David Tallerman is the author of The Black River Chronicles: Level One, the Tales of Easie Damasco series and Tor.com science fiction novella Patchwerk, as well as the graphic novel Endangered Weapon B: Mechanimal Science and the comic book miniseries C21st Gods.David's short fiction has appeared in over eighty magazines and anthologies, including Clarkesworld, Lightspeed, Nightmare and Beneath Ceaseless Skies, and fourteen of his horror and dark fantasy stories were recently brought together in the collection The Sign in the Moonlight and Other Stories.Further details can be found at his website www.davidtallerman.co.uk.