World of WarCraft, Stargate: Atlantis, and Eureka. He has written children’s books, including the award-winning Bandslam: The Junior Novel and the #1 bestselling 42: The Jackie Robinson Story; educational books; and roleplaying games, including the Origins Award-winning Gamemastering Secrets. He is a founding member of Crazy 8 Press. You can follow him online at gryphonrose.com, on Facebook at facebook.com/gryphonrose, and on Twitter @gryphonrose.
LUCY A. SNYDER is a five-time Bram Stoker Award-winning author. She wrote the novels Spellbent, Shotgun Sorceress, and Switchblade Goddess, and the collections While the Black Stars Burn, Soft Apocalypses, Orchid Carousals, Sparks and Shadows, Chimeric Machines, and Installing Linux on a Dead Badger. Her writing has been translated into French, Russian, Italian, Spanish, Czech, and Japanese editions and has appeared in publications such as Asimov’s Science Fiction, Apex Magazine, Nightmare Magazine, Pseudopod, Strange Horizons, and Best Horror of the Year. She’s faculty in Seton Hill University’s Writing Popular Fiction MFA program. You can learn more about her at www.lucysnyder.com.
MICHAEL A. STACKPOLE is the multiple New York Times bestselling author of over forty fantasy and science fiction novels, his best known books written in the Star Wars universe, including I, Jedi and Rogue Squadron, as well as the X-Wing graphic novel series. He has also written in the Conan, Pathfinder, BattleTech and World of Warcraft universes, among others. michaelastackpole.com
GREGORY A. WILSON is a published author of speculative fiction and academic writing and Professor of English at St. John’s University in New York, where he teaches creative writing and speculative fiction. His first novel, The Third Sign, was published in 2009; his second novel, Icarus, was published as a graphic novel in 2016; and his third novel, Grayshade, was published in 2017. He also has short stories in various anthologies. He co-hosts the critically acclaimed podcast Speculate! and runs a TwitchTV channel focused on story and narrative under the moniker Arvan Eleron. He lives with his family in Riverdale, NY. www.gregoryawilson.com
BRYAN YOUNG, the author of The Aeronaut and A Children’s Illustrated History of Presidential Assassination, is a journalist, filmmaker, and author. He writes regularly for StarWars.com, Syfy, /Film, and HowStuffWorks. He hosts the Full of Sith and Fauxthentic History podcasts. You can keep up with him @swankmotron on Twitter.
TIMOTHY ZAHN began his writing career in 1980. Since then he has published fifty-five novels, over a hundred short stories and novelettes, and five collections of short fiction. Best known for his eleven Star Wars novels, he is also the author of the Quadrail, Cobra, and Dragonback series. His latest books are Star Wars: Thrawn; Sibyl’s War 1: Pawn; Cobra Traitor; and A Call to Vengeance, the third of the Manticore Ascendant series with David Weber and Thomas Pope. Upcoming books include Sibyl’s War 2: Knight and Star Wars: Thrawn: Alliances.
