Philcon 2019

Award-winning author Danielle Ackley-McPhail has worked both sides of the publishing industry for longer than she cares to admit. In 2014 she joined forces with husband Mike McPhail and friend Greg Schauer to form her own publishing house, eSpec Books (www.especbooks.com). Her published... Read More →

Neil Clarke (neil-clarke.com) is the editor of the Hugo and World Fantasy Award-winning Clarkesworld Magazine and several anthologies, including the Best Science Fiction of the Year series. He has been a finalist for the Hugo Award for Best Editor (Short Form) eight times, won the... Read More →

Author, Poet, and Publisher Michael H. Hanson created the ongoing SHA'DAA shared-world anthology series published by Moondream Press. Michael's short story "C.H.A.D." appears in the anthology C.H.U.D. Lives!, his short story "Rock and Road" appears in the Roger Zelazny tribute anthology... Read More →

Marc Histand has been involved in the publishing industry since 2014. Starting as a data entry specialist, and moving through each field in the industry from graphic design and typesetting to fulfillment and promotion, he’s been given the opportunity to see how every aspect of publishing... Read More →

Brian Koscienski is one half of Fortress Publishing, Inc. Fortress is an unholy dichotomy between the blistering writing style of Brian, who resembles Sasquatch with mange, and the dynamic gothic world of Chris Pisano, the last known Cro-Magnon man. When angry villagers wield-ing... Read More →

Alex Shvartsman is a writer, translator, and anthologist from Brooklyn, NY. His political fantasy novel Eridani’s Crown was published in 2019. Over 120 of his short stories have appeared in Analog, Nature, Strange Horizons, and many other venues. His website is www.alexshvartsm... Read More →