As editor-in-chief of Xchyler Publishing, Penny Freeman has collaborated with several authors, including R. A. Smith, Joanne Kershaw, and Candace J. Thomas. She also edited and wrote the preface to Forged in Flame: a Dragon Anthology, and Mechanized: Masterpieces a Steampunk Anthology. She penned the short story "Tropic of Cancer" under the pseudonym of Neve Talbot.Penny engages her thirty years of wordsmith experience in historical fiction, journalism, and developmental editing. Literature, history and storytelling are her great passions, although the technical aspects of the language arts satisfy her compulsion for order.She lives with her husband in southeast Texas.