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Scott Lynch

**Scott Lynch** is an American fantasy author who wrote the Gentleman Bastard series of novels. His first novel, The Lies of Locke Lamora, was purchased by Orion Books in August 2004 and published in June 2006 under the Gollancz imprint in the United Kingdom and under the Bantam imprint in the United States. The next two novels in the series, Red Seas Under Red Skies and The Republic of Thieves, were published in 2007 and 2013, respectively.

## Work on Escape Artists

PodCastle

* PC200 In the Stacks, read by a full cast
* PC516b Best of PodCastle #4: In the Stacks, read by Norm Sherman, Peter Wood, Dave Thompson, Wilson Fowlie, M.K. Hobson, Graeme Dunlop, Anna Schwind, Ann Leckie, Alasdair Stuart, Rachel Swirsky and Marshal Latham
Wendy Nikel

**Wendy Nikel** is a speculative fiction author with a degree in elementary education, a fondness for road trips, and a terrible habit of forgetting where she’s left her cup of tea. Her short fiction has been published by Fantastic Stories of the Imagination, Daily Science Fiction, Nature: Futures, and elsewhere. Her time travel novella, The Continuum, was published by World Weaver Press in January 2018.

## Work on Escape Artists

Cast of Wonders

* CW296 Artemis Rising 4 – Canary’s Refuge, read by Nadia Niaz
Shveta Thakrar

**Shveta Thakrar** is a writer of South Asian–flavored fantasy, social justice activist, and part-time *nagini*. She draws on her heritage, her experience growing up with two cultures, and her love of myth to spin stories about spider silk and shadows, magic and marauders, and courageous girls illuminated by dancing rainbow flames. When not hard at work on her second novel, a young adult fantasy about stars, Shveta makes things out of glitter and paper and felt, devours books, daydreams, draws, bakes sweet treats, travels, and occasionally even practices her harp.

You can find more of her work in Uncanny and the excellent Kaleidoscope anthology, and her poems have appears in Mythic Delirium and Strange Horizons.

## Work on Escape Artists

PodCastle

* PC195 Lavanya and Deepika, read by TCA Lakshmi Narasimhan
* PC484 Flash Fiction Extravaganza! Seasons: *Autumn Jewels,* read by Ramakrishnan M.

Cast of Wonders

* CW196 She Sleeps Beneath the Sea, read by Mahvesh Murad
Sandra Espinoza

Sandra Espinoza

**Sandra Espinoza** is a New-York-born-and-raised voice actress with a background in English literature and writing. After a childhood where video games were banned from the house, she one-eighty’d so hard she’s finally in them and never leaving. Voice over training in between jobs, fan projects she created for her favorite games soon gained recognition and led to her first paid role with Wadjet Eye Games.

Some games Sandra’s voiced for include the Primordia, Apotheon, Heroes of Newerth, Marvel’s Avengers Academy, and most recently Brawl Stars by Clash of Clans developer Supercell. She also provides voice over and editing services for countless lifestyle and education podcasts. When she’s not voice acting you can catch her on Twitter or Facebook under the handle “DustyOldRoses,” obsessing over good food, good games and the color pink.

## Work on Escape Artists

### Pseudopod

* PP475 The Toad Witch, by Jessica Amanda Salmonson

### PodCastle

* PC485 Cassandra Writes Out of Order, by Andrea Tang
* PC506 La Gorda and the City of Silver, by Sabrina Vourvoulias

### Cast of Wonders

* CW332 Dinovember – The Good, the Bad, and the Utahraptor, by Jennifer Lee Rossman
Susie Hawes

**Susie Hawes** lives in Texas with her husband and two children. A working mother, she loves to explore mythology and folklore, and spends what spare time she has writing. Her work has appeared in numerous magazines and E-zines, including Whispering Spirits, Alien Skin, Neo-Opsis, Coffee Cramps Reviews E-zine, Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine, and Quietus Magazine.

## Work on Escape Artists

Escape Pod

* EP029 Crystal Balls, read by Evo Terra
Simon Bestwick

**Simon Bestwick** is originally from Manchester, he now lives on the Wirral with his long-suffering wife, the author Cate Gardner. By now he’s responsible for five novels, four short story collections, and a chapbook, *Angels Of The Silences*. A new collection is in the works.

He has two new novels out in December: The Feast Of All Souls, a supernatural/urban fantasy novel from Solaris Books, and Devil’s Highway, the second book in the post-apocalyptic Black Road quartet. It and the first book, Hell’s Ditch, are both available from Snowbooks.

‘Simon Bestwick is brilliant,’ the Guardian says; he thinks they’re probably wrong, but being British, also thinks it would be very impolite to disagree with them.

## Work on Escape Artists

Pseudopod

* PP520 Dermot, read by Alasdair Stuart
* PP521 The Moraine, read by Lewis Davies
Victoria Winnick

**Victoria Winnick** is a writer, editor, and chef, living in Calgary, Alberta. When she’s not doing one of those things, she’s usually making plans about the next time she can. In the past, she’s written educational books for children, and magazine articles on sex, culture, and music, and she’s also an associate editor at Pseudopod.

## Work on Escape Artists

Pseudopod

* PP532 Artemis Rising 3 - Flash on the Borderlands XXXVI: Artemis Rising Showcase: *Us, Here*, read by Jen Roper
* PP565 Cuckoo, by Angela Slatter
Steve Dupont

**Steve Dupont** was known for his rants on the Obtuse Angle podcast. After publishing his debut novel *Therein Lies the Problem* in 2007, Steve left the literary world behind, returning to graduate school and ultimately becoming a Registered Dietitian/Nutritionist.

