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Kerrie L. Hughes is a freelance writer, editor, and artist currently residing in Green Bay Wisconsin. She has run away a few times.
Mary Robinette Kowal is the author of Shades of Milk and Honey (2010). In 2008 she received the Campbell Award for Best New Writer and has been nominated for the Hugo and Locus awards. Her stories appear in Asimov’s SF, Clarkesworld, and several Year′s Best anthologies. A professional puppeteer and voice actor, she lives in Portland with her husband Rob and a dozen manual typewriters. Visit her website www.maryrobinettekowal.com for more information about her fiction and puppetry.
Jane Lindskold is the bestselling author of the Fire-keeper series, which began with Through Wolf’s Eyes and concluded with Wolf’s Blood, as well as many other fantasy novels. She lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
John (J. A.) Pitts learned to love science fiction at the knee of his grandmother, listening to her read authors like Edgar Rice Burroughs and Robert E. Howard during an eventful childhood in rural Kentucky. Black Blade Blues, the debut novel in his urban fantasy series, was released in the summer of 2010 and the mass market edition is now available. Honeyed Words, the second in the ongoing series, was published in summer 2011. He is currently working on the third book in the series slated for summer of 2012. He has a BA in English and a Masters of Library Science from University of Kentucky. When he’s not writing, you can find him practicing martial arts with his children or spending time with his lovely wife. John is a member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America.
Ever since writing her first fantasy story at the age of eight, Jenifer Ruth has wanted to be a writer. Once a middle school English teacher, she is now pursuing her dream of writing while living with her family in Reno, NV.
Lilith Saintcrow was born in New Mexico and lived a nomad existence as a military brat, writing as soon as her fingers could curl around a pencil. She currently resides in Vancouver, WA, with her children and a collection of cats.
USA Today-bestselling writer Dean Wesley Smith has written over a hundred novels and even more short stories. Not only does he write thrillers under another name, but he also wrote the only two original Men in Black novels.. For more information about his work go to DeanWesleySmith.com.
Rob Thurman is the author of the Cal Leandros Novels, the Trickster Novels, the Chimera Novels and has a story, “Milk and Cookies,” in the Charlaine Harris & Toni LP Kelner anthology Wolfsbane and Mistletoe. Rob lives in Indiana, land of rabid, bloodsucking cows as far as the eye can see. Protecting the author’s house and home is a hundred-pound adopted Lab-Great Dane mix with teeth straight out of a Godzilla movie and the ferocious habit of pissing on herself and hiding under the bed when visitors arrive. Rob hopes to be the first to write a post-apocalyptic fey Western, but in this business you never know. Reach the author at www.robthurman.net.
Michelle Sagara West writes as both Michelle Sagara and Michelle West; she is also published as Michelle Sagara West (although the Sundered books were originally published under the name Michelle Sagara). She lives in Toronto with her long-suffering husband and her two children, and to her regret has no dogs.
ABOUT THE EDITORS
Martin H. Greenberg is the CEP of Tekno Books and its predecessor companies, now the largest book developer of commercial fiction and nonfiction in the world, with over 2,250 published books that have been translated into 33 languages. He is the recipient of an unprecedented four lifetime achievement awards in the science fiction, mystery, and supernatural horror genres—the Milford Award in science fiction, the Solstice Award in science fiction, the Bram Stoker Award in horror, and the Ellery Queen Award in mystery—the only person in publishing history to have received all four awards.
Russell Davis has written and sold numerous novels and short stories in virtually every genre of fiction, under at least a half-dozen pseudonyms. Some of his more recent novels include work in both The Executioner and Room 59 series, as well as a forthcoming project for StoryPortals.Com. His short fiction has appeared in anthologies such as Imaginary Friends, Law of the Gun, and Under Cover of Darkness. He also works as an editor and book packager, and has created anthology titles ranging from westerns such as Lost Trails to fantasy such as If I Were an Evil Overlord. A past president of the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America, Russell now writes and edits full time, as well as teaching for Western State College of Colorado. He lives in Wisconsin with his wife and children, and in his copious spare time, he tries to get some sleep.
Also Available from DAW Books:
Boondocks Fantasy, edited by Jean Rabe and Martin H. Greenberg Urban fantasy is popular, but what if you took that modern fantasy and moved it to the “sticks,” with no big city in sight? Trailer parks, fishing shacks, sleepy little towns, or specks on the map so small that if you blink while driving through you’ll miss them. Vampires, wizards, aliens, and elves might be tired of all that urban sprawl and prefer a spot in the country—someplace where they can truly be themselves without worrying about what the neighbors think! With stories by tale-spinners such as Gene Wolfe, Timothy Zahn, Mickey Zucker Reichert, Anton Strout, Linda P. Baker and others.
Zombiesque, edited by Stephen L. Antczak, James C. Bassett, and Martin H. Greenberg
Zombies have long stalked and staggered through the darkest depths of human imagination, pandering to our fears about death and what lies beyond. But must zombies always be just shambling, brain-obsessed ghouls? If zombies actually maintained some level of personality and intelligence, what would they want more than anything? Could zombies integrate themselves into society? Could society accept zombies? What if a zombie fell in love? These are just some of the questions explored in original stories by Seanan McGuire, Nancy A. Collins, Tim Waggoner, Richard Lee Byers, Jim C. Hines, Jean Rabe, Del Stone Jr., and others. Here’s your chance to take a walk on the undead side in these unforgettable tales told from a zombie’s point of view.
After Hours: Tales from the Ur-Bar, edited by Joshua Palmatier and Patricia Bray
The first bar, created by the Sumerians after they were given the gift of beer by the gods, was known as the Ur-Bar. Although it has since been destroyed, its spirit lives on. In each age there is one bar that captures the essence of the original Ur-Bar, where drinks are mixed with magic and served with a side of destiny and intrigue. Now some of today’s most inventive scriveners, such as Benjamin Tate, Kari Sperring, Anton Strout, and Avery Shade, among others, have decided to belly up to the Ur-Bar and tell their own tall tales—from an alewife’s attempt to transfer the gods’ curse to Gilgamesh, to Odin’s decision to introduce Vikings to the Ur-Bar . . . from the Holy Roman Emperor's barroom bargain, to a demon hunter who may just have met his match in the ultimate magic bar, to a bouncer who discovers you should never let anyone in after hours in a world terrorized by zombies....