Rich Sigfrit is one of the suspected secret identities for Mr. Adventure, who is the hero the overlooks the streets of Sapphire City.

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Scott Sigler is the New York Times best-selling author of fifteen novels, six novellas and dozens of short stories. His works are available from Crown Publishing and Del Rey Books.

In 2005, Scott built a large online following by releasing his audiobooks as serialized podcasts. A decade later, he still gives his stories away — for free — every Sunday at scottsigler.com. His loyal fans, who named themselves “Junkies,” have downloaded over thirty-five million individual episodes. (more…)

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Your reader this week is James Silverstein was born and grew up just outside of Chicago and has been writing fiction since the age of 9, the day he was given his first typewriter (and ‘Dragonman‘, the draconic superhero was born!). He has been involved in theater from the same age, including some professional Shakespeare in the 90’s and now does community theater). He has written for various role playing games, including 7th Sea, Stargate, and, most recently, Cairn. He is working with Dave Robison on his SHATTERED WORLDS project, and Antimatter Press on his own novel; NECROPOLIS, a hard-boiled private eye tale with the undead.

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ADRIAN SIMMONS writes science fiction, fantasy, a little non-fiction, and a little horror. He is a founding member and co-editor of Heroic Fantasy Quarterly. His science fiction stories are available in issues one and three of James Gunn’s AD ASTRA online magazine, and his story “Paradise of Wasteland” in Heroic Fantasy Quarterly number nineteen received a “recommended” score from Locus magazine’s Lois Tilton.

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Heather Simmons grew up in South Africa and has made her home in the United States. She is an active participant in community theatre with radio experience and can be reached for narration requests at heatheresimmons@gmail.com

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Janni Lee Simner was born aboard a pirate ship, but as soon as she came of age booked passage with a caravan bound for the Sahara, and spent the next decade as a seeker of lost cities, hidden tombs, and ancient artifacts. While hiding from assassins in the lost Library of Alexandria, however, she discovered she really preferred telling stories, and so she settled down in the Sonoran desert to write, interrupted only by the occasional map-bearing stranger or man-eating Gila monster.

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Jonny is a writer, performer, games designer and hopes someday to have been a ghost all along. In addition to writing and narrating The Magnus Archives he performs with space-pirate myth-singers The Mechanisms. He enjoys grotesque body horror, spaghetti westerns, haunting the dark streets of London, and photos of dogs having birthday parties. He owns the two best cats in the world. If you also have a cat you thought was the best, you were wrong – sorry you had to find out this way.

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Born in NYC, Alex Singer now lives along Long Island Sound with her wife, two cats, and too many SFF novels to count. She is the author of indie titles MINOTAUR, SONG OF THE BULLRIDER, the graphic novella SMALL TOWN WITCH. Her short stories have appeared in Crossed Genres Magazine, Utopia Science Fiction, and Apparition Literature. For more, visit her website at littlefoolery.com or twitter @sfeertheorist.

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