April 19-21 in Raleigh-Durham, NC RESERVE ROOM
April 19-21 in Raleigh-Durham, NC RESERVE ROOM
Rob Howell is the publisher of New Mythology Press, including his work as editor of the Libri Valoris and Libri Mysteriorum anthologies of heroic fantasy. He is one of the founders of the Eldros Legacy and an author in the Four Horsemen Universe. He writes primarily epic fantasy, space opera, military science fiction, and alternate…
Engulfed by an influx of emails, he realizes there’s much to articulate. Dispelling a prevalent myth, he never saw himself as a writer at first. Initially drawn to historical journalism, he aspired to document cultures. But reality altered his trajectory. Now, after crafting numerous books, he begrudgingly accepts the label. It was never his intention;…
Monalisa’s writing career really began when she taught herself English by reading and translating Heinlein juveniles at the public library. She would copy sentences in English, translate them into Romanian, and then write out new words ten times, filling entire notebooks and giving herself a helluva writing callous. After she devoured the juvenile section, she…
Marisa Wolf is a second-generation nerd who started writing genre stories at six. At least one was good enough to be laminated, and she’s been chasing that high ever since. Over the years she’s taught middle school, been headbutted by an alligator, earned a black belt in Tae Kwon Do, and finally decided to finish…
Kacey Ezell is a retired helicopter pilot with 3000+ hours in the UH-1N Huey, Mi-171, and EC130 helicopters. When not beating the air into submission, she writes sci-fi/fantasy/horror/noir/alternate history fiction. She is a two-time Dragon Award Finalist for Best Alternate History and won the 2018 Year’s Best Military and Adventure Science Fiction Readers’ Choice Award….
In 1980 two things happened to put me on my long and winding path to become a writer. I purchased Dungeons and Dragons, teaching myself to play so that I could run the game for my friends, and I joined the school newspaper. Gaming and creating stories gave me a social life, a framework for…
Jo, a writer with a lifelong passion for storytelling, recalls her early immersion in literature thanks to her mother’s influence and exposure to writing circles. Despite diverging from an expected path in college, she persisted in her love for writing. Inspired by disappointments, like the portrayal of aliens in media, she created her own diverse…
H.Y. Gregor was born in Portland, Oregon, but will always call the mountains of Colorado home. She holds a bachelor’s degree in political science but put it down often enough to narrowly avoid law school. Now she spends as much free time as possible weaving fantasy tales and battling plot gremlins.Her short fiction has earned…
Michael Morton is a retired USAF space officer and wishes the Space Force happened earlier. Still, he gets to work for them as a civilian so life isn’t all bad. He writes award-winning military sci-fi and fantasy, and lives in Colorado Springs with his family. When he’s not writing, he enjoys camping and exploring the…
According to her mother, Diann “DT” Read began writing as soon as she could pick up a pencil, though her first “stories” were mostly drawings of horses. By age 10 she’d appropriated her father’s old college typewriter and learned to type (with two fingers) because it was faster than pushing a pencil. At age 14…