Dwain Worrell is a filmmaker, Chinese interpreter, and novelist. The Barbadian native now works as a film and television writer and producer in Los Angeles. His writing credits include Marvel’s Iron Fist, CBS’s Fire Country, and the Disney+ series National Treasure, among others.
When she was growing up in the 1970’s, Nora Delzelle felt like the only girl who loved science fiction and fantasy novels. Some of her most cherished childhood memories happened at the local library, discovering those adventure stories. That love of science and adventure eventually led to a fulfilling career, and as time went on she was inspired to tell her own stories. Death Mask is her exciting debut novel in a series about cursed antiquities. Ms. Delzelle has been an avid white-water rafter, a movie extra, a scientist, and now an author.
T.J. & M.L. Wolf joined forces in the field of Healthcare, exploring mutual interest in the work of UFO researchers like Budd Hopkins and movie directors like Steven Spielberg. The History Channel’s “Ancient Aliens” became a focal point of their quest to uncover the truth regarding humanity’s purpose and how it pertains to our future. Married over twenty years, they write Speculative Fiction and live in Boardman, Ohio with their six-pound Yorkie, who keeps the family in line.
Jamie Campbell grew up in the New South Wales town of Port Macquarie as the youngest of six children. She now resides on the Gold Coast in Queensland, Australia with her husband, two-year-old daughter, and two dogs, Bella and Ralph.
Writing since she could hold a pencil, Jamie’s passion for storytelling and wild imagination were often a cause for concern with her school teachers. Now that imagination is used for good instead of mischief. Writing mainly Young Adult, Jamie loves nothing more than sharing her stories of angels, demons, aliens, ghosts, faeries, and everything in between with her readers.
Social worker by day, space cadet by night. My main character’s talent for accidentally destroying technology might be slightly autobiographical.
I write both serious and silly, science fiction and contemporary, YA and adult. I’m not indecisive, I’m just Californian.
I have a science fiction comedy novel, “The Cosmic Turkey,” and a collection of linked short stories, “Lost in Translation,” which I plan to expand into a novel. Assorted short stories are linked on my website.
James Murdo was born and raised in London, where he still lives. He graduated from university with a Masters degree in Physics, which added fuel to his early love of science fiction. His favourite book, hands down, is The Algebraist, by Iain M Banks.
Martin Roy Hill is the author of the Linus Schag, NCIS, thrillers, the Peter Brandt thrillers, DUTY: Suspense and Mystery Stories from the Cold War and Beyond, and EDEN: A Sci-Fi Novella. His latest Linus Schag thriller, The Butcher’s Bill, received the Best Mystery/Suspense Novel of 2017 from the Best Independent Book Awards, the Clue Award for Best Suspense Thriller, the Silver Medal for Thrillers from the Readers Favorite Book Awards, and the award for Adult Fiction from the California Author Project. His latest Peter Brandt mystery, The Fourth Rising, is due out in May 2020.
Consistently throughout Charley Daveler’s plays, short stories, comics, and now novels, her characters trudge through horrific, wondrous fantasy worlds. Described as bold and entertaining, flawed and edgy, her works dig into dark topics such as depression, isolation, agoraphobia, and the downfalls of idolized traits. A produced playwright and web comic artist for over a decade, she has written dozens of book manuscripts before finally debuting her fantasy novel, MAKING THE HORIZON (Sept. 2020). The creative story of 12 ignored artists looks into different minds, mental illnesses, and values as they are spirited away into a blank, new world to become gods.
TJ Mott was raised on a cattle farm near the booming metropolis of Westboro, Missouri (population ~140). He holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science from Northwest Missouri State University. Currently, he works in Omaha, Nebraska as a software engineer and general-purpose IT guy in the aerospace industry. His hobbies include dirt biking, 3D printers, shooting sports, and writing.
One of his favorite past times as a kid was reading the Star Wars Expanded Universe novels, and he’s wanted to do some writing of his own for as long as he can remember. Now he’s working on two related series, “The Thaddeus Marcell Chronicles” and “Secrets of Earth”, following the adventures of an interstellar mercenary company whose leader is trying to find the mythical world of Earth.
Wes Britton has spent 20 years in Texas, the rest of his 60 plus years in Harrisburg. For 33 years, he was a professor of English at a number of colleges in Texas, Oklahoma, and Harrisburg, PA. He has published tons of encyclopedia articles, book reviews, essays, for non-fiction books on espionage, and six novels and short stories set in his Beta-Earth universe. He is now a widower living in retirement in Harrisburg.
My short fiction has been nominated for both Nebula (Cymodoce, May ‘95 Tomorrow Magazine) and Pushcart (The Weight, Nov ‘95 The Granite Review) and has recently appeared in Across the Margin, The New Accelerator, parAbnormal, serialized in The Piker Press, and HDP 3. My first indie novel, The Augmented Man, is getting 4 and 5 star reviews on Amazon, Goodreads, Barnes&Noble, and others. My two self-pubbed books, Empty Sky and Tales Told ‘Round Celestial Campfires, are getting 5 star reviews (and I have more books in the works). I hold patents covering mathematics, anthropology, neuroscience, and linguistics. When not writing, I spend time loving my wife, playing with my dog and cat, flying kites bigger than most cars, cooking for friends and family, playing and listening to music, and studying anything and everything I believe will help my writing.
