Charlotte Haley is a lifelong horror fan, film fanatic, and black belt in Shotokan karate. PELT was recently shortlisted for the Scottish Book Trust’s Ignite Fellowship for Emerging Writers 2025. As part of her research for the novel, Charlotte undertook an SFX make-up course with Gibbet FX. Charlotte links her strong inspiration for stories built […]
Marie Brennan is the author of the Hugo-nominated A Natural History of Dragons series (Titan) which continues to garner new readers even ten years from its first publication. She is also one-half of M.A. Carrick, whose Rook and Rose series (Orbit) has twice been selected by Amazon for their Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Book of the month list. […]
S. Hati is a speculative fiction writer, currently residing in the Bay Area. She is an avid Warriors fan, has been to far too many Eras tour stops, and can usually be found playing the guitar (badly) while staring forlornly out of the window with a chronic case of wanderlust. She is a 2021 Pitch Wars […]
Fuelled by anime, Final Fantasy, and the Elfstones of Shannara books on her parent’s bookshelves, Darby Cox has been writing since the age of ten. Though life got in the way of the stories floating in her mind, during the early years of the COVID pandemic, she completed her first manuscript in 6 months and hasn’t looked […]
S.E. Kiser is a trans, non-binary Missouri writer with an M.A. in English literature and a deep love of fairy tales, the Gothic, and life in all its forms.
Megan Shunmugam is a conflicts lawyer, based in Johannesburg, South Africa. She holds a Bachelor of Commerce and Bachelor of Laws. In her free time, she enjoys writing fantastical stories set in other worlds, featuring legendary creatures and epic love stories. Her favourite novels include The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Catcher in […]
Jennifer Kennedy was born and raised in Liverpool, England. Her love of reading started young and by age ten was immersed in the contrasting worlds of the BrontĂ«s and Stephen King. She went on to study English Literature at Manchester Metropolitan University. Drawn to the supernatural and mysterious it was inevitable that she would go on […]
Peter F Hamilton is the Sunday Times Bestselling author of numerous novels, including The Abyss Beyond Dreams, Great North Road, T, and the acclaimed epic Night’s Dawn trilogy (The Reality Dysfunction, The Neutronium Alchemist, and The Naked God). His most recent series is the Salvation trilogy. Born in 1960, he lives with his family in southwest England.
Laura Elliott is a journalist and writer on disability and health issues. Laura has ME and this has informed her writing and her career. She has written articles on disability and politics for The Guardian, The Metro, iNews and ByLine Times. Her stories have appeared in Strix Magazine, STORGY and Cloister Fox, and creative non-fic […]
Laura R. Samotin is the author of the adult fantasy duology The Sins On Their Bones (2024) and The Lure of the Graves (2025). She and her spouse live with two enormously large felines. When she’s not pursuing her academic research on military tactics, power politics, and leadership, she relishes her role as a full-time cat servant.
Stewart Hotston lives in Reading, UK. With a Celtic-Indian mother and a father of North African/Roma descent, Stewart is a somewhat confused second-generation immigrant living in the UK. His novels include the BFS and Subjective Chaos finalist, Entropy of Loss as well as the tech thriller, Tangle’s Game and the science fiction novels based in UBISoft’s […]
Sarah J. Daley is a former chef who lives and writes in the Chicago Metropolitan area with her husband and teenaged son. She earned a degree in Landscape Architecture from the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana. Though she still enjoys the heat and chaos of a professional kitchen, she is now writing full-time. She enjoys […]
Sarah Broadway works as a news producer at a TV station in Alabama. Sarah’s passion for storytelling has her delving into the fictional world during her free time. She writes in several different genres, though it’s always contemporary fantasy and the paranormal that feels the most like home. When she’s not writing, Sarah can be found […]
STEVE BEARD is a writer who experiments with making essays and fictions from theory, history, testimony and psychogeography. He has written various speculative novels and documentary fictions and contributed to the anthology London: City of Disappearances, edited by Iain Sinclair. He previously collaborated with Jeff Noon on the novel Mappalujo (2016).
C.M. Alongi is a sci-fi/fantasy author and content creator from the Twin Cities. She is best known for her urban fantasy TikTok series CaFae Latte. When she isn’t writing, she’s defending her furniture from her roommates’ evil cats. Find her @c.m.alongi_author.
Ben Alderson is a #1 Amazon bestselling author and former BookTuber. In 2023, he was nominated for TikTok Author of the Year. An active promoter, Ben is active on TikTok, Instagram, and Twitter. He has self-published a number of M/M romantic fantasy novels, and his series Court of Broken Bounds is published with Second Sky […]
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