Kristin Helling
Kristin Helling enjoys stories with a journey—whether it’s a journey across the globe, a journey through space, or a journey of finding ones self.
She writes adult fiction thrillers. When she’s not killing people (fictionally, of course!), she also has a passion for children’s stories and writes them under the pen name Kristin Alis.
She received her BA in English-Writing from Park University (Parkville, MO) with an 18-hour minor in Psychology.
Kristin owns a coffee house, co-owns the publishing imprint Wordwraith Books, is married to a Photographer, and is Mama to one little boy and his hairy sibling, a collie-shepherd mix.
J. R. Frontera
J. R. Frontera’s love of science fiction and fantasy originated with her early exposure to the worlds of Star Wars, Star Trek, Lord of the Rings, and Dune.
Exploring the potential and pitfalls of future or fantastical worlds is a temptation she’s just never been able to resist. She lives in rural Missouri with her husband, son, and more animals than she’d prefer to disclose.
She tends to write gritty, character-driven speculative fiction with plenty of action and romance, and has been telling stories in some form or another since she could hold a crayon and draw.
She co-founded The Wordwraiths in 2013 and is co-owner of their publishing imprint Wordwraith Books.
She has been writing and learning the craft and business of writing for over twenty years, and fully embraced indie authordom in 2013 as well.
When she’s not writing, momming, or working at her full-time day job, she’s often horseback riding, playing videogames, or cosplaying.
Rod A. Galindo
Rod A. Galindo is a child of the ’70s and ’80s.
He holds a B. A. in Psychology from the University of Kansas, and will probably work for the U.S. Government ’till the end of his days. Two of his offspring are cyber-smart young men to whom he goes for all technical quandaries, and the other is a sharp-witted German Army (Bundeswehr) Soldatin who is as dangerously clever as she is beautiful. He also fills in as full-time father to a special little social butterfly who never really had a dad to call her own.
“Major” Galindo (retired) spent 28 years in the U. S. Army, both Active Duty and in the Kansas Army National Guard. As both an enlisted tank driver and an artillery officer, he has served in Operation Desert Storm in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and Iraq, Operation Noble Eagle in Kansas, Operation Iraqi Freedom in Iraq, and Operation Inherent Resolve in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan.
Rod has traveled all over the planet and back again, but calls Kansas City home. Enjoy his shiny art or delve into his literary musings at RodWerks.netor RodGalindo.com.
OUR AFFILIATE AUTHORS
Spencer Carney
Spencer Carney is a poet, actor, and musician who currently resides in Los Angeles, California.
Spencer studied English Literature and Composition at the University of Missouri-Columbia for two years before receiving his bachelors in Theatre from the University of Southern California. As an affiliate author, Spencer’s debut chapbook of poetry, “A Bird Between“, opened Wordwraith Books’ poetry line, Notion. “A Bird Between” has often been showcased as spoken-word in southern California, most notably at The RiverRock Lounge, thanks to Alternative Entertainment. When not running around the city and the surrounding wilderness looking for poems, Spencer can often be seen on national television playing a high-schooler, despite being an adult, such as on ABC’s “Speechless” and “The Goldbergs”.
As a classically trained vocalist and musician, some of Spencer’s poems have ended up in song form; he even has originated roles in new-works musicals in Kansas City, such as “Wild and Willful Women: The Musical” and in Los Angeles within “Comic-Con: The Musical”. Some of his greatest literary influences include: Mary Oliver, “The Little Prince”, Grimm’s Complete Fairy Tales, and John Steinbeck.
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