Laurell K. Hamilton is an American multigenre writer. She is best known as the author of two series of stories, Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter and Merry Gentry.
Her New York Times best-selling Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter series centers on Anita Blake, a professional zombie raiser, vampire executioner and supernatural consultant for the police. The series includes novels, short story collections, and comic books. Six million copies of Anita Blake novels are in print. Her New York Times best-selling Merry Gentry series centers on Meredith Gentry, Princess of the Unseelie court of Faerie, a private detective facing repeated assassination attempts.
Both fantasy series follow their protagonists as they gain in power and deal with the dangerous “realities” of worlds in which creatures of legend live.
Laurell was born in rural Arkansas but grew up in northern Indiana with her grandmother. Her education includes degrees in English and biology from Marion College (now called Indiana Wesleyan University).
Hamilton is involved with a number of animal charities, particularly supporting dog rescue efforts and wildlife preservation.
Hamilton currently lives with her family in St. Louis, Missouri.
Alistair Kimble is a Special Agent with the Federal Bureau of Investigation working with Violent Crimes Against Children and is a team leader for the FBI’s Evidence Response Team, responding to and processing crime scenes. He’s worked a variety of matters throughout his career, including foreign counterintelligence and counterespionage. He served in the U.S. Navy, where he dangled from helicopters while performing search and rescue operations as well as mission support for NASA projects such as the Mars Pathfinder, space shuttle recoveries at Edwards AFB, and X projects such as the X-36 tailless fighter. Iron Angels, an urban fantasy detective novel, co-written with Eric Flint, was chosen by Publishers Weekly as one of its top ten science fiction, fantasy & horror picks for the fall of 2017.
Sarah A. Hoyt has published over thirty books (she hasn’t counted lately) and over a hundred short stories. Her first novel was a finalist for the Mythopoeic Award, her novel Darkship Thieves won the Prometheus Award and Uncharted (with Kevin J. Anderson) won the Dragon Award.
Sarah lives in Denver, Colorado, with her husband and a variable number of cats. When not writing furiously, she’s usually engaged in some inadvisable construction, earthy moving or furniture refinishing work. Successful attempts to divert her from such enterprises include trips to museums and diners.
Mike Massa has lived an adventurous life, including stints as a Navy SEAL officer, an investment banker and a technologist. He’s lived outside the U.S. for several years, plus the usual military deployments. Mike writes novels and shorts in MilSF, SF, fantasy, horror and nonfiction. Currently he’s working on two novels: a second collaboration with NYT best seller John Ringo as well as the first novel in his Genius War universe. Mike is married with three sons, who check daily to see if today is the day they can pull down the old lion. Not yet…
Patrick M. Tracy: you can find him in darkness. Often underground. Word on the street says he can bring computers back to life. Salt Lake City pays him to do it. He writes about horrible things, fantastical things, even stuff from the future. He’s been known to pen a song or make up a game. He helped create The Crimson Pact. You can find him in Kaiju Rising: Age of Monsters, and Mech: Age of Steel. For fun, he practices archery and plays bass guitar. He used to rip phone books in half, but they’re hard to find now. It’s possible that he drove them to the brink of extinction. More clues can be found at pmtracy.com.
National best-selling author Robert Buettner’s novel, Orphanage, 2004 Quill Award nominee for Best SF/fantasy/horror novel, has been called “one of the great works of modern military science fiction.” Baen Books will release his tenth novel, My Enemy’s Enemy, in June 2019. His short fiction appears regularly in print and online venues, and he has served as the author judge for the National Space Society Jim Baen Memorial short story writing contest. A former intelligence officer, National Science Foundation Fellow in Paleontology, and attorney, he lives in Georgia with his family and more bicycles than a grownup needs.
Larry Correia is the New York Times best-selling author of the Monster Hunter International series, the Grimnoir Chronicles, the Saga of the Forgotten Warrior, the Dead Six thrillers with Mike Kupari, novels set in the Warmachine universe, and The Adventures of Tom Stranger Interdimensional Insurance Agent on Audible, and a whole lot of short fiction. Before becoming an author, Larry was an accountant, a gun dealer, and a firearms instructor. He lives in Yard Moose Mountain, Utah, with his very patient wife and children.
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