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About the Editor
Edmund R. Schubert has served as editor of the online sf/f magazine Orson Scott Card’s Intergalactic Medicine Show (IGMS) since 2006, edited an anthology by the same name (IGMS, Tor), and served as executive and managing editor of several business magazines. He is also the author of some 35 short stories, one novel (Dreaming Creek, Lachesis Books), and an assortment of articles and interviews. However, he considers his greatest accomplishment to be the time a college professor taught a class about his work—in abnormal psychology. True story.
About the Contributors
David B. Coe is the award-winning author of eleven fantasy novels and the occasional short story. His first trilogy, The LonTobyn Chronicle, received the Crawford Fantasy Award as the best work by a new author in fantasy. His latest fantasy novel, The Dark-Eyes’ War, is the final volume of his Blood of the Southlands trilogy, which began with The Sorcerers’ Plague and The Horsemen’s Gambit. The series is a follow-up to his critically acclaimed Winds of the Forelands quintet. He has written the novelization of director Ridley Scott’s recent movie, Robin Hood, starring Russell Crowe. David’s novels have been translated into a dozen languages.
David received his undergraduate degree from Brown University and then attended Stanford University, where he received both a Master’s and a Ph.D in U.S. history. He is currently at work on several projects including a contem-porary urban fantasy, a fantasy series for young readers, and the Thieftaker books, historical fantasies set in pre-Revolutionary Boston. The Thieftaker series will be published under the name D.B. Jackson. The first volume will be released in early 2012.
British born writer A.J. Hartley joined Magical Words in 2009. He is the USA Today and New York Times bestselling author of the mystery/thrillers The Mask of Atreus, On the Fifth Day, and What Time Devours, published by Penguin/Berkley and available world wide in twenty-five languages. His fantasy fiction follows the exploits of Will Hawthorne, a roguish actor with a talent for getting into trouble, in Act of Will and Will Power, published by Tor/ Macmillan. His first young adult novel, Darwen Arkwright and the Peregrine Pact will come out from Penguin/Razorbill in Fall 2011, followed by a second in that series a year later.
A.J. has an M.A. and Ph.D. in English literature from Boston University and is currently the Robinson Professor of Shakespeare in the Department of Theatre at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He is the director of the Shakespeare in Action Centre, the editor of the performance journal Shakespeare Bulletin published by Johns Hopkins UP, and the author of The Shakespearean Dramaturg as well as numerous articles in the field. He is currently writing a performance history of Julius Caesar for Manchester UP.
As well as being a novelist and academic, he is a screenwriter, theatre director and dramaturg. He makes beer and furniture and has more hobbies than is good for anyone. He is married with a son, and lives in Charlotte.
Faith Hunter, fantasy writer, was born in Louisiana and raised all over the south. Her Rogue Mage novels, a dark, urban fantasy series—Bloodring, Seraphs, and Host—feature Thorn St. Croix, a stone mage in a post-apocalyptic, alternate reality, urban fantasy world. These novels are the basis for the role playing game, Rogue Mage. The Skinwalker series, featuring Jane Yellowrock is taking off like a rocket with Skinwalker, Blood Cross, and Mercy Blade.
Under pen name Gwen Hunter, she writes action-adventure, mysteries, and thrillers. Between Faith and Gwen, she has twenty-one books in print in twenty-six countries.
Hunter fell in love with reading in fifth grade, and best loved SiFi, fantasy, and gothic. She decided to become a writer in high school, when a teacher told her she had talent. Now, she writes full-time and works full-time in a hospital lab, (for the benefits) tries to keep house, and is a workaholic with a passion for travel, jewelry making, white-water kayaking, and writing. She and her husband love to RV, traveling with their dogs to whitewater rivers all over the Southeast.
For more information, including a book list, see www.faithhunter.net and www.gwenhunter.com
Stuart Jaffe is the author of dozens of short stories and articles. Most recently, he has appeared in the anthologies Rum and Runestones, Under the Rose, and New Writings in the Fantastic. With his wife, he co-hosts The Eclectic Review, a weekly podcast in which they discuss science, art, writing, books, movies, and just about anything else that falls in their laps. For those keeping count—as of this bio writing, we have five cats, one albino corn snake, one rabbit, three aquatic turtles, one box turtle, one tarantula, seven chickens, and a horse. As always, the horse, thankfully, lives at a stable.
Misty Massey is the author of Mad Kestrel (Tor), a rollicking adventure of magic on the high seas which was nominated for the 2010 SCASL Book Award. When she’s not writing, she studies Middle Eastern dance and is a member of the Beledi Beat dance troupe, which performs at the Carolina Renaissance Faire and many other venues all over the upstate South Carolina area. Misty’s short fiction has recently appeared in the Rum and Runestones anthology (Dragon Moon Press) and the Dragon’s Lure anthology (Dark Quest Books). A sequel to Mad Kestrel, Kestrel’s Dance, is in the works.
C.E. Murphy is an Alaskan-born writer of fantasy novels, short stories, and comic books, who currently lives in Ireland. Here numerous novel series include The Walker Papers, The Old Races Universe, The Inheritor’s Cycle, The Strongbox Chronicles, and the forthcoming Worldwalker Duology. She has also written a romance novel trilogy under the pseudonym Cate Dermody.