Thank You to Our 2025 Authors!

When Craig Alanson had a ‘real’ job, he wrote code to generate financial reports no one read. Now, he writes best-selling sci fi and fantasy books, mostly as an excuse to not have time for cleaning out the garage (his wife is not happy about that). His first novel Columbus Day was a finalist for Audiobook of the Year. Craig and his long-suffering wife live in Vermont during the summers, and Florida in the winters (he has not yet been a finalist for Florida Man of the Year, thankfully). Apparently, he is also the unofficial spokesperson for Marshmallow Fluff, which his non-New Englander readers think just has to be something he made up in the books.

William Alexander is the author of Goblin Secrets and other unrealisms for young readers. His work has won the National Book Award, the Eleanor Cameron Award, the Librarian Favorites Award, the Teacher Favorites Award, and two CBC Best Children's Book of the Year Awards. Sunward, his first novel for grownups, will be published by Saga Press in September of 2025. As a small child he honestly believed that his Cuban-American family came from the lost island of Atlantis.

New York Times Bestselling author M. T. Anderson writes books for children, teens, and adults, including The Pox Party, which won the National Book Award, and the science fiction satire Feed, which was a Finalist for the National Book Award and which won the L.A. Times Book Prize. Another science fiction satire, Landscape with Invisible Hand, was made into a movie starring Tiffany Haddish and Asante Blackk. His nonfiction book Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad was one of the Wall Street Journal’s Best Books of the Year. His fantasy novel for kids about a boy and his magical dog in the hills of Vermont, Elf Dog & Owl Head, won a Newbery Honor Award. Anderson's most recent book, Nicked, a finalist for the Vermont Book Award, is a historical heist story set in the eleventh century. He lives in Calais, Vermont.

Emily Hamilton is a science fiction author who writes about women kissing in space.  Her debut novel, The Stars Too Fondly, was a 2024 AudioFile Earphones Award winner and a finalist for the 2025 Compton Crook Award. Her sophomore novel, Ascendancy, the first in a new genre-bending cyberpunk trilogy, is forthcoming. Formerly an award-winning staff writer at the alt-weekly newspaper Seven Days, she lives in Burlington, Vermont with her wife and tiny dog.

Margot Harrison is the author of The Midnight Club, The Library of Fates, and four young adult thrillers, including an Indies Introduce Pick, two Junior Library Guild selections, and two Vermont Book Award finalists. Her award-winning book and film reviews have appeared in Seven Days and the New York Times. She grew up in New York and now lives in Vermont.

Andrew Liptak is a writer and historian from Vermont. He is the Public Relation and Guest Services Coordinator for the Vermont Historical Society, and is the author Cosplay: A History (Saga Press, June, 2022), a broad history of how cosplay came to be a mainstream force, and what it says about our relationship with the stories we love. You can order it here.

Liptak has worked as a journalist for more than a decade, appearing in places such as Clarkesworld Magazine, Gizmodo, Grist, io9, Kirkus Reviews, Lifehacker, OneZero, Pando Daily, Polygon, Slate, Tor.com, Uncanny Magazine, VentureBeat, The Verge, and other publications. He currently writes Transfer Orbit, a newsletter about the intersection of speculative fiction and real life, which you can subscribe to here.

His first short story, ‘Fragmented’, appeared in Galaxy’s Edge Magazine in May 2014 (reprinted at The Art of Future War Project in 2015 and more recently on Transfer Orbit). In 2024, he published ‘Embers’ with Horizon 2045’s Far Futures project. You can read it here. In 2014, he published his first anthology (co-edited with Jaym Gates), War Stories: New Military Science Fiction, which you can buy from Apex Publications, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Bookshop.org.

He graduated in 2007 from Norwich University with a bachelor’s degree in History and minor in Geology, and in 2009 with a master’s degree in Military History. He attended the Launch Pad Astronomy Workshop in 2014, and is an official "Mad Scientist" for the US Army's Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC).

He is represented by Seth Fishman of the Gernert Company. He lives with his wife, Megan, and children in central Vermont.

Mike Luoma celebrates 20 years as an Independent Author, Publisher and Podcaster in 2025, offering his original science fiction and non-fiction in novels and books, graphic novels, short stories, and comic books. From tales of the future like The Vatican Assassin Trilogy and The Adventures of Alibi Jones, to explorations of the past like his Ancient Stone Mysteries of New England, Luoma chronicles both fictional adventures and historical hypotheses. He’s been bringing his fiction to audio life for almost 20 years as well, narrating his own work, and recently passed his 800th episode of free, serialized, audio science fiction with his podcast, Glow-in-the-Dark Radio.

Brian is the author of the award-winning fantasy trilogy, The Chronicle of the Unhewn Throne, which has been translated into a dozen languages worldwide, Skullsworn, a stand-alone novel set in the same world, and most recently The Empire’s Ruin, the beginning of a new epic trilogy.

After teaching literature, philosophy, history, and religion for more than a decade, Brian began writing fiction. He now lives on a steep dirt road in the mountains of southern Vermont, where he divides his time between fathering, writing, mountain biking, splitting wood, skiing, and adventuring, not necessarily in that order. He can be found on Bluesky at @brianstaveley and at his website: www.brianstaveley.com