Margena has been writing ever since she can remember, writing her first poem in 1st grade. At her day job, when she's not kicking young kids out of R-rated movies, she's sweeping up spilled popcorn from the hallways and aisles (she's not your mother, though, so please take your trash out). Her days off consist of writing science fiction, space opera, and more movie theater shenanigans. Reading is a close second to writing, and she normally has her nose buried in a book.

Many everyday things inspire Margena's stories. Going to concerts, working at the movie theater, and the crazy lady who owns the liquor store have all found their way into a story. An observer by nature, anything can and most likely will find its way into a story. She has written for Examiner.com and Yahoo Contributor Network, where she earned a Top 500 award for her story on the Black Forest fires in Colorado.

Margena loves all the Harry Potter books and movies, Star Wars, Star Trek, The Orville, The Crown, and the Los Angeles Kings.

Lyra Shanti is a pen name for Aryl Arthur Shanti. He is a novelist, poet, playwright, and songwriter who lives in Florida with his partner and their two insane cats.

Author of the award-winning science fantasy series, Shiva XIV, Aryl is a dreamer of worlds far away. As a proud trans man, almost all of his books include LGBTQ+ characters. More of his books include The Artist, a wild tale of love, madness, and redemption, The Rainbow Serpent, a re-imagining of Adam and Eve, and Gemstones, a fantasy romance set in China. Look for the 2nd book in the Gemstones series coming soon!

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Maria Riegger is based in the Washington, DC area. She is a banking /corporate attorney by day (but please don't hold that against her), and a fiction author by night.

Maria is a Gemini whose head has always been in the clouds. From a young age, she was scolded for not paying attention; when she was bored, she would make up stories in her head. In fact, her greatest fear is boredom. She has been writing since she was about thirteen years old. A lover of languages, she speaks French, Spanish, Catalan and some Portuguese; and has lived in the U.K., France and Spain.

A native of the Washington, DC area, she is a political junkie who has respect for all views and who admires the political involvement of Americans. She loves nothing more than a solid political discussion where all views are represented.

When not writing or lawyering, she can be found doing a myriad of activities including reading, traveling, volunteering, and basically anything else that is not housework.

Maria lives right outside of Washington, DC with her family.

C H Clepitt has a Master’s Degree in English Literature from the University of the West of England. As their Bachelor’s Degree was in Drama, and their Master’s Dissertation focused on little known 18th Century playwright Susannah Centlivre, Clepitt’s novels are extremely dialogue driven, and it has often been observed that they would translate well to the screen.

Since graduating in 2007, Clepitt gained experience in community and music journalism, before establishing satirical news website, Newsnibbles in 2010. In 2011 they published A Reason to Stay, which follows the adventures of disillusioned retail manager, Stephen, as he is thrust into village life and the world of AmDram. Clepitt’s feminist fantasy, The Book of Abisan not only crosses worlds, but confuses genres, and has been described as a crime drama with magic.

Not liking labels, Clepitt has often said they don't like the way that choosing a genre forces you to put your book into a specific little box, and instead prefers to distort the readers’ expectations and keep them guessing.

Most recently Clepitt's Magic Mirror collection does just that, retelling classic fairy tales as a combination of historical fiction, magical fantasy, espionage and crime drama, all with a queer twist!

The term genre-hopper could have been coined to describe me and my books, modern-day thrillers sitting side by side with sword and sorcery, wicked dragons, and short stories and verse.

In addition, I’m proud to be the co-author of the Dai and Julia Mysteries with my good friend E.M. Swift-Hook.

Dai and Julia: What If the Romans never left?

Dying to be Roman

Dying to be Friends

Dying for a Poppy

Dying as a Druid

Dying for a Vacation

Dying to be Fathers

Dying on the Mosaics

Dying on the Streets

Dying to be Innocent

Dying to Find Proof

Dying for a Present

The First Dai and Julia Omnibus

The Second Dai and Julia Omnibus

The Third Dai and Julia Omnibus

For more fun and frolics with me and my co-author visit our blog at tinyurl.com/t9pkll3

You can also follow me on Facebook, and please don’t forget to let me know what you enjoy about my books

Joanne is a poet, blogger, writer, thinker, puzzler, teacher, traveller, photographer and generally nice person.

She drinks far too much coffee, but is highly dependent on the caffeine for successful navigation of that part of each day that occurs before lunchtime, so she's not giving it up anytime soon.

Despite having lived all her life in Australia, she has, thus, far, avoided being killed or maimed by any of the deadly wildlife, which is probably a good thing. Furthermore, she does not surf, live at the beach, or have a pet kangaroo.

Other than Australia, Canada is her favourite place in the world. She's proud to have been adopted as an honorary Canadian.

