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Guests
Updated 2010-JAN-22
Guest of Honor
S. M. Stirling
Artist Guest of Honor
Bob Eggleton
Fan Guest of Honor
Leonard Bishop
Toastmaster
Travis S. Taylor
Complete List
Bios
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Texan writer Aaron Allston has intended for several years to attend Conestoga, and missed his opportunity in 2009 only because of a heart attack. He'll now be the first to tell you that poor health practices and high-stres book tours do not play nicely together.
Best known for his Star Wars novels (the Wraith Squadron trilogy, the Enemy Lines duology, the Legacy of the Force and Fate of the Jedi series), Allston also writes original fantasy and science fiction and role-playing games. In 2006, he was inducted into the Academy of Adventure Gaming Arts and Design Hall of Fame.
He makes his home in Central Texas with four eccentric houemates and four eccentric cats.
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Adrian Simmons
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Adrian Simmons is a Norman, Oklahoma, based reader and writer. His essays, reviews, and interviews have appeared in Internet Review of Science Fiction, and Coyote Wild. His short fiction has popped up in Allegory Ezine, Revolution SF, and Coyote Wild. An avid backpacker, he has hiked over 700 miles. He is famous on the internet (in a good way). He is looking forward to living in a center-left nation.
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Filmmaker Albert Pyun has directed over 45 films, beginning with the 1982 action-adventure film, THE SWORD AND SORCERER, which still ranks as one of the top grossing independent films of all time. He followed with the highly original RADIOACTIVE DREAMS which won the top prize as Best Picture at the Brussels International Film Festival of Fantasy (BIFFF).
Pyun's recent projects include INVASION, AKA INFECTION, a horror feature filmed in one single shot, released by Lions Gate (2007) , which won Best Movie and Best Director at Spain's Estepona International Festival of Fantasy (2005) and LEFT FOR DEAD, a horror/spaghetti western, released by Grindstone (2008) that won Best Director in Estepona (2007).
COOL AIR, an adaptation of H.P. Lovecrafts' short story of the same title and BULLETFACE, an erotic thriller, and ROAD TO HELL, a riff off STREETS OF FIRE, starring Michael Pare, and Clare Kramer are all scheduled to be released early 2010. In TALES OF AN ANCIENT EMPIRE, Pyun returns to the Sword and Sorcery genre. It is filming now and stars Kevin Sorbo, Melissa Ordway and Christopher Lambert. MEAN GUNS 2 and BITE are currently in development.
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Allison Stein is an author and artist with a dark Southern streak and a taste for whimsy. Her award-winning short fiction appears in "Houston, We've Got Bubbas" and "Flush Fiction" from Yard Dog Press, and her art appears on the covers of "Tick Hill" and "Diva", also from Yard Dog Press. When she?s not painting, writing, hanging out in cemeteries, scaring young children, tending her ETSY shop, or updating ConQuesTKC.org, she?s a technology marketing writer. http://www.allisonstein.com, http://allisonstein.etsy.com
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Amanda Downum lived in Indonesia, Micronesia, Missouri, and Arizona before getting sucked into the gravity well of Texas. Now she lives near Austin with too many animals and one long-suffering husband; her house has a spooky attic. She works in a bookstore in between writing and cat herding, and can also be found falling off rocks. Her short fiction has appeared in Realms of Fantasy, Strange Horizons, and Weird Tales. Her novel The Drowning City, the first of the Necromancer Chronicles, was released by Orbit Books in 2009. The second book, The Bone Palace, is scheduled for 2010.
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Bob Eggleton is a Hugo award-winning fantasy/SF artist who works on both publishing projects and film concept work(such as Jimmy Neutron and most recently, The Ant Bully).
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Bradley H. Sinor has seen his short stories published in numerous anthologies, such as DRACULA IN LONDON, BUBBAS OF THE APOCOLYPSE, HAUNTED HOLIDAYS, ON CRUSADE, GATEWAYS, SMALL BITES, PLACES TO GO, PEOPLE TO KILL, ALL HELL BREAKING LOOSE, SPACE CADETS, HOUSTON, WE GOT BUBBAS, THE GRANTVILLE GAZETTE and RING OF FIRE 2. Three collections of his short fiction have been released by Yard Dog Press, DARK AND STORMY NIGHTS, IN THE SHADOWS, and PLAYING WITH SECRETS (which also features two stories by his wife Sue Sinor.) His newest collection of stories ECHOES FROM THE DARKNESS is from Arctic Wolf Press. He has also seen his non-fiction appear in a variety of magazines and anthologies. His latest essays can be found in STEPPING THROUGH THE STARGATE, THE CHERRYH ODESSEY, and HOUSE UNAUTHERIZED. His work has been published in English, Spanish and Polish. He can be reached through his blog and Facebook.
