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ABOUT THE EDITORS & AUTHORS

John Ringo brings fighting to life. He is the creator of the Posleen Wars series, which has become a New York Times best-selling series with over one million copies in print. The series contains A Hymn Before Battle, Gust Front, When the Devil Dances, Hell’s Faire, and Eye of the Storm. In addition, Ringo has penned the Council War series. Adding another dimension to his skills, Ringo created nationally best-selling techno-thriller novels about Mike Harmon (Ghost, Kildar, Choosers of the Slain, Unto the Breach, A Deeper Blue, and, with Ryan Sear, Tiger by the Tail).

His techno-thriller The Last Centurion was also a national bestseller. A more playful twist on the future is found in novels of the Looking-Glass series: Into the Looking Glass, Vorpal Blade, Manxome Foe, and Claws That Catch, the last three in collaboration with Travis S. Taylor. His audience was further enhanced with four collaborations with fellow New York Times best-selling author David Weber: March Upcountry, March to the Sea, March to the Stars and We Few.

There are an additional seven collaborations from the Posleen series: The Hero, written with Michael Z. Williamson, Watch on the Rhine, Yellow Eyes, and The Tuloriad, all written with Tom Kratman, and the New York Times bestseller Cally’s War and its sequels Sister Time and Honor of the Clan, all with Julie Cochrane. His science-based zombie apocalypse Black Tide Rising series includes Under a Graveyard Sky, To Sail a Darkling Sea, Islands of Rage and Hope, and Strands of Sorrow. A veteran of the 82nd Airborne, Ringo brings first-hand knowledge of military operations to his fiction.

Gary Poole has worked in the entertainment and publishing industry for his entire adult life. He’s worked directly with John Ringo and several other authors on over a dozen novels and anthologies. He is also a film and television screenwriter, the managing editor of a successful alternative newsweekly in Tennessee, hosts a popular morning radio show, and has voiced well over three thousand radio and television commercials.

Kevin J. Anderson has published more than 170 books, 57 of which have been national or international bestsellers. He has written numerous novels in the Star Wars, X-Files, and Dune universes, as well as unique steampunk fantasy novels Clockwork Angels and Clockwork Lives, written with legendary rock drummer Neil Peart, based on the concept album by the band Rush. His original works include the Saga of Seven Suns series, the Terra Incognita fantasy trilogy, and his humorous horror series featuring Dan Shamble, Zombie P.I. He has edited numerous anthologies, written comics and games, and the lyrics to two rock CDs. Anderson and his wife Rebecca Moesta are the publishers of WordFire Press. His most recent novels are Vengewar, The Duke of Caladan, and Stake.

Rebecca Moesta (pronounced MESS-tuh) is the bestselling author of forty books, both solo and in collaboration with her husband, Kevin J. Anderson. Her solo work includes A Christmas to Remember (based on the Hallmark TV movie by the same name), Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Junior Jedi Knights novels, short stories, articles, ghost writing, and editing anthologies. With Kevin, she wrote the Crystal Doors trilogy, the Young Jedi Knights series, movie and game novelizations, lyrics for rock CDs, graphic novels, pop-up books, and writing books, such as Writing as a Team Sport.

Brendan DuBois is the author of the Lewis Cole mysteries and numerous short stories, which have earned him a Shamus Award and three Edgar Award nominations. Around one hundred of his stories have been published in anthologies and magazines. He is best known for his alternate history novel Resurrection Day, which won the Sidewise Award for Alternate History. In 2010, the readers of Deadly Pleasures and Mystery News awarded him the Barry Award, for Best Mystery Short Story of the Year, for his story “The High House Writer,” which was published in the July/August 2009 issue of Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine. DuBois is a former newspaper reporter and a lifelong resident of New Hampshire, where he lives with his wife and pets.

A 2019 Dragon Award finalist, Jason Cordova is a kaiju enthusiast. A former high school basketball coach, he has authored over 15 novels and been in dozens of anthologies. He currently lives in Virginia. You can find him at www.jasoncordova.com.


Lydia Sherrer writes the ongoing best-selling urban fantasy series, Love, Lies, and Hocus Pocus—The Lily Singer Adventures, a magical epic full of snark, tea, and a talking cat. In addition to her urban fantasy series, Lydia Sherrer has written the epic fantasy When the Gods Laughed, which was included in the USA Today Best-selling box set “Wrath and Ruin.” Her latest project is a gaming adventure sci-fi collaboration with John Ringo involving monster hunting in augmented reality, with an expected release in 2022. Lydia Sherrer lives in Louisville, Kentucky, with her spouse, adorable spawn, and feline overlords. She subsists on tea and chocolate and hates sleep because it keeps her from writing.

