PETER CLINES is the author of the genre-blending -14- and the Ex-Heroes series.
He grew up in the Stephen King fallout zone of Maine and--inspired by comic books, Star Wars, and Saturday morning cartoons--started writing at the age of eight with his first epic novel, Lizard Men From The Center of The Earth (unreleased). He made his first writing sale at age seventeen to a local newspaper, and at the age of nineteen he completed his quadruple-PhD studies in English literature, archaeology, quantum physics, and interpretive dance. In 2008, while surfing Hawaii's Keauwaula Beach, he thought up a viable way to maintain cold fusion that would also solve world hunger, but forgot about it when he ran into actress Yvonne Strahvorski back on the beach and she offered to buy him a drink. He was the inspiration for both the epic poem Beowulf and the motion pictureRaiders of the Lost Ark, and is single-handedly responsible for repelling the Martian Invasion of 1938 that occurred in Grovers Mills, New Jersey. Eleven sonnets he wrote to impress a girl in high school were all later found and attributed to Shakespeare.
He is the writer of countless film articles, several short stories, The Junkie Quatrain, the rarely-read The Eerie Adventures of the Lycanthrope Robinson Crusoe, the poorly-named website Writer on Writing , and an as-yet-undiscovered Dead Sea Scroll. He currently lives and writes somewhere in southern California.
JAMES MAXEY: I've been an avid reader since I first picked up a book. Luckily, I was within biking distance of three different libraries growing up. I was a skinny kid. If only I had maintained that link between biking and reading, I might be a skinny adult.
I'm also a writer. I wrote my first book as a kid, an adventure about pirates and ghosts. When I was a teenager, I used to write superhero adventures. Then I went to college and was steered toward writing "literature." It took me several years to shake that off, and today I write the sort of books I devoured by the shelf when I was sixteen, fast-paced fantasy, SF, and superhero adventures, which I use to explore deeper questions about life. My goal is to always be thought-provoking and always be fun.
I've had short stories in about a dozen anthologies and magazines. My novels to date are:
Nobody Gets the Girl, The Dragon Age trilogy, Bitterwood, Dragonforge, Dragonseed, Burn Baby Burn, The Dragon Apocalypse, Greatshadow, Hush, and Witchbreaker.
JOSH REYNOLDS is a professional freelance writer. In addition to his own work–a full list of which can be found here–he has written for several tie-in franchises, including Gold Eagle’s Executioner line and Black Library’s Warhammer Fantasy line. He has also written numerous non-fiction articles and reviews. If you wish to get in touch with him, please feel free to do so by any of the social media outlets available, including Tumblr, Facebook, Goodreads, and Twitter.
Author and video game designer ERIN HOFFMAN was born in San Diego and now lives in northern California, where she works as Game Design Lead at the Institute of Play’s GlassLab, a Bill and Melinda Gates and Macarthur Foundation supported three-year initiative to establish integrated formative assessment educational games. She is the author of the Chaos Knight series from Pyr books, beginning with Sword of Fire and Sea, followed by Lance of Earth and Sky in April 2012 and concluding with Shield of Sea and Space in 2013.
Her video game credits include DragonRealms, Shadowbane: The Lost Kingdom, GoPets: Vacation Island, Kung Fu Panda World, and FrontierVille. She writes for the award-winning online magazine The Escapist, and has had fiction and poetry in Asimov’s Science Fiction, Electric Velocipede, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, and more. In 2004 her blog on game industry working conditions, “ea_spouse”, was covered by the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, andLA Times, and is now referenced in numerous game history and corporate history studies.
Erin’s games have won multiple awards and have been played by millions of kids and adults worldwide. She is multiethnic, with family names including Lee, Asakawa (yonsei), and Drake in addition to Hoffman.
TIMOTHY W. LONG has seen the world courtesy of the United States Navy. He has also been writing tales and stories since he could hold a crayon and read enough books to choke a landfill. He has a fascination with all things zombie, a predilection for weird literature, and a deep-seated need to jot words on paper and thrust them at people in the hopes they will nod, smile, and maybe pat him on the back and buy him a cold one.
