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Danielle Ackley-McPhail has worked both sides of the publishing industry for over a decade. She has used her talent and her passion for writing to expand her knowledge of the rich mythology of her Celtic heritage and to make her mark in the world of fantasy. Danielle lives in New Jersey with husband and fellow writer, Mike McPhail, mother-in-law Teresa, and three extremely spoiled cats.
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Robert Adams (1932-1990) is best known as the creator of one series, The Horseclans. Heavy on the action, these tales are set in the 26th Century of immortal mutant warriors in a balkanized North America The history of the brave horse-riders grew from the first tale of Milo Morai (written by Adams while in hospital) into a vast saga. Some novels feature big cats instead of horses. Adams also edited several anthologies of note, Magic in Ithkar with Andre Norton and Barbarians with his wife, Pamela Crippen Adams, and Martin Greenberg.
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Steve Alcorn is the founder and president of Alcorn McBride Inc., a company that designs attractions for theme parks all over the world. Mr. Alcorn's non-fiction work is widely read throughout the themed entertainment industry, and he is a frequent speaker at conferences in both the US and Europe.
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Jake Allen is a high school teacher and lives in Eureka Springs, Arkansas. Jim Henson told the Jack My Hedgehog story way better and look where it got him.
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Pete S. Allen is the creative evil genius behind the Amityville House of Pancakes anthologies of humorous speculative fiction, and the secondary evil genius behind Grimm and Grimmer.
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Piers Anthony is one of the world's most prolific and popular authors. His fantasy Xanth novels have been read and loved by millions of readers around the world, and have been on the New York Times Best Seller list twenty-one times. Although Piers is mostly known for fantasy and science fiction, he has written several novels in other genres as well, including historical fiction, martial arts, and horror. Piers lives with his wife in a secluded woods hidden deep in Central Florida.
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Elisabeth and Ian Arbuckle live in Washington State with their two cats, the Bonnie Prince Charlie and Mary, Queen of Scots.
They both work at a rural hospital. They eat as much Indian food as possible. "Marisol Bean, Dragon Queen" is their first book together, and it was concocted during their honeymoon. The title came first.
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Beverley Bateman admits to being an avid reader of mystery and romantic suspense, which began early in life with Nancy Drew. She also confesses to spending a lot of time dreaming up locked room plots and conversations between fictional characters. After years of writing down scraps of plots and promising to write the whole story one day, Beverley finally decided it was time she succumbed to her long time desire to write. Purchasing her very first computer and struggling with computer illiteracy, she finally put her fingers to the keyboard and wrote her first novel, creating the characters she had been talking to for years.
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John Beachem lives in Denver, Colorado, with his wife, Michelle. A graduate of Regis University, he got his start in writing as a movie critic for various Internet publications and local newspapers. While he enjoyed critiquing film, his real passion was for writing fantasy fiction. After being poked and prodded by friends and family, he decided to buckle down and write the novel that had been fermenting in his brain for years.
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Words are Jeanine Berry's passion. She began her career as a journalist but that deadline-driven world left her little time for her own writing. Haunted by a desire to put her imagined worlds down on paper in novel form, she pursued her creative writing dreams. Her first fantasy novel was published in 2000, and several more have followed. She is also the co-author of an SF series. Dayspring Destiny, the final book of her Dayspring series, took the 2004 Eppie for best fantasy novel.
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Joel Best's fiction has appeared in such publications as Strange Horizons, Eclectica, Quick Fiction and Pindeldyboz. He lives in upstate New York with his wife and son.
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Chris Besse has a diploma in geology and a degree in theology and is currently working in engineering at a large petrochemical facility. An avid shooter since age fourteen and a passionate motorcyclist, Chris also practices traditional Shotokan Japanese karate. He contributes to Wing World magazine and continues to develop his Element trilogy.
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Linda Bleser began her writing career publishing short fiction for women's magazines. Since then, she's completed several award-winning novels in a variety of genres, from rib-tickling comedy to bone-chilling suspense. Reviewers have hailed her work as unique, original, and impossible to put down.
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Loretta Jackson and Vickie Britton are a sister co-authoring team who has published over thirty novels. The sisters have traveled to Russia, Egypt, China, and other exotic places in search of authentic settings for their tales of mystery and suspense. Among their titles are Path of the Jaguar and Nightmare in Morocco, and Arctic Legacy.
