Meet The Authors

J.F. Holmes is a retired Army Senior Noncommissioned Officer, having served for 22 years in both the Regular Army and Army National Guard. During that time, he served as everything from an artillery section leader to a member of a Division level planning staff, with tours in Cuba and Iraq, as well as responding to the terrorists attacks in NYC on 9-11.

From 2010 to 2014 he wrote the immensely popular military cartoon strip, "Power Point Ranger", poking fun at military life in the tradition of Beetle Bailey and Willy & Joe.

His books range from Military Sci-Fi to Space Opera to Detective to Fantasy, with a lot in between, and in 2017 two are finalists for the prestigious Dragon Awards.

In 2018, he launched Cannon Publishing, specializing in military science fiction, fantasy and thrillers, with an emphasis on works from up and coming authors.

Shane is a career soldier, student of history and writer. I've spent over seventeen years serving overseas in Europe, Asia and Oceania, and can order beer in several languages. I started as a young enlisted man and then commissioned later on as an Infantry officer. I'm a graduate of Airborne School, Ranger School, earned my Expert Infantryman Badge, and did some time in combat. I've even got a family around here someplace that continues to put up with my nonsense.

Michael Morton is a retired United States Air Force major, having served for 20 years and worked as an ICBM launch officer and in space operations. He currently works as a civilian at the United States Space Force on the next generation of satellite control systems. He started writing fanfiction with friends in the AOL days, but now he writes award-winning military sci-fi and fantasy. When he’s not writing, he enjoys gaming, camping, and exploring the local distilleries and breweries.

James Copley is a former Non-Commissioned Officer of the U.S. Army, having served over twenty-one years in both Active and Reserve/Guard units, variously trained as Infantry, Communications, and Ordnance specialties before finally retiring from the Army National Guard in 2016. During his service, he deployed four separate times, twice to Iraq and twice to Afghanistan.

He is currently working as a software engineer in Central California with his wife, two children, and two dogs. Reading was his number one passion from a very young age, and more recently he decided to try writing his own.

Lucas Marcum is a dedicated history nerd, critical care nurse practitioner, combat veteran, and he occasionally dabbles in writing science fiction and fantasy. He has written five novels, and multiple short stories. His current series include ‘Valkyrie’ and he is an author and creator of ‘The Fae Wars’.  When he’s not doing one of the above activities, he can be found hiking, making soft pretzels, spending time with his wife and two children, and thinking about Rome. Lucas currently lives in the Wawa part of Pennsylvania with his family.

Dan almost graduated from Ole Miss in 1995, then came really close in 1996, before actually graduating in 1998. Dan spent the next decade in Korea and the 101st Airborne. A master’s in military history (Norwich University ’12) and a turbulent life afterward inspired the novels Door Number Three and the sequel Doubling Down at Cannon Publishing.

Kevin Harris is new to writing, but not to storytelling. As a trained actor and director, Kevin has brought stories to life for diverse audiences over the years, both on stage and behind the scenes. But that is all ancient history. He is now a NICU nurse and Kung Fu teacher (separately, not together. Dear Lord!) and loves both disciplines deeply.

A voracious reader, Kevin grew up on fantasy and science fiction, finding inspiration for his writing in the Halls of Moria, with the man-eaters of Zamboula, and on the 'hurtling moons of Barsoom'. His first published novella, 'Mightier than the Pen', is a standalone Military Fantasy story set in an epic fantasy world full of danger and grand adventure. In his limited free time, Kevin enjoys birding and gaming with his son, conspiring with his wife to cancel social engagements, snuggling his dog Freya, and hunting dragons with his half-feral daughter and their insane cat Mumbo.

SC Vickers writes SF, fantasy, and historical fiction but has a thing for werewolves and trolls. He lives in Colorado Springs and has an MFA in Creative Writing/Genre Fiction from Western Colorado University.

Troll Hunt, a novella in the Troll Lands universe, is his first published work. He is completing a novel set in the same universe.

He served in space operations fields for 24 years in the US Air Force and continued supporting the Air Force and Space Force after his retirement from active duty. He is married, with two sons and two knucklehead dogs.

Sam Robb is a Pittsburgh native, a former US Navy officer, and a graduate of Carnegie Mellon University.  Over the course of his life, he has acquired a wife, three daughters, several quadrupeds, and a penchant for walking down back alleys and taking pictures of graffiti. When he's not walking around, taking pictures, and making up stories to tell about what he sees, he works as a software developer and occasional politician.

Born in southern Arizona, Jonathan LaForce spent his formative years in northern Los Angeles County before moving to Texas at the age of 19. Two years later, he enlisted in the USMC and found himself stationed in Hawaii. Had it not been so expensive, he'd have stayed in Hawaii at the end of his enlistment. Instead he moved to Utah and got his bachelors' degree in English.

Returning to the glorious state of Texas, he is quite happy living there. He enjoys making good barbecue, drinking Dr. Pepper, writing stories, and cases of hardball .45 ACP as gifts for all occasions- his birthday, Jesus’s birthday, and Marine Corps’ birthday.

David is an East Coast Hepaw born and raised in southwest Colorado. The town of Dolores, to be specific. He’s been to a lot of places and done a lot of things since then, including cowboying in the Utah desert, twenty years as an Aviation Structural Mechanic for the United States Navy, and a brief misguided hitch as a DoD contractor. Whether on horseback in the desert or troubleshooting helicopters on the flight deck he’s been obsessed with storytelling. An obsession that is finally starting to pay for itself. 

Brian Gifford writes fiction and non-fiction from "pew-pew!" to arguments on the correct way to reference geostationary satellites. A lifelong nerd, this 26 year veteran of the U.S. Army and Air Force spends his days voraciously consuming information in all its forms and producing solutions to problems such as "how can I keep the PRC out of my social media profile?" and "what's the best path to take to pick up all three kids and make dinner before it's time for Tae Kwon Do, dance, and baseball practice?" In between a full schedule of work and family, he loves to write stories about his favorite orcs, power-armored grunts and wayward SEALs in an alien-infested post-nuclear wasteland. He is also a burrito aficionado. 

Charles Hackney is a creature of the frozen north, having grown up in Alaska and lived in Canada, before moving to South Carolina, where he lives with his wife and three children, and works as a psychology professor. Charles is a long-time student of the martial arts, and an old-school comic book nerd who has strong opinions about Star Trek, Star Wars, and Doctor Who. His brain is a strange place, where Elizabethan epic poetry cohabitates with cheesy pulp adventure novels and classic horror stories. Charles is the author of Martial Virtues, and Positive Psychology in Christian Perspective, and is beginning his foray into writing fantasy, sci-fi, and horror with the Professor Howard Chronicles, and a growing body of short fiction.