Special treat this time, my droogies with a special visit from Errick Nunally flying in from Boston! Four authors! We promise! For reals! Hosted by Sandra Kasturi.

CHARLENE CHALLENGER is a writer and graduate of Ryerson Theatre School. Her first novel, the young adult fantasy The Voices In Between, is published by Tightrope Books. Her work is also featured in Stone Skin Press's A 21st Century Bestiary and Exile Editions Start a Revolution: QUILTBAG Fiction Vying for Change. She is currently working on the sequel to Voices. She lives in Toronto.

A.M. DELLAMONICA's first novel, INDIGO SPRINGS, won the 2010 Sunburst Award for Canadian Literature of the Fantastic. She is the author of over thirty short stories, many of them available online at Tor.com and in other venues. Her third novel, CHILD OF A HIDDEN SEA, came out this June and is the first in a new trilogy set on a magical world called Stormwrack. She moved to Toronto last year after 22 years in Vancouver and can't believe she didn't come east sooner.

Born and raised in Boston, Massachusetts, ERRICK A. NUNALLY served one tour in the Marine Corps before deciding art school would be a saferand more naturalpursuit. He remains distracted by art, comics, and novels of various genres. A designer by day, he has earned a black belt in Krav Maga and Muay Thai kickboxing by night. His work has appeared in eFictions inaugural SciFi issue and in the anthologies Doorways to Extra Time, Wicked Seasons, Inner Demons Out, A Dark World of Spirits and The Fey, After the Fall, and In Vein. Erricks novel, Blood For The Sun is available from Spence City.

SARAH TOLMIE is an Associate Professor at the University of Waterloo, trained as a medievalist at the University of Toronto and Cambridge. Her novel The Stone Boatmen came out with Aqueduct Press in April 2014 and was followed by the short fiction collection NoFood in August 2014. She is a longtime poet, and Baseline Press published her chapbook Sonnet in a Blue Dress and Other Poems in May 2014, to be followed by a 120-sonnet collection, Trio, with McGill-Queen's UP, in April 2015.

KARI MAAREN is a Toronto-based musician, cartoonist, writer, and university instructor who likes writing stuff about monsters and gets unreasonably upset when her students abuse the common apostrophe. She has produced two albums, the solo album BEOWULF PULLED MY ARM OFF and the compilation album with Devin Melanson and Leslie Hudson PIRATE ELVES IN SPACE. She has been nominated for two 2013 Prix Aurora Awards, one in the "Fan Filk" category and the other in the "Graphic Novel" category. Most of her music is available via YouTube. She does not like tomatoes very much.

PETER CHIYKOWSKI lives and schemes in Toronto. He writes Rock, Paper, Cynic, an online comic that's been shared by George Takei, tweeted by Nathan Fillion, and featured on Tor.com, as well as Little Worlds, an online urban fantasy graphic novel that benefits charity. His poems and short stories have been published in Imaginarium 2012: Best Canadian Speculative Writing, Best Canadian Poetry in English 2011, The New Quarterly, On Spec, PRISM International and Grain. He also briefly held the world record for being the youngest living person.