Author Spotlight

Jaimie N. Schock is an author, editor, and journalist with nearly two decades of professional experience. She has been published in newspapers and magazines and has released nine fiction novels, including The Talisman War fantasy series (The Pyre Starter, The Fired Gun, The Circus Crown, The Queen’s Pain, The Crystal Call, The Magic Pact, and The Burning Key) and the sci-fi books Visions of Iotan and The Wasteland Kings.

Mr. Torres resides in Northern California along with his beautiful wife, brilliant daughters, and their wonder dog, where he often writes once everyone is finally asleep. As a child of the ’70s, his original works are inspired by his love of the golden age of Marvel Comics, Saturday afternoon Kung-Fu Theatre, Star Wars, Star Trek, James Bond, The Twilight Zone, and all things strange and unexplained. These obsessions helped him avoid gangs, violence, drugs, and dropping out o

Eric Kruger was born in Welkom, South Africa. Before turning his attention to writing books, he tried waiting, pizza making, selling CDs, photography, and being a department manager in a motorcycle shop. He is presently working on the Benjamin Drake series. Eric lives in Australia with his wife and two young children.

Carol Parsons lives in Tyler, Texas when she’s not traveling to points unknown—either literally or in her imagination. She’s married with children and grandchildren, loves campy sci fi shows and anime, and would rather be parasailing than cleaning house. With over 30 years in the writing business, she is a retired high school teacher and gardens when she isn’t plotting against her characters.

Julian grew up in Sussex, UK. A broken home in his early teens took him off the ‘straight and narrow’, and he’s never gone back. In the subsequent four decades, he’s worked at levels from loading bay to boardroom and picked up a few stories along the way. His first loves were science fantasy and magic; the blending of ancient and futuristic. He started writing at school, extended into writing role-playing game scenarios, and thence into bardic storytelling. In 2011 he publis