K.E. Martin is the fiction name of respected non-fiction author and editor Kathy Martin. Her first novel, The Woodville Connection, was published by Pen & Sword Books in 2013.

The youngest of six sisters, Kathy grew up in the Sixties in a small Buckinghamshire village. She achieved her first publishing success as a teenager but it was many more years before her dream of writing full-time became a reality. Although it was always Kathy’s ambition to write historical fiction, she honed her skills along the way by writing for a variety of different publications.

However, her first real success came in 1987 when she was a finalist in Cosmopolitan’s ‘New Journalist’ competition. Soon after this, her interest in antiques and collectables led her to a long career writing for and editing magazines relating to the collectables hobby. She also works occasionally as a valuer on Flog It, the BBC’s popular antiques show.

Kathy is passionate about history, literature and musical theatre and she retains a strong interest in antiques and collectables. A member of the Richard III Society and the Society of Authors, she lives in Berkshire with her husband, daughter and an elderly Golden Retriever called Tova.

Linda Raedisch (New Providence, NJ) writes and lectures on a wide variety of arcane topics. She is a longtime library employee and professional crafts instructor who teaches classes on candle making, broom making, and other old-time homemaking arts.

Holly Bellebuono (Martha's Vineyard, MA) has been a community herbalist, apothecary director, and teacher for over two decades. She uses her inspiring lectures, books, curriculum, retreats, and workshops to empower people to think creatively and explore healing and success.

Diana Rajchel began her career planning to serve as clergy and write about all subjects spiritual. It did not occur to her or anyone else to say with what agency she might assume priesthood. The result of this oversight in intention setting is that she is now an itinerant city priestess, well-practiced witch, and somewhat unintentional subversive. Her background includes Wicca, folk witchcraft, conjure, and a whole lot of experience organizing people that don t like knowing that they re organized. Diana splits her time between San Francisco, California, where she co-owns Golden Apple Metaphysical, and southwestern Michigan, where she runs Earth and Sun spiritual coaching with her partner. In between her wanderings she teaches as part of the Magick 101 series for Wicked Grounds Annex in San Francisco, and teaches and reads tarot at Elements Kalamazoo in Michigan. Diana has 25 years experience as a professional tarot reader and western herbalist and has 29 years experience as a professional writer. She is also the pet DragonCat to a very ladylike boxer named Nora.