Meet The Authors
Samantha Lafantasie
USA TODAY & Amazon Bestselling Author
A Kansas native, Samantha LaFantasie spends her free time with her spouse and three kids. Writing has always been a passion of hers, forgoing all other desires to devote to this one obsession, even though she often finds herself arguing with her characters through much of the process. She’s primarily a fantasy writer but often feels pulled to genres such as sci-fi, romance, and others.Samantha became a bestselling author with the Pandora Boxed Set (which includes Made to Forget: Nepherium Novella series--Part One) on both Amazon and USA Today. Samantha loves to take time to enjoy other activities such as photography and playing her favorite game of all time, Guild Wars 2.
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The Nepherium Series (science fiction)
Heart Song (fantasy)
Alesha EscobarAmazon Top 100 Historical Fantasy/Mashups Bestselling Author
Alesha Escobar writes fantasy to support her chocolate habit. She enjoys everything from Tolkien and Dante to the Dresden Files and Hellblazer comics. She resides in California with her partner-in-crime, Luis Escobar, a 20-year art veteran on The Simpsons television show. Alesha is the author of The Gray Tower Trilogy, an action-packed supernatural spy thriller set in an alternate 1940's. The trilogy books have hit the Amazon bestsellers lists for Historical Fantasy and Mashups. You can find Alesha at her weekly blog, Fantasy, Mashups, & Mayhem, where she discusses fantasy and science fiction TV shows, movies and books, and celebrity gossip. She's just kidding about the celebrity gossip.
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The Gray Tower Trilogy (fantasy)
The Black Dagger Gods (short story, New Myths Anthology)
Timothy C. Ward
Hugo Award Nominee (AISFP)
Timothy C. Ward grew up on DragonLance, Stephen King, and Dune. He blends these influences in his serialized epic, Scavenger, where sand divers uncover death and evolution within America's buried fortresses. His first printed story, "The Bomb in the President's Bathroom," was released in the Amish SciFi anthology, Tales from Pennsylvania. Signed copies are available in his store: Spike Publishing.
Scavenger: Evolution -- Start reading {here}
H. M. Jones
B.R.A.G Medallion Honoree
H.M. Jones won the Indie B.R.A.G Medallion for her self-published debut fantasy novel, Monochrome, in 2014. She also writes poetry and is responsible for the Attempting to Define poetry collection. A bestseller only in her mind, Jones pays the electric bill by teaching college English courses at night, and is responsible for wrangling her two preschoolers during the day. Thankfully, she is married to a handsome lawyer, since they have other bills to pay. She reads, bookstore hops, writes and moderates and reviews for the indie review site Elite Indie Reads in her "spare" time. Jones received her B.A. and M.A. degrees in English Literature and now lives in the Pacific Northwest with her family and her very fat cat, Pepper.
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Monochrome (Fantasy)
Devorah Fox
Amazon Top 100 Bestselling (Epic) Fantasy Author
"What
if?" Those two words all too easily send Devorah Fox spinning into
flights of fancy. Best-selling author of The Lost King, The King’s
Ransom, and The King’s Redress in The Bewildering Adventures of King
Bewilliam literary fantasy series, she also co-authored
the contemporary thriller, Naked Came the Sharks with Jed Donellie.
Devorah published and edited the BUMPERTOBUMPER® books for commercial motor
vehicle drivers and developed the Easy CDL test prep apps. Born in
Brooklyn, New York, she now lives in The Barefoot Palace in Port
Aransas on the Texas Gulf Coast where she writes her “Dee-Scoveries”
blog.
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The King Bewilliam Series (Fantasy Adventure)
Alice Marks
Author, Educator
Alice Marks: Retired early childhood educator. Married for 50 years with four
adult children and six grandchildren. Recent resident of Duluth,
Minnesota, the second coldest city in the USA, which affords lots of
time for writing. Has published short
stories and poetry in magazines and anthologies including Chicken Soup
for the Soul. Wrote the life story of a 105-year-old Texas woman, whose
family published the memoir. Has written several comedic Biblical
plays, which have been used by Readers’ Theatres in several states. Has
led a writers group In Texas, currently forming one in Duluth and teaches creative writing classes for emerging writers. Has a drawerful of novels waiting publication.
