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Aeron Alfrey's bio:

Aeron Alfrey creates unique imagery inspired by nightmares the fantastic and grotesque. His art has been published in numerous books with authors such as H.P. Lovecraft, Stephen King, Thomas Ligotti, Robert Louis Stevenson and many others.  He won the International Horror Guild Award for art in 2007. His art was recently shown on National Geographic Television and has been displayed in galleries around the world. Aeron also curates one of the largest resources of monster themed imagery online at http://monsterbrains.blogspot.com.

http://aeronalfrey.blogspot.com
http://www.ligotti.net/gallery/alfrey.html

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Kelvin Green's bio:

Kelvin Green is a regular artist for both the comic series Too Much Sex & Violence and the old school roleplaying magazine Fight On! He has also drawn all sorts of gribbly things for The Girly Comic, The B/X Companion, The O Men, PJANG! and the upcoming Petty Gods and Dwimmermount Codex. As a writer he has contributed to NintendoLife, has been a regular at Comics Bulletin for years, created the Call of Cthulhu scenario "Dinner With Susan" and was one of the winners in both the 2011 and 2012 One Page Dungeon contests, despite not submitting a proper dungeon either time. His favourite roleplaying game is Call of Cthulhu. Or maybe Pendragon. Or Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay. Kelvin lurks in Brighton on England's allegedly sunny south coast, waiting for a chance to backstab a seagull for triple damage.

http://junkopia.net/kelvinsdirtybits/index.html
http://brightonandhoveroleplayers.blogspot.co.uk/

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Ryan Browning bio:

Ryan Browning lives near Washington DC with his wife and two (soon to be three) wild children, where he somehow conjures up time to make illustrations and paintings. As a ‘fine artist’, he spends most of his time making paintings and drawings that form a loosely cohesive, fantastic mythology about modernism, classical painting, RPGs, and other things he likes to think about. Last year he had the unexpected opportunity to illustrate the cover and much of the interior of Autarch’s Adventurer Conqueror King System, and has also done work for Petty Gods and Dwimmermount.

http://ryanbrowning.com

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Cynthia Sheppard bio:

Cynthia Sheppard is an award-winning fantasy illustrator from the suburbs of Washington, DC, specializing in artwork for books, RPGs and card games. Her most recent client work includes card illustrations for Magic: The Gathering, Fantasy Flight Games, covers for Pyr Books, and art tutorials for ImagineFX magazine. Check out her latest work at http://www.sheppard-arts.com.

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Jason Rainville's bio:

Jason is a freelance graphic designer and illustrator from Ontario, Canada. He is a self-taught illustrator and studied graphic design at Cambrian College of Applied Arts and Technology.

He’s influenced by classical artists such as Fuseli and John William Waterhouse as well as contemporary fantasy and comic artists. Recently he’s taken an interest in Alphonse Mucha’s Slav Epic and the work of the Russian masters. He strives to create plausible, realistic imagery and relatable and intriguing characters. He believes that fantasy art can be presented in a way that can be timeless, as myth and half-history.

Jason uses graphite and Photoshop to produce his illustrations, which are mainly in the fantasy/science fiction genres.

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Joel Sammallahti's bio:

Joel Sammallahti is an illustrator currently working as a concept artist for Rovio Entertainment. His work has been published in finnish-language rpg magazine Roolipelaaja and game compilation Unelma keltaisesta kuninkaasta, as well as Post-Apocalyptic Hero by Hero Games.

http://jaysumallah.cghub.com
http://jaysumallah.deviantart.com

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I adore the works of Mr. Crawford, so I'm definitely in!

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Jennifer Steen's bio:

Jennifer Steen is the host of the Jennisodes podcast and the designer of the roleplaying game Project Ninja Panda Taco. Jenn spends her weeks interviewing guests throughout the gaming industry on her quest to find all the awesome things about gaming. She has interviewed a myriad of game designers, artists, graphic designers, and players including James Raggi, Wil Wheaton, Kenneth Hite, and Monte Cook. Since conquering the podcastosphere Jenn will now turn her attention to Lamentations of the Flame Princess to put her own magical spin on an adventure.

Jenn enjoys playing various roleplaying games with her friends at conventions including some of her favorites such as Burning Wheel, Fiasco, and Dogs in the Vineyard. When not podcasting and playing games Jenn and her husband enjoy playing with their two puppies Ella and Happy.