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Eric S. Brown is a 30-year-old author living in NC with his wife Shanna. He has had his short stories published over 300 times in print and on the web in the last four years. Many of these tales have been collected into books including his highly praised collection Dying Days and his newest collection Madmen's Dreams.
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Susanne Brydenbaugh is a Southern gal of Scottish and Cherokee heritage, and a third generation artist. She is the author of over 80 short stories and poems published in magazines, literary journals, and on the web. Two of her short stories have recently been anthologized and translated in both Italian and German. She has co-authored two novels (COBBLE with Eric Brown, and BONOBOS with T.M. Gray) and is currently at work on her first solo novel, THE FIREFLY TREE—a Southern Gothic set in an actual Alabama ghost town that refuses to be inhabited.
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Don Callander is the best-selling author of the 'Mancer series and the Dragon's Companion series. Don originally worked as a travel writer/photographer and graphic designer before retiring to start his writing. He currently lives in Florida.
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Award-winning author Skyla Dawn Cameron has been writing approximately forever. Her early storytelling days were spent acting out strange horror/fairy tales with the help of her many dolls, and little has changed except that she now keeps those stories on paper. She signed her first book contract at age twenty-one for River, a unique werewolf tale, which was released to critical and reader praise alike and won her the 2006 EPPIE Award for Best Fantasy. Skyla lives in Southern Ontario with her fiancé, where she dabbles in art, is an avid gamer, and watches Buffy reruns. If she ever becomes a grown-up, she wants to run her own pub, as well as become world dictator. You can visit her on the web at www.skyladawncameron.com for free fiction, book news, a community forum, and tons of other totally awesome stuff.
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Cynthia Cantrell lives in the Smoky Mountains of Tennessee. She has a special affinity for animals and includes them in all of her novels. Cynthia has lived in many places, growing up in a military family. She graduated high school on Guam, USA in the late 70's, spent many years near the beaches of South Carolina, and will be visiting many of these childhood stomping grounds in future books.
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Marked for life by reading DRACULA at the age of twelve, Margaret L. Carter has devoted most of her reading and writing life to vampires and other creatures of the supernatural. Her recent books include HEART'S DESIRES AND DARK EMBRACES (a story collection), CHILD OF TWILIGHT (vampire), FROM THE DARK PLACES (horror), DIFFERENT BLOOD: THE VAMPIRE AS ALIEN (nonfiction), and WILD SORCERESS (a fantasy novel in collaboration with her husband).
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Louise Cooper began writing stories when she was at school to entertain her friends. She continued to write and her first full-length novel was published when she was only twenty years old. Since then she has become a prolific writer of fantasy, renowned for her bestselling Time Master trilogy. Her other interests include music, folklore, mythology and comparative religion.
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Chris Cox is a deranged, one-eyed hunchback wandering by night through the wastelands of Pawtucket. His age isn’t known, but sightings go back three hundred years and he’s generally believed to be a cannibal. Author of one and a half phenomalous black comedy novels, he’s represented by ParkEast Literary Agency, with whom he only communicates via cryptic notes written on apples injected with larvae. Needless to say, he’s a tricky one.
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Elaine Corvidae has worked as an office assistant, archaeologist, and raptor rehabilitator. She is currently earning her Masters degree in Biology at the University of North Carolina-Charlotte. She lives near Charlotte, NC, with her husband and three cats. Her first published novel, Winter's Orphans, was the recipient of the 2001 Dream Realm Award and the 2002 Eppie Award.
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Larry Deibert is a letter carrier for the United States Postal Service. He hopes to retire in December of 2007. He is a Vietnam veteran, having served with the 557th MP Company in 1970. Larry continues to write in his spare time. He is presently working on two new novels.
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While Cyndia Depre's degree is in accounting, the joy of numbers eventually faded. After years of postponing, she decided to do what she's always wanted, write a mystery, and she's now hard at work on a second novel. Cyndia lives with her husband, and miniature schnauzer named "Helpless," in Minnesota. They’ve both gotten used to seeing notebooks and pencils in every room of the house.
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Susan DiPlacido lives in Pennsylvania, plays in Nevada, and loves to write. Trattoria is her first novel. Her second novel, 24/7, will be available in 2005. You can find her online at www.susandiplacido.com.
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Joel lives with his wife and family in New Plymouth, New Zealand. After completing two science degrees in the eighties, Joel worked (variously) as an analytical chemist, bartender, journalist, violin teacher, and as a chemical plant supervisor before training as a high school teacher, his current profession. When he is not teaching or writing, Joel spends his time with his family on the local surf beaches and walking on the neighbourhood volcano. "Jigsaw" is his first novel with Mundania Press.
