Twitter: @kyliechan
Instagram: kylie_chan_author
James SA Corey - is a convenient fiction, the pseudonym of Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck. He began when Daniel and Ty set out to write a book together based on work Ty had done creating the solar system that became The Expanse.
Find them at: www.jamessacorey.com
Twitter: @JamesSACorey
Dr Jack Dann – is a multi-award-winning author who has written or edited over seventy-five books, including the international bestseller The Memory Cathedral, The Rebel, The Silent, and The Man Who Melted. His latest novel is Shadows in the Stone. Kim Stanley Robinson called it “such a complete world that Italian history no longer seems comprehensible without his cosmic battle of spiritual entities behind and within every historical actor and event.” Forthcoming is a Centipede Press Masters of Science Fiction volume.
Dr. Dann is an Adjunct Senior Research Fellow in the School of Communication and Arts at the University of Queensland. He lives in Australia on a farm overlooking the sea.
Find him on: www.jackdann.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/jack.dann2
Twitter: @jackmdann
Sebastien de Castell – Sebastien’s acclaimed, swashbuckling fantasy series The Greatcoats, was shortlisted for the Goodreads Choice Award for Best Fantasy, and the Gemmell Morningstar Award. His YA fantasy series Spellsinger is published in more than a dozen languages. He spends his time writing, travelling, and going on strange adventures.
Find him at: www.decastell.com
Twitter: @decastell
Facebook: www.facebook.com/SebastienDeCastell
Dr Marianne de Pierres - is author of the award-winning Sentients of Orion, Parrish Plessis,and Peacemaker series. In 2014 she became the recipient of a Curtin UniversityDistinguished Australian Alumniaward for significant and valuable contributions to Australian science fiction feminist literature. Marianne also writes award-winning, humorous crime under the pseudonym Marianne Delacourt. In her other life, she teaches creative writing to university students and writes about social change and thought leadership.
Find her at: www.tarashap.com.au
David Farland - is an award-winning, international bestselling author with over 50 novels in print. He has won the Philip K. Dick Memorial Special Award for “Best Novel in the English Language” for his science fiction novel On My Way to Paradise, the Whitney Award for “Best Novel of the Year” for his historical novel In the Company of Angels, and many more awards for his work. He is best known for his New York Times bestselling fantasy series The Runelords. Farland has also written for major franchises such as Star Wars and The Mummy.
Find him at: www.davidfarland.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/DavidFarlandAuthor
Aiki Flinthart - is the Australian author of 15 sci-fantasy novels, two collections of short stories, two author craft non-fiction books. She has also edited 4 short story collections. Several of her works have been shortlisted in the Australian Aurealis Awards, and top-8 finalists in the USA Writers of the Future competition. When not writing, she mentors other authors, gives workshops on writing fight scenes, and practices fantasy-approved hobbies such as martial arts, archery, knife-throwing, lute-playing, and bellydancing.
Find her at: www.aikiflinthart.com
www.facebook.com/aiki.flinthart
Dirk Flinthart - is an award-winning writer in Northern Tasmania and has a Masters in Creative Writing. He has a string of published speculative fiction short stories, as well as an SF/Horror novel (Path of Night) through Fablecroft. He has worked in feature journalism and non-fiction, including the best-selling HowTo Be A Man, co-written with John Birmingham. In the last few years, Flinthart has turned his attention to film, television and media and is currently working on several different projects.
You can find him on Facebook.
Jasper Fforde - is a British writer who lives in Wales and writes absurdist fiction. He has published seven books in the Thursday Next series, one of which won the Wodehouse Prize for comic fiction in 2004. There are also two novels in the Nursery Crime series, and several in the Dragonslayer YA series. A festival in Swindon is themed after him and his Thursday Next book series.
Find him at: www.jasperfforde.com
Dr Kate Forsyth- wrote her first book aged 7 and has now sold more than a million books worldwide. She is a multi-award-winning author of fantasy, historical fantasy, fairy-tale re-imaginings and historical fiction. Her best-known works include Bitter Greens, which won the 2015 American Library Assoc award for Best Historical Fiction; The Silver Well, a set of interlinked stories co-written with Kim Wilkins; and Valisa the Wise & Other Tales of Brave Young Women. Named one of Australia’s Favourite 15 authors, Kate has a BA in Literature, and MA in Creative Writing, and a Doctorate of Creative Arts.
