Amy Ashbaugh is an Atlanta-based Illustrator and Fine Artist. Originally from Tampa, Florida, she relocated to Atlanta in 2005. Amy’s artistic career aspirations first formed in her teens, when she discovered her passion for illustrative art. Her style is a mix of various influences that altogether would best be described as imaginative realism. Amy finds her inspiration in literature, history, folklore, travel, nature, and the adventure of everyday experiences.

http://alashbaugh.com

Paul has been working as a professional artist for over 2 decades. During that time he won the prestigious Chesley Award in 2006 for his charcoal drawing, Nightmare, and Paul was also one of a select few officially licensed Wheel of Time artists. His WoT work was featured in the Wheel of Time Companion along with countless t-shirt designs for Ta’veren Tees. His work has also been featured in various role-playing systems, including White Wolf, DragonLance, and Sagaborn.

In addition to his art, Paul owns and operates Aradani Studios along with his brother Michael and sister Sara. Aradani is known the world over for their fantastical elf ears and other whimsical costumes, horns, and geeky oddities.

http://www.aradanicostumes.com

Michael Bielaczyc makes things. He has done it professionally for over twenty years. He makes paintings, illustrations, sculptures, elf ears, gallery work, video work, abstract pieces, and many other things. He enjoys making, so he just keeps doing it.

http://mcihaelbielaczyc.com

Amy Brewer-Davenport is a full time artist and long-time con-goer, always looking for new inspiration or ways to inspire others to create. She has been making art for several years, attending conventions her entire life, and has spent almost ten years volunteering and exhibiting art at conventions throughout the Southeast and beyond. Outside of conventions you can find the artist in the woods around the rural home she shares with her husband Andrew, in the studio painting, or bingeing whichever fantasy series has her attention this week.

http://amybdart.com

Ariel, a D.C. area native and dyslexic, is an award winning internationally published digital painter. Her dedicated fans love her hyper-realistic style and hidden references beginning with her work as an Official Wheel of Time artist. Her publications include: “Stan Lee’s How to Draw Comics,” several anthologies, and also the “The Wheel of Time Companion.” Ariel won a Geeky award for “best licensed toy/product” for her Wheel of Time playing cards deck and numerous best in show and judges choice awards exhibiting her fantasy work at conventions. In 2023 she was Guest Artist of Honor at Balticon 57. Currently she is focused on her Patreon community, creating original works of dragons, fairies, vampires, mermaids and even a dragon riding a bunny.

www.artistarielburgess.com

Painting is Emilie’s passion. She favors mythological art, and horror primarily. She also takes commissions for pet portraits and pet ornaments for people who wish to celebrate their pets, or memorialize them. Emilie works primarily with acrylic paint.

Emilie is married, with a toddler who also aspires to be an artist. When she isn’t creating spooktacular paintings, she works as a medical scheduler for a traveling nurses agency and is a huge animal advocate.

You can find her artwork and follow her on Facebook at www.facebook.com/nerdsthatpaint.

Carmanda Arts Things is a whimsical illustrator who specializes in wildlife and fantasy artwork with a homey folkloric bent. Storytelling is at the heart of what she does, whether it be illustration work, writing, or teaching, and she loves helping to bring other people’s stories to life just as much as her own. On the rare occasions she is not drawing for herself or others, Carman can be found serving the demands of her poof-void of a cat, Cricket. Occasionally Cricket lets her off duty for long enough to read beside a precariously stacked tower of books on the nightstand, write books of her own, or co-host the “What the Folklore?” comedy podcast with Tyler and Gordie.

https://www.carmandaartsthings.com/

From an early age he has been interested in creating items connected to his love of magic, myth and the unusual.   An artist is somewhat like a magican or shaman, they communicate and connect with others by what they create.  After graduating with an art degree in the mid 70s, he went into the graphic arts and printing fields for a number of years.  During the 1980s to the1990s he also entered convention art shows, occasionly winning awards. These days his work consists of small paintings, silverpoint drawings and jewelry.   Several of his pieces are in private collections in the United States and overseas  as well as two in college collections.  He hope to share his interests with people for the rest of his life.