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THE DOWN & OUT BOOKS PUBLISHING FAMILY
LIBRARY OF TITLES
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By J.L. Abramo
Catching Water in a Net
Clutching at Straws
Counting to Infinity
Gravesend
Chasing Charlie Chan
Circling the Runway
Brooklyn Justice
Coney Island Avenue
By Anonymous-9
Hard Bite
Bite Harder
By Jonathan Ashley
South of Cincinnati
The Cost of Doing Business
Out of Mercy (*)
By E.A. Aymar and Sarah M. Chen, editors
The Night of the Flood
By Patrick Shaun Bagley
Bitter Water Blues
By Trey R. Barker
2,000 Miles to Open Road
Road Gig: A Novella
Exit Blood
Death is Not Forever
No Harder Prison
When the Lonesome Dog Barks
By Richard Barre
The Innocents
Bearing Secrets
Christmas Stories
The Ghosts of Morning
Blackheart Highway
Burning Moon
Echo Bay
Lost
By Gray Basnight
Flight of the Fox (*)
By Jon Bassoff
Corrosion
Factory Town
The Disassembled Man
The Incurables
The Blade This Time
By Eric Beetner
Rumrunners
Leadfoot
The Devil Doesn’t Want Me
The Devil Comes To Call
The Devil at Your Door
By Eric Beetner (editor)
Unloaded
Unloaded 2 (*)
By Martin Bodenham
Shakedown
The Geneva Connection
Once a Killer
By Gordon Brown
Falling
Falling Too
By Rob Brunet
Stinking Rich
By Milton T. Burton
Texas Noir
By Dana Cameron, editor
Murder at the Beach: Bouchercon Anthology 2014
By Eric Campbell, editor
Down, Out and Dead
By Stacey Cochran
Eddie & Sunny (TP only)
By Mark Coggins
No Hard Feelings
By Angel Luis Colón
No Happy Endings
Meat City on Fi
re (and Other Assorted Debacles)
Pull & Pray (*)
By Jen Conley
Cannibals and Other Stories
By Shawn Corridan and Gary Waid
Gitmo
By Matt Coyle, Mary Marks and Patricia Smiley, editors
LAst Resort
By Tom Crowley
Viper’s Tail
Murder in the Slaughterhouse
By Frank De Blase
Pine Box for a Pin-Up
Busted Valentines and Other Dark Delights
A Cougar’s Kiss
By Les Edgerton
The Genuine, Imitation, Plastic Kidnapping
Lagniappe
Just Like That
Monday’s Meal
By Nora Gaskin Esthimer, editor
Carolina Crimes: 21 Tales of Need, Greed and Dirty Deeds
By Max Everhart
Go Go Gato (*)
By A.C. Frieden
Tranquility Denied
The Serpent’s Game
The Pyongyang Option (*)
By Danny Gardner
A Negro and an Ofay
By Jack Getze
Big Numbers
Big Money
Big Mojo
Big Shoes
The Black Kachina
By Greg F. Gifune
Dangerous Boys
Saying Uncle
By Keith Gilman
Bad Habits
By Richard Godwin
Wrong Crowd
Buffalo and Sour Mash
Crystal on Electric Acetate
We Take What Fathers We Can
By William Hastings, editor
Stray Dogs: Writing from the Other America
By J.J. Hensley
Bolt Action Remedy
By Greg Herren, editor
Blood on the Bayou: Bouchercon Anthology 2016
By Jeffery Hess
Beachhead
Cold War Canoe Club
Tushhog
By Matt Hilton
No Going Back
Rules of Honor
The Lawless Kind
The Devil’s Anvil
No Safe Place
By Naomi Hirahara, Kate Thornton and Jeri Westerson, editors
LAdies’ Night
By Terry Holland
An Ice Cold Paradise
Chicago Shiver
By Darrel James, Linda O. Johnston and Tammy Kaehler, editors
Last Exit to Murder
By David Housewright and Renée Valois
The Devil and the Diva
By David Housewright
Finders Keepers
Full House
By Beau Johnson
A Better Kind of Hate
By Jon Jordan
Interrogations
By Jon and Ruth Jordan, editors
Murder and Mayhem in Muskego
Cooking with Crimespree
By Lawrence Kelter
Back to Brooklyn
My Cousin Vinny
By Lawrence Kelter (editor)
The Black Car Business Volume 1
By Lawrence Kelter and Frank Zafiro
The Last Collar
By Jerry Kennealy
Screen Test
Polo’s Long Shot
Dirty Who? (*)
By Dana King
Worst Enemies
Grind Joint
Resurrection Mall
Bad Samaritan
By Nick Kolakowski
Boise Longpig Hunting Club (*)
By Ed Kurtz
Nothing You Can Do
By Ross Klavan, Tim O’Mara and Charles Salzberg
Triple Shot
By JB Kohl and Eric Beetner
Over Their Heads
By S.W. Lauden
Crosswise
Crossed Bones
By Dan and Kate Malmon, editors
Killing Malmon
By Paul D. Marks
White Heat
By Andrew McAleer and Paul D. Marks, editors
Coast to Coast
Coast to Coast 2
By Terrence McCauley
The Devil Dogs of Belleau Wood
The Bank Heist, editor (*)
By John McFetridge, editor
Passport to Murder: Bouchercon Anthology 2017
By Daniel M. Mendoza, editor
Stray Dogs: Interviews with Working-Class Writers
By Marietta Miles
May
By Bill Moody
Czechmate: The Spy Who Played Jazz
The Man in Red Square
Solo Hand
The Death of a Tenor Man
The Sound of the Trumpet
Bird Lives!
