Tag: Author (Page 6 of 7)

Stella Price

March 22, 2026 / ravenchair

A twenty-year veteran of the industry, Stella Price has explored many avenues of the industry including owning a small press, and working as a cover designer for several small presses and traditional publishers on top of being a published author. An author of over 100 books, with a specific focus on paranormal and romance, she believes “happily ever after” isn’t just for fairy tales, and monsters need love too. She lives in South Carolina with her husband and dogs in a house where everyday is Halloween.

M.T. Reiten

March 14, 2026 / ravenchair

M.T. Reiten served in the military, with deployments to Bosnia and Afghanistan, and worked as a scientist at a national lab in NM for over a decade proving that there is such a thing as too much research for writing science fiction. He practices aikido, makes pizza, and now lives near Washington, DC with his family. A Writers of the Future and Jim Baen Memorial Short Story Contest winner, he has published stories in Analog and DreamForge and several anthologies to include S. M. Stirling’s The Change, “Higher Ground” in Robosoldiers: Thank You for Your Servos, and the newly released “Defense of Waygo Port” in Tales of the United States Space Force. Visit him online at mtreiten.com.

Kate Ressman

March 14, 2026 / ravenchair

Kate Ressman has been writing for her entire life. It’s true—she has proof of a second grade story where a cat inherits his human’s money. She is the author of Cherry Blossom Express, To Market, and Sugar and Spice. A bit of a nomad in the past, she has settled down and currently lives in Northern Virginia. She has two businesses, a day job, and an imaginary cat.

Sam Scheiner

March 12, 2026 / ravenchair

Sam Scheiner is a long-time fan and scientist. He grew up in the Pittsburgh area and got involved in fandom during college. At the University of Chicago, he reincarnated their science fiction club. He met his wife at Windycon in Chicago, and his child attended their first con at the age of 4 weeks, sleeping underneath a huckster table. He was the CFO for DisCon III and currently is involved in the Washington Science Fiction Association and is a past chair of the local convention—Capclave.

His scientific areas of expertise are ecology and evolution, and he has published 11 books, including The Ecology of Plants and The Theory of Ecology, and over 120 scientific papers. He also co-authored a book with SF author Phyllis Eisenstein on arthritis. He retired after working for 26 years as a Program Director at the U.S. National Science Foundation, having escaped just in time, but continues as an active researcher.

Katika Schneider

March 11, 2026 / ravenchair

Introduced to the art of writing by her fourth grade teacher, Kat’s been an obsessive writer for most of her life. She started out writing for herself, then her characters, and began pursuing publication in 2014. She’s a firm believer that everyone has a story to tell.

Holding her degree in Animal Science, Kat planned on attending veterinary school until incisions started making her faint. She is now a roving writer, living with her husband, son, and their family of critters.

Kat is the author of The Afflicted Saga, a character-driven epic fantasy for epic readers.

Lawrence M. Schoen

March 11, 2026 / ravenchair

Lawrence M. Schoen holds a Ph.D. in cognitive psychology, is a past Astounding, Hugo, and Nebula finalist, twice won the Cóyotl award for best novel, founded the Klingon Language Institute, and occasionally does work as a hypnotherapist specializing in authors’ issues.

His science fiction includes many light and humorous adventures of a space-faring stage hypnotist and his alien animal companion. Other works take a very different tone, exploring aspects of determinism and free will, generally redefining the continua between life and death. Sometimes he blurs the funny and the serious. Lawrence and his wife live just outside Philadelphia, PA. He has bested both Multiple Myeloma and Leukemia and is a chimeric cancer survivor.

Chris Semtner

March 11, 2026 / ravenchair

Chris Semtner is an award-winning, internationally exhibited visual artist whose work can be found in numerous private and public collections. He has written several articles and chapters in addition to eight books about Poe, visual art, horror, pop culture, and cryptography. His writing has appeared in Biography.com, Crime Writers’ Chronicle, Resources for American Literary Study, and other publications. He has been featured in publications including the New York Times, Mental Floss, Atlas Obscura, SyFy Wire, and Rue Morgue Magazine, in addition to appearing in documentaries in the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Spain, Venezuela, and Japan. As the curator of the Edgar Allan Poe Museum in Richmond, VA, he regularly speaks about strange and macabre subjects at various venues from the Steampunk World’s Fair to the Library of Congress and as far away as Paris and Kyoto, Japan. He has participated in several RavenCons, and they even gave him a Webster Award.

Daniel Sherrier

March 10, 2026 / ravenchair

Daniel Sherrier writes the Terrific series of superhero novels, which began with The Flying Woman in 2018. He’s a William & Mary graduate, a former community newspaper writer and editor, and a black belt in Thai kickboxing. And there was that one time he jumped out of an airplane, which was memorable.

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.

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.