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Candace Havens
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Candace "Candy" Havens is a best selling and award-winning author. Her novels include the "Charmed & Dangerous" three-book series, "The Demon King and I," "Dragons Prefer Blondes" and the upcoming "Take Me If You Dare." She is known for writing strong female characters, who save the world, but aren't exactly perfect. She is a two-time RITA, Write Touch Reader and Holt Medallion finalist. She is also the winner RWA 2009 Pro Mentor of the Year Award, and of the Barbara Wilson award.
Candy is a nationally syndicated entertainment columnist for FYI Television. A veteran journalist she has interviewed just about everyone in Hollywood. You can hear Candy weekly on the Big 96.3 in the Dallas Fort Worth Area.
Her popular online Writer's Workshop has more than 1000 students and provides free classes to professional and aspiring writers.
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Carol Hightshoe
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Born in 1964, Carol grew up in San Antonio, Texas. An avid reader at a young age, her strong desire to write came from her love of (her husband calls it her obsession with) Star Trek. It was this early love of Trek that led her to the Science Fiction and Fantasy genres.
She has been published in various anthologies and magazines including "Creature Fantastic", "Illuminated Manuscripts", PanGaia Magazine, "Stories of Strength", "The Stygian Soul", Baen's Universe, Tales of the Talisman and Beyond Centauri. Her fantasy series ?Chaos Reigns? is being released by Double Dragon.
In addition to her own writing, she is the editor and publisher of the online e-zines: The Lorelei Signal and Sorcerous Signals.
She also runs her own micro-press - WolfSinger Publications.
Visit her website at www.carolhightshoe.com
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Charles W. Sasser
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Charles W. Sasser has been a full-time freelance writer since 1979. A veteran of both the U.S. Navy(journalist) and U.S. Army(Special Forces), he has published more than 50 books in all genres, including SF, and more than 3,000 magazine articles and short stories. His books have been translated into Chinese, Russian, Serbian, French, Spanish and other languages.
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Christopher McKitterick is an author, editor, technical writer, teacher, amateur astronomer, and backyard engineer. Chris' short fiction has appeared Analog, Artemis, Captain Proton, Extrapolation, Mythic Circle, Ruins: Extraterrestrial, Sentinels, Synergy SF, Tomorrow SF, Visual Journeys, and elsewhere. Chris teaches writing and SF at the University of Kansas and is Associate Director of the Center for the Study of Science Fiction (www2.ku.edu/~sfcenter). He recently finished a far-future novel, Empire Ship, and his first novel, Transcendence, will appear in 2010 from Hadley Rille Books.
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Cynthia Curnan
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Writer Cynthia Curnan, PhD is a published author and accomplished screenwriter. Prior to writing ROAD TO HELL, she wrote INVASION aka INFECTION and COOL AIR. Both feature films are in the horror genre. INVASION, released by Lionsgate, is described as a "riveting experiment in horror" and COOL AIR is an adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft's short story of the same title.
Her screenplay, TALES OF AN ANCIENT EMPIRE, in the fantasy/adventure/horror genre is just finishing filming, and Cynthia is also working on a new film BITE and a sequel to Albert Pyun's cult hit, MEAN GUNS.
Cynthia also wrote the acclaimed non-fiction work, The Care and Feeding of Perfectionists.
Cynthia was born and raised in San Francisco. She currently resides near Seattle, Washington with her family. She has recently completed an autobiographical screenplay, LOOKOUT and is currently writing a novelization of the story. Cynthia enjoys applying her knowledge of psychology to craft darkly twisted stories.
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Darlene Bolesny believes that becoming a fantasy author was simply the next, natural(?) step in her bizarre life. After living in Isfahan, Iran, working as a full-time Firefighter/Emergency Medical Technician once she returned to the U.S., and picking up hobbies which have ranged from motorcycle racing to tournament pool shooting to swords (primarily rapiers), it seemed that fate was grooming her to write fantasy action adventure. The first novel of the Duanor series, Morticai?s Luck, has now been released as a trade paperback by DarkStar Publishing, and the sequel, Sagril?s Tower, is slated for release in 2010.
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David Lee Anderson
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David Lee Anderson is a science fiction and fantasy illustrator. He's shown paintings at more than 440 convention art shows since 1980. He?s been the Artist Guest of Honor for twenty-two conventions, Toastmaster four times and Fan Guest of Honor once. He's worked for TOR Books, BAEN Books, Tomorrow SF Magazine, Isaac Asimov's SF Magazine, Mayfair Games, Bethesda Softworks, Yard Dog Books and independent publishers and record labels. David Lee is best known for his science fiction and space paintings. Two of his paintings were used in the opening credits for ?Gentlemen Broncos? from Fox Searchlight Pictures, released October 30, 2009, directed by Jared Hess, the creator of ?Napoleon Dynamite?. www.davidleeanderson.com
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Gary W. Babb is originally from Oklahoma, but work has taken him to South Florida, to South Texas, and finally to Southern California where he spent the last 20 years. He served in the Navy and traveled the world. His education includes, Amarillo College, DeVry Institute of Technology, National Cable Television Institute and Western Oklahoma State College.
