Two Hundred and Twenty-One Baker Streets (39 page)

James has sold well over 40 short stories, the majority of them gathered in two collections,
Imagined Slights
and
Diversifications
. He has written a four-volume fantasy saga for teenagers,
The Clouded World
(under the pseudonym Jay Amory), and has produced a dozen short books for readers with reading difficulties, including
Wings
,
Kill Swap
,
Free Runner
,
Dead Brigade
, and the
5 Lords Of Pain
series.

James has been shortlisted for numerous awards, including the Arthur C. Clarke Award, the John W. Campbell Memorial Award, the Bram Stoker Award, the British Fantasy Society Award and the Manchester Book Award. His short story “Carry The Moon In My Pocket” won the 2011 Seiun Award in Japan for Best Translated Short Story.

James’s work has been translated into twelve languages. His journalism has appeared in periodicals as diverse as
Literary Review
,
Interzone
and
BBC MindGames
, and he is a regular reviewer of fiction for the
Financial Times
and contributes features and reviews about comic books to the magazine
Comic Heroes
.

He lives with his wife, two sons and cat in Eastbourne, a town famously genteel and favoured by the elderly, but in spite of that he isn’t planning to retire just yet.

Glen Mehn
(glen.mehn.net) was born and raised in New Orleans, and has since lived in San Francisco, North Carolina, Oxford, Uganda, previously been Zambia, and now lives in London. He's published by Random House Struik and Jurassic London, and is currently working on his first hopefully publishable novel. When not writing, Glen designs innovation programmes that use technology for social good for the Social Innovation Camp and is head of programme at Bethnal Green Ventures. Glen holds a BA in English Literature and Sociology from the University of New Orleans and an MBA from the University of Oxford.

Glen has been a bookseller, line cook, lighting and set designer, house painter, IT director, carbon finance consultant, soldier, dishwasher, and innovation programme designer. One day, he might be a writer. He lives in Brixton, which is where you live if you move from New Orleans to London. He moved country five times in two years once, and happy to stick around for a while.

David Thomas Moore
has been a plague on time and space, stealing the
Mona Lisa
days after completion, crashing the great Bankotron 5000 central finance system in the year 2213 and snatching six irreplaceable scrolls from the Library of Alexandria and setting fire to it to cover his retreat. He was finally brought to ground in Shanghai in 1901 by Job-raked-outof-the-ashes Holmes, a seventeenth-century crime-fighting preacher from the colony of Virginia, and his companion John Watts, a grizzled tribal medic from the nuclear wastelands of the twenty-fifth century. Now reformed, David lives in Berkshire in twenty-first-century England with his wife Tamsin and daughter Beatrix.
Two Hundred and Twenty-One Baker Streets
is his first anthology as editor.

Emma Newman
(enewman.co.uk) lives in Somerset, England and drinks far too much tea. She writes dark short stories and post-apocalyptic, science Emma’s
Split Worlds
fiction and urban fantasy novels. urban fantasy series was recently published by Angry Robot Books and the first in the series,
Between Two Thorns
, was shortlisted for the BFS Best Novel and Best Newcomer awards. Emma is a professional audiobook narrator and also co-writes and hosts the Hugo nominated podcast
Tea and Jeopardy
, which involves tea, cake, mild peril and singing chickens. She is represented by Jennifer Udden at DMLA. Her hobbies include dressmaking and playing RPGs. She blogs, rarely gets enough sleep and refuses to eat mushrooms.

Adrian Tchaikovsky
(shadowsoftheapt.com) is the author of the acclaimed
Shadows of the Apt
fantasy series, from the first volume,
Empire In Black and Gold
, in 2008 to the final book,
Seal of the Worm
, in 2014, with a new series and a standalone science fiction novel scheduled for 2015. He has been nominated for the David Gemmell Legend Award and a British Fantasy Society Award. In civilian life he is a lawyer, gamer and amateur entolomogist.

Bram Stoker Nominee and Shirley Jackson Award winner
Kaaron Warren
(kaaronwarren.wordpress.com) has lived in Melbourne, Sydney, Canberra and Fiji. She’s sold many short stories, three novels (the multi-award-winning
Slights
,
Walking the Tree
and
Mistification
) and four short story collections.
Through Splintered Walls
won a Canberra Critic’s Circle Award for Fiction, an ACT Writers’ and Publisher’s Award, two Ditmar Awards, two Australian Shadows Awards and a Shirley Jackson Award. Her story “Air, Water and the Grove” won the Aurealis Award for Best SF Short Story and will appear in Paula Guran’s
Year’s Best Dark Fantasy and Horror
. Her latest collection is
The Gate Theory
. Kaaron Tweets @KaaronWarren.

After a misspent adulthood pursuing a Music Education degree,
Jamie Wyman
(jamiewyman.com) fostered several interests before discovering that being an author means never having to get out of pajamas. She has an unhealthy addiction to chai, a passion for circus history, and a questionable hobby that involves putting a flaming torch into her mouth. When she’s not traipsing about with her imaginary friends, she lives in Phoenix with two hobbits and two cats. Jamie is proud to say she has a deeply disturbed following at her blog.

Jamie’s debut novel
Wild Card
(Entangled Edge, 2013) is available wherever ebooks are sold. You can also find her short story “The Clever One” in the anthology
When The Hero Comes Home 2
(Dragon Moon Press, August 2013). Look for
Unveiled
, the follow-up to
Wild Card
, in November 2014.