About Our Authors

These authors have contributed to our anthology. A huge thank you goes to each author for taking time out to help us with this!!!

Jack D. Albrecht Jr.

Jack D. Albrecht Jr. lives in Colorado. He is a devoted father and a full time student. His new found passion for writing consumes most of his time, but once in a while he can still be found under the hood of a car or studying for his Pharmaceutical degree. Jack has been an avid reader for most of his life, with Sci-Fi and fantasy being his favorite genres. Osric’s Wand: The Wand-Maker’s Debate was his first novel, co-authored with Ashley Delay.

Holly Barbo

Holly’s world is shaped by her love of her family, the beauty of the natural world in northwest Washington State and an irrepressible creative drive. She has always been curious and has seen life through questions. Her writing is an expression of these traits and she is drawn to creating stories where there is just a bit of something unworldly, perhaps it is magic, some psychic skills or located on a different planet. Her stories are mostly in non-urban settings and usually have some focus on nature, building a discordant drama inside the peaceful frame.

There are currently five completed books in the Sage Seed Chronicles. By mid-July 2013 four books in that series will be out with a fifth planned for very late 2013 or early 2014. Currently she is working on an unrelated story called: Sunstone.

Simone Beadelaire

Simone Beaudelaire is the pseudonym for a mild-mannered French teacher from Texas. When she isn't drilling her students on verb conjugation and object pronouns, she's home with her husband of eleven years, three kids, and one fat tabby cat.

As a writer, Mme Beaudelaire specializes in sexy sweet romances, contemporary, historical, and occasionally paranormal.

L M Boelz

Lin Maree Boelz a proud mother of two children and four grandchildren has had a fascination with legends and stories told around campfires since she can remember. She was always the first one to jump up and offer a chilling tale of what is really hiding in the shadows.

After being asked by several people if she ever planned on writing a book; she decided to follow her passion and write down some of her stories.

Lin decided the best place to start was with one of her worst fears as a child. No matter what her parents said, she was sure there was something hiding under the bed. Lin relates the authors having the biggest influence on her writing to be; Edgar Allen Poe, Stephen King, and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The shows that influenced her most were; The Twilight Zone, Outer Limits and the Night Gallery.

When asked what she believed made a good story, she related that she believes to keep a book interesting you have to have just the right amount of plot twist.

As a reader she likes to be surprised when something unexpected happens.

Lin's favorite way to end a campfire tales is to ask; 'Have you ever asked yourself, what if it is not just a story?'

Sheenah Freitas

A neek at heart, Sheenah Freitas has a love for the whimsical and magical. She looks to animated Disney movies and Studio Ghibli films for inspiration because of the innovative twists on fairytales, strong story structures, and character studies. When not writing, you might find her in a forest where she’s yet to find any enchanted castles.

J Bryden Lloyd

John Bryden Lloyd was born in the village of Llay near Wrexham in North Wales in 1969. Now in his 40's, and married with 6 children and a couple of dogs, he still works as a contracting CAD designer.

In 2011, The Rise Of Va'kaar was the first of the series of Chronicles involving Jenson Quest and the Great Drak. It took 18 months to write and although it was originally planned to be a stand-alone novel, the ideas and directions it inspired have spawned a possible 9-book series, the first trilogy of which is already available.

Book 2, The Realms Of Jurrii, was published in November 2011 and book 3, The Cause, in June 2012.

Along with the Jenson Quest series, he has also written The Zubot Master; a sci-fi series for younger readers. Part 1, Time Slip, was released in January 2012, and the second instalment, The New Age, is due out soon.

For those who prefer shorter works, Meet My Shorts! (a Series of Short Stories) was issued in February 2012, and Meet My Other Shorts! (a Series of Short Stories), in March 2012.

Dylan Patton

Dylan Patton lives in California and has been writing since he was young. His two favorite genres are action and horror, although he would like to experiment with different genres. Some of his favorite authors include Brian Keene, Dean Koontz and Laurel K. Hamilton.

J Rudolph

Julie Rudolph is a 30-something California native who is a bit of a zombie junkie. Some people say she's obsessed. She call it 'being prepared'.

Rudolph was born in the late 70′s, got married in 1996, got into nursing in 2000, and became a mom in 2002 to the best kid in the whole world. She wrote her first full length novel in 2012.

She has a house which has been taken over by her obsession with turtles. She has 2 pet turtles that have taken over the house, but since the people are the ones that provide the food, the turtles are kind enough to let Julie and her family live there too.

Julie hopes that you will enjoy reading Cali’s adventures as much as she did writing them. The Reanimates Series is a bit of a ride through the zombie apocalypse through the eyes of a Cali, a nurse who just wants her family and friends to make it through the end of the world.

Lisa Williamson

A writer since an early age, Lisa Williamson has been fasinated by stories where the characters go through changes and develop strength from great trials. She prefers the genre fields of fantasy, science fiction and horror over the general fiction. By placing her characters in fantastical settings she feels she can let them grow and develop in ways that can't be achieved in a real-world setting.

She was published in the early days of the ebook movement in a CD-Rom book that saw little movement and has now taken to the digital age with style. She will continue to set her words free and hope that the children of her heart find homes with caring readers who are willing to look beyond the normal to the fantastical.

She can be found writing fantasy, science fiction, light horror and fan-fiction.