MEET THE SPEAKERS
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- Please note the line up is subject to change -
Emily Inkpen is the writer and co-director of the BSFA award-winning science fiction audio drama, The Dex Legacy.
As a writer in the gaming industry, Emily defined tone of voice across various games on iOS, Android, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation, Xbox, and Steam. Most of these were board game adaptations, including Monopoly, Cluedo, The Game of Life, The Game of Life 2, Jumanji, and Taboo.
Emily is also Creative Director at Alternative Stories, the audio production studio, where she works with multiple writers to bring their worlds to life.
Stephen Aryan is the author of the Age of Darkness, Age of Dread trilogies as well as the Quest Heroes duology. His debut, Battlemage, was a finalist for the David Gemmell Morningstar Award and won the inaugural Hellfest Inferno Prize.
The Judas Blossom is the first in a new Persian-inspired fantasy trilogy, and the sequel, The Blood Dimmed Tide was published in July 2024.
Alex S. Bradshaw is a fantasy writer who loves epic stories with unforgettable characters. You will probably find him writing, reading, or daydreaming about dinosaurs (not necessarily in that order)
Ed Crocker is a freelance book editor from Manchester. He also reviews books and interviews authors for FanFiAddict.com. His debut epic fantasy novel, Lightfall, the first of a trilogy, is coming out in America in January.
Emma spent her childhood creating imaginary worlds to compensate for a disappointingly average reality, so it was probably inevitable that she ended up writing fantasy novels. When she's not immersed in her own fictional universes, Emma can be found with her head in a book or wandering the world in search of adventure.
Frasier Armitage is the author of New Yesterday and Time’s Ellipse. He’s an award-winning audio-dramatist, reviewer for FanFiAddict.com, part-time robot, and full-time nerd. When he’s not writing, you’ll find him with his wife and son, watching Keanu Reeves movies, or noodling on his guitar.
DB Rook is the author of the Western Post-Apocalyptic, Callus & Crow. Table-top nerd and one of the Four Beardsmen of the Bookpocalypse podcast.
When he is not escaping to other worlds he spends his time reviewing for FanFiAddict.com, juggling family commitments and tending outrageous facial hair.
Lee C Conley is a musician and horror writer, alongside being a practitioner and instructor of historical martial arts and swordsmanship. His debut fantasy series The Dead Sagas, includes the novels A Ritual of Bone, A Ritual of Flesh, and the upcoming A Ritual of Blood.
Lee is often to be found writing dark SFF and horror fiction, fighting people with swords, or searching for the spookiest words.
Lauren (on the right) is a fantasy author of character-driven stories and epic adventure. Her books usually contain dragons, bucket-loads of magic, and are typically fun and hopeful.
She lives in a tiny village in the English countryside, has a degree in Psychology, and was a copywriter before going full-time as an author—swapping corporate copy for magic and dragons!
Phil Parker hasn’t stopped writing since his parents bought him a typewriter as a teenager. That is a long time ago. (Think fossils). He's written books for Drama teachers (he used to be one) and dabbled in education journalism.
Now he writes fantasy novels about British folklore, inter-dimensional portals and damaged characters seeking redemption.
Simon Kewin is the author of over 100 published short stories and poems. His works have appeared in Analog, Nature, Escape Pod and many more.
He is also the author of the Cloven Land fantasy trilogy, cyberpunk thriller The Genehunter, “steampunk Gormenghast” saga Engn, the Triple Stars sci/fi trilogy and the Office of the Witchfinder General books, published by Elsewhen Press.
Steven McKinnon is an indie author based in Glasgow. His debut novel, Symphony of the Wind, was a finalist in Mark Lawrence's Self-Published Fantasy Blog-Off in 2018. His latest book, Order of the Shadow Dragon, came out in late-2023.
Steven is attracted to indie publishing because it brings down the barriers separating readers and authors. He loves reading fantasy, re-watching Firefly and Game of Thrones, and hates writing in the third person.
Tim Hardie is the author of The Brotherhood of the Eagle dark epic fantasy series, the first book of which, Hall of Bones, was an SPFBO Finalist.
His other works include the standalone novel, A Quiet Vengeance and the short story collection A Roll of the Dice.
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