Category: Author Guest (Page 2 of 3)

Alan Smale

March 9, 2026 / ravenchair

Alan Smale writes alternate history, historical fantasy, and hard SF. His novella of a Roman invasion of ancient America, “A Clash of Eagles”, won the Sidewise Award for Alternate History, and his novels set in the same universe, Clash of Eagles, Eagle in Exile, and Eagle and Empire (2015-2017) are available from Del Rey. His “Roman baseball” collaboration with Rick Wilber, The Wandering Warriors, came out from WordFire Press in 2020. Hot Moon, his alternate-Apollo “techno-thriller with heart”, set entirely on and around the Moon, was launched by CAEZIK SF & Fantasy in 2022, with sequels Radiant Sky in 2024 and Burning Night in 2025.

Alan has sold over fifty stories to Asimov’s and other magazines and anthologies, and his short story “Gunpowder Treason” earned him a second Sidewise Award in 2022. His non-fiction essays have appeared in Lightspeed, Journey Planet, and Galaxy’s Edge.

Alan grew up in Yorkshire, England, and earned degrees in Physics and Astrophysics from Oxford University. Until recently he performed astronomical research at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, and served as director of an astrophysical data archive. He also sings bass with high-energy vocal band The Chromatics, and is co-creator of their educational AstroCappella project, spreading astronomy through a cappella in schools across the country.

J.A. Sutherland

March 8, 2026 / ravenchair

J.A. Sutherland published his first novel in 2014 after seeing the success of Ravished by the Raptor—he figured if that had a market, then he could write some books. Since then, he’s made a point of writing the books he’d like to read, including the Alexis Carew space opera series, and is blessed to be able to write full-time. You can connect with him via darkspace.press, Facebook, Discord, and Patreon—but not Twitter, where he was permanently suspended for telling a high-ranking Iranian official he had a dream the official would die with a cactus up his butt. Sideways.

Tangent Artists

March 8, 2026 / ravenchair

Tangent Artists, founded in 2009, has had the privilege of providing entertaining stories in the form of comics, gaming books, merch and now novels and videos. Starting with their best seller: The Handbook for Saucy Bards their Guild Guide series is expanding to include The Barbarian’s Coloring and Activity Book (for reading levels 2-4). And Monica Marier’s Must Love Dragons series is launching the prequel: Must Love Humans! Find out how Linus met Deirdre in this meet-cute gone wrong.

Mary Terrani

March 8, 2026 / ravenchair

Mary Terrani lives a chaotic life as the mother of two boys of the 20-something variety. They keep her on her toes on a regular basis, so she’s happy to get lost in other worlds. Her long-standing passion for the written word drives her need to create chaos with her pen that only she can solve. She loves to dabble in many genres, from young adult to paranormal, and a post-apocalyptic piece she’s co-written with fellow author, Sarah Cass.

When she’s not writing, Mary can be found in a variety of activities including knitting, gaming, and anything involving her favorite geekdoms. Mom, author and all around geek she loves spending time with her family. You can find Mary on Instagram, Facebook, and her website.

Toi Thomas

March 8, 2026 / ravenchair

A self-proclaimed techie and foodie, Toi Thomas was born in Texas but considers Virginia to be home. She enjoys cooking, all things geek, and collecting vinyl records, teapots, and books. Toi is an animal lover and reading advocate, believing there is a book out there for everyone. Currently working as a behavioral clinician, Toi and her husband, Eric, share their home with a feisty tortoise named Betty.

Toi writes clean, adult, multi-genre fiction as well as nonfiction. Toi also writes and illustrates the Chip and Joe series, Carnie Loves Books, and Margie “The Scaredy Dog” Finds a Home. Toi actively creates with her fans at Patreon, where she caters to both paid and unpaid subscribers with video and original content.

Toi continues to develop and share long- and short-form fiction, in addition to insights and recipes from her ongoing food journey. From collecting to commentary, world building to recipes, Toi has something for the whole family.

D.H. Timpko/Alexis Dupree

March 8, 2026 / ravenchair

D. H. Timpko is the author of the Firma Twins adventures, science fiction novels for middle grade children (ages 8-12). Book 1, The Firma Twins and the Purple Staff of Death—identical twins learn they have fantastical powers far beyond anything they could have imagined. Book 2, The Firma Twins and the Flute of Enchantment, takes place at a science fiction convention and was shortlisted for the 2021 Gertrude Warner Book Awards for Middle Grade Fiction.

Timpko has just finished the first two books in the Mariah Rhodes series (Book 1: Escaping to Space and Book 2: Surviving the Danger Planet)—science fiction novels for middle grade kids about an abused teenage girl in the future whose uncontrolled telekinesis leaves her stranded in a lost colony on an unstable planet. She is now writing Book 3 in the series: Joining Space Fleet.

Under the pseudonym Alexis Dupree, she wrote Managing Major Chronic Diseases: Advice from a Patient and Knee Replacement Advice, Checklists, and Journal.

Jack Valentine

March 7, 2026 / ravenchair

Jack has more than thirty years of gaming and LARP experience. Having been a storyteller since he was a little kid, about fifteen years ago he began putting his work on paper. In addition to working as a freelance editor, he returned to his childhood dream of being an author, and has now written more than sixty short novels, many of them spicy romances, under his pen names, available on Amazon.

Tiffany Vega

March 7, 2026 / ravenchair

Tiffany Vega is a multi-genre author and a co-owner of Outsider Publishing Company. Her passions are reading, writing, and crafting—which she always brings in to her books. She is a mother of three men and three fur babies.

Nate Walton

March 7, 2026 / ravenchair

Nate Walton is a writer, he puts words together in sometimes interesting ways, usually they are about horror or pop culture or other things people like. Sometimes they are good. You can check out his short story collection 3 Sisters Fight A Ghost, or find his work in the anthologies published by Outsider Publishing Company where he is a co-owner. He is working on multiple things including The Scars Call Me By Name, The Constant Quill or his semi-regular blog series The Made That Made Me.

Lisa Yaszek

March 2, 2026 / ravenchair

Lisa Yaszek is Regents’ Professor of Science Fiction Studies at Georgia Tech, where she explores science fiction as a global language crossing centuries, continents, and cultures. Her recent award-winning books include Sisters of Tomorrow: The First Women of Science Fiction (2016); Literary Afrofuturism in the Twenty-First Century (2021); and her The Future is Female! Classic Science Fiction Stories by Women series (2018-present). Dr. Yaszek’s ideas about science fiction as a window into culture have been featured in venues including Time Magazine, The Washington Post, and Space.com, and she has been an expert commentator for CBS Sunday Morning, the BBC4, Turner Classic Movies, and the AMC miniseries James Cameron’s Story of Science Fiction. A founding member of the Eugie Award for Short Speculative Fiction, in 2024 Dr. Yaszek received the Science Fiction Research Association’s Lifetime Achievement Award for her contributions to the study of science, technology, and science fiction across media.