S.C. Butler is a former Wall Street bond trader who has never met any leprechauns, urban or otherwise, and, as far as he knows, never caused a stock market crash. He is the author of the Stoneways trilogy: Reiffen’s Choice, Queen Ferris, and The Magicians’ Daughter; and lives in New Hampshire with his wife and son.
Jim C. Hines’ latest book is The Snow Queen’s Shadow, the final book in his series about butt-kicking fairy tale heroines (because Sleeping Beauty was always meant to be a ninja, and Snow White makes a bad-ass witch). He’s also the author of the humorous Goblin Quest trilogy, as well as more than forty published short stories in markets such as Realms of Fantasy, Sword & Sorceress, and a number of DAW anthologies. He lives in Michigan with his wife, two children, and half an ark’s worth of pets. You can find his web site and blog at www.jimchines.com.
Susan Jett is a graduate of Clarion West and has been writing stories since she could hold a pencil. She’s lived and worked all over the world, but most recently, she worked as a teen librarian while living in Brooklyn. She currently lives in an old farmhouse in New Hampshire with her husband Sam, her son Henry, and Nellie-the-wonder-whippet. She is hard at work on her first novel and hopes to publish it before her son learns to read.
Jay Lake lives in Portland, Oregon, where he works on numerous writing and editing projects. His 2011 books are Endurance and Love in the Time of Metal and Flesh, along with paperback releases of two of his other titles. His short fiction appears regularly in literary and genre markets worldwide. Jay is a past winner of the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer and is a multiple nominee for the Hugo and World Fantasy Awards.
Seanan McGuire is a native Californian, and grew up in a town where the annual tarantula migration is a fact of life. This explains a lot. She is the author of two urban fantasy series—the October Daye adventures and InCryptid—as well as writing science fiction under the name Mira Grant. She was the winner of the 2010 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. It came with a tiara. Seanan lives with three enormous blue cats, a lot of books and horror movies, and the tarantula migration. She doesn’t sleep very much.
Juliet E McKenna’s love of fantasy, myth, and history led naturally to studying classics at St Hilda’s College, Oxford. After a career change from personnel management to combine motherhood with book-selling, her debut novel, The Thief’s Gamble, was published in 1999. She has written a dozen epic fantasy novels, most recently The Chronicles of the Lescari Revolution, plus assorted shorter fiction including stories for Doctor Who and Torchwood. She reviews for web and print magazines and fits all this around her husband and teenage sons. Living in West Oxfordshire, she’s currently working on a new fantasy trilogy called The Hadrumal Crisis.
Shannon Page was born on Halloween night and spent her early years on a commune in northern California’s backwoods. A childhood without television gave her a great love of books and the worlds she found in them. She wrote her first book, an adventure story starring her cat, at the age of seven. Sadly, that tale is currently out of print, but her work has appeared in Clarkesworld, Interzone, and Fantasy (with Jay Lake), Black Static, Tor.com, and a number of anthologies, including Love and Rockets from DAW and the Australian Shadows Award-winning Grants Pass. Shannon is a longtime practitioner of Ashtanga yoga, has no tattoos, and lives in Portland, Oregon, with seventeen orchids and an awful lot of books. Visit her at www.shannonpage.net.
Avery Shade is an author of paranormal and urban fantasy of both the adult and young adult variety. Like Autumn, she has a true love of all things green … too bad she has a black thumb. She’d like to blame it on the cold, bleak upstate NY winters she endured during both her childhood and young adult life, but even since moving to sunny North Carolina her plants haven’t fared much better. Nowadays she is contentedly living her life vicariously through her stories where anything and everything is possible … even live plants.
Kristine Smith has spent almost her entire working career in manufacturing/R&D of one kind or another, and has worked for the same northern Illinois pharmaceutical company for almost 25 years. She is the winner of the 2001 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, and is the author of the Jani Kilian SF series as well as a number of short stories. She is currently working on several projects, and wishes she possessed a time-turner.
Kari Sperring has never had a close encounter with any of the fae, although she’s been accused of being away with them many times. Rumors that her writing is obsessed with water refuse to go away: her only excuse is that she comes from a family of dowsers. Her first novel, the mildly water-laden Living With Ghosts, came out in 2009 from DAW; the second, The Grass King’s Concubine, contains ferrets, elemental warriors, and a water-stealing clock and is due in 2012. She’s British and lives in Cambridge, but hasn’t seen the local fae drown any academics to date.
April Steenburgh is a bookstore manager turned librarian who enjoys fire spinning and hunting for dilapidated, forgotten buildings and exploring them with a camera. When not traipsing about the countryside, she can be found around town hunting sweet potato fries or coffee with her partner in writing crimes most creative. She lives with two cats (Phaedrus and Mildmay), three ferrets (Molly, Oliver, and Alexander) and one primordial turtle named Eris. And her partner, who is wonderfully tolerant of the whole operation.
Anton Strout is the author of the Simon Canderous urban fantasy series and Alchemystic, book one of the Spellmason Chronicles. He is also the author of over half a dozen tales for DAW Books. Anton was born in the Berkshire Hills mere miles from writing heavyweights Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville and currently lives in the haunted corn maze that is New Jersey (where nothing paranormal ever really happens, he assures you). In his scant spare time, he is a writer, a sometimes actor, sometimes musician, occasional RPGer, and the world’s most casual and controller smashing video gamer. He can often be found lurking the darkened halls of www.antonstrout.com.
Jean Marie Ward writes fiction, nonfiction, and everything in between. Her first novel, With Nine You Get Vanyr (written with the late Teri Smith), finaled in two categories of the 2008 Indie Book Awards. Her short stories appear in numerous anthologies. She is also known for her art books, such as the popular Fantasy Art Templates. She edited the web magazine Crescent Blues for eight years and now writes for other online venues, including Buzzy Multimedia. Her web site is www.JeanMarieWard.com.
ABOUT THE EDITORS
Patricia Bray is the author of a dozen novels, including Devlin’s Luck, which won the 2003 Compton Crook award for the best first novel in the field of science fiction or fantasy. This is her second editorial tour of duty, having previously co-edited After Hours: Tales From The Ur-bar (DAW, March 2011) with her partner-in-crime Joshua Palmatier. She currently lives in upstate New York, where she combines her writing with a full-time career as systems analyst, ensuring that she is never more than a few feet away from a keyboard. To find out more, visit her website at www.patriciabray.com.
Joshua Palmatier is a writer with a Ph.D in mathematics. He currently resides in upstate New York while teaching mathematics at SUNY College at Oneonta. His novels include the Throne of Amenkor trilogy and, written as Benjamin Tate, Well of Sorrows and Leaves of Flame. His short story “Mastihooba” appears in Close Encounters of the Urban Kind and “Tears of Blood” is in Beauty Has Her Way. He has previously edited After Hours: Tales From the Ur-bar with Patricia Bray, which includes his story “An Alewife In Kish.” Find out more at www.joshuapalmatier.com and www.benjamintate.com.
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