Michael Ashleigh Finn is a short story author who’s trying his hand at novel writing. In addition, he’s a a freelance thematic consultant, currently working for Dynamite Entertainment on the Hugo-nominated Jim Butcher’s The Dresden Files, and the RPG Mana Punk.

Online, he’s a moderator for www.jimbutcheronline.com, and was chief editor for the Backspace and CHUDStories internet anthologies.

If his name looks familiar, you may have been involved somehow with Project A-kon, where he has spent sixteen years staffing, or read FenCon’s first short fiction contest, where he took 1st and 3rd place. His work has also appeared on Mind’s Eye Fiction, alongside notables Stephen King, Fred Saberhagen, and Harlan Ellison.

All of this is often used by his friends to lasso him to a keyboard, beat him over the head, and yell “WRITE MORE!”