Stephen Leigh
Stephen Leigh has published twenty-some novels and several short stories, under both his own name and pseudonymously. His fiction has won several awards within the science fiction and fantasy fields. He also teaches Creative Writing courses at a local university. His other interests and avocations include music (he spent several years playing full-time for various rock and jazz groups, and still plays in a two bands ... and you can sometimes catch him singing and playing on his own at conventions), the Japanese martial art Aikido (in which he holds the rank of Nidan), art (he has a Bachelor's degree in Fine Art), history, language and sociology, prowling the web (he has a web site at www.farrellworlds.com and a Livejournal account) and finding spare bits of free time. He is married to his best friend and favorite first reader, Denise Parsley Leigh; they have two children who are growing impossibly old.
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Bill Fawcett
Bill has been a professor, teacher, corporate executive, and college dean. He is one of the founders of Mayfair Games, a board and role play gaming company. As a book packager, a person who prepares series of books from concept to production for major publishers, his company Bill Fawcett & Associates has packaged over 250 titles for virtually every major publisher.
Bill's articles in the Dragon began in single digit issues and include some of the earliest appearances of classes and monster types. With Mayfair created, wrote, and edited many of the over 50 “Role Aides” RPG modules and supplements released by Mayfair Games in the 1970s and 1980s. During this period he also designed almost a dozen board games, including several Charles Roberts award winners such as Empire Builder and Sanctuary. Fawcett also acted as the rights agent for a number of established agencies, giving him the benefit of seeing our industry from the inside.
Bill began his own novel writing with a juvenile series, Swordquest for Ace SF. Anticipating cats, he wrote and edited the four novels, beginning with the Lord of Cragsclaw featuring the Mrem, which appear in Shattered Light as a hero class (all rights owned by Bill). The Fleet series he created with David Drake has become a classic of military science fiction. He has collaborated on several novels including mysteries such as the Authorized Mycroft Holmes novels, the Madame Vernet Investigates series, and edited Making Contact, a UFO Contact handbook. As an anthologist Bill has edited or co-edited over 50 anthologies. Bill is the editor of Hunters and Shooters and The Teams, two oral histories of the SEALs in Vietnam. His most recently published work is as co-author of It Seemed Like a good Idea, Great Historical Fiascos and You Did What?; both are a fun look at bad decisions in history.
In 1994 Bill joined with a team of programmers to form Catware featuring him as producer and designer. Catware released Swords of Xeen (New World Computing) as part of the Trilogy game set, Star General, a strategic game based upon the six Fleet books (SSI) that was one of the 20 best selling games in the year of its release, Las Vegas Games (New World) and the On-line RPG .
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Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Kristine Kathryn Rusch is an award-winning mystery, romance, science fiction, and fantasy writer. She has written many novels under various names, including Kristine Grayson for romance, and Kris Nelscott for mystery. Her novels have made the bestseller lists—even in London—and have been published in 14 countries and 13 different languages.
Her awards range from the Ellery Queen Readers Choice Award to the John W. Campbell Award. She is the only person in the history of the science fiction field to have won a Hugo award for editing and a Hugo award for fiction. Her short work has been reprinted in six Year's Best collections.
In 2001, her story, “Millennium Babies,” won the coveted Hugo Award. That year, she also received the Herodotus Award for Best Historical Mystery Novel (for her Kris Nelscott Series) and the Romantic Times Reviewers Choice Award for Best Paranormal Romance (for her novel Utterly Charming, written as Kristine Grayson). In 1999, her story, “Echea,” (available at Fictionwise) was nominated for the Locus, Nebula, Hugo, and Sturgeon awards. It won the Homer Award and the Asimov's Reader's Choice Award. In 1999, she also won the Ellery Queen Reader's Choice Award and the Science Fiction Age Reader's Choice Award, making her the first writer to win three different reader's choice awards for three different stories in two different genres in the same year.
Currently, she is writing a series in all four of her genres: the Retrieval Artist series in Science Fiction; the Smokey Dalton series in Mystery (written as Kris Nelscott); the Fates series in Romance (written as Kristine Grayson); and the upcoming Fantasy Life series in fantasy. Readers who want to get a taste of the Fantasy Life series should read the related short stories: “The Light at Whale Cove,” “Strange Creatures,” and “The Women of Whale Rock.”
