Charles Strebor is an earthling made of stardust. Charles is an artist, neologist, and photographist who specialises in being a generaliser: there's nothing he won't image. Charles currently lives in Darwin, Australia and you can view his images, words and recipes at http://rantz.me

Photo credit Lady Fran W.

Jacob Dix is a mobile photographer, artist and writer. He is married and the father of two beautiful children. He is from Los Angeles and currently lives in Stockholm. His website, www.mobilography.net, is a journal of his exploration of the art of mobilography, as well as a resource for aspiring photographers.

Adriel Wiggins, who publishes under a variety of pseudonyms, had been writing children's poetry and short stories for over twenty years. She has been a volunteer teacher of English and Literacy in a private school for fourteen years. She earns her living by being a Continuity Editor and Proofreader. Her editing work can be found at: http://mrsawiggins05.wordpress.com

H. David Blalock is an American writer of science fiction, fantasy, and horror. Over the last 35 years his work has appeared as short stories, novellas, novels, articles, commentaries, and reviews in print and on the Internet. His work continues to appear in anthologies and novels from several different publishers.

For more information, visit his website at www.thrankeep.com.

Charles Barouch has written a science fiction novel, Adjacent Fields, about technology in the modern world. He's the author of the Interrogative Series, which includes the novella Tiago and the Masterless. He is also an editor at NovoPulp, at HDWPbooks, at Spectrum Magazine, and at Colliding Scopes.

To see all of his works visit: http://hdwp.com/r/cdb/

Photo Credit: Charles Barouch Teaching by Susan Phillips.

MJ Kobernus is an Anglo/American living in Norway. An expert gamer, archer, guitarist, and motorcycle aficionado, he has traveled widely, loved wildly, and written weirdly on many topics. MJ is currently developing his first major novel, a unique blend of metaphysical fantasy and historical fiction. He is a new voice, with a new perspective, combining philosophical and spiritual elements with fantasy, while exploring the darker side of the human psyche.

You can follow his latest novel development, and more, on his personal blog: http://metaphysicalgeometry.blogspot.no

Chris Capps is an independent author who writes strange fiction, horror, and pulpy terrestrial SciFi.  His big project in 2013 was the independent horror novel 'Our War with Molly Nayfack,' and he split his time between that and the high tech apocalyptic Ebon the Waste series. In 2014 he returned primarily to short fiction.

Look for updates on his blog 'Puppetsonthewall.blogspot.com' where he shares several free works of short fiction. Capps lives in the tiny city of Carbondale in Illinois.

Mmm...how to start...once upon a time this humble awesome dude was born. That would be me in case you missed the reference of awesome.

As he grew older he was introduced to different worlds where gods, heroes and the future abide. One by one his friends (read books here) introduced him to more and more fantastic places and hidden realities. The poor soul was flung back into his own reality every now and then by evil little creatures that abide on pages to rattle the nerves and stop the voice of the story weaver cold. That is until the day that he was allowed to assist others in hunting these vile beings prior to sending the work out to explorers of new worlds.

So that is how I started editing. Currently I am a Test Analyst for a software company and my hobbies are reading and beer drinking preferably together. I enjoy riding my motorcycle as well as role-playing(Runequest) and other past times that my wife says I enjoy. Except riding horses...those things are mean spirited and I refuse to be caught out by one of them again.

Zachery Seibert is most likely a figment of his own imagination. He is the creator of the Vast Land, an original setting assembled from loose bits of cosmology found hiding in his subconsciousness. He lives on coffee and speculative fiction at a desk in his pre-frontal cortex, which has a very good view of the midwestern United States.

As a musician, Kristopher Marshall played music all over the world and had a blast doing it. Now that I'm a little older, I've found myself diving into the world of art and design. I love it! I've been designing now for over 2 years. I've had some great clients and done some work I'm truly proud of. I don't plan on stopping anytime soon. I specialize in logo design, branding, web design, graphics, and signage of all sorts.

http://designattivo.com/

Marc Reynes Ferra has spent practically his whole life drawing, but it wasn't until a few years ago that he decided to take it up professionally. And here he is three years later, collaborating on his third illustrated book. He has also done work for some magazines and games. His favorite genre are science fiction and fantasy, although he'll take on almost anything, always willing to learn and keep on working in the tough and competitive field of editorial illustration. But that's what he wants to do with his life.

sinpostnohaydibujo.blogspot.com

I've been drawing since I was a wee child, but never pursued art formally as my parents felt there was no money in doing art. So I sidestepped that whole issue and became an art therapist where I could still spend my days doing art and make everyone happy (happy but still no over abundance of moolah).

