Authors of Mind Candy
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Caroline Sciriha:
lives in Malta, where she works as a Head of Department of English in a Secondary School. She writes fiction—especially fantasy—whenever her day job allows. Her short stories have appeared in anthologies and magazines, including Childhood Regained; Memories of the Past: 2016 Anthology and New Myths.
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Benjamin C. Kinney:
is a neuroscientist, SFF writer, and the assistant editor of Escape Pod. He's originally from New England but now lives in St. Louis with two cats and a spacefaring wife. He no longer creates cyborg monkeys, after too many nights delivering them Prozac. Find him online at http://benjaminckinney.com or follow him on Twitter @BenCKinney.
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Laurence Raphael Brothers:
is a writer and technologist with a background in AI. He has worked in R&D at such firms as Bell Communications Research and Google, and he has five patents along with numerous industry publications. For more of his science fiction and fantasy stories, check out https://laurencebrothers.com/bibliography.
Patrick S. Baker:
is a U.S. Army Veteran, currently a Department of Defense employee. His fiction has appeared in Broadsword and Blasters Magazine, Mythic Magazine as well as the After Avalon, Uncommon Minds and King of Ages anthologies. In his spare time he reads, works out, plays war-games, and enjoys life with his wife and dog.
Gretchen Tessmer:
is an attorney/writer based in the US/Canadian borderlands of Northern New York. Her work has appeared recently in Nature: Futures, Abyss & Apex and Andromeda Spaceways Magazine. Every winter/spring, she pays way too much attention to hockey rankings in the Eastern Conference.
Ellen Denton:
is a freelance writer living in the Rocky Mountains with her husband and three demonic cats who wreak havoc and hell (the cats, not the husband). Her writing has been published in over a hundred magazines and anthologies. She’s as well had an exciting life working as a circus acrobat, a Navy seal, and an exotic dancer in the crew lounge of the starship Enterprise. She was also the first person to reach the summit of Mount Everest. (Writer’s note: The publication credits are true, but some or all of the other stuff may be fictional.)
Jacqueline Seewald:
Multiple award-winning author, has taught creative, expository and technical writing at Rutgers University as well as high school English. She also worked as both an academic librarian and an educational media specialist. Seventeen of her books of fiction have been published to critical praise including books for adults, teens and children. Her short stories, poems, essays, reviews and articles have appeared in hundreds of diverse publications and numerous anthologies. She’s also an amateur landscape artist and enjoys listening to blue grass music. She loves hearing from readers. Her writer’s blog can be found at: http://jacquelineseewald.blogspot.com
Conor Powers-Smith:
grew up in New Jersey and Ireland. He currently lives in Massachusetts, where he works as a reporter. His stories have appeared in Analog, Daily Science Fiction, Nature, and other magazines, as well as several anthologies.
Allan Dyen-Shapiro:
is a Ph.D. biochemist whose career led him through basic and applied research, computational modeling, patents, and now education. This is his second pro sale (of nine total), and he is nearly finished with his first novel. He lives in Estero, Florida, as well as digitally at allandyenshapiro.com.
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Mike Morgan:
is married with two young children. He has lived in the UK and Japan, and is now based in Iowa. He's done a lot of things over the years, such as emptying rotten melons out of a broken-down truck, selling windows door to door, and distributing circus flyers. He hoped to write and draw comics until he realized no one reads them anymore. These days, he cheers himself up with the thought that he can at least write science fiction stories. He hopes you enjoy them. And if you like sci-fi shows and movies, follow his reviews on Twitter, where he's known as @CultTVMike.
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Richard Flores IV:
lives in the Pacific Nothwest with his family. He has four novels and various short stories in publication. He loves coaches youth hockey, loves watching the San Jose Sharks, and loves going to the movies. He is also a huge Lara Croft fan. You can find out more about Richard by visiting www.floresfactor.com
Ken Poyner:
After years playing a Systems Engineer, Ken has retired to watch his wife of forty years continue to break both Masters and Open world raw powerlifting records. Ken’s two current poetry and short fiction collections are available from Barking Moose Press, Amazon, and Sundial Books in Chincoteague, where Ken and the wife go to escape irreality.
Mike Adamson:
holds a PhD in archaeology from Flinders University of South Australia. After early aspirations in art and writing, Mike secured degrees in marine biology and archaeology. Mike currently lectures in anthropology, is a passionate photographer and hobbyist. Mike has thirty-four placements, sales include Lovecraftiana (three times), Andromeda Spaceways and Compelling Science Fiction, and around a dozen anthologies.
