Meet our authors.
Vincent Rospond
Vincent W. Rospond received his BA in History/Russian Studies at Washington & Lee University and an MA in History from the University of Illinois. He has written and edited many books on military history;
specializing in Eastern Europe. His works includes books and articles on the Polish armies of the 18th and 19th centuries. He is also the editor of The Journal of America’s Military Past. Mr. Rospond has also written speculative fiction and SF&F under the name Jan Kostka.
Winged Hussar Publishing, LLC was founded in 2012 by Vincent Rospond. Under its various imprints, WHP publishes books on military history, science fiction, fantasy, mystery, and adventure. They are distributed worldwide in print through Simon & Schuster and ebooks via Inscribe Digital. Audio books are distributed through various channels.
Brandon Rospond
From an early age, Brandon has had an active imagination, always thinking of stories and how to work elaborate ideas into his everyday life. That passion for storytelling evolved into reading, then narrative-driven video games, and then online roleplaying; the latter, where he worked on honing his writing craft by weaving nearly a fifteen year long campaign with other writers. He graduated from Monmouth University with a Bachelor’s degree in English and was honored to have also worked at Walt Disney World for nearly a year as a stockroom manager at Epcot.
Since Winged Hussar Publishing’s founding, Brandon has served as the main editor, helping to read over some of the early history works such as The Gaellic Wars and Frederick’s Orders. Upon branching out to Zmok and picking up fantasy and science-fiction series, Brandon became the head editor of that branch, and has since worked on series such as Beyond Antares, Tales of Mantica, The Great Martian War, City of the Old Gods, The Dragoon Clan, and countless other standalone works.
He currently resides in New Jersey with his loving wife, Annarose, where they are raising their sons, Xander and Leo, to be bookworms and gamers in training!
Mark Barber
Mark’s first venture into writing came with military history books for Osprey Publishing, focused on British aviation in the two world wars. This led onto working as a historical consultant and content writer for Gaijin Entertainment on ‘War Thunder’ for PC and Playstation. His first works in the wargaming industry were campaign books for Warlord Games’ Bolt Action, which included the Battle of the Bulge, the Battle of France, New Guinea, and two volumes on the Normandy campaign.
After working with some smaller franchises, Mark’s first novel for a mainstream wargaming IP was Steps to Deliverance, set in Mantic Games’ Kings of War universe. This spawned two sequels (Faith Aligned and Hero Falling), and a novel in the Kings of War Armada maritime setting - Pious. He also wrote Downfall, the opening WHP novel for Corvus Belli’s Infinity science fiction war-game.
Mark is currently working on sequels for Downfall and Pious, as well as for another major franchise which he’s not allowed to talk about yet!
Mark works in the aviation industry, collects bass and electric guitars, and talks about Final Fantasy VII with his editor far too much, which is why they both haven’t published more things.
Amazon Author Page: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Mark-Barber/e/B00AQZLATO?ref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_share
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Rob Burman
Rob Burman is a goblin addict - so it should probably come as no surprise that his first book for Winged Hussar/ZMOK Books should focus on these cunning greenskins. It all started with a copy of Heroquest received for Christmas in 1990. The heroes and monsters were quickly thrown aside in favor of painting the little goblins and orcs. There was something about the chaotic glee of the goblins that captured Rob’s attention and it quickly drove him to the likes of Warhammer Fantasy by Games Workshop and later into Kings of War by Mantic Games.
As a former journalist, Rob has worked on a number of a different publications, including a stint as a crime reporter on a local newspaper. Although Rob was meant to be writing about drug busts and court cases, it was the weirder stories that caught his imagination. He once spent 30 minutes chasing a ‘UFO”, only for it to be a giant advertising balloon that had broken free, went ghost hunting in a forest with a parapsychologist and tried to trap a ‘big cat’, which eventually turned out to be a greyhound. Arguably it might be his passion for sci-fi and fantasy fiction that drove him to sought out the weird and wonderful.
