- Danielle Ackley-McPhail
- Award-winning author Danielle Ackley-McPhail has worked both sides of the publishing industry for over a decade. Her works include the urban fantasy, Yesterday's Dreams, and its upcoming sequel, Tomorrow's Memories. She also has co-edited and contributed to numerous anthologies and collections, including Dark Furies, Breach the Hull, and the upcoming science fiction anthologies Barbarians at the Jumpgate and Space Pirates. Her non-fiction works include a chapter on writer's groups in The Complete Guide to Writing Fantasy: The Author's Grimoire, a chapter on the vehicles of magic in the upcoming Elements of Fantasy: Magic, and a chapter on self-promotions for the upcoming Profitable Publishing. Danielle is a member of the electronic publishing organization EPIC, as well as Broad Universe, a writer's organization focusing on promoting the works of women authors in the speculative genres. Danielle lives somewhere in New Jersey with husband and fellow writer, Mike McPhail, mother-in-law Teresa, and three extremely spoiled cats.
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- Lenny Bailes
- is a computer journalist and computer instructor. He is an occasional reviewer for New York Review of Science Fiction. He is longtime fanzine editor of about 35 years standing, and has been a member of FAPA, SAPS, APA-F, APA-L, co-editor of Quip (a genzine of the '60s), and Whistlestar ('70s to present).
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- 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.
The Writers for Relief anthologies feature collections of short fiction by top talents in the realms of fantasy and science fiction writing. Each volume of the anthology has helped a different worthy cause. The first and second volumes have brought help to Hurricane Katrina survivors through the Red Cross and the Bay Area Food Bank, respectively. The second volume, published by Dragon Moon Press, features well known authors such as Todd McCaffrey, A.C. Crispin, and David Drake.
The Amazing Pulp Adventures Radio Show Starring Mister Adventure can be described as “old time radio meets new time tech.” It is a rebirth of the old action-adventure pulp radio shows from the Golden Age of Radio. The show was nominated for both a 2006 and a 2007 Parsec Award. The Young Adult novel on which the show is based is currently being reviewed by agents.
When Davey isn’t writing, he spends his time as a computer tech, YA librarian, and grant writer for the Davidson County Public Library System in North Carolina. He has also started mentoring to high school kids who are interested in creative and fiction writing.
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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 publishes 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
- has published science fiction, fantasy, and professional works in The Raintown Review, Strange Worlds of Lunacy, Vadercast.com, Musica Ficta, and more. 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 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", as featured on The Dr. Demento Show.
Currently, Danny lives in Winchester, VA and attends Shenandoah University in pursuit of his Music Therapy Master's degree.
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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. She has finished the sequel (and final novel in this duology) entitled Reforming Hell, and hopes to see it available by year's end or sooner. Mattie also enjoys singing and playing guitar and performing her original songs and 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 she and 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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- Michael Capobianco
- has published one solo science fiction novel, Burster, and is co-author, with William Barton, of the controversial hardcore sf novels Iris, Alpha Centauri, Fellow Traveler, and White Light. He served as President of Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) from 1996-1998 and received the Service to SFWA Award in 2004.
An amateur astronomer, Capobianco is a member of the International Occultation and Timing Association (IOTA). His current obsessions include Saturn's moon Iapetus, the Washington Nationals, and Lost.
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- Traci Castleberry (Nica Berry)
- writes queer science fiction and fantasy e-books under her pen name, Nica Berry, and has a story in the forthcoming anthology Lace & Blade 2. She's a graduate of Clarion 2005 and has an MA in Writing Popular Fiction from Seton Hill University. She lives in San Diego with her two cats.
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- Christopher M Cevasco
- is the editor/publisher of Paradox: The Magazine of Historical and Speculative Fiction. The magazine's website is: www.paradoxmag.com. His own fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Black Static, The Leading Edge, Allen K's Inhuman, Lovecraft's Weird Mysteries, The Book of Tentacles (Sam's Dot Publishing), and A Field Guide to Surreal Botany (Two Cranes Press), among several other magazines and anthologies. His poetry has appeared in Star*Line and will appear in Dark Wisdom, and his book reviews have been featured at Strange Horizons. Chris is a 2006 graduate of the Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers' Workshop and a 2007 graduate of the Taos Toolbox writers' workshop. He lives in Brooklyn, NY, with his wife and almost-two-year-old son and a puffer fish named Spiny Norman.
