Category: The Friday 13

  • The Friday 13 with Martin Owton

    Martin Owton is the UK-based author of the Nandor Tales duology. He has also written a contemporary fantasy set in his native New Forest and is working on a “more epic” series. He is represented by Ian Drury of Shiel Land Associates and is a member of the Gravity’s Angels writing group of London.  …

  • The Friday 13 with Richard Nell

    Richard Nell concerned family and friends by quitting his real job in 2014 to ‘write full-time’. He is a Canadian author of fantasy, living in one of the flattest, coldest places on earth with his begrudging wife, who makes sure he eats. His debut novel, Kings of Paradise, is the first of an epic, coming-of-age,…

  • The Friday 13 with Christine E. MacKenzie

    Christine E. Mackenzie grew up in Bavaria/Germany and moved to the United States in her mid-twenties. Having started out as a journalist for magazines, she later received a job offer writing for Australian Consolidated Press, based in Sydney/ New South Wales, owned by media baron Kerry Packer. By then already married to a world-class Polo player, she…

  • The Friday 13 with David Hambling

    David Hambling is an author and science/technology journalist based in South London. He writes for New Scientist magazine, The Economist, WIRED, Popular Mechanics, The Guardian newspaper and others. 2018 will see the release of “Master of Chaos”, fourth in the Harry Stubbs series of Mythos adventures, as well as the nonfiction “We: Robot – The…

  • The Friday 13 with Chrys Cymri

    Priest by day, writer at odd times of the day and night, Chrys lives with a small green parrot called Tilly because the upkeep for a dragon is beyond her current budget. Plus she’s responsible for making good any flame damage to church property. She loves ‘Doctor Who’, landscape photography, single malt whisky, and her…

  • The Friday 13 with Melissa A. Joy

    Melissa A. Joy is a new fantasy author who challenges the conventional expectations of fantasy and takes them to a whole new level. It is no secret that she believes in the existence of all things fantastical, and that anything is possible. She began building the world of Aeldynn and started writing seriously aged approximately…

  • The Friday 13 with Yvette Bostic

    Yvette lives in the beautiful mountains of West Virginia. During the day she has a full-time career, but when she gets home and kicks off her shoes she becomes absorbed in her next novel. She enjoys the company of her ever-patient husband who believes she’s lost in her computer, and three dogs who are the…

  • The Friday 13 with Phillip Murrell

    Phillip Murrell is an active duty army Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) officer who is currently earning an MBA. He has been married for eleven years and has three children who are eleven, eight, and six years old. Phillip loves stories in all mediums, including books, comics, movies, and television. He also enjoys high adrenaline activities, such as…

  • The Friday 13 with Jon Ray

    Jon Ray is a writer, director, and actor in film along with a large assortment of other titles when it comes to entertainment. Since the age of 13, he has played and enjoyed Dungeons & Dragons normally running his own games as the Dungeon Master for others. Originally, from Tyler, Texas in the U.S., Jon…

  • The Friday 13 with Brian Barr

    Brian Barr is a multi-genre fiction author. Along with novels and short stories, he’s also written comic books, including the Empress series with Chuck Amadori. Barr’s books are available through Amazon in print or Kindle format.   1.Why storytelling? What made you yearn to tell a good story, and how long was this story within…