David Brin
www.davidbrin.com

David Brin is a popular science fiction author who has published over a dozen science fiction novels plus two dozen short stories or novellas including Kiln People, The Postman, The Uplift War, Foundation’s Triumph and Brightness Reef.  He has been awarded the John W. Campbell award for Best Novel, the Hugo Award for Science Fiction Achievement three times and been nominated five additional times, the Nebula award for best novel, and the Locus award for Best Novel and Best Single Author Collection.  In addition to his science background, he also has a PHD in Philosophy and has consulted with NASA and other scientific organizations.
 

Doranna Durgin
www.doranna.net

Doranna Durgin spent her childhood filling notebooks first with stories and art, and then with novels. After obtaining a degree in wildlife illustration and environmental education, she spent a number of years deep in the Appalachian Mountains. When she emerged, it was as a writer who found herself irrevocably tied to the natural world and its creatures.

Dun Lady's Jess, Doranna's first published fantasy novel, received the 1995 Compton Crook/Stephen Tall award for the best first book in the fantasy, science fiction, and horror genres; she now has ten novels on the shelves and more on the way. When she's not writing, Doranna builds web pages, wanders around outside with a camera, and works with horses and dogs. Her place of residence recently settled in Northern Arizona, where the San Francisco Peaks loom beyond the backyard.   Recent novels include Seer’s Blood, A Feral Darkness, Earth Final Conflict: Heritage, Changespell Legacy, and Angel: Impressions.

Diana Galbadon
http://www.dianagabaldon.com

Diana Gabaldon is the New York Times bestselling author of four previous novels — Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, and Drums of Autumn — and one work of nonfiction, The Outlandish Companion. The Fiery Cross is the latest book in the series. Her next novel will feature Lord John Grey in his own historical mystery titled Lord John and the Private Matter scheduled for release in fall 2003.

Emily Devenport/Lee Hogan

Emily Devenport has been published under three names.  As Emily Devenport, her short Stories were published in ASIMOV'S SF MAGAZINE and the FULL SPECTRUM anthology, but mostly in ABORIGINAL SF, whose readers voted her a Boomerang Award.  ROC published six Emily Devenport novels: SHADE, LARISSA, SCORPIANNE,  EGGHEADS, THE KRONOS CONDITION, and GODHEADS.  ROC published one of her novels under the pen name Maggy Thomas: BROKEN TIME, which was nominated for a Phillip K. Dick Award.

Most recently she has been writing under the pen name Lee Hogan.  Roc published the first Lee Hogan book, BELARUS, in 2002.  A sequel is due out in spring 2003: ENEMIES and she is currently working on the third book in the series.

Her background is quirky and not so illustrious.  She worked for many years as a professional housekeeper, then became an officer for the Arizona Department of Corrections, graduating from the COTA Academy at the top of her class.  She has since left that job for a tamer position working in the music department of BORDERS, as sales clerk and resident classical music expert. She is slowly (VERY slowly) pursuing a degree in Criminal Justice.  Beyond that, She’s an extremely avid gardener and is happily married to writer/artist Ernest Hogan.

Ernest Hogan

Author and artist, Ernest Hogan has done stories, articles, reviews, cartoons, illustrations, and covers in a number of science fiction magazines. Mr. Hogan's 'Obsidian Harvest' (co-written with Rick Cook) was included in Analog April 2000 and recommended for the Hugo award and also published in Gardner Dozois Year's Best Science Fiction anthology. 'The Rise And Fall Of Paco Cohen And The Mariachis Of Mars' appeared in Analog April 2001. Ben Bova has recommended this work for the Nebula award.   His novels have been Cortez on Jupiter, High Aztech, and Smoking Mirror Blues.
 

Dennis L. McKiernan
http://home.att.net/~dlmck

Dennis L. Mckiernan was born April 4, 1932, in Moberly, Missouri,where he lived until age eighteen, when he joined the U.S. Air Force, serving four years spanning the Korean War. He received a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Missouri in 1958 and an M.S. in the same field from Duke University in 1964. Dennis spent thirty-one years as one of AT&T Bell Laboratories whiz kids in research and development - in anti-ballistic missile defense systems, in software for telephone systems, and in various management think-tank activities - before changing careers to be a full-time writer.
Currently living in Tuscon, Arizona, Dennis began writing novels in 1977 while recuperating from a close encounter of the crunch kind with a 1967 red and black Plymouth Fury (Dennis lost: it ran over him: Plymouth 1, Dennis 0).  Among other hobbies, Dennis enjoys SCUBA diving, dirt-bike riding, and motorcycle touring - all enthusiasms shared by his wife. An internationally bestselling author, his critically acclaimed fantasy novels include Voyage of the Fox Rider, The Eye of the Hunter, Dragondoom, The Silver Call Duology, The Iron Tower Trilogy, the story collection Tales of Mithgar, Eye of the Hunter
and Silver Wolf, Black Falcon  Never one to sit idle too long, Dennis has also written The Vulgmaster (a graphic novel) and several short stories and novelettes which have appeared in various anthologies. He is presently working on his next opus.
 