Ray Daley:
was born in Coventry & still lives there. He served 6 yrs in the RAF as a clerk spending most of his time in a Hobbit hole in High Wycombe. He is a published poet & has been writing stories since he was 10. He has previously been published a time travel anthology by Crimson Cloak Publishing called Steps In Time. Ray is now currently appearing in an anthology titled Deserts Of Fire. Ray’s self published titles can be had on Smashwords and Amazon
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Andrea L. Staum:
is the author of the Dragonchild Lore series, The Attic's Secret novella, and has contributed to several anthologies. She's a trained motorcycle technician with an Associates in Supervisory Management, is an amateur home renovator, and somehow manages to find time to write. She lives in south central Wisconsin with her husband and three overlords...err...cats.
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Patrick Hurley:
enjoys running, sushi, and exploring Seattle. There's a troll under a bridge there that he's pretty sure moves when no one is watching. He's had fiction published in Galaxy's Edge, Cosmic Roots & Eldritch Shores, Flame Tree Publishing's Murder Mayhem anthology, Abyss & Apex, and The Drabblecast.
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Olivia Berrier:
is often clueless and always shoeless. She enjoys hiking, origami, and snail mail. She owns too many candles (but that doesn’t stop her from buying more!) She is the author of A Book Without Dragons, a SciFi novel for readers willing to break a few rules. www.OliviaBerrier.com
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R.Y. Brockway:
writes short stories with the intent to entertain and thrill her readers. A lover of both the mundane and the macabre, she explores aspects of both in her writing. She lives with her husband in Virginia. You can find more of her work in the best of Fiction Vortex, the best of Acidic Fiction, and in Stupefying Stories and Mirror Dance.
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M.K. Hutchins:
regularly draws on her background in archaeology when writing fiction. Her YA fantasy novel Drift was both a Junior Library Guild Selection and a VOYA Top Shelf Honoree. Her short fiction appears in Podcastle, Strange Horizons, IGMS, and elsewhere. A long-time Idahoan, she now lives in Utah with her husband and four children. Find her at www.mkhutchins.com.
Authors of Mind Candy Too
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Bruce Aurthurs:
When you spend nearly your entire life reading science fiction and fantasy -- the first book I remember reading, at age 6, was Space Cat by Ruthven Todd -- you almost inevitably take a whack at writing the stuff yourself, and sometimes go on to submit work to professional markets. I’ve been doing that, intermittently, since 1974, and have about fifteen short stories published in scattered venues over scattered years, plus edited two anthologies and even wrote an episode (“Clues”, Season 4, 1991) of Star Trek: The Next Generation.
In late 2012, after a long hiatus, I began writing fiction again while recovering from a badly broken arm. Not a motivational technique I recommend, though it seems to have worked in my case; I’ve continued to write even after returning to work. “War Party” is the third story from those new efforts to see publication. I live in Arizona with my wife Hilde, several housemates, five cats, and a blur that might be a kitten.
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Jez Patterson:
is a British teacher and writer currently alternating between the UK and Madrid. He has lived and taught in South America, Europe and one memorable week in Tanzania. His short stories have appeared in a variety of online and print publications and have been collected into various themed anthologies. Links to lots of things with his name at the end can be found at:
https://jezpatterson.wordpress.com/
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Dawn Daniels:
is a book editor, long-distance hiker, and avid adventurer. She’s edited over forty published books, and her own writing has previously been published by Open Field Magazine and Winning Writers, where she was an honorable mention in the Wergle Flomp international humor poetry competition. She has a B.A. in English and Creative Writing from Cornell College and can usually be found wandering around the woods, partially for fun and partially because she’s very bad at reading maps. She can be reached via e-mail at daniels.dawn14@gmail.com or on Instagram at @AdventuresWithDawn.
D. Avraham:
writes fiction and poetry, from children stories and adult humor; from spy thrillers to science fiction and fantasy. He is the author of Blight Crossing (Shirtsleeve Press, 2017), and The Shepherd King Chronicles: Foundation Stone (Beith David Publishing, 2010) D.'s stories have appeared in Silver Blade, AntipodeanSF, Nebula Rift, New Realm, and Heater among others. He currently lives with his family in the Hebron Hills of Israel, where, aside from writing, he teaches at the Jerusalem College of Technology, raises sheep and chickens, home schools his own kids, and tries to stay out of trouble. Sometimes he's successful.
