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.

Orson Scott Card is the author of the novels Ender's Game, Ender's Shadow, and Speaker for the Dead, which are widely read by adults and younger readers, and are increasingly used in schools. His most recent series, the young adult Pathfinder series (Pathfinder, Ruins, Visitors) and the fantasy Mithermages series (Lost Gate, Gate Thief, Gatefather) are taking readers in new directions.

Besides these and other science fiction novels, Card writes contemporary fantasy (Magic Street, Enchantment, Lost Boys), biblical novels (Stone Tables, Rachel and Leah), the American frontier fantasy series The Tales of Alvin Maker (beginning with Seventh Son), poetry (An Open Book), and many plays and scripts, including his "freshened" Shakespeare scripts for Romeo & Juliet, The Taming of the Shrew, and The Merchant of Venice.

Card was born in Washington and grew up in California, Arizona, and Utah. He served a mission for the LDS Church in Brazil in the early 1970s. Besides his writing, he teaches occasional classes and workshops and directs plays. He frequently teaches writing and literature courses at Southern Virginia University.

Card currently lives in Greensboro, North Carolina, with his wife, Kristine Allen Card, where his primary activities are writing a review column for the local Rhinoceros Times and feeding birds, squirrels, chipmunks, possums, and raccoons on the patio.

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.

David Farland, aka Dave Wolverton is an award-winning, international best-selling author with over 60 novels in print. Published in over 20 languages. He has won the Phillip K. Dick Memorial Special Award for "Best Novel in the English Language", the Whitney award for "Best Novel of the Year", the Hollywood Book Festival, Grand Prize and several others. He has been a repeat writer for major franchises such as Star Wars and The Mummy. However, He is best known for his New York Times best-selling fantasy series The Runelords, which will soon be made into a graphic novel and, likely, a movie.

"Nightingale has got superb world-building, strong characters, and Farland's characteristic excellent prose. It was a quick read, fast moving, very fun!"

- Brandon Sanderson

"The Runelords is a first-rate tale, an epic fantasy that more than delivers on its promise. Read it soon and treat yourself to an adventure you won't forget."

- Terry Brooks

"When I reached the end of this first volume, The Runelords, and saw grace arise from a devastating battlefield where too many great hearts lay dead, Farland had earned the tears that came to my eyes. It was not sentiment but epiphany."

- Orson Scott Card

As a writing instructor, Farland has mentored dozens who have gone on to staggering literary success, including such #1 New York Times Bestsellers as Brandon Mull (Fablehaven), Brandon Sanderson (Wheel of Time), James Dashner (The Maze Runner) and Stephenie Meyer (Twilight)

Farland judges L. Ron Hubbard's Writers of the Future, perhaps the largest worldwide writing competition for new fantasy and science fiction authors. He has worked in Hollywood greenlighting movies and doctoring scripts. He set the Guinness World Record for the largest single-author, single-book signing.

David Farland has been hailed as "The Wizard of Storytelling" and his work has been called "compelling", "engrossing", "powerful", "profound" and "ultimately life-changing".

"I still use the writing techniques he discussed, and constantly reference him and his instruction when I teach creative writing myself. . . His explanations led me directly to getting an agent, and subsequently, my first book deal."

Brandon Sanderson, #1 Bestselling Author of Way of Kings

"He understands storytelling and writing on a freaky level. All of us feel like we owe a huge debt to him."

James Dashner, #1 Bestselling Author of The Maze Runner

"Aside from being a talented writer, David Farland is an excellent writing teacher. Hearing him teach live and reading his written advice has helped me focus many of my own thoughts about the writing process. Those who would like to learn more about the craft of writing would be wise to pay attention."

Brandon Mull, New York Times Bestselling Author of Fablehaven

Randy Henderson's darkly humorous contemporary fantasy trilogy from TOR (US) and Titan (UK) includes FINN FANCY NECROMANCY, BIGFOOTLOOSE & FINN FANCY FREE, and SMELLS LIKE FINN SPIRIT.

Randy was the Golden Pen Grand Prize winner of Writers of the Future in 2014.

Randy is also a member of the Dungeon Scrawlers D&D liveplay show, and a relapsed sarcasm addict. He lives in Western Washington with writer and audiobook narrator Folly Blaine, too many gnomes, and the requisite two cats. Don’t hesitate to message him, he's happy to chat and be of help where he can. (He/Him)

www.randy-henderson.com

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Amanda Forrest lives with her family in rural western Colorado. Please visit her website (http://www.amandaforrestfiction.com) for more information and a full bibliography.

C Stuart Hardwick is a winner of the prestigious Writers of the Future contest and the Jim Baen Memorial Short Story Award. His work regularly appears in Analog Science Fiction & Fact, as well as Galaxy’s Edge, Forbes.com and Mental Floss, among others. A southerner from South Dakota, Stuart grew up creating radio dramas and animated shorts before moving on to robots and ill-conceived flying machines. He’s worked with the creators of the video game Doom, married an aquanaut, and trained his dog to pull a sled.

Stuart studied writing at U.C. Berkeley, lives in Houston, and has been known to wear a cape. For more information and a free signed e-sampler, visit www.cStuartHardwick.com.

Winner of awards in both fiction and screenwriting, Terry has written historical and mainstream fiction, but her first love is speculative fiction. With Middle Earth and Earthsea as early inspirations, the Celtic shadow world known as the Five Quarters takes root in her series "Three Wells of the Sea."