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- Captain Chris Christopher
- is retired from the U.S. Navy and now serves as Conference Director, Corporate Communications Division, in the Science & Technology Directorate of the Department of Homeland Security.
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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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- A. C. Crispin
- is the author of bestselling Star Wars novels and Star Trek novels, but her most famous genre work was the 1984 novelization of the television miniseries V. Crispin and noted fantasy author Andre Norton wrote two Witch World novels together.
A.C. Crispin has been active in SFWA since soon after joining the organization in 1983. She and Victoria Strauss created SFWA's "scam watchdog" committee, Writer Beware, in 1998. Crispin still serves as the Chair. Writer Beware warns aspiring writers about the numerous scam agents and publishers that infest the Internet these days. Crispin and Strauss have assisted law enforcement in bringing several infamous con artists to justice. Before submitting your work, visit Writer Beware.
Her major science fiction undertaking is the StarBridge series, which will be reissued in omnibus editions from Meisha Merlin in 2007. Crispin's newest work is an original fantasy trilogy for Harper/Eos, The Exiles of Boq'urain. Book one, Storms of Destiny, was released August 2005, and she is hard at work on Book 2, Winds of Vengeance. Book 3, Flames of Chaos, will be her next project.
She currently teaches writing workshops at Anne Arundel Community College and Dragon*Con in Atlanta.
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- Dennis Danvers
- has written seven science fiction and fantasy novels, including Wilderness (Bram Stoker nominee), Circuit of Heaven (New York Times Notable, 1998), The Watch (New York Times Notable, 2002; Booklist 10 Best SF novels, 2002), and The Bright Spot (under the pseudonym Robert Sydney). Recent short fiction has appeared in Strange Horizons, Intergalactic Medicine Show, and Realms of Fantasy. 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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- Michael Dirda
- received the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for criticism. For 30 years he has been writing for The Washington Post Book World, where he continues to work as a weekly columnist. As a longtime editor for the book section, he oversaw the coverage of science fiction and fantasy, as well as of children's books, intellectual history, poetry and mainstream fiction. His own books include the memoir "An Open Book" and the essay collections "Readings," "Bound to Please," "Book by Book," and "Classics for Pleasure" (out in November, 2007). He also conducts the online book discussion "Dirda on Books" (Wednesday at 2 P.M.) for washingtonpost.com and welcomes your postings.
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- Tom Doyle
- writes in a spooky turret here in Washington, DC. His novelette, "The Wizard of Macatawa" (Paradox Magazine #11), is a finalist for the WSFA Small Press Award. His stories have appeared in Strange Horizons, Futurismic, Aeon, and Ideomancer. He has recently finished a science fiction novel and is currently at work on a contemporary fantasy. The text and audio of many of his stories are available at his website.
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- Andy Duncan
- Andy Duncan's short-fiction credits include a Sturgeon Award and two World Fantasy Awards, including one for his collection Beluthahatchie and Other Stories. He has been nominated five times for the Nebula Award, three times for the World Fantasy Award, and twice for the Hugo Award. He has an M.A. in creative writing from North Carolina State University and an M.F.A. in fiction from the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, He is the editor of Crossroads: Tales of the Southern Literary Fantastic (with F. Brett Cox), Tor Books. His story, "A Diorama of the Infernal Regions, or The Devil's Ninth Question" was reprinted in Year's Best Fantasy 8 (ed. David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer) and Fantasy: The Best of the Year, 2008 Edition (ed. Rich Horton). "Unique Chicken Goes in Reverse" was a 2008 Nebula nominee for Short Story and is a 2008 Shirley Jackson Award nominee for Short Story
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- David Louis Edelman
- is the author of Infoquake (www.infoquake.net), which was described as "the love child of Donald Trump and Vernor Vinge" and named Barnes & Noble's Top SF Novel of 2006. His latest novel, MultiReal, was released in summer 2008 and has been called "a thoroughly successful hybrid of Neuromancer and Wall Street" by Hugo nominee Peter Watts. In addition to writing novels, Edelman has programmed websites for the U.S. Army, the FBI and Rolls-Royce, taught software to the U.S. Congress and the World Bank, written articles for the Washington Post and Baltimore Sun, and directed the marketing departments of biometric and e-commerce companies.