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Michael Curtis' bio:

Michael Curtis has written or contributed to more than a dozen roleplaying , supplements, and articles. Best known for Goodman Games’ The Dungeon Alphabet (for which he was awarded the 2011 Three Castles Award for Game Design) and Stonehell Dungeon, he’s also worked on the Dungeon Crawl Classics RPG, Goblinoid Games’ Realms of Crawling Chaos, and Secret Fire Games’ forthcoming Fragments I: The Way of Tree, Fire & Flame. Author of the DCC RPG adventures Emirikol Was Framed! And The Sea-Queen Escapes, Michael is a regular contributor to Fight On! magazine. He writes the popular OSR blog, “The Society of Torch, Pole and Rope” (poleandrope.blogspot.com) when not creating upcoming RPG projects. Michael currently lives in the Hudson Valley region of New York State where he works as a consulting archivist, although in one not nearly as interesting as the Night Archive.

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Richard Pett's bio:

Richard Pett lives in a place named Nook Farm on Bent Lane in the hills of Derbyshire, England.

He's worked for Paizo publications since they began in 2002 and is known for his fiendishly unpleasant adventures, seven of which have appeared in the Pathfinder Adventure Path series to date. His your whispering homunculus column has recently been published in a collection by Open Design and he's a regular in Kobold Quarterly. He's worked for Wizards of the Coast, Goodman Games and is presently finalizing his dark fantasy city setting the Blight for Frog God Games and awaiting the publication of Crooked, his first novel. 

He's one of the special guests at this year's Paizocon.

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You might have noticed we've had two project cancellations. I'm trying to make their replacements special (the rule: substitutions should be bigger stars than the originally booked talent) but that might take a few more days to confirm.

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Juhani Seppälä's bio:

I am Juhani Seppälä, a Finnish role-player, referee, game designer, and hobby retailer with more than 25 years of role-playing experience. I started role-playing with the Finnish translation of the Mentzer Edition, which I still consider one of the best role-playing games of all time. I’ve been involved with the OSR for a couple of years now. The adventure I’m writing, Normal for Norfolk, originated as a short campaign I ran for Jim and his Helsinki group about a year ago. Jim’s been bugging me to write this module ever since.

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Monte Cook's bio:

Monte has worked as a professional writer for more than 20 years. As a fiction writer, he has published numerous short stories and two novels, a comic book series for Marvel, and attended the Clarion West SF&F writer's workshop. As a nonfiction writer, he has published the Skeptic's Guide to Conspiracies. As a game designer, he has written hundreds of books and articles and won numerous awards. Best known for D&D 3rd edition, Monte also designed Heroclix, Ptolus, Arcana Evolved, Monte Cook's World of Darkness, and many more. You can read his ongoing Cthulhu Mythos fiction in Game Trade Magazine each month and his thoughts in his column on games in Kobold Quarterly. Or, just check out www.montecook.com. In his spare time, he investigates the paranormal as one of the Geek Seekers.

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Ville "Burger" Vuorela's bio:

A full-time videogame designer, an RPG writer, an author and a cranky old geek, "Burger" is already a landmark in the Finnish RPG scene. His down-and-dirty pulp-fantasy RPG "Praedor" (2000) remains the most popular Finnish RPG ever. Outside Finland he is best known for his recently translated and widely acclaimed sci-fi RPG "Stalker" (2008/2012-eng, based on the novel "Roadside Picnic" by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky) and the freely downloadable historical mafia RPG "Mobsters"(1997) that is slowly approaching 1.5 million downloads.

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Michael Syrigos' bio:

A professional since 2007, Michael Syrigos is involved in projects in the publishing, advertising
and toy industries.

Credits include, illustrations for Role Playing Game publishers such as, Glutton Creeper Games,
Crafty Games, D6 Studios and Mongoose Publishing, as well as working as a lead artist for Ellis toys,
creating concept art, storyboards, comics, illustrations, maps, figures and card games.

http://michaelsyrigos.deviantart.com/gallery/

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Vincent Baker's bio:

Vincent Baker is the creator and publisher of tabletop roleplaying games including the award winning, critically acclaimed, and controversial kill puppies for satan, Dogs in the Vineyard, and Apocalypse World.

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Juha Makkonen's bio:

Juha Makkonen hails from Helsinki, Finland. He has been illustrating gritty low-fantasy worlds such as Hârn (Kelestia Publications) and Glorantha (Moon Design) as well as sci-fi settings like Space 1889 (Uhrwerk Verlag).  Inspired by masters like Joseph Clement Coll and Franklin Booth he especially enjoys pen-and-ink and is striving for a painterly line with which to explore the sense of place, situation, culture, and realistic strangeness.

http://www.raide4.com

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Jeff Rients bio:

Jeff Rients received the 1981 Basic D&D box for his eighth birthday and he's never been quite right since.  A regular contributor to Fight On! magazine, a fixture at his local nerd conventions and a general purpose weirdo, Jeff is perhaps best known for his long running blog, the imaginatively titled Jeff's Gameblog, where his greatest contributions to the hobby may be rules for getting your PC into trouble while drunk or his theory that all RPGs are Retro, Stupid and/or Pretentious.