You can visit D. Avraham at his blog at davraham.com, on Facebook (Author.D.Avraham) or on Twitter (davraham818).
Elizabeth Hosang:
is a computer engineer by day and author by night. Her short stories in the genres of mystery, science fiction and fantasy have appeared in over a dozen anthologies, including all three editions of The Whole She-Bang, published by Toronto Sisters in Crime. One of her two contributions to The Whole She-Bang 3 was a finalist for the 2017 Arthur Ellis award for Crime Writing. She has been published in The Killer Wore Cranberry 3 and Moon Shot: Murder and Mayhem on the Edge of Space for Untreed Reads, as well as contributing a story to Alice Unbound: Beyond Wonderland for Exile Editions. Her complete list of works can be found via her Facebook Author page, @eahosang.
Kelly Sandoval's:
fiction has appeared in Strange Horizons, Uncanny, and Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy. She lives in Seattle, where the weather is always happy to make staying in and writing seem like a good idea. Her family includes a patient husband and daughter, an anarchist tortoise, and a put-upon cat. You can find her online at kellysandovalfiction.com.
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Jennifer Garrett:
has been writing in one form or another since she was a teenager. She currently writes from the sunny beaches of Jacksonville, Florida where she lives with her family, but loves the mountains of Virginia where she was born. Her writings include YA fantasy as well as poetry and short stories. Since completing Remeon’s Destiny, the first novel in her young adult fantasy series, Realms of Chaos, she has been hard at work on the sequel. When she’s not hanging out with her characters, her favorite activities are reading, running and spending time with family. For more of her work visit her publisher at http://www.bhcpress.com/Author_JW_Garrett.html, or her website to sign up for her newsletter https://www.jwgarrett.com.
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Jim Gotaas:
started reading and writing science fiction as a teenager. He managed to sell a novelette way back in the last millennium to If Science Fiction. He then took a little time off to explore life as a draftee in the US Army, followed by PhD study and subsequent research and teaching in Physics. That short break unexpectedly lasted until he retired. Now devoting more time to attracting the elusive muse, he has so far failed to discover that special, magical lure that will keep her hanging around. Nonetheless, he’s managed to sell stories to Daily Science Fiction and Pulphouse Magazine (one appeared in Issue 2, with two more in the pipeline). Though Jim started off as an ordinary American, he currently lives in England with his beloved wife, who coincidentally is English.
Ken Altabef:
As readers may surmise from this story, Ken Altabef is a retired obstetrician and biologist. His short fiction has appeared professionally in Fantasy & Science Fiction, Interzone, Daily Science Fiction, Intergalactic Medicine Show, and others. He is the author of eight published novels including the epic arctic fantasy ALAANA'S WAY. You can preview these novels and other work at his website: www.KenAltabef.com
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Soren James:
is a writer, poet and visual artist currently living in London. An intensely private person, little is known of this Soren character except that he recreates himself on a daily basis from the materials at his disposal, continuing to do so in an upbeat manner until one day he will sumptuously throw his drained materials aside and resume stillness without asking why. He has been published in: Strange Horizons, Grievous Angel, Cafe Irreal, The Future Fire, Freeze Frame Fiction, Every Day Fiction, and many others. More of his work can be seen here: https://sorenjames.wordpress.com
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Edmund Schluessel:
grew up reading his father's collection of Golden Age SF in a basement in Connecticut in the United States, and fell in love with short stories through reading anthologies much like this one. In 2011 he completed a PhD in the theory of gravitational waves & cosmology at Cardiff University, where he worked alongside the team that later made the first detection of gravitational waves. He was born in France and has lived in Wales and the Netherlands, and upon relocating to Finland he became involved in the Nordic science fiction fan scene and began writing science fiction in earnest. He also makes frequent appearances giving science & mathematics popularization talks at conventions across Europe. He is an avid let-wing activist and organized Finland's biggest demonstration against Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin. By day he teaches mathematics. "Choice is an Axiom" is his first professional sale as a fiction writer and was inspired by a course he took in axiomatic set theory as an undergraduate. He blogs at www.space-curves.org and can be found on Facebook at www.facebook.com/spacecurves.
