Tales from Stolki's Hall: A Thrones & Bones Anthology

Lou Anders is the author of the Thrones & Bones trilogy, comprised of the novels Frostborn, Nightborn, and Skyborn, as well as Once Upon a Unicorn and Star Wars: Pirate’s Price. He is the creator of the Thrones & Bones: Norrøngard roleplaying game setting. Anders is the recipient of a Hugo Award for editing and a Chesley Award for art direction, and he was named a Thurber House Writer-in-Residence. He has done roleplaying game design for Kobold Press, River Horse, and 3D Printed Tabletop. When not writing, he enjoys playing roleplaying games, 3D printing, and watching movies. He lives with his wife, children, and two golden doodles in Birmingham, Alabama. You can visit Anders online at louanders.com, on Facebook, Instagram, and other social networks.

JOEL SHEPHERD is the Australian author of eighteen SF and Fantasy novels in three series. They are “The Cassandra Kresnov Series,” “A Trial of Blood and Steel,” and “The Spiral Wars.” Visit him online at www.joelshepherd.com, on Facebook, and on Twitter @ShepJoel.

ED GREENWOOD is a Canadian writer, game designer, voice actor, and librarian best known for creating The Forgotten Realms® fantasy world, starting at age six; he still works on the Realms every day, more than fifty years later, but over those years has created or co-created dozens of other settings, such as Stormtalons and Mornmist, and contributed to the fantasy settings of others, including Oz and Middle Earth.

Ed’s 400-plus books have sold over 40 million copies worldwide and been translated into over 40 languages. Ed was elected to the Academy of Adventure Gaming Art & Design Hall of Fame in 2003, and has won multiple ENNIE, Origins, and other awards. He has judged the World Fantasy Awards and the Sunburst Awards, hosted radio shows, acted onstage, explored caves, jousted, and been Santa Claus—but not all on the same day. He is likely the only Canadian to have scripted comic books for multiple companies and appeared as himself in the pages of comic books published by several imprints.

He shares a house in the Ontario countryside with over 300,000 books. Not counting the secret bookroom. Join Ed’s Patreon for his Realmslore, watch his YouTube channel for the fun stories, and follow Ed on Twitter @TheEdVerse for daily doggerel and ongoing Lord Wolf snark fiction.

K.V. JOHANSEN is the author of the five-book Silk Road epic fantasy series Gods of the Caravan Road: Blackdog (shortlisted for the Sunburst Award), The Leopard, The Lady, Gods of Nabban, and The Last Road. She holds an M.A. in Medieval Studies and another in English. While spending most of her time writing, she retains her interest in medieval history and languages and is a member of the SFWA and the Writers’ Union of Canada. In 2014, she was an instructor at the Science Fiction Foundation’s Masterclass in Literary Criticism held in London. She is also the author of two works on the history of children’s fantasy literature, two short story collections, a number of books for children and teens, and writing as Kris Jamison, a contemporary novel, Love/Rock/Compost. Various of her books have been translated into French, Macedonian, and Danish. Although not a player of RPGs, she does play classical guitar, electric guitar, and bass with dogged persistence. Visit her online at http://www.kvj.ca and on Twitter @KVJohansen.

SARAH L. MILES is a comics fan, tabletop gamer and competitive strongwoman. She lives on the south coast of England with her partner, one excitable Springer spaniel, and an uncounted number of house plants. You can find Sarah on social media, where she is @iamgiantwoman.

JON SPRUNK lives in central Pennsylvania and has been writing fantasy stories since he was in short pants. He is a proud husband, father, lifelong geek gamer, and author of the SHADOW SAGA and BOOK OF THE BLACK EARTH fantasy series. More information about Jon and his works can be found at jonsprunk.com. 

CLAY AND SUSAN GRIFFITH are the co-authors of historical fantasy such as the VAMPIRE EMPIRE series and the CROWN & KEY trilogy, plus superhero tie-in fiction The Flash: The Haunting of Barry Allen and Arrow: A Generation of Vipers. They have also written comic books including The Tick, Kolchak: The Night Stalker, and Disney’s Beauty and the Beast. Visit them online at www.clayandsusangriffith.com, on Facebook at clayandsusangriffith, and on Twitter @clayandsusan.

Rachael Smith is an award-winning comic artist and writer. She has created many critically acclaimed graphic novels including Quarantine Comix, Wired Up Wrong, and The Rabbit. Rachael has worked for Titan, Image, Boom, and The New Yorker, among others. More information can be found at www.rachaelsmith.org.

J. DIANNE DOTSON is the science fiction, fantasy, and horror author of The Shadow Galaxy collection (March 2023; Trepidatio), The Inn at the Amethyst Lantern (October 2023; Android Press) and The Questrison Saga® space opera series. She is also the author of several short stories across genres. Additionally, Dianne is a science writer and artist. She holds a degree in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology with an emphasis on Zoology, and is quite fond of birds, hiking, and journeys. Visit Dianne’s website at jdiannedotson.com or follow her via Twitter/Instagram: @jdiannedotson

JONATHAN ANDERS is a linguist, poet, and musician with a fascination for the uncanny and the arcane. He has written scholarly commentaries on the works of Jean de LaFontaine, Richard Wright, and William Blake, and has devised a conlang for Meta. His favorite piece of fiction is Moby Dick, which he contends is a work of High Dark Fantasy. He is in fact currently working on a sequel to Moby Dick set many years in the future on the saltless seas of a far-distant world. In his free time, he can be found free-styling on his electric piano, playing RPGs, and ranting about linguistic prescriptivism.

CHRIS WILLRICH’s short fiction has appeared in Asimov’s, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Clarkesworld, Fantasy & Science Fiction, Lightspeed, Tales from the Magician’s Skull, and elsewhere. Many of these stories are part of his “Gaunt and Bone” fantasy series, which also includes the novel The Scroll of Years (Pyr, 2013) and its sequels The Silk Map (Pyr, 2014) and The Chart of Tomorrows (Pyr, 2015). He’s also the author of the Pathfinder Tales novel The Dagger of Trust (Paizo, 2014). In “Runefall” Chris was partly inspired by family history. The female lead is named after his wife’s maternal grandmother, and the male lead is named after Chris’ maternal grandfather. Chris’ family is proud of their immigrant connections to China and Norway and they hope their ancestors would look kindly upon this story. Visit Chris on the web at chriswillrich.com for news about his worlds or his more casual blog at chriswillrich.blogspot.com/ for talk of books, games, cats and whatnot.