| Jim
Butcher Official Website  |
Jim Butcher is the author of The Dresden
Files, telling the story of wizard Harry Dresden, who solves crimes
in modern-day Chicago. The series is published by Roc, and its ninth
book, White Night, will be published in hardcover on April 3,
2007. On January 21, the SCI FI Channel launched a TV
series based on the books. Titled The Dresden Files, the
series stars Paul Blackthorne (24) and Terrance Mann. Jim also writes the Codex Alera series for Ace Books.
The third book, Cursor's Fury, came out in hardcover in
December 2006 and the fourth book in the series is due this fall. Jim is a martial arts enthusiast with fifteen years of experience in various styles including Ryukyu Kempo, Tae Kwan Do, Gojo Shorei Ryu, and a sprinkling of Kung Fu. He is a skilled rider and has worked as a summer camp horse wrangler and performed in front of large audiences in both drill riding and stunt riding exhibitions. Jim enjoys fencing, singing, bad science fiction movies and live-action gaming. He lives in Missouri with his wife, son, and a vicious guard dog. |
Lois Duncan Official Website  |
Lois Duncan was born in Philadelphia, PA, and grew up in Sarasota, FL, where she graduated from Sarasota High School. She knew from early childhood that she wanted to be a writer. She submitted her first story to a magazine at age 10 and became published at 13. Throughout her high school years she wrote regularly for young people's publications, particularly Seventeen. As an adult, Lois moved to Albuquerque, NM, where she taught for the Journalism Department at the University of New Mexico and continued to write for magazines. Over 300 of her articles and stories appeared in such publications as Ladies Home Journal, Redbook, McCall's, Good Housekeeping, and Reader's Digest, and for many years she was a contributing editor for Woman's Day. Lois is the author of 48 books, ranging from children's picture books to adult novels, but is best known for her young adult suspense novels, which have received Young Readers Awards in 16 states and three foreign countries. In 1992, Lois was awarded the Margaret A. Edwards Award, presented by the School Library Journal and the ALA Young Adult Library Services Association for "a distinguished body of adolescent literature." Five of her novels -- SUMMER OF FEAR, KILLING MR.
GRIFFIN, GALLOWS HILL, RANSOM and DON'T LOOK
BEHIND YOU -- were filmed for television, and I KNOW WHAT YOU
DID LAST SUMMER was transformed by Hollywood into an unrecognizable
slasher film that became a box office hit. Lois’s grandchildren aren’t
allowed to see it. |
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Jane Yolen |
Jane Yolen is the distinguished author of more than 200 books, and a person of many talents. When she is not writing, Yolen composes songs, is a professional storyteller on the stage, and is the busy wife of a university professor, the mother of three grown children, and a grandmother. All of Yolen's stories and poems are somehow rooted in her sense of family and self. The Emperor and the Kite, which was a Caldecott Honor Book in 1983 for its intricate papercut illustrations by Ed Young, was based on Yolen's relationship with her late father, who was an international kite-flying champion. Owl Moon, winner of the 1988 Caldecott Medal for John Schoenherr's exquisite watercolors, was inspired by her husband's interest in birding. Yolen has earned many awards over the years: the Regina Medal, the Kerlan Award, the World Fantasy Award, the Society of Children's Book Writers Award, the Mythopoetic Society's Aslan Award, the Christopher Medal, the Boy's Club Jr. Book Award, the Garden State Children's Book Award, the Daedalus Award, a number of Parents' Choice Magazine Awards, and many more. Her books and stories have been translated into Japanese, French, Spanish, Chinese, German, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Afrikaans, !Xhosa, Portuguese, and Braille. With a versatility that has led her to be called "America's Hans Christian Andersen," Yolen, the child of two writers, is a gifted and natural storyteller. Perhaps the best explanation for her outstanding accomplishments comes from Jane Yolen herself: "I don't care whether the story is real or fantastical. I tell the story that needs to be told." |
| Lee Gold Official Web Site  |
Joe Gold is a freelance writer in San Francisco. He routinely morphs into a web journalist, a technology marketer, ad copywriter, broadcast producer, teacher and father of two grown childen. Joe was the first American-born son of scrappy Holocaust survivors. He was a child on a Woodbine, NJ, chicken farm, and a teenager on Philly streets. During 29 years in Tucson, he got a University of Arizona journalism degree and a couple of Pulitzer Prize nominations for newspaper reporting. Gold hiked canyons, launched an ad agency and taught college marketing. For a few years, he managed the Lamp Post Motel. Relax, the story is pure fiction. |
| He's climbed volcanoes in the Ring of Fire,
fished
for sharks in the North Atlantic, been mauled by an angry kitten off
the
coast of Turkey, learned the meaning of defenestration in France, and
even
jumped off a a cliff in Greece. His interests span a wide spectrum:
archaeology,
linguistics, mythology, cosmology, conspiracy theory, religion and a
host
of others. At the same time, he managed to catapult himself to the top
