Sarah A. Hoyt was born (and raised) in Portugal and now lives in Colorado with her husband, two sons, and a variable number of cats, depending on how many show up to beg on the door step.

In between lays the sort of resume that used to be de-rigueur for writers. She has never actually wrestled alligators, but she did at one point very briefly tie bows on bags of potpourri for a living. She has also washed dishes and ironed clothes for a living. Worst of all she was, for a long time, a multilingual scientific translator.

At some point, though, she got tired of making an honest living and started writing. She has over 40 -- the number keeps changing -- published novels, in science fiction, fantasy, mystery, historical mystery, historical fantasy and historical biography. Her short stories have been published in Analog, Asimov's, Amazing Stories (under a previous management), Weird tales, and a number of anthologies from DAW and Baen. Her space-opera novel Darkship Thieves was the 2011 Prometheus Award Winner, and at this moment the third novel in the series, A Few Good Men, is a finalist for the honor.

Sarah also won the Dragon Award for Uncharted (With Kevin J. Anderson.)

She also writes under the names Sarah D'Almeida and Elise Hyat.

To learn more about Sarah A. Hoyt and read samples of her work, visit http://sarahahoyt.com

Larry Correia is the New York Times bestselling author of twenty-five novels. He’s best known for his Monster Hunter International urban fantasy series, the Saga of the Forgotten Warrior epic fantasy series, the Grimnoir Chronicles alternate history trilogy, the Dead Six military thrillers, and the sci-fi Gun Runner. He’s also written over sixty pieces of shorter fiction, many of which are included in his Target Rich Environment collections, and he has edited three anthologies.. He lives in Yard Moose Mountain, Utah with his wife, children, and fearsome Krasnovian Waffle Hound.

You can follow him at monsterhunternation.com.

A native Texan by birth (if not geography), Chris moved 'home' as soon as he could.

Attending Texas A+M for two of the four years he lived in College Station, he learned quickly that there was more to college than drinking beer and going to football games.

Deciding that a change of venue may be more beneficial, he moved to San Antonio, attending SAC and UTSA, graduating in late 2000 with a BA in Lit.

While there, he also met a wonderful lady that somehow found him to be funny, charming, and worth marrying. (She has since changed her mind on the funny and charming, but figures he's still a keeper.)

After the birth of his first child, and while waiting on the second, Chris decided that he should start his own business, and has been running it since 2001.

In a fit of creative inspiration, Chris began writing flash fiction in 2012, moved on to short stories, and should be finishing his first solo novel any day now. His first story, 'Bad Blood and Old Silver,' appears in the 'Luna's Children:Stranger Worlds' anthology, from Dark Oak Press. Other stories to be released: 'What manner of Fool,' featured in Michael Hanson's 'Sha'daa: Inked' anthology; 'Isaac Crane and the Ancient Hunger' in Fantom Enterprise's 'Dark Corners' anthology; and '150 Miles to Huntsville' in Baen's Black Tide Rising anthology. He has also co-authored (with Jason Cordova) 'Kraken Mare' from Severed Press.

His two cats allow him, his wife, their three kids, and two dogs to reside outside of San Antonio.

Alistair Kimble is a Special Agent with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, working a variety of matters over the course of his career. He currently processes crime scenes as a member of the FBI Denver's Evidence Response Team. Alistair 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 like the X-36 tailless fighter.

Iron Angels, an urban fantasy detective novel, co-written with Eric Flint (author of the bestselling 1632 series), was chosen by Publishers Weekly as one of its top 10 science fiction, fantasy & horror picks for the fall of 2017 and was released on September 5th 2017 from Baen Books.

Alistair's short fiction can be found in the Fantastic Detectives edition of the Fiction River anthology series, edited by Kristine Kathryn Rusch, and volumes 44 & 47 of the Grantville Gazette.

Steve Diamond is a Horror, Fantasy, Thriller, and Science Fiction author for Baen, Aethon, Gallant Knight Games, and numerous other small publications. His most recent works are a collection of short fiction, WHAT HELLHOUNDS DREAM, a Dark Fantasy/Horror novel co-written with Larry Correia, SERVANTS OF WAR, and the Supernatural Thriller novel RESIDUE. He is also the co-host of the writing advice podcast, The WriterDojo.

Find out more about Kacey Ezell at www.kaceyezell.net

Kacey Ezell was born in South Dakota in 1977. Her parents joined the US Air Force in 1984, and she grew up around the world on various military bases. When she was seven, her mother gave her a copy of Anne McCaffrey's Dragondrums, and shortly thereafter, Kacey decided that she wanted to be a dragonrider when she grew up. In 1999, she followed her parents into the "family business" and graduated from the United States Air Force Academy before going to pilot training. As dragons were in short supply at the time, she reasoned that flying aircraft was the next best thing. She earned her wings in 2001, and has over 2500 hours in the UH-1N and Mi-17 helicopters.

From the time she was a small child, Kacey made up stories to tell to her friends and family. In 2009, while deployed to Iraq, she wrote the military-themed supernatural story "Light", which was accepted for publication in the Baen Books anthology Citizens.

She is the author of the 2-time Dragon Award nominated alternate history series "The Psyche of War" about psychic women dealing with... well... war. She wrote "The Romanov Rescue" (Baen) along with Tom Kratman and Justin Watson, with some help from Monalisa Foster. In addition, she and Christopher L. Smith are currently collaborating with John Ringo on a post-apocalyptic steampunk trilogy from Baen, The first book, "Gunpowder and Embers" came out in 2019. She is a core author of the Four Horseman Universe from Seventh Seal Press (Chris Kennedy Publishing), where she co-authored the Depik Trilogy with Marisa wolf, and the bestselling "Weaver" with Mark Wandrey. Finally, she and Larry Correia have edited "Noir Fatale," and "No Game For Knights," both bestselling noir anthologies from Baen Books. They are currently working on a third anthology due out in 2024.

Kacey writes science fiction, fantasy, horror, noir, romance... etc. fiction. She lives with her husband, two daughters, and one large orange boy cat.

Griffin spent his youth in four different countries, learning three languages, and burning all his bridges. He became a police officer in a major metropolitan police department in California, serving there for twenty years. He began his career as an author while working shifts in patrol, the courts, and the School Resource Officer Program, all of which has informed his writing in one way or another. Recently retired from the day job, he lives the good life in East Tennessee with his lovely wife and a pair of needy bengals.

A lifelong player of tabletop RPGs, Griffin has always been interested in fantasy and SF of all types. True to his eclectic background and tastes, Griffin has written stories across the SF&F field, from: Alternate History, Hard SF, Space Opera, Dark (Very dark) Fantasy, to zombie fiction.

Mike Massa has lived an adventurous life including stints as a university researcher, a tech entrepreneur, an investment banker and a U.S. Navy officer (1130). In addition to the usual military deployments, he has lived outside the US for several years as a civilian, mostly in South America and Europe. Newly published, Mike is married and enjoys the challenges of three sons and a growing cohort of grandsons all of whom check daily to see if today is the day they can pull down the old lion. Not yet...