Find her at: www.kateforsyth.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/kateforsythauthor
Twitter: @KateForsyth
Neil Gaiman – is an English author of numerous speculative fiction novels, graphic novels, screenplays for film and television, poetry and short stories. His works have won multiple awards, including the Newbery and Carnegie Medals; and the Hugo, Nebula, World Fantasy, Bram Stoker, Locus, British SF, and British Fantasy Awards, and many others. Some of his better-known works include American Gods, and Good Omens (co-authored with Sir Terry Pratchett).
Find him at: www.neilgaiman.com
Twitter: @neilhimself
Alison Goodman – Alison’s latest novel is The Dark Days Deceit, the final book in the ‘Lady Helen’ trilogy, an award-winning mix of Regency adventure and dark fantasy. She is also the author of 6 other novels, including The Dark Days Club, The Dark Days Pact, and EON and EONA—a New York Times best-selling fantasy duology published in 20 countries. She is currently working a new historical series and has embarked on a PhD focusing on the Regency era.
Find her at: www.alisongoodman.com.au
Jan-Andrew (JA) Henderson – is the author of 30 books, mostly thrillers, paranormal thrillers, YA thrillers, and historical non-fiction about Scotland. He is the winner of the Royal Mail and Doncaster Prizes, and his novels have been shortlisted for thirteen literary awards. He has a MA in English Literature and Philosophy from the University of Edinburgh. He has written and directed several plays and worked as the writer/director at the Witherbee Children’s theatre in NY state.
Find him at: www.janandrewhenderson.com
Ian Irvine – is an Australian marine scientist and has 34 published novels. His Three Worlds epic fantasy series has been published and translated across numerous countries and has sold over a million copies. He has also written eco-thrillers set in a world undergoing catastrophic climate change, along with YA thrillers, and humorous fantasy for children.
Find him at: www.ian-irvine.com
www.facebook.com/ianirvineauthor
Pamela Jeffs – is an Australian author of weird speculative fiction, mostly short stories. Her best-known work is the Five Dragons short story collection, which was shortlisted for the Aurealis Awards in 2020. Her others stories have been shortlisted several times for the Aurealis Awards, and received Honorable Mention in the USA Writers of the Future competition. Her works are published in multiple e-magazines, and in anthologies all over the world.
Find her at: www.pamelajeffs.com
Mary Robinette Kowal – is the US author of Ghost Talkers, The Glamourist Histories series, and the Lady Astronaut series. She is the President of SFWA, part of the award-winning podcast Writing Excuses and a four-time Hugo Award winner. Her short fiction appears in Uncanny, Tor.com, and Asimov’s. Mary Robinette, a professional puppeteer, lives in Nashville.
Find her at: maryrobinettekowal.com
Mark Lawrence – was born in Illinois but moved to the UK aged one. He returned to the US in his 30s, after taking a PhD in Mathematics, and worked on a variety of projects before returning to the UK. He never had any ambition to be a writer, so was surprised when a half-hearted attempt to find an
agent turned into a global publishing deal overnight. His trilogies include: The Broken Empire, The Red Queen’s War, The Book of the Ancestor, The Book of the Ice, and Impossible Times.
Find him at: http://www.marklawrence.buzz
Ken Liu - is a US author of speculative fiction. A winner of the Nebula, Hugo, and World Fantasy awards, he wrote The Dandelion Dynasty, a silkpunk epic fantasy series (starting with The Grace of Kings), as well as The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories and The Hidden Girl and Other Stories. He also authored the Star Wars novel, The Legends of Luke Skywalker.
Find him at: www.kenliu.name
Juliet Marillier – is the New Zealand born author of historical fantasy full of folklore, family, and drama. Her best-known series are Blackthorn & Grim, and Seven Waters, both set in medieval Ireland. Plus the Viking duology, Saga of the Light Isles, and the Bredei Chronicles, set in the kingdom of the Picts. And many more. She has won numerous awards, including five Aurealis and four Sir Julius Vogel Awards. When not writing, she is kept busy by her rescue dogs and her children and grandchildren.