Dean was born on the south side of Chicago but went on to become a major disappointment to his family by becoming a Cubs fan. His family was in the golf business. Both of his parents were professional golfers and again he broke their hearts by not becoming a golf pro, but instead went on to study theater, eventually earning his degrees and working as a production stage manager for numerous theaters including the Seattle Repertory and the Goodman Theater in Chicago. (Drop names here… Tony Randall, Richard Chamberlain, Stanley Kramer, Julian Barry and David Manet). Switching from theater to Film and Television he worked at both Universal and Disney studios on a series of projects which are mostly sitting on dusty shelves in studio basements. (Swamp Thing the series, The New Leave it to Beaver, (Hey it’s a job ok?), Divorce court and The Dick Tracy movie). Dean eventually woke up and married Debbie Hughes in Knoxville Tn. They are still married and live just outside Atlanta with two cats in the yard. (I broke the vase that she bought today ay ay ay ay.)

https://museumofbadart.org/ https://www.debbiehughes.com/

Kelley M. Frank is a horror artist, author, and reviewer. She has appeared in a number of horror anthologies including Slice Girls. She’s also completed interior art and/or lettering for books such as the Georgia Gothic anthology, Zealot by C. Vonzale Lewis, and The Wolves of Kanta series by Marlena Frank. She specializes in creepy watercolor, acrylic, and ink illustration, as well as book cover lettering and mixed media expressing her emotional states. She’s also an asexual witch, Horror Writer’s Association Affiliate, and an outspoken advocate for the strange and unusual.

Her website is MorbidSmile.com

Melissa Gay thinks of creating art as illustrating personal myths– half-remembered bedtime stories, visions from dreams, chance encounters in misty woods, hazy glimpses of far-flung civilizations through a handmade telescope, scenes to be treasured because they are so fleeting.

She has published two art books, Finding My Familiar (animal drawings on toned paper with various pencils) and Earth and Water (ink drawings and paintings), and she is currently working on a book of acrylic sci-fi paintings, called I Dream Of Space. (Gallery owners have chided her for doing too many different things, and instead of stopping, she decided to just lean into it.)

For over twenty years she has created covers and interior illustrations for books and tabletop roleplaying games, freelancing for Baen Books, Llewellyn Worldwide, Hay House, Apex Press, 78 Tarot, Pelgrane Press, Evil Hat, Atlas Games, DoJ, Third Eye Games, Margaret Weis Productions, Lone Wanderer, and many others. Her illustrations “Offering” and “Harvest” have won Chesley Awards, and many of the games she has worked on have won Gold and Silver ENnies. Her work has been featured in ImagineFX Magazine, io9, tor.com, and several of the Infected By Art anthologies.

Apart from drawing and painting, she happiest when gaming with her spouse or creating her own woodland adventures on hiking trails.

https://www.melissagayart.com/ https://www.patreon.com/MelissaGay

Sara Glassman is a jewelry artist with a focus on bringing fiber art techniques to wire jewelry. She also has an interest in combining books with jewelry and has designed pieces around books or characters as well as used upcycled books in her art. In 2006 she founded Medusa’s Mirror Jewelry and has been making jewelry ever since. For her day job she works as school librarian, thus furthering her love affair with books.

https://www.facebook.com/MedusasMirrorJewelry/

Ris harp (they/them) is some kind of triple threat. Artist, author, candlestick maker. YouTuber, blademaster, candlestick maker. Warder, swearing enthusiast, candlestick maker. Veteran, cat-lover, candlestick maker. Singular they, disabled, candlestick mak— you get the idea. Real talk, Ris does a lot of stuff. But mainly they act, create digital art, and write stories and screenplays based on their experiences living in life’s vast grey areas.

Not a candlestick maker.

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Debbie Hughes is a published illustrator in the SF and Fantasy field with over 200 published works. She has worked for Easton Press, Amazing Stories Magazine, Been Books, Science Fiction Age Magazine, Realms of Fantasy, Paramount Interactive, SFWA, P & S Publishing, UK, Editorial Presenca, Portugal, Hadley Rille Books, 10 different Game Card publishers including Wizards of the Coast and Iron Crown Enterprises and many more. Her work has been exhibited at numerous SF conventions in the U.S. and abroad and she has been the Artist Guest of Honor at over 14 Conventions. In addition Debbie worked on Animation for the Company Cyberlix, The Learning Company and Broderbund as well as produced Flash animation for Getty Images and Istock.