## Work on Escape Artists

Escape Pod

* EP046 Natural Order, by Michael Jasper
Toni Nicolino

**TONI NICOLINO**’s short fiction has appeared in magazines and anthologies, including **Morpheus Tales**, the **Pill Hill Press Big Book of New Short Horror** and Daily Flash Publications’ **Daily Frights** 2012. She has also been published in **Reader’s Digest**, **Woman’s Day**, **Women’s Health**, **Women’s Wear Daily**, **CosmoGIRL!**, **ELLEGirl**, **Budget Living**, **OK!**and **Zink** magazines. She lives in Manhattan with her husband Anthony, their daughter Charlie, and their three cats.
Suzan Palumbo

**Suzan Palumbo** lives in Ontario, Canada, where she is an ESL teacher and writer. Originally from Trinidad and Tobago, her life is a fusion of Caribbean, Indian and Canadian culture. She grows tomatoes in the summer, is a tobogganing enthusiast and can often be found wandering the forest near her home. She reads slush for Shimmer and has had work published at Diabolical Plots.

## Work on Escape Artists

PodCastle

* PC515 Artemis Rising 4 - Propagating Peonies, read by Nadia Niaz
Sue Burke

**Sue Burke** spent many years working as a reporter and editor for a variety of newspapers and magazines. She is a Clarion workshop alumnus, and she has published more than 30 short stories. Burke also worked extensively as a literary translator, and while living in Madrid, Spain, she headed the long-running Madrid Writer’s Critique Group. Her translations include the fantasy novel *Prodigies* by Angélica Gorodischer, the bilingual science fiction anthology *Castles in Spain / Castillos en el aire*, and the script for the science fiction movie *Mindgate*.

## Work on Escape Artists

Escape Pod

* EP030 Aliens Love Oranges, read by Mur Lafferty
* EP047 Poet for Hire, read by Mur Lafferty
Simon Meddings

**Simon Meddings** is a freelance script writer, podcaster and audio actor. He has written and directed at **Martian Creative**, a company creating audio books, plays, podcasts and scripts for televison.

## Work on Escape Artists

### Pseudopod

* PP325 The Terror Of The Twins by Algernon Blackwood
* PP391 Jack The Ripper’s Bedroom by John Paul Davies
* PP422 Necrosis by Dale Bailey
* PP468 The Angel in the Marble by B.T. Joy

### PodCastle

* PCMini054 A Spot of Bother, High Above the Undead Sea, by Kris Dikeman
Shelly Jones

**Shelly Jones** is an Associate Professor of English at SUNY Delhi\*, where she teaches classes in mythology, literature, and writing. She received her PhD in Comparative Literature from SUNY Binghamton. An editor for the academic journal, *Analog Game Studies*, she is an active nerd who enjoys board games, Dungeons and Dragons, being outdoorsy, and knitting.

\* pronounced: “Del-high”
Steve Rasnic Tem

**Steve Rasnic Tem**’s last novel, *Blood Kin* (Solaris, 2014) won the Bram Stoker Award. His new novel, *UBO*(Solaris, February 2017) is a dark science fiction tale about violence and its origins, featuring such historical viewpoint characters as Jack the Ripper, Stalin, and Heinrich Himmler. He is also a past winner of the World Fantasy and British Fantasy Awards. Recently a collection of the best of his uncollected horror—*Out of the Dark: A Storybook of Horrors*—was published by Centipede Press. A handbook on writing, *Yours To Tell: Dialogues on the Art & Practice of Fiction*, written with his late wife Melanie, has appeared from Apex Books. In the Fall of 2018 Hex Publishers will be bringing out Steve’s middle-grade novel *The Mask Shop of Doctor Blaack*.

## Work on Escape Artists

Pseudopod

* PP566 Flash on the Borderlands XL: Halloween Street, four stories:
	+ *Halloween Street* narrated by Alasdair Stuart
	+ *Masks of Me* narrated by Daniel Braum
	+ *Butcher Paper* narrated by Setsu Uzume
	+ *Tricks* narrated by Brian Lieberman
* PP601 Flash on the Borderlands XLIII: The Grinding of Gears - *At the Bureau*, read by Spencer DiSparti
Tobias S. Buckell

**Tobias S. Buckell** is a Grenadian science fiction writer. His 2008 novel, Halo: The Cole Protocol, made The New York Times Best Seller list. He currently lives in Bluffton, Ohio.

Buckell attended Clarion in 1999. Not long after that he made his first sale, "Fish Merchant", to Scott Edelman at Science Fiction Age. The story appeared in the March, 2000 issue. About the time of the sale, his story "In Orbite Medievali" won a quarterly contest for the Writers of the Future. Since then his stories have appeared in a variety of places, including the magazines Analog and Nature, and the anthologies New Voices in Science Fiction, Men Writing Science Fiction As Women, and So Long Been Dreaming.

## Work on Escape Artists

Escape Pod

* EP065 A Green Thumb, read by Matthew Wayne Selznick
* EP069 Her, read by Stephen Eley
* EP084 Smooth Talking, read by Steve Anderson
* EP181 Resistance, read by Stephen Eley
Washington Irving

**Washington Irving** (April 3, 1783 – November 28, 1859) was an American short story writer, essayist, biographer, historian, and diplomat of the early 19th century. He is best known for his short stories "Rip Van Winkle" (1819) and "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" (1820), both of which appear in his book The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. Irving also served as the U.S. ambassador to Spain from 1842 to 1846.

Along with James Fenimore Cooper, Irving was among the first American writers to earn acclaim in Europe, and Irving encouraged American authors such as Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and Edgar Allan Poe. Irving was also admired by some European writers, including Charles Dickens. As America's first genuine internationally best-selling author, Irving advocated for writing as a legitimate profession and argued for stronger laws to protect American writers from copyright infringement.

## Work on Escape Artists

PodCastle

* PC280 The Devil and Tom Walker, read by Wilson Fowlie
Will Tulin

**Will Tulin** is an actor, voice artist, writer, and speculative fiction fanatic. He recently completed work on the animated feature, “Eden,” and had an appearance in “The Grift,” for La Jolla playhouse. Will currently splits his time between Los Angeles and the Biggest Little City in the World.

## Work on Escape Artists

PodCastle

* PC419 Giants At the End of the World, by Leena Likitalo
Hana Mitchellova

**Hana Mitchell (or Mitchellova)** is from the Czech Republic and now lives in Melbourne, Australia with her husband, daughter and retired greyhound. She runs the online business Pramskins which provides universal pram liners, prams accessories & strollers covers in Australia to make little ones more comfortable.

