The Authors Quill Writers of the Future Winner Martin Shoemaker Writers the Future Winner John Haas

Martin L. Shoemaker is a programmer who writes on the side… or maybe it’s the other way around. Programming pays the bills, but a second-place story in the Jim Baen Memorial Writing Contest earned him lunch with Buzz Aldrin. Programming never did that! His work has appeared in Analog Science Fiction & Fact, Galaxy’s Edge, Digital Science Fiction, Forever Magazine, Writers of the Future, and numerous anthologies including Year’s Best Military and Adventure SF 4, Man-Kzin Wars XV, The Jim Baen Memorial Award: The First Decade, Little Green Men—Attack!, More Human Than Human: Stories of Androids, Robots, and Manufactured Humanity, Avatar Dreams, Weird World War III, Weird World War III: China, Weird World War IV, ROBOSOLDIERS: Thank You for Your Servos, Gunfight on Europa Station, Surviving Tomorrow, Humanity 2.0, Murderbirds, Vampire Survival Guide: An Anthology for Cautious Immortals, and Tales of the United States Space Force. His Clarkesworld story "Today I Am Paul" appeared in four different year’s best anthologies and eight international editions. His follow-on novel, Today I Am Carey, was published by Baen Books in March 2019. His novel The Last Dance was published by 47North in November 2019, and was the number one science fiction eBook on Amazon during October’s prerelease. The sequel, The Last Campaign was published in October 2020.

Find out more at: Shoemaker.Space John Haas is an award winning Canadian author living in the nation’s capital of Ottawa, Ontario.

He grew up in Montreal, Quebec and also lived for many years in Calgary, Alberta.

Since his early days he’s enjoyed writing and telling stories. Over the years he’s found ways to incorporate that into whatever else he’s been doing, and there has been a long list of jobs.

He’s worked as a camp counsellor, professional driver, theatrical technician, stage manager, director, courier, independent business owner, hotel night auditor, office manager, health & safety inspector, handyman, school bus driver, service management specialist, and compensation assistant. It’s entirely possible that a job or two has been forgotten over the years.

When not writing or working John loves to be with his two wonderful sons, doing all kinds of family stuff. He enjoys collecting action figures, reading comic book collections, as well as all things science-fiction, fantasy or horror related. Once an active gamer, these days he saves gaming (video and board games) for family time with his boys.

Follow his daily ramblings on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/JohnHaas11