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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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- Moshe Feder
- has been an SF/Fantasy reader since the late '50s, an active fan since 1970 and a pro since 1972 when he started working part time as Assistant Editor for Amazing and Fantastic. Later he was a reviewer for Publishers Weekly and SF Chronicle, Assistant Editor of the SF Book Club, Editor of the Military Book Club, and a reviewer for Asimov's. He has been a judge for the World Fantasy Awards and the Sidewise Awards. His first, and so far only, short story appeared in Orbit 16 in 1975. He's currently a Consulting Editor for Tor Books and a private investigator's assistant.
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- Doug Fratz
- has been reviewing science fiction and fantasy for more than 35 years, and currently reviews new and classic science fiction books (and the occasional movie) for Science Fiction Weekly. From 1973-1993, he was publisher and editor of Thrust Science Fiction and Fantasy Review (later Quantum Science Fiction and Fantasy Review), the semi-professional review magazine that was nominated for five Hugo Awards. In real life, he continues his day job as vice president of scientific and technical affairs for a major trade association in Washington, DC, where he addresses environmental regulations and related science policy issues, with his primary areas of expertise being in atmospheric issues and chemical safety. He lives in Gaithersburg, Maryland, with his wife Naomi, and with occasional visits from their two college-age children.
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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. The show concentrates on literary SF and fantasy, with a rare foray into media SF. Jim is also curator and producer of the NYRSF Readings held at NYC's South Street Seaport Museum. His site, blog, and archives of recent broadcasts are available at the http://hourwolf.com.
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- Dr. Charles Gannon
- is Distinguished Professor of English, St. Bonaventure University and Fulbright Senior Specialist in American Literature and Culture. He is a published science fiction author with stories appearing in War World, Analog, and Traveller.
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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, a constant Hugo finalist. He just won his second Hugo for editing, after thirty five or more nominations. It was a long wait.
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- Peter Heck
- is the author of the "Mark Twain Mysteries" series from Berkley Prime Crime: Death on the Mississippi, A Connecticut Yankee in Criminal Court, The Prince and the Prosecutor, The Guilty Abroad, The Mysterious Strangler and Tom's Lawyer. Peter's newest book is No Phule Like an Old Phule, which continues Robert Asprin's "Phule's Company" series. Peter is also a regular reviewer for Asimov's. Besides the written word, his interests include music (playing lead guitar with Col. Leonard's Irregulars) and chess (founding member of the Chestertown Chess Club, and a USCF member).
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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, Courageous, and Valiant) as well as the earlier JAG in Space series. His short fiction has appeared most frequently in Analog magazine, most recently "The Bookseller of Bastet" in the March 2008 issue. 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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- Larry Hodges
- of Germantown, MD, is an active member of SFWA with 22 short story sales. He's a graduate of the six-week 2006 Odyssey Writing Workshop, the 2007 Orson Scott Card Literary Boot Camp, and the two-week 2008 Taos Toolbox Writing Workshop. Hodges has a master's in journalism and a bachelor's in math, with minors in chemistry and computer science. He has three books and over 1100 published articles in 78 different publications. Says Hodges,
"My best writing tends to be humorous SF and fantasy, yet I didn't really sell much until I focused on first choosing a clear theme, and then satirizing it."
He's been a professional table tennis coach for many years, and is a member of the USA Table Tennis Hall of Fame - really! (Google it.) He is currently working on his first novel.
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- Victoria Janssen
- sold numerous stories, some of them genre, as Elspeth Potter. Her novel The Duchess, Her Maid, The Groom and Their Lover will be published by Harlequin Spice, a trade paperback line of erotic novels, in December 2008. She has just turned in her second novel for Spice, which includes: World War One, werewolves, a chemist, spies, muddy shell holes, nuns in lorries, and a zouave on a motorbike. Yes, she realizes that sometimes her plots run a bit wild. She also has a story in Periphery: Erotic Lesbian Futures, Lethe Press, edited by Lynne Jamneck; other authors in anthology include Gwyneth Jones, Melissa Scott, and Nicola Griffith.
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- Jane Jewell
- is the executive director of the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America and the Emergency Medical Fund coordinator. She's also a freelance photographer for Locus. Jane lives with her husband, author Peter Heck, in Chestertown, Maryland.