Find her at: www.julietmarillier.com
Lee Murray – is a multi-award-winning author-editor from New Zealand. Her works include: the Taine McKenna Adventures (military thrillers), The Path of Ra (supernatural crime noir series with Dan Rabarts), Grotesque: Monster Stories (collection). Editor of award-winning titles: Hellhole, At the Edge, and Baby Teeth. Most recent anthologies: Black Cranes: Tales of Unquiet Women (with Gene Flynn), and Midnight Echo #13. Co-founder of Young NZ Writers, and the Wright-Murray Residency for Speculative Fiction writers, Lee was HWA 2019 Mentor of the Year, NZSA Honorary Literary Fellow 2020, and 2021 Grimshaw-Sargeson Fellow.
Find her at: www.leemurray.info
Garth Nix – is a New York Times best-selling Australian author of The Left-Handed Booksellers of London, Angel Mage, Frogkisser! and the Old Kingdom series—beginning with Sabriel; plus the Keys to the Kingdom series; and many others. He has won the Aurealis award multiple times, along with the Ditmar Award and the Mythopoeic Award. His work has also been shortlisted for the Locus and the Shirley Jackson Awards. More than 6 million copies of his books have been sold around the world, and his books have been translated into 42 languages.
Find him at: www.garthnix.com
www.facebook.com/garthnix
Twitter: @garthnix
Robert Silverberg- has been professional science fiction and fantasy author since 1955. He is a many-times winner of the Hugo and Nebula awards. He was named to the Science Fiction Hall of Fame in 1999, and in 2004 was designated as Grand Master by the SFWA. His books and stories have been translated into 40 languages. Among his best known works are Nightwings, Dying Inside, The Book of Skulls, and the three volumes of the Majipoor Cycle.
Find him at: www.robertsilverberg.com
Dr Angela Slatter - is the Australian author of the Verity Fassbinder supernatural crime series (Vigil, Corpselight, Restoration) and ten short story collections, including The Bitterwood Bible and Other Recountings. Her gothic fantasy novels, All The Murmuring Bones(2021) and Morwood(2022), will be published by Titan. She’s won a World Fantasy, a British Fantasy, an Australian Shadows and six Aurealis Awards; her debut novel was nominated for the Dublin Literary Award. Her work has been translated into French, Chinese, Spanish, Japanese, Italian, Bulgarian and Russian.
Find her at: www.angelaslatter.com
Twitter @AngelaSlatter
Dr Cat Sparks is a multi-award-winning Australian author, editor and artist. Career highlights include a PhD in science fiction and climate fiction, five years as Fiction Editor of Cosmos Magazine, running Agog! Press, working as an archaeological dig photographer in Jordan, studying with Margaret Atwood, 75 published short stories, two collections – The Bride Price (2013) and Dark Harvest (2020), plus a far future novel, Lotus Blue. She directed two speculative fiction festivals for Writing NSW and is a regular panellist and speaker at speculative fiction events.
Find her at: catsparks.net
Twitter: @catsparx
Anthology Chief Editor: Aiki Flinthart
Other Titles by the Editor
Discover other titles by Aiki Flinthart at: www.aikiflinthart.com
Or
Short Story Anthologies
Worlds in Worlds
Zookeeper’s Tales of Interstellar Oddities
Return
Elemental
Rogues’ Gallery
Non-Fiction – Author writing resources
Fight Like A Girl – Writing Fight Scenes for Female (and male) Characters
How to Get a Blackbelt in Writing
Blackbirds Sing (Historical fantasy)
The 80AD series (YA Adventure/Fantasy)
80AD Book 1: The Jewel of Asgard
80AD Book 2: The Hammer of Thor
80AD Book 3: The Tekhen of Anuket
80AD Book 4: The Sudarshana
80AD Book 5: The Yu Dragon
The Ruadhan Sidhe novels (YA Urban Fantasy)
Shadows Wake (#1)
Shadows Bane (#2)
Shadows Fate (#3)
Healing Heather (#4)(Romance)
The Kalima Chronicles (YA Sci/Fantasy)
IRON (#1)
FIRE (#2)
STEEL (#3)
A Future, Forged (Prequel)
Sold! (Contemporary Romance/Adventure)
Connect with her on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/aikiflinthartauthor
Twitter: @aikiflinthart
Instagram: Aikiflinthart
Relics, Wrecks and Ruins Page 39