Currently, Debbie has concentrated on her own ideas: a combination of myths, fairy tales and enigmatic themes and elements born out of her years doing illustration.

Debbie was inducted into the National Association of Women Artists in 2019. Since that time she has had 8 exhibits at various galleries in NY, NY including exhibits on Park Avenue South and Tribeca. She is the winner of the 2021 Bernadette Award with NAWA and most recently her work was accepted by invitation only at The Vendue Art Hotel in Charleston S.C. Debbie was also elected a Peer Juror for NAWA in 2023. In March of 2023 Debbie was invited to the Downtown Central Library of Lexington, KY to exhibit over 50 original paintings. This work was comprised of published works in the Science Fiction and Fantasy field that spanned the Artist’s career of over 40 years of illustration. In 2020 Debbie’s work, “The Raven, the Wolf and the Maiden” won the 2020 Chesley Award by the Association of Science Fiction Artists. Her contribution to Science Fiction is listed in: Science Fiction and Fantasy Artists of the Twentieth Century: A Biographical Dictionary.

http://www.debbiehughes.com/

Bryan Jones is a chainmail smith and digital artist who proudly hails from Huntsville, Alabama, the “Rocket City.” He grew up in a computer-literate home long before computers were cool and enjoys transferring his imagination into digital space vistas.

http://www.whitebearfantasies.com

Kelly has studied under artists such as Donato Giancola and Scott Fischer, along with classes taken under Watts Atelier. She works with a variety of mediums and maybe one day will put the fruits of her labor on an official website.

http://www.instagram.com/kellykeuneke

Alexandra Klimek’s work includes abstracted portraits, twisted creatures, and fantastical monsters from myth and fandoms alike. She has shown her work in various art galleries in Greenville, SC, as well as the Oddities and Curiosities Expo and other conventions across the country. In addition to paintings, Alexandra also engraves dice boxes. You can see her work at www.ElegantGore.com.

Amanda Makepeace has been an independent artist and part-time illustrator since 2005. Her work has appeared on the covers of both fiction and nonfiction books, in several ENnie award-winning games, and in genre magazines like Amazing Stories and Fireside Fiction. She’s won two Chesley Awards for Best Cover of a Paperback/eBook and most recently, she was featured in the officially licensed Hannibal Artbook from Printed in Blood.

Through her art, she explores the themes of nature, magic, dark folklore, and our connection to the planet. Her current medium of choice is graphite, which she sometimes mixes with watercolor, gold and digital color. When she’s not in the studio or traveling to events, she can be found reconnecting with nature and the woods that inspired her as a child.

http://amandamakepeace.com/

Rick produces fan art of fantasy novels using lego and lego-compatible bricks. He specializes in custom printed minifigures, immersive scenes, building instructions, and animations. Some of his favorite authors to build to include Brandon Sanderson, Robert Jordan, Cat Valente, and Travis Baldree, though he has a long list of other projects he’d love to get to if he had time. His style is whatever works, insofar as he will drill, sand, paint, or print on bricks as needed to achieve the desired effect. When he is not building, he is a professor of electrical engineering in Dayton, Ohio.

http://www.secondbrickfast.com

Lori Morrow is a dot artist. She began her creative career with a small tie dye business over twenty years ago. Lori’s love of shapes and symmetry lead to her love of dot art. Currently she is expanding her dot art to include poured gypsum items such as jars, tea light candle holders, coasters, and sacred geometry stones. She has shown her work several times at Jordancon and also at Multiverse Con. You may view her work on Instagram at morrow_makings or her MorrowMakings Facebook page.

An award-winning artist, Madolyn works primarily in fantasy fine art photography and digital art. Born and raised in Alabama, she has lived in Atlanta long enough to consider herself a native. Madolyn received her first ‘real’ camera from her uncle at the age of 13, but it wasn’t until many years later that she focused on her passion for the art form and decided to get serious about her work. She has appeared in exhibitions in Atlanta, New York, and across the country, including becoming a fixture at the DragonCon Art Show where she won ‘Best Photography’ in 2018 and ‘Best Photography/Digital Art’ in 2019, 2021, & 2023. She was nominated for an ASFA Chesley Award for ‘Best Paperback or eBook Cover’ in 2021.

