Richard Dansky

A professional video game writer and designer, Richard Dansky lives in North Carolina. Firefly Rain is his first original novel. You can learn more about Richard at his website.

J.M. McDermott

J.M. McDermott graduated from the University of Houston in 2002 with a BA in Creative Writing. He resides in Arlington, Texas with an assortment of empty coffee cups, overflowing bookshelves, and crazy schemes. Find out more about J.M. McDermott by visiting him at his blog.

Melanie Tem and Steve Rasnic Tem

Award-winning author, poet, and playwright Melanie Tem is the author of fourteen published novels. Her works have won, among many accolades, the Bram Stoker Award and the British Fantasy Award. Dan Simmons called her “the literary successor to Shirley Jackson,” and readers and reviewers consistently rave about her deeply involved stories of the terrors that haunt families.

Steve Rasnic Tem has been called “a school of writing unto himself” (Joe R. Lansdale). His surreal stories have earned him comparisons to Franz Kafka, Dino Buzzati, Ray Bradbury, and Raymond Carver. As a solo writer and editor he has won the Bram Stoker, British Fantasy, and International Horror Guild awards, and been nominated for the Philip K. Dick and World Fantasy awards.

Together, Melanie and Steve won the Bram Stoker Award for their multimedia collection Imagination Box, and won a Stoker, International Horror Guild, and World Fantasy award for their novella “The Man on the Ceiling” (the only work ever to win all three). They live in Denver, Colorado with the family they have made for themselves.

Visit Melanie and Steve at their website.

Rob Rogers

Rob Rogers was born in Illinois and raised in Nashville, Tennessee. He received his degree in English from Furman University in Greenville, South Carolina, and studied creative writing in Boston at Emerson College. He lives in the Dallas/Fort Worth area with his wife Dina and sons Alex and Zack. Devil’s Cape is his first novel. Discover more about Rob Rogers by reading his blog.