Adam Niswander
http://www.adam-niswander.com

Adam Niswander is a science fiction (SF), fantasy, horror, young adult, and mystery & thriller writer from Phoenix Arizona. He is the author of: the Shaman Cycle novels - The Charm, The Serpent Slayers, and The Hound Hunters - (Published by Integra Press ; Frank Wagner, Publisher,) as well as The Sand Dwellers, (Published by Fedogan and Bremer, Philip Rahman, Publisher) and The Repository, (Published by Meisha Merlin Publishing, Stephen Pagel, Publisher.) Other hats he has worn include those of book dealer (Adam’s Bookstore on ABE.com), former president (14 terms) of The Central Arizona Speculative Fiction Society (CASFS), CASFS Board, frequent guest at science fiction conventions and member of both SFWA and HWA.

Jennifer Roberson
www.cheysuli.com

Since 1984, Jennifer Roberson has published 22 solo novels, among them fourteen bestselling fantasy novels: the 8-volume "Chronicles of the Cheysuli", about a race of shapechangers and a divine prophecy; and the 6-volume "Sword-Dancer"saga the author describes as "Conan the Barbarian Meets Gloria Steinem."

Other novels include three mainstream historicals: LADY OF THE FOREST, an award-winning reinterpretation of the Robin Hood story emphasizing Marian's role in a story of how the legend came to be; a sequel, LADY OF SHERWOOD, continuing the adventures of Robin and Marian; and LADY OF THE GLEN, the documented story of 17th-century Scotland's Massacre of Glencoe, similar in theme to the films "Rob Roy" and "Braveheart" plus an original novel based on the international hit television series HIGHLANDER; spun off from the movie featuring Christopher Lambert and Sean Connery; and THE GOLDEN KEY, the DAW Books fantasy collaboration with Melanie Rawn and Kate Elliott, which was nominated for the World Fantasy Award in 1997. She has also contributed many short stories to collections, anthologies, and magazines, and has edited the DAW anthology RETURN TO AVALON, a tribute to bestselling author Marion Zimmer Bradley, author of the Darkover novels and THE MISTS OF AVALON; and HIGHWAYMEN: ROBBERS AND ROGUES. For Roc, she edited OUT OF AVALON, featuring Arthurian stories by such New York Times bestselling authors as Marion Zimmer Bradley, Eric Van Lustbader, and Diana Gabaldon. Roberson's novels and anthologies have been translated and published in Japan, Germany, France, Russia, China, Italy, Sweden, Poland, Hungary, Israel, and the United Kingdom.

Upcoming projects include the first three volumes in a new fantasy universe, titled KARAVANS, from DAW Books. It's a vast history combining a cast of humans, demons, devils, gods, demi-gods, and a magical, dangerous land called Alisanos that appears and disappears at random, taking with it everything--and everyone--in its path. No one going in ever returns--if he returns--fully human. The first volume will probably appear in late '03. There will also be three new Cheysuli novels as Roberson returns to the world that established her career. These will be set in the existing timeline, featuring stories about Finn and Carillon in exile; how the ethnic cleansing was first undertaken; and more adventures of Corin and Keely in their new realms.
 

Michael A. Stackpole
http://www.stormwolf.com

N.Y. Times Best Selling Science Fiction & Fantasy Author of Star Wars Novels I, Jedi, Dark Tide: Onslaught, Dark Tide: Ruin, the X-Wing novel series, many Dark Horse Star Wars comics, plus The Dark Glory War, Talion: Revenant, Shadowrun: Wolf & Raven, & Once a Hero, Fortress Draconis, Ghost War (Mechwarrior Dark Age #1) & When Dragons Rage.

He started his career writing role playing games for Flying Buffalo games and in 1997 wrote the Warriors trilogy for the FASA Battletech novel line, giving him his break into the world of novel writing.   Since then, he’s written many novels in the BattleTech universe, the Star Wars universe (including the popular line of Rogue Squadron novels) plus several fantasy novels including the current DragonCrown War fantasy series.
 

John Vornholt
www.vornholt.net

After spending 20 years as a freelance writer (writing mostly non-fiction), John Vornholt turned to book publishing in 1989. Drawing upon the good will generated by an earlier non-fiction book he had written for Simon & Schuster, John secured a contract to write Masks, number seven in the Star Trek: The Next Generation book series.

Masks was the first of the numbered Next Generation books to make the New York Times bestseller list and was reprinted three times in the first month. Although John has only been writing books seriously since 1989, he has written and sold more than 50 books, for both adults and children. He's currently writing a contemporary suspense novel, and the third of a two-book Star Trek: The Next Generation series titled The Genesis Wave. (No, that's not a typo. It is indeed book three of what began as a duology.   He has also written a number of young reader novels including ones based on Dinotopia, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Star Trek, Sabrina the Teenage Witch & the recent release of The Troll King.

Theatrical rights for his fantasy novel, The Fabulist, have been sold to two young composers in New York, and they're in the process of adapting it as a Broadway musical.

It would be difficult to find a kind of writing John has not done professionally. He started submitting science fiction stories to magazines when he was about thirteen years old. At the age of twenty, he began to write and sell travel articles (the first sale was to Diversion), and he's made hundreds of sales to markets as diverse as The Hollywood Reporter and DEC Professional.

Early in his career, John flirted with playwriting, which resulted in six published plays and several productions in the Los Angeles area. That proved satisfying, but not very lucrative, and, with a partner, he turned to screenwriting in the 1980s. Hollywood was lucrative, but not very satisfying, and John has enjoyed writing books ever since.

He currently lives with his wife and two children in Tucson, Arizona.