Kaiju Rising: Age of Monsters (60 page)

BONNIE JO STUFFLEBEAM
lives in Texas with her husband and two literarily-named cats: Gimli and Don Quixote. Her fiction and poetry has appeared in magazines such as 
Clarkesworld
, 
Strange Horizons
, 
Goblin Fruit
, and 
Daily Science Fiction
. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Southern Maine's Stonecoast program and reviews short fiction at her blog, 
Short Story Review
. You can visit her on Twitter
 
@BonnieJoStuffle
 
or through her website:
www.bonniejostufflebeam.com
.
 

PETER RAWLIK
was once a celebrity book dealer, but gave up that lucrative career to write weird fiction and make some serious money.  He vehemently denies rumors that for the last twenty years he has been involved in secret plans to restore giant crocodiles to the coast of Florida.  Even if he had been involved in such work, he certainly was never properly compensated.

His work on Lovecraftian fiction, drawing on resources contained within his personal collection, has garnered much interest from readers, editors, and representatives from certain organizations devoted to the elimination of corrupting moral influences.

His work has been published by Miskatonic River Press, Black Coat Press, Innsmouth Free Press, Prime Books, and Fedogan and Bremer.  His novel 
Reanimators
 was published by NightShade Books.

J.C. KOCH
is scared by horror stories but writes them anyway. J.C.’s stories have appeared in Arkham Tales, Necrotic Tissue, and Penumbra. In addition to writing about scary things, J.C. also likes to do scary things like pay attention to politics, keep up with the Kardashians, and play the stock market. With no time to actually do any of those things, though, J.C. tends to stay hidden under the bed, letting more of the terrors of the mind bleed onto the page, both metaphorically and literally. Reach J.C. at Going Bump in the Night (
http://www.ginikoch.com/jkbookstore.htm
).

PETER CLINES
 
is the author of the genre-blending
 
-14
-
 
and the 
Ex-Heroes 
series.

He grew up in the Stephen King fallout zone of Maine and--inspired by comic books,
 
Star Wars
, and Saturday morning cartoons--started writing at the age of eight with his first epic novel, 
Lizard Men From The Center of The Earth
(unreleased). He made his first writing sale at age seventeen to a local newspaper, and at the age of nineteen he completed his quadruple-PhD studies in English literature, archaeology, quantum physics, and interpretive dance. In 2008, while surfing Hawaii's Keauwaula Beach, he thought up a viable way to maintain cold fusion that would also solve world hunger, but forgot about it when he ran into actress Yvonne Strahvorski back on the beach and she offered to buy him a drink. He was the inspiration for both the epic poem 
Beowulf
 and the motion picture
Raiders of the Lost Ark
, and is single-handedly responsible for repelling the Martian Invasion of 1938 that occurred in Grovers Mills, New Jersey. Eleven sonnets he wrote to impress a girl in high school were all later found and attributed to Shakespeare.

He is the writer of countless film articles, several short stories,
 
The Junkie Quatrain
, the rarely-read 
The Eerie Adventures of the Lycanthrope Robinson Crusoe
, the poorly-named website 
Writer on Writing
 
, and an as-yet-undiscovered Dead Sea Scroll.
He currently lives and writes somewhere in southern California.

JAMES MAXEY:
I've been an avid reader since I first picked up a book. Luckily, I was within biking distance of three different libraries growing up. I was a skinny kid. If only I had maintained that link between biking and reading, I might be a skinny adult.

I'm also a writer. I wrote my first book as a kid, an adventure about pirates and ghosts. When I was a teenager, I used to write superhero adventures. Then I went to college and was steered toward writing "literature." It took me several years to shake that off, and today I write the sort of books I devoured by the shelf when I was sixteen, fast-paced fantasy, SF, and superhero adventures, which I use to explore deeper questions about life. My goal is to always be thought-provoking and always be fun.

I've had short stories in about a dozen anthologies and magazines. My novels to date are:
Nobody Gets the Girl, The Dragon Age trilogy, Bitterwood, Dragonforge, Dragonseed, Burn Baby Burn, The Dragon Apocalypse, Greatshadow, Hush, and Witchbreaker.

JOSH REYNOLDS
is a professional freelance writer. In addition to his own work–a full list of which can be found 
here
–he has written for several tie-in franchises, including Gold Eagle’s Executioner line and Black Library’s Warhammer Fantasy line. He has also written numerous non-fiction articles and reviews.
 If you wish to get in touch with him, please feel free to do so by any of the social media outlets available, including 
Tumblr
,
 
Facebook
,
 
Goodreads
,
 and 
Twitter
.

Author and video game designer
ERIN HOFFMAN
was born in San Diego and now lives in northern California, where she works as Game Design Lead at the Institute of Play’s 
GlassLab
, a
Bill and Melinda Gates and Macarthur Foundation supported three-year initiative to establish integrated formative assessment educational games. She is the author of the Chaos Knight series from Pyr books, beginning with 
Sword of Fire and Sea
, followed by 
Lance of Earth and Sky
 in April 2012 and concluding with 
Shield of Sea and Space
 in 2013.

