Our next weekly Zoom Chat will feature two guests who will discuss inserting social issues into your fiction. (For details on how to join the Zoom Chat, click here).

Hildy Silverman was the publisher of Space and Time Magazine for 12 years. She is a short fiction author whose recent publications include, “My Dear Wa’ats” (2018, Baker Street Irregulars II: The Game’s Afoot, Ventrella & Maberry, eds.), “The Lady of the Lakes” (2018, Camelot 13, French and Thomas, eds.), “Sidekicked” (2019, Release the Virgins, Ventrella, ed.), and “Divided We Fell” (2020, The Dystopian States of America, Bechtel, ed.). Her nonfiction articles have appeared in numerous legal and medical professional journals and blogs.

Megan Mackie is a writer, actor, and playwright. She has published four novels: The Finder of the Lucky Devil, The Saint of Liars, Death and the Crone, and Saint Code: The Lost through eSpec Books. She is also a contributing writer in the role-playing game Legendlore soon to be published by Onyx Path Publishing.