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While her family always said that Cherry Dumas lived in a different world, they never knew how right they really were. She has always seen far off places and strange beings. As she began to write stories about these places and beings, she drew those who read her tales into these worlds. Reading and writing have always played a big part in her life, and with the support of her family and friends, she has been able bring others into these many worlds.
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Mark Edwards practices law, coaches soccer and basketball, sings in his church’s choir, and lives with his wife and five children, in his hometown somewhere near Grand Pointe, Michigan. But that is not what he planned. Twenty-five years ago, he wanted to become a writer. Finally, Mark hatched an idea. Tired of seeing video games and electronic toys under the Christmas tree, he decided to give his children something special—a book—that he would write. What’s more, he planned for it to become a whole series for them.
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Frances Evlin, a life-long resident of the Pacific Northwest, became acquainted with English authors at an early age. From them, she developed an interest in English history and society. Her favorite author of classic English fiction is Daphne du Maurier. Ms. Evlin also owns a small collection of books--fiction and non-fiction--about King Arthur. She has visited England several times, and was enchanted by the mystical aura of Tintagel, and the outstanding natural beauty of the Isles of Scilly.
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Carol Guy is a former newspaper reporter who traces her love of a good mystery back to the first time she picked up an Agatha Christie novel. Born in the small town of West Carrollton, Ohio, Carol credits her mother, who used to take her to the library once a week as a child, with instilling in her a love of reading. Carol is the author of the true crime book, A Picture Perfect Kid, which was a 2004 EPPIE finalist.
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Robert L. Hecker was born in Provo, Utah but grew up in Long Beach, CA., graduating from high school just as the U.S. entered WWII. Joining the Air Force, he flew thirty missions over Europe where he was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross and six Air Medals. After the war, he began writing radio and TV dramas, then moved on to writing and producing more than 500 documentary, educational and marketing films on subjects ranging from military and astronaut training, nuclear physics, aeronautics, education, psychology, lasers, radars, satellites and submarines. He has had five novels published, with another due out this summer. Currently he is writing several movie screenplays as well as other novels.
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Carlos Hernandez is a writer and English professor living in New York City. Look for his upcoming co-written novel, Abecedarium, to be published by Chiasmus Press in 2007.
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Murdoch Hughes has lived his adult life along the West Coast of North America, from Mexico to Alaska's Aleutian Islands. However if he were to call a place home it would be Seattle, walking her misty streets at night with the ghosts of her past, while sipping the dark espresso of her present, and scenting the seaweed and cedar dreams of the area's long Native American history.
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J. Stefan Jackson began writing stories in the summer of 1997, after spending fifteen years pursuing a career as a songwriter. Many of his songs dealt with the mysteries of the supernatural, where he explored the angst and personal struggles that often result from broken human relationships. It was a natural progression for him to leave this mode of expression and venture into the world of a different type of wordsmith: the novelist. Residing just south of Nashville, Tennessee with his lovely wife and two teenage sons.
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Loretta Jackson and Vickie Britton are a sister co-authoring team who has published over thirty novels. The sisters have traveled to Russia, Egypt, China, and other exotic places in search of authentic settings for their tales of mystery and suspense. Among their titles are Path of the Jaguar and Nightmare in Morocco, and Arctic Legacy.
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Being followed by a black bear in Wisconsin's Northwoods was the inspiration behind Lori Johnson's fascination with the lore and natural history of these beautiful creatures, and the impetus behind her first book, People of the Bear. After earning a Biology degree from Valparaiso University, she combined her love of nature and writing to publish numerous nonfiction articles in local and national magazines. She lives in Illinois with her husband, daughter and a menagerie of pets.
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Adrienne Jones is a speculative fiction and humor writer, best known for the novellas 'Gypsies Stole my Tequila' and 'Temple of Cod'. The Hoax is her first full length novel.
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Darwyn Jones lives in Chicago, Illinois and recently finished his first novel, First Murders. His work has appeared in the Windy City Times, Hairtrigger, Chicago Life, Story Week Reader and Fictionary. He currently freelances for the Not For Tourists website and the Chicago Tribune's metromix website.