She is the former editor of prestigious The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. Before that, she and Dean Wesley Smith started and ran Pulphouse Publishing, a science fiction and mystery press in Eugene. She lives and works on the Oregon Coast.
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James Patrick Kelly
After graduating from Notre Dame in 1972, Jim Kelly joined the staff of C.E. Maguire, Inc., Architects, Engineers and Planners of Waltham, Massachusetts, as a proposal writer. He later worked for the company as Coordinator of Public Relations. In the course of his career in business, he wrote more articles for professional, technical, and trade publications than he cares to remember.
Mr. Kelly attended the Clarion Writers’ Workshop in 1974 and again in 1976. Clarion is a summer workshop sponsored by Michigan State University for writers of science fiction and fantasy. He published his first story in 1975. In 1977 he resigned from full-time employment at C. E. Maguire to pursue a writing career, although he continued as a part-time consultant to the firm until 1979.
Mr. Kelly has had an eclectic writing career. He has written novels, short stories, essays, reviews, poetry, audioplays and planetarium shows. His books include Strange but not a Stranger, Think Like A Dinosaur and Other Stories, Wildlife, Heroines, Look Into The Sun, Freedom Beach (in collaboration with John Kessel) and Planet of Whispers. Although primarily known for his science fiction, his work also includes mainstream, fantasy, and horror. He has won the World Science Fiction Society's Hugo award twice and has been a finalist for both the Hugo and Nebula. His short stories have appeared in numerous “Best of the Year” collections over the past twenty-three years. His work has been reprinted in France, Germany, Italy, Holland, Finland, Spain, Poland, Hungary, Japan, Brazil, Thailand, Croatia, Israel, the United Kingdom, and the Czech Republic. He has also written five audioplays that have been produced by Scifi.com's Seeing Ear Theater. In 1998, his regular column on the Internet debuted in Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine. He has been invited to read his fiction at First Night New Hampshire in Concord, New Hampshire, First Night Portsmouth and the Prescott Park Arts Festival in Portsmouth, New Hampshure. In October 1992, his planetarium show, “Destiny or Discovery,” premiered at the Christa McAuliffe Planetarium in Concord, New Hampshire.
Jim Kelly was born in Mineola, New York in 1951. He has been a resident of New Hampshire since 1975. He currently lives in Nottingham, New Hampshire with his wife, Pamela D. Kelly. He has too many hobbies.
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Dean Wesley Smith
“I was the publisher and senior editor of Pulphouse Publishing for seven years. I have edited Star Trek: Strange New Worlds for Pocket Books for ten years now. I also edited two other magazines along the way. I have not worked a regular day job since 1988, freelance writing since early May that year. I sold my first short story in 1975.
“I was born and raised in Boise, Idaho, and graduated from Capital High School. I also have a five year degree in Architecture and attended three years of law school. I was a professional golfer and I taught snow skiing.
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to Kristine Kathryn Rusch, who also writes under the names Kris Nelscott, Kristine Grayson, and others. She has a more standard and very nifty web site at www.kristinekathrynrusch.com.
“My main writing thrust these days is big thrillers, but at the moment I am finishing up two young adult novels that I have under contract.”
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Jody Lynn Nye
Jody began storytelling to her three younger brothers as a child and became an officially published author when in the 1980's the magazine “Video Action” accepted several technical articles on broadcasting. Her first fiction piece was for Mayfair Games's Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine game and their Role-Aids game supplement line. She currently lives with her husband and two cats rescued from animal shelters. She frequently collaborates with other authors and credits both science news articles and her cats as sources of inspiration for her writing.