https://linktr.ee/sylverlight

Jason Peters has loved to make things since he was a kid. He particularly enjoys engineering challenges and figuring out how to make an idea work. He doesn’t always succeed, but he learns new things every time. His introduction to the world of art came with a wood burning made for the 2018 JordanCon charity auction. With that, stained glass artist extraordinaire Leia Powell latched on to him and kept prodding him to make more and more elaborate art, leading to their first charity auction item in 2019. Jason began expanding the tools in his workshop, and started woodworking in addition to pyrography. Now he uses several different materials and mediums to create his works. In 2023, he started SawCycle Woodworks as a place to display and market his works. JordanCon 2024 will be his first art show. Today his artwork includes pyrography, cutting and charcuterie boards, wire and gemstone trees, and anything else that catches his interest to make. He lives in Hampton, VA, with his beautiful wife Shirley, and their two sons. He loves biking and competing in adventure races.

https://sawcyclewoodworks.com

Kalyani Poluri is an East Indian. She loves the fusion of different techniques to make unique and brightly colored art on watercolor paper, jewelry that has origins from Hindu mythology and Indian Culture. She calls her art business Art InFusions. You can see and purchase her latest art and prints at her Facebook page below.

http://www.facebook.com/artinfusions.kalyani

Artist Guest of Honor Mark Poole is a world wide award winning and displaying artist, working primarily in oils. Mark made a career in the illustration industry for over 25 years. Currently, Mark is concentrating on his personal visions of imaginative realism. His oil paintings cross subtle landscapes of dreams with emotional journey.

MarkPoole.com

Master Stained Glass Artisan Leia Powell has been creating glass masterpieces, breaking down barriers, and rejuvenating the old world artistry for over 25 years. The first stained glass artist to be nominated for the coveted Chesley Award, Leia is also the first glass artist in history to be the sole maker of an author’s trademarked characters: Edgar Rice Burroughs.

Her three-dimensional figures and exceptionally intricate stained glass windows have won her multiple art show awards at ChattaCon, LibertyCon, and JordanCon. Her fused glass jewelry is a testament to how glorious melting glass at 1200 degrees can be.

Leia keeps apprentices and interns on staff at her studio Wildcat Mountain Artistry in Florence, Alabama, and is determined to teach everyone she can to ensure the flame of stained glass creativity keeps burning.

http://www.facebook.com/wildcatmtnartistry

Hello! My name is Amber Raden (she/her) and I am a multidisciplinary storyteller based out of Bloomington, MN working in a mix of traditional and digital mediums. I earned my Bachelor of Arts degrees in English and Art from the University of Minnesota in 2012 and I currently split my time between corporate work as an employee communications specialist with a focus on events and diversity, equity, and inclusion engagement, and my own work as an artist, writer, and freelance designer. My current preferred tools are Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, my trusty Wacom tablet, charcoal, acrylic paints, and the almighty pen.

When I’m not creating stories in my professional life, I am Co-Chair for CONsole Room, Minnesota’s local Doctor Who convention, cosplayer, beginner gardener, and host to a serious travel bug that I couldn’t shake even if I wanted to. A special shout out to my husband who has been with me every step of these crazy adventures and to my three adorable fur balls who think that art is never complete without a helpful paw. (What can I say, they’re too cute to say no.)

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Rachel Rieckenberg grew up in a tiny country town in Southern Illinois surrounded by her families misfit farm and huge backyard forest. It was there her imagination and love of fairy tales blossomed.

Rachel is a Traditional Mixed Media Artist focusing on Pyrography, Watercolor, Oils, and Pencil. Her work explores the worlds of Myth and Magic that she has dreamed up since she was a child.

Rachel is an award winning artist spanning DragonCon, ChattaCon, and local Art Galleries. Her work can be seen at Conventions and online at www.RachelRieckenberg.com. When she’s not in the studio in Georgia, you can find her exploring the outdoors for inspiration with her husband Kevin and her sweet puppy Devi.

http://www.rachelrieckenberg.com

Reyna Rochin is a Fantasy Illustrator based out of Atlanta, Georgia. She was born and raised in Los Angeles, but moved to Atlanta to pursue higher education in Illustration. Since then she has been working in the video game industry as a UI Artist and Illustrator. By night she is a freelance illustrator creating cover and interior work for fantasy and romance novels. In her spare time she enjoys trying new coffee and doughnut shops, playing volleyball and lifting weights, and reading all the fantasy and romance novels she can get her hands on.

http://reynarochin.com

M.M. Schill specializes in traditional Japanese, portrait, and landscape painting. Outside of art, she serves as associated editor for PseudoPod; an award winning, short-fiction horror podcast.