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Steven Jones, a die-hard Chicago Cubs fan, lives with his family in eastern Iowa. He is the author of the novel, The Bushwhackers, the novella The Sceptre, and several graphic stories and adaptations, including Nightlinger, Tatters, Dracula, and The Adventure of the Opera Ghost. His editing credits include the paperback anthology Herbert West: Tales of the Re-Animator. Jones has a B.A. in religion and journalism from the University of Iowa, and was accepted into Iowa's prestigious Writers' Workshop MFA program. He is also the author of a King of Harlem prequel novella, "The Curse of Wrigley Field."
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Stephen LaFevers was born in Oakland, CA, moved to Arkansas when he was 16, and has spent much of his adult life in Alaska. He has been a schoolteacher, newspaper editor, EMT, Registered Nurse, Family Nurse Practitioner, and is a Registered Hypnotherapy Instructor. He has written for numerous medical and computer magazines, and produced the Alaska EMS Provider News for 8 years and the Alaska EMS Instructor News for 7 years. He currently lives in rural Arkansas with his wife of 40 years.
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Jeff and Anne Lambert traveled the world for years, courtesy of the US Navy. Voracious readers, they shared active imaginations and a passion for science fiction/fantasy. During an unaccompanied tour, with little to do in his off duty moments, Jeff wrote a solitary scene. Life and reality crashed in and the passage lay dormant and forgotten on a disk. When he returned home, Anne discovered the disk. Being the curious creature she is, Anne opened the untitled work and read it. When Jeff returned that afternoon, unsuspecting, Anne pounced. "Your characters would never really do things like that!"
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A story addict since an early exposure to Dr. Seuss, Michelle Levigne has been creating her own stories, heroes and adventures since junior high. She ventures into many sub-genres of science fiction and fantasy, including Greek mythology, Narnia spin-offs and the futuristic universe of the Commonwealth. After majoring in theater/English in college and film in graduate school, she has settled down to a day job in advertising to support her journeys into imaginary worlds like the one that appears in Bitter Sweet.
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A woman of many responsibilities and very little time, Kathryn is an author, freelance book editor, book reviewer, webmistress, newsletter editor, Catholic, avid Beatles and Rush fan, and a voracious reader. In her spare time (if any) she sleeps, and even then her dreams are so vivid that she often wakes in the middle of the night. Perhaps one day she will add 'dream interpreter' to the list, but her plate is full as it is.
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Devotees of the Horror/Dark Fantasy genre will have no trouble recognizing the name of Phil Locascio. An active member of the Horror Writer’s Association, Phil has been writing since 1996. Dozens of his short stories have been published in small press publications, magazines and anthologies both in America and overseas. Several of his tales have received Honorable Mention in THE YEAR'S BEST FANTASY AND HORROR and recommendations for the Bram Stoker Award for short fiction. A collection of his short stories titled HOWLING HOUNDS was published in Fall 2004 by Sarob Press.
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Anne Logston: An Icon of the Creative Universe—A Master of Science Fiction and Fantasy Quill—Paver of Past, Present, and Future. Each of best-selling author Anne Logston's books have their own story, but can all be described as all highly character-driven with a lot of action. Her characters, especially Shadow, often have a touch of whimsy and sly humor. While still maintaining a light touch, she talks about the consequences of racism, defining your own identity, and what happens when magic becomes mixed up in everyday lives.
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Ed Lynskey's fiction has appeared in Mississippi Review, HandHeldCrime, and Plots With Guns. A short collection, Out of Town a Few Days, appeared in 2004 and a novel titled The Blue Cheer is scheduled for 2006.
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Brenna Lyons lives in Massachusetts with her husband, three children, and a zoo of pets. She was born and raised in the Hazelwood/Glenwood area of Pittsburgh, PA and toured the east coast as a Navy wife for thirteen years, nine of them in VA Beach/Norfolk, where she wrote her first book.
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Carrie Lynn Lyons grew up just outside the gates of Zion National Park as Charlene and now resides in Nevada. She caught the writing bug when she picked up her first pencil and has never found the cure. Carrie is busy with her grandchildren, several writing groups and projects, including another novel, and developing the growing Writers and Readers Network, and Writing Road groups.
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Ted Magnuson lives in the Pacific Northwest and when not writing, he keeps busy photographing ballroom dancers, working in hospice and enjoying the outdoors. To earn his keep, Ted has sold bicycles, fire insurance and worker's compensation policies- but not all necessarily all to the same people at the same time. His lifetime achievements include climbing one (1) mountain, sleeping in a snow cave, bicycling over the Cascade Mountains of Washington State, dancing the tango, and being a dad.