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Eva Burkowski:
grew up in England, and as a child played on the Lickey Hills, in the woods that inspired Lothlòrien. This may have something to do with her fondness for fantasy literature. She studied at Oxford, first Classics, then Fine Art; and then she fell in love with a Canadian philosopher. A shared Slavic heritage clinched it. Forty years and two children further on (after she spent a happy quarter-century teaching high-school English and writing novels and stories just for fun on the north shore of Lake Superior), Eva and her husband are retired. They enjoy study, travel, wine, theatre, film, and Gordon’s massive book collection. Eva is actively involved in community theatre, and she directs Shakespeare plays whenever they let her—ten and counting. She still makes time to write—and, of course, to read from paper pages.
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Greg Beatty:
writes poetry, short stories, children’s books, and a range of nonfiction. He’s published hundreds of works—everything from poems about stars to essays on cooking disasters. His work has won a number of awards and contests, including the 2005 Rhysling Award for speculative poetry. When he’s not writing, he walks with his dog, dabbles in the martial arts, plays with his grandchildren, and teaches college classes online. For more information on Greg's writing, visit http://www.greg-beatty.com
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is a digital archivist and content writer with a Master’s degree in Professional Writing and Publishing. Her work has been published in magazines and podcasts such as Escape Pod, Bewildering Stories, and Wild Musette, as well as several anthologies, including, Gothic Fantasy: Agents & Spies and Mirrors & Thorns. Currently, she writes about the craft of world-building in her blog, Woman in the Red Room.
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Jade Black:
is an American author whose career in law enforcement is used to fund a profound penchant for all things macabre. She has a dual bachelors degree in criminal justice and anthropology. Prior to beginning her law enforcement career she worked as an archaeologist.
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Wendy Nikel:
is a speculative fiction author with a degree in elementary education, a fondness for road trips, and a terrible habit of forgetting where she's left her cup of tea. Her short fiction has been published in Deep Magic, Daily Science Fiction, Nature: Futures, and is forthcoming from Analog. Her time travel novella series, beginning with The Continuum, was published by World Weaver Press in 2018. For more info, visit wendynikel.com
Sarina Dorie:
has sold over 150 short stories to markets like Analog, Daily Science Fiction, Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Orson Scott Card’s IGMS, Cosmos, and Abyss and Apex. Her stories and published novels have won humor contests and Romance Writer of America awards. She has sold three novels to publishers. Her steampunk romance series, The Memory Thief and her collections, Fairies, Robots and Unicorns—Oh My! and Ghosts, Werewolves and Zombies—Oh My! are available on Amazon, along with a dozen other novels she has written. Recently she has released a series titled Womby’s School for Wayward Witches. A few of her favorite things include: gluten-free brownies (not necessarily glutton-free), Star Trek, steampunk aesthetics, fairies, Severus Snape, Captain Jack Sparrow and Mr. Darcy. By day, Sarina is a public school art teacher, artist, belly dance performer and instructor, copy editor, fashion designer, event organizer and probably a few other things. By night, she writes. As you might imagine, this leaves little time for sleep. You can find info about her short stories and novels on her website: www.sarinadorie.com
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Scott Huggins:
grew up in the American Midwest and has lived there all his life, except for interludes in the European Midwest (Germany) and the Asian Midwest (Russia). He is currently responsible for securing America’s future by teaching its past to high school students, many of whom learn things before going to college. His preferred method of teaching and examination is strategic warfare. He loves to read high fantasy, space opera, and parodies of the same. He wants to be a hybrid of G.K. Chesterton and Terry Pratchett when he counteracts the effects of having grown up. When he is not teaching or writing, he devotes himself to his wife, their three children, and cats. He loves bourbon, bacon, and pie, and will gladly put his writing talents to use reviewing samples of any recipe featuring one or more of them. You can read his ramblings and rants (with bibliography) at The Logoccentric Orbit and you can follow him on Facebook.
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Jamie Gilman Kress:
writes stories across the whole spectrum of fantasy and science fiction, sometimes with brief forays into horror. Her work has been chosen for Daily Science Fiction, IGMS, and UFO 7. She plans to continue adding to that list. When not lost in worlds of her own making Jamie lives in Upstate NY where she enjoys tabletop role-playing games, reading, and converting her backyard into a suburban wildlife preserve. So far she's spotted birds, bunnies, and one very bold groundhog. She can also be found spending time with her husband and her dog. Not always in that order. If you want to keep up to date on Jamie's publications, her website is www.jamiegilmankress.com or you can find her procrastinating and commenting on the pets of other writers on Twitter at @JamieGKress.
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