About the author

Timothy C. Ward

<p>My love for writing started while co-authoring a Ninja Turtles comic in kindergarten. Dragonlance and Stephen King influenced my middle years, and then Orson Scott Card and the&nbsp;<em>Dune Prequels</em>&nbsp;added Science Fiction to my literary palate. After college, insecurity and a lack of community led to a few years off from writing, but then I discovered NaNoWriMo and podcasts. These helped me write and rewrite what became two trunked novels, but also put me firmly in the path of realizing my dream.</p><p>I self-published my debut novel,&nbsp;<em>Scavenger: Evolution</em>&nbsp;last March. It&rsquo;s a sand-divers in the apocalypse story of love and terror set in Hugh Howey&rsquo;s world of&nbsp;<em>Sand</em>&nbsp;(with his permission). The audiobook is nearly complete, and the sequel will come out next summer.</p><p>My short story credits include &ldquo;The Bomb in the President&rsquo;s Bathroom,&rdquo; an Amish science fiction thriller set in the world of Michael Bunker&rsquo;s&nbsp;<em>Pennsylvania</em>, and published in the anthology,&nbsp;<em>Tales from Pennsylvania</em>; &ldquo;Staring Into,&rdquo; a time-travel love story published in&nbsp;<em>Masters of Time</em>; and &ldquo;Marigold Bloom,&rdquo; an as-yet published story in a redshirts-themed anthology,&nbsp;<em>Expendable Assets</em>, which will donate proceeds to The Intrepid Fallen Heroes Fund.</p><p>My first Evolved Publishing novel is a magical thriller set in the rift between Iowa and the Abyss, inspired by equal parts of Stephen King&rsquo;s&nbsp;<em>Dark Tower</em>&nbsp;series and&nbsp;<em>The Stand</em>.</p><p>I am also a former Executive Producer for the Hugo-Nominated podcast,&nbsp;Adventures in SciFi Publishing, and have reviewed books for them and&nbsp;SF Signal.</p>