Revisiting THE SHIELD w NY Times Best-Selling Author DAYTON WARD!

DAYTON WARD is a New York Times bestselling author or co-author of nearly forty novels and novellas, often working with his best friend, Kevin Dilmore. With Kevin and fellow author David Mack, he helped develop Star Trek: Seekers, the "literary spin-off" to the critically acclaimed Star Trek Vanguard novel series.
His short fiction has appeared in more than twenty anthologies, and he's written for publications such as NCO Journal, Kansas City Voices, Famous Monsters of Filmland, Star Trek and Star Trek Communicator as well as the websites Tor.com, StarTrek.com, and Syfy.com.
Dayton's newest works for 2020 include the Star Trek humor book Kirk Fu: A Guide to the Final Frontier’s Most Feared Martial Art, the Star Trek novel Agents of Influence, and short stories co-written with Kevin and included in the forthcoming anthologies Pangaea III and It Came from the Multiplex.
Before making the jump to full-time writing, Dayton was a software developer, having discovered the private sector after serving for eleven years in the U.S. Marine Corps. Though he currently lives in Kansas City with his wife and two daughters, Dayton is a Florida native and still maintains a torrid long-distance romance with his beloved Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Visit him on the web at http://www.daytonward.com.

RUSS COLCHAMIRO is author of the Sci-Fi thrillers Crackle and Fire, Fractured Lives, Hot Ash, Blunt Force Rising, and Trigger Point, the ongoing series featuring hardboiled private eye Angela Hardwicke. Russ is also the author of the rollicking time travel/space adventure, Crossline, is the editor of the Sci-Fi mystery anthology Love, M**der & Mayhem, co-author and -editor of the noir anthology M**der in Montague Falls and has contributed to various other anthologies.

A member of The Mystery Writers Association, The Private Eye Writers of America, Horror Writers Association, and the author collective Crazy 8 Press, Russ also hosts and produces his Russ’s Rockin’ Rollercoaster podcast, where he interviews best-selling and up-and-coming Sci-Fi, fantasy, crime, mystery, thriller, and horror authors.

He lives in New Jersey with his wife, twin ninjas, black lab, Jinx, and precocious cat, Callie.

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