Tales Untold: Mythos Around the World

Rashmi P. Menon is a multi-genre author and editor. She is a single mother to the most amazing teen—her biggest critic and supporter. Rashmi has been published in multiple anthologies, and won the Reader's Choice Award for her short story Unbound in a Writing Contest conducted by The Write Practice. She is currently working on her debut novel while juggling multiple editing and writing projects. She posts articles on writing, editing, and her books on her website: ConfessionsofaWriteaholic.com. 

For a day job, Rashmi works as a Technical Program Manager in a leading media and telecommunications company. In her free time, she loves to hike the trails of Virginia with her son. Visit her website or follow Rashmi on social media: Twitter and TikTok @RashmiPMAuthor and Instagram @confessionsofawriteaholic to know more about her current and upcoming projects.

Kimberlee Caruso is currently a stay-at-home gran for a daring boy. She spends her days juggling 

activities around reading/editing, art, advocacy, and other creative pursuits. She’s written and edited for several poetry, fiction, and non-fiction publications. She’s addicted to bright colors & glitter, a believer in adventure, bad at math, prefers her puns to be intended, and has 50 shades of dark circles under her eyes. When she’s not curating moments, she can be found dabbling in Twitter poems or random writing projects.

Amorina Carlton lives in New Orleans with her husband, daughter, and two dogs. Born and bred in the deep rural South, she spent much of her life trying to shed that identity and all it entails, until she realized embracing it to help others understand the stereotypes aren’t all true was a better tactic. 

Her blue-collar, single mother read to her every day as a baby, trying to ensure she grew up smart. This instilled a love of stories so strong, that she started telling them as soon as she could talk, and writing as soon as she learned how. Her grandparents also made sure she was connected with and learned about her Native American roots.

She is currently putting the finishing touches on her first novel. In addition to writing and serving as the PR and Marketing Lead for Ravens and Roses, she is a homeschool mom and community activist.

M.N. Kee works with animals by trade, but as the daughter of a retired English teacher, she has always had an ever-growing love for writing. She has her hands dipped in multiple WIPs from personal projects to collaborative works all within the realm of dark speculative fiction, a multiverse she calls Infernal Happenings. In recent years, she found a love for graphic design and took to it like a duck to water, becoming the lead graphic designer for Ravens & Roses Publishing. When she’s not writing or designing, she enjoys roleplaying, binge-watching TikTok videos, and taking care of her five crazy goats.

Sathya Achia was born and raised in Ontario, Canada, where she grew up devouring books and playing along the pebbly shores of Lake Huron, before moving to the United States. Sathya’s creative work is influenced by her South Indian Kodava culture. She grew up spending summers in the remote hills and lush jungles of the Western Ghats in India, where she learned the art of storytelling from her grandparents.

As a young reader, she missed seeing heroes like herself—of two worlds and cultures—so she enjoys writing stories inspired by her East meets West roots, mythology and folklore, and the natural world. She creates stories of adventure and discovery for picture book, middle grade, and young adult readers. Sathya’s debut YA novel, In My Hands, was published by Ravens & Roses Publishing in August 2022. She is a member of the Society for Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators, the Author’s Guild. When not spinning stories, Sathya can be found trying a new yoga pose, exploring the great outdoors, traveling the world, or wrapped up in her greatest adventure of all: Motherhood.

Visit her website: sathyaachia.com or find her on Instagram and TikTok @sathyaachiawrites or on Twitter @SathyaAchiaAbra

D B Carter lives with his wife on the edge of a small town nestled amongst the rolling hills of rural Devon, England. The son of two nomadic artists, he grew up in a world of creativity, studying painting techniques under his parents' tutelage. In his 20s, he went to university and followed a career in science and later commerce, running his own business for twenty years.

A lifelong bibliophile, he is firmly of the opinion that there is no such thing as too many books, only insufficient shelf space. It was his love of classical literature, of Dickens, Brontë and Conan Doyle, which inspired him to become a writer.

His philosophy is, "If we look for the good, we will find it.

Brenda is a Mexican author whose work will be published by both Collective Tales and Ravens and Roses Publishing later this year. She is currently working on a novel on the identity and the future of her country, using elements of horror to enhance the narrative. She is completing the last term of the Certificate for Creative Writing at UCSD. Follow Brenda on Twitter @Radchik_1313 and Instagram @Brendaradchikwrites 

Chaz Beebe lives in the world of the imaginary. He has been teaching youth to love and improve their reading and writing for more than ten years, making use of his BA in Theater, MA in Education, and soon-to-be finished MA in Online Education.