In addition to writing powerful, thought-provoking poetry, short-but-incredibly meaningful stories, and some creepy, macabre horror, she teaches senior high school English, History and Drama/Production. She is an active member and performer in her local theatre company.

Joanne's poetry is contemporary, moody, sometimes sensual and always easy to read - and it will get you in the feelings. One reviewer put her on the "shelf of legends" with Ginsberg and Whitman, calling Nova "A beautiful ride through a beautiful mind".

It's high praise - why not read her work today and see if you agree?

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In the words that Robert Heinlein put so evocatively into the mouth of Lazarus Long: 'Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.' Having tried a number of different careers, before settling in the North-East of England with family, three dogs, cats and a small flock of rescued chickens, I now spend a lot of time in private and have very clean hands.

If you enjoy my books, please let me know by leaving a review, it encourages me to keep writing!

I hope you will keep in touch to find out more about future titles in both Fortune's Fools and The Dai and Julia Mysteries through Facebook. Do take the time to enjoy a daily coffee break read with me and my co-author, Jane Jago, at workingtitleblogspot.com. You can also find me on twitter @emswifthook

BOOKS

The Dai and Julia Mysteries (all co-written with Jane Jago) currently available:

Dying to be Roman

Dying to be Friends

Dying for a Poppy

Dying as a Druid

The First Dai and Julia Omnibus

Dying for a Vacation

Dying to be Fathers

Dying on the Mosaics

The Second Dai and Julia Omnibus

Dying on the Streets

Dying to be Innocent

Dying to Find Proof

The Third Dai and Julia Omnibus

Dying for a Present

Dying as a Spy

Dai and Julia short stories:

'Dying to Alter History' in Tales from Alternate Earths III from Inkling's Press

'Dying to be Cured' in 'Gods of Clay' from The SciFi Roundtable

Fortune's Fools books currently available:

Transgressor Trilogy: The Fated Sky, Times of Change, Dues of Blood

Haruspex Trilogy: Trust A Few, Edge of Doom, A Walking Shadow

Iconoclast Trilogy: Mistrust and Treason, Not To Be, A Necessary End

There are also a number of short stories set in the Fortune's Fools universe:

Midwinter Miracle with typographic art by Zora Marie (also available as an audiobook)

'Changeling Child' in 'Tales of Wonder' from Inklings Press

'Tongueless Caverns' in 'Tales from the Underground' from Inklings Press

'Wondrous Strange' in 'The Quantum Soul' from The SciFi Roundtable

'The Invisible Event' in 'Challenge Accepted' a charity anthology.

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Claire Buss is a multi-genre author and poet based in the UK. She wanted to be Lois Lane when she grew up but work experience at her local paper was eye-opening. Instead, Claire went on to work in a variety of admin roles for over a decade but never felt quite at home. An avid reader, baker and Pinterest addict Claire won second place in the Barking and Dagenham Pen to Print writing competition in 2015 with her debut novel, The Gaia Effect, setting her writing career in motion.

You can follow her on Twitter @grasshopper2407, Facebook.com/busswriter and visit her website www.clairebuss.co.uk for more information about Claire and her writing.

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~Writing passionately and hopelessly addicted to cake~

Claire's Books:

**Hopeful Dystopian Trilogy The Gaia Collection**

The Gaia Effect - winner of the 2017 Raven Award for favourite Scifi/Fantasy novel

The Gaia Project

The Gaia Solution

**Humorous Fantasy**

The Rose Thief, Roshaven book 1 - winner of the 2019 Raven Award for favourite Scifi/Fantasy novel

The Silk Thief, Roshaven book 2

The Bone Thief, Roshaven book 3

The Interspecies Poker Tournament, Roshaven novella, Case File 27

Ye Olde Magick Shoppe, Roshaven short story

**Short Story Collections**

Tales from Suburbia

Tales from the Seaside - winner of the 2018 Best Indie Book

The Blue Serpent & other tales

Flashing Here & There

**Anthologies**

'Underground Scratchings', Tales from the Underground

'Patient Data', The Quantum Soul

'A Christmas Badger' co-written with CH Clepitt, Sparkly Badgers' Christmas Anthology

'Dress Like An Animal' + 'Afraid of the Dark', Haunted - The Sparkly Badgers' Anthology

**Poetry**

Little Book of Verse

Little Book of Spring

Little Book of Summer

Spooky Little Book

Little Book of Winter

Little Book of Love

Little Book of Autumn

Little Book of Christmas.

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Ted Akin is a wandering, wayward Texan telling stories from Kosciusko to Key West. Given the opportunity, he’ll go on an adventure and make a story out of it. Given equal opportunity, he will waste an afternoon in a recliner or hammock.