Join us for our launch week FULL GAME live-play of NEGOCIOS INFERNALES!
Carlos will be hosting on twitch.tv/arvaneleron, from 4-7 PM EST on Wednesday the 11th for Part 1, and Wednesday the 18th for Part 2!
We are so excited about our starry, starry cast!
CASSANDRA KHAW is the USA Today bestselling author of Nothing But Blackened Teeth and the Bram Stoker Award-winner, Breakable Things. Other notable works of theirs are The Salt Grows Heavy and British Fantasy Award and Locus Award finalist, Hammers on Bone. Khaw’s work can be found in places like The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy, and Tor.com. Khaw is also the co-author of The Dead Take the A Train, co-written with bestselling author Richard Kadrey.
Brandon O’Brien is a writer, performance poet, and teaching artist from Trinidad and Tobago. His work has been shortlisted for the 2014 Alice Yard Prize for Art Writing, the 2014 and 2015 Small Axe Literary Competitions, and the 2020 Ignyte Award for Best in Speculative Poetry, and is published in Uncanny Magazine, Fireside Magazine, Reckoning, and New Worlds, Old Ways: Speculative Tales from the Caribbean, among others. He is the former Poetry editor of the Hugo Award-winning magazine FIYAH: A Magazine of Black Speculative Fiction. His debut poetry collection, Can You Sign My Tentacle?, available from Interstellar Flight Press, is the winner of the 2022 SFPA Elgin Award.
Will Sobel (he/him) is the co-designer of Astro Knights and Betrayal at House on the Hill 3rd Edition, as well as providing writing and design work for The Expanse RPG: Ships of the Expanse, The Expanse RPG: Abzu’s Bounty, and several other tabletop RPGs. He is the designer and writer of the upcoming campaign-driven game Fire for Light by Greenbrier Games. You can find his short stories in the For Hart and Queen anthology, as well as the narrative assistance provided on several other legacy and campaign driven board games.
As a game developer you can find his credits on Terraforming Mars: Ares Expedition, Aeon’s End Outcasts, Aeon’s End: Legacy of Gravehold and dozens more, providing product development, character and worldbuilding development, and gameplay development. He provides developmental assistance for publishers and designers on all scales from mass market games to unpublished games for hobby.
With a background in the sales and marketing channels of the game industry, Will brings experience from running a local game store, a mass market retailer, a hobby distributor, and several board game and RPG publishers. All this makes his experience in product design and development invaluable to his clients.
Anna Russell is a writer and game designer based in Indianapolis. She earned her degree in English and Creative Writing from Kenyon College, and her writing has been featured in several games, including Betrayal at House on the Hill 3rd Edition and Aeon’s End: Past and Future. During the day, she manages shipping logistics and distribution for dozens of board game publishers, and during the evenings, you can find her in a coffee shop, working on her latest story until they kick her out to close up.
Carlos Hernandez (he/him) is the author of The Assimilated Cuban’s Guide to Quantum Santeria, Sal and Gabi Break the Universe (winner of the 2020 Pura Belpré Award), Sal and Gabi Fix the Universe, several Marvel comics—including the Strange Academy’s “Solve for X” trilogy—and numerous short stories, poems, plays, other speculative works.
Carlos earned his Ph. D. in English, with an emphasis in Creative Writing, from Binghamton University in 2000. He is currently Professor of English at the City University of New York (CUNY), where he teaches Composition, Creative Writing, Science Fiction, and other courses at BMCC. He has been on the faculty of Western Colorado University’s MFA Program, and a Writer in Residence and Guest of Honor at various schools and cons throughout the United States.
At the CUNY Graduate Center, Carlos teaches in the Interactive Technology and Pedagogy Program, where his academic interests have centered around game-based learning in postsecondary environments, which has led him to work extensively game writing and game design.
He has served as lead writer on the CRPG Meriwether, as a writer and designer for the installation art of Mary Miss, and as literary curator on the Apple Arcade game Dear Reader, among other video games. As a co-founder of the CUNY Games Network and of the Board Game Designers Group of New York, he’s contributed to the development of many board and card games, both educational and commercial.
Find him at https://hernandooney.com
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