Hana read Sylvia Anna Hivén's story Custom Made for Cast of Wonders episode 101.
Samambaia

Samambaia é o terceiro capítulo da novela A Regra do Jogo.

## Sinopse

Romero decide ajudar Tóia a sair da prisão.

## Enredo

Orlando e Tio levam Romero para um hospital. Feliciano e Nora protegem Nelita de Gibson. Victor ameaça Atena, que promete recompensar o ex-parceiro.Romero descobre que tem uma doença autoimune.Toda a família de Feliciano reclama sobre a falta de dinheiro. Com a ajuda de Iraque, Djanira foge do hospital para falar com Adisabeba. Victor apreende todo o dinheiro roubado de Atena e exige mais. Djanira visita Tóia com Adisabeba e passa mal. Sumara volta para o Rio de Janeiro e telefona para Atena. Romero decide ajudar Tóia a sair da prisão.
Sylvia Anna Hivén

**Sylvia Anna Hivén** lives and writes in Atlanta, Georgia. Her fiction has appeared in **Beneath Ceaseless Skies**, **Daily Science Fiction**, **EscapePod**, and others.

## Work on Escape Artists

Escape Pod

* EP326 Flash Fiction Special: Poppies and Chrome, read by Mat Weller

Pseudopod

* PP206 Flash on the Borderlands IV - "A Natural" read by Cheyenne Wright
* PP449 How To Remember, read by Patrick “The Voice” Bazile

Cast of Wonders

* CW101 Custom Made, read by Hana Mitchellova
* CW108 The Cardinals of Ever June, read by Pete Milan
Zachary T. Owen

**ZACHARY T. OWEN** is the author of **BEAUTIES IN THE DEEP** and **BURN DOWN THE HOUSE AND EVERYONE IN IT**. His work has been featured in many print and online magazines. Sometimes he uses a pen name. He is a resident of Pennsylvania. He grew up on Sega Genesis and horror films. You can find him on Twitter.
Samantha Murray

**Samantha Murray** is a writer, actor, mathematician and mother.  Not particularly in that order. She lives in Western Australia in a household of unruly boys.

## Work on Escape Artists

Escape Pod

* EP528 Divided By Zero, read by Ibba Armancas

PodCastle

* PC425 Flash Fiction Extravaganza - Transformations: *Portrait of My Wife as a Boat*, read by Graeme Dunlop
Shannon Peavey

**Shannon Peavey** is a writer and horse trainer from Seattle, Washington. Her stories have also appeared in Apex, Lightspeed, and Beneath Ceaseless Skies. Kelly Sandoval and Shannon co-edit Liminal Stories, a twice-yearly online magazine for beautiful and unsettling stories.

## Work on Escape Artists

Pseudopod

* PP476 Black Hearts, read by Tina Connolly (featured during the second Artemis Rising event)

PodCastle

* PC425 Flash Fiction Extravaganza - Transformations: *Mirabilis*, read by Jen R. Albert
Walter de la Mere

**WALTER DE LA MARE** OM, CH (1873-1956) was an English poet, short story writer and novelist. He worked in the statistics department of the London office of Standard Oil for eighteen years while struggling to bring up a family, but nevertheless found enough time to write, and, in 1908, through the efforts of Sir Henry Newbolt he received a Civil List pension which enabled him to concentrate on writing. His post-war **COLLECTED STORIES FOR CHILDREN** won the 1947 Carnegie Medal for British children’s books. He is probably best remembered for his works for children and for his poem **“The Listeners”**. He also wrote some subtle psychological horror stories, amongst them **“Seaton’s Aunt”** and **“Out of the Deep”**. Gary William Crawford has described de la Mare’s supernatural fiction for adults as being “among the finest to appear in the first half of this century” and several writers, including **Robert Aickman** and **Ramsey Campbell**, have cited de la Mare’s fiction as inspirational.
Steve Calvert

**STEVE CALVERT** (usually) lives in the UK. He usually writes horror fiction, but occasionally writes in other genres. His fiction has been published in **Arkham Tales**, **Hub**, and **Necrotic Tissue**. You can learn more about Steve at his **website** and further slices of his fiction can be read in his horror anthology **Written in Blood**, which is available in the **Amazon Kindle store**.
Sonya Dorman

**SONYA DORMAN** (1924- 2005) was the working name of Sonya Dorman Hess. She is perhaps best known outside of the world of science fiction as a poet, with some of her collections in this form being **STRETCHING FENCE** and **A PAPER RAINCOAT**. One of her poems, however, “Corruption of Metals”, received honors within science fiction circles by winning the **Rhysling Award** of the **Science Fiction Poetry Association**. Her best-known work of science fiction is the story “When I Was Miss Dow”, which has been reprinted numerous times and received a James Tiptree, Jr. retrospective award nomination. She also wrote four books in the YA series **ROXY RIMIDON OF THE PLANET PATROL**. She said of herself “I have been a cook, receptionist, riding instructor, flamenco dancer and married. I like speculative fiction because I believe art and science should be lovers, not enemies or adversaries.”.
Sofia Samatar

**Sofia Samatar**is the author of the novel *A Stranger in Olondria* and winner of the John W. Campbell Award, the Crawford Award, the British Fantasy Award, and the World Fantasy Award.

She co-edits the journal *Interfictions* and lives in California. Her new novel *The Winged Histories*, the sequel to *A Stranger in Olondria*, is forthcoming from Small Beer Press in 2016.

### Escape Pod

* EP461 Selkie Stories are for Losers (2014 Hugo Award nominee), read by Amanda Ching

### PodCastle

* PC394 Ogres of East Africa, read by Khaalidah Muhammad-Ali & Troy L. Wiggins
Sunny Moraine

**Sunny Moraine**’s short fiction has appeared in Clarkesworld, Tor.com, Nightmare, Lightspeed, and multiple Year’s Best anthologies, among other places. They are also responsible for the Root Code and Casting the Bones trilogies and their debut short fiction collection *Singing With All My Skin and Bone* is available from Undertow Publications. In addition to time spent authoring, Sunny is a doctoral candidate in sociology and a sometimes college instructor. They, unfortunately, live just outside Washington, DC, in a creepy house with two cats and a very long-suffering husband.

