I'm Mike Resnick, and I am, according to Locus, the trade paper of the science fiction field, the all-time leading award winner, living or dead, for short science fiction. I find this surprising, because I have always considered myself a novelist; at least, writing novels is how I pay my bills.

To date I've sold 76 science fiction novels (plus three mysteries, and nine non-fiction books (all of them about writing or science fiction or both). I've sold upward of 280 stories, and even a trio of screenplays. I've edited more than 40 anthologies, and served stints as the consulting science fiction editor for BenBella Books and the executive editor for Jim Baen's Universe; and I'm currently editing Galaxy's Edhe magazine and Stellar Guild Books for Arc Manor Books. I've won 5 Hugos, and been nominated a record 37 times; I've also won a Nebula and other major awards in the USA, France, Poland, Croatia, Spain, Catalonia, China, and Japan, and have been shortlisted for major awards in England, Italy, and Australia. My work has been translated into 26 languages so far. I was Guest of Honor at the 2012 World Science Fiction Convention.

My daughter, Laura, is also a science fiction and fantasy (and romance, and travel) writer, and won the Campell Award (for Best New Science Fiction Writer) in 1993. I met my wife Carol at the University of Chicago in 1960, married her in 1961, and this year we celebrate our 57th anniversary.

Considered one of the most prolific writers working in modern fiction, USA Today bestselling writer Dean Wesley Smith published far more than a hundred novels in forty years, and hundreds of short stories across many genres.

At the moment he produces novels in several major series, including the time travel Thunder Mountain novels set in the Old West, the galaxy-spanning Seeders Universe series, the urban fantasy Ghost of a Chance series, a superhero series starring Poker Boy, and a mystery series featuring the retired detectives of the Cold Poker Gang.

His monthly magazine, Smith’s Monthly, which consists of only his own fiction, premiered in October 2013 and offers readers more than 70,000 words per issue, including a new and original novel every month.

During his career, Dean also wrote a couple dozen Star Trek novels, the only two original Men in Black novels, Spider-Man and X-Men novels, plus novels set in gaming and television worlds. Writing with his wife Kristine Kathryn Rusch under the name Kathryn Wesley, he wrote the novel for the NBC miniseries The Tenth Kingdom and other books for Hallmark Hall of Fame movies.

He wrote novels under dozens of pen names in the worlds of comic books and movies, including novelizations of almost a dozen films, from The Final Fantasy to Steel to Rundown.

Dean also worked as a fiction editor off and on, starting at Pulphouse Publishing, then at VB Tech Journal, then Pocket Books, and now at WMG Publishing, where he and Kristine Kathryn Rusch serve as series editors for the acclaimed Fiction River anthology series.

For more information about Dean’s books and ongoing projects, please visit his website at www.deanwesleysmith.com and sign up for his newsletter.

With 19 New York Times bestsellers and more than 350 million copies of his works in circulation, L. Ron Hubbard is among the most enduring and widely read authors of our time. As a leading light of American Pulp Fiction through the 1930s and '40s, he is further among the most influential authors of the modern age. Indeed, from Ray Bradbury to Stephen King, there is scarcely a master of imaginative tales who has not paid tribute to L. Ron Hubbard.

Then too, of course, there is all L. Ron Hubbard represents as the Founder of Dianetics and Scientology and thus the only major religion born in the 20th century.

While, as such, he presents the culmination of science and spiritual technology as embodied in the religion of Scientology.

Preston Dennett began investigating UFOs and the paranormal in 1986 when he discovered that his family, friends and co-workers were having dramatic unexplained encounters. Since then, he has interviewed hundreds of witnesses and investigated a wide variety of paranormal phenomena. He is a field investigator for the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON), a ghost hunter, a paranormal researcher, and the author of 29 books and more than 100 articles on UFOs and the paranormal. His articles have appeared in numerous magazines including Fate, Atlantis Rising, MUFON UFO Journal, Nexus, Paranormal Magazine, UFO Magazine, Mysteries Magazine, Ufologist and others. His writing has been translated into several different languages including German, French, Italian, Portuguese, Russian and Icelandic. He has appeared on numerous radio and television programs, including Coast-to-Coast and the History Channel’s Deep Sea UFOs and UFO Hunters. His research has been presented in the LA Times, the LA Daily News, the Dallas Morning News and other newspapers. He has taught classes on various paranormal subjects and lectures across the United States.

