- Davey Beauchamp
- is best known for his Writers for Relief Anthologies, The Amazing Pulp Adventures Radio Show Starring Mister Adventure, and the Agency 32 series.
Writers for Relief has brought together top talents in the realms of Sci-Fi and Fantasy. Each volume of the anthology has helped a different worthy cause. The last two volumes have brought help to the Katrina survivors through the Red Cross and Bay Area Food Bank. The second volume, being released through Dragon Moon Press, due out shortly features such authors as Jody Lyn Nye, Todd McCaffrey, A.C. Crispin, David Drake, and many others.
The Amazing Pulp Adventures Radio Show Starring Mister Adventure is old time radio meets new time tech. It is a rebirth of the old action adventure pulp radio shows of the golden age. The show was nominated for a 2006 Parsec Award. The YA novel, which the show is based on, is currently being looked at by publishers. APARS is currently on its 2007 Tour of the Future, where a Mister Adventure show is performed live for audiences.
Currently Davey was hired to write a rock opera, an opportunity he could not pass up, based on the Fairy Tale of Bluebeard. When he isn't writing he spends his time as computer tech and YA librarian North Carolina. He is also helping develop a Library 2.0 system at his branch in Davidson County.
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- John Gregory Betancourt
- has published 40 books, ranging from best-sellers like Star Trek novels to the continuation of Roger Zelazny's classic Amber series to original novels such as THE DRAGON SORCERER and THE BLIND ARCHER. He owns Wildside Press, which published new and classic science fiction, fantasy, and horror under a number of imprints, as well as magazines such as Weird Tales and H.P. Lovecraft's Magazine of Horror. His current writing project is a Young Adult fantasy series called "THE BOOK OF DARKNESS".
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- Danny Birt
- was born about twenty-seven years ago in Washington State to
Irish and Californian parents, and since then he has lived in Idaho,
California, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Louisiana, Florida, Hawaii, and
now Virginia. He attended New Mexico Military Institute in the small
town of Roswell, NM for his high school and junior college years, then
pulled a one-eighty and went to a liberal arts college, Loyola
University New Orleans, for his next two college degrees in music
therapy and psychology. Currently, Danny lives in Winchester, VA and
attends Shenandoah University in pursuit of his Music Therapy Master’s
degree.
Danny has published science fiction, fantasy, and professional works in
The Raintown Review, the anthology Strange Worlds of Lunacy,
Vadercast.com, and Musica Ficta. His fantasy series The Laurian
Pentology is published through Ancient Tomes Press, starting with the
book Ending an Ending. The second book in the series, Beginning, is
due to be released in November 2008. Danny is also an editor for the
fantasy magazine Flashing Swords.
In addition to literary publication, Danny composes classical and filk
music, such as his nonstop hour-long piano solo, "Narcoleptic Pianist,"
and the ever-peculiar album "Warped Children's Songs."
For more information on Danny Birt, visit his web site
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- Marilyn "Mattie" Brahen
- has published stories in America and England and her first novel, CLAIMING HER, was published by Wildside Press in 2003 to good reviews. Mattie also enjoys singing and playing guitar and enjoying the music of other folk. She also dabbles in art, takes tap and jazz dance lessons for exercise, works a day job as an executive secretary at the Philadelphia Water Department, and still manages time for her writing schedule. While doing all these things, she also takes good care of her husband, author and editor Darrell Schweitzer, and their three cats, males Lovecraft and Tolkien, whom Darrell has affectionately nicknamed "BooBoy" and "ElvenCat," and female Galadriel, a cat so beautiful, sweet and queenly, Mattie says, that even her namesake would have welcomed her in Loth Lorien.
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- Neil Clarke
- is the publisher of Clarkesworld Magazine and owner of Wyrm Publishing. Before turning to publishing, he spent seven years running Clarkesworld Books, an online genre bookstore.
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- Brenda Clough
- writes science fiction and fantasy, mainly novels. Her latest novel, Doors of Death and Life, was published by Tor Books in May 2000. Doors was released, bound with its predecessor, How Like A God, in a Science Fiction Book Club edition titled Suburban Gods. She also writes short stories and occasional nonfiction including a story appearing in Patrick Nielsen Hayden's anthology Starlight 3 and a story in the July-August 2002 issue of Analog. She has taught "Writing F&SF" at the Writer's Center in Bethesda, Maryland.