of
his game in a Fortune 100 company doing what some idly speculated to be
nothing
less than international computer espionage. But there was always the desire to change the world around him. And since the age of fifteen, he had become obsessed with writing as a means to this end. Year after year, he labored to prefect his craft, until he felt the time was right. In 2000, he teamed up with J.S. Lewis and with an eye to the stars, they launched The Revenge of the Shadow King. Benz met and married his lovely wife in sunny Arizona, where they enjoy researching and traveling . |
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| Emma Bull Official Emma Bull Blog 
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From Wikipedia: Emma Bull (born 1954) is a science fiction and fantasy author whose best-known novel is War for the Oaks, one of the pioneering works of urban fantasy. She has participated in Terri Windling's Borderland shared universe, which is the setting of her 1994 novel Finder. She sang in the rock-funk band Cats Laughing, and both sang and played guitar in the folk duo The Flash Girls while living in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Will Shetterly and Emma BullHer 1991 post-apocalyptic science fiction novel Bone Dance was nominated for the Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy Awards. Bull wrote a screenplay for War for the Oaks, which was made into an 11-minute mini-film designed to look like a film trailer. She made a cameo appearance as the Queen of the Seelie Court, and her husband, Will Shetterly, directed. Bull and Shetterly created the shared universe of Liavek, for which they have both written stories. There are five Liavek collections in print. She was a member of the writing group The Scribblies, which included Will Shetterly as well as Pamela Dean, Kara Dalkey, Nathan A. Bucklin, Patricia Wrede and Steven Brust. With Steven Brust, Bull wrote Freedom and Necessity (1997), an epistolary novel with subtle fantasy elements set during the United Kingdom's nineteenth century Chartist movement. |
| Alan Dean Foster Official Website  |
Born in New York City in 1946, Foster was raised in Los Angeles. After receiving a Bachelor's Degree in Political Science and a Master of Fine Arts in Cinema from UCLA (1968, l969) he spent two years as a copywriter for a small Studio City, Calif. advertising and public relations firm. His writing career began when August Derleth bought a long Lovecraftian letter of Foster's in 1968 and much to Foster's surprise, published it as a short story in Derleth's bi-annual magazine The Arkham Collector. Sales of short fiction to other magazines followed. His first attempt at a novel, The Tar-Aiym Krang, was bought by Betty Ballantine and published by Ballantine Books in 1972. It incorporates a number of suggestions from famed SF editor John W. Campbell. Since then, Foster's sometimes humorous, occasionally poignant, but always entertaining short fiction has appeared in all the major SF magazines as well as in original anthologies and several "Best of the Year" compendiums. Six collections of his short form work have been published. |
Best-selling author Diana Gabaldon holds a Ph.D. in ecology and spent a dozen years as a university professor before turning to writing full-time. She is also the author of more than six novels, including Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn, The Fiery Cross, Lord John and the Private Matter and one work of nonfiction, The Outlandish Companion. Her most recent book is A Breath of Snow and Ashes (Delacorte Press, 2005). She lives in Arizona. You can watch online a Webcast of Diana at the Library of Congress National Book Festival in 2005. |
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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. |
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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. |
J.S. Lewis Grey Griffins Official Site  |
Born early enough to remember
rotary phones, typewriters, and the glory years of Atari, J.S. Lewis
has lived a rather obscure life in the shadows of many nearly famous
people. A member of the Grey Griffins (a secret club of courageous children who have vowed to save the world from evil overlords, alien invasions and brussel sprouts), Lewis grew up in the heartland of America. Yearning to become a marine biologist, but perplexed by the lack of exotic saltwater marine life in Iowa and Minnesota, he headed west. Sadly, his quest for the sea ended too soon, stranding him in the blustering desert of Arizona, where dreams of discovering new breeds of ferocious sharks were all but destroyed. So it was, dejected and wandering like a drifting vagabond, that Lewis explored an eclectic career that would include news reporting, radio producing, animation, multi-media design, mural painting, speech writing, video game development and marketing. Ever searching for new forms of creative expression, Lewis and boyhood friend Derek Benz sought to make their indelible mark through the written word. Thus from that collaboration was penned the novel The Revenge of the Shadow King. Ensnared by the lure of the desert, Lewis remains in Arizona with his radiant wife and their beautiful daughters. |
| Jeff
Mariotte Official Web Site  |
Jeff Mariotte was born in Park Forest, Illinois.