Tim writes for PERMUTED PRESS. The largest publisher of post apocalyptic fiction in the world. He is the author of the horror novels Beyond the Barriers, Among the Living, and the sequel - Among the Dead.
His other works include the deserted island "zombedy", The Zombie Wilson Diaries. He also co-wrote the post-apocalyptic novel The Apocalypse and Satan's Glory Hole with SIR JONATHAN MOON. This book was recently named the preferred version of the end of the world by a consortium of rapture survivors.
True story.
Tim's latest book is the free ongoing serial Z-Risen: Outbreak but he is also hard at work on the final Among the Living book titled Among the Ashes.
LARRY CORREIA is a New York Times bestselling fantasy novelist. His first novel, Monster Hunter International, despite being self-published reached the Entertainment Weekly bestseller list in April 2008, after which he received a publishing contract with Baen Books. Monster Hunter International was re-released in 2009 and was on the Locusbestseller list in November 2009. The sequel, Monster Hunter Vendetta, was a New York Times bestseller. The third book in the series, Monster Hunter Alpha, was released in July 2011 and was also a New York Times bestseller. Correia was a finalist for the John W. Campbell award for best new science fiction/fantasy writer of 2011. The Dead Six series started as an online action fiction collaboration with Mike Kupari (Nightcrawler) at the online gun forum "The High Road" as the "Welcome Back Mr Nightcrawler" series of posts. These works predated the publishing of Monster Hunter.
CL WERNER has crafted numerous tales for Red Leaf Comics, the Black Library, and other cutting edge publishers. He recently stopped by CBI studios to talk with publisher John Michael Helmer about his career writing comics, novels, and war games.
JAMES SWALLOW is a British author and scriptwriter. A BAFTA nominee and a New York Times bestseller, he is the author of several original books and tie-in novels, as well as short fiction, numerous audio dramas and videogames.
His writing includes The Sundowners series of Western fiction steampunk novels, and fiction from the worlds of Star Trek, Warhammer 40,000, Doctor Who, Stargateand 2000 AD. He lives and works in London.
ROBERT ELROD is a self-taught artist who works with a variety of mediums including pencil, color pencil, ink, watercolor, gouache, acrylic and digital. His artwork has appeared on the covers of several novels and anthologies from small-press horror authors and publishers, including Permuted Press. Tickling A Dead Man: Stories about George is his self-published comic book in which he relentlessly tortures his misanthropic title character by forcing him to face his deepest fears and anxieties. His comics have also appeared within the pages of the “Best New Zombie Tales” series from Books of the Dead Press. Robert has contributed pinup art to publications by Bluewater Comics, Creephouse Comics, Creator’s Edge Press, Abandoned Comics, Angry Dog Press, British Fantasy Society, Lovecraft eZine, The Big Adios, This Is Horror, and Ragnarok Publications. To see more of his work, visit www.robertelrodllc.com.
