Our next weekly Zoom Chat (May 27) will be on the topic “So You Want to Self Publish?” with authors and publishers Danielle Ackley-McPhail and Mike McPhail . (For details on how to join the Zoom Chat, click here).

Award-winning author, editor, and publisher Danielle Ackley-McPhail has worked both sides of the publishing industry for longer than she cares to admit. In 2014 she joined forces with husband Mike McPhail and friend Greg Schauer to form her own publishing house, eSpec Books (www.especbooks.com). Her published works include six novels, Yesterday’s Dreams, Tomorrow’s Memories, Today’s Promise, The Halfling’s Court, The Redcaps’ Queen, and Baba Ali and the Clockwork Djinn, written with Day Al-Mohamed. Her short stories are included in numerous other anthologies and collections.

Author and editor Mike McPhail is the co-owner of eSpec Books LLC, Electronic Speculative Fiction Publishing (since 2014). Although involved in numerous projects, he is best known as the creator and series editor of the award-winning Defending The Future series of military science fiction anthologies—now in its second decade of publication.
As a former Airman, he is member of the Military Writers Society of America, and is dedicated to helping his fellow service members.