Represented Authors

began writing science fiction and fantasy when she was twelve and hasn’t stopped writing since. She is an enrolled member of the Seaconke Wampanoag Tribe, and a lineal descendant of Ousamequin Massasoit. She is an avid costumer, and an active member of the steampunk community. Her work in steampunk has been featured at Beyond Victoriana, Silver Goggles, and in the books Anatomy of Steampunk: The Fashion of Victorian Futurism, Steampunk III: Steampunk Revolution, Speculative Imperialisms: Monstrosity and Masquerade in Postracial Times, and Steaming Into a Victorian Future: A Steampunk Anthology.

Monique has blogged, essayed, and discussed extensively across many platforms the depictions of NDN and NDN-coded characters in sci-fi and fantasy. Her works often explore themes of inequality in social and political power, consent, agency, and social revolution. 

TO SHAPE A DRAGON’S BREATH, the first book in her NAMPESHIWEISIT series published by Del Rey is currently on sale everywhere. Additionally, her work has been featured in many Circlet anthologies, including Fantastic Erotica: The Best of Circlet Press 2008-2012. Her short stories are collected in one volume in This World Between: Erotic Stories. Monique can be reached at Poirier.Monique@gmail.com or at Poiriermonique.tumblr.com

is a former lawyer turned writer. He is the creator of the science fiction comic book series AGON and has sold several feature screenplays as well. He is also the author of the YA sci-fi novel THE ENEMY WITHIN He lives in Los Angeles with his wife, Sarah, three step children and two toe-nibbling cats. He loves that LA offers biking, hiking, surfing and skiing all relatively close by. He doesn’t do any of those things, but imagines he might in an alternate universe. Stop by and say hello at his his website – www.scottburn.xyz

was born in Queens to an Irish-American mom and a Haitian dad. At a young age, her mother instilled in her the love of a good mystery. Monique became the elementary school nerd who told the other kids on the bus to pipe down so she could read in peace. As a mental health counselor she has worked with both survivors and perpetrators of interpersonal violence, developing a deep respect for the real human impact of violent crime. Her debut novel, Keep Them All Where You Can See Them, is a thriller-procedural hybrid that examines human fortitude under terrifying circumstances. She lives in Poughkeepsie, New York with the world’s best husband, the world’s most excitable Doberman, and the world’s most irritated cat.

lives in a northeastern college town, and works as a web developer and small business owner. Two jobs, marriage, and raising two sons did not quite account for every waking moment, so Rune took up fiction writing to fill the hole where a social life should be.

Fun fact: Rune Skelley has 20 fingers and 20 toes, but doesn’t type any faster than you do.

Website: http://runeskelley.com
Email: HeyRune@runeskelley.com

Born in Buffalo, NY, J.R. Gerow has studied literature, economics, law, spent a decade in NYC, and worked in the environmental think tank world. His short fiction has been featured in many journals, including The Yale Review and Hypertext Magazine. He loves discovering new voices to write in, but his work most often straddles the literary and speculative overlap. He now lives in Montreal. You can follow his blog at JRGerow.com or find him on Twitter at @JR_Gerow.

A BRIEF INTRODUCTION: Born in California, raised in Nebraska, Maya’s fascination with speculative fiction dates from the night her dad let her stay up late to watch The Day the Earth Stood Still. Mom was furious. Dad was unrepentant. Maya slept with a nite-lite until she was fifteen and developed a passion for things that came from outer space or went bump in the night.

Maya started her writing career sketching science fiction comic books in the last row of her fifth grade classroom. Since then her short fiction has been published in Analog, Amazing Stories, Century, Realms of Fantasy, Paradox, Interzone, and Jim Baen’s Universe, and widely anthologized; her novelette “The White Dog” (Interzone #142) was a finalist for the British Science Fiction Award. The story is also anthologized in the Bahá’í publication, Elixir. Her alternate history story “O, Pioneer” was a finalist for the Sideways Award for alternate history.