Arthur M Wyatt is an ex US Navy Seabee, writer, painter and musician. He is the author of the two book Demon Dead Series, “The Demon Dead: Tres Zombies” and “The Demon Dead: Troubled Waters” as well as the Novella “Soul Survivor”. He lives in upstate South Carolina and owns six Guitars featuring an American Fender Stratocaster, is a voracious reader and has a one thousand book personal library and a vast collection of heavy metal, thrash metal, death metal, prog metal, jazz, blues, big band and zydeco music. He is also a whiskey enthusiast with an affection for good Bourbon and Scotch.
I am a multi-genre, award-winning author, and poet from Trinidad in the Caribbean and have written twenty-four books to date.
As a former Bank Manager, I hold a Diploma in Banking from the Institute of Bankers in London.
I also obtained a Diploma in Life Underwriting from the American College, USA and worked in the Insurance industry briefly.
I qualified for the Million Dollar Round Table, the Premier Association for Financial Professionals, six times in a row.
My writing career sparked after my near-death experience with Cancer and my recovery.
I wrote the book, I AM CANCER FREE which became a best seller and it gave me the encouragement to continue writing.
Some of my books won multiple awards as follows.
1. I am Cancer Free – Readers Favorite award in category Health and Fitness 2018 and McGrath’s first-place winner in Non-fiction 2016.
2. Zeeka Chronicles was an award winner in the Category Young Adult Thriller in Readers Favorite International Awards 2018, winner in Science Fiction in SIBA Awards 2017, winner of the gold award in the category science fiction in Connections Emagazine Readers’ Choice Awards 2018, and winner in the top ten finalists for science fiction in the Author Academy Global Awards 2018.
3. August 2019 – Stories People Love won two gold medals in Connections EMagazine Readers’ Choice Awards – First place in Romance Category and first place in all genres.
4. August 2019 – How to Write for Success won a gold medal in the category Non- Fiction in Connections EMagazine Readers’ Choice Awards and a silver medal for second place in all genres. [My romance novel, Stories People Love won first place.]
5. My Life as a Banker won 2nd place Bio/memoirs in SIBA Awards 2016.
After the success of my book How to Write for Success, I founded the Facebook Group, How to Write for Success. Later, I also founded two more groups – Poems for Suicide Prevention, and How to Write for Success Library.
I was the driving force in the production of the Anthology A SPARK OF HOPE: A Treasury of Poems for Saving Lives by 49 authors in my group.
OTHER ACHIEVEMENTS:
5th November 2018 – Appointed Vice-Chancellor of Motivational Strips Academy of Literary Excellence and Wisdom.
In October 2018 – Appointed an Honorary Member of the World Higher Literary Academic Council of WORLD NATIONS WRITERS’ UNION of Kazakhstan.
On 29th December 2018, awarded the World Laureate in Literature by World Nations Writers Union.
On 30th December 2018, I received a Global Literature Guardian Award from the Founder of Motivational Strips and Associates.
On 31st December received a Certificate of Honour for serving as a juror in an International Poetry Contest sponsored by World Nations Writers’ Union.
On 4th March 2019 was awarded by Motivational Strips and its Nominating Authorities a Golden Dove of Peace Award.
In June 2019 appointed National President of the Union of Writers, Union Hispaniomundial de Escritos for Trinidad and Tobago.
In August 2019 received a Diploma and World Poetic Star Award from World Nations Writers Union.
On 31st August 2019 was honoured by the Seychelles Government Accredited Literary Society [ LLSF] for my contribution to World Poetry, creativity, and writing expertise.
On October 16th, 2019 was awarded the Order of Shakespeare Medal by the Founder of the Facebook group Motivational Strips, Shiju H Pallithazheth.
My books are available on all Amazon stores worldwide
An English-born Australian, Rob Shackleford has lived in New Zealand, Papua New Guinea and has travelled extensively internationally.
His varied careers have included Customs Officer, SCUBA instructor, college teacher, and management roles in too many places.
With degrees in the Arts and Business, he is mad keen on travel, SCUBA diving, family history, astronomy and playing the djembe and congas.
Rob is father of two and lives with his partner on Queensland’s Gold Coast.
Katlynn Brooke grew up in Africa, traveling with her parents through the African bush-veld, penning plays, poems, and short stories for the entertainment of her family.
Katlynn Brooke continued as a gypsy-wanderer and reader into her adulthood. Her travels took her to spending several years in both India and Indonesia, before settling permanently in the United States where she now lives with her husband and cat.
She has drawn on her past experiences and lifestyle to create novels that are also out of the ordinary, novels for the young adult that opens doorways into the unusual through her world of fantasy.