## Work on Escape Artists

Escape Pod

* EP599 What Glistens Back, read by Trendane Sparks
Wendy N. Wagner

**Wendy N. Wagner** is the author of Skinwalkers, a Pathfinder Tales novel inspired by Viking lore, and she’s also published more than thirty short stories in anthologies like Cthulhu Fhtagn! and The Way of the Wizard, and in magazines like Beneath Ceaseless Skies and Farrago’s Wainscot. She is the managing/associate editor of Nightmare and Lightspeed magazine, and served as guest editor for Nightmare’s Queers Destroy Horror! special issue.

## Work on Escape Artists

Pseudopod

* PP533 Artemis Rising 3 - Drift Right, read by Wilson Fowlie

PodCastle

* PC270 The Secret of Calling Rabbits, read by John Meagher
Swoopy

**Robynn "Swoopy" McCarthy** is an American skeptic and podcaster. She is the producer and co-host, with Derek Colanduno, of the talk show Skepticality, the official biweekly podcast of The Skeptics Society's Skeptic magazine.She is the Director for the Podcasting fan track at Dragon\*Con.

## Work on Escape Artists

Escape Pod

* EP018 Some Girlfriends Can, by Stephanie Burgis
* EP034 Free Will, Baby, by Janni Lee Simner
Veronica Giguere

**Veronica Giguere** is a narrator of many genres, most notably for the Secret World Chronicle podcast novel series (which she narrates, produces and writes along with **Mercedes Lackey**, **Cody Martin** and **Dennis Lee**) and the cyberpunk noir podcast novel, *Broken*, co-written with **Cedric Johnson**. She can be found at Voices by Veronica and at **Amazon** and **Smashwords**.

When not behind a microphone or slaving away on words, she works to release her soul from higher education in the pursuit of her doctorate.

## Work on Escape Artists

### Escape Pod

* EP349 Origin, by Ari Goelman
* EP390 Cerbo un Vitra ujo, by Mary Robinette Kowal
* EP415 The Nightmare Lights of Mars, by Brian Trent
* EP608 Even the Queen, by Connie Willis
* EP627 Humans Die, Stars Fade, by Charles Payseur
* EP667 The Best We Can, by Carrie Vaughn

### Pseudopod

* PP399 The Wriggling Death, by Harold Gross

### Cast of Wonders

* CW098 Daphne’s Daughter, by Jennifer Tiemann
Taran Matharu

**Taran Matharu** is the author of the popular book **Summoner: The Novice** (read 6 Million times and published in 11 languages) and can be found on twitter .

Taran's story, *Wolf In Sheep’s Clothing,* was read by Marguerite Kenner for Pseudopod episode 461: Flash on the Borderlands XXVIII - Britshock II.
Tatiana Grey

**Tatiana Grey** is a New York City-based actress of stage, screen, and of course, the audio booth.

Tatiana fell in love with New York City when she took a school trip to the city at 16 years old.  Six months later she had her feet and a suitcase on the New York City asphalt as a new student accepted into New York University’s prestigious Tisch School of the Arts which began her New York career.  She adores traveling and counts her lucky stars that acting and dancing have taken her all over the United States, to Montreal, Vancouver, Ireland, and Holland… but she loves coming home to New York where it all started.

Equally at home speaking heightened language in a corset, in a leather jacket spouting obscenities, and as a dancer she has been compared to such dark, vivacious heroines as Helena Bonham Carter, a young Winona Ryder and Ellen Page. This depth and facility with multiple genres garnered her a New York Innovative Theatre Award Best Featured Actress nomination for her work in *The Night of Nosferatu*. Her facility with accents has landed her quite a few audiobooks and numerous on-camera roles including the role of Evgenya in the award-winning *I am A Fat Cat*.  Tatiana is a proud member of Actor’s Equity Association.

## Work on Escape Artists

### Pseudopod

* PP409 Sideshow by Catherine MacLeod
* PP411 Flash On The Borderlands XXIII: Grief: *Poor Me and Ted,* by Kate Jonez
* PP426 The Devil Inside by Shannon Connor Winward
* PP458 Stabilimentum by Livia Llewellyn
* PP461 Flash On The Borderlands XXVIII - Britshock II: *The Ghost of Gold and Grey,* by Laura Lam
* PP504 There Is No Road through the Woods, by Dagny Paul
* PP532 Artemis Rising 3 - Flash on the Borderlands XXXVI - Artemis Rising Showcase: *When First He Laid Eyes*, by Rachael K. Jones
* PP574 While the Black Stars Burn, by Lucy A. Snyder
* PP588 Artemis Rising 4: The Good Mothers’ Home for Wayward Girls, by Izzy Wasserstein

### PodCastle

* PC134 Corinthians, by Sam Schreiber
* PC248 Bleaker Collegiate Presents an All-Female Production of Waiting for Godot, by Claire Humphrey
* PC366 Sticks and Stones, by Nathaniel Lee
* PC406 The Little Dog Ohori, by Anatoly Belilovsky
* PC434 The Ghost Years, by Nghi Vo
* PC475 The Dauphin's Metaphysics, by Eric Schwitzgebel
* PC499 Flash Fiction Extravaganza - Flash Fiction Contest IV: *Three Cats at the End of the World*, by Aimee Ogden
* PC517 A Fine Balance, by Charlotte Ashley
* PC547 Every House, a Home, by Evan Dicken
* PC558 A Place to Grow, by A. T. Greenblatt

### Cast of Wonders

* CW215 Banned Books Week: Problematic, by Brian Lawrence Hurrel (credited as **Tatiana Grey)**
Theodore Cogswell

**Theodore Rose Cogswell** (1918 – 1987) was an American science fiction author. During the Spanish Civil War, he served as an ambulance driver for the Republicans as part of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade. Cogswell wrote almost 40 science fiction stories, most of them humorous.

