Michael J. Sullivan is a New York Times, USA Today, and Washington Post bestselling author, and no one is more surprised by those facts than he. When just a boy, Michael found a typewriter in the basement of a friend's house, inserted a blank piece of paper, and typed, "It was a dark and stormy night." He was just ten years old and mimicking the only writer he knew at the time: Snoopy. That spark ignited a flame, and Michael's desire to fill blank pages became a life-long obsession. As an adult, Michael spent more than ten years developing his craft by studying authors such as Stephen King, Ernest Hemingway, and John Steinbeck. During that time, he wrote thirteen novels but found no interest from the publishing industry. Since insanity is repeating the same action while expecting a different result, he made the rational choice and quit, vowing never to write creatively again.

Never turned out to be too long for Michael, and after a decade, he returned to the keyboard in his forties, but with one condition: He wouldn't seek publication. Instead, he wrote a series of books that had been building in his head during his hiatus. His first reading love was fantasy, and he hoped to foster a similar reaction in his then thirteen-year-old daughter who struggled due to dyslexia. After reading the third book of this series, his wife insisted that the novels had to "get out there." When Michael refused to jump back onto the query-go-round, Robin took over the publication tasks, and she has run the business side of his writing ever since.

Currently, Michael has released eighteen novels (and written twenty): The Riyria Revelations (6 books in 3 two-book omnibus editions from Orbit), The Riyria Chronicles (2 books from Orbit and 2 indie-published), Legends of the First Empire (3 books from Del Rey and 3 indie-published), Rise and Fall (Nolyn (2021, Farilane (coming 2022), Esrhadon (coming 2023) and a standalone science fiction thriller called Hollow World (from Tachyon Publications).

The next Riyria novel, Drumindor, has been green-lighted, but no publication date has been released.

Michael is one of the few authors who has successfully published through all three routes: small press, self, and big five. Some key accomplishments of his career include:

* New York Times, USA Today, and Washington Post bestselling author

* 9 Goodreads Choice Award Nominations

* Named to io9's Most Successful Self-Published Sci-Fi and Fantasy authors

* Sold more than 2 Million English copies

* Been translated into 15 foreign language

* Spent more than 6 years on Amazon's Bestselling Fantasy Author's list

* His books have been named to more than 250 best-of or most-anticipated lists including those compiled by Library Journal, Barnes and Noble, Amazon, Goodreads.com, and Audible.com

Contact Info:

* email: michael @ michaelsullivan-author.com

* Twitter: @ author_sullivan

* Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/2063919.Michael_J_Sullivan

* Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/michael.james.sullivan

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Hugh Howey is New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of WOOL, MACHINE LEARNING, SAND, BEACON 23, and many others. His works have been translated into over 40 languages with millions of copies sold around the world. WOOL has been adapted into Silo, a TV show from AppleTVPlus. A show based on BEACON 23 is due out in 2023 from AMC. Hugh lives between New York and the UK with his wife, Shay.

Wilson Geiger has been gripped by fantastical worlds not quite our own ever since stumbling upon his father’s copy of The Fellowship of the Ring. He writes fantasy and science fiction stories when not maintaining networks, troubleshooting servers, or fighting the good fight against computer illiteracy. Wilson resides in St. Louis, Missouri with his wife, two boys, and a possessive cat.

N. E. White (1969 - ) was born in California to a Texan native and a Mexican immigrant. Her professional pursuits include environmental management, spatial analysis, and computer modeling. She writes in her spare time.

Luke Jessop and Garrett Streater have adventured together in the south west of Australia for 26 years. Their brotherly bond took an interesting turn in 2011 when they both instinctively shared the idea to write a fantasy series. At the time Luke was working over 2,000km away on a gold mine and Garrett was finishing his journalism degree.

When Luke and Garrett aren't writing they can be found fishing and surfing the vast coast of Western Australia.

Tristis Ward writes and designs in Fredericton, New Brunswick.

She has a degree in English at Dalhousie University, and a Diploma in Graphic Design from the New Brunswick College of Craft & Design. Between these two pieces of paper, she attended approximately nine years of classes in non-degree studies (because she’s really quite curious), the most pertinent of which were Theatre at Dal, Anthropology at UNB, and Photography at NBCCD. She is very interested in photographic art, illustration, sculpture, architecture and history, so she’s nowhere near done attending school.

She worked for twenty years in community radio as a producer, Program Director, Station Manager and national lobbyist, during which time she learned a great deal about communication, perseverance, and patience.

Igor Ljubuncic is a physicist by vocation, an IT nerd by profession, and a prolific author, with twenty book publications in just the past decade. His portfolio covers technical books, novels in various fiction genres, and several anthologies, including a short story, The Girl with the Flaxen Hair, nominated for the 2014 Sidewise Awards for Alternate History.

Over the years, Igor’s fiction works have received favorable reviews from Publishers Weekly, Underground Book Reviews, Midwest Book Review, and SFFWorld. His technical book on problem solving in high-performance computing is part of the Computer Science undergraduate studies curricula at several universities worldwide. It has also been translated to Chinese. In the course of his everyday work, Igor has invented fifteen patents and given presentations at numerous prestigious international conferences, like LinuxCon, CloudOpen, KDE Akademy, and many others.

In his free time, Igor runs a popular science and technology blog, www.dedoimedo.com, drives fast cars on racetracks, and tries to learn new languages. For more information on Igor’s literary adventures, please visit www.thelostwordsbooks.com.