@josephlwiess found @majorx3thom to add to our ever expanding circle.
Per Joseph he has written three parts of a character backstory that he calls Akolipsis.
The parts are here: [Apokolipsis] [Part 1] [Part 2] [Part 3]
From Joseph:
I could tell a lot of work went into this, and it's worthy of inclusion into the next issue of your Astounding Steemit stories.
I looked over @majorx3thom, and he just recently joined steemit in October 2017.
He is from Johannesburg, South Africa, and has a few short stories already available for our reading pleasure. Along with the story that Joesph pointed out you may want to review As the Crow Flies
I found Cheah, via a late night cruise of new post on the feed stream. I took a look and liked what I saw. I have not finished the story, but the beginning of it was very good. Night Demons
As one of his commenters stated,
"Shamanistic mystery set in Singapore? Loving every bit!", that was from @hunterwritlarge. I will need to pop over and visit his page.
Cheah is from Singapore, and per his short bio - - "Hugo and Dragon Award-nominated SFF writer from Singapore." - - -
He was one of the early steem adopters from back in December 2016.
Just a quick scroll and it looks like he has a lot of content to keep us readers happy.
Thats Lota in the picture, she was an adoption, that right there should be enough for you to go look at his page, but there is more. He has only been on steemit for 5 days, joined on or about November 10th. His steemit intro: My name is Mario and I live in Croatia. I have been on steemit for 5 days now and I just realized I forgot to introduce myself. I'm photographer, writer and the proud owner of one cute adopted dog named LOTA.
He has a very nice story already posted The End, it is a very well written and nicely, (well depending on point of view), done story, the story is about a young person dying, but like I said very well done.
bigpanda short bio: "Fiction Writer With A Side of Crypto" bigpanda joined steemit in July 2017.
They started their story "The Black Oak Sword" on 9/14/2017. If you look at the comments section you will see from bigpanda "This one will has just three parts. If everyone enjoys it enough, I will build on it from there." I'm thinking there was more than enough interest, as they are on part 35. The intro to the story was well written, and well received judging by the comments made, and from a 3 parter to 35 parts, a full blown story..I think this will be a nice read when I get time to fit all the chapters in.
Like bigpanda, I found their page via a scan of the fiction feed. @poeticsnake has been around almost since the inception of steemit, July 2016. Her short bio - "Freelance artist, creative writer and dreaming poet." -
The writing of hers that caught my eye was a question - What if you could pause time?, and like her profile bio says, it was a very creative writing. Be very careful in your reading of it, some parts could get you pretty well choked-up.
They have several stories, and if you can manage to scroll back some you will find art works,, v-logs, poetry, and of course more stories, along with some helpful links.
A $ 1.5 SBD prize for each of the chapters.
A $10.0 SBD prize for part two of Ragnarok Conspiracy as a whole.
I have been trying to help so has @doughtaker, so come and give us and @pibara a hand. And yes he is serious. I did win some in the first round, odds were against me in the second round, but it is still a fun thing to do. By trying, and I do mean trying, I think I am becoming better at edit help, I have like 200,000 miles to go before I am even a half assed editor, but I am trying, and by trying I am learning, You can too. Read and let him know where things were hard to read, that simple.
"photo credits on authors pages"
Storytellers and Authors from previous entries. They keep writing, and I keep reading.
If you have a nicer way of organizing the list above let me know. Using dots to separate and try to keep them somewhat organized as on volume 9, seemed to be a little bit messy. I am not sure I prefer this method either though.
Improvements and or suggestions
Feel free to make them in the comments section; and a great big thank you to all the authors out there, for providing me with reading enjoyment.
I also use the comment section to leave post of Authors I find, and the occasional writing contest, or when someone ask for help. And feel free to just leave a general I need to contact you kind of post if you want.
Also story Link's are not spam so feel free to drop a link you find, or your own when you have a new story out. Remember as an Author/Storyteller, you need to let people know you are out there.
@josephlwiess found 
@majorx3thom to add to our ever expanding circle.
Per Joseph he has written three parts of a character backstory that he calls Akolipsis. 
@hunterwritlarge. I will need to pop over and visit his page. 
@poeticsnake has been around almost since the inception of steemit, July 2016. Her short bio - "Freelance artist, creative writer and dreaming poet." - 
@pibara (Rob J Meijer) edit contest request. Beta reading contest Ragnarok Conspiracy : Part three; $23.5 SBD in prize money.
Like in the previous installments of this lottery, I am looking for beta reading style feedback on my draft chapters.
This month there are ten prizes to be won:
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