Native to Oklahoma, raised on a farm, and the eldest sibling of 6 kids, Kathryn always has a devious plot brewing in her cauldron and any number of bad ideas hidden under her pointy wizard hat. She often uses those bad ideas to form a spicy goo and dumps them into her cauldron, with a block of cheesy plot holes and a few tortured heroes, then uses the bubbling mess to summon a story idea! Then she pats the snarling story idea on the head and throws it into her dungeon overflowing with all her other half-baked works in progress.

And yes, she also has a villainess monologue and maniacal laugh to go with all of that.

She started writing her first novel, a fantasy, in 2001 at the age of 10 and completed it at 600 pages!

Now days, Kathryn enjoys traveling across the United States with her beloved husband, Steven, or walking her dog and toddler around the block. Whatever she's doing, she pours the inspiration gained from her travels - short or long - into her books.

USA Today bestselling author Shannon Pemrick is a full-time slow-burn romantic fantasy author, fuller-time geek, and unrelenting dragon enthusiast. She owns too many novelty mugs, not enough chocolate, and maintains a forbidden love-affair with all things shiny. When she's not burning her fingers across a keyboard handing out adventures and HEAs, she's rolling dice and getting lost in RPGs or searching for brides for her dragon overlords.

To find out more about Shannon and her books, visit www.shannonpemrick.com.

"Magic, Heroes, & Humor"

F.P. Spirit is an avid science fiction and fantasy fan. A Trekkie before it was cool, F. P. became hooked on fantasy the moment he cracked open his first copy of Lord of the Rings. When he is not lost roaming the multiverse of sci-fi and high-fantasy fiction, F. P. is either creating adventures for his roll-playing friends and family or connecting with his mind and body in an attempt to reach that inner spark of spirit.

Jeffrey L. Price graduated from the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University with a Bachelor of Science in print journalism back in the 1980s and spent the next 15 years working at daily newspapers in New Jersey and Pennsylvania.

Even after leaving journalism for the IT world and becoming "a computer geek," he couldn't leave story telling behind and started working again on sci-fi stories he'd begun writing back in high school. Then at the urging of friends he began writing his own blog, The Blue Scream of Jeff, about sci-fi, fantasy, and of course IT topics, and recently contributed to a friend’s fantasy anthology series, “Tales from Thac”.