Rob has helped create a number of tabletop games, such as writing his own fantasy skirmish miniatures wargame, Kobolds and Cobblestones, developing the sci-fi arena game OverDrive and contributing to the development of Deadzone and Vanguard for Mantic Games. However throughout all these projects, particularly Kobolds and Cobblestones, Rob revelled in the opportunity to develop the background and write short pieces of fiction or character bios to help players immerse themselves in the setting. He continues to write small pieces of fiction to compliment new releases from Mantic Games.
On a personal level, Rob lives in Nottinghamshire, UK. He is married with two children and regularly forces them all to play tabletop games… with mixed results. You may also see him occasionally playing in Kings of War or Deadzone tournaments in the UK, where he will be typically wallowing on the bottom half of the table.
Dave Dougherty
Dave Dougherty is a modern polymath with widely varied interests that have led him into many diverse careers, experiences, and achievements. He served as a lieutenant and captain in Army Intelligence’s 513th INTC Group, and was a Professor of Management, Business, and Computer Science, most recently at the University of Texas, El Paso. He holds advanced degrees from Colorado School of Mines and Case Western Reserve University and advanced to candidacy for a PhD at both Case Western Reserve and the
University of Maryland. He is a Registered Professional Engineer, and an entrepreneur in computers, being a pioneer in the use of client-server processing, the promotion of the cloud and ARPANET all
during the 1970s, and later became arguably the world’s most prolific applications programmer. History was always Dave’s prime avocation, and he built one of the nation’s premier collections in silver and gold ancient and medieval coinage to bring history to life. In Arkansas and Missouri, Dave is a radio personality discussing political problems through the lens of history and a rigid constitutionalist. Dave has authored over twenty academic papers and a number of books, including A Patriot’s History Reader:
Essential Documents for Every American, A Patriot’s History of the Modern World, Volumes I and II, Starve The Beast!, The Gnosis Within, Landslide, and now Make Georgia Howl! The 5th Ohio Volunteer
Cavalry in Kilpatrick’s Campaign and the Diary of Sgt. William H. Harding.
Gabriele Esposito
Gabriele Esposito is a military historian who works as a freelance author and researcher for some of the most important publishing houses in the military history sector. In particular, he is an expert specializing in uniformology: his interests and expertise range from the ancient civilizations to modern post-colonial conflicts. During recent years he has conducted and published several researches on the military history of the Latin American countries, with special attention on the War of the Triple Alliance and the War of the Pacific. He is among the leading experts on the military history of the Italian Wars of Unification and the Spanish Carlist Wars. His books and essays are published on a regular basis by Osprey Publishing, Pen & Sword, Winged Hussar Publishing and Libreria Editrice Goriziana; he is also the author of numerous military history articles appearing in specialized magazines like Ancient Warfare Magazine, Medieval Warfare Magazine, The Armourer, History of War, Guerres et Histoire, Focus Storia and Focus Storia Wars. He has written several books for WHP such as The Late Roman Army, The War of the Triple Alliance, The War of the Pacific, The War of 1812 and The Mexican War.
Craig Gallant
Ever since his grandparents bought him his first copy of The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe as a boy, Craig has been an avid reader. In high school, random blurbs were replaced with short stories written in worlds shared with his closest friends, culminating in his first novel, By Virtue of the Blood, finished while he was supposed to be writing his Master’s Thesis in grad school.
Over the last ten years, Craig has managed to parlay his love of fiction into an amazing reality. First writing short articles and stories for Spartan Games across their various game settings, and then moving on to write for Fantasy Flight Games in the Warhammer 40,000 and Star Wars settings, and finally laying the groundwork for their own world of Terrinoth for the game Rune Wars. Ultimately, Craig’s writing led him to Outlaw Publishing, where he wrote the foundational narratives for Wild West Exodus through articles, short stories, comic books, and ultimately, his first five professional novels.