My favorite subject is female figures. Maybe because art is really an extension of oneself or maybe because the female form is really nice to look at! Otherwise, I enjoy the near total destruction of hardcover books to created art in the form of altered books - to the horror of my bibliophile boyfriend.

A friend started me on the path of making my digital art public by asking me to re-do the cover for her first e-book: 'Incorrigible: Staves of Warrant'. I can't thank her enough. We are now creating character cards for her book series and maybe even a stack of Tarot cards.

Happily sharing a home, art, and sandwiches with my partner, 2 cats and 1 dog.

E. R. Enoksen lives in Norway with family. Enoksen finds inspiration in everything, and has always been interested in art and writing. It is a great way to express oneself through art, be it sketches or scribbles. Enoksen says there are few things more fun in life than being able to create.

My work is a synthesis of the intricate, chaotic, and unpredictable. I work primarily in digital media, focusing on colorful abstracts, complex fractal manipulations, and digital photography, with brief incursions into traditional media such as acrylic on various supports. I work with shapes, colors and textures in an attempt to reach something greater than the sum of those parts. Most of my work is non-objective pure abstract and I delve into the world of the expressionist, minimalist, and pure color field. Some of my work is meant to be playful, colorful, and childlike. I explore relationships between organic forms, crisp edges, and vivid colors. I see the world as a struggle between the 'thinking' and 'feeling' parts of the mind, each becoming more or less dominant over time, and I endeavor to appeal to both in my work. I touch on themes such as the mystical, mundane, esoteric, vulgar, and philosophical. I was born in Waterloo, Iowa and grew up in surrounding communities. I studied Art at the University of Northern Iowa, in Cedar Falls. Much of the past 45 years have been spent living and working in the upper Midwest of the United States including Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, and Illinois where I currently reside in Springfield.

B. Morris Allen grew up in a house full of books that traveled the world. Nowadays, they're e-books, and lighter to carry but they're still multiplying. He's been a biochemist, an activist, and a lawyer, and now works as a foreign aid consultant. When he's not roaming foreign countries fighting corruption, he's on the Oregon coast, chatting with seals. In the occasional free moment, he works on his own speculative stories of love and disaster.

Find out more at www.BMorrisAllen.com and www.Metaphorosis.com

Lacerant Plainer (LP) is a science fiction writer with a a keen love for science and loves to dream up science-related fiction. A big fan of Richard Feynman and Isaac Asimov, he often quotes from Douglas Adams.

He has an interest in reading, painting, chess and watching documentaries on science when he's not writing. You can see his other works on www.lacerantplainer.com , where he posts new short science fiction and more recently, his new space opera in a serialized format.

Chris Dangerfield is an American-born, new writer who is enjoying experimenting with long loved genres like Speculative Science Fiction. Perfect is his first submission to any publication.

After nearly 8 years working in financial services powerhouses like Morgan Stanley and Paine Webber, Kimberly Unger left to pursue her passion for storytelling. She holds degrees from the Art Center College of Design and UCDavis and puts them to work for her everyday, both as speculative fiction writer and a producer/developer of mobile videogames.

She is the author of two texts on Mobile Game Development, please take a look if you're interested in the underpinnings of the design process:

http://amzn.to/1tH67rM and http://amzn.to/1jH1E01

Check out her ongoing cyberpunk game at www.theagiliste.com or find her on G+ or Twitter as @Ing3nu

Tantra Bensko teaches fiction writing with UCLA X Writing Program, Writers College, her own academy, and elsewhere. She has lots of narratives in journals and anthologies, and books out from various publishers, her latest a Slipstream novella exploring a physics theory, put out by ELJ Publications. She likes to consider the effects of advanced technology used by DARPA, the ubiquity of deceptive social engineering, and how those might combine.

Laston Kirkland used to teach but now does tech support and writes. 'I'm deeply interested in all things that could be but currently are not. I suppose by that definition my deep interest, my main focus, is potential. I love to track the rise of stuff that can change everything just by existing.' Kirkland's eventual goal is to own and operate a Makers space, also called a seed factory, a tech shop, and a fab lab. His current goal is to consistently feed his family. He is working on several projects right now: an urban fantasy shared world, several short stories, a game or two, and some children's books. His latest work, Little Worlds, is available from Amazon.com

Paul Pavlinovich is an avid photographer of more than 30 years experience. A qualified trainer and leader puts him in a good position to help people learn the art of photography. Paul seeks opportunities to contribute to his community, whether that be local, with youth, or photographic colleagues.

