The Authors

Erik Kort abides in the glorious Pacific Northwest, otherwise known as Mirkwood-Without-The-Giant-Spiders. Though the spiders often grow too numerous for his comfort. He is defended from all eight-legged threats by his brave and overly tolerant wife, and is mocked by his two obligatory writer’s cats.

When not writing, Erik comforts the elderly, guides youths through vast wildernesses, and smuggles more books into his library of increasingly alarming size. He also writes under the open pen name Erik Marshall, with his dark fantasy novel, Children Without Faces, placing as a quarterfinalist in the 2018 Booklife Prize.

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Lee French is a USA Today bestselling author living in Olympia, WA with two kids, two bicycles, and too much stuff. She is an avid gamer and member of the Myth-Weavers online RPG community. In addition to spending too much time there, she also trains in taekwondo, has a nice flower garden with one dragon and absolutely no lawn gnomes, and tries in vain every year to grow vegetables that don’t get devoured by neighborhood wildlife.

She is an active member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America and a Municipal Liaison for her NaNoWriMo region.