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Nick has been using woodworking and pyrography to escape the stress and boredom of his day job for over a decade. He has made award-winning props for himself and others, but without conventions in 2020, he began to branch out into display pieces. His work this year includes pyrography, layered 3d artwork, and handcrafted wood carvings.

Linda Taglieri is an Australian writer and textile artist based in Sydney who has written extensively on the Wheel of Time fantasy series on her blog The Thirteenth Depository. Her textile art has strong elements of fantasy and symbolism and is worked in traditional embroidery techniques in unconventional combinations. Occasionally, she combines story and embroidery into one work. Since 2010 she has been working on a series of miniature Wheel of Time costumes for 16-17” dolls in her “spare time”. This year she will be joined at JordanCon by Elayne.

http://13depository.blogspot.com/

k.r.wesel is an artist specializing in pen and ink drawings. She creates pieces with painfully tiny details, often incorporating her unnatural love of symmetry. She loves trying new techniques and tends to dive in head first. She has sold art in private auctions and works on commissioned pieces. She resides in Syracuse, NY with her family.

https://www.facebook.com/k.r.wesel/

Saron Williamson is an Athens-based mental health therapist who also has a passion for creating art. They particularly enjoy creating scientific and botanical illustrations, and also love working in digital art, especially for fan art and character illustration. Saron graduated with their master’s in social work from the University of Georgia in 2021, and began drawing in 2021 to help them cope with the stress of the pandemic.

https://www.instagram.com/sketchesbysaron/ https://www.deviantart.com/sarondipity

Paige L. Christie is author of feminist, intimate epic fantasy The Legacies of Arnan: Draigon Weather (2017), Wing Wind (2018), Long Light (2019), Storm Forge (2021). Her work can also be found in several anthologies, including Galactic Stew, Witches Warriors & Wise Women, A Woman Unbecoming, Passages(Valdemar #14), Boundaries(Valdemar #15), Shenanigans(Valdemar #16), and Anything with Nothing(Valdemar #17).

Originally from in Maine, she currently lives the NC mountains, writing speculative fiction, walking her dog, and being hassled by a herd of cats. Always a nerd, obsessive about hobbies like photography, Ghawazee Dance, and listening to the voices…err…characters in her head, Paige can be found anywhere left of center.

Writing wise, Paige is especially interested in tales that speak to women and open a space where adventure and fantasy are not all about happy endings. When she isn’t writing, she teaches belly dancing, is director of a non-profit, and haunts Con panels. She is a proud, founding member of the Blazing Lioness Writers, a small group of badass women, writing badass books.

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Milton Davis is an award-winning Black Speculative fiction author and owner of MVmedia, LLC, a publishing company specializing in Science Fiction and Fantasy based on African/African Diaspora history, culture, and traditions. Milton is the author of thirty novels and short story collections and editor/coeditor of ten anthologies. His short stories and essays have appeared in several anthologies and magazines, most notably Black Panther: Tales of Wakanda, and Obsidian Literature and Arts in the African Diaspora. Milton was also nominated for the 2017 and 2020 British Science Fiction Association Award for Short Fiction His comic book collaboration with 133art, Changa and the Jade Obelisk, won the 2020 Glyph Comics Award for Best Story. He is a recipient of the 2022 East Coast Black Age of Comics Convention Pioneer Lifetime Achievement Award.

http://www.mvmediaatl.com

Patrick is the author of the award-winning Darkest Storm Series published by Falstaff Books. Other titles include Fate & Flux: A Steampunk Adventure through and Watchers of Astaria series from Distracted Dragon Press. Other publications include Fairy Films: Wee Folk on the Big Screen, a collection of fairy essays from August Night Press.

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An avid gadget user, Patrick is also the Director of Technology Services for Author’s Essentials LLC providing solutions and advice for writing professionals. Patrick writings delve into software, hardware, social media, and all things web-related. The primary focus of Author’s Essentials is how and when to employ technology to enhance your writing process. 