His story The Masters originally appeared in Thrilling Wonder Stories, Summer 1954, and was read by John Bell for Pseudopod episode 484, Flash on the Borderlands XXXI: WEIRD SCIENCE HORROR! Many thanks to John Betancourt and the Cogswell estate for working with us to share this story with you.
Shane Halbach

**SHANE HALBACH** lives with his wife and three kids in a secret lair located deep under Chicago, where he hones his superpower of being exactly wrong about which direction he needs to turn. Shane is frequently mistaken for three clockwork unicorns standing on top of each other inside a trenchcoat. Shane can tweet 142 characters.

His fiction has appeared on all four **Escape Artists** podcasts, in *Analog*, and elsewhere. He blogs regularly at **Is This Thing On?**.

 Work on Escape Artists

### Escape Pod

* EP399: My Heart is a Quadratic Equation, read by Christina Lebonville

### Pseudopod

* PP436: Flash On The Borderlands XXV *Lullabies For A Clockwork Child*, read by Pete Milan

### PodCastle

* PC473 The Wizard of 63rd Street, read by Dominick Rabrun

### Cast of Wonders

* CW106: Little Wonders 4, The Journey *Downsizing Pluto*, read by Bob Eccles
* CW225 Little Wonders 9 - Comfort Food: *Her Path Lay Forward*, read by M.K. Hobson
* CW279 Random Play All and the League of Awesome, read by Justin Thomas James
* CW312 Ten Things Sunil and I Forgot to Prepare for, When Preparing for the Apocalypse, read by Kyle Akers (also as CW343, a Staff Pick)
Sean Pearce

**Sean Pearce** is a graduate student, studying philosophy. This is his first published story, and he still doesn’t quite believe he’s managed it. He is a contributor to the art collective, Project Praeterlimina.

## Work on Escape Artists

Pseudopod

* PP530 The Madness of Bill Dobbs: A Tale of Snuff Movies and Cannibal Cults, read by Kyle Akers
Yoon Ha Lee

**Yoon Ha Lee**’s short fiction has appeared on Tor.com, in Clarkesworld, and eight times previously in Beneath Ceaseless Skies, including “Foxfire, Foxfire” in BCS Science-Fantasy Month 3, a finalist for the Locus Award. He is the author of the novels Ninefox Gambit and Raven Stratagem, and their sequel, Revenant Gun, is forthcoming from Solaris Books in June 2018. Yoon lives in Louisiana with his family and an extremely lazy cat, and has not yet been eaten by gators.

## Work on Escape Artists

PodCastle

* PCMini006 Eating Hearts, read by Ann Leckie
* PC236 Architectural Constraints, read by Graeme Dunlop
Susan Gage

**Susan Gage** is a member of the *Mickee Faust Club* cabaret troupe in Tallahassee, FL, and spent the first part of her working career as a reporter/producer and host of “Capital Report” on the Florida Public Radio Network. She is married to Isabelle and is a domestic servant to their cat, Valkyrie “Kyrie” Gage.

## Work on Escape Artists

Pseudopod

* PP578 Alarm Will Sound, by Christopher Shultz; read by Scott Campbell and **Susan Gage**
* PP601 Flash on the Borderlands XLIII: The Grinding of Gears - *Am I Repeating Myself?* by Linda Addison
Stephanie Burgis

**Stephanie Burgis** grew up in East Lansing, Michigan, but now lives in Wales with her husband and two sons, surrounded by mountains, castles and coffee shops.

She has published over thirty short stories for adults and teens in various magazines and anthologies. Her trilogy of MG Regency fantasy novels was published in the US as the *Kat, Incorrigible* trilogy and in the UK as *The Unladylike Adventures of Kat Stephenson*. The first book in the trilogy won the Waverton Good Read Award for Best Début Children’s Novel by a British writer, and the full trilogy was recently re-released in the US as *A Most Improper Boxed Set*. Her first historical fantasy novel for adults, *Masks and Shadows*, will be published by Pyr Books in 2016, and her next MG fantasy series will be published by Bloomsbury Books, beginning with The Dragon with a Chocolate Heart in 2017.

## Work on Escape Artists

Escape Pod

* EP018 Some Girlfriends Can, read by Swoopy
* EP151 Behind the Rules, read by MA in PA

Pseudopod

* PP032 Stitching Time, read by Mur Lafferty
* PP035 Locked Doors, read by Grant Baciocco

PodCastle

* PCMini002 Giant, read by Jonathan Sullivan
* PC303 The Wrong Foot, read by Renee Chambliss
* PC378 Flash Fiction Extravaganza! Strange Destinies: “Marking Time,” read by Kim Mintz
Shannon Connor Winward

**Shannon Connor Winward** has appeared in Pedestal Magazine, Flash Fiction Online, Strange Horizons, Plasma Frequency Magazine, Star\*Line, Literary Mama, and Scigentasy: Gender Stories in Science Fiction and Fantasy, and has been awarded Honorable Mention in the Writers of the Future Contest and as an emerging artist in literature by the Delaware Division of the Arts.

Her debut collection of poetry, *Undoing Winter*, is available through Amazon and Finishing Line Press. In between parenting and other madness, Shannon works to support local artists, and here and there has been intimate with a microphone. She lives and writes in Newark, Delaware. She has fiction forthcoming in Spinetingler Magazine and Stupefying Stories, and poetry in Scheherezade’s Bequest and Kaleidoscope.

## Work on Escape Artists

Pseudopod

* PP426 The Devil Inside, read by Tatiana Gomberg (2015 Artemis Rising event)

Cast of Wonders

* CW214 Banned Books Week: The Price of Stories, read by Katherine Inskip
Severity Chase

Is a mystery wrapped in an enigma. Other wrappings unconfirmed.

Severity has been featured in two Flash on the Borderlands collections on Pseudopod:

PP410 Flash On The Borderlands XXII: Britshock: "The Lake" read by Siobhan Gallichan

PP461 Flash On The Borderlands XXVIII - Britshock II: "Absolution," read by Khaalidah Muhammad-Ali
Sarina Dorie

**Sarina Dorie** is the author of award-winning, YA paranormal romance novel, Silent Moon. Her Puritan and alien love story, Dawn of the Morning Star, is out with Wolfsinger Publications. She has sold over sixty-five short stories to markets like Daily Science Fiction, Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Orson Scott Card’s IGMS, Cosmos, and Sword and Laser.