In addition to writing true non-fiction books about UFOs and the paranormal, Preston Dennett is also an award-winning science fiction writer. He has sold 40 speculative fiction stories to such markets as Andromeda Spaceways, Bards & Sages, Cast of Wonders, Daily Science Fiction, Grievous Angel, Perihelion, Sci-Phi Journal, Stupefying Stories, T. Gene Davis's Speculative Blog and many others, including several anthologies. After earning twelve honorable mentions, he won Second Place in Quarter 1, 2018 of the Writers of the Future Contest. He currently resides in southern California.

Elise Stephens uses adventure and mystery in her fiction to set stages for provocative questions. She is a 2019 Writers of the Future Winner. Of her three published novels, one was an INDIEFAB 2015 Book of the Year finalist. She counts authors Neil Gaiman, C.S. Lewis, and Robin Hobb among her literary mentors, and has personally studied under Orson Scott Card. Her work explores themes of beauty within imperfection and finding purpose after a great loss. Her SFF short stories have appeared in Analog, Galaxy's Edge and Escape Pod. Learn more about her writing at www.EliseStephens.com

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John Haas was born and raised in Montreal before moving to Calgary where he lived for twelve wonderful years. Now he lives in Canada’s capital, Ottawa, but still misses seeing those Rockies in the distance.

John has been writing for most of his life and writes in the genres of Fantasy, Horror and Science-Fiction, with the occasional Mystery thrown in. He has had several short stories published in various excellent publications, as well as several novels.

His goal is to become a full time writer (rich and famous would be nice too but not necessary).

He lives with his two wonderful sons who give him lots of motivation.

For more information, please follow this link: https://linktr.ee/johnhaas

Bestselling author Wulf Moon has always known he's a writer. He believes you are born with the gift. The rest is dedication, education, and polishing your craft. And courage. You have to serve seven cats--every successful writer knows that--but allow only ONE in your office. But if you want more proof, he won BEST AUTHOR OF 2019, of 2020, of 2021, and again in 2022 where thousands of readers from around the world vote in the Critters Readers' Choice Awards each year. If you need more proof than that (my goodness!), here it is:

At fifteen, Wulf Moon wrote a science fiction story that won the national Scholastic Art and Writing Awards--the same contest that first discovered Stephen King, Truman Capote, Joyce Carol Oates, John Updike and a multitude of iconic names in the arts. This became his first professional sale in Science World (print circulation 500,000/month). Since then he has won more than 40 awards in writing, just as many in public speaking, and a full scholarship to a private college—a good thing to happen to a kid in a foster home.

More recent credits include his Star Trek story “Seventh Heaven” published by Simon and Schuster’s Pocket Books in STAR TREK: STRANGE NEW WORLDS II. A Borg love story. What could be sweeter?

Moon won a contest sponsored by New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts. His entry took first place and became the conclusion to her contest novella, “Riley Slade’s Return.”

"War Dog," Moon's historical fantasy in the time of the conquistadors, was published in TERRA! TARA! TERROR! from Third Flatiron Publishing. Thousands from around the globe voted for their faves in the 2018 Critters Annual Readers' Poll. "War Dog" won BEST SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY SHORT STORY PUBLISHED IN 2018! In addition, Moon won this award again in 2019 (see below). And in 2020, Moon won this award for the third year in a row with "Muzik Man" in Deep Magic, Fall 2020. "Muzik Man" also received accolades in Tangent Online, and earned the honor of being a starred listing on the coveted Tangent Recommended Reading List published in 2020.

Moon has won the international talent search for the best new writers in speculative fiction: the Writers of the Future Contest. His award-winning SF story, "Super-Duper Moongirl and the Amazing Moon Dawdler," was published in the bestselling anthology WRITERS OF THE FUTURE, VOL. 35. In the Critters Readers' Choice Awards, "Super-Duper Moongirl..." won BEST SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY SHORT STORY PUBLISHED IN 2019!

Wulf Moon is the founder of the Wulf Pack Writers group and is the author of The Illustrated Super Secrets of Writing and the bestselling book HOW TO WRITE A HOWLING GOOD STORY.

Want more? Visit Moon's website at: thesupersecrets dot com! He invites you to JOIN THE WULF PACK!

I have J.K. Rowling's birthday, and Hemingway writes about the places I grew up. I've been writing stories since my subjects were Duplo zoo animals and my letters were an inch high. It was inevitable.