Through the help of the publishing team at Zmok Books, Craig also crafts stories in worlds of his own creation. His science fiction novel, Legacy of Shadow, has been referred to as a 'buddy space opera', while his fantasy novel, Crimson Sand, Crimson Snow, explores a gritty world of fallen kingdoms, clashing cultures, and looming, unseen danger. Craig’s novel, Rise of the Alchemist, is the first in a shared magical-steampunk universe of alternate history, in a world where the America we know never came to be, replaced with the brutal, militaristic realm of Albion, founded by the arch-traitor Benedict Arnold, hell-bent on the total destruction of England and all her works.
In 2023, two of Craig's most recent novels see the light of day. Team Zed: Shell Game is his first story set in the Infinity Game universe, following a fledgling, ragtag mercenary team as it struggles to establish itself amidst harrowing galactic challenges. For Jamaica, in conjunction with the fantastic pirate game Blood and Plunder from Firelock Games, follows the exploits of the pirate brigantine Bonnie Kate as it steers a course through the bloody waters of Caribbean, fighting the rising presence of the Great Powers and established pirate bands both.
Craig looks forward to writing as many kinds of stories as he can for as long as the universe allows!
Igor Gorewicz
Igor Gorewicz was born in Szczecin, Poland. Since 1999, he has published dozens of popular science, scientific, and journalistic articles in the history and archeology of the Slavs, military history, historical reconstruction, Slavic mythology, history of ideas, religious studies, culture and politics (including Focus, From the Abyss of the Ages, Mare Integrans , Archeologia Żywa, Gazeta Rycerska, Pro Memoria, Zachodniopomorski Wanderer, State and Society and others). He is the founder and leader of the Gródu Trzygłowa Team - an association dealing with the reconstruction and popularization of the Slav culture - which cooperates with scientific and museum centers in the field of historical reconstructions, exhibition preparation, organization and running of historical festivals. In this capacity, he presented the culture of the Slavs throughout Poland and on many occasions in Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden, Norway, England, Estonia, the USA, India, Italy, Iceland and Lithuania. He is likewise the founder and artistic director of historical festivals. In addition to being the publisher of Triglav Publishing, he is a producer, musician, film and theater consultant, fight director (he took part in almost twenty film productions). Igor is also the author of educational exhibitions, including the "World of Slavs and Vikings" and "Swords of Europe" shown by museums throughout Poland.
Andrew J Harvey
Andrew spent his high-school years in the school’s library lost in the worlds of Andre Norten, Robert Heinlein, and Isaac Asimov. His first commercially accepted series of novels (the Garden Adventures) was originally completed to read to his two sons at night. Now his
children have left home, and he lives in Perth with his wife, one dog, and sixty-four goldfish.
Andrew can be contacted at www.andrewjharvey.com.
In addition to writing, Andrew is also the Principal of Hague Publishing. Established in 2011 as an independent publisher of Science Fiction and Fantasy, Hague Publishing is registered in Western Australia, and publishes original work by Australian and New Zealand authors.
Previously Principal for the Davies Literary Agency, Andrew was also editor and publisher of The Western Australian Year Book for a number of years, in addition to being the editor and a writer for ‘Afterlife - the on-line magazine for Atmosphere users’.
Andrew’s first published short story (A Messenger to the Dragon) appeared in Aurealis - Australian Fantasy and Science Fiction in 1992.
A passionate reader of Alternate History Andrew is presently working on completing a series of trilogies based on the Cross-Temporal Empire, following the Clemhorn siblings and their cousins the Perics.
Harry Harvey
Author Harry Harvey lives at the Jersey shore and teaches at Manasquan High School where he runs the film, Ping-Pong, and improv clubs. He was inspired by the students he’s taught with ASD during his career.
Harry has also appeared in Director by Night on Disney+!
Contact:@harryharve (Twitter), @harryharveyauthor (Instagram), www.harryharveyauthor.com.
