Dorienne Nielsen has no clear vision of her own future…until an object rockets from the sky and slams to earth behind the county fair barn. The mercenary extraterrestrials, Den and Zeeto, want a scrounger. Dorienne’s smart mouth and voracious appetite for information fills the niche. Utilizing an illegal cybernetic augmentation, Dorienne dives head-first into information scrounging while dodging pirates, other mercenaries and political zealots. Tricky interstellar politics and the stigmas of being human in a non-human vacuum test her at every turn.
Suzanne Dome is a special ed para, Emporia State University and Hutchinson Community College Alumni, and a tree-hugging, star-gazing, crystal gripping gypsy in black. For years she has stared at the sky and wondered what was out there and if they wondered the same thing from their planet. Suzanne was an artist early on and started writing young, and achieved a talent based scholarship at her university. Her short fiction and poetry were published in both The Tulgey Wood(HCC) and the Quivira(ESU) collegiate journals. At Wichita-area conventions, she goes by the business-name Off World Tribe, and creates rough gemstone jewelry. Suzanne is also an avid science junkie, fan of ancient aliens, and obsessed with weather phenomena. She currently lives in Rural Kansas, watches the skies and helps special needs kids excel in school. She edits her own work and has a BA in English.