Paul leads the Melbourne Photowalkers community utilising the social networking platform Google+. Paul runs photographic workshops and blogs to improve the community body of knowledge as well as his own. Paul is a leader of youth within Scouting at local and branch levels.

Whenever possible Paul is up bush or on the coast some place. Paul regularly writes and edits for non fiction magazines. Paul also volunteers on the Puffing Billy Railway. Recently Paul has dipped a toe into the waters of authoring speculative fiction.

Erik Menches: I am a designer by profession and creative by choice. Writing is something I do for fun. I have had two of my stories published in Gothic City Press and A Story in 100 Words. Both my writing and design portfolio can be seen at:

www.erikmenches.com

James Calbraith is a Poland-born British writer, foodie and traveller. Growing up in communist Poland on a diet of powdered milk, Lord of the Rings and soviet science-fiction, he had his first story published at the ripe age of eight. After years of bouncing around Polish universities, he moved to London in 2007 and started writing in English. His debut historical fantasy novel, The Shadow of Black Wings, has reached ABNA semi-finals. It was published in June 2012 and hit the Historical Fantasy and Alternative History bestsellers list on Amazon US & UK. Since then he has published several more books, all hitting the bestseller lists.

William J. Jackson has been a lifelong fan of H.G. Wells and Edgar Rice Burroughs. But it was the roleplaying game Space:1889 that inspired him to create his own world. Rail City is a merger of wonderful steampunk with classic comic book superheroics, the tales of the highs and lows of its citizens and their effects on the globe. He lives in Salem, New Jersey with his lovely wife, and works at the Salem Free Public Library. He has published two tales in Primer (fictionmagazines.com issues 8 and 9).

Russ Bickerstaff is a theater critic and aspiring author living in Milwaukee, Wisconsin with his wife and two daughters.

Daniel White graduated with an MBA degree from National Taiwan University in 2012 at the top of his class. He has written numerous books, including children's storybooks and textbooks which are used in classrooms across Asia. He has also worked on travel books and comic books both as a writer and as an illustrator. His personal project is a book called Tarkentower.

Rich Larson was born in West Africa, has studied in Rhode Island, and now at 21 lives in Edmonton, Alberta. He was a finalist for the 2013 Dell Award and received the 2012 Rannu Prize for Writers of Speculative Fiction. In 2011 his cyberpunk novel Devolution was a finalist for the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award. His short work has since received honorable mention from Writers of the Future and appears or is forthcoming in Lightspeed, DSF, Strange Horizons, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, AE, Futuredaze, Isotropic Fiction and many others. His self-published spec-fic can be found at Amazon.com/author/richlarson.

Jim Rudnick: Having been a writer for over 35 years but in the non-fiction area, I moved to full SF about 20 years ago and am in the process of finishing up book #2 while #1 is out there seeking an agent.

Robert Enders has worked as a private security officer, lurking around in the darkness of the sun's nadir. He draws the webcomic 'Rivertown', and lives alone with his cat.

Michael David Matula is a novelist and story writer from Chicago, IL. His first novel, Try Not to Burn, was released in September 2012 by Post Mortem Press.

http://michaelmatula.blogspot.com

Daniela Huguet is a passionate reader ever since she first learned to read and, once the first electronic ink devices came out in 2006, she became particularly interested in the world of digital editions. Her dream is for books to look as pretty on a screen as they are on paper. Lately she has been involved in several different editing and typesetting projects so she has been formatting pages to her heart's content. And in the meantime, her head is full of fantasy stories that she rarely manages to write down.

M. Stange has a Bachelor's degree in Computer Sciences and a Masters in Mental Health Counselling. 'I am a dreamer, thinking, problem solver, logistician and most of all one who strives for the truth. My hobbies include reading, writing, drawing, and table top and electronic/computer gaming to working on problems of astrophysics. My passions are raptors (birds of prey), dragons, Doctor Who, and the color purple. This wide variety of interests and knowledge leads me on a path of discovery every day.

Boyd Miles is an artist and craftsman. He is known for his carefully recreated historical artifacts used by museums, film companies, and in living history programs. A film costumer, he has worked on both period films and science fiction.

While born in a hospital he was raised in a log cabin, his wife says by wolves.

His pirate story can be read on: Amazon