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- Kathryn Cramer
- Editor and Anthologist. Kathryn lives in Pleasantville, New York with David Hartwell & their two children. She usually forgets to mention her award nominations & newly released books.
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- Dennis Danvers
- has written seven science fiction and fantasy novels, Wilderness (Bram Stoker nominee), Time and Time Again, Circuit of Heaven (New York Times Notable, 1998), End of Days, The Fourth World, The Watch (New York Times Notable, 2002; Booklist 10 Best SF novels, 2002), and The Bright Spot (under the pseudonym Robert Sydney). He holds a Ph.D. in literature and an MFA in fiction and has taught writing and literature at all levels. He currently teaches science fiction and fantasy classes at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia and writes full time.
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- Scott Edelman
- Scott Edelman (the editor) currently edits both Science Fiction Weekly, the Internet magazine of news, reviews and interviews, with more than 635,000 registered readers; and Sci Fi, the official print magazine of the Sci Fi Channel. He was the founding editor of Science Fiction Age, which he edited during its entire eight-year run from 1992 through 2000. He also edited Sci-Fi Entertainment for almost four years, as well as two other sf media magazines, Sci-Fi Universe and Sci-Fi Flix. He has been a four-time Hugo Award finalist for Best Editor. Scott Edelman (the writer) has published more than 65 short stories in magazines such as The Twilight Zone, Absolute Magnitude, The Journal of Pulse-Pounding Narratives, Science Fiction Review and Fantasy Book, and anthologies such as Crossroads: Southern Tales of the Fantastic, Men Writing SF as Women, MetaHorror, Once Upon a Galaxy, Moon Shots and Mars Probes. He has twice been a Stoker Award finalist in the category of Short Story.
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- Jim Freund
- describes himself as an editor, writer, and producer for "New and Old Media". Each Saturday morning between 5 and 7 am on WBAI (99.5 fm) in New York, he produces and hosts Hour of the Wolf, a two-hour live radio program presenting science fiction, fantasy, and related fields of endeavor. You can listen on your own schedule through the website. While the show concentrates on literary sf and fantasy, they do admit to having an occasional "Guilty Pleasures" episode regarding film and television. Jim is also curator and producer of the NYRSF Readings held at NYC's South Street Seaport Museum.
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- David G. Hartwell
- edits the annual Year's Best SF and Year's Best Fantasy (with Kathryn Cramer) anthologies. He is senior editor at Tor Books and previously worked at Arbor House, William Morrow, and Pocket Books/Simon & Schuster. He co-edited (with Kathryn Cramer) The Ascent of Wonder, an anthology on hard sf that was followed by The Hard SF Renaissance. He also serves as Reviews and Features Editor for the New York Review of Science Fiction.
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- John G. Hemry
- is the author (under the pen name Jack Campbell) of the national best-selling Lost Fleet series (DAUNTLESS, FEARLESS and, in December 2007, COURAGEOUS) as well as the earlier JAG in Space series. His short fiction has appeared most frequently in Analog magazine, where his works "KYRIE ELEISON" and "LADY BE GOOD" were voted the best short story and novelette in Analog for 2006 by the magazine's readers. John's non-fiction articles have appeared not only in Analog but also in books of the Benbella Smartpop series on topics such as Superman, the TV series Charmed, and Star Wars. John, a retired US Navy officer, lives in Maryland with his incomparable wife S and their three children.
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- Victoria Janssen
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- Yoji Kondo (Eric Kotani)
- is an astrophysicist who also writes science fiction under the pseudonym Eric Kotani.
He is a recent recipient of the Isaac Asimov Memorial Award.
An asteroid (#8072) has been named Yojikonod, in recognition of his contribution to the space program.
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- Barbara Krasnoff
- has published short stories in Lady Chuchill's Rosebud Wristlet,
Sybil's Garage, Amazing, Weird Tales, and Descant.