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Robert E. Margroff has collaborated with Piers Anthony for more than 15 years—the five novels of the Kelvin of Rud sada being their most recent joint venture. Mr. Margroff lives in Iowa.
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Paul E. Martens is widely credited with teaching Mohandas Gandhi to cha-cha. He enjoys tying his shoes, wrestling with his conscience and upholstery.
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Carrie S. Masek has been telling stories since she was three and discovered she got into less trouble when she provided creative explanations for the chaos that swirled around her. It took her almost forty years to start writing her stories down. Carrie now lives in a comfortably messy house on Chicago's North Shore. Contributing to the chaos are her husband, four children, a ditzy dog and an opinionated house rabbit.
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Marilyn Meredith is the author of over sixteen books in several genres, but mainly mystery. She is an instructor for Writers Digest School, serves on the board of directors of Public Safety Writers Association, and is a member of EPIC, Sisters in Crime, and Mystery Writers of America. She lives in the foothills of the Southern Sierra in California with her husband.
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Jonathan Moeller was born in 1982, and has since worked at various times as a cashier, truck unloader, sales clerk, and help desk agent. He is the author of "Demonsouled" from Tekno Books and "Worlds to Conquer" from Mundania Press. He lives in southeastern Wisconsin.
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Jessica Murray lives and writes in Missoula, Montana, where she is raising two fine strapping lads. She got her start as an opinion columnist in her husband's award-winning weekly newspaper; she then decided that writing might be a real job after all and is currently finishing up a creative writing degree at the University of Montana. When she is not writing, Jessica obsessively reads about histories and mythologies of religions, and dreams of the day that she will quit her day job.
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Sheryl Nantus lives in Brownsville, Pennsylvania with her husband Martin. A Canadian who met her husband online, she enjoys cross-stitch, online gaming and lacrosse while extolling the benefits of a good cuppa tea to anyone who will listen.
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Resa Nelson is a freelance journalist and technical writer in Massachusetts. She is a graduate of the Clarion Science Fiction Writers Workshop and has been selling short fiction professionally since 1988. The Dragonslayer's Sword is based on a short story by the same name that was originally published in Science Fiction Age magazine and ranked 2nd in its first Readers Top Ten Poll. Nelson is a member of the Higgins Armory Sword Guild, where she studies the historical use of medieval and Renaissance weapons and gives sword demonstrations on a regular basis.
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Melanie Nilles grew up on a western North Dakota cattle ranch and farm. Along with her interest in horses, she always had a fascination with science fiction and fantasy. After high school, she continued her education and graduated from college with a bachelor's degree in Business Administration. She currently resides in central North Dakota with her family, which includes her husband and kids, a cat, and her horses.
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Sally Odgers was born in Latrobe, Tasmania, in the 1950s. She went to school there in the 1960s, married Darrel Odgers in the 1970s and produced a son and a daughter in the 1980s. Her first book was published in 1977, and over two hundred have followed. Apart from writing, Sally provides tutoring and assessment services from her website at www.sallyodgers.com.
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Aurelio O'Brien led a long and successful film career as an illustrator, animator, story artist, and graphic designer before becoming a full-time writer, and is the author the light-hearted and unique scifi novel, EVE.
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In a career spanning four decades, Frank O'Rourke published more than sixty works of fiction. The versatility which became a hallmark of O'Rourke's writing was demonstrated in more than one hundred short stories which appeared during the 1940s and '50s in The Saturday Evening Post, Collier's, Ladies Home Journal, and Esquire.
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Always versatile, Ariana Overton has led a life that spans continents and countries. Traveling around the U.S., Australia and New Guinea, meeting exciting people, experiencing exotic lands and cultures, gave Ari, a diverse catalog of characters, settings and storylines her writing can't help but reflect. After traveling to Australia to research her trilogy on the Australian mysteries, she met Max Overton, her soulmate, husband, best friend, and writing partner. Ariana passed away in November 2003.
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Born in Malaysia to English parents, Max has traveled extensively, living in England, Germany and Jamaica before settling down in New Zealand. Moving to Australia in 1990, Max took up a position teaching at James Cook University. Meeting Ariana, an American author, in 1998, he married and they explored Australia before heading for Illinois, where he took a job unloading trucks for Wal-Mart. Within a year he was an Assistant Manager and finishing his Lion of Scythia trilogy. Following the death of his wife Ariana in 2003, he experienced a Michigan winter before heading back to tropical Australia, where he continues to write.