Mood Swings (TP only)
By Warren Moore
Broken Glass Waltzes
By Andrew Nette
Gunshine State
By Gerald M. O’Connor
The Origins of Benjamin Hackett
By Rick Ollerman
Blood Work (*)
By Marcus Pelegrimas
Blind Eye
By Gary Phillips
The Perpetrators
Scoundrels: Tales of Greed, Murder and Financial Crimes (editor)
Treacherous: Grifters, Ruffians and Killers
3 the Hard Way
By Gary Phillips, Tony Chavira, Manoel Magalhães and Bryan Lee
Beat L.A. (Graphic Novel)
By Tom Pitts
Hustle
American Static
By Thomas Pluck
Bad Boy Boogie
Life During Wartime
By Michael Pool
Texas Two-Step
By Robert J. Randisi
Upon My Soul
Souls of the Dead
Envy the Dead
By Rob Riley
Thin Blue Line
By Charles Salzberg
Devil in the Hole
Swann’s Last Song
Swann Dives In
Swann’s Lake of Despair
Swann’s Way Out
Second Story Man
By Scott Loring Sanders
Shooting Creek and Other Stories
By Linda Sands
3 Women Walk Into a Bar (TP only)
Grand Theft Cargo
Precious Cargo
By Ryan Sayles
The Subtle Art of Brutality
Warpath
Let Me Put My Stories In You
Albatross
By John Shepphird
The Shill
Kill the Shill
Beware the Shill
By Nathan Singer
Blackchurch Furnace
By Anthony Neil Smith
Yellow Medicine
Hogdoggin’
The Baddest Ass
Holy Death
All the Young Warriors
Once a Warrior
Worm
Psychosomatic
The Drummer
Choke on Your Lies
XXX Shamus
By Liam Sweeny
Welcome Back, Jack
Presiding Over the Damned (*)
By Art Taylor, editor
Murder Under the Oaks: Bouchercon Anthology 2015
By Ian Truman
Grand Trunk and Shearer
Down with the Underdogs (*)
By James Ray Tuck, editor
Mama Tried 1
Mama Tried 2 (*)
By Nathan Walpow
The Logan Triad
One Last Hit
The Manipulated
By Lono Waiwaiole
Wiley’s Lament
Wiley’s Shuffle
Wiley’s Refrain
Dark Paradise
Leon’s Legacy
By George Williams
Inferno and Other Stories
Zoë
The Selected Letters of the Late Biagio Serafim Sciarra
By Eric Miles Williamson
East Bay Grease
By Jim Wilsky<
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Sort ’Em Out Later (*)
By TG Wolff
Exacting Justice
By Frank Zafiro and Eric Beetner
The Backlist
The Short List
The Getaway List (*)
By Frank Zafiro and Jim Wilsky
Blood on Blood
Queen of Diamonds
Down & Out: The Magazine
Volume 1 Issue 1: Reed Farrel Coleman (featured author)
Volume 1 Issue 2: Bill Crider (featured author)
Volume 1 Issue 3: Barry Lancet (featured author)
Published by ABC Group Documentation, an imprint of Down & Out Books
By Alec Cizak
Down on the Street
Breaking Glass (*)
By Grant Jerkins
Abnormal Man
A Scholar of Pain
By Robert Leland Taylor
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