Erik Lynd is an award winning author who writes novels and short stories primarily in the horror, dark fantasy, and urban fantasy genres. Currently he is in the middle of two ongoing urban fantasy series; Silas Robb and The Hand of Perdition series. He also writes the occasional horror novel such as Asylum and The Collection. He lives in the U.S. Pacific Northwest where yes it does rain a lot and no he does not mind it. You can learn more about his writing at www.eriklynd.com.

With 19 New York Times bestsellers and more than 350 million copies of his works in circulation, L. Ron Hubbard is among the most enduring and widely read authors of our time. As a leading light of American Pulp Fiction through the 1930s and '40s, he is further among the most influential authors of the modern age. Indeed, from Ray Bradbury to Stephen King, there is scarcely a master of imaginative tales who has not paid tribute to L. Ron Hubbard.

Then too, of course, there is all L. Ron Hubbard represents as the Founder of Dianetics and Scientology and thus the only major religion born in the 20th century.

While, as such, he presents the culmination of science and spiritual technology as embodied in the religion of Scientology.

Born to an English-teacher mother, there was little chance that Madolyn wouldn't at least respect the written word. Everything from Shakespeare to a cereal box would catch her attention until every syllable had been read. This early and enduring love affair would in turn serve her well in her position as Editor of her High School’s literary magazine. College found her writing and editing for yet another literary magazine, but she soon began concentrating on her other creative outlet – Theatre.

Over time, she spent less and less time on creative endeavors until she met Quicksylver, Incorporated’s President, G. Russell Gaynor. Through his influence, she realized how much she had missed writing, and began to test the waters once again. That testing has resulted in quite a few accolades including poems published in various trade magazines, placement as a semi-finalist in the Screenwriters Expo Script Writing Competition and as the winner of a Short Story Competition for Ebony Magazine. The completion of her first novel, aimed at Young Adults, was a personal triumph and the novel 'Silent Love' a joy to write. She is thrilled to have contributed to three volumes of SylverMoon Chronicles, and looks forward to the next.

A true romantic at heart, enduring themes of love in all of its forms are to be found in her writing whether screenplay, short story, novel, or poem.

Award-winning speculative fiction author Barbara Lund has several indie-published novels, dozens of short stories, and has been traditionally published in Daily Science Fiction and L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future, Volume 37 (November 2021).

She won the Writers of the Future Golden Pen (2021), along with a First Place, three Silver Honorable Mentions, and two Honorable Mentions. She won the 24th Annual Critters Best Magical Realism Short Story.

She is currently working a couple novels and more short stories.

Add a husband, two kids, and a martial arts obsession, and she keeps pretty busy.

Sara Fox is an information specialist and a ne’er-do-well often found wandering in airports both local and abroad. A fan of continuously recreating themselves, they’ve been a researcher, elementary through college teacher, and a techie. Their stories generally dabble around fantasy coming of age and emotive scifi with LGBT+ characters.

Website/tumblr: http://mxsfox.com/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/Mxsrfox

Husband-and-wife fantasy writing team K. D. Julicher collaborate together on their stories, often but not always featuring people who spend too much time listening to the voices in their heads. When not writing, they share off-road adventures in the wilds of Nevada, raising children, and way too many geeky hobbies for the time they have left.

Both have engineer dayjobs and both agree, telling stories is a lot more fun.

Elizabeth Chatsworth writes of rogues, rebels, and renegades across time and space. She is the author of THE BRASS QUEEN series, an award-winning fantasy comedy set in an alternate Victorian age.

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John M. Campbell speculates on the worlds currently unknown to us that science and engineering may unlock. He is compelled by the promise technology offers to address many of the issues facing human survival. The prospect of extraterrestrial life in our solar system on Mars and the outer planets fascinates him. He finds intriguing the likelihood that machine intelligence will likely surpass mankind’s ability to control it in this century. Inspiration for his stories often comes from the strange realities of quantum physics and cosmology.

John grew up reading science fiction and loved imagining a future extrapolated from what is now known. He hopes his stories will inspire careers in science and engineering as the authors he read inspired his career.

John lives with his wife in Denver, Colorado. Access his website at www.JohnMCampbell.com.

Brittany Rainsdon started writing at a young age, penning poems and stories, and filling an overstuffed nightstand with spiral notebooks, pens, and floppy disks (yes, those were still a thing in 2007).

Brittany’s first published story appeared in Deep Magic, Spring 2021 and was republished in The Best Of Deep Magic Volume 2. Brittany’s work also appears in Writers of the Future Volume 37 as a published finalist and in Writers of the Future Volume 38 as a contest winner.

Eventually Brittany would like to expand her speculative fiction stories into novels, but she is currently enjoying short form. Brittany lives with her husband and five children near the Snake River in Idaho, where she swears it looks like a wintered Narnia for nearly half the year. She has many pairs of fuzzy socks.

Luke Wildman may be a figment of your imagination—or you may be one of his. Either way, he was born and raised in West Africa, came to the U.S. for college at nineteen, and has lived with his wife in Indianapolis ever since.

He is an award-winning science fiction and fantasy author published in Writers and Illustrators of the Future Volume 37, Havok magazine, and Parnassus literary journal.

Read his free short stories and learn more about his work at lukewildman.com, or on Facebook at luke.a.wildman.writer.

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Elaine Midcoh loves reading and writing science fiction short stories. She is a past winner of the Jim Baen Memorial Short Story Award, The Writers of the Future contest and the Cannon Publishing High Caliber Award. Her sci-fi stories have appeared in the anthologies, “Writers of the Future, Volumes 37 & 39” (Galaxy Press, 2021 & 2023), “Compelling Science Fiction Short Stories” (Flame Tree Press, 2022), and "The 2025 High Caliber Awards" (Cannon Publishing, April 2025) and in the magazines, MetaStellar, Escape Pod, Galaxy’s Edge (Issue 57), and Daily Science Fiction. Before jumping into writing, she worked as a college professor where she spent many happy years teaching criminal justice and law courses. She lives in South Florida. You can connect with her on Facebook @ Elaine Midcoh.