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Jessica Palmer has had 25 books, both fiction and nonfiction, published globally. She's written for several US newspapers and press services including UPI and AP. Having recently returned after 15 years in England, Palmer resides in Kansas where she is working on her next book, a Comprehensive History of the Dakota Peoples. In her spare time, she takes care of sick and injured wildlife, everything from deer and squirrels to hawks and owls, inside her home.
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D. Richard Pearce is a writer from the west coast of Canada. he is currently in exile, because of crimes committed by his weasels. Pearce writes in many perspectives, not least of which is third person, the style chosen for this biography. while this can be awkward and confusing to write about oneself, it means that the label can be "BIO" and not "AUTOBIO." he likes writing sentences without Proper Casing, but only on personal websites or blogs—never in stories—as he believes in saving avant garde for the funny papers.
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KT Pinto has been writing for over 20 years (can we say glutton for punishment?). This NYC girl has been published in numerous magazines, including Nth Degree, Proteus, the LARPer, and Pyramid. Her short story "Game Over" can be found in the anthology Hear Them Roar. She has a weekly superhero serial on her website (http://www.ktpinto.com) called Sto's House.
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Mike E. Purfield is the author of Stereo Sanctity. He has fiction in print
and on the web. You can always find him at MikeEPurfield.com.
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John B. Rosenman is an English professor at Norfolk State University in Virginia. His first novel, The Best Laugh Last, won Treacle Press’s First Novel Award and was published in 1980 and 1981. He has published 300 stories in places such as Weird Tales, Starshore, Cemetery Dance, The Age of Wonders, Hot Blood, Whitley Strieber’s Aliens, and Treachery and Treason.
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James Daniel Ross is a native of Cincinnati, Ohio who first discovered a love of writing during his education at The School for the Creative and Performing Arts. While he began in simple, web based vanity press projects, his affinity for the written word soon landed him a job writing for Misguided Games. After taking a large part in writing and designing Children of the Sun, he continued as a freelancer on various contracts with BBRACK productions. After a slow-down in the gaming industry made jobs scarce, he began work on The Radiation Angels. This is his first novel.
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Jefre's been writing on and off for the past several years. Fair 'n Square represents, by far, his most irrelevant ... er, irreverent effort. Judge not his character by it, but rather, chalk it up to his inexplicable affinity for rednecks and fast women (hmm ... this pretty much does speak to his character, doesn't it?). He credits Flannery O'Connor and Cormac McCarthy as his primary influences, but you wouldn't know it after reading Fair 'n Square.
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Before he was able to begin fulfilling his lifetime ambition of writing on a full time basis, Terry Sheils devoted himself to thirty-five years of teaching drama and English at the high school level. He also found himself coordinating the Dramatic Arts and Theater Arts programs across the city of North York for 6 years, running workshops in drama and education for the Canadian Daily Newspaper Publishers' Association across Canada, writing and performing in early educational television, writing plays for student production and becoming virtually the curriculum writer-in-residence for the North York Board of Education.
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Reviewers compare Rie Sheridan to J.R.R. Tolkien and Terry Brooks. Works include fantasy, sci fi, and horror, ranging from children's stories to adult novels. An award-winning poet and short story author, Rie is sure to give you a smile or a shiver, depending on your mood
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Andrew Smith enjoys music, writing, traveling, martial arts, and switching colleges and majors, just to keep things interesting. He owes the completion of his novel to the fabulous coffee chicks, who fueled his addiction with coffee in all its myriad forms. Except decaf.
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Kelly L. Stone's nonfiction essays have appeared in Chicken Soup for the Sister's Soul, Chicken Soup to Inspire Body & Soul, Cup of Comfort for Inspiration, and other anthologies. She has written for national magazines including Family Circle, Cat Fancy, Writer's Digest, and Inspire Your World. She is a member of The American Society of Journalists and Authors and the Georgia Writers Association. She lives in the Atlanta area but grew up near Pensacola, Florida. Grave Secret is her first novel.
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Jeff Strand lives in Florida with his wife, his mentally questionable cat, and his hideous wardrobe. He's been writing ever since he was old enough to throw screaming fits in crowded supermarkets and is glad to have finally gotten some use out of that creative writing degree his dad paid for. He has several other wacky comedy novels in store; unfortunately, ignoring him won't make him go away.