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- Mindy L. Klasky
- learned to read when her parents told her that she could travel anywhere with a book in her hands. She never forgot that advice. Mindy's travels have taken her through multiple careers in multiple cities. When she realized that lawyering kept her from writing, Mindy became a librarian, but she now writes full-time. Her most recent novel is Magic And The Modern Girl (in stores, October 1, 2008), and she can be reached through her website.
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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 Yojikondo, in recognition of his contribution to the space program.
His books include: Legacy of Prometheus, by Eric Kotani and John Maddox Roberts, Tor Books; Requiem: New Collected Works of Robert A. Heinlein and Tributes to the Grand Master edited by Yoji Kondo, reprinted in May by Tor Books; and Interstellar Travel and Multi-Generation Space Ships, edited by Yoji Kondo, CG Publications.
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- Barbara Krasnoff
- has published short stories in Doorways, Escape Velocity, Sybil's Garage, Behind the Wainscot, Lady Chuchill's Rosebud Wristlet, Amazing, Weird Tales, and Descant, and will have a story in a future issue of Electric Velocipede. 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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- Dina Leacock (Diane Arrelle)
- has been a regular guest panelist at both Philcon and Balticon. She is an author of speculative fiction and her book of science fiction, fantasy, horror and suspense short stories, Just A Drop In The Cup, was published by Darker Intentions Press in October. Her book Elements Of The Short Story was published last year by Tricorner Publishing. Writing under the name Diane Arrelle, she has sold over 100 short stories to magazines and anthologies including Barnes and Nobles' Crafty Cat Crimes, Oui, Neo Opsis, Blue Murder, Terminal Fright, and Strange Stories Of Sand and Sea. She is a founding member as well as a past president of the Garden State Horror Writers and a past president of the Philadelphia Writers' Conference.
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- Craig Alan Loewen
- lives in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania with his wife, Cherie, three sons, and way too many cats. His work has appeared in several small press magazines, as well as the Twilight Times Press anthology Infinite Space, Infinite God. His children's fantasy novella, The Seven Sisters will be published by OakTara in 2009.
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- Perrianne Lurie
- is a physician with the Division of Communicable Disease Epidemiology at the Pennsylvania Department of Health. She has been active in fandom for over 20 years in SF clubs, cons, filking, writing con reviews, etc. She was a member of the Baltimore in 1998 bid committee. She served as Deputy Division Director for Programming at BucCONeer, assistant to the director of the Millennium Philcon Hugo Awards Ceremony, and Director of the Torcon 3 Hugo Awards Ceremony. She is also active in the Central Pennsylvania (European boardgame) Game Club.
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- Judith Moffet
- is the author of eleven books in five genres. Her new novel, The Bird Shaman, completes her Holy Ground Trilogy; the first two volumes are The Ragged World and Time, Like an Ever-Rolling Stream, both New York Times Notable Books. She was awarded the first Theodore Sturgeon Award (1987) and the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer (1988). For her short fiction she has been a finalist for the Nebula three times and the Hugo once. She divides her year between her ex-farm near Lawrenceburg KY and Swarthmore PA.
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- Tee Morris
- has been writing adventures in far-off lands and far-off worlds since the fifth grade. His professional writing career started when he wrote one act plays as part of the Maryland Renaissance Festival's Writers' Guild. His first novel, MOREVI: The Chronicles of Rafe & Askana (co-written with Lisa Lee), grew out of a character he portrayed at the festival and was developed through an online role playing chat room. His other novels include Legacy of Morevi, The Case of the Singing Sword: A Billibub Baddings Mystery, and The Case of the Pitcher’s Pendant: A Billibub Baddings Mystery. He has contributed to The Complete Guide to Writing Fantasy (and was an editor of Vol 2), Podcasting for Dummies, and Expert Podcasting Practices for Dummies. When Tee is not creating something on his Macintosh, he enjoys a good run, a good swim, martial arts (which he will start up again, someday), and putting together new playlists for his iPod.
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- James Morrow
- is our Author Guest of Honor this year. He has been writing fiction since, shortly after his seventh birthday, he dictated "The Story of the Dog Family" to his mother, who dutifully typed it up and bound the pages with yarn. This three-page, six chapter fantasy is still in the author's private archives. Upon reaching adulthood, Morrow proceeded to write nine speculative-fiction novels and enough short stories to constitute two collections. He has won the World Fantasy Award twice, the Nebula Award twice, and the Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire once. His most recent effort, a postmodern historical novel called The Last Witchfinder, was a New York Times Editor's Choice. He lives in State College, Pennsylvania, with his wife, son, and two professional dogs.