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Patrick resides in Charlotte, NC with his wife and two children. In his spare time, he’s a PC gamer, homebrewer, 3D printer enthusiast, and DIYer. You can usually find him in the Hearthstone Tavern or wandering Azeroth as a Blood Elf Warlock in the evenings.

https://www.patrickdugan.net/

Are you ready to enter other worlds? Come meet fantasy authors Elara Dunn and Hollis Jo McCollum! Elara writes the Magic Locker Series, which is YA Fantasy realism. While Hollis writes romantic dark fantasy series. Hollis is best known for her Raashan Series, which has won two Bookfest Awards.

Collectively, Elara and Hollis are known as Banshee Energy.

Both Elara and Hollis are hardcore creatives who love writing, cosplay, screaming their opinions across the hills, and other forms of artistic expression. They are all in for empowerment of women, as well as anyone else who needs a boost. Together they host the brilliant Banshee Energy Podcast, where they discuss everything from disturbing fairy tales to which mythological creature would win in a fight.

Banshee studies prove that reading indie fantasy vastly improves your health, quality of life, and gives you the ability to travel to other dimensions. Drop by the Banshee Energy booth to buy signed copies of their books, as well as general mischief and mayhem. They are quite friendly in spite of their awkwardness.

Subscribe to the Banshee Energy Podcast https://www.youtube.com/@BansheeEnergy

https://www.bansheeenergyshow.com/

Don’t forget to follow both Elara and Hollis on socials as well!

@themagiclocker

@hollisjomccollum

Barbara V. Evers is the author of THE WATCHERS OF MONIAH epic fantasy trilogy (The Watchers of Moniah, The Watchers in Exile, The Watchers at War) as well as several short stories and essays. From the mysterious Dark Corner of South Carolina, she crafts fantasy stories with strong women matriarchies and unusually gifted and clever animals. A two-time Imadjinn Best Fantasy Novelist, she’s won several other awards for her writing over the years including a Pushcart Prize nomination. Several of those stories can be found in PIECES OF HER, a short story collection.

Barbara is a supporter and advocate for animal conservation and seeks to educate others about endangered species. The giraffes in THE WATCHERS OF MONIAH trilogy are no longer endangered, but giraffes in our world are suffering a silent extinction. As an advocate, Barbara contributes a portion of her royalties to support the work of The Giraffe Conservation Foundation. When she’s not writing, Barbara uses her degrees in Zoology and Communication to conduct training workshops for businesses. Maybe she really can speak to animals!

Any other time, she can be found herding her husband, two grandchildren, and her rescue dog, Roxy (but don’t tell them).

https://www.barbaravevers.com/ https://linktr.ee/barbaravevers

Alexander G. R. Gideon’s writing style can best be described by the phrase “and many people died”. He’s a multi-genre author of Historical Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, Sci-fi, and Horror. As the world’s only Pan Librarian Wizard, he’s an expert on most things, from High Magick and spirit summoning, to eldritch texts, to looking like the Kings, Queens, and other Monarchs you know you are! As an optician, he’s a master at crafting light bending wearable artifacts! No matter what you wish, Gideon has a spell, book, or word for you!  

https://alexandergideon.net/

Venessa Giunta is a writer of weird things, an editrix extraordinaire, and a little bit of a nerd. She is a published author, with non-fiction essays, short stories, and the urban fantasy Soul Cavern Series, and has been a professional editor, both freelance and contract, since 2008. Conventions are a big part of her life, mainly as a guest and organizer. She is the Senior Programming Director for Multiverse and second to the director of the Writers Track at Dragon Con, both in Atlanta, and has been a guest and volunteer at many others. Additionally, Venessa runs a writerly support group called The Writers’ Troupe (formerly The Writing Tribe) on Facebook, Discord, and Twitch.

She’s been called the sort of evil that inspires hugs.

https://sleekbio.com/venessag

Falstaff Books is a digital and print publishing company based in Charlotte, NC dedicated to bringing to life the best in fantasy, science fiction, horror, mystery, and dramatic literature. We love bringing amazing stories to light and giving incredible writers a voice. The battered, ignored, rejected “misfit toys” of fiction are all welcome at Falstaff Books, where we understand that every scar is a story and only with different voices can harmony be created.