Her video game credits include 
DragonRealms, Shadowbane: The Lost Kingdom, GoPets: Vacation Island, Kung Fu Panda World,
 and 
FrontierVille
. She writes for the award-winning online magazine 
The Escapist
, and has had fiction and poetry in 
Asimov’s Science Fiction, Electric Velocipede, Beneath Ceaseless Skies
, and more. In 2004 her blog on game industry working conditions, “ea_spouse”, was covered by the 
New York Times, Wall Street Journal,
 and
LA Times
, and is now referenced in numerous game history and corporate history studies.

Erin’s games have won multiple awards and have been played by millions of kids and adults worldwide. She is multiethnic, with family names including Lee, Asakawa (yonsei), and Drake in addition to Hoffman.

TIMOTHY W. LONG
has seen the world courtesy of the United States Navy. He has also been writing tales and stories since he could hold a crayon and read enough books to choke a landfill. He has a fascination with all things zombie, a predilection for weird literature, and a deep-seated need to jot words on paper and thrust them at people in the hopes they will nod, smile, and maybe pat him on the back and buy him a cold one.

Tim writes for 
PERMUTED PRESS
. The largest publisher of post apocalyptic fi
ction in the world. He is the author of the horror novels Beyond the Barriers, Among the Living, and the sequel - Among the Dead.

His other works include the deserted island "zombedy", The Zombie Wilson Diaries. He also co-wrote the post-apocalyptic novel The Apocalypse and Satan's Glory Hole with 
SIR JONATHAN MOON
. This book was recently named the preferred version of the end of the world by a consortium of rapture survivors.

True story.

Tim's latest book is the free ongoing serial Z-Risen: Outbreak but he is also hard at work on the final Among the Living book titled Among the Ashes.

LARRY CORREIA
 is a New York Times bestselling fantasy novelist. His first novel, 
Monster Hunter International
, despite being self-published reached the 
Entertainment Weekly
 
bestseller list in April 2008, after which he received a publishing contract with 
Baen Books
.
 
Monster Hunter International
 was re-released in 2009 and was on the 
Locus
bestseller list in November 2009. The sequel,
 
Monster Hunter Vendetta
, was a 
New York Times
 bestseller
.
The third book in the series, 
Monster Hunter Alpha
, was released in July 2011 and was also a 
New York Times
 bestseller.
Correia was a finalist for the 
John W. Campbell award for best new science fiction/fantasy writer of 2011
. The
 
Dead Six
 series started as an online action fiction collaboration with Mike Kupari (Nightcrawler) at the online gun forum "The High Road" as the "Welcome Back Mr Nightcrawler" series of posts. These works predated the publishing of 
Monster Hunter
.

CL WERNER
has crafted numerous tales for Red Leaf Comics, the Black Library, and other cutting edge publishers. He recently stopped by CBI studios to talk with publisher John Michael Helmer about his career writing comics, novels, and war games.

JAMES SWALLOW
 is a 
British
 
author and scriptwriter. A 
BAFTA
 
nominee and a 
New York Times
 
bestseller, he is the author of several original books and 
tie-in novels
, as well as short fiction, numerous audio dramas and videogames.

His writing includes
 
The Sundowners series
 
of 
Western fiction
 
steampunk
 
novels, and fiction from the worlds of 
Star Trek
,
 
Warhammer 40,000
,
 
Doctor Who
,
 
Stargate
and
 
2000 AD
. He lives and works in
 
London
.

ROBERT ELROD
is a self-taught artist who works with a variety of mediums including pencil, color pencil, ink, watercolor, gouache, acrylic and digital. His artwork has appeared on the covers of several novels and anthologies from small-press horror authors and publishers, including Permuted Press. 
Tickling A Dead Man: Stories about George
 is his self-published comic book in which he relentlessly tortures his misanthropic title character by forcing him to face his deepest fears and anxieties. His comics have also appeared within the pages of the “Best New Zombie Tales” series from Books of the Dead Press. Robert has contributed pinup art to publications by Bluewater Comics, Creephouse Comics, Creator’s Edge Press, Abandoned Comics, Angry Dog Press, British Fantasy Society, Lovecraft eZine, The Big Adios, This Is Horror, and Ragnarok Publications. To see more of his work, visit
www.robertelrodllc.com
.

CHUCK LUKACS
[loo-cuss] has been illustrating for science fiction and fantasy gaming markets for over 17 years, occasionally teaches illustration in Portland, OR, and has spent a number of years studying ceramics, bookarts, wood engraving, alternative energy, traditional archery, and homebrewing.  Lukacs’s paintings and prints have won awards and appeared in conventions, galleries and museums internationally.  He was featured in Spectrum 7, ImagineFX June/2010 (UK), FantasyArt Magazine (Peking University), and has authored two fantasy art tutorial books: 
Wreaking Havoc
, 2007 and 
FANTASY GENESIS
, 2010
.  Clients include: NBC/Universal, Wizards of the Coast's 
Magic the Gathering
, Impact Books, Pyr/Prometheus Books, Paizo, SuperGenius, Upper Deck, Games Workshop, Road Runner, and Atlantic Records.  :: 
ChuckLukacs.com
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FantasyGenesis.blogspot.com 
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PortlandStinkeye.blogspot.com
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