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JimLotFP wrote:

Jeff Rients bio:

Jeff Rients received the 1981 Basic D&D box for his eighth birthday and he's never been quite right since.  A regular contributor to Fight On! magazine, a fixture at his local nerd conventions and a general purpose weirdo, Jeff is perhaps best known for his long running blog, the imaginatively titled Jeff's Gameblog, where his greatest contributions to the hobby may be rules for getting your PC into trouble while drunk or his theory that all RPGs are Retro, Stupid and/or Pretentious.

Bang! That's another module I'll be funding. Great get!

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Anna Kreider's bio:

Anna Kreider is a game illustrator and designer, long-time LARPer, and player of tabletop roleplaying games (mostly indie games). In addition, she is also a mildly cranky blogger, photographer, and somewhat half-assed writer living in the wilds of Canada with a wonderful spouse and two slightly broken cats. Most notably, she is the author of Thou Art But A Warrior, an expansion for Ben Lehman's Polaris, as well as the gaming blog Go Make Me a Sandwich.

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Mark Allen's bio:

Mark Allen is a 42 year old freelance illustrator, specializing in fantasy, horror, and sci-fi art. His influences, authors and artists alike, include Gary Gygax, Robert E. Howard, Michael Moorcock, Erol Otus, P. Craig  Russell, Michael T. Gilbert, Jeff Dee, Frank Frazetta, Jack Kirby, John Buscema, Jim Roslof, Dave Trampier, J.R.R. Tolkien, Stan Lee, Gerald Brom, Jeff Easley, Bill Willingham, Larry Elmore, and a few others.

Freelancing since 2002, Mark’s work has appeared in the publications and products of Troll Lord Games, Heavy Metal Magazine, Gary Gygax, James M. Ward, Fight On! Magazine, Crusader Magazine, Otherworld Miniatures, Blacklight.com, Manticor-Verlag, New Dimension Games, Mindgene LLC, Screaming Dreams Press, G.L. Giles, Hedonism Records, Brave Halfling Publishing, Grognardia Games, The Tekumel Project, Emperor's Choice Games, Goblinoid Games, Pacesetter Ltd., Faster Monkey Games, Xoth Publishing, Black Blade Publishing, and others.

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Rowena Aitken's bio:

Rowena Aitken has been a freelance illustrator for 3 years and has worked with Postmortem Studios, Mongoose, Dark Harvest: Legacy of Frankenstein to name but a few, and is a go-to artist for Frog God Games. She is looking to move into Editorial, Christmas illustrations, Animal illustrations (both realistic and stylised) and Childrens Books. Her current project is creating a Fantasy Alphabet and some of these characters can be found at http://fantasyalphabet.blogspot.co.uk/ which will be featured in issue 86 of ImagineFX.

Her portfolio can be found at www.rowenaaitken.com.

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Cynthia Celeste Miller's bio:

Cynthia Celeste Miller is the founder and president of Spectrum Games and has been involved in the game industry for ten years as a game designer, publisher, graphic designer and editor. In addition to being an avid gamer, Miller is the drummer for the doom/death metal band Eminent Remains and is admittedly obsessed with H.P. Lovecraft, both as an author and as a person. This obsession led her to design and publish Macabre Tales, a dominoes-based Lovecraftian horror RPG that strips away the influence of later authors such as Lumley, Derleth, etc. She has also designed, co-designed, published or otherwise had a hand in products such as Cartoon Action Hour, Slasher Flick, Wild West Cinema, Omlevex, WWE: Know Your Role, Tomorrow Knighrs, Midway City, Urban Manhunt and Capes, Cowls & Villains Foul.

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Amos Orion Sterns' bio:

A humble graphic designer by day; an even more humble RPG illustrator by night! Amos Orion Sterns got himself into this mess over 20 years ago when he was bitten by a radioactive Dungeons & Dragons rulebook. Recently, he has had his work published in the B/X Companion, Carcosa(RPG) & Isle of the Unknown, as well as two editions of Lamentations of the Flame Princess: Weird Fantasy Role-playing. Amos is first and foremost an RPG enthusiast and the inspiration for his illustrations come from the games he loves.

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Stuart Robertson's bio:

Stuart Robertson is a game designer and illustrator who has been a fan of weird sci-fi, comic books, monster movies, westerns, roleplaying games and miniatures since the early 1980s. He is the creator of the Weird West RPG and posts artwork at http://stuartrobertson.deviantart.com