Her debut novel, THE MERI, was a Locus Magazine Best First Novel nominee. Since, she has published over a dozen more speculative fiction novels, which include a trio of STAR WARS media tie-ins from Del Rey / LucasBooks. Her work appears in a number of anthologies and collections, including the 2009 release of I LOVED THY CREATION, a collection of Bahá’í-themed short fiction.

A native New Yorker and captivating storyteller with a flair for embellishment, Jennifer Irwin currently resides in Los Angeles with two cats, a dog, and her boyfriend. After earning her BA in Cinema from Denison University, she worked in advertising and marketing, raised three boys, and ultimately became a certified Pilates instructor. While she has written screenplays and short stories since her college days, A Dress the Color of the Sky is her first novel.

Ben Reeder read The Hobbit on a road trip in sixth grade, and checked out the entire Lord of the Rings trilogy from his school library the next semester. From there, he moved on to writers like Isaac Asimov, Robert Heinlein, Robert E. Howard and CJ Cherryh. When other kids were recreating their favorite scenes from the Star Wars movies, he was creating his own worlds and stories in his back yard. In high school, he wrote some of those stories down and let his friends read them, getting the handwritten pages back with demands for more.

When he graduated from high school, he joined the Air Force, and soon after arriving at his first duty station, discovered the Society for Creative Anachronisms. After spending years honing his craft as a writer and working in a variety of interesting jobs, he self-published his first book in 2014, and a year later, was writing full time. He is the author of the Zompoc Survivor series and The Demon’s Apprentice series.

Raised in Texas, he is a naturalized resident of Missouri, where he lives with his wife Randi and several cats. While rumors of being a superhero have been disproven, both he and The Doctor have not been seen in the same place at the same time.

Website: www.chancefortunato.com
Amazon Author page: http://www.amazon.com/Ben-Reeder/e/B005FB6LNY/ref=dp_byline_cont_ebooks_1

Seeing Star Wars at thirteen began a passion for storytelling and adventure that set the tone for not just Marshal’s writing, but his life.

He spent four years in the Navy and would have stayed in had he been allowed to “winter over” in Antarctica. Marshal trained as a commercial hard hat diver, majored in sculpture in college, lived in a tent for three months at an archaeological dig in New Mexico, and in 2016 stood alongside Sioux Water Protectors at Standing Rock battling the Dakota Access Pipeline.

He spent years doing historical reenactment, learning how real armor worked by fighting in it, swordsmanship from studying historical swordplay. His love of the outdoors and black powder firearms eventually brought him to historical trekking, camping and hiking with only what an 18th century woodsman would carry.

His stories and writing are fueled by these passions.

In 2008, he got involved in the Steampunk community and his first book, “The Tomahawk Incident” began.

For Marshal, storytelling is about characters. Without them, there is nothing to connect to. Marshal has come to believe that heroes are not a breed apart. They are ordinary women and men reacting to extraordinary circumstances. Certainly, some are better equipped to deal with them, but they are just people. These kinds of heroes, with their flaws and foibles, could be our next door neighbors. They often are. And it’s these characters who he loves to put between the hammer and anvil, driving them to face their deepest fears and rise to their greatest pinnacles. This is what storytelling is about. We want to see ourselves in these characters, good and bad.

Marshal lives in Edmonds, Washington with his wife Jenn and their dog Keshar.

I have always loved any fiction or art that opens doors — or windows or cracks in the air — to possibility, that lets wonder into the room.

The first things I wrote, at nine years old, were fantastic literature, and that’s where my heart has always been — whether you call it science fiction, fantasy, horror, dark fantasy, magic realism, or fabulism. My writing is about two things: exploring and expanding limits and notions of the possible, and feeding the body and spirit through language and story.

