Aconyte Books Best of 2021

Rosemary Jones is the author of the Arkham Horror novels Mask of Silver, The Deadly Grimoire, and The Bootlegger's Dance. She is an ardent collector of children's books, and a fan of talkies and silent movies. Her other works include Wrecker of Engines (Cobalt City 20th Anniversary edition), Dungeons & Dragons' Forgotten Realms novels, numerous novellas, short stories, and collaborations.

Jane Killick is an author and journalist who juggles working for BBC Radio with a lifelong passion for science fiction. Alongside several series of original SF novels, she has also written numerous behind-the-scenes books, including Stasis Leaked Complete, a guide to TV show Red Dwarf, and a series on Babylon 5.

Born and raised in the seaside/country town of Geraldton, Western Australia, Amanda hails from fishing and farming stock. The youngest of four children, her three brothers raised her on a diet of Rocky, Rambo, Muhammad Ali and AC/DC. She moved to Perth (Western Australia) to study film & television/creative writing at Murdoch University, earning her a BA in Communication Studies. Perth has been her home ever since, aside from a nineteen-month stint in London (England) where she dabbled in Film & TV 'Extra' work. Her third novel 'Aurora: Meridian' was shortlisted for an Aurealis Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (2014).

David Guymer's work for Black Library includes the Warhammer Age of Sigmar novels Kragnos: Avatar of Destruction, and the Gotrek novels Realmslayer: Legend of the Doomseeker and Verminslayer. For The Horus Heresy he has written the Primarchs novels Ferrus Manus: Gorgon of Medusa and Lion El'Jonson: Lord of the First. For Warhammer 40,000 he has written Angron: The Red Angel and The Eye of Medusa, amongst others. He is a freelance writer and occasional scientist based in the East Riding, and was a finalist in the 2014 David Gemmell Awards for his novel Headtaker.

By day, EVAN DICKEN studies old Japanese maps and crunches data for research at The Ohio State University. By night, he does neither of these things. His fiction has most recently appeared in: Analog, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, and Strange Horizons, and he has stories forthcoming from Black Library and Rampant Loon Press.