He moved away from there at the age of six, when his father, a civilian
working for the Department of Defense, was transferred to Paris,
France. Since then he's lived in Arlington and Reston, Virginia, Worms
and Schriesheim, Germany, San Jose, San Diego, and Arizona. He graduated from San Jose State University with a degree in Radio/TV/Film. He has worked delivering the Washington Post, in a comic book store, fast food, selling encyclopedias door-to-door, and as maintenance supervisor for a large regional shopping center. He was the manager of Hunteris Books, La Jolla when his first fiction was published. He has been VP of Marketing and Senior Editor for comic book publisher WildStorm Productions, Editor-in-Chief for IDW Publishing, and a freelance writer. He and his wife Maryelizabeth Hart and partner Terry Gilman are the owners of Mysterious Galaxy, an independent bookstore specializing in mystery, science fiction, fantasy, and horror. He currently lives in Arizona with Maryelizabeth, daughter Holly, son David, one cat and two dogs, in a house filled with books and comics and toys and music and laughter. He is passionate about-among other things-reading, the deserts and mountains and forests of the American West, modern and historical, politics, Nikki Cox, photography, independent bookstores, and whatever else strikes his fancy at any given moment. |
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Dennis L. McKiernan
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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. |
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Michael R. Mennenga
Dragon Page & Slice of SciFi |
Michael R. Mennenga (men-en-gay) began writing
in the late 1980s. He spent several years submitting manuscripts,
talking
with publishers, agents and learning the ins and outs of the
ever-changing
publishing industry. Even though he remained unpublished, he had become
a proficient writer and by the end of 1995 he had written 2 young adult
books, 1 novel, and had 9 other works in various stages of production.
In
1996 he turned his attention to writing for the Internet. In 1998 he
joined
a developing writing community and was soon asked to become part of the
staff.
Working with members, creating interesting assignments, and developing
writing
lessons he became a valuable part of the community. After only one year
as
a staff member he was asked to become its executive editor - overseeing
all
operations of the growing community. During this time the site received
recognition from Writer's Digest and Forbes Publishing before the
release of his first book - Zac and the Valley of the Dragons -
(published on Xlibris Press) forced his resignation as editor in 1999.
His next book - Mistress of the Dragon - (Published AmErica House) was
released in 2001. His next book, The Valley of the Dragons: Dragon's
Fire and Wizard's Flame - (Published on Bedside Books)
was released in 2002, and then re-released as Dragon's Fire, Wizard's
Flame
- (Published by Dragon Moon Press) in 2003. 