By day, Sarina is a public school art teacher, artist, belly dance performer and instructor, copy editor, fashion designer, event organizer and probably a few other things. By night, she writes. As you might imagine, this leaves little time for sleep.

Sarina's story Princesses Do Not Breathe Fire was read by Jeff Hite (and family!) for Cast of Wonders episode 170, and was a 2015 Staff Pick for episode 193.
Y. M. Pang

**Y. M. Pang** spent her childhood pacing around her grandfather’s bedroom, telling him stories of magic, swords, and bears. Her work is forthcoming in *The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction*, Book Smugglers Publishing, and *Razor’s Edge*.

She dabbles in photography, listens to music in a multitude of languages, and often finds herself debating the merits of hermitism. Despite this, she can be found online at www.ympang.com or on Twitter as @YMPangWriter.

## Work on Escape Artists

### Escape Pod

* EP646 Subtle Ways Each Time, read by Peter Adrian Behravesh

### PodCastle

* PC540 Flash Fiction Extravaganza! The Three Phases of Equinox: “The Mooncakes of My Childhood”, read by Setsu Uzume
William Gibson

**William Ford Gibson** is an American-Canadian speculative fiction novelist and essayist who has been called the “noir prophet” of the cyberpunk subgenre. Gibson coined the term “cyberspace” in his short story “Burning Chrome” (1982) and later popularized the concept in his debut novel, Neuromancer (1984). In envisioning cyberspace, Gibson created an iconography for the information age before the ubiquity of the Internet in the 1990s. He is also credited with predicting the rise of reality television and with establishing the conceptual foundations for the rapid growth of virtual environments such as video games and the World Wide Web. Needless to say, Gibson is a major influence on the existence of Escape Artists.

“Hinterlands” originally appeared in Omni Magazine, October 1981; it was read by George Hrab for Pseudopod episode 486.
Stephen Dedman

**Stephen Dedman** is an Australian author of dark fantasy and science fiction stories and novels.

## Work on Escape Artists

Escape Pod

* EP068 Depth of Field, read by Jonathon Sullivan
* EP077 A Single Shadow, read by Benjamin Grundy

Pseudopod

* PP017 Upon The Midnight Clear, read by J.R. Blackwell
* PP020 What You Wish For, read by Leann Mabry
* PP024 Honest Ghosts, read by Ben Phillips
Thoriya Dyer

**Thoraiya Dyer** is an Aurealis and Ditmar Award-winning, Sydney-based science fiction writer and lapsed veterinarian. Her work has appeared in Clarkesworld, Apex, Cosmos, Analog and various US and Australian anthologies. Four of her original stories are collected in “Asymmetry,” available from Twelfth Planet Press. Her first novel, “Crossroads of Canopy,” a big fat fantasy set in a magical rainforest, is forthcoming from Tor in January 2017.

## Work on Escape Artists

PodCastle

* PC369 The Chimney-Borer And The Tanner, read by Pamila Payne
* PC446 The Rock In the Water, read by Nathalie Cerin & Loulou Szal
Thomas Kearnes

**Thomas Kearnes** is a 37-year-old author living in Houston, where he’s studying to become a licensed chemical dependency counselor. He has been published mainly in literary magazines, but writes horror on occasion. He has two collections of literary fiction available – **PRETEND I’M NOT HERE** from Musa Publishing and **PROMISCUOUS** from JMS Books.
Siobhan Gallichan

**Siobhan Gallichan**, is a voice-over artist available for work at macfadyan-at-gmail.com. Listen to Siobhan’s podcast at **The Flashing Blade** or watch the show on **YouTube**.

## Work on Escape Artists

Pseudopod

* PP374 Flash on the Borderlands XIX: Blood On The Tracks – Departure, Transit, Arrival: *The Terminus*, by Kim Newman
* PP410 Flash on the Borderlands XXII: Britshock: *The Lake,* by Severity Chase
* PP455 Turbulence, by Scott R. Jones
* PP501 Flash on the Borderlands XXXII: Punishments: *Dead Alive Imagine*, by David Murphy
* PP527 We Are Not These Bodies, Strung Between The Stars, by A.C. Wise
* PP601 Flash on the Borderlands XLIII: The Grinding of Gears - *Suicide Vending Machine,* by Thomas Welsh
Tim W. Burke

**Tim W. Burke** grew up a mile from the most notorious prisons in the U.S. He produced movies found on Netflix and wrote comedy sketches about the brains of the Kennedy Brothers playing touch football. Currently, he finds horror to be more emotionally satisfying. His novel “The Flesh Sutra” earned a place on the preliminary ballot for the 2015 Stoker Awards.

## Work on Escape Artists

Pseudopod

* PP127 The Garden and the Mirror, read by Alasdair Stuart
* PP198 The Mother and the Worm, read by Paul S. Jenkins
* PP234 I.C.U., read by Cayenne Chris Conroy
* PP373 The Metal and Its Mold, read by Paul S. Jenkins
* PP494 The Voyage & The Ship, read by Paul S. Jenkins
Shaenon Garrity

**Shaenon K. Garrity** is a cartoonist best known for the webcomics *Narbonic* and *Skin Horse*. Her prose fiction has appeared in publications including Strange Horizons, Lightspeed, Escape Pod, Drabblecast, and the *Unidentified Funny Objects* anthologies. She lives in Berkeley with a cat and two men of varying sizes.

## Work on Escape Artists

### Escape Pod

* EP380 Punk Voyager, read by Nathaniel Lee
* EP575 Red Kelly Owns the Moon, read by Cheyenne Wright
* EP658 Beatrix Released, read by Katherine Inskip

### PodCastle

* PC450 Bonsai, read by Khaalidah Muhammad-Ali
Tony Pi

**Tony Pi** is a writer based in Toronto, Canada, whose works have been published widely and some have been nominated for the Aurora Award for Best English Short Fiction. The heroine of this story also makes an appearance in “The Sweetest Skill” at Beneath Ceaseless Skies, available in audio as well for those who’d like to hear more about Yan Xue.