As a business executive, his previous writing experience has been directed toward letters, memos, proposals, and reports, however, he has always enjoyed the magic that can be spun with words to sell, convince, or inform those targeted. Earth is Ours was his first effort toward spinning a tale of entertainment. This first literary effort won him ?Best Science Fiction/Fantasy 2005? from the prestigious San Diego Book Awards. The saga continued with its sequel, Target Earth that placed ?Finalist? in the same awards in 2006. The third of the Earth Series, Earth?s Warriors, is currently being written. He has also started a new series with his latest book, Genesis Log, soon to be released.
Mr. Babb is now semi-retired and has relocated to Muskogee, Oklahoma (Green Country) where he plans to devote his energy to his writing and fishing.
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Glen Cook
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Still alive after all these years and still writing, one year older than last year.
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Gloria Oliver lives in Texas with her husband, daughter, and cats. She is the author of the novels "In the Service of Samurai", "Vassal of El", "Willing Sacrifice", and "Cross-eyed Dragon Troubles" all in the Fantasy and YA/Fantasy genres. Three of the novels were finalists in the EPPIES and two in the Dream Realm Awards. Her next novel, "Price of Mercy", is due out around 2010. She also has stories in "The Four Bubbas of the Apocalypse", "Houston: We've Got Bubbas", "Small Bites", and "Ripple Effect" anthologies. She is a proud member of both EPIC and Broad Universe.
When not busy working with numbers at work, she enjoys reading, writing, watching movies, and Japanese Anime. To find out more, please visit www.gloriaoliver.com
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Henry Melton is often on the road with his wife Mary Ann, a nature photographer, and travels throughout North America, Europe and Africa have inspired his latest series of novels; Small Towns, Big Ideas. Henry's short fiction has been published in many magazines and anthologies, most frequently in ANALOG. Catacomb, published in DRAGON magazine, has been called a classic.
Other than an occasional short story, most of his time is spent writing science fiction YA novels. Currently being published by Wire Rim Books are the Small Towns, Big Ideas series of books, where high school aged heroes of the here and now are confronted with classic science fiction themes. The first, Emperor Dad, was the winner of the 2008 Darrell Award for Best Novel and Lighter Than Air won the 2009 Eleanor Cameron / Golden Duck.
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J. Kathleen Cheney is a former teacher and has taught mathematics ranging from 7th grade to Calculus, with a brief stint as a Gifted and Talented Specialist. She is a member of SFWA, RWA, and Broad Universe. Her works have been published in Jim Baen's Universe, Writers of the Future XXIV, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, and Fantasy Magazine, among others. Her new novella, Iron Shoes, can be found in Alembical 2, part of Paper Golem's all-novella anthology series. Her website can be found at www.jkathleencheney.com
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James Hollaman
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Artist, writer, and creater of odd thoughts. My writing and art can be seen in and on many titles from yard dog press. I also am the person that runs Room Con, a convention held in a room every memorial day weekend at Conquest in KCMO.
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Julia S. Mandala
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Julia S. Mandala (www.juliasmandala.com) is a reformed lawyer who does penance by writing fantasy and science fiction. Her novel, House of Doors (part of Double Dog #5) and The Four Redheads: Apocalypse Now!, coauthored with Linda L. Donahue, Rhonda Eudaly and Dusty Rainbolt, are available from Yard Dog Press. Her works appear in Witch Way to the Mall, edited by Esther Friesner, The Four Redheads of the Apocalypse, Dracula's Lawyer, International House of Bubbas, Houston, We've Got Bubbas, Flush Fiction, and Best of the Bubbas, and will appear in Fangs for the Mammaries, edited by Esther Friesner. She holds degrees in history from Kansas State University and in law from Tulane University. She is a copy editor, scuba diver, underwater photographer, costumer and belly dancer.
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K. D. Wentworth
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K. D. (Kathy) Wentworth was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma and in a subsequent dizzying tour of the nation, managed to attend thirteen different schools by the time she graduated from high school in upstate New York. Returning to Oklahoma to attend the University of Tulsa, she earned a B.A. in Liberal Arts and has had the sense to stay put ever since, although she dodges the occasional tornado. She taught elementary school for more years than she cares to admit and retired in 2003.