Andrew Dykstal lives in northern Virginia, where he works as a technical editor, wanders the streets, and misses his Metro stops because his nose is in a book. His science fiction and fantasy have appeared in L. Ron Hubbard's Writers of the Future Volume 35 (he was the Golden Pen winner in 2019), Daily Science Fiction, and Beneath Ceaseless Skies. Years before the associated meme, he took an arrow to the knee, and a bit of unreality got into his blood. These things happen. You can find out more at his website, andrewdykstal.com.

Born to avid genre readers, it’s no surprise that Carrie Callahan was named after a Stephen King novel. She was raised in the wilds of Florida in a series of homes set in the seedier parts of the state, feeding her sense of the strange. She’s since lived in eight different states across the country and managed to become the first of her immediate family to earn a college degree.

Carrie has a BA in English from the University of Cincinnati, and an MFA from the Bluegrass Writer’s Studio at Eastern Kentucky University where she was awarded the Emerging Writer’s Award in Fiction in 2021. Carrie is a 2019 recipient of the Writers of the Future Award, and is a 2020 recipient of the Working Class Writers Grant from the Speculative literature foundation. You can find her work in Writers of the Future Volume 35 and Galaxy’s Edge Magazine.

She lives in Kentucky with her supportive husband and their two Yorkies, Chestnut and Nutmeg.

Brian C Hailes, creator of Draw It With Me, is also the award-winning writer/illustrator of Blink, Devil’s Triangle, Here There Be Monsters, Skeleton Play, Heroic, If I Were a Spaceman, Continuum, American Girls McKenna, Ready to Fly, and Grace and Sylvie.

Hailes currently lives in Salt Lake City with his wife and four boys, where he continues to write, draw and paint regularly.

More of his work can be seen at HailesArt.com

Rebecca Moesta (pronounced MESS-tuh) wanted to be an author since her early teens, but it wasn't until 1991 that she began writing in earnest. Her solo novels include Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Little Things (2002) and three novels in the Junior Jedi Knights series. With her husband, Kevin J. Anderson, she wrote the Crystal Doors trilogy, the movie novelization of League of Extraordinary Gentlemen under the pseudonym "K.J. Anderson" (2003); a movie novelization of Supernova (2000); a novelization of the popular StarCraft computer game StarCraft: Shadow of the Xel'Naga, under the pseudonym "Gabriel Mesta" (2001); and a Star Trek graphic novel, The Gorn Crisis (2001). The team, currently working on Star Challengers, a Young Adult science fiction series, has also written two young adult Titan A.E. novels (2000), two high-tech Star Wars Pop-up Books, and the 14-book Young Jedi Knights series of Star Wars novels.

Rustin Lovewell is a native New Englander now living in Maryland with his wife, daughter, and overly yappy dog/mobile alarm system. Full of contradictions, he is an immunologist when not writing fantasy stories, a soccer player when not rolling d20s, and a snowboarder if he can ever find enough snow. Rustin has been an avid reader since he discovered Tom Swift’s incredible inventions and the nightmares hidden within the pages of Goosebumps. His favorite stories have always been those that pointed left and then twisted right, only to twist yet again, before finally knocking the reader out with a “Luke, I am your father” roundhouse. After reading several such pieces, he wondered if he could come up with one of his own. He did, and he wrote it, and it was awful. Of course, that’s how it starts. He’s loved trying to get it right ever since.

David Cleden is an award-winning author of both fiction and non-fiction. As a fiction writer, David won the 2016 James White Award for his short story "Rock, Paper, Incisors" and also the Aeon Award for "When The Last Telepath Left Town" both of which have been translated into Italian and have appeared in the "Mondi Incantati" anthologies for 2016 & 2018. Subsequently, David was a first-place winner in the "Writers of the Future: Volume 35" short story competition with "Dark Equations of the Heart".

He is a Bid Director and consultant with more than 25 years experience of the public services IT sector. In addition to writing bids and successfully delivering complex projects for a wide range of commercial clients, he writes widely on a variety of business-related issues. His book, "Bid Writing for Project Managers" is a popular guide to proposal-writing success published by Routledge. David's previous book, Managing Project Uncertainty, was the first title in the Routledge series on "Advances in Project Management". He also contributed a chapter to "Advances in Project Management" edited by Darren Dalcher.

As he is quick to point out, he tries hard not to muddle up his fiction and non-fiction writing.