Shadow of Ruin

National Best-selling author Quincy J. Allen, is a cross-genre writer with dozens of professional short story publications, and his first short story collection, Out Through the Attic, came out in 2014 from 7DS Books. His most recent short story sale, "Sons of the Father," appears in Larry Correia's Monster Hunter: Files from Baen, published in October of 2017. Chemical Burn, his first novel and the first volume of the sci-fi detective noir series Endgame, was a finalist in RMFW's Colorado Gold Contest in 2011. His latest installment of the Blood War Chronicles, Blood Curse, is book 2 in an epic fantasy series starting in the Old West and featuring a clockwork gunslinger. He is the publisher and editor of Penny Dread Tales, a short story collection in its fifth volume that has become a labor of love. He also runs RuneWright, LLC, a small marketing and book design business out of his home in Charlotte, North Carolina, and hopes to one day be a writer in Baen's stable of fantastic authors. Aradio Brothers Studios is comprised of a trio of lifelong friends RC, Dominic & Dante who have co-created, co-written and co-designed the International Retro-Sci-Fi IP known as Colt the Outlander(TM) (CTO). RC Aradio's multi-faceted talents make him a hi-tech Swiss Army knife shifting between the resident Artist, Director, and Designer. He uses this skill set and capabilities daily where he is the President and Chief Creative Director of Aradio Brothers Studios. Dominic Aradio JR is the Executive VP and co-founder of Aradio Brothers Studios. He is also the co-creator of CTO, frogging the Colt universe, fleshing out characters, and designing weapons and vehicles using his creative imagination. Dominic has lived most of his adult life in NYC. Dante Pacella has been the CTO cowriter and Editor for ten years, as well as other comic book series. He lives in the DC metro area with his wife and children. Years of creative collaboration as well as their diverse backgrounds have led to the creation of CTO and the distant mining world of Neb Six where the tales run fast, furious and fantastic! Follow them on Facebook and Instagram @colttheoutlander.