She's contributed to the anthologies: Such A Pretty Face: Tales of Power & Abundance and
Memories and Visions: Women's Fantasy and Science Fiction.
She's also written Robots: Reel to Real which was supposed to head up a young adult series of books called How It Works -- but the publisher was eaten by a larger publisher instead. Find it at your local library.
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- Lawrence M. Schoen
- holds a Ph.D. in cognitive psychology, with a special focus in psycholinguistics. He spent ten years as a college professor, and has done extensive research in the areas of human memory and language. His background in the study of the behavior and the mind provide a principal metaphor for his fiction. He currently works as the director of research and chief compliance officer for a series of mental health and addiction treatment facilities. He's also one of the world's foremost authorities on the Klingon language, having championed the exploration of this constructed tongue and lectured on this unique topic throughout the world. In addition, he's the publisher behind a new speculative fiction small press, Paper Golem, aimed at serving the niche of up-and-coming new writers. In 2007 he was nominated for the John W. Campbell Award for best new writer. He's also been pushing a kind of SF Polyglot project that he calls B.W.O.P. (the Buffalito World Outreach Project). He lives in Philadelphia with his wife, Valerie, who is neither a psychologist nor a Klingon speaker.
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- Darrell Schweitzer
- is the author of The White Isle, The Shattered Goddess,and The Mask of the Sorcerer, in addition to about 275 published short stories. His credits include Interzone, Twilight Zone, Postscripts , Night Cry, Amazing, Fantastic, Galaxy, and numerous anthologies. He is the author of books about Lord Dunsany and HP Lovecraft, an essayist, poet, one of the few ever to rhyme "Cthulhu" in a limerick and live to tell about it. He is also a long-time attendee of DC area conventions and can tell you old Disclave stories.
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- George H. Scithers
- was the founding editor of Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, for which he won the Hugo twice, in 1979 and 1981. He edited Amazing from 1982 to 1986, and has been co-editor (and occasionally, publisher) of Weird Tales since 1988. He's sold his own fiction to editors including John W. Campbell, Jr., Ben Bova, and Frederick Pohl. He's been active as a fan -- from running the 1963 Worldcon, Discon 1 in Washington, DC, to publishing Amra, which received two Best Fanzine Hugos -- in 1963 and 1967.
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- Jeri Smith-Ready
- has been writing fiction since the night she had her first double espresso. She holds a master's degree in environmental policy and lives in Carroll County, Maryland. Jeri's 2006 epic fantasy Eyes of Crow won the Romantic Times Reviewers' Choice Award for Best Fantasy, and has been nominated for two RITA Awards. The second part of the trilogy, Voice of Crow, will be released in October 2007.
Jeri's new "suburban" fantasy series will begin in May 2008 with Wicked Game.
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- Maria V. Snyder
- changed careers in 1995 from being a Meteorologist to a Novelist when she began working on her first novel, Poison Study. Published in October 2005, Poison Study has gotten many great reviews, including a Starred Review in Publishers Weekly magazine. Poison Study has won the Compton Crook Award for best first book of 2005, which is given by the Baltimore Science Fiction Society, was nominated for a Romance Writers of America's RITA Award in the Best First Book Category but, unfortunately, did not win.
Her second book, Magic Study, was released in October 2006 and was an October Book Sense pick and finalist for the RITA Award. The third novel in the series, Fire Study, is scheduled for a March 2008 release. Maria also writes freelance articles for a number of regional magazines. In January, she earned her Master of Arts degree in writing fiction from Seton Hill University.
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- Bud Sparhawk
- Bud's stories and articles have appeared frequently in ANALOG, Asimov's, and other SF magazines as well as anthologies, two of which will appear later this year, along with his first published novel. Bud has been a three-time finalist in the Nebula's Novella category in 1998, 2002, and 2006. More information may be found at: http://sff.net/people/bud_sparhawk.
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- Steve Stiles
- Steve Stiles first began cartooning for fanzines in 1957, the same year he entered our little microcosm.
