Award winning author, Mr. Wilkin is a graduate in history. He has been writing in various genres for thirty years. Extensive study of premodern civilizations, including years as a re-enactor of medieval, renaissance and regency times has given Mr. Wilkin an insight into such antiquated cultures.

Trained in fighting forms as well as his background in history lends his fantasy work to encompass mores beyond simple hero quests to add the depth of the world and political forms to his tales.

Throughout his involvement with various periods of long ago days, he has also learned the dances of those times. Not only becoming proficient at them but also teaching thousands how to do them as well.

Mr. Wilkin regularly posts about Regency history at his blog, and as a member of English Historical Fiction Authors. You can read that blog at http://englishhistoryauthors.blogspot.com/ His very first article was published while in college, and though that magazine is defunct, he still waits patiently for the few dollars the publisher owes him for the piece.

Mr. Wilkin is also the author of several regency romances, and including a sequel to the epic Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen. His recent work, Beggars Can't Be Choosier has won the prestigious Outstanding Historical Romance award from Romance Reviews Magazine.

A steadfast and proud sci-fi and fantasy geek, A. F. Stewart was born and raised in Nova Scotia, Canada and still calls it home. The youngest in a family of seven children, she always had an overly creative mind and an active imagination. She favours the dark and deadly when writing—her genres of choice being fantasy and horror—but she has been known to venture into the light on occasion. As an indie author, she’s published novellas and story collections, with a few side trips into poetry.

Website: https://afstewart.ca/

M. K. Wiseman has degrees in animation/video and library science – both from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Today, her office is a clutter of storyboards and half-catalogued collections of too, too many books. (But, really, is there such a thing as too many books?) When she’s not mucking about with stories, she’s off playing brač or lying in a hammock in the backyard of her Wisconsin home that she shares with her endlessly patient husband.

As editor-in-chief of Xchyler Publishing, Penny Freeman has collaborated with several authors, including R. A. Smith, Joanne Kershaw, and Candace J. Thomas. She also edited and wrote the preface to Forged in Flame: a Dragon Anthology, and Mechanized: Masterpieces a Steampunk Anthology. She penned the short story "Tropic of Cancer" under the pseudonym of Neve Talbot.

Penny engages her thirty years of wordsmith experience in historical fiction, journalism, and developmental editing. Literature, history and storytelling are her great passions, although the technical aspects of the language arts satisfy her compulsion for order.

She lives with her husband in southeast Texas.

As editor-in-chief of Xchyler Publishing, Penny Freeman has collaborated with several authors, including R. A. Smith, Joanne Kershaw, and Candace J. Thomas. She also edited and wrote the preface to Forged in Flame: a Dragon Anthology, and Mechanized: Masterpieces a Steampunk Anthology. She penned the short story "Tropic of Cancer" under the pseudonym of Neve Talbot.

Penny engages her thirty years of wordsmith experience in historical fiction, journalism, and developmental editing. Literature, history and storytelling are her great passions, although the technical aspects of the language arts satisfy her compulsion for order.

She lives with her husband in southeast Texas.

Anika Arrington is a devoted wife, mother of six, a Scorpio, a baseball fan (Go D-backs!), and an unabashed pluviophile. Unfortunately, she lives in the deserts of Arizona, so she passes the time with her kids, going to the movies, reading, watching for clouds, and of course, writing.

Her first novel, The Accidental Apprentice, was a Whitney Award Finalist.

You can read her movie reviews, thoughts on writing, and other short-form pieces at her website, www.anikaarrington.com

A storyteller on the stage as well as on the page, Alyson most recently has made a career of performing in theme parks in and around Orlando, FL. Originally from Milwaukee, WI, Alyson studied acting and history at Loyola University of Chicago. Her first novel “On the Isle of Sound and Wonder” was re-released in an updated second edition from Shadesilk Press in 2020. She is also a freelance voice over artist and audio editor for podcasts, and performs as June Hymnal on the award-winning all-ages storytelling actual play podcast "Skyjacks: Courier’s Call." She can be found on Twitter and Instagram @ dreamstobecome.

She and her husband Drew create podcasts, stories, tabletop RPGs, and serve the whims of their two cats, Queen Felicia and Wedge.

http://www.dreamstobecome.com

http://www.patreon.com/WhimsyArtifice

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Award-Winning author Scott William Taylor lives in the Rocky Mountains with his family and several pets. Scott's debut middle-grade novel Chaser is available now. Scott's story, Little Boiler Girl is included in Mechanized Masterpieces Steampunk Anthology. His story, Split Ends can be found in Xchyler's Shades and Shadows Paranormal Anthology, and Mr. Thornton, a steampunk treatment from Jack London's Call of the Wild is included in Xchyler's Mechanized Masterpieces Masterpieces. Scott is the creator and producer of A Page or Two Podcast. He also wrote the award-winning short film, Wrinkles.