#SFFpit and #SFFchat with Harper Voyager Authors

T. Frohock

T. Frohock has turned a love of dark fantasy and horror into tales of deliciously creepy fiction. She lives in North Carolina where she has long been accused of telling stories, which is a southern colloquialism for lying.Her newest series, Los Nefilim, is from Harper Voyager Impulse, and consists of the novellas: In Midnight’s Silence: Los Nefilim, Part 1 (2015); Without Light or Guide: Los Nefilim, Part 2 (2015); and The Second Death: Los Nefilim, Part 3 (2016).

You can visit T. and find out more about her stories at tfrohock.com. You can give her a follow on Twitter.

Beth Cato

Beth Cato is the author of the steampunk fantasy novels THE CLOCKWORK DAGGER (a 2015 Locus Award finalist for First Novel) and THE CLOCKWORK CROWN from Harper Voyager. She has published well over a hundred short stories and poems in venues ranging from Beneath Ceaseless Skies to InterGalactic Medicine Show to the forthcoming Clockwork Phoenix 5.

Follow her at BethCato.com and on Twitter at @BethCato.

Michelle Hauck

Michelle Hauck lives in the bustling metropolis of northern Indiana with her hubby and two teenagers. Besides working with special needs children by day, she writes all sorts of fantasy, giving her imagination free range. She is a co-host of the yearly query contests Query Kombat, Nightmare on Query Street, New Agent, PitchSlam, and Sun versus Snow. Her Birth of Saints trilogy from Harper Voyager starts with GRUDGING on November 17, 2015. Her epic fantasy, KINDAR’S CURE, was published by Divertir Publishing.

You should follow her on Twitter or check out her blog Michelle4Laughs: It’s in the Details.

Laura Bickle

Laura Bickle grew up in rural Ohio, reading entirely too many comic books out loud to her favorite Wonder Woman doll. After graduating with an MA in Sociology – Criminology from Ohio State University and an MLIS in Library Science from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, she patrolled the stacks at the public library and worked with data systems in criminal justice. She now dreams up stories about the monsters under the stairs, also writing contemporary fantasy novels under the name Alayna Williams. Her latest novel is MERCURY RETROGRADE, second in the DARK ALCHEMY contemporary fantasy series.  The latest information on her work can be found at laurabickle.com.

Ingrid Seymour

Ingrid Seymour is the author of IGNITE THE SHADOWS, an action-packed YA Sci-Fi in which teen hanker Marci Guerrero finds out a third of the population is infected by sentient parasites that supplant and morph their hosts. Worse yet, the shadows that haunt her mean she’s also infected, and there’s no telling how long she’ll be able to fight them.

Check out her website, Twitter, and Facebook.

Lexie Dunne

Lexie Dunne is a woman of many masks, all of them stored neatly in a box under her bed. By day a mild-mannered technical writer and by night an adventuress and novelist, she keeps life interesting by ignoring it and writing instead. She hails from St. Louis, home of the world’s largest croquet game piece, and SUPERHEROES ANONYMOUS is her professional debut into the world of caped crusaders, a journey that started when her father took her and her brother to see The Rocketeer. Check out her website and follow her on Twitter.

John Ayliff

John Ayliff’s debut novel, dystopian space opera Belt Three, came out earlier this year from Harper Voyager. John honed his writing skills while working in the computer games industry, and still sometimes call his protagonist the ‘player character’ by mistake. He enjoys interesting character drama against a backdrop of hard science fiction, and that’s what he aims to write. Outside of writing, his interests include computer games, tabletop roleplaying games, and going to the opera. He lives in Vancouver, Canada. You can find him on Twitter.

Brooke Johnson

Brooke is a stay-at-home mom, amateur seamstress, RPG enthusiast, and art hobbyist, in addition to all that book writing. As the jack-of-all-trades bard of the family, she adventures through life with her fiercely-bearded paladin of a husband, their daughter the sticky-fingered rogue, and their cowardly wizard of a dog, with only a sleep spell in his spellbook. Follow her on Twitter.

She and her family currently reside in Northwest Arkansas, but once they earn enough loot and experience, they’ll build a proper castle somewhere and defend against all manner of dragons and goblins, and whatever else dares take them on. Visit her website.

A.F.E. Smith

A.F.E. Smith is an editor of academic texts by day and a fantasy writer by night. So far, she hasn’t mixed up the two. She lives with her husband and their two young children in a house that someone built to be as creaky as possible – getting to bed without waking the baby is like crossing a nightingale floor. Though she doesn’t have much spare time, she makes space for reading, mainly by not getting enough sleep (she’s powered by chocolate). Her physical bookshelves were stacked two deep long ago, so now she’s busy filling up her e-reader.

What A.F.E. stands for is a closely guarded secret, but you might get it out of her if you offer her enough snacks. Check out her website or follow her on Twitter.

Auston Habershaw

On the day Auston Habershaw was born, Skylab fell from the heavens. This foretold two possible fates: supervillain or scifi/fantasy author. Fortunately he chose the latter, and spends his time imagining the could-be and the never-was rather than disintegrating the moon with his volcano laser. Auston is a winner of the Writers of the Future Contest and has published work in Analog and Stupefying Stories.

He lives and works in Boston, MA. You can find him at his blog and on Goodreads.

Terry Newman

Terry Newman is a scriptwriter for film, TV and radio and the author of ‘Detective Strongoak and the Case of the Dead Elf’ which went ‘Epic #1’ on Amazon Kindle last week despite being a comedy detective fantasy. Master Detective Nicely Strongoak is a well-dressed dwarf with an innate sense of justice and a distrust of most elves that don’t wear skirts. He carries a hand axe and a shooter, but prefers the former. Terry is a former university biomedical research scientist, and university lecturer in scriptwriting too, a lot of his time is now spent helping other people with their scripts. He has recently written the book to a SF musical (and then adapted that to a book, if you are following us) and adapted another SF book to film. A fantasy action series he wrote for TV is currently in pre-production somewhere nice and warm.