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R.S. (Rod) Belcher is a newspaper and magazine editor and journalist. He is the 2022 Webster Award Winner and was the Grand Prize winner of the Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Anthology contest.

Rod has been a private investigator, DJ, a comic book store owner, and worked with the Occult Crime Taskforce for the Virginia General Assembly.

His novels include the Golgotha series (The Six-Gun Tarot, The Shotgun Arcana, The Queen of Swords, and The Ghost Dance Judgement), the Nightwise series (Nightwise, The Night Dahlia), and The Brotherhood of the Wheel series (The Brotherhood of the Wheel, King of the Road). Rod’s novel adaptation of the film, MiB International was published by Titan Books. His Audible Originals space opera audiobook, The Queen’s Road is available as a book from Falstaff Books.

He is currently finishing work on a stand-alone novel, Ink and Ash. His fifth Golgotha novel, The Hanged Man releases in fall of 2025 from Falstaff Books.

Rod has spoken and taught at numerous conferences and universities. He hosts programs on his Patreon Discord channel, as well as on a YouTube channel called The Knave of Pens with R.S. Belcher.

He lives in Virginia with his children, Jon, Emily and Stephanie, and his grandchildren, Torri, Sofiyah, Julian, and Jaxson.

Cass Morris lives her life at the intersection of storytelling, performance, and education as a writer and editor of novels, short fiction, and immersive experiences. Her novels, The Aven Cycle, are Roman-flavored historical fantasy. She is also one-third of the team behind the four-time Hugo Award Finalist podcast Worldbuilding for Masochists. Cass works as Story Editor at Mythik Camps, providing writing and developmental editing for the mythology-themed summer camps’ interactive theatrical experiences, as well as other programming and media projects. Previously, she worked in the education department at the American Shakespeare Center in Staunton, VA. She holds a Master of Letters in Shakespeare studies from Mary Baldwin University and a BA in English and History from the College of William and Mary. Her novel, From Unseen Fire, won RavenCon’s Webster Award in 2020. Find her online at linktr.ee/cassrmorris.