Joe Krone
Joe Krone is an avid historical enthusiast and brought his passion to the wargaming industry early in his career. He worked for Games Workshop as a promotions and marketing manager for over six years and spent five years managing events for Battlefront Miniatures. His experiences in both the science-fiction/fantasy and historical markets have given him a broad understanding of world events and their connection to tabletop wargaming. Joe has written several articles for White Dwarf magazine and Wargames Illustrated, contributed to the 3rd Edition Flames of War rulebook, and authored Osprey Publishing’s Land of the Free. Joe owns Watchful-I-Studios, producing fine miniatures. See more about
them at:
http://www.watchfulistudio.com/
John Leibee
John Leibee grew up in Phoenix, Arizona, and spent his early years devouring every book in the school library. Since then, he’s been trying to write enough words to fill one. Airaghardt is his first published book.
Adrian Mandzy
Adrian Mandzy is a Professor of History at Morehead State University, and he has been conducting research in Ukraine since 1989. He has taken part in archaeological excavations along the Dnister River, as well as attending a special graduate program in Kyiv. In 1991, Professor Mandzy organized and directed the Kamianets-Podilsky Foundation, a non-profit organization that brought western scholars to the city of Kamianets-Podilsky.
For the last twenty years Adrian has focused on battlefield archaeology and he continues to conduct battlefield research in Ukraine, Poland, Germany, and the United States. He has been involved in archaeological digs at the Leipzig battlefield. Through the Kentucky Institute of International Studies, he directs the Slavic Europe Program.
Adrian has been actively involved in wargamming for over forty years. He wrote, Bad Roads and Poor Ratios: Fifty-Nine Wargame Scenarios for the North American War of 1812 for Winged Hussar Publishing. In addition, he runs, Wargamer US at https://www.wargamerus.com/.
Ingrun Mann
Ingrun Mann was born in Germany and lives in the United States. After receiving a master’s degree in history from the University of Arizona, she served in the military for seven years. She is currently an adjunct lecturer of history and political science at St. Leo University's Eglin AFB branch as well as the local Central Texas College branch in Niceville, Florida.
James McIntyre
Jim McIntyre received his Bachelors in History from Temple University in 1996 and his Masters from the University of Illinois in 1999. His main interest is the American War of Independence, on which he has written numerous articles and papers. He is the author of The Development of the British Light Infantry, Continental and North American Influences 1740-1765 and Johann Ewald: Partisan Commander. He teaches History at Moraine Valley Community College near Chicago, Illinois and serves as a Fleet Professor in the United States Naval War College’s College of Distance Education, Strategy and War Department as well.
Born in 1968. Lives in Poland in a beautiful town among green woods and silver lakes. A great enthusiast of action films, comic books, and horses. Interested in history, especially medieval times and Teutonic Knights. He draws comics since childhood.
His published works:
1. Mrs Twardowska … and other stories (2016)
2. Cursed Wilderness 1280 (2017)
3. Endorf (2018)
4. On the Battlefields of Grunwald (2020)
5. The Banners in the battle of Grunwald (książka 2020)
The are more works in progress.
George Nafziger
George Nafziger earned his BS from Miami University in 1971, his MBA from Miami University in 1976, and his Ph.D. in Military History from The Union Institute in 1999. He served in the navy, retiring as a Captain in the US Navy Reserves. He is a former director of the Napoleonic Society of America; the Napoleonic Alliance was on the board of directors of HMGS East.
Nafziger is the owner of The Nafziger Collection publishing house, specializing in military history. As of 2013, it produces 385 different titles on military history ranging from the Middle Ages through the Korean War, with a heavy emphasis on the Wars of the French Revolution, the Napoleonic Wars, and World War II. As a publisher of obscure military works, he is constantly seeking authors with unpublished manuscripts on military history that are seeking a publisher.
WHP works with Mr. Nafziger to reprint his works - in color where applicable - and spread his titles to a wider reach.