Terry has worked in molecular biology and genetic research labs and currently teaches high school chemistry and astronomy. She enjoys sharing the night sky with young people and is as fascinated by ancient history and mythology as she is by terraforming and space exploration. A mash-up of these is a goal she has set for a future project.

If you enjoy gritty fantasy or metaphysical science fiction, check out her website at http://www.TerryMaddenWrites.com/

Megan E. O'Keefe was raised amongst journalists, and as soon as she was able joined them by crafting a newsletter which chronicled the daily adventures of the local cat population. She has worked in both arts management and graphic design, and spends her free time tinkering with anything she can get her hands on.

Her website is: http://www.meganokeefe.com

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Tim Jordan grew up in Essex, England, surrounded by a loving family where science and fantasy were always part of their evenings and games. His passion for fantasy and fossils led to an early love of Tolkien and a childhood spent with his head stuck firmly in the clouds, inventing stories and fantastical worlds.

Physically, Tim is now an adult living in Florida with his wonderful wife, but he remains an avid science fiction fan and futurologist who explores transhumanism through the lens of science and fantasy. When not working or writing, Tim enjoys playing the guitar, building robots and creating artificially intelligent computer programs.

His debut novel, Glow, is the result of what happens when you toss a deep love of dogs and a fascination with robots into the blender of an overactive imagination.

Leena Likitalo hails from Finland, the land of endless summer days and long, dark winter nights. She lives with her husband on an island at the outskirts of Helsinki, the capital. But regardless of her remote location, stories find their way to her and demand to be told.

While growing up, Leena struggled to learn foreign languages. At sixteen, her father urged her to start reading in English, and thus she spent the next summer wading through his collection of fantasy and science fiction novels. She has fond memories of her "teachers": J.R.R. Tolkien, Robert Jordan, Roger Zelazny, and Vernor Vinge.

Leena breaks computer games for a living. When she's not working, she writes obsessively. And when she's not writing, she can be found at the stables riding horses and playing polocrosse.

You can visit her online at www.leenalikitalo.com.

Hailing from the parched wheat-belt of country Western Australia, Shauna O’Meara’s childhood was spent roaming rugged, hilly paddocks and the seasonal river below her home with her dogs, concocting wild fugitive stories along the way. This love of nature and story-telling persisted well past her childhood and, despite a busy career as a practicing veterinarian, Shauna has continued to dedicate much of her time to writing and artwork and trekking through the beautiful Australian wilderness.

Shauna placed second in the third quarter of the Writers of the Future Contest with a short story that can be found in Volume 30 of Writers and Illustrators of the Future. Shauna recently completed the artwork for a short comic commissioned by Midnight Echo magazine (due out 2014-2015) and has contributed the cover and interior artwork to several Australian speculative fiction anthologies.

She has just completed her first novel – a science-fiction crime novel set in a post-global-warming America – and has a head full of tales just waiting to be committed to print.

You can visit Shauna online at:

http://theshaunacorner.wordpress.com/

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Paul Eckheart first thought about a career in writing after placing as a finalist in the Utah Young Playwrights contest. Until then he had considered a life on the stage, but after attending the Sundance Playwrights Laboratory and meeting the playwrights there, he knew writing was what he wanted to do.

Over the years Paul's interests have changed a bit--he's now more focused on fantasy and science fiction--but he continues to write whatever happens to catch his fancy, be it speculative fiction, mysteries, crime fiction, or stage plays.

In 2013 Paul was a winner of the Writers of the Future contest with his short story, Shifter, which will be published in volume 30 of the yearly anthology.

Visit him online at http://www.pauleckheart.com

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Kristie Kim was born in Seoul, South Korea.

Her first public exhibit was at the U.S. Capitol Cannon Pedestrian Tunnel from May 2010 to May 2011 after her tempera painting, "The Chase," won first place in the 2010 Congressional Art Show. In 2009, her watercolor painting of magnolias, "Freedom," won the Special Merit Award at the Congressional Art Show, along with Honorable Mentions.

She has won awards, such as: 1st place winner of 2010 Brad Miller Congressional Art Show (Washington DC); Presidential Volunteer Gold Service Award, North Carolina Peacemaker Award 2010, North Carolina State University Visionary Leaders Program Award, Global Perspectives Award, Vice President of The National Society of Collegiate Scholars NC State Chapter (2011-2014), 1st place winner of 2013 L. Ron Hubbard Illustrators of the Future Contest (Hollywood, CA)

Her illustrations can be found online: www.kristiekim.com

Liz has followed her heart through a wide variety of careers including draft-horse farmer, field paramedic, Outward Bound instructor, athletic trainer, and roller-skating waitress, among other curious choices. She also knows more about concrete than you might suspect.

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Her novels written under the name L. D. Colter explore contemporary and dark fantasy, and ones written as L. Deni Colter venture into epic fantasy realms. She has multiple short story publications in magazines and anthologies and was a 2014 Writers of the Future winner and 2020 WSFA Small Press Award finalist. Her debut novel “A Borrowed Hell” was the winner of the 2018 Colorado Book Award for Science Fiction/Fantasy and While Gods Sleep was the 2019 winner. Her website and blog can be found at: http://lizcolter.com/ To receive updates and news of sales, please sign up for her newsletter: https://mailchi.mp/bc969529fd5b/4tnr6lc28f_ldcolter