Tea & Jeopardy Creators & Guests

Author of the ECKO trilogy, Children of Artifice, WarHammer, Judge Anderson. Crusader geek, ttrpg gamer, 20yrs PR and marketing. Likes cats and swords

Fran Wilde is a science fiction and fantasy fiction author.Wilde's work has appeared in Uncanny Magazine, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Tor.com, and Nature Magazine. Her first novel, "Updraft," was published in 2015.Wilde received a B.A. in English from the University of Virginia, an M.F.A. in Poetry from Warren Wilson College, and a master's degree in information architecture and interaction design from the University of Baltimore.

Lauren Beukes is a novelist, short story writer, journalist and television scriptwriter.Before becoming a full-time writer, Beukes worked as a freelance journalist for ten years.Beukes has written for the comics "Survivors’ Club," "Fairest: The Hidden Kingdom," and "Trouble With Cats." She has published 8 books.

Gareth Lyn Powell is a science fiction author.Powell's first book, "The Last Reef and Other Stories," was published in 2008, and his first novel, "Silversands," was published in 2010.Powell’s short stories have appeared in Interzone, Solaris Rising 3, and The Year’s Best Science Fiction. He has won the BSFA Award for Best Novel twice: for "Ack-Ack Macaque" in 2013 and for "Embers of War" in 2019.Powell studied humanities and creative writing at the University of Glamorgan (now the University of South Wales).

Aliette de Bodard is a science fiction writer. Although French is her first language, she writes in English.de Bodard works as a software engineer specialising in image processing.de Bodard is a graduate of École Polytechnique.

Ken Liu is an American author of speculative fiction.

Paul Douglas Cornell is a writer and screenwriter. He’s also co-host of Hammer House of Podcast.Cornell has written episodes of "Elementary," "Doctor Who," "Primeval," and "Robin Hood," as well as his own children’s show, "Wavelength." He has also written for comics, his series "I Walk With Monsters" for The Vault, "The Modern Frankenstein" for Magma, "Saucer Country" for Vertigo, and "This Damned Band" for Dark Horse. He has also written for Marvel and DC.Cornell's work has appeared in Interzone, StarShipSofa, Uncanny Magazine, and Tor.com, as well as in anthologies. He has published multiple Dr. Who novels, as well as novels in other series.

Adrian Tchaikovsky is a fantasy and science fiction author.

Alan Baxer is an author of horror fiction, supernatural thrillers, and dark fantasy with crime, mystery, and noir. He’s also a martial arts expert.