More information can be found on his Guest of Honor page.
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- Gary L. Oleson
- is an aerospace engineer with training in operations research, statistics, and decision analysis. He has worked in the area of national space security for over a decade. Before that, he worked as a systems engineer in the Space Station Program Office and was awarded the Space Station Freedom Award of Merit by the Astronaut Corps.
He has a long history in grassroots space activism, starting with the Enterprise Campaign of 1976 and the Moon Treaty fight of 1979. He was the L5 Society representative in Washington during the Congressional debate over the first space station budget, ran the science fact program for ConStellation, co-chaired the 1985 International Space Development Conference with Charles Sheffield, and was given the Space Pioneer Award for an Activist.
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- Aly Parsons
- leads a writers' group that she founded in 1980; her group includes both professional and unpublished writers. She has sold two stories, one to the 1982 DAW anthology, Sword of Chaos, edited by Marion Zimmer Bradley. Aly is a graduate of the Odyssey workshop for writers of fantasy, SF, and horror. Retired from her day job, she writes and edits full time. On another brane, she is an archaeologist, anthropologist, and field biologist in her copious spare time.
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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 as well as providing a market for novellas.
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 near Philadelphia with his wife, Valerie, who is neither a psychologist nor a Klingon speaker.
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- Edmund Schubert
- is editor of InterGalactic Medicine Show, a quarterly on-line science fiction and fantasy magazine founded and published by Orson Scott Card.
In the past few years, Edmund has seen his own short fiction published over thirty times, including an audio production, reprints, and several international publications. He has also published various articles, interviews, essays, book reviews and the occasional newspaper column, and in his spare time is Executive Editor of the regional business magazine, North Carolina Career Network Magazine. Recent and forthcoming publications include the anthologies Crypto Critters II (Padwolf Publishing, July ‘07) and From The Asylum: Year 3 (From The Asylum Books, July ‘07), and a novel, Dreaming Creek (LBF Books, 2008). He is also co-editor with Orson Scott Card of an InterGalactic Medicine Show anthology collecting stories from the first two years of IGMS (Tor, 2008).
Despite all this, Edmund still maintains that his greatest achievement occurred when the underground newspaper he published in college made him the subject of a professor's lecture in abnormal psychology. Blog about writing/editing/stuff: SideshowFreaks.blogspot.com
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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 (1979, 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 he received two Best Fanzine Hugos -- in 1963 and 1967. He's currently working at Wildside Press, and is the editor of the continuing anthology series, Cat Tales: Fantastic Feline Fiction.
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- Hildy Silverman
- is the publisher and editor-in-chief of Space and Time, a 42-year-old magazine featuring fantasy, horror, and science fiction. She is also the author of several works of short fiction, including "The Soul Cloister" (2003, Wild Child), "Play Misty for Me" (2004, The Adventures of Mist and Vale, Ordover, ed.), "Picky" (2008, Dark Territories, Frank and SanGiovanni, eds.), "The Darren" (forthcoming from Tekno Books, Witch Way to the Mall?, Friesner, ed), and "Damned Inspiration" (forthcoming, Siren Songs, Ackley-McPhail, ed). She is a member of the Philadelphia Science Fiction Society and the Garden State Horror Writers. For subscriptions and other info on Space and Time, please visit www.spaceandtimemagazine.com.
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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 won the Compton Crook Award for best first book of 2005, which is given by the Baltimore Science Fiction Society.
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, was released in March 2008 and spent two weeks on the New York Times Bestsellers List. Her next book, Storm Glass is scheduled for an April 2009 release. Maria also writes freelance articles for a number of regional magazines and has earned her Master of Arts degree in writing fiction from Seton Hill University.
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- Bud Sparhawk
- Bud's stories and articles appeared frequently in Analog, and have appeared in Asimov's, and other paper and electronic SF magazines as well as anthologies, another of which will appear later this year. His latest novella series (five stories) are currently appearing in Baen's Universe. Vixen, Bud's first published novel, will be on the stands in December 2008. Bud has been a three-time finalist in the Nebula's Novella category in 1998, 2002, and 2006.