## Work on Escape Artists

PodCastle

* PC423 The Gold Silkworm, read by S. Qiouyi Lu
* PC453 A Spirited Education, read by Curtis C. Chen
Steven Capps

**Steven Capps** is a father of one, an Infantry Sergeant, and a SFF writer. Steven graduated with a B.A. in English from the American Military University, and teaches high school English with *Teach for America: South Carolina*. His short story *Lux Nauta* won Honorable Mention in the Writers of the Future, 3rd Quarter 2016, and his nonfiction articles have ranged from SaaS companies in Silicon Valley to ballistic plate manufacturers in Ohio. When not writing or reading, he’s playing with his son, exercising, or being distracted by social media.

## Work on Escape Artists

PodCastle

* PC480 All Of The Cuddles With None Of The Pain, by J. J. Roth; read with a full cast
Ville Meriläinen

**Ville Meriläinen** is a Finnish university student, author, and Death Metal vocalist. His horror and fantasy short fiction in *200 CC*s and *Mad Scientist Journal’s Fitting In* anthology, as well as *Intergalactic Medicine Show*, PseudoPod, and Cast of Wonders. His musical fantasy novel, Ghost Notes can be found on Amazon.com.

## Work on Escape Artists

### Writing

#### Pseudopod

* PP554 A Doll Full of Nails, read by Riku Kanninen

#### Cast of Wonders

* CW328 Ava Paints the Horses, read by Katrin Kania
Troubleshooting

**WARNING**: this page needs to be updated to become compatible with Fast Stacker v2.0

# Rail issues

## After a software upgrade, weird things happen

Issue: Some parameters have crazy values.

The solution: do a factory rest (press "#\*" keys combo). Alternatively, re-upload the firmware, making sure to set "Tools > Erase Flash" to "All Flash Contents" in Arduino IDE.

## Motor skips some steps

This is manifested by fairly loud clicking noise when the rail is moving. It happens when the motor doesn't have enough of torque to move the camera.

First, make sure the tiny pot on your motor driver board is set to the maximum current your motor + AC adapter can handle. Measure VREF voltage straight from the pot (it has a metal top), to the ground. Your Current Limit = VREF × 2. For example, set VREF to 0.75V to get 1.5A current limit per coil.

If that doesn't solve the issue - perhaps the rail has some mechanical issues (it takes too much effort to turn the focusing knob), or the alignment of the motor shaft with the focusing knob is not great.

Finally, the batteries you are using might be not very good, or need to be recharged. Test if using an AC power solves the issue.

If all else fails, you can mitigate this problem by reducing the SPEED\_LIMIT\_MM\_S parameter in stacker.h. You can also try to reduce the number of microsteps per step. Change the N\_MICROSTEPS parameter in stacker.h, and also the parmeters MOTOR\_M0, MOTOR\_M1, MOTOR\_M2 accordingly. (You will lose positional accuracy with this mod.)

## Limiting switches behave erratically

This issue plagued my old (pre-h2.0) designs. In h2.0, I found the proper solution: solder a 10nF ceramic capacitor between the limiter switch reading pin (D8) and the ground - right on top of the microcontroller. This will eliminate impulse noise coming from the stepper motor wiring.

# Camera issues

## In continuous stacking, camera doesn't take any shots

Perhaps you need to set AF\_SYNC to 1 in stacker.h

Another possibility - if you enabled the Mirror lock feature in your camera. If so, you should disable it when using continuous stacking mode. You can only enable it when using non-continuous stacking. In the latter case, make sure the mirror lock parameter is on (\*C function).

## In continuous stacking, camera ignores the first shot

In stacker.h, if AF\_SYNC=0, try to increase CONT\_STACKING\_DELAY value.

## Some shots are not taken

Perhaps increasing one or more of the following parameters in stacker.h can help: SHUTTER\_TIME\_US, SHUTTER\_ON\_DELAY, SHUTTER\_OFF\_DELAY.

Or could be because your camera doesn't support the current FPS parameter - try to reduce it until the problem goes away.
Tanith Lee

Tanith Lee (19 September 1947 – 24 May 2015) was a British writer of science fiction, horror, and fantasy. She was the author of over 90 novels and 300 short stories, a children’s picture book (*Animal Castle*), and many poems. She was the first woman to win the British Fantasy Award best novel award (also known as the August Derleth Award), for her book *Death’s Master* (1980)

## Work on Escape Artists

### Pseudopod

* PP604 The Gorgon, read by Scott Campbell and Sharon Moskowitz
Mick Schumacher

**Mick Schumacher** (German pronunciation: [ˈmɪk ˈʃuːmaxɐ]; born 22 March 1999) is a German racing driver, currently competing in the FIA Formula 2 Championship with Prema Theodore Racing and being affiliated to the Ferrari Driver Academy. He began his career in karting in 2008, progressing to the German ADAC Formula 4 by 2015. Mick most recently competed in the 2018 FIA F3 European Championship, which he won. He began his career in karting in 2008, progressing to the German ADAC Formula 4 by 2015. He is the son of Corinna and seven-time Formula One World Champion Michael Schumacher, nephew of former Formula One driver Ralf Schumacher, and stepnephew of Sebastian Stahl.

He has a cousin named David Schumacher, the son of Ralf Schumacher, who has competed in Formula 4 as well.

## Career

He made his single seaters debut in ADAC Formula 4 in 2015, where he scored a debut win at Oschersleben Race 3. The teenager finished 2nd in both ADAC and Italian F4 championships in 2016, with 5 wins in each, finishing behind Joey Mawson and Marcos Siebert respectively.
Are you interested in commercialization of my rail?

