Alexandra Christian
Alexandra Christian is an award-winning author of both paranormal and contemporary romance with occasional forays into horror and urban fantasy. Her love of Stephen King and sweet tea has flavored her fiction with a Southern Gothic sensibility that reeks of magnolia blossoms, steamy nights, and deep-fried eccentricity.
Lexx is a native South Carolinian who lives in a creepy small town with the love of her life and an overexcited goldendoodle named George Bailey. Comments, complaints, and photos of pets (she ALWAYS wants to see pictures of your pets) can be sent through her website at www.alexandrachristian.com.
Crymsyn Hart
Crymsyn Hart is a multi-genre author from Horror, Urban Fantasy, and Romance. Her years of experience at Boston’s oldest psychic salon doing readings and her encounters with the supernatural have inspired many novels. She’s a lover of all things dark and goth. Vampires, grim reapers, and other paranormal creatures tend to end up in her books no matter how hard she tries to keep them away.
She currently resides in Charlotte, NC with her hubby and their dog, Briar. By day she is conquering the world of Commercial Insurance, but by night she listens to the voices in her head telling her which rabbit hole to go down to find the perfect plot bunny.
S.H. Roddey
S.H. Roddey writes dark speculative fiction and works as a book formatter, cover designer, and developmental editor, both for hire and for several independent presses. She is also a voracious reader, wanna-be chef, amateur gamer, and owner of The Snark Shop, a handcrafted internet market. She lives in the Piedmont area of South Carolina with a house full of humans, cats, books, and yarn, and spends entirely too much time yelling at her sewing machine. She also writes romance under the name Siobhan Kinkade. She is also very food-motivated and can easily be bought with chocolate chip cookies.
Nicole Givens Kurtz
Nicole Givens Kurtz has been called “a genre polymath who does crime, horror, and Science Fiction and Fantasy (Book Riot).” They’ve named her as one of the 6 Black SFF Indie Writers You Should be Reading, 30 Must-Read SFF Books by Black Authors, and The Best of the West: 8 Alternative History Westerns (Sisters of the Wild Sage). She’s a two-time Atomacon Palmetto Scribe Award winner. With over 20 years in publishing, she’s written for Pseudopod, Fiyah, Apex Magazine, White Wolf, The Realm (formerly Serial Box), Subsume, and Baen. Nicole has over 50 published short stories and is the author of the Cybil Lewis and Death Violations cybernoir series as well as the Kingdom of Aves fantasy mystery series. She’s written the critically acclaimed, weird western anthology, Sisters of the Wild Sage: A Weird West Collection.
She has conducted workshops for Clarion West online, given keynote addresses, and is the owner of Mocha Memoirs Press. She’s the editor for the groundbreaking SLAY: Stories of the Vampire Noire anthology. Nicole is professional level member of SFWA and HWA
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Misty Massey
Misty Massey is the author of the Mad Kestrelseries of rollicking pirate fantasy adventures on the high seas, including the 2024 Palmetto Award winner for Best Novel, Kestrel’s Dance. Her short fiction has appeared in a number of anthologies, and she edited The Weird Wild West (eSpec Books), Lawless Lands: Tales of the Weird Frontier (Falstaff Books) and Nevermore (Falstaff Books).
Misty is a cast member of the Authors & Dragons actual play D&D podcast, appearing as the cheerful, sundrenched cleric Malibu and the debonair thief Anwir Crow. She’s a sucker for ginger snaps, African coffee, and anything sparkly. You can keep up with Misty at mistymassey.com and on Facebook, Twitter and TikTok.