The Fenian House Team
Our Authors
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Sean Fenian
Sean Fenian is a generalist and open-source evangelist, recently retired from several decades of working in the information technology sector. His books are read in fourteen countries at last count, and his bestselling Stardock Trilogy is also available in audiobook format on the Audible platform, published by Podium Entertainment.
He is broadly knowledgeable in many subjects, with a long-standing informed layman’s interest in physics and related science in particular. He has been an avid reader of SF and fantasy since his teens, and first became aware of, and began campaigning on, environmental issues in the late 1970s. He is proficient with weapons both ancient and modern, has trained in four different martial arts, and believes that understanding basic firearms safety is like knowing basic first aid, CPR, or how to use a fire extinguisher. He firmly believes that it is a basic human duty and responsibility to treat all beings fairly and decently, and that the true measure of a person is how you treat others.
His past volunteer activities include educational historical re-enactment, marine mammal rescue, and handicapped riding therapy. He has been formally diagnosed on the autistic spectrum, but stubbornly persists in trying to understand people anyway.
He dreams many things. Occasionally, some of them become reality. But only occasionally.
Sean’s books are read in fourteen countries, at last count, and his bestselling Stardock Trilogy is also available in audiobook format on the Audible platform, published by Podium Entertainment.
Also see: The Fenian Blog at seanfenian.com
Robert Auerbach
The problem I have with encapsulating my history is it winds up sounding like James Bond playing a game of Mad Libs. You say “something red” and my life fills in “a freshly-used dagger” while I look on in horror. You, stop asking those questions! You over there, stop filling them in like that! Why can’t I have a nice apple or cherry or something?
Like Sean, my official background is in the strange side of computer science. I’ve presented original research at Black Hat and DEF CON. Also like him, my unofficial background is, to say the least, colorful. Most people have never needed to know how to convert ice cream into an explosive more powerful than dynamite. Me, I hang around people who do that stuff by accident. Successfully keeping them alive has given me a set of stories even I have trouble believing.
Sean’s already hit the importance of kindness, so I’ll just briefly underline it and move on to being kind to yourself. Don’t judge yourself more strictly than you’d judge your enemies. Don’t punish yourself worse than you’d punish your enemies. You owe yourself duties of fairness and kindness. Embrace them, and let kids see you embracing them. If we’re really lucky, we can teach this to the next generation before the rest of the world teaches them to hate themselves.
Find Robert Auerbach at his own site at RobertAuerbach.us
Artists We Use
C.J Evelyn
C.J is a character illustrator and designer with over 6 years experience, now branching out into book cover art and design. She mainly works with fantasy and dark theme characters with a twist of Sci-Fi. You can see C.J's artwork on the cover of Sean's upcoming novel In Flux.
Find C.J on Instagram: c.j._evelyn
Find C.J on Mastodon: @Cj_Evelyn@mastodon.social
Find C.J on Discord : C.J Evelyn (@cj_evelyn)
Find C.J via Email: cjevelyn308@gmail.com
Claire Peacey
Claire Peacey is a UK-based graphic designer and artist, who has worked in the past on Chaosium's Call of Cthulhu and Keith Crawford's novel Dead Moon, among many others. She created the cover art for Robert's upcoming A Kinder Hell. She is currently fully engaged in other projects, but as soon as she becomes open for new work we'll happily update this with her contact information.
Editors We Like
Wendy S. Delmater
For twenty years, writer and editor Wendy S. Delmater was the power behind Abyss and Apex Magazine. She also has an extensive list of both fiction and non-fiction books to her name.
Since leaving Abyss and Apex, Wendy has been focusing on editing, and is currently building a new site for her editing services. We will link it here once it goes live. In the meantime, she can be reached via email at wdelmater@usa.net. She has lent her editing skills to multiple Fenian House books, including Agency, Becoming Real, and Sean's upcoming novel In Flux.
Ken Burnside
Ken Burnside is the Hugo-nominated creative director of Ad Astra Games, producing tabletop SF games such as Squadron Strike! and Saganami Island Tactical Simulator, as well as writing for Traveler and Star Fleet Battles. Robert writes some material in Ad Astra's publicly available milieu, for which Ken capably serves as his editor.