Let me know if you are interested in any kind of commercialization of my rail. I am willing to provide both the hardware design and my software for free, and will continue to develop my software (as Open Source). This rail can compete favorably with such commercial devices as Cognysis StackShot at a substantially lower price point: Cognysis is sold for 550$ USD, while the cost to build my rail is around 150$. My rail can be commercialized as a DIY kit (say, for 100-150$, without the Velbon Super Mag Slider), or as a ready to use product (say, for 300-350$).
Eric Esser

**ERIC ESSER** lives and writes in San Francisco with his love Courtney and their black cat Mina. When he was small he used to wander the perimeter of his elementary school soccer field every recess imagining stories set in other worlds, and for some reason no one ever made fun of him for it. He suspects they discussed him secretly. He is an affiliate member of the **Horror Writers Association**, a graduate of **Clarion UCSD 2012**, and his fiction has appeared most recently in the **Awkward Robots: The Red Volume** anthology, a fundraiser for the **Clarion Foundation**and is forthcoming in **The Electronic Voice Phenomenon** podcast and **Fictionvale**, among others. Visit him at **ericesser.net** or follow him on Twitter (@ericdesser).

## Work on Escape Artists

Pseudopod

* PP430 Thing In The Bucket, read by Andrew Clarke
Atena Torremolinos

Atena usa sua inteligência para procurar vítimas para seus golpes e faturar uma boa grana. Sem se preocupar com o futuro, torra todo o dinheiro que consegue para viver uma vida repleta de luxo: bons restaurantes, roupas de marca, champanhe

## Psicológico

Passa para todos uma imagem de mulher linda, sedutora e com muito bom gosto, mas tem gente que sabe a verdade sobre seu passado e artimanhas. Ao conhecer Romero, Atena só pensa em tirar proveito do prestígio que ele tem.
Useful links

A collections of useful links which in one way or another relates to Fast Stacker.

## General macro photography sites

* Macro-scripts: my own scripts for the whole macro photography workflow.
* Cheap and simple studio stacking setup: lots of interesting cheap solutions for extreme macro
* A Macro Stacking Rig
* Macro photography calculators (depth of field, effective aperture etc.):
	+ Zerene stack step tables
	+ coinimaging
	+ extreme-macro.co.uk
	+ cambridgeincolor
* Extreme Macro: a large collection of articles about extreme macro photography
* http://www.photomacrography.net/forum/index.php: largest forum dedicated to macro photography
* http://coinimaging.com/: macro lens test site
* Rylee Isitt's DIY Focus Stacking Controller with Arduino
* Electronic shutter on Canon DSLRs
* Photoduino

## Fast Stacker Hardware

* Potential substitutes to Velbon Super Mag Slider macro rail (I have now idea if they are usable as a basis for Fast Stacker):
	+ Proxxon 27100 Micro Compound Table KT 70
	+ Wormdrive Macro Rail Fine Focus Focusing Arca / RRS
* Electronics
	+ Online schematics/PCB editor with autorouter and ability to submit the design to a manufacturer: https://easyeda.com/editor
	+ MCP23017 (GPIO expander chip) tutorial: https://medium.com/@wilko.vehreke/more-gpios-for-the-esp8266-with-the-mcp23017-b89f5e15cde3
	+ ST7735 display tutorials:
		- https://learn.adafruit.com/adafruit-mini-tft-0-dot-96-inch-180x60-breakout/wiring-test
		- https://forbiddenbit.com/en/arduino-projects/esp8266/nodemcu-and-1-8-spi-st7735-display/
		- https://simple-circuit.com/esp8266-nodemcu-st7735s-tft/
	+ WeMos D1 Mini pinout: https://escapequotes.net/esp8266-wemos-d1-mini-pins-and-diagram/
	+ ESP8266 tutorial: https://tttapa.github.io/ESP8266/Chap04%20-%20Microcontroller.html

## Fast Stacker software

* https://www.arduino.cc/: official Arduino site
* Intro to SPI
* Bitmap converter

## Useful gadgets

* Steel Lab-Lift Lifting Platforms Lab Jack Scissor Stand Rack 100 x 100mm: useful as a vertical motion platform, to place macro objects on
Sarah Goldman

**Sarah Goldman** grew up outside of Kansas City and recently graduated from Bryn Mawr College, where she studied sociology and developed a deep hatred for geese. She is a First Reader at Strange Horizons, and her fiction has appeared in Grievous Angel and Cicada.

## Work on Escape Artists

Escape Pod

* EP595 Islands in the Dark, read by Karen Bovenmyer
2018 French F4 Championship Round of Nogaro (race 1)

Race 1 at the Round of Nogaro was won by Ugo de Wilde and Théo Pourchaire (junior). It is the first race of French F4 under FIA regulations and using the 2.0 litre engines.

## Report

All drivers finished race 1, as Ugo de Wilde won ahead of Adam Eteki and Caio Collet. The Junior Championship was won by Théo Pourchaire.
Chaosaur

Chaosaur is a fanmade vivosaur made by Charizard Rider.

Flavor text description: A Chaotic Vivosaur with power over light and darkness, its strength is hampered by its expensive skills.

Fossilary: A chaotic vivosaur, able to either destroy or create, depending on the path its master chooses.

Element: Legend

ability- Element Change- randomly changes element every 2 turns.

Attacks:

* Chaotic Bite- 320 base damage, 200 fp
* Riot Combo- 640 base damage, 350 fp
* Raging Chaos- 920 base damage, 790 fp
* team skill: Chaos Annihilation- 820 bade damage, able to cause any status ailment, 900 fp

Trivia

* was inspired by chaos gore magala of mh4u
* resembles a tyrannosaur- Carcharodontosaur hybrid
* Somewhat insane
* Was Created from an abnormal storm
O Injustiçado

**O Injustiçado** é o quinto capítulo de A Regra do Jogo.

## Enredo

Romero deixa o hospital, e Paty o acompanha.Juliano insiste em combater a facção criminosa e acaba discutindo com Tóia. Victor convida Sumara e Atena para viajar. Romero engana Paty. Romero visita Djanira e revela que está doente. Gibson decide se aproximar de Orlando. Dênis volta para casa e quase flagra Alisson com Merlô. Breno e Dalila combinam as condições do empréstimo solicitado por Feliciano, Vavá e Janete. Nelita se interessa por Orlando.Dante tem ciúmes de Belisa. Juliano confronta Dênis. Dante revela a Romero que encontrou uma pista sobre Zé Maria.Tóia questiona Djanira sobre a sua relação com Romero. Victor e Sumara ficam juntos e Atena registra a cena. Zé Maria procura Juliano. Djanira vai à casa de Romero.