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Jane Yolen
Jane Yolen is an author of children's books, fantasy, and science fiction, including Owl Moon, Devil's Arithmetic, and How do Dinosaurs Say Goodnight? She is also a poet, a teacher of writing and literature, and a reviewer of children's literature. She has been called the Hans Christian Andersen of America and the Aesop of the twentieth century. Jane Yolen's books and stories have won the Caldecott Medal, two Nebula Awards, two Christopher Medals, the World Fantasy Award, three Mythopoeic Fantasy Awards, the Golden Kite Award, the Jewish Book Award, and the Association of Jewish Libraries Award. This web book presents information about her over two hundred books for children. It also contains essays, poems, answers to frequently asked questions, a brief biography, her travel schedule, and links to resources for teachers and writers. It is intended for children, teachers, writers, storytellers, and lovers of children's literature.
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Pat Cadigan
Pat Cadigan, acclaimed by the London Guardian as “The Queen of Cyberpunk", is the author of four novels, Mindplayers, Synners, Fools and Tea from an Empty Cup; and three short story collections, Patterns, Home by the Sea, and Dirty Work. Some of her short stories also appeared in Letters from Home, alongside work by Karen Joy Fowler and Pat Murphy. Pat continues to publish short fiction. Recent stories are in New Worlds, Dark Terrors 3, Disco 2000 and the Christmas issue of Interzone.
Pat Cadigan was born in Schenectady, New York, and grew up in Fitchburg, Massachusetts. Attending the University of Massachusetts on a scholarship, she eventually transferred to the University of Kansas where she received her degree. Pat was an editor and writer for Hallmark Cards in Kansas City for ten years before embarking on her careers as a fiction writer in 1987.
Since that time her Hugo and Nebula Award-nominated short stories have appeared in such magazines as Omni, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, and Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, as well as numerous anthologies. Her first collection, Patterns, was honoured with the Locus Award in 1990.
Pat Cadigan moved to England in August 1996, and now lives in North London, with her husband Chris Fowler, and their cat, Calgary.
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Michael A. Burstein
“My first published story, ‘TeleAbsence,’ which appeared in the July 1995 issue of Analog, was nominated for the Hugo Award and was chosen by the readers of Analog as the best short story published by the magazine in 1995. Two years later, I won the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer at the 1997 World Science Fiction Convention, LoneStarCon2. I've also received Hugo nominations for ‘Broken Symmetry,’ ‘Cosmic Corkscrew,’ ‘Kaddish for the Last Survivor,’ ‘Spaceships,’ ‘Paying It Forward', ‘Decisions,’ ‘Time Ablaze,’ ‘Seventy-Five Years,’ and ‘TelePresence'; a Nebula and Sturgeon nomination for my novella ‘Reality Check;’ and a Nebula nomination for ‘Kaddish for the Last Survivor.’ (So for those keeping track at home, that's ten Hugo nominations, two Nebula nominations, one Sturgeon nomination—and no wins.) From 1998 to 2000, I somehow found the time to serve as Secretary of Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America.
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Tobias A. Buckell
Tobias was born in Grenada in 1979, just as a semi-Marxist government took over the country. By 1983 the government began executing members of its own party, and thus his earliest memories are of nervous adults, not being allowed near windows, and of the American Intervention/Invasion.
His parents weren't in the military, or missionaries. His grandfather started the odd little story by selling a successful electronics business to buy and move his family aboard a boat to sail the world. Since then most of the Buckell family has had some strong connection to, or lived on, yachts. Tobias grew up on a boat in Grenada, and also lived aboard boats in the British Virgin Islands and US Virgin Islands when his family moved away from Grenada after the war.
In 1995, Hurricane Marilyn destroyed the boat he lived on in St. Thomas. His family moved to Ohio where his stepdad grew up. From beaches and seas to highways and cities.
Tobias began reading at a young age, starting off with Clive Cussler novels, moving to Isaac Asimov's Foundation series, and then onto Arthur C. Clarke's Childhood's End well before he was nine years old. Throughout school he read novels in class to stave off boredom, and when those were confiscated, wrote stories. While studying to be an English major at college he started submitting and writing multiple short stories and attended the Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy workshop. He sold his first story in 1999, shortly afterwards, and has since gone on to sell over 20 more.
He recently sold his first novel and is working on a second, and has more short stories scheduled to come out. He works at his alma mater, Bluftton University, and lives in Bluffton, Ohio with his wife, Emily.
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