CHUCK LUKACS [loo-cuss] has been illustrating for science fiction and fantasy gaming markets for over 17 years, occasionally teaches illustration in Portland, OR, and has spent a number of years studying ceramics, bookarts, wood engraving, alternative energy, traditional archery, and homebrewing. Lukacs’s paintings and prints have won awards and appeared in conventions, galleries and museums internationally. He was featured in Spectrum 7, ImagineFX June/2010 (UK), FantasyArt Magazine (Peking University), and has authored two fantasy art tutorial books: Wreaking Havoc, 2007 and FANTASY GENESIS, 2010. Clients include: NBC/Universal, Wizards of the Coast's Magic the Gathering, Impact Books, Pyr/Prometheus Books, Paizo, SuperGenius, Upper Deck, Games Works
hop, Road Runner, and Atlantic Records. :: ChuckLukacs.com :: FantasyGenesis.blogspot.com :: PortlandStinkeye.blogspot.com ::
MATT FRANK is based in the Golden Land of Texas and loves to draw monsters and anything else that happens to be very, very cool. His may works include: RAY HARRYHAUSEN PRESENTS: BACK TO MYSTERIOUS ISLAND - BlueWater Productions - Covers (2007),
RAY HARRYHAUSEN PRESENTS: WRATH OF THE TITANS - CYCLOPS - BlueWater Productions - Script, cover, interior pencils (2008), BEAST WARS SOURCEBOOK - IDW Publishing - Character art (2007-2008), MARVEL HANDBOOKS - Marvel Comics - Art Refurbishing (2008-2009), Challenge Games - Concept/Production Artist (2009), BLACK PAW: RETURN OF THE DRAGON - Gleaming Scythe Productions - Character/creature design (2008-2010), Chaotic Moon Studios - Concept/Production artist (2010-2013), GODZILLA: KINGDOM OF MONSTERS - IDW Publishing - Retailer Incentive covers (2011), GODZILLA: GANGSTERS AND GOLIATHS - IDW Publishing - San Diego Comic Con exclusive cover (2011), GODZILLA: LEGENDS - IDW Publishing - Script (co-writer), cover, interior line art,
TRANSFORMERS: FLASH FORWARD - Fun Publications - Interior line art (2012), GODZILLA - IDW Publishing - Covers (2012), MARS ATTACKS THE TRANSFORMERS - IDW Publishing - Interiors (2013)
BOB EGGLETON is a science fiction, fantasy, and horror artist. Eggleton has been honored with the Hugo Award for Best Professional Artist eight times, first winning in 1994. He also won the Hugo Award for Best Related Book in 2001 for his art book "Greetings from Earth". He has also won the Chesley Award for Artistic Achievement in 1999 and was the guest of honor at Chicon 2000.
Eggleton's drawing and paintings cover a wide range of science fiction, fantasy, and horror topics, depicting space ships, alien worlds and inhabitants, dragons, vampires, and other fantasy creatures. His view on space ships were that they should look organic, and claimed that as a child, he was disappointed with the space shuttles and rockets NASA produced; they were nothing like fantasy artists of the twenties and thirties had promised. His fascination with dragons originated with his childhood interest of dinosaurs, which can be seen in the book Greetings from Earth. His paintings are commissioned and bought at science fiction conventions, and used as book covers.
Eggleton has illustrated cards for the Magic: The Gathering collectible card game. Eggleton received massive encouragement from his father, in the form of books, supplies, visits to museums of space and aeronautics and support during the career choices he made. Eggleton dropped out of his art college, because he felt it was not for him. Eggleton is a fan of Godzilla and worked as a creative consultant on the American remake. While in Japan he appeared as an extra in one of the more recent films.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The following awesome people are who made Kaiju Rising: Age of Monsters possible and for that we thank each and every one of you!
