Riley Odell is an autistic neurodiversity advocate, anthology editor, and writer of horror, humor, and bizarro. He lives in Fort Collins, Colorado, with his wife Jamie and their two pet children, a dog named Sadie and a rabbit named Newton.
Wendy L. Anderson writes epic fantasy filled with adventure, forbidden love, and richly imagined worlds. Creator of the Kingdom of Jior series, she blends action, romance, and mythic storytelling inspired by classic fantasy traditions.
@wendylanderson_author
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By day, Stace Johnson is a mild-mannered IT guy for a Colorado 9-1-1 facility, but at night, he transforms into a mild-mannered writer, poet, and musician with an affinity for the Oxford comma.
Stace has written more than thirty non-fiction articles for computer magazines such as ComputorEdge and Rocky Mountain TechLine, and his fiction has appeared most recently in Martian Magazine and Edward Bryant’s Sphere of Influence. He received an Honorable Mention in the Fall 2009 Writers of the Future Contest, and his short story “Sphere of Falling” was chosen to be presented orally at Stories for All Seasons, a Denver literary series, in 2003.
His poetry has appeared in numerous places, including Tales of the Talisman, the Apex Book Company website, and cream city review‘s inaugural I/O issue. He is a long-standing member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association.
He loves puns. You have been warned.
Colorado Author’s Cooperative
What does it mean to be a hero?
What does it take to be a hero?
I write fantasy and science fiction short stories and novels that explore heroism. Heroism isn’t about power and it isn’t about moral purity. Real heroes struggle even as they try to do the right thing.
For thirty-one years, I was an aerospace engineer dedicated to getting high performing cameras into space to help us understand and monitor the Earth’s environment. I met a lot of quiet heroes doing that. These days, the heroes I write about aren’t that quiet.
LL Blacke is a science fiction and paranormal author. Their first novel, “Search for the Signet,” an Orion Labauve novel, should be available through the publisher Foolscap and Quill. They are working on the final edits for their second Orion Labauve novel, “Spectral Promises”. A third novel, “The Hero Federation Chronicles,” a superhero novel, is in progress.
Colorado Author’s Cooperative
Long-time local Colorado fan and author of fantasy and science fiction.
Sam Ledel writes queer stories – sometimes fantastical, sometimes historical. She has nine novels published with Bold Strokes Books. Ledel currently resides in Denver and is working on her next novel.
https://www.samledel.com/
Instagram: @samledel
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Rogue Publishing is the home of several Scifi and Action Adventure series. John Wilker writes accessible rip-roaring space opera adventures with diverse casts and witty banter. He takes inspiration from Farscape, Guardians of the Galaxy and more.
Vennessa Robertson is an author, active in the writing and historic reenactment communities.
Kendra Merritt writes fantasy and science fiction with disabled characters. If she’s not writing, she’s reading, and if she’s not reading, she’s playing video games.