In over four decades he's continued to draw and write for fanzines of every kind and description, as well
as editing and publishing some himself. In 1968 he won TAFF ( the TransAtlantic Fan Fund) and in 1998 he
won the first Bill Rotsler Award in recognition of his achievements as a fan artist. He's also been nominated
for a few Fan Art Hugos now and again, and is currently up for yet another one.
As for his career as a professional cartoonist and comic book illustrator, Steve has worked on both alternate
comics and the mainstream variety, as well doing strips for S.F. Eye, Stardate magazine, and Heavy Metal. Two
of his favorite gigs are his stories for Mark Schultz's Eisner/Harvey winning title, XENOZOIC TALES, and the
Fantagraphics graphic novel "The Adventures Of Professor Thintwhistle And His Incredible Aether Flyer," in
collaboration with a longtime friend, writer Richard Lupoff. For a look at Steve's art and writing, check out
his web site at stevestiles.com.
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- Michael Swanwick
- has received the Hugo, Nebula, Theodore Sturgeon, and World Fantasy Awards for his work. Stations of the Tide was honored with the Nebula Award and was also nominated for the Hugo and Arthur C. Clarke Awards. "The Edge of the World," was awarded the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award in 1989 and nominated for both the Hugo and World Fantasy Awards. "Radio Waves" received the World Fantasy Award in 1996. "The Very Pulse of the Machine" received the Hugo Award in 1999, as did "Scherzo with Tyrannosaur" in 2000. His books include In the Drift, Vacuum Flowers, Griffin's Egg, Stations of the Tide, The Iron Dragon's Daughter, Jack Faust, and Bones of the Earth.
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- Sean Wallace
- is the man behind Prime Books. He works with, or has worked with, a number of publishing companies, including Wildside Press, Gryphon Books, Catalyst Press, Flesh and Blood Press, etc. He is editor of the following anthologies: Strange Pleasures 1, Fantasy Annuals 1 through 5, and the bibliographies: The Tall Adventurer: The Works of E.C. Tubb, with Phil Harbottle; and Eric Frank Russell: Our Sentinel in Space: A Working Bibliography, with Phil Stephensen-Payne.
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- Lawrence Watt-Evans
- is the author of more than thirty novels, over one hundred short stories, over one hundred and fifty published articles, and a few comic books, as well as the editor of one published anthology. Most of his writing has been in the fields of science fiction, fantasy, horror, and comic books. He has been a full-time writer and editor for more than twenty-five years, and is always interested in new projects.
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- Ted White
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- David J. Williams
- David's debut novel, THE MIRRORED HEAVENS, will be published by Bantam Spectra in July of 2008.
Set in the early years of the 22nd century, the book takes place during a Second Cold War in which two space-faring
superpowers confront each other across the Earth-Moon system. Dave also created the story concept for Vancouver,
BC-based Relic Entertainment's PC game HOMEWORLD, and was a contributing writer on that game's sequel.
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- Allen Wold
- was born in Michigan, finished high school in Tucson, Arizona, and graduated from Pomona College, in Claremont, California, where he later met his wife, Diane. They married in 1972, and moved to North Carolina, where he began his career as a full time writer. In 1986, he became a full time father, writing when he could make the time. In 2003, he became a full time writer again, when his daughter, Darcy, went off to college, at Pomona. He has published nine novels (has written several more, most of which will never see print, thank God), several short stories (mostly for the Elf Quest anthologies), five non-fiction books on computers (he's completely self-taught, and it probably shows), and a number of articles, columns, reviews, and so forth, also concerning computers (written in language even he can understand). Currently, Allen has one novel, a ghost story, being sent around by his new agent, and is working on an epic heroic fantasy (half way done at 1,000 pages, details on request). Allen has been running his version of a writer's workshop at conventions for about twenty years, and has had some success, since several people have not only finished but sold stories started in the workshop. Allen is a member of SFWA, and Toastmasters International (which gives him a captive audience).
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- John C. Wright
- John's first science fiction novel, Golden Age, was released in 2002. It was followed by Phoenix Exultant and The Golden Transcendence. His first fantasy, Last Guardian of Everness, was published in April 2003. A sequel, Mists of Everness, came out in 2005. John has published stories in Asimov's and in YEAR'S BEST ANNUAL 3.
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