Riley O’Connor
Ever since he could clutch a d6 and a pencil, Riley O’Connor has been writing fiction for games. His early works for Mage Knight and Dungeons & Dragons have mercifully been lost to time. He took his first foray into the mainstream aboard the Carmine Canotila for Beyond the Gates of Antares, which he continues to explore with Nacen and friends. When not writing military science fiction, Riley works as an electrical engineer to help feed his tabletop gaming addictions. Riley currently lives among the rolling hills of Iowa with his wife and gaming companion, Maggie.
Giuseppe Rava
Giuseppe Rava was born in Faenza, Italy. Since he was a child, he loved history very much, especially military history. That mainly was due to the stories his father Tommaso told him about his experiences in the World War II. Instead, his passion for uniforms comes from his mother Giovanna, a tailor.
Giuseppe Rava expands his knowledge about history and warfare attending a wargame club. Thanks to dedicated books and magazines, he gets acquainted with military painters such as Detaille, Meissonier, De Neuville, Rochling, Ottenfeld and others. And he wished he could paint like them, some day. Self-taught, he was soon noticed by some publishers and he started with illustrating children's books. Now he usually works on historical subjects. Presently, Rava's illustrations are used by "ITALERI", "HAT INDUSTRIE", "HISTOIRE ET COLLECTIONS", "A CALL TO ARMS", "BACK FALCON PUBLICATION", "EDITRICE MILITARE ITALIANA", "ANDREA MINIATURES", "EMHAR".
Winged Hussar Publishing is proud to be the US distributor for Mr. Rava’s prints, as well as our collection of his prints in the artbook we produce.
William Russ
William Russ is a keen student of military history, particularly the Second World War and the Napoleonic era. He also has interests in archeology, space exploration and other science related areas. A retired state government employee he lives in Lexington South Carolina.
Ben Stoddard
Ben lives in the wilds of Idaho, the land of potatoes, with his lovely wife and their kids. Ben is an English high school teacher who doesn't care enough about grammar to judge yours. He is an avid tabletop gamer and storyteller and has had a love of fantasy and adventure for as long as he can remember. He is always more than happy to share this passion with as many people as are willing to endure his ramblings.
Ian von Heintze
Ian von Heintze is the son of Polish parents who both fled Poland to England either during or immediately after the Second World War. A language graduate, Ian spent his formative years in Ethiopia. On his return to England he went on to complete a career as a police officer, retiring in 2001 in the rank of Inspector with the Specialist Operations Directorate of London’s Metropolitan Police. He lives with his wife in south-west England.
Scott Washburn
Scott Washburn has had a life-long interest in science fiction, fantasy, military history, and wargaming. So, it’s probably no surprise that his writing includes elements of those interests. You will find battles in nearly all of his stories and those battles will be realistic and adhere to sound military principles. But Scott is also a Civil War reenactor and that interest brought him face-to-face with the fact that battles are fought by people, not robots. Those people have hopes and dreams and emotions of their own. This comes out clearly in what Scott writes and the readers will find themselves fully involved with the characters and situations.
Prior to his retirement, Scott’s full-time job was as an architectural designer, he loves to build things. This also comes through clearly in his writings. The worlds and galaxies he sets his stories in are all constructed with solid architecture and engineering. They won’t fall down when put under stress.
Scott currently has twelve novels in print and another one due out this fall. His most successful books have been those in his Great Martian War series. This is a continuation of the classic “War of the Worlds” by H.G. Wells. After their first failed attempt to invade England, the Martians take precautions against Earthly diseases and try again. The humans haven’t been idle either, and they are prepared to give the Martians a real fight. A blend of alternate history, science fiction, and steampunk the stories include many historical characters and plenty of action.
Scott’s interest in wargames has led to the writing of another popular story, “Broken Alliance”. This story is set in Mantic Games's World of Pannithor and follows the Halfling faction in their Kings of War miniatures game. Scott is a fan of the game and many aspects of the novel are shaped by it.
Scott came rather late to the writing game, only starting to do so seriously in 1999 at age forty-four. Like most authors, it took him a while to find a publisher, but a happy chance led him to Winged Hussar and ZMOK Books and the rest, as the saying goes, is history.
