Mike McPhail explained

Mike McPhail
Nationality:	American
Occupation:	Author
Spouse:	Danielle Ackley-McPhail

Mike McPhail is an American author, editor, and game designer as well as publisher of fiction, and is best known for his work in military fiction.^[1]

McPhail has spoken at industry and pop culture conventions, and has appeared as a guest speaker and panelist at Balticon,^{[2] [3]} Confluence,^[4] Heliosphere,^[5] LunaCon,^{[6] [7]} DerpyCon,^[8] DexCon, Far Point,^[9] Shikkaricon,^[10] and Shore Leave.^[11]

He is a member of the Military Writers Society of America (MWSA),^[5] and the creator of the Alliance Archives (All'Arc) series and its related Martial Role-Playing Game (MRPG)^[12]

McPhail and his wife Danielle Ackley-McPhail are founders and owners of ESpec Books. a small press publisher.

So It Begins was a finalist for Best Anthology at the 2009 Indie Book Awards.^[13]

Personal life

McPhail attended the Academy of Aeronautics in New York (now the Vaughn College of Aeronautics and Technology) and served in the Air National Guard.

Bibliography

Short fiction

Defending the Future Series

• Breach the Hull (2007) by Dark Quest
• So It Begins (2009)
• By Other Means (2011)
• No Man's Land (2011)
• Best Laid Plans (2013)
• Dogs of War (2013)
• Man and Machine (2016)
• In Harm's Way (In Production)
• The Best of Defending the Future

Beyond the Cradle Series

• If We Had Known (Beyond the Cradle Book 1) (2017) by eSpec Books

Other Anthologies

• Jaelle Her Book
• Cowboys in Space: Tales of Byanntia
• The Die Is Cast
• Fallen City
• Barbarians at the Jumpgate
• The Stories in Between: A Between Books Anthology

Notes and References

1. Web site: Capclave 2018: Program Participants. www.capclave.org. 2019-05-07.
2. Web site: Balticon 53 Program Guide. schedule.balticon.org. 2019-05-04.
3. Web site: Balticon 49 Participants.
4. Web site: 2017 Program Participants. parsec-sff.org. 2019-05-07.
5. Web site: Mike McPhail. HELIOsphere. en-US. 2019-05-07.
6. Web site: Lunacon 2016 Program Guide. 2016.lunacon.org. 2019-05-07.
7. Web site: Lunacon 2016 Program Guide. 2016.lunacon.org. 2019-05-07.
8. Web site: DerpyCon Welcomes Author Mike McPhail. Sullivan. Jessica. DerpyCon. en-US. 2019-05-07.
9. Web site: Farpoint 2019 On-Line Guide. www.myconschedule.com. 2019-05-07.
10. Web site: Danielle McPhail and Mike McPhail Salem Community College. www.salemcc.edu. 2019-05-04.
11. Web site: Mike McPhail. www.shore-leave.com. en. 2019-05-07.
12. Web site: Mike McPhail. www.fantasticfiction.com. 2019-05-07.
13. Web site: Next Generation Indie Book Awards. Awards. Next Generation Indie Book. indiebookawards.com. en. 2019-05-07.