Brant Vickers started out as a caddy and then delivered flowers before going into the military, living in three foreign countries and seven states. He later found his true profession and vocation teaching students with special needs, some of the most endearing, sweet, loving people on the planet. He is the author of Chucky’s in Tucson and Fedor.

Working in niche publishing in 2005, Ekta has written and edited about everything from healthcare to home improvement to Hindi films. A writing contest judge for the Florida Writers Association and the Saturday Writers chapter of the Missouri Writers Guild, Ekta conducts writing workshops and also hosts Biblio Breakdown, where she examines books and offers writing exercises. She blogs original fiction, book reviews, and all things writing and editing at The Write Edge (http://thewriteedge.wordpress.com). Her holiday novella, The Truth About Elves, and her fairy tale for grownups, In the Heart of the Linden Wood, are both available now from Atmosphere Press.

A voracious reader since preschool, Ekta was one of those ‘nerdy’ kids who competed in spelling bees. If her parents wanted to punish her, they would take away her books, so Ekta made sure to behave. She got her start in niche publishing in 2005 and has written about and edited everything from healthcare to home improvement to Hindi films.

Renee Bell grew up among the trees and mountains of the Pacific Northwest and has never really lost the habit of paying more attention to the edges of a map than the middle of it. She writes fantasy, YA and adult both, usually about people figuring out who they are once nobody’s telling them anymore. Her first series is set in the world of Vireth.

Victoria was born near Chicago, Illinois, where her father was a well-known artist, creator of Bill Randall’s Date Book. She has five children, including Keith Graham, an artist, and Brandon Graham, author of graphic novels King City and Escalator. She worked as a registered nurse for thirty-five years. She has had stories published in several anthologies, has written several dystopian science fiction novels and two collections of short stories, and collaborated with her siblings to publish a biography of their father, Pinups, Portraits, and Posters: The Life and Art of Bill Randall.

Best-selling author Tamara Merrill has three happy places: reading, writing, and painting. When she was a child, she thought she’d grow up and live in a loft in Manhattan where she would spend her time doing all three. Tamara hasn’t done that, but she does live in two lovely places, Coronado, CA and Wickenburg, AZ.

Indian-born Debjani Chatterjee has been called a poet “full of wit and charm” (Andrew Motion), “Britain’s best-known Asian poet” (Elisabetta Marino), and “a national treasure” (Barry Tebb). She is also an editor, children’s writer, translator, storyteller, Olympic torchbearer, and arts psychotherapist.

Ti Mougne is a writer, photographer, and ICF-certified professional coach whose work explores the complexities of being human—how we show up, love, lose, change, and make meaning of our lives. For more than fifteen years, she has coached leaders and teams through change, drawing on a lifelong curiosity about how people learn, grow, and see the world differently.

Wayne Delk is a writer, husband, father, former schoolteacher, and retired police sergeant whose work is shaped by more than three decades of service, leadership, and personal reflection.

For years, I had a dream. I wanted to write a book. Stories swam around my mind heading in no particular direction. Then one Christmas season, our elves came to visit. A little story began to brew in my mind and grew throughout the month. Then another lockdown hit us. This time, in January, I decided to tell the tale to my daughter Kayla on one of our frosty January walks. I went home and jotted down what I thought would be a simple eleven-chapter story. When lockdown ended, this dream was put to one side but remained in both my heart and my mind.