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Melanie Fletcher

Melanie Fletcher is an expatriate Chicagoan who lives in North Dallas with her husband and their fabulous furbabies, known collectively as the J Crew. When not herding five cats and an engineer, she turns into SF Writer Girl. Her first […]

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Sonia Focke

Sonia is an author and Egyptologist with works published in several anthologies. In addition to writing, she has showered with a scorpion, defended a hill fort against one (1) Viking warrior and learned the whole of the Mikado by heart. […]

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Grace P. Fong

“Grace P. Fong (“”Fictograph””) a 3x Hugo-nominated illustrator and concept artist living in Vancouver, BC. She makes covers for speculative fiction publications and promotional material for authors. Recent magazine clients include Silk and Steel, Strange Horizons, and Lackington’s. Her work […]

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Susan Forest

Susan Forest is the author of dual Aurora Award-winners Bursts of Fire (2019) and Flights of Marigold (2020) as well as over 25 internationally-published short stories (Analog, Asimov’s, Beneath Ceaseless Skies). She edits an award-winning anthology series for Laksa Media […]

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Melissa Frain

I am a voracious reader and lover of books with more than fifteen years of experience editing, including many years as a senior editor at one of New York’s biggest publishers, Macmillan. I have taught writing at a variety of […]

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Adam Gaffen

“You know me. Jump first, knit a parachute on the way down.” Kendra Cassidy, A Quiet Revolution (The Artemis War 3) Adam Gaffen is the author of the near-future, LGBTQ-inclusive science fiction series The Cassidy Chronicles. The heart of the […]

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Sarah Gailey

Hugo Award Winner and Bestselling author Sarah Gailey is an internationally published writer of fiction and nonfiction. Their nonfiction has been published by Mashable and the Boston Globe. Their short fiction credits include Vice and The Atlantic. Their debut novella, […]

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Jennifer Gale

Jennifer Gale was born in a desert windstorm that blew out the hospital windows. Now surrounded by Pacific Northwest wetlands, she planted a magical garden for the local wildlife, and converted the shed into the witch hut where she writes, […]

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Yasmine Galenorn

Yasmine Galenorn is the New York Times, USA TODAY, and Publisher’s Weekly bestselling author of over 65 books. In April 2012, she won a Career Achievement Award in Urban Fantasy at the Romantic Times Convention. Yasmine writes urban fantasy and […]

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