Michael is currently hosting three weekly podcasts with Evo Terra, The Dragon Page Cover to Cover, The Dragon Page Wingin' It, and Slice of Sci Fi. |
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Adam Niswander  |
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. |
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James A. Owen is the Executive Director of Coppervale
International, and founded his first business, a comic book mail order
company, in 1984. James built it into a full mail-order retail
operation, and a year later, used the profits to start his first
publishing company, with a focus on limited-edition prints. After several years of commercial and contract work in design and illustration James founded Taliesin Press in 1992. The company’s debut publication, a Dickensian comic book titled Starchild, sold poorly in its first two releases, 1200 and 800 copies, respectively. The entire company went into hiatus shortly after when he crushed his drawing hand in a car accident, but rebounded with the release of Starchild #0, a book James laid out left-handed and had finished by other better known artists. It eventually sold 45,000 copies, firmly establishing the book and Taliesin in the marketplace. In both 1994 and 1995, James was named to trade magazine Hero
Illustrated’s list of the one hundred most influential people in the
Comic Book Industry. On July 17, 1995, Taliesin Press was renamed
Coppervale International. Fool’s Hollow, a novel and screenplay based on Starchild is in the preproduction planning stage, and is generating the development of a line of toys. Also in the works is Fool’s Hollow: Tales From The TwoPenny Inn, a spinoff series of books and Pictopia, which is also being developed as a stop-motion animated theatrical film. Films based on Mythworld, Here Be Dragons, The Tower, and The Grand Design are also being discussed. |
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Melanie Rawn is an author of fantasy literature. She received a BA in history from Scripps College and worked as a teacher and editor before becoming a writer. She has been nominated for a Locus award on three separate occasions: in 1989 for Dragon Prince in the first novel category, in 1994 for Skybowl in the fantasy novel category, and again in 1995 for Ruins of Ambrai in the fantasy novel category. |
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Will Shetterly Official Will Shetterly Blog  |
Will Shetterly - a biography I live in Tucson, Arizona, with my wife, Emma Bull, and our cat, Toby, the Terror of the West. I writes novels, screenplays, short stories, and comic books. When I was a boy, I lived at a tourist attraction attraction called Dog Land that inspired my novel, Dogland. In 1994, I ran for Governor of Minnesota and finished third in a field of six. My politics are eclectic. My greatest political concern is democracy. I believe vox populi, vox dei: the voice of the people is the voice of God. One year, I worked on my parents' trading post at Rat Rapids, Ontario, where my duties included carrying 100 pound bags of wild rice. You would think that would make me hate it, but it's one of my favorite foods. It really isn't worth watching Toxic Zombies for my very brief appearance at the end. But it is worth baking Shetterly's Finest-Kind Cookies. Will's mid 1990's comic Captain Confederacy has been in the news recently and he has been making the issues available online at http://captainconfederacy.blogspot.com/ |
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My latest novel, SECRET OF THE
THREE TREASURES, was published this spring, and it's about a kid who's
determined to live a life of adventure from the start, and who isn't
about to let small things like still being in elementary school, too
young to book passage to anywhere (these days even caravans require
major credit cards) get in her way. I've written three other novels, all for kids, though as far as I'm concerned grownups can read them too. (Contrary to popular belief, they don't take away your grown-up license if you read kids' books. Really. And kids' books are some of the best books out there.) I've also published more than 30 short stories for kids, teens, and adults, including appearances in CRICKET magazine, GOTHIC! TEN ORIGINAL DARK TALES, and CROSSROADS AND OTHER TALES OF VALDEMAR. Girl Scouts and college both led me ever-further west, and I now live with my husband, Larry, in southern Arizona. I love living in the desert, and I'm not sure I'll ever live east of the Rockies again. |
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Michael A.
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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. His latest series, The Age of Discovery, features The Secret Atlas and the just published Cartomancy. 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.He has been doing regular podcasts on his Stormwolf.com web site for his The Secrets writing periodical as well as other commentary and has recently joined The Dragon Page as co-host. |
| Evo Terra: talk show host, musician, herbalist,
author, podcaster, cult leader, podiobooks evangelist. Classic Type A
personality. Pathetic, isn’t he? Evo’s always felt a certain affinity to science fiction, and is appreciative of a good author’s ability to provide a different perspective on the world at large. He joined The Dragon Page in April of 2002 and has loved almost every minute of it. Except for that freak pencil sharpener accident we’d all prefer to forget. Prior to that, Evo had a semi-successful career as a semi-professonal musician with a semi-ska/punk band. He’s a bass player, so the “muscian” moniker is given with some trepidation. But he is a real-live herbal therapist, though he hasn’t had much chance to ply his trade what with all the dedication he gives to the other projects in his life. Speaking of which… He feels quite at ease talking with authors, being an author himself. Of course, he primarily talks with fiction authors, where he scribes in the land on non-fiction. But who’s counting? Oh, and the cult leader thing is currently in progress. You interested? |
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