Founded in January 2016 by three experienced professionals in the publishing field, self-publisher and small press author John G. Hartness, editor and anthologist Jaym Gates, and author and editor Jay Requard, Falstaff quickly became known for its activism and support of writers, readers, and the greater creative community publishing three anthologies, including the WeAreNotThis – Carolina Writers for Equality, and a number of wide-ranging genre novels in its first year.

Since 2017, the publisher continued to grow, releasing over 40 stories annually in a variety of formats including electronic, trade paperback, and audio. In February 2018, Falstaff added a romance line: Falstaff Crush. In October 2022, Falstaff added a horror line: Falstaff Dread.

https://falstaffbooks.com/

Aleksandra (Ola) Hill is a Polish-Canadian writer of speculative fiction across all subgenres; her short fiction has been published or is forthcoming in Analog Magazine, LeVar Burton Reads, Writer’s Digest, and others. She’s also the founder and publisher of the Hugo-nominated and IGNYTE-winning khōréō magazine, which publishes speculative fiction by immigrant and diaspora writers. She earned an MFA in fiction and nonfiction writing from The New School, is an alumna of the Odyssey Writing Workshop, and (in her past life) earned a PhD in computational biology from Columbia University. She lives in NYC with her mischevious puppy Virgil, her spouse, and far too many books.

Www.aleksandrahill.com

Frog Jones has been an author for ten years and an editor for five. He and his wife have co-authored the critically acclaimed Gift of Grace series, and together they run Impulsive Walrus Books. He is a talented short-story artist, with countless published shorts in a large variety of forums, including Baen Books’ Straight Outta Deadwood. He is the editor of the underground smash hit Well, It’s Your Cow as well as Cthulhu FhCon! and Socially Distant: The Quarantales.

Darin Kennedy, born and raised in Winston-Salem, NC, is a graduate of Wake Forest University and Bowman Gray School of Medicine. After completing family medicine residency in the mountains of Virginia, he served eight years as a United States Army physician and wrote his first novel in the sands of northern Iraq.

His works include the Fugue & Fable trilogy: The Mussorgsky Riddle, The Stravinsky Intrigue, and The Tchaikovsky Finale; his contemporary fantasy trilogy, The Pawn Stratagem: Pawn’s Gambit, Queen’s Peril, and King’s Crisis; his ongoing contemporary fantasy series, Songs of the Ascendant, including Shadows of the Night, All Fired Up, and You Better Run; and his YA novel, Carol. His short stories can be found in numerous anthologies and magazines.

Doctor-by-day and novelist-by-night, he writes and practices medicine in Charlotte, NC.

Find him online at darinkennedy.com.

Kyoko M is a USA Today bestselling author and a fangirl. She is the author of The Black Parade urban fantasy series and the Of Cinder and Bone science-fiction series. The Black Parade has been reviewed by Publishers Weekly and New York Times bestselling author Ilona Andrews. Of Cinder and Bone placed in the Top 30 Books in Hugh Howey’s 2021 Self Published Science Fiction Contest. Kyoko M has appeared as a guest and panelist at such conventions as Geek Girl Con, DragonCon, Blacktasticon, Momocon, JordanCon, ConCarolinas, and MultiverseCon. She is also a contributor to Marvel Comics’ Black Panther: Tales of Wakanda (2021) anthology as well as the Captain America: The Shield of Sam Wilson (2024) anthology.

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Ben grew up in Dahlonega, the biggest small town in the North Georgia mountains. He spent his childhood appreciating nature and, as he grew older, benefited from a wide variety of unusual and exciting experiences. Ben traveled internationally, including Europe and India. He participated in, and won, a martial arts competition, was hit by a ricocheting bullet, and was in a high-speed car chase. He also received a late-night phone call from the secret service, who he hung up on.

Ben appreciates fantasy and sci-fi in all forms, with a particular fondness for shifters. He excels at creative, outside the box thinking combined with a drive toward realism that gives his work a unique feel. He is the author of the award-winning urban fantasy trilogy, The Keeper Chronicles.

http://www.authorbenmeeks.com

Marshall J. Moore is the author of the cozy fantasy novel Son of a Sailor: A Cozy Pirate Tale, the high fantasy trilogy The Rites of Resurrection, and over thirty published short stories. His story “Red Lanterns” won Second Place in the 2022 Baen Fantasy Adventure Award Short Story Contest. An active member of SFWA, he can be found on TikTok at @marshalljmooreauthor, where he gives writing advice, discusses recent reads, and does book scavenger hunts in local bookstores.

www.marshalljmoore.com

TikTok and Instagram @marshalljmooreauthor

Rey Nichols, a native of the Midwest, is the love child of an Eldritch horror with more apostrophes than letters in its name and the front person of a forgotten 80’s rock band she can’t quite remember the name of. Only two degrees away from Kevin Bacon, when Rey is not busy trying to evade capture from monster hunters, she spends her time writing urban fantasy and paranormal suspense.

