Sci-Fi from the Rock

Matthew LeDrew holds an Honours Degree in English from the Memorial University of Newfoundland with a minor in Anthropology, and studied Journalism at College of the North Atlantic in Stephenville, Newfoundland. He was honoured to be a jury member of both the 2018 NLBA awards and the 2020 Arts and Letters Awards.

He has written twenty novels for Engen Books: the ten book Coral Beach Casefiles series, The Long Road, Cinders, Sinister Intent, Faith, Family Values, Jacobi Street, Touch Your Nose, Infinity, The Tourniquet Reprisal, and Exodus of Angels the latter three of which with co-author Ellen Curtis.

He lives in St. Johns, Newfoundland.

Since 2007 he has traveled all over Canada promoting his work as well as teaching seminars on writing and publishing. He also helps young Newfoundland authors become published through Engen Books.

Born and raised in Newfoundland, Ali spends most of her time scribbling stories and ideas in notebooks, and is rarely seen without paper and pen.

She is an avid traveler, foodie, and fan of the Oxford comma.

Peter got locked in a bookstore as a child and has been reading his way to freedom ever since.

As a blue-collar sci-fi author, Peter tells gritty and personal sci-fi and fantasy stories of ordinary people placed in extraordinary situations that resonate with readers and provide much-needed escapism.

Matthew Daniels is an author currently living in St. John’s, Newfoundland. 

He has over a dozen writing credits both locally and internationally, and his work had been featured in bestselling anthologies on five separate occasions. Stories include ‘Grey Anatomy’ in Paragon, ‘Where With All’ in All Borders are Temporary, and too many stories to count in the From the Rock series.

His first novel, Diary of Knives, was released in January 2021. Interstitches: Worlds Sewn Together is the first collection of his short fiction.

Erin Vance is an editor and a graduate of the Memorial University of Newfoundland English Honors Program. She won the Arts and Letters competition when she was just 14 years old in 2007 with her short story, “Something White.” She is featured in the Nelson Literacy 7 Homegrown (Newfoundland Edition) with her poem “Rough Draft.”

Erin wrote her Honors thesis paper, Song of the Mockingjay on exploring the nature of Katniss Everdeen’s agency in Suzanne Collins’ The Hunger Games series. She is creative, spiritual, and loves reading, writing, and anything to do with words.

Erin is the co-editor of the From the Rock anthology series, which highlights Newfoundland talent in genre writing.