Alexander B. Potter resides in Vermont, writing both fiction and nonfiction, painting, and working as an HIV Prevention Specialist at the AIDS Project of Southern Vermont. His published work is primarily in science fiction /fantasy and has appeared in a wide range of anthologies, including ten from DAW Books. He can be visited at www.alexanderpotter.com.
Mickey Zucker Reichert is a pediatrician, parent to multitudes (at least it seems like that many), bird wrangler, goat roper, dog trainer, cat herder, horse rider, and fish feeder who has learned (the hard way) not to let macaws remove contact lenses. Also, she is the author of twenty-two novels (including the Renshai, Nightfall, Barakhai, and Bifrost series), one illustrated novella, and fifty plus short stories. Mickey’s age is a mathematically guarded secret: the square root of 8649 minus the hypotenuse of an isosceles right triangle with a side length of 33.941126.
In the past calendar year, Kristine Kathryn Rusch has won the Asimov’s Reader’s Choice Award and the Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine Reader’s Choice Award. She has been nominated for the Anthony, the Shamus, and the Hugo awards. Her short stories have appeared in The Best Science Fiction of the Year and America’s Best Mystery Stories. Her latest novel is Diving into the Wreck from Pyr, based on the internationally award-winning story of the same name.
Lilith Saintcrow is the author of the Dante Valentine, Jill Kismet, and Strange Angels series. She currently resides in Vancouver, Washington, with her children, cats, and assorted other strays.
Jeanne Stein is the bestselling author of the urban fantasy series, The Anna Strong Vampire Chronicles. Last April, her character, Anna Strong, received a Romantic Times Reviewers Choice Award for Best Urban Fantasy Protagonist. The fifth in the Anna Strong series, Retribution , was released in August. Jeanne lives in Denver, CO where she is active in the writing community. And no, she doesn’t hang out in biker bars to pick fights. Kick boxing is merely a great way to exercise.
Fantasy author Anton Strout 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). He is the author of the Simon Canderous urban fantasy series as well as numerous short stories. In his scant spare time, he is a writer, a sometimes actor, sometimes musician, occasional RPGer, and the worlds most casual and controller-smashing video gamer. He currently works in the exciting world of publishing and yes, it is as glamorous as it sounds.
Elizabeth A. Vaughan is the author of The Chronicles of the Warlands and Dagger-Star. She still believes that the only good movies are the ones with gratuitous swords or lasers. Not to mention dragons. At the present, she is owned by two incredibly spoiled cats and lives in the Northwest Territory, on the outskirts of the Black Swamp, along Mad Anthony’s Trail on the banks of the Maumee River.
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 2,100 published books that have been translated into thirty-three languages. He is the recipient of an unprecedented three Lifetime Achievement Awards in the science fiction, mystery, and supernatural horror genres—the Milford 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 three awards.
Kerrie Hughes lives in Wisconsin after traveling throughout the States and seeing a bit of the world, but has a list of more travels to accomplish. She has a marvelous husband in John Helfers, four perfect cats, and a grown son who is beginning to suspect that his main purpose in life is to watch said cats and house while his parental units waste his inheritance on travel. Thank you, Justin. She has written seven short stories: “Judgment” in Haunted Holidays, “Geiko” in Women of War, “Doorways” in
Furry Fantastic, “A Traveler’s Guide to Valdemar” in The Valdemar Companion. And with John Helfers: “Between a Bank and a Hard Place” in Texas Rangers, “The Last Ride of the Colton Gang” in Boot Hill, and “The Tombstone Run” in Lost Trails. She has also written nonfiction, including the article “Bog Bodies” in Haunted Museums, and has edited two concordances for The Vorkosigan Companion and The Valdemar Companion . Girl’s Guide is her eighth co-edited anthology, along with Maiden Matron Crone, Children of Magic, Fellowship Fantastic, The Dimension Next Door, Gamer Fantastic, and Zombie Raccoons and Killer Bunnies. She hopes to finish the novel she’s been writing forever in between getting her master’s degree in counseling and working full time for an evil corporation.
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