Kara Dennison is a writer, editor and illustrator born and bred by the Chesapeake Bay. A graduate of the College of William & Mary, Kara began her career as a journalist and localisation expert, serving as a feature writer for Otaku USA magazine, Crunchyroll News and others. Her work can be seen in the Obverse Books anthology The Perennial Miss Wildthyme, multiple volumes of the You and Who line, and the upcoming light novel series Owl’s Flower, illustrated by Ginger Hoesly. She lives with four guinea pigs, whom she occasionally upsets when she leaves home to serve as a host and interviewer at (Re)Generation Who, Intervention and other conventions in the eastern US.
Ian Edginton is a New York Times bestselling author and Eisner Award nominee. He is currently writing Batman ’66 meets The Avengers (Steed and Mrs Peel, not the other ones!) for DC Comics as well as Judge Dredd, Stickleback, Helium, Kingmaker and Brass Sun for 2000AD.
Other titles include such iconic characters as Wolverine, Batman and the X-Men. He has also worked on a number of film and television properties including Star Wars, Star Trek, Aliens, Predator, Terminator, and Planet of the Apes. In addition, he has written the audio adventures of Doctor Who: Shield of the Jotunn and Torchwood: Army of One.
He has adapted into graphic novels works by bestselling Young Adult novelists Robert Muchamore, Malorie Blackman and Anthony Horowitz as well as literary classics, Pride and Prejudice, The Picture of Dorian Gray, A Princess of Mars and the complete canon of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes novels. He has also written several volumes of Holmes apocrypha, The Victorian Undead, has adapted H.G. Wells’ The War of the Worlds and written several sequels, Scarlet Traces, Scarlet Traces: The Great Game and Scarlet Traces: Cold War.
He lives and works in Birmingham, England.
Lyndsay Faye is the internationally bestselling author of five novels. Her latest, Jane Steele, reimagines Jane Eyre as a heroic vigilante killer. The Gods of Gotham, the first book in the Timothy Wilde trilogy, was nominated for an Edgar Award for Best Novel and translated into fourteen languages. She is the author of numerous Sherlock Holmes pastiches, including the critically acclaimed Dust and Shadow and the forthcoming short story collection The Whole Art of Detection: Lost Mysteries of Sherlock Holmes.
Jaine Fenn is the author of numerous short stories in various genres and of the Hidden Empire series of character-driven space opera, published by Gollancz.
Nick Kyme is an author and editor who lives and works in Nottingham in the United Kingdom. He has written over fifteen novels and novellas based in the fantasy and science fiction worlds of Warhammer 40,000 and Warhammer Fantasy Battles, published through the Games Workshop imprint, the Black Library. His novella Feat of Iron featured in the New York Times bestselling novel The Primarchs for The Horus Heresy series, for which he has also edited several collections. He has written many short stories, one of which, “Forgotten Sons”, was part of the New York Times bestselling anthology Age of Darkness, and his short story “Tempest” featured in the Sabbat Crusade anthology edited by Dan Abnett.
Regarding Sherlock Holmes, he wrote the short story “The Post Modern Prometheus” as part of the Encounters of Sherlock Holmes collection, published by Titan Books.
As well as novels and short stories, he also has worked in the video games industry and consulted on the acclaimed Freeblade by Pixel Toys.
Andrew Lane is the author of some thirty-three books ranging across fiction & non-fiction, adult & young adult, historical & contemporary and crime & science fiction. He has been occupied recently with a series of YA novels investigating Sherlock Holmes as a teenager and with building up enough Conan Doyle pastiches to eventually fill his own anthology.
James Lovegrove was born on Christmas Eve 1965 and is the author of more than fifty books. His novels include The Hope, Days, Untied Kingdom, Provender Gleed, the New York Times bestselling Pantheon series – so far The Age Of Ra, The Age Of Zeus, The Age Of Odin, Age Of Aztec, Age Of Voodoo and Age Of Shiva, plus a collection of three novellas, Age Of Godpunk – and Redlaw and Redlaw: Red Eye, two novels about a policeman charged with protecting humans from vampires and vice versa. He has written three Sherlock Holmes novels, The Stuff Of Nightmares, Gods Of War and The Thinking Engine for Titan Books, and a Holmes/Cthulhu mashup trilogy; the first volume – Sherlock Holmes and the Shadwell Shadows – is due out in November 2016. His latest series is the Dev Harmer Missions, an outer-space action-adventure series, beginning with World Of Fire and World Of Water.
James has sold well over forty short stories, the majority of them gathered in two collections, Imagined Slights and Diversifications. He has written a four-volume fantasy saga for teenagers, The Clouded World (under the pseudonym Jay Amory), and has produced a dozen short books for readers with reading difficulties, including Wings, Kill Swap, Free Runner, Dead Brigade, and the 5 Lords Of Pain series.
James has been shortlisted for numerous awards, including the Arthur C. Clarke Award, the John W. Campbell Memorial Award, the Bram Stoker Award, the British Fantasy Society Award and the Manchester Book Award. His short story “Carry The Moon In My Pocket” won the 2011 Seiun Award in Japan for Best Translated Short Story.
James’s work has been translated into twelve languages. His journalism has appeared in periodicals as diverse as Literary Review, Interzone and BBC MindGames, and he is a regular reviewer of fiction for the Financial Times and contributes features and reviews about comic books to Comic Heroes magazine.
He lives with his wife, two sons, cat and tiny dog in Eastbourne, a town famously genteel and favoured by the elderly, but in spite of that he isn’t planning to retire just yet.
William Meikle is a Scottish writer, now living in Canada, with twenty novels published in the genre press and over 300 short story credits in thirteen countries. He has Sherlock Holmes’s collections and novellas available from Dark Regions Press, and a variety of his Sherlockian stories can be found in anthologies. He lives in Newfoundland with whales, bald eagles and icebergs for company. When he’s not writing he drinks beer, plays guitar and dreams of fortune and glory.
Tim Pratt is the author of over twenty novels, most recently The Deep Woods and Heirs of Grace, and many short stories. His work has appeared in The Best American Short Stories, The Year’s Best Fantasy, The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror, and other nice places. He’s a Hugo Award winner, and has been a finalist for World Fantasy, Sturgeon, Stoker, Mythopoeic, and Nebula Awards, among others. He lives in Berkeley CA and works as a senior editor at Locus, a trade magazine devoted to science fiction and fantasy publishing. He tweets a lot as @timpratt, and his website is www.timpratt.org. He publishes a new short story every month for his Patreon supporters at www.patreon.com/timpratt.