Michael Z. Williamson is retired military, having served twenty-five years in the U.S. Army and the U.S. Air Force. He was deployed for Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Desert Fox. Williamson is a state-ranked competitive shooter in combat rifle and combat pistol. He has consulted on military matters, weapons, and disaster preparedness for Discovery Channel and Outdoor Channel productions and is Editor-at-Large for Survivalblog, with 300K weekly readers. In addition to these activities, Williamson tests and reviews firearms and gear for manufacturers. Williamson’s books set in his Freehold Universe include Freehold, Better to Beg Forgiveness, and Do Unto Others. His novel The Hero with John Ringo has reached modern classic status. Williamson was born in England, raised in Liverpool and Toronto, Canada, and now resides in Indianapolis with his wife and children.

A veteran of more than twenty years in the civilian space program, as well as various military space defense programs, Stephanie Osborn worked on numerous space shuttle flights and the International Space Station, and counts the training of astronauts on her résumé. Her space experience also includes Spacelab and ISS operations, variable star astrophysics, Martian aeolian geophysics, radiation physics, and nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons effects. She has authored, coauthored, or contributed to some 50 books, including the celebrated science-fiction mystery, Burnout: The Mystery of Space Shuttle STS-281.

Jody Lynn Nye lists her main career activity as “spoiling cats.” When not engaged upon this worthy occupation, she writes fantasy and science fiction books and short stories. Since 1987 she has published over 50 books and more than 170 short stories. She specializes in science fiction and fantasy stories that blend action and humor. She’s also one of the most successful collaborators in the business, with about a third of her novels either collaborations or sequels to others’ works. She collaborated with Robert Asprin on the MythAdventures series, collaborated with Anne McCaffrey on both the Dragonriders of Pern series and the Doona series, and coauthored the Visual Guide To Xanth with Piers Anthony. Over the last twenty or so years, Jody Lynn Nye has taught numerous writing workshops and participated at science-fiction conventions on hundreds of panels covering the subjects of writing and being published.

Jamie Ibson is from the frozen wastelands of Canuckistan, where bear, northern tundra kaiju, and cobra chickens battle for domination in the wilds between hockey rinks and Tim Hortonses. He is a former infantryman, and retired from law enforcement in early 2021. He has been publishing short stories since 2018 and his first novels came out in 2020. His website can be found at ibsonwrites.ca. He is married to the lovely Michelle, and they have cats.

Brian Trent’s speculative fiction appears regularly in Analog, Fantasy & Science Fiction, The Year’s Best Military and Adventure SF (winning the 2019 Reader’s Poll Award for his story “Crash-Site”), Terraform, Daily Science Fiction, Galaxy’s Edge, Nature, and numerous year’s best anthologies. The author of the science fiction thriller Ten Thousand Thunders, his work has also appeared in a number of Baen Books anthologies including Cosmic Corsairs and Weird World War III. Trent lives in New England. Visit his website at www.briantrent.com.

Kacey Ezell is a USAF helicopter pilot who writes sci-fi/fantasy/alt history. She co-wrote Gunpowder & Embers (Last Judgment’s Fire Book 1) with John Ringo and Christopher L. Smith, was a Dragon Award finalist in 2018 and 2019, and her stories have twice been featured in Baen’s Year’s Best Mil/Adventure SF compilation. In 2018, her story won the Baen Reader’s Choice Award. She has several books published by Baen, Chris Kennedy Publishing, and Blackstone Publishing. Find out more at www.kaceyezell.net.

A native Texan by birth (if not geography), Christopher L. Smith moved “home” as soon as he could. Attending Texas A&M, he learned quickly that there was more to college than beer and football games. He relocated to San Antonio, attending SAC and UTSA, graduating in late 2000 with a BA in Lit. While there, he also met a wonderful lady who somehow found him to be funny, charming, and worth marrying. (She has since changed her mind on the funny and charming.) Christopher began writing fiction in 2012. His short stories can be found in multiple anthologies, including John Ringo and Gary Poole’s Black Tide Rising, Mike Williamson’s Forged In Blood, Larry Correia and Kacey Ezell’s Noir Fatale, and Tom Kratman’s Terra Nova. Christopher has cowritten two novels: Kraken Mare with Jason Cordova, and Gunpowder & Embers with Kacey Ezell and John Ringo. His cats allow his family and their dogs to reside with them outside of San Antonio.

Brent Roeder is a neuroscience Ph.D. candidate (though hopefully by now a full Ph.D.) researching how to restore damaged memory function. A life-long geek, he enjoys world-building and writing sci-fi and fantasy to relax from work. Very occasionally he even remembers to finish a story.

Mike Massa is a longtime contributor to the Black Tide universe. He’s co-written two novels with John Ringo including national bestsellers Valley of Shadows (2018) and River of Night (2019), as well as five short stories. He also writes fantasy, Mil-SF and nonfiction. Currently, Mike works for an award-winning research university, integrating machine learning and artificial intelligence technologies into practical applications for logistics, predictive maintenance, and cyber-defense. Or, you know, Skynet. Whichever comes first.

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