Guest Announcements on Jan 1,2025

Dan Jolley began writing professionally at age 19. Starting out in comic books, Dan has worked for major publishers such as DC (Firestorm), Marvel (Dr. Strange), Dark Horse (Aliens), and Image (G.I. Joe). He soon branched out into licensed-property novels (Star Trek), film novelizations (Iron Man), and original novels, including the Middle Grade urban fantasy series Five Elements, the urban sci-fi Gray Widow Trilogy, and the “Southern-fried Stephen King” mystery-thriller The Storm.

Dan began writing for video games in 2007, and has contributed storylines, characters, and dialogue to Transformers: War for Cybertron, Prototype 2, and Dying Light, among others.

Most recently, Falstaff Books began publishing Dan’s high fantasy/detective series The Demon-Sleuth Scrolls, which so far includes The Runemaster Homicide, The Black-Horned Grave,and The Runebearer Curse (September 2024).

Dan lives with his wife Tracy and some largely inert felines in northwest Georgia. Readers can learn more about him on his website, www.danjolley.com. 

Few can claim the varied background of award-winning author Stephanie Osborn, the Interstellar Woman of Mystery.
Veteran  of more than 20 years in the civilian space program, as well as various  military space defense programs, she worked on numerous space shuttle  flights and the International Space Station, and counts the training of  astronauts on her resumé. Her space experience also includes Spacelab  and ISS operations, variable star astrophysics, Martian aeolian  geophysics, radiation physics, and nuclear, biological, and chemical  weapons effects.  Stephanie holds graduate and undergraduate degrees in  four sciences: astronomy, physics, chemistry and mathematics, and she is  "fluent" in several more, including geology and anatomy. In addition  she possesses a license of ministry, has been a duly sworn, certified  police officer, and is a National Weather Service certified storm  spotter.
Her travels have taken her to the top of Pikes Peak, across  the world’s highest suspension bridge, down gold mines, in the footsteps  of dinosaurs, through groves of giant Sequoias, and even to the  volcanoes of the Cascade Range in the Pacific Northwest, where she was  present for several phreatic eruptions of Mount St. Helens.
Now  retired from space work, Stephanie has trained her sights on writing.  She has authored, co-authored, or contributed to some 40+ books,  including the celebrated science-fiction mystery, Burnout: The mystery  of Space Shuttle STS-281. She is the co-author of the Cresperian Saga  book series, and has written the critically acclaimed Displaced  Detective Series, described as "Sherlock Holmes meets The X-Files," and  its pulp-bestselling prequel series, Gentleman Aegis, the very first  book of which won a Silver Falchion award. She has dabbled in  paranormal/horror as well, releasing the ebook novella El Vengador,  based on a true story. Her recent popular science book, Rock and Roll, a  discussion of the New Madrid fault and its historic quakes, was a  multiple-genre bestseller! It was followed with the equally-popular Kiss  Your Ash Goodbye, an explanation of the Yellowstone supervolcano.  Currently she's launching into the unknown with the Division One series,  her take on the urban legend of the people who show up at UFO  sightings, alien abductions, etc. to make things...disappear.
In  addition to her writing work, the Interstellar Woman of Mystery now  happily "pays it forward," teaching math and science through numerous  media including radio, podcasting and public speaking, as well as  working with SIGMA, the science-fiction think tank.

The Mystery continues.
http://www.stephanie-osborn.com/

 Kevin Steverson is a retired veteran of the U.S. Army. With over 35 published works, he writes in the Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Post Apocalyptic genres. He is the author of several best selling novels, including the Salvage Title Trilogy, picked up for feature film and now in pre-development. A die hard UGA fan, he can be found in the foothills of the NE Georgia mountains writing his next story. 

 Whether or not William Alan Webb was actually dropped off by an alien family passing Earth or not is still undetermined. If his Human mother and father actually did find him on their doorstep, they raised him as their own in West Tennessee, saw to it that he was as educated as possible (given Bill's intense anti-authoritarian streak), so that he even graduated from the Univeristy of Memphis with twin concentrations in History and Creative Writing. He is the author of The Last Brigade series, which has sold more than 100,000 books, Hit World, Sharp Steel and High Adventure, Task Force Zombie, and has written in Salvage Title Universe, the Four Horsemen Universe, Murphy's Lawless, the Five-Fold Universe, Jerry Pournelle's War World, as well as co-authoring the Delta Private Investigations series, and Judgment Day.  Bill also mentors writers on his Patreon Channel, and is publisher of Quillcraft Press. When asked how he does it all, Bill describes his simple philosophy: he'll sleep when he's dead. 

M.C. Vaughn is a retired industrial engineer, a native Atlantean, and Author. When not writing or editing, he is an avid Baseball Fan and historian.  

Dan L. Hollifield is the Senior Editor and Publisher of Aphelion Webzine, the internet’s oldest free Science Fiction & Fantasy creative writing e-zine. Online since 1997, Aphelion functions as a permanent floating writer’s workshop, and has helped over 500 new writers become paid professional authors. He is a writer, music composer, artist, streaming chat show host & co-host, retired farmer, and can change the alternator on a 1970 Chevy in under 12 minutes. He lives in the howling wilderness outside of Athens GA with his wife, a dog, and what seems to be every stray cat in the universe…

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