Robert J Sawyer has won both the Hugo and Nebula Awards for best science-fiction novel of the year. The ABC TV series FlashForward was based on his novel of the same name. His latest novel is The Oppenheimer Alternative. A member of the Order of Canada, Rob lives in Mississauga.
Chris (CC) Humphreys - born in Toronto, raised in London - has played Hamlet in Calgary and a gladiator in Tunisia, waltzed in London's West End, conned the landlord of the Rovers Return in Coronation Street, patrolled the Sun Hill beat in The Bill, commanded a starfleet in Andromeda, voiced Salem the cat in the original Sabrina, and played a dead immortal in Highlander. He is also a playwright, audiobook narrator, creative writing teacher, and award-winning author of historical fiction and fantasy. He has written twenty-two novels including The French Executioner, the Jack Absolute trilogy, Vlad: The Last Confession, A Place Called Armageddon, Shakespeare's Rebel, Chasing the Wind, and his recent modern thriller One London Day. Plague won the Arthur Ellis Award for Best Crime Novel. His most recent book is the World-War-II thriller Someday I'll Find You. He lives on Salt Spring Island, BC. Visit him at www.authorchrishumphreys.com
JM Landels, writer and illustrator of the Allaigna's Song trilogy and co-founder of Pulp Literature wears far too many hats. The strange mix of a degree in Mediaeval English Literature, a misspent youth fronting alternative punk bands Mad Seraphim and Stiff Bunnies, and a career as a childbirth educator and doula informs her work. These days, when she isn't writing, editing or drawing, she can be found heading up the Mounted Combat Program for Academie Cavallo in Langley BC, where she swings swords and rides horses for fun and profit.