Artimidor Avennay
Art was born and raised somewhere in the idyllic countryside of Austria back in 1972 when phones were still stationary, the capital letters A and I, when placed side by side, were just two vowels looking all wrong and books never, ever, required a recharge.
He studied Philosophy and Communication Arts in Vienna before moving on to join the local newspaper, where he made headlines without being in them and got a couple of football scores wrong. Deciding that the gruelling, sleep-depriving news world was not for him after all, he moved on to a no less stressful desk job, which involved coding sales management systems, database queries, drawing up reports and still not getting enough sleep. Despite the latter, Art headed a cooperative online fantasy world-building effort on the side for several years, turned into an arthouse movie expert and wrote stories: fairy tales, spooky stuff, parables and novellas, including plots and code for self-developed adventure- and role-playing games.
Getting his epic debut novel underway was only a matter of time. Also only a matter of time was how long it took him to finish. But well, there you are.
The Writer
Santiago Iborra
Born in Spain in 1973, Santiago spent his youth doodling on the margins of books when he should have been paying attention to the teacher.
After barely finishing his education, he decided to keep doodling, but aimed to get paid for it and hence avoid starving, which is to nobody's liking, really. The ingenious plan was a relative success, and since then Santiago has been illustrating everything in need of drawings. His artwork can be found in books, on role-playing merchandise; he draws for computer- and board games, comics, designs company logos, and does some weird private commissions he never, ever, talks about.
Some of his first tries at digital painting were those he did collaborating for the world-building website Art created. There he had a great time putting some of Artimidor's imaginative creations, places and characters into images. "Stopover at World's End" gave him the chance to do that again.
You can check out or commission Santi at www.quellion.com!
The Artist
