Cedar Sanderson's long and checkered career started with being paid in plants. Since then, she's come to prefer money, and has tried many ways to earn it: balloon twister, face painter, children's librarian, scientist, cosmetic chemist, author, artist, and many more. Currently she writes for a living with facts, and on the side she writes fiction for fun.

Author of ten novels, countless short stories, and a children's book, she has also edited an anthology, and illustrated five coloring books. A born researcher, Cedar's passion for reading metamorphosed into writing, fueled by her long interest in history, infectious disease, food anthropology, and human behavior. After her four children had reached a suitable age, Cedar returned to higher education and obtained a Bachelor's of Science in Forensic Science and Investigation with minors in Chemistry and Molecular Biology, which enabled her to finally display the credentials to match her passion for scientific research.

She currently resides somewhere in the north of Texas with a retired husband (who brings her coffee in the morning), a teenage son and his cat, and the family dog. She creates art daily, and writes fiction as often as she can make time. Her business, Sanderley Studios, offers her an umbrella under which she offers graphic design services, publishes her fiction and art books, and enables her to edit anthologies on occasion.

JL Curtis was born in Louisiana in 1951 and was raised in the Ark-La-Tex area. He began his education with guns at age eight with a SAA and a Grandfather that had carried one for 'work'. He began competitive shooting in the 1970s, an interest he still pursues time permitting. He is a retired Naval Flight Officer, having spent 20+ years serving his country, an NRA instructor, a retired engineer in the defense industry, and now a starving author. He lives in North Texas, He currently has three series out or in work. The Grey Man, a Texas based current fiction series revolving around LEOs vs. the Cartels on the border, and Marines (6 books and two novellas). The Rimworld Series, started with a short story that was an Amazon Best Seller for five days after its release, now with six books published and more in the works. Last but not least, an 1870s western series. He is also in a number of anthologies from various publishers.

Brena Bock is the nom de plume of David Bock. A proud member of #TeamAndMore in several anthologies. Other stories are in the works along with a first full length novel.

David was born and raised in New York City and lived in the Capital Region of New York State until moving to East Tennessee.

After spending over 30 years in different aspects of IT (hardware, software, and training but happily not programming) and almost that long in technical and historical writing, it was time for a change. David transitioned to part time firearms training, including volunteering with Operation Blazing Sword, and got back into creative writing.

David and his spouse are the sole providers for three feral rescue cats who allow the humans to feed and shelter them.

With hobbies and interests ranging from role playing games (starting with original D&D and Traveller) to woodworking, metalworking, firearms, cooking, baking, and of course reading, David is always looking for another area to explore. The most recent additions are wine making and 3D printing.

Writing fiction is career number three or so for Becky R. Jones. She's worked as a secretary in the world of Wall Street, built sets for TV pilots and shows, been an admin assistant for a mobile home park management company, built airplanes, and finally went back to school to get an MA and PhD in political science. Through it all she read fantasy, science fiction, and anything else she could get her hands on - cereal boxes included. Reading provides an escape, laughter, tears, and different perspectives on life.

After 20+ years teaching in different parts of the country, Becky realized that faculty politics had lost their allure and fled academia. She decided to try her hand at telling stories like the ones she loved to read. "Academic Magic" was her first work of fiction, quickly followed by a number of short stories, and the next two books in the "Academic Magic" series. She currently lives in the Dallas-Ft. Worth area with her husband and two cats.

For more fiction shorts and political ramblings, please visit her at: ornerydragon.com.

Ray Krawczyk hails from a small town in Massachusetts. He has rambled across America, living in such exotic locales as Chicago, Rapid City, Raleigh, and has been allowed to reside near Philadelphia for the last several decades. He strongly suspects this has only happened because the authorities have not been alerted to his presence.

Having failed in his career goals as a raconteur and man-about-town, he had no recourse but to take up writing. When he is not tormenting his beta readers he works at rescuing vintage technology, classic Singer sewing machines, and dogs, rehabilitating several of each.

Richard Cartwright was born and raised in Tennessee when he was not bouncing around the country and Canada in the sleeper of his parents tractor trailer rig that his dad bought after retiring from the Navy to go into trucking. His first reading lessons were road signs at four. His education was disrupted at five when he was forced to start spending the school year at school. After acquiring a note at six to allow him to check out "advanced " books from the library, he discovered Heinlein and never looked back. Along the way he acquired degrees in history, law, and cynicism.

He learned the fine art of storytelling sitting around kitchen tables, campfires and courtrooms over the years but came to writing later in life, after getting out of the legal profession while he could still get his soul back.

These days he managers a remote support team which lets him feed his writing habit.

Fiona Grey wanders through stories at https://fionagreywrites.com with an amazing husband and Writing Cat. After years of technical writing and editing, her creative brain escaped into the wild, likely as a consequence of severe overeducation. She enjoys thinking nonlinearly and introversion. Other people claim this is “weird,” which is unsubstantiated.

William Lehman can’t stay out of hot water… or cold water, either. After retiring from two careers in and around submarines, and a decade as a Reserve Police Officer for the City of Bremerton, Washington, (where far more things go on than you’d think) he’s traded in his police gear for 70 pounds of armor and a sword and says it’s for medieval recreation.

Having seen several decades of federal initiative and inertia, he can assure you that the government is smart enough to recruit Supernatural beings into the service if it could, but it’s not so stupid that it would force them in and then hand them weapons. At least, not most of the departments, and not for long. Either way, it wouldn’t stay secret, not when you have to have a form for that.

Somebody’s got to keep unnatural law and order, after all. In the Park Police, that’s John Fisher.

Brief announcement. I'm changing publishers, so some or all of my books may be unavailable for a few weeks.

Chris “MOGS” DiNote, served 25 years in the United States Air Force and Air National Guard. He deployed for Operations Enduring Freedom, Iraqi Freedom, and Noble Eagle and has also served in South Korea and Germany. Chris is a graduate of the US Air Force Academy Class of 1999, and a 2003 graduate of the USAF Weapons School. He holds an M.A. in Military History from Norwich University (2016), and a Master of Strategic Studies from the Air War College (2017). An amateur musician, Chris has also played saxophone and bass in several bands. He was born in Philadelphia PA, raised in South Jersey, and currently resides in the Florida Panhandle with his wife, fellow author Jaime DiNote (aka "Liska McCabe"), and their daughter, fellow author Remy DiNote.

Denton's day job used to require a lot of travel and hence a lot of time on airplanes and in airports. Because of this, it allowed lots of writing time. When the pandemic hit, the habit got worse. Therapy hasn't helped.

The stories tend to be extensions of a terrible tendency to tell lies and make things up. Truth can be so limiting and the fairy tales and legends he heard growing up sounded like a much more fun world. So many of his stories draw on Eastern European folklore. After all, who won't want a world with three-headed dragons, wolf-wizard, and enchanting immortal maidens?

His books also tend to include pandas. Because pandas rock.

Mostly he works as a physical scientist, which is why he likes fantasy. He also likes dogs, particularly standards, and coffee. His hobbies include metalwork, woodwork, martial arts, and cooking. He can be found at dentonsalle.com, Facebook, MeWe, and X.