On a personal level, Scott lives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He is married with two daughters, a dog, and a cat.
Robert E. Waters
Robert E Waters has been writing stories most of his life, but his first sale came in 2003 with “The Assassins Retirement Party,” published in Weird Tales. Since then, he has sold over 80 short stories to online and print magazines and anthologies.
He’s also published eight novels, the most recent being 1637: THE TRANSYLVANIAN DECISION with the late Eric Flint, set in his 1632/Ring of Fire Alternate History series. He’s written several stories set in that series and a second co-authored novel, 1636: CALABAR’S WAR, with Charles E Gannon.
Robert grew up playing games, both board and computer, and his love of gaming landed him a job at the Avalon Hill Game Company in 1994 as Managing Editor of their quarterly magazine, The GENERAL. Later in that decade, he moved on to work in the computer gaming industry at such heralded places as Stanley Associates, Interactive Magic (contract work), and Talonsoft. For the past 23 years, he has worked at BreakAway Games helping design so-called “Serious Games,” games whose purpose is to help train doctors, nurses, med techs, and first-responders.
In the late 1980s, Robert was introduced to miniature wargaming, and he’s never looked back. From there, he tapped into the lush garden that is Games Workshop, buying almost everything that they sold: Warhammer Fantasy Battles, Warhammer 40k, Warmaster, Man-O-War, Blood Bowl, Mordheim, etc. It was only a matter of time before he would eventually gravitate to Mantic Games to find even more games to enjoy. Mantic’s DreadBall is his most favorite sports game of all time, and when Winged Hussar Publishing began publishing stories/novels set in Mantic’s myriad universes, he wrote his first Dreadball novel, THE LAST HURRAH. The sequel to that novel, THE FINAL RUSH, is pending.
Robert has written several short stories and novels for Winged Hussar Publishing, and he intends on doing so far into the future.
Check out his website at www.roberternestwaters.com.
C. L. Werner
C. L. Werner was a diseased servant of the Horned Rat long before his first story in Inferno! magazine. His Black Library credits include the Warhammer Hero books Wulfrik and The Red Duke, Mathias Thulmann: Witch Hunter, the ongoing saga of Grey Seer Thanquol and the Brunner the Bounty Hunter trilogy. His first full-fledged foray into the gothic sci-fi universe of Warhammer 40k occurred in 2012 with The Siege of Castellax. He is the author of Moving Targets, a novella set in Privateer Press’ Iron Kingdoms featuring the iconic heroes Taryn and Rutger. He has also written several fantasy stories about the wandering samurai Shintaro Oba for Rogue Blades Enterprises. Currently he is laboring upon further installments of the Black Plague series for Warhammer’s Time of Legends line, as well as more adventures of mercenaries Taryn and Rutger in the Iron Kingdoms. An inveterate bibliophile, he squanders the proceeds from his writing on hoary old volumes – or at least reasonably affordable reprints of same – to further his library of fantasy fiction, horror stories and occult tomes.
C. L. has written under almost all of Zmok’s imprints, in anthologies for each; Beyond the Gates of Antares, Kings of War, and Starybogow.
Howard Whitehouse
Howard Whitehouse is a British writer and game designer. Since the 1980s he has published two books of military history, five novels for young people, and designed more than twenty sets of wargames rules. He lives with four fine cats and his very patient American wife in New York’s Hudson Valley, in a 1900 era church manse cluttered up with books, model soldiers, miniature buildings and, indeed, himself. He has also been called, “..one of the finest comic writers of our day”.
Dobroslaw Wierzbowski
Dobroslaw Wierzbowski was born in Poland in the city of Łódź, where he later went on to study and graduate from the Academy of Fine Arts. He works as a freelancer, illustrator, painter and computer graphic designer. Dobroslaw enjoys history, archeology, and the history of armaments.
Dobroslaw has designed the cover for The Sword of El Cid, and is working with Winged Hussar Publishing on several other works, including a book about the Huns.
Today, he still lives in Poland with his wife, two children, and a dog.