L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future Volume 37

With 19 New York Times bestsellers and more than 350 million copies of his works in circulation, L. Ron Hubbard is among the most acclaimed and widely read authors of our time. As a leading light of American Pulp Fiction through the 1930s and '40s, he is further among the most influential authors of the modern age. Indeed, from Ray Bradbury to Stephen King, there is scarcely a master of imaginative tales who has not paid tribute to L. Ron Hubbard.

Orson Scott Card is best known for his science fiction novel Ender's Game and its many sequels that expand the Ender Universe into the far future and the near past. Those books are organized into the Ender Saga, which chronicles the life of Ender Wiggin; the Shadow Series, which follows on the novel Ender's Shadow and is set on Earth; and the Formic Wars series, written with co-author Aaron Johnston, which tells of the terrible first contact between humans and the alien "Buggers." Card has been a working writer since the 1970s. Beginning with dozens of plays and musical comedies produced in the 1960s and 70s, Card's first published fiction appeared in 1977--the short story "Gert Fram" in the July issue of The Ensign, and the novelette version of "Ender's Game" in the August issue of Analog. The novel-length version of Ender's Game, published in 1984 and continuously in print since then, became the basis of the 2013 film, starring Asa Butterfield, Harrison Ford, Ben Kingsley, Hailee Steinfeld, Viola Davis, and Abigail Breslin.

Card was born in Washington state, and grew up in California, Arizona, and Utah. He served a mission for the LDS Church in Brazil in the early 1970s. Besides his writing, he runs occasional writers' workshops and directs plays. He frequently teaches writing and literature courses at Southern Virginia University.

He is the author many science fiction and fantasy novels, including the American frontier fantasy series "The Tales of Alvin Maker" (beginning with Seventh Son), and stand-alone novels like Pastwatch and Hart's Hope. He has collaborated with his daughter Emily Card on a manga series, Laddertop. He has also written contemporary thrillers like Empire and historical novels like the monumental Saints and the religious novels Sarah and Rachel and Leah. Card's work also includes the Mithermages books (Lost Gate, Gate Thief), contemporary magical fantasy for readers both young and old.

Card lives in Greensboro, North Carolina, with his wife, Kristine Allen Card. He and Kristine are the parents of five children and several grandchildren.

Sara Fox grew up surrounded by stories and lived through one which changed the dynamic of her family forever. She carried the weight of this tale for thirty years, having promised her parents she would write it. Then the time was right. Her children grown up, she had the time to research and curate the stories. But what she found exceeded anything she could have invented. Her mother was right, you couldn't make it up.Sara brings to A Legacy Forged and the Seller & Son series something rare in historical fiction. She has original notes tracing memories back over 200 years. With over thirty years supporting her ex-army husband and as a former complementary health practitioner, with knowledge in healing, counselling and end-of-life care, she has a rich vein of life experience to tap into. Her experience gives her the ability to write complicated truths, and to shape raw family legend into vivid, breathing narrative. Sara is one of the very few novelists who centres her novels in Birmingham, a city she has grown to love through her writing.When she isn't deep in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Sara can be found at her writing desk with a decent flat-white, in the garden with a glass of fine wine, or by the fire in winter time with a tot of Irish whiskey. She lives quietly with her husband as determined by their hyperactive Border Collie, Flossie - who influenced a character in A Legacy Forged.