The Authors Quill author Josh Mayne second hour author Scot Noel

Josh Mayne is one of those guys who still hasn't decided what he wants to be when he grows up. He enjoys writing, games, and volunteering - a lot. He volunteers for Search and Rescue, Ski Patrol, EMT, and his church. He also volunteers as a Co-Chair for the science fiction and fantasy symposium Life the Universe and Everything (LTUE) in Provo, UT. Find out more at: Life the Universe and Everything Scot Noel is one of the winners of the Writers of the Future contest and his story, “Riches Like Dust,” is published in L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future Volume 6, back in 1990. He created DreamForge Magazine in 2019. He has been published in Eden Studios Zombie anthologies, Algis Budrys’ Tomorrow Speculative Fiction magazine, and has written novellas and interaction text for computer games. Tangent, the genre's premiere review magazine for short SF & Fantasy, listed 20 DreamForge stories on their 2020 Recommended Reading List.

In 2021, Scot's DreamForge project is being rebranded as DreamForge Anvil, SF & Fantasy Stories and How to Write Them. An online magazine of speculative fiction that is positive and hopeful, while also helping new writers learn their craft.

He has also collaborated with UpRoar Books and Space and Time magazine to publish an anthology of the best short stories appearing in DreamForge and Space and Time. That effort is being published this May as Worlds of Light & Darkness, Vol. 1.