R.S. (Rod) Belcher is an award-winning newspaper and magazine editor and reporter. The Grand Prize winner of the Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Anthology contest, Rod's short story Orphans was published in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds 9 published by Simon and Schuster in 2006. Rod's first novel, The Six-Gun Tarot, was published by Tor Books in 2013. The sequel, The Shotgun Arcana, was published in 2014 and the third book in the Golgotha series, The Queen of Swords was published in 2017. He is currently at work on the fourth book in the series. Rod's novel, The Brotherhood of the Wheel was published by Tor in March of 2016. It was a Locus Awards finalist for Horror in 2017, and is currently in development as a television series. The sequel to Brotherhood, The King of the Road, is scheduled for publication by Tor in December 2018.