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Breach the Hull, Winner of the Dream Realm Award 2007, best Anthology

Breach the Hull, Finalist in the Dream Realm Award 2007, for Cover Art

Author Mike McPhail


Mike McPhail is the award winning Author and Anthologist of the military science fiction series Defending The Future, published by Dark Quest Books. He is a member of the Military Writers Society of America (MWSA), and the
creator of the Alliance Archives (All'Arc) series and its related Martial Role-Playing Game (MRPG), a manual-based, percentile system, that realistically portrays the consequences of warfare.


Born into a military / engineering family, his lifelong dream was to join NASA and become a mission specialist; to that end, he attended the Academy of Aeronautics in New York, as well as enlisting in the Air National Guard. While working towards his goal, a sudden illness brought a halt to these dreams.

After recovering, he came to grips with his new reality; so he chose to put his hard-earned technical skills and imagination to use as a graphic artist, writer/editor and game designer.


Current Projects:

A number of stories based on the Alliance Archives (All'Arc) series and its related Martial Role-Playing Game (MRPG); a manual-based, military science fiction that realistically portrays the consequences of warfare. Scheduled for released in 2010 by Dark Quest Games.

Editing and illustrating the Defending the Future series: book I Breach the Hull was released in November of 2007; book II So It Begins was released in March 2009; book III By Other Means is scheduled for 2010; book IV Best Laid Plans is currently under negotiations.

Book reviewer for the military science fiction review site MilSciFi.com, under the name of William Kriegherren.


Bibliography:

Short Stories:
2005-
No Longer Dreams, "Chimera (All'Arc)", Lite Circle, Inc.
2007-*
Breach The Hull, "Wayward Child (All'Arc)", Marietta Publishing.
2009-*So It Begins, "Cling Peaches (All'Arc)", Dark Quest Books.
(2009)-(), "Beyond Imagine (All'Arc)", Scheduled

Articles:
(2009)-MilSciFi.com Issue 003, "Engineering Hyperspace"

Editor:
2007-*
Breach The Hull
2009-*So It Begins

Cover Artist:
2007-*
Breach The Hull
2009-*So It Begins
2009- Breach The Hull (Dark Quest Edition)

Illustrator:
2007-*
Breach The Hull
2009-*So It Begins

Awards:
2008-Winner of the 2007 Dream Realm Awards,
        Best Anthology, "Breach The Hull".
2008-Finalist in the 2007 Dream Realm Awards,
        For Cover Art, "Breach The Hull".
2009-Finalist in the Next Generation Indie Book Awards,
        Anthology, "So It Begins"
2009-Finalist in the Next Generation Indie Book Awards,
        Short Fiction,
"So It Begins"

Prepress:
2005-
No Longer Dreams. Lite Circle Inc. Cover art, image and color correction.
2005-
Blessed To Give. Digital photography and adaption of cover art.
2007-*
Breach The Hull. Marietta Publishing, Cover design and layout.
2007-
To Battle Beyond. Marietta Publishing, Digital photography for cover art.
2008-Tomorrow's Memories. Mundiania Press, Asst. spine layout.
2009-*So It Begins. Dark Quest Books, Cover design and layout.
2009-Skein Of Shadows. Dark Quest Books, Image addeptation and layout for
           hardcover edition.
2009-Breach The Hull. Dark Quest Books addition.

Technical Advisor:
2007-*
Breach The Hull, "In The Dying Light (All'Arc)", Danielle Ackley-McPhail.
2008-Barbarians at the Jump Gate, "Building Blocks", Danielle Ackley-McPhail
2008-Space Pirates, "Carbon Copy", Danielle Ackley-McPhail
2008-Trails of Indescretion, "Zinn Mencsh", Danielle Ackley-McPhail
2009-*So It Begins, "First Line", Danielle Ackley-McPhail

Interviews:
http://www.milscifi.com/files/inter-MMcP-BTH.htm
http://www.milscifi.com/files/inter-MMcP-SIB.htm
http://thescifigenrereview.blogspot.com/2008/07/five-questions-withmike-mcphail.html
http://www.thefutureandyou.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=363719#

Note: "All'Arc" stands for the "Alliance Archives" series.
Note: "*" indicates Award Winning.


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