eli steele | author | fantasy fiction

Name:   F. James Blair.  I'm a CPA (certified public accountant) by profession, living in Eastern Washington state. Besides writing I also maintain a small farm and like to do ultramarathon runs (or at least I did before children came along, hopefully I'll get back to those soon!). Tell us about your Book:   I could probably spend a couple hours trying to name all the authors that either inspire me or who I try to emulate. Stephen King's Dark Tower series is my knee-jerk reaction, as it was the inspiration for my current series, but I also love the way Brandon Sanderson weaves his worlds so perfectly with his narratives.  My current series is called Bulletproof Witch. It's probably best described as Weird West, and follows the adventures of a girl named Temperance Whiteoak, the granddaughter of a famous daemon hunter known as "Brimstone". My story follows her adventures as she works not only to maintain her family legacy, but locate the daemo

Name:   C. Thomas Anderson Tell us a little about yourself:  I’m a self taught artist and writer working to create graphic novels and eventually novels. I’ve been drawing and writing comics for nearly 10 years, mainly basing my style on manga. In this last year I’ve begun drawing the stories I’ve built up over time as well as drawing comics for a page rate for various indie creators. I am working to earn enough drawing comics that I can rely less and less on my day job, in the long term I want to get skilled enough to draw a weekly series.  What authors do you draw inspiration from and why:  The creators that inspired me first and foremost are the combination of Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata: the team behind Death Note, Bakuman, Platinum End and various other comics. The first two are of particular importance to me, Bakuman most of all for giving me the idea to draw comics at all. Tsugumi Ohba’s engaging and clever writing gave me an idea of how to compose a serial st

Name:   Vaz Anzai Tell us a little about yourself: Born in California and have been living with my family in Pittsburgh, PA for 10 years. What authors do you draw inspiration from and why: Lewis Carroll, Philip K. Dick, William Gibson, Stephen King, Dean Koontz. Tell us about your book: Strange Tales From The City of Dust is an experimental concept. Instead of one medium length book, I wanted to do things like a season of a show would. Each book is in episodic form and together when complete, will form a "season"-length book. Each story will intertwine with the others until they all come to a cataclysmic ending. How long did it take you to write it?  What were some of the challenges: Each Episode takes about a month with writing, editing, formatting, cover. What is a unique or interesting bit of lore or background detail about your world: Set in futuristic Pittsburgh PA, I try and give readers my look at what the future could be. A.I. controls the Poli