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- 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 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 as doing strips for SF Eye, Stardate, 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. His most recent and unusual freelance assignment was designing a "Peace and Humanitarian Achievement" medal for the Samaritan community in Israel. For a look at Steve's art and writing, check out his website.
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- Victoria Strauss
- is the author of seven fantasy novels, including the Stone duology (The Arm of the Stone and The Garden of the Stone) and the Way of Arata duology (The Burning Land and The Awakened City). She has written hundreds of book reviews for magazines and ezines, including SF Site, and her articles on writing have appeared in Writer's Digestand elsewhere. In 2006, she served as a judge for the World Fantasy Awards. An active member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, she's Vice-Chair of the Committee on Writing Scams and maintains the Writer Beware website and blog. She welcomes visitors to her own website.
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- Ian Randal Strock
- is the editor of SFScope.com, your source of news about the speculative fiction fields. He previously served as editor of Artemis Magazine, news editor of Science Fiction Chronicle, and got his start in science fiction as the associate editor of Analog and Asimov's sf magazines for six years. Having been bitten by the political bug, he wrote The Presidential Book of Lists: From Most to Least, Elected to Rejected, Worst to Cursed-Fascinating Facts About Our Chief Executives, which is being released this month
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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, "The Dog Said Bow-Wow" in 2002, "Slow Life"
in 2003, and "Legions in Time" in 2004. 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. Most recent are his ninth short-story collection,
The Dog Said Bow-Wow, and a novel, The Dragons of Babel. Scheduled for release
from Subterranean Press in a few weeks is The Best of Michael Swanwick.
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- Sean Wallace
- is the founder and editor for Prime Books, which won a World Fantasy Award in 2006; as executive editor for Wildside Press, he not only runs Prime Books but helps manage a number of other publishing imprints, including Cosmos Books, Juno Books, and PointBlank Press. In his spare time he is also co-editor of Clarkesworld Magazine and Fantasy Magazine; consulting editor for Weird Tales; and the editor of the following anthologies: Best New Fantasy, Fantasy, Horror: The Best of the Year, Japanese Dreams, and Weird Tales: The 21st-Century. He currently and happily resides in Rockville, MD, with his wife and two cats.
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- Jean Marie Ward
- had two books published, Illumina: The Art of J.P. Targete (Chrysalis Books) and With Nine You Get Vanyr (Samhain Publishing). Her short stories have appeared in two Prime Books anthologies, Strange Pleasures 2 & 3. She also has a short story in Bill Fawcett's upcoming anthology, Dragon Tales, scheduled for publication in September. She wrote articles for everything from The ASFA Journal, The Romance Writers Report and SciFi.Com's Science Fiction Weekly. She edited the respected web magazine Crescent Blues for eight years, and even did a turn as the talent scout and associate producer for a local access cable TV show, Mystery Readers Corner.
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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 almost thirty years, and expects to continue for quite some time.
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- Ted White
- has been a member of WSFA since 1954. In 1967 he co-chaired the 25th World SF Convention, NyCon3. In 1959 he moved to New York City after a year in Baltimore and became a professional jazz critic. In 1962 he began selling science fiction stories. He has had 18 books published, all but one of them science fiction. Among the best-known are Phoenix Prime (1965) and By Furies Possessed (1970). The non-SF book was the Captain America novel, The Great Gold Steal (1968). He was Associate Editor of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction 1963-68, the Editor of Amazing Stories and Fantastic 1968-78, the Editor of Heavy Metal 1979-80, and Editorial Director of Stardate 1984-85. He has been a FM deejay, and is a musician, currently in Conduit, a progressive improvisatory band, where he plays keyboards and a wind synthesizer. He moved back to Northern Virginia in 1970 and has lived here since then. He has a longer entry in Wikipedia -- which he did not write.
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- David J. Williams
- Described by Stephen Baxter as "Tom Clancy interfacing Bruce Sterling," Dave's debut novel, The Mirrored Heavens, was published by Bantam Spectra this past summer, with the sequel, Leviathan's Progeny due out in May of 2009. Learn more about the world of the early 22nd century at www.autumnrain2110.com.
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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 ElfQuest 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 an epic heroic fantasy with an editor (be patient).
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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