Having lived and gone to school in Philadelphia, parts of Florida, California, and Maine, I make my home these days in Austin. Well-groomed cats, family, and good friends grace my life with their company. I’ve been employed as a house painter, a blueberry raker, an art house film projectionist, a glass artist’s assistant, an English tutor, teaching assistant, and an editor, among other things. I dropped out of high school and now have a master’s degree. I was a Michener Fellow in grad school, graduated from the Clarion West

workshop, and have a large collection of Hong Kong movies. A narrative junkie from a young age, I have always found inspiration and solace in books, movies, and television. Also in animal life, nature, good food with friends, artful cocktails, and rain.

Some of these facts are only tangentially related.

A comprehensive list of my publications and honors is available at storyrain.com under Works, and review excerpts under Press

William Kirby was kicked out of nursery school for refusing to clap for the nomination of Richard Nixon (true story). His activism continued through third grade, where he was suspended for naively wearing a “Year of the Grass” tee shirt given to him by a progressive aunt. He spent his final two years of high school rigging elections for student council.

Burned out on politics, Will studied chemical engineering and astrophysics in college. For reasons long forgotten, he took three months off his senior year to hike the Canadian Rockies with a hippy Muslim from Yemen. Returning to school, he immediately fell for the blond sitting in the front row of Orbital Dynamics. Insipid poetry followed (as did, eventually, marriage) after which, the only choice was to become a writer.

Will’s first work, Iapetus, was released in 1993. He wrote for several sources in the 90s, everything from local newspapers to several pieces for Mental Floss magazine. He spent twenty years involved in local history, as part of a losing effort to stop Colorado’s heartbreaking urban sprawl. He researched, wrote, and scripted the multiple Heartland Emmy-Winning Legends and Oddities, a show dedicated to the stranger aspects of Colorado history.

Returning to fiction writing, he wrote the mystery Vienna, published in fall of 2015 by Tor/Forge. He currently lives in Boulder, Colorado with his wife, Kathryn. They spend their free time backpacking, snowshoeing, traveling, snorkeling, and spending too much money on telescopes and other astronomical widgets. William is currently working on his next mystery.

Graham was born in Ireland in 1975 to a half-Irish, half-American family. His childhood was spent criss-crossing the Atlantic. He completed secondary school in Ireland and took a degree in economics and sociology from Trinity College Dublin. After college, Graham worked variously as a postman, an estate agent, a legal assistant and a salesman of electric razors, before finding a career as a government economist.

His writing work began at an early age, but it was not until 2013 that his first published work, a short play called The Ramblers, was performed on stage and subsequently made part of the Irish secondary school curriculum. A second play, Angels in the Park, enjoyed three successful runs in 2014-2015.

Steeped in the character-focused fiction of Truman Capote and J.D. Salinger, while maintaining a life-long love of the genre fiction greats such as Ray Bradbury, Ursula K. Le Guin, and Neil Gaiman, James William Hass writes contemporary fiction with a focus on the challenge of being human within a world whose reality gets tweaked by the extraordinary.

All of which is to say he prefers stories told in a hyper-real way that gets at the big questions, the strange mysteries, and the weirdness around us. Wonder provoked, thrills him.

John Longenbaugh is a Seattle-based writer and playwright whose plays include The Eternal Vaudeville, Scotch and Donuts, How to be Cool, Arcana (Dramatic Publishing), Catholic Schoolgirls, and an adaptation of G.K. Chesterton’s The Man Who Was Thursday.

He’s also a dedicated Sherlockian, author of the play Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Christmas Carol (published by Dramatists and produced across the country). The Great Detective led him to Steampunk and a lot of things suddenly made sense to him, like how much he likes wearing vests and pocket watches. Since then he’s turned a great deal of his attention to the alternative histories of the 19th century. His Steampunk-involved novel The Private Library looks at both the fictions and realities of the movement, and his Steampunk multi-platform series BRASS uses audio drama, stage shows and film to tell the story of a family of Victorian science geniuses.