P1= Panverse One; P2= Panverse Two; P3= Panverse Three; 8AR= Eight Against Reality


Vitaly S. Alexius (Cover Artist, P1)

Vitaly S. Alexius was born in Novokuznetsk, located on the Tom River in south central Siberian Russia in the year 1984.

Early in his life, Vitaly grew up in a city of European architecture, forests and universities surrounded him, and he immersed himself in a clash of socialist communism and capitalism, furious beauty of nature and man-made steel citadels of Siberian factories. In the late 90s Vitaly found himself inexplicably launched overseas to Toronto, Canada, where he completed his artistic education and gave rise to his style which he named ’Dreaminism’. With a fascination for all things celestial and a wide range of artistic backgrounds, add a dash of Photoshop enthusiasm, and Vitaly has created a unique artistic voice.

Vitaly is currently working in illustration and photography exploring a variety of outlets such as CD/book/comic covers, posters, concept art and more. To see more of Vitaly's extraordinary artwork, visit his website at: www.vs.darkfolio.com


Janice Hardy (Layout Artist, P1 & 8AR)

Janice Hardy is the author of The3 Healing Wars, Book One: The Shifter. Book Two: Blue Fire is due out October 2010. She is currently hard at work on book three, thinking up terrible things to do to imaginary people. She lives in Georgia with her husband, three cats and one very nervous freshwater eel. She blogs about writing at The Other Side of the Story www.storyflip.blogspot.com You can also visit her online at www.janicehardy.com


Vladimir Krizan (Cover Artist, 8AR)

Vladimir lives and creates Art in Bratislava in the Czech Republic. Since graduating from university, Vladimir works in advertising and as a freelance digital painter. Most of his commissioned works are book cover art for local publishers. You can see a selection of Vlado's work at his website at: www.vladokrizan.daportfolio.com

Aurelia Shaw (Cover Artist, P3)

Aurelia Shaw was born at a US Air Force base in Layton, Utah and spent most of her early childhood in Germany. A child with a vivid imagination, she started drawing fantasy scenes from her favorite films at an early age, which netted her 1st place in the national PTA Reflections Fine Arts Competition at the age of 12. She later became fascinated by space scenes after seeing images of nebulae captured by the Hubble Space Telescope and realized the creative and artistic freedom that this subject matter would allow.

Aurelia graduated from Layton High with honors in Graphic Art and has spent most of her life practicing her art, from sketching her favorite works to the study of styles and techniques. She is now an aspiring freelance graphic artist working in photo-manipulation, digital painting, watercolor, and pen and ink in a variety of themes, including life, space, fantasy and gothic.

Susan McKivergan (Cover Artist, P2)

Susan studied Fine Arts at St. Petersburg College in Florida, and is a self-taught Digital Artist and the mother of 2 beautiful children. Susan takes commissions, including backgrounds for greeting cards, websets, artworks, photography, etc. All Susan’s designs are original, created by combining 3D elements, brushwork, and hand painted details. She also offers image licensing for CD covers, magazines, book covers, etc. You can find Susan’s website at www.thedigitalmuse.net


Dmitri Sled (Layout Artist, P2)

An erstwhile resident of Moscow's rain-drenched outskirts, Dmitri has lived in the United States for over a decade and a half. A relatively recent graduate of Bennington College, young Dmitri cannot yet claim any significant achievements in his chosen fields of science fiction writing and metal music (though he finally does have his own band--Kulak). To compensate for this scant info, he invites the interested reader to fill in the mysteries of his persona with their own conjectures and imaginings.