KAIJU CREATORS
Sean Sherman, Nathan Black, Josh Ennis
RED SHIRTS AND TUCKERIZATIONS
Andrew Carrick, Steven Mentzel, Cameron Meadors, Melanie R. Meadors, Chadwick Ginther, Matthew Carpenter, Matt Pearson, Joy Pearson, Will Pearson, Joe Thater, Thomas Oetker, Jim Bellmore, Kel 'Selwyn' George, Lori Joyce Parker, Cody A. Spradlin, Simon Monk, Katie Cord, Sally Novak Janin, Dakota Talbott
CITY DESTROYERS
C Z Dunn, James Conason, Dave Parker
KING KAIJU
Aaron Bevard, Paul Genesse, Mihir Wanchoo, Giovanni "Mr. Giobblin" Grotto, Marc Collins, Jeremy Hochhalter, Daniel, Cliff Winnig, Frankie B, Brian Oma Thomas, E. Myers, Andrew Hatchell, Brian Christman, Ian Chung, Andrew B., Abdulla Al-Naimi, Rob & Maureen Sharps, Darren Murray, Dark-Ape.com, Sarah Zibart, Paul McMullen, Kostiantyn Orlenko, Joshua Hair, Nick "Gettothechoppa" Lembo, Hayley G. Hofmar-Glennon, Christine Chen, Leigh Mitchell, James Moss, Timothy W. Long
ULTRA-MECHA KAIJU
Amanda "Loves Clines & Correia" Kirsch, Rob W Elrod, Seth Skorkowsky, James Enge, Josh Korra, Joseph Noll, Ven & Nikki Sio
DONK-ZILLAS
Jen Bosier, Spencer Estabrooks, Matt Hillman
MEGA-KAIJU
Vic Ayers, Anthony Higgs, Christian Decomain, AJ Harm, Phillip Bolin, Trent Miller, Bill Lovell, Troy DeJesus, Eddie mccourt, Cllifford M. King, Daniel Harvey, Hubert Oliver, Sunstone Games, LLC., Jonathan 'Weasel' Dibblee, Kirk Dougal, Seamus "Majestic_Moose" Curran, Andrew Morin, Sukie Crandall
KAIJUZILLAS
Tyson J Mauermann, Matt Frank, Vincent E. Hoffman, Donovan J. Bertch, Brenna Rawson, Sean and Pearce Haley, Robert Elrod
KAIJU SOLDIERS
Ryan Lawler, Kane Gilmour, Zachary “Yes, Goddammit!” Jernigan, Duncan & Andrea Rittschof, Ed "Evil Ed" Stapleton, J.L. Murray, TrashMan (aka Seth Lee Straughan), Kenny B. Soward Esquire, jason grace, Stephanie Wagner, Preston Sharps, John Michael Davis, Todd Gamble, Damien Swallow, Bryan K Borgman (aka Stratos), Jim Foster, Mercedes M. Yardley, Bryan VanGalder, Jeremy Robinson, Chris Keola, Hoarau Alexis, Aaron Allred, Mac McClintock, Steven Callen, Art Sippo MD, MPH, Glenn Like, Geni K Devens, Darius Batki, Brian Koehler, NickB_RenJie, Joshua Sudomerski, Gregory McCausland, Andrew Candia, Tim Reilly, Jacob A Rich II, Kotsuso, Robert Wilson, Dr. Stan Waddell, Jordan Lennard, Kirk Troy, Darren Kara, Josh Northrop, Jonathan Harris
KAIJU JUNIORS
Joab Stieglitz, Travis L. Bingaman, Andrew Liptak, Nev Kelly, Timothy Covington, James Scarrow, Mike Doyle, Stephenie Sheung, Benjamin G Abrams, Andrew Muir, Raymond Pegoraro, Tim Farrar, Travis Charles Beckwith, Mike MacLean, Roger Bellini, Jacob M. Spencer, David K. Mason, Valerie Gillis, JayC, Edward Ainsworth, James M. Jensen II, Dan Schwent of Dangerous Dan's Book Blog, Karl Markovich, Floyd Brigdon, Mike of Double XP Podcast, Django Wexler, Alex Howarth, D Kenny, Andrew Wilson, Michael Zak Gomersall, Jack Ognibene, John Garrington, John MacLeod, "filkertom" , Tom Smith, Chris Mihal, Keith West, Jon McFarling, Kurt Nolte, Tim Rosolino, Steven "Sammo" Simmons, Alan Winterrowd, Alysia Murphy, Derek Viger, Jonathan Maberry, Adam G. Hults, Dave Peterson, SeanMike, Charles McDougald, Michael Dial Jr., Kyle A. Davis, Steven Tonthat, Josh Mahan, Arsène Lupin, Greg Arguello, Liz, Tyler Johnson, Ron Searcy, Richard Iversen, Ken Dunbar, Matthew R Gaglio, Jbad, Kevin Derendorf, Guy McLimore, Ross Snyder Jr, GreatCrow, Nia Carvajal, Shaun Duke, Michael Fratus, Joe Kontor, Zach P, LXV, Jacob Alexander Franklin, Stephen