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Award winning author, Vicki M. Taylor writes dramatic stories with strong women as her main characters. A prolific writer of both novel length and short stories, she brings her characters to life in the real world. When she's not writing, you can find her lurking about the many writing boards dispensing and receiving little pearls of wisdom from her computer in Tampa, Florida where she lives with her husband their dog, Jack and their parrot, Bailey.
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Jane Toombs, author of 70 plus published books, enjoys reading and writing--especially paranormal fantasy. In the winter she admires the beautiful swans on mid-Florida lakes. In the summer, she lives where she grew up, in Michigan's Upper Peninsula wilderness where the wolves prowl. Jane has always been fascinated by wolves and she's thrilled by the occasional sight of one crossing the road near her house.
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Joe Vadalma, a former technical writer, at a major computer company is a voracious reader of all kinds of books, especially science fiction and fantasy. He has been a fan since he learned to read. He's had several short stories published in internet E-zines. Joe has also written a series of gothic fantasy novels called "The Morgaine Chronicles"
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William A. Veselik is a life-long fan of horror novels and films, especially those featuring a vampire theme. Vampires, says Veselik, are fascinating characters because they are often enviable for their considerable supernatural powers and yet infinitely pitiable because of the terrible curse they must endure. Veselik is the public relations coordinator for a Virginia community college. During his college years Veselik worked as a part-time gravedigger before embarking on a five-year career as an award-winning newspaper reporter and managing editor. He and his wife, Cheryl, live in Southwest Virginia.
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Martin von Harter is a Susquehannock Native American of the infamous Longhouse Gili Yu. A former cowboy, the author worked several ranches in his time. Martin spent time as a trucker, truck gardener, cow horse trainer, general laborer, stonemason, moonshiner (but non-drinker!), dishwasher, security guard, and is now a sacred-person. Inspiration for his stories come from listening around campfires to older people from Mexico. His home-away-from-home is Hotel Margarita, Creel, Chihuahua, Mexico.
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Almost from birth, Mark has had a life long fascination with all things science. In high school, he started a science club that earned him the Baush & Lomb Science Award in his senior year, which he followed up by acing the science section of the ACT college entrance exam. Fortunately, Mark managed to avoid the dreaded “nerd” designation, and swears he never even owned a pocket protector. By the middle of his freshman year in college, however, he felt something in his life was lacking, that something being artistic expression. It was probably inevitable that Mark found himself drawn to writing science fiction, and cut his literary teeth by writing poetry and several SF stories.
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Janet Lane Walters lives in the scenic Hudson River valley with her husband of many years. She's the mother of four and grandmother of five. Her first venture into fiction came in third grade when she re-wrote the ending of Anna Karenina. She's gone on to publish short stories, poetry and novels including young adult, mysteries, romance and fantasy. Among her writing awards is an EPPIE for non-fiction. The Henge Betrayed—Flight was written for her grandchildren.
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Sarah Winn was born in Kansas. She resided for a time in both Hawaii and California but is now firmly settled in her adopted native state of North Carolina. After a thirty-year career in scientific research, she became a full-time writer, leaving facts behind in the pursuit of fiction. Her first few books were historical romances. Then it occurred to her to use her scientific background in the creation of fiction, and Passionate Warriors was born.
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Gary K. Wolf has published five science fiction novels and scores of short stories. He is best known as the celebrated author of Who Censored Roger Rabbit? Walt Disney Pictures and Steven Spielberg turned Wolf’s literary vision of humans cohabitating with animated characters into the blockbuster film Who Framed Roger Rabbit. The film got four Academy Awards and won Wolf the Hugo Award.
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Curt Yengst is a professional broadcast engineer who currently resides in Eastern Pennsylvania with his wife and two small children. A Jersey boy by birth, Curt has lived in as varied places as Minnesota and North Carolina; so he is clearly no stranger to culture shock. Curt is also a born-again Christian and has spent the last decade working in the Christian broadcast industry. He likes to describe himself as one of those rare people who get to make a living engaging in their hobbies.
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Linda Zimmer, a native of West Carrollton, Ohio, was the youngest person in Montgomery County to possess a library card for the traveling bookmobile. She had an early love for the works of Agatha Christie and has read all of that author’s books. She prides herself on being able to determine who the killer is before the end of the novel. She was the research consultant for a local history book and has ghost-written an autobiography for a local woman.
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