Website: https://www.reynichols.com

Facebook: reynicholswriter

Instagram: @reynicholswriter

The Legion Publishers is owned and operated by Authors and Experts within the LitRPG and Gamelit Genres. We formed The Legion Publishers to provide a range of resources to authors, a place where they can receive top professional services from industry experts, advocacy, and trusted advice.

A partnership with The Legion Publishers means that you will always receive fair compensation, upfront and open communication, and the highest quality services the industry has to offer. Our ethos is to deliver value for our authors. You focus on writing, and we’ll focus on building your platform and profile to entirely new heights.

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Our Mission is to provide an avenue and safe place for LGBTQIA+ authors to share their artistic talents through fiction or non-fiction writings with the world. Our non-fiction side works to help preserve our LGBTQIA+ history in a world where books are constantly being banned. Our fiction side of the company provides entertaining tales for all ages featuring LGBTQIA+ characters or written by LGBTQIA+ authors.

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Artist, Autism Advocate, and Writer’s Digest award-winning fantasy author Ellie Raine is a voracious BookWyrm when it comes to epic adventures, detailed world-building, and thrilling battles. Fueled by coffee-bean concoctions brewed by the finest caffeine alchemists in the kingdom of Atlanta, Georgia, she only emerges from the depths of these daring tales when she is summoned back to the physical realm to spend time with her brood.

Her high fantasy series, the NecroSeam Chronicles, has won several awards including First Place in Fantasy for Writer’s Digest, a Silver Medal for Readers’ Favorite International Book Awards, and additional awards from Readers’ Favorite and the Book Excellence Awards. Her other works include the paranormal noir titled Nightingale: The Grudges of Gods, the short story titled Ravensong featured in the Jordan Con 2023 Anthology, and a children’s illustration book titled Ballad of the Ice Fairy.

​She is a lover of ravens and a dreamer of dragons, but above all else, she is a scribe to the stories that guide her.

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Sarah J. Sover is the author of fantasy crossover novels, short stories, and nonfiction articles. Sarah writes the Urban Fantasy Fractured Fae Series (Fairy Godmurder, Faed to Black, and the forthcoming Pixie Dusted) for Falstaff Books. She calls it Jessica Jones with sparkle. Her comedic fantasy Double-Crossing the Bridge, about a group of drunk trolls pulling a perilous heist, originally released in 2019 and was re-released by Falstaff in 2022 with a sequel, Trolled, slated for 2024/2025. Her short fiction has appeared in anthologies, and she’s written articles for Writer’s Digest Magazine, WritersDigest.com, and for Dan Koboldt’s Putting the Fact in Fantasy. Sarah has a degree in Biology and a background in animal care, which she uses to thoroughly gross out readers. She spends her time raising two little forces of nature with her husband Alex in John’s Creek, Ga. In addition to writing, Sarah enjoys binging all SFF media, blues dancing, painting, and pretending to play guitar. She can frequently be found pillaging Hades or Hyrule while sipping on a good IPA and pinned beneath her rescue pup Gandalf the Grey.

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Founded by prolific narrator and producer, Jeff Hays, Soundbooth Theater is a full-service audio production company that specializes in multicast audiobooks and Cinematic Audio, which are enhanced with sound effects and music.

Mel Todd has over 44 titles out, her urban science fiction Kaylid Chronicles, the Blood War series, and the Twisted Luck series. Owner of Bad Ash Publishing she is working to create a place for excellent stories and great authors. With over a two million words published, she is aiming for another million in the next two years. Bad Ash Publishing specializes in stories that will grab you and make you hunger for more. With one co-author, and more books in the works, her stories can be found on Amazon and other retailers.

You can follow her on Facebook at – https://www.facebook.com/badashbooks/ You can also sign up for her newsletter and follow her blog at https://www.badashpublishing.com