Walker-Emflorgo, Dennis Davison Jr., Matthew Mastrogiovanni, Nick Krom, Miles Boothe, Michael Edstrom, Kevin Brusky, APE Games, Nick "The Hat" Gucker, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Kerberos Productions, Sharon Stogner, Rachael Acks, Dylan LuciustheEternal Murphy, Geoff Johnston, Gregory Lincoln, Austin Bohnert, Seth Tucker, Daniel Dunlap, Cathy, Dino-Man, Leanne Ellis, Gary W. Olson, Doug Sturk, Mike "Cobraclutch.com" Shoemaker, Annie Bellet, Michael Lichter, Andrew Louis Marnik, Shampooboots, Lenbo, Josh Kappes, Lucas K. Law, Tad Duncan, Kerwell, Sam Baskin, gravebeast.zero, Andy Tafoya, Ramon Rozas III, Jeff, The Adventure Kitties, Nickzilla 3004, Trevor Sexton, Smashingsuns, Jamieson Hoffman, Jeffrey A Jensen, Matt Darst, P Cline, Dennis Reyes (Sonicpik3), David Rains, Andrew Jensen, Ryan Bly, Kyle Mack, Brett Abbott, Marcus Polk, Jim Burzelic, The Great NXPS' mama, Geni K Devens, Natalie Kohout, Lincoln Crisler, Stephen Hill, TheMayor OfDinosaurs, Fazeo, Tons0fun, Jonathan Green, Matt Zitron, Missy Katano, Sue Liller, Insanity*3, Jeff Pegues, Diana Portwood, Michael Hanscom, Mike Montgomery, Daniel Mancini, Tasha (Turner) Lennhoff, Terry Harney, Mike Browne, Lance Mortensen, Charles Shirk, Andrew Boscardin, Hunter Broussard, Cameron Griffis (Fan of Varan, Anguirus, and King Caesar), Derek "Pineapple Steak" Swoyer, Anthony "HachiSnax" Giordano, Derek Sykes, Steve Ferrebee, bluey and Smals, Joseph Fleischman, Anthony Cavanaugh, Frank Gawryla, David Carl, Kaiju Kev, Nicholas Creno, Frank Carey, Maurice Sykes, Robert Cox, Tammy DeGray, John Christian Givhan Spainhour, Kreniz, Tim Elkins, James Unick, Osye E. Pritchett III, Tam Caddick, Dave Felton
KAIJU BROODLINGS
Mike Bentley, Keith Hall, Jaclyn Tan, Derek Gubler, Aaron Teiser, Michal Todorovic, Ragi Gonçalves, Paul Wittine, Dave Brzeski, Dave Robison, Andrew James Fish, Josh Haycraft, John Heine, Chandra Altoff, Lisa Knight, Nate Lawrence, Michael Brandl, Colby Taylor, Paul Cardullo, Glenn
Walker, Thomas P. Leahy, Joy Snyder, Chris Quin, Paul Raasch, Rebecca Rahne, Brian H. Littrell, Eldritch, Will Vesely, Juan Calle, Briana of N3rdyGirl, Fred Herman, Kenneth Cochanco Go, Wayne L. Budgen, Carol "Pixie" Brearley, Brian Banach, Clyde Lee Graham, Ryan Weaver, Michael James, Rolf Laun, Ari Marmell, David Briedis, Nate Hammer, D. Miles Martin, Edward Brock, Joseph Hoopman, Charles, David Long (Neko), Andrey Dolganov, Alekshiel, Peter Lok, Robert M. Everson, James Wilson Smith, Luke Watt, Jerry Versace, Douglas Snyder, Todd Jones, Mountain Barber, Curt Harper, Benjamin Abbott, Czech Harrison, Rob H. Bedford, Eric Plante, Amy Katsouris, Jas, Geoff Englebach, Shaun Phillips, Matt McRoberts, Jack Thompson, John Lambert, Paul Vroman, R. Daniel Paddock, Tomas Burgos Caez, Jackson Gibson, Kristy Lignieres, Michael Clay Evans, Chris DiNote, KaijuX, Kevin Henderson, Colette Black, Demian Walendorff, Isaac Yañez, Norma Uphold, Justin Power, Ross Clifton, Paul Martin, Danny Keith, Eric Sünde, Frank Hart, Dave Donovan, Guy Anthony De Marco, Alexander Guddha Gudenau, Brian Barrier, Geoffrey Kidd, Lauren Kalma, Geoff Strayer, Cody Reichenau, Matt Leitzen, James Stewart, JP Frantz, Tony Heugh, Major Idiot, Nathan Russell, Frederick Melhuish III, Bob, Jonathan Vallier, Senator Armstrong, Paul Nelson, Leo King, Sachin, Michele Del Nobolo, S. R. Manev, Jyri Tasala, James Parr, Margaret St. John, John "millionwordman" Dodd
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