G. D. Falksen

G. D. Falksen is an author, lecturer, public speaker and MC. He also studies history and blogs for Tor.com. While his repertoire spans a range of topics, he is currently most noted for his steampunk work and is one of the most recognizable figures in the steampunk literary genre and the related subculture. His debut novel, The Hellfire Chronicles: Blood In The Skies has just been released, to rave reviews. Other fiction includes The Strange Case of Mr. Salad Monday, and the serials An Unfortunate Engagement and The Mask of Tezcatlipoca, among others. His work has appeared in Steampunk Tales, Steampunk Magazine, The Chap, Egophobia, and various anthologies such as Footprints and Steampunk Reloaded. He has made appearances as a guest at various events, including Dragon*Con and the World Steam Expo, and has appeared in The New York Times, The San Francisco Chronicle, the Hartford Courant, Marie Claire Italia, BoingBoing.net, Time Out New York, and New York Magazine. He has also appeared on MTV, NHK, VBS.tv, Space, and io9.com. He is the lead writer for AIR, a steampunk-themed video game currently in development from Hatboy Studios, Inc. If you wish to know more please visit his web site http://www.gdfalksen.com

Photo by: Thomas Dodd (http://thomasdodd.com).

 

 

Cherie Priest

Cherie Priest is the author of ten novels, including the steampunk pulp adventures Dreadnought, Clementine, and Boneshaker.Boneshaker was nominated for both the Hugo Award and the Nebula Award; it was a PNBA Award winner, and winner of the Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel. Cherie also wroteBloodshot for Bantam Spectra; Fathom and the Eden Moore series from Tor; and three novellas published by Subterranean Press. In addition to all of the above, she is a newly minted member of the Wild Cards Consortium – and her first foray into George R. R. Martin’s superhero universe, Fort Freak (for which she wrote the frame story), will debut in 2011. Cherie’s short stories and nonfiction articles have appeared in such fine publications as Weird Tales, Subterranean Magazine, Publishers Weekly, and the Stoker-nominated anthology Aegri Somnia from Apex. Though she spent most of her life in the southeast, she presently lives in Seattle, Washington, with her husband and a fat black cat.

 

http://www.cheriepriest.com
http://cmpriest.livejournal.com
http://www.theclockworkcentury.com

 

 

 

Gail Carriger

New York Times Best Selling Author Gail Carriger began writing to cope
with being raised in obscurity by an expatriate Brit and an incurable
curmudgeon. She escaped small town life and inadvertently acquired
several degrees in higher learning. Ms. Carriger is fond of teeny tiny
hats and tropical fruit.

Her Parasol Protectorate books are urbane fantasies mixed with
comedies of manners and steampunk. They include: Soulless, Changeless,
Blameless, Heartless, and Timeless. Soulless won the ALA's Alex Award
and was nominated for a Compton Crook, Campbell, and a Locus Award.
Changeless and Blameless were New York Times Bestsellers. Her new
steampunk series for young adults is called the Finishing School
series and hits stores in 2012.

Her other hats (neither pith helmet nor fedora) have included tromping
the Peruvian highlands excavating ancient pottery and writing cryptic
reviews of YA novels for the Horn Book Guide.

www.gailcarriger.com

 

 

Jay Lake

Jay Lake lives in Portland, Oregon, where he works on numerous writing and editing projects. The author of the acclaimed clockpunk trilogy Mainspring, Escapement and Pinion, his 2011 books are Endurance from Tor Books, and Love in the Time of Metal and Flesh from Prime Books, 2012 releases include Kalimpurafrom Tor Books. His short fiction appears regularly in literary and genre markets worldwide. Jay is a past winner of the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, and a multiple nominee for the Hugo and World Fantasy Awards. 

 

http://jaylake.livejournal.com/