For this anthology, sales are also helping fund a writing mentorship for up and coming authors.
About the Authors
Kylie Chan – has a BBus, an MBA in IT, and an MPhil in Creative writing. She ran her own consulting business for ten years in Hong Kong. When she returned to Australia in 2002, Kylie studied martial arts and Buddhist and Taoist philosophy, and wrote the bestselling nine-book Dark Heavens series, a fantasy based on Chinese mythology. She has recently released the Dragon Empire science fiction series.
Find her at: www.kyliechan.com
www.facebook.com/KylieChanAuthor
Twitter: @kyliechan
Instagram: kylie_chan_author
James SA Corey – is a convenient fiction, the pseudonym of Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck. He began when Daniel and Ty set out to write a book together based on work Ty had done creating the solar system that became The Expanse.
Find them at: www.jamessacorey.com
Twitter: @JamesSACorey
Dr Jack Dann – is a multi-award-winning author who has written or edited over seventy-five books, including the international bestseller The Memory Cathedral, The Rebel, The Silent, and The Man Who Melted. His latest novel is Shadows in the Stone. Kim Stanley Robinson called it “such a complete world that Italian history no longer seems comprehensible without his cosmic battle of spiritual entities behind and within every historical actor and event.” Forthcoming is a Centipede Press Masters of Science Fiction volume.
Dr. Dann is an Adjunct Senior Research Fellow in the School of Communication and Arts at the University of Queensland. He lives in Australia on a farm overlooking the sea.
Find him on: www.jackdann.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/jack.dann2
Twitter: @jackmdann
Sebastien de Castell – Sebastien’s acclaimed, swashbuckling fantasy series The Greatcoats, was shortlisted for the Goodreads Choice Award for Best Fantasy, and the Gemmell Morningstar Award. His YA fantasy series Spellsinger is published in more than a dozen languages. He spends his time writing, travelling, and going on strange adventures.
Find him at: www.decastell.com
Twitter: @decastell
Facebook: www.facebook.com/SebastienDeCastell
Dr Marianne de Pierres – is author of the award-winning Sentients of Orion, Parrish Plessis,and Peacemaker series. In 2014 she became the recipient of a Curtin UniversityDistinguished Australian Alumniaward for significant and valuable contributions to Australian science fiction feminist literature. Marianne also writes award-winning, humorous crime under the pseudonym Marianne Delacourt. In her other life, she teaches creative writing to university students and writes about social change and thought leadership.
Find her at: www.tarashap.com.au
David Farland – is an award-winning, international bestselling author with over 50 novels in print. He has won the Philip K. Dick Memorial Special Award for “Best Novel in the English Language” for his science fiction novel On My Way to Paradise, the Whitney Award for “Best Novel of the Year” for his historical novel In the Company of Angels, and many more awards for his work. He is best known for his New York Times bestselling fantasy series The Runelords. Farland has also written for major franchises such as Star Wars and The Mummy.
Find him at: www.davidfarland.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/DavidFarlandAuthor
Aiki Flinthart – is the Australian author of 15 sci-fantasy novels, two collections of short stories, two author craft non-fiction books. She has also edited 4 short story collections. Several of her works have been shortlisted in the Australian Aurealis Awards, and top-8 finalists in the USA Writers of the Future competition. When not writing, she mentors other authors, gives workshops on writing fight scenes, and practices fantasy-approved hobbies such as martial arts, archery, knife-throwing, lute-playing, and bellydancing.
Find her at: www.aikiflinthart.com
www.facebook.com/aiki.flinthart
Dirk Flinthart – is an award-winning writer in Northern Tasmania and has a Masters in Creative Writing. He has a string of published speculative fiction short stories, as well as an SF/Horror novel (Path of Night) through Fablecroft. He has worked in feature journalism and non-fiction, including the best-selling HowTo Be A Man, co-written with John Birmingham. In the last few years, Flinthart has turned his attention to film, television and media and is currently working on several different projects.
You can find him on Facebook.
Jasper Fforde – is a British writer who lives in Wales and writes absurdist fiction. He has published seven books in the Thursday Next series, one of which won the Wodehouse Prize for comic fiction in 2004. There are also two novels in the Nursery Crime series, and several in the Dragonslayer YA series. A festival in Swindon is themed after him and his Thursday Next book series.
Find him at: www.jasperfforde.com
Dr Kate Forsyth – wrote her first book aged 7 and has now sold more than a million books worldwide. She is a multi-award-winning author of fantasy, historical fantasy, fairy-tale re-imaginings and historical fiction. Her best-known works include Bitter Greens, which won the 2015 American Library Assoc award for Best Historical Fiction; The Silver Well, a set of interlinked stories co-written with Kim Wilkins; and Valisa the Wise & Other Tales of Brave Young Women. Named one of Australia’s Favourite 15 authors, Kate has a BA in Literature, and MA in Creative Writing, and a Doctorate of Creative Arts.
Find her at: www.kateforsyth.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/kateforsythauthor
Twitter: @KateForsyth
Neil Gaiman – is an English author of numerous speculative fiction novels, graphic novels, screenplays for film and television, poetry and short stories. His works have won multiple awards, including the Newbery and Carnegie Medals; and the Hugo, Nebula, World Fantasy, Bram Stoker, Locus, British SF, and British Fantasy Awards, and many others. Some of his better-known works include American Gods, and Good Omens (co-authored with Sir Terry Pratchett).