About
the Authors
J. Aurel Guay writes fantasy and
science fiction with an emphasis on strong plots and meaningful themes. Having
played at writing fiction since grade school, he revived his passion in
reaction to his day work in biomedical science. “The Death of Dr. Marcus
Wells,” published in Shades and Shadows: A
Paranormal Anthology is his first published work. His current work in progress Jagerund
is a novel expanding on the previous short story.
An editor at The X, Megan
Oliphant has studied creative writing since college, taking classes from
the founder of LTUE, Marion K. "Doc" Smith at Brigham
Young University, and attended Orson Scott Card's Literary Boot Camp in June of
2014. Her primary interests are in fantasy, ranging from dark urban to high
epic, but she's a sucker for a good mystery that she can't guess the ending to
before she gets there. She divides her time between reading, writing, and
"familying" with her husband and five children in North Carolina.
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Software engineer, video
game developer, and father, Jay Barnson is a transplant to the state of
Utah from the east coast. He grew up on a diet of science fiction and fantasy
ranging from Howard, Heinlein, and Tolkien to Lucas and Spielberg. His wife and
daughters had to drag him to his first steampunk convention. And now they can’t
drag him away from the genre. Jay’s first short story with The X, “Dots, Dashes
and Deceit,” appeared in Terra Mechanica: A
Steampunk Anthology (2014).
A day-dreamer at heart, M.
Irish Gardner has dabbled in imaginary worlds from Day One and developed an
incurable addiction when she finally began recording her ideas. Her bachelor’s
degree in recreation management does nothing for her writing, but she sure
knows how to play. She lives in Arizona with her husband, two daughters, and
all the characters in her head. Gardner’s first published work, “Reformation,”
appeared in A Dash of Madness: A
Thriller Anthology.
Playing with imaginary
friends and writing and directing plays in the neighbor's garage filled D.
Lee Jortner's childhood. Today she lets her imagination flow onto her
keyboard as she writes mystery, fantasy and steampunk stories and novels.
"Payoff for Air-Pirate Pete" is her first short story for Xchyler
Publishing. She also enjoys her marketing role with the company and teaching
English composition at Ivy Tech Community College in Valparaiso, Indiana. When
not writing or working, Jortner is usually busy with her husband, children or
grandchildren.
J.R. Potter gravitated towards the
paranormal world from an early age. Watching the first episode of The X-Files
was a transformative experience, and an education in great storytelling and mythmaking.
Since “growing up,”
James has devoted his time to finding his voice through writing, publishing
short fiction in The Portland Review, and winning two international short story competitions for science fiction and
horror. When he's not writing, he tours with his incredible wife Amy as “The
Crooked Angels,” an Americana duo specializing in rocking your socks off.
Potter is currently
collaborating with artist Klaus “Plaid Klaus”
Shmidheiser in the graphic novel series Glimmer Society. His first short story
with Xchyler, “Dr. Pax’s Great Unsinkable Bird,” appeared in Terra Mechanica. A full-length novel, Pneumatica:
Harbinger of the Skies, is slated for 2015 release.
A Wisconsin gal with a
Southwest soul, M. K. Wiseman can generally be found wandering happily
amongst the pages of the largest book she can get her hands on. She came upon
writing rather accidentally, finding that, sometimes, there are stories that
simply must be told. “The Silver Scams” is her third short story published at
Xchyler. Other titles include “Clockwork Ballet” in Mechanized
Masterpieces: A Steampunk Anthology (2013), and “Downward Mobility” in Legends and Lore: an
Anthology of Mythic Proportions (2014). A fantasy novel is scheduled for
release in 2015.
A techie with a penchant
for typewriters, she is a magnet for misadventure, though her own story has yet
to unfold. Harboring such dreams as someday possessing a library complete with
hidden bookcase doors, piloting a hot air balloon, and running away in a
sailboat, she currently subsists contentedly between worlds, plotting and
dreaming.
Scott E. Tarbet writes in several
genres, sings opera, married in full Elizabethan regalia, loves Steampunk
waltzes, and slow-smokes thousands of pounds of Texas-style barbeque. An avid
skier, hiker, golfer, and tandem kayaker, he makes his home in the mountains of
Utah.
Tarbet’s short stories
with The X include “Tombstone” in Shades and Shadows: a
Paranormal Anthology (2013), “Ganesh” in Terra Mechanica, “Year of No Foals” in The
Toll of Another Bell: A Fantasy Anthology (2015), and “Nautilus Redux” in Mechanized
Masterpieces 2.
His full-length novel, A Midsummer Night's
Steampunk (2013), receives excellent reviews. Tarbet's next endeavor, Dragon
Moon, a speculative fiction thriller, will be published by The X in 2015.
Scott William Taylor grew up in Utah living
on the side of a mountain and lives on that same mountain today with his family
and a dog that loves cheese. Scott is married with four children. Scott is a
contributor to Flash 500 e-book, and creator of A Page or Two Podcast.
He also wrote the award-winning short film, Wrinkles.
Scott’s first work with
The X, “Little Boiler Girl,” appeared in the first Mechanized
Masterpieces anthology. His short story, “Split Ends,” which appeared in Shades and Shadows, and “Mr. Thornton” tie
him at second for number of contests won at The X.
As a child, Neve
Talbot developed the habit of lulling herself to sleep by dreaming up
continuations of her favorite books too soon ended. She never left off the
habit, and eventually gained confidence in worlds of her own creation. She
first cracked open a spiral binder in high school, and has spent the past
decade dutifully penning her prerequisite one million words of bad writing
before getting to the good stuff.
Now author, editor,
story coach, and journalist, Neve currently lives with her husband under the
pseudonym of Penny Freeman, in a quasi-reality filled with fantasy, sci-fi,
historical fiction, Regency romance, the classics, and history books, suspended
between the piney woods and sprawling metropolis of southeast Texas. She plans
on exploring the world when she grows up.
“West End” is Neve’s
third outing with The X, the others being “Crossroads” in Shades and Shadows, and “Tropic of Cancer”
in Mechanized
Masterpieces, of which “West End” is a sequel.
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Our books:
Tour Schedule:
February 22:
Book 1: A Princess of Jasoom by J. Aurel Guay
February 23:
Book 2: Winged Hope by Megan Oliphant
February 23:
Book 3: The Van Tassel Legacy by Jay Barnson
February 24:
Book 4: Invested Charm M. Irish Gardner
February 25:
Book 5: Payoff for Air Pirate Pete by D.
Lee Jortner
February 26:
Book 6: Rise of the House of Usher by J.R.
Potter
February 26:
Book 7: The Silver Scams by M. K. Wiseman
February 27:
Book 8: Nautilus Redux by Scott E. Tarbet
February 27:
Book 9: Mr. Thornton by Scott William Taylor
February 28:
Book 10: West End by Neve Talbot
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