Constance Ash has written and edited sf/f, including the Nebula-nominated
Flower Kiss and the Philip K. Dick award-nominated anthology
Not of Woman Born. She uses her skills as a professional researcher for herself and others by digging into history, past and present. Electronic databases and xml-coded Finding Aids are among her (many) favorite things. She lives in NYC.
Carol Berg is the author of Geffen Award winner
Transformation, and the other Books of the Rai-kirah –
Revelation and
Restoration – as well as The Bridge of D’Arnath Quartet and the 2004 Colorado Book Award winner
Song of the Beast. Carol is a former software engineer who took up writing epic fantasy when her three sons started to need less of her time. The hobby grew into an obsession and then into a full time career. Carol camps, reads, writes, and laments the current state of politics, education, parenting, and common sense in Colorado.
Barbara Denz began writing early, but her first non-fiction story wasn’t bought until she was 25. Since then, she has written and edited technical documents and books for Microsoft and published 5 fantasy short stories in anthologies by Marion Zimmer Bradley and Katharine Kerr (all of which are currently out of print, of course). She is in the process of a long-researched first novel. “Sometimes you just have to bite the bullet and write the sucker.” When not writing, she sings in 2 Celtic music groups (Crooked Mile in Washington state and Port na Gael in Port Moody, BC, Canada) and is learning to paint, and VERY much looking forward to retirement!
David Louis Edelman is the author of the SF business novel
Infoquake. Over the past ten years, he has programmed websites for the U.S. Army and the FBI, 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. He lives near Washington, D.C., and implores you to buy
Infoquake in bulk quantities so he never has to do any of those things again.
Kate Elliott is the author of
Spirit Gate, coming in October 2006. She has also written
Crown of Stars, a seven volume fantasy novel starting with
King’s Dragon, and
The Novels of the Jaran, and has co-authored
The Golden Key with Melanie Rawn and Jennifer Roberson. In her real life as Alis Rasmussen, she is particularly interested in history, archaeology, religion, exercise, and the joy of twins and schnauzers. Or you could talk to her about leyning. She lives in Hawaii.
Katharine Kerr is well known on both sides of the low, meandering stone wall that separates High Fantasy from Science Fiction. Her epic Deverry series has won her millions of fans around the world. Her SF novels include
Snare,
Polar City Blues, and
Resurrection. A native of Ohio, she has lived in the Bay Area since Time began, back in the 1960s. Her latest Deverry novel,
The Gold Falcon, is now available in the UK and will be published in the USA in July.
Kevin Andrew Murphy is one of the
Wild Cards writers, has written novels, short stories and games for White Wolf’s
World of Darkness and others. His most recent publications are a sestina in last December’s
First Things (slated for reprint in next winter’s
Iduna), a sonnet in this spring’s issue of
Court Green, and a short adventure for World Works Games. He’s currently working on a
Wild Cards roleplaying adaptation for Theatrix. His most recent novels are
Drum Into Silence from Tor,
Fathom from iBooks, and
Penny Dreadful from White Wolf, the last currently a free download at
www.white-wolf.com/pennydreadful/home.html.
Sherwood Smith Latest works are
Inda coming out from DAW (second published book in a life-long project, first adult one) and
Trouble Under Oz, a continuation of L. Frank Baum’s Oz books, coming out from Harper/Collins. Blog name on LiveJournal
Sartorias, where I gas on about writing and reading.
Lois Tilton’s fiction has been nominated in the past for the Nebula, Sturgeon and Sidewise Awards, but as there is currently no demand for it in the marketplace, she is no longer writing any. Instead she is now the short fiction reviewer at the Internet Review of Science Fiction:
www.irosf.com.