In his youth, Chaz created many poems, and while in college, he wrote and produced the one-act play “The Truth in Dreams.” With his writing and teaching, Chaz attempts to give his readers and students a different perspective and helpful themes. His other work can be found in Fractured Realities, Shadows Redefined, Dragons Within: Balancing the Scales, and some of Write of Passion’s literary journals, which has some of his short stories, poems, and articles.

Help encourage Chaz to continue his dream: Patreon support - www.patreon.com/AdorkablyEclectic and Facebook - @ChazBeebeAuthor

D.M. Monkson lives in the lower midwest of the U.S. with his wife and two children. He's been an avid reader for most of his life, and is excited to begin his writing career. He loves the fantastical elements of myth and folktales, and enjoys blending them together with his own worldbuilding. 

Janie loved writing even before she could read, drawing picture stories to entertain her family and friends. As an adult, she could not keep her paws off of notebooks or computers, so of course she had to write about the joys of balancing work, college, and single parenting through her Working Mama blog (now obsolete). Her poem, Postcard, was published in the University of Washington's literary journal Tahoma West. Janie enjoyed leading and co-leading a local writer's critique group until COVID-19 hit. Janie currently gives back to the writer community by offering her skills as a beta reader.

Jessica Hopson has been writing for as long as she can remember. She even bonded with her best friend over their shared love of stories. Jessica lives in a small town in North Georgia, with her husband and daughter. She works as a dispatcher for a law enforcement agency. Jessica enjoys writing, crochet, and cross stitch in her spare time.

Joel C. Flanagan-Grannemann grew up in rural western Pennsylvania. From a young age, the worlds inside his favorite fantasy books made up for the lonely times at school. He wrote all through high school and college, but stopped writing after graduation when work and other responsibilities got in the way. He didn’t understand what was missing in his life till the right set of circumstances allowed an idea to blossom. Now he has published two books, with more on the way. Together with his wife and editor, Jay-Jay, he manages the website  ServantsoftheMoonandSun.com, where information on all his books and stories can be found. The Flanagan-Grannemanns currently reside in South Carolina with a coterie of Cats. This is Joel’s first professionally-published short story.

Joel is active on Twitter as @ServantsAnd.

Sean Doyle is a writer, artist, editor, and all-around big nerd who likes to make things that other nerds might enjoy. He lives in Las Vegas, but if you want to find him online, you can do that on Twitter and Instagram @keyboard_brawl.

Max Turner is a gay transgender man based in the United Kingdom. He is also a parent, nerd, intersectional feminist and coffee addict. Max writes speculative and science fiction, fantasy, furry fiction, many sub-genres of horror, and LGBTQ+ romance and erotica. More often than not, he writes combinations thereof. Read more about Max and his projects on his website https://www.maxturneruk.com/

Mark Piggott, a native of Phillipsburg, N.J., enlisted in the U.S. Navy in 1982, beginning a 23-year career. He served on four aircraft carriers and various duty stations as a Navy Journalist before he attained the rank of Chief Petty Officer. He retired from active duty in 2006. His first novel, Forever Avalon, was published in 2009, followed by The Dark Tides, in 2014. The Outlander War: Book Three of the Forever Avalon series was released in 2020. In 2021, he published the start of a new steampunk fantasy series with The Last Magus: A Clockwork Heart. His novels have won a slew of awards over the past years. The Outlander War won second place for fantasy in the 2021 Firebird Book Awards, The Last Magus won first place for steampunk, and in 2022, Forever Avalon won second place for fantasy. Additionally, The Last Magus won the Grand Prize for Fiction in the 2022 Authors Marketing Guild Indie Book Awards.

Mark’s latest fantasy novella, The River of Souls, in collaboration with poet Ashley Valitutto, was published in 2022 through Curious Corvid Publishing. Coming in 2023, get ready to dive into a steampunk historical fiction, Corsair and the Sky Pirates and the next book in The Last Magus series, Dragonfire and Steel, and the fourth book in the Forever Avalon series, The Prometheus Engine!

Mark, his wife Georgiene, and their three children live in Alexandria, Virginia.