She got her start winning in the Writers of the Future Contest in 1988, and then later won the Field Publications Teachers as Writers Award in 1991. She has published nine novels and sold over fifty short stories to such markets as Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, Aboriginal Science Fiction, Pulphouse, Return to the Twilight Zone, Fantasy & Science Fiction, and Realms of Fantasy. Three of her short stories were Nebula finalists: Tall One, Burning Bright, and Born Again.
K. D. is an active member of the Science Fiction Writers of America, (SFWA) and was elected Secretary in 2000 and in 2003. She became a Judge in the L. Ron Hubbard's Writers of the Future Contest in 2000 and now also serves as Coordinating Judge for the contest. She loves teaching in the Writers of the Future Workshop with Tim Powers each summer. She attributes her success to having two very large dogs and a wonderful husband, not necessarily in that order.
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Lane Robins was born in Miami, Florida, the daughter of two scientists, and grew up as the first human member of their menagerie. When it came time for a career, it was a hard choice between veterinarian and writer. It turned out to be far more fun to write about blood than to work with it. She received her BA in Creative Writing from Beloit College, is a graduate of Odyssey workshop, and currently lives in Lawrence, Kansas, with an ever-fluctuating number of dogs and cats. She writes high fantasy under Lane Robins and urban fantasy under Lyn Benedict.
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At age eleven Lee Killough discovered and fell in love with SF/fantasy and Mysteries. Afraid of exhausting her favorite genres' supply in her small hometown library, she began writing her own stories...and rather than chose between the genres, she combined them as much as possible. The habit has stuck. Approximately half of her sixteen novels are SF or supernatural mysteries or urban fantasies. Her first short story appeared in Analog in 1970, and she published her first novel in 1979. Her SF short story "Symphony for a Lost Traveler" was a 1984 Hugo Award nominee. Yard Dog Press has published her African fantasy, The Leopard's Daughter, and a revised edition of Checking On Culture, an aid to building story backgrounds. At home in Kansas, she and her significant other Denny Riordan share their home with thousands of books and a thoroughly spoiled miniature Schnauzer. Currently in progress is an urban fantasy.
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Margaret Middleton
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I think the one from 2009 is good, other than that I'll be a year closer to retirement from the AHTD come-this-April.
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Matt Champine
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I won first place, third quarter, of the L. Ron Hubbards Writers of the Future in 2004, with my long, long short story, Sunrunners, oddly enough about a young man?s adventure on the Lunar frontier. Thanks to R. A. H., I was a wannabe writer from the sixth grade until that moment, and now I?m a wannabe PRO writer. I recently retired from the Postal Service so I can give full attention to said writing. Cue giggles now.
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Matthew Bey is a writer and editor living in Austin, Texas. He's a founder of the print zine Space Squid, and he's a contributor, blogger, and podcaster at RevolutionSF.com.
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Melanie Fletcher is an expatriate Chicagoan who currently lives in North Dallas with her husband the Bodacious Brit? and their two fabulous furbags JJ and Jordan. JJ is a cat who thinks he's a dog, and Jordan is a cat who thinks he's Anna Nicole Smith. Only Melanie could have pets like these.
At night, she turns into SF Writer Girl, and has the SFWA membership card to prove it. Her fiction can be found in anthologies from Circlet Press, Yard Dog Press and DAW Books, as well as online zines such as Quantum Muse and Helix SF. With regards to novel-length work, she is currently working on an alternate history mystery novel starring Edgar Allan Poe and Lewis Carroll. In related activities, she fences with the SFWA Musketeers and performs with the Feral Chihuahuas in Yard Dog Road Shows at SF conventions around the country.
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Nationally bestselling author Michele Bardsley writes novels because it's much more fun than housework. She lives in the Midwest with her son, their pets, and a bunch of empty Godiva boxes. Visit her Web site at: www.MicheleBardsley.com
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Peter Bradley is the son of two english refugee's who fled home due to utter boredom. So, despite any probable wish to the contrary, he became a world traveller before he could fully walk. This being contradicted by his parents statement that he ran the entire distance from Australia to America at the age of 3. Or at least it seemed so to the harried flight attendants. It's probably just as well the family flew, since Peter has yet to learn how to swim.
Peter started drawing at an early age, inspired by a barely remembered TV series called Automan, and has been drawing steadily for the last 20 years or so. Currently he is working for Troll Lord Games on art for the Castles & Crusades rpg.
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Robert Collins
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eTreasures Publishing released my second SF novel "Lisa's Way" in 2008. Asylett Press published my first SF novel "Expert Assistance" in 2007. I?ve had stories and articles appear in periodicals such as Marion Zimmer Bradley?s Fantasy Magazine; Tales of the Talisman; Golden Visions; The Fifth Di...; Wild West; and Model Railroader. I've had two biographies of early Kansas leaders published by Pelican. I've had six Kansas railroad books published by South Platte Press, and I've self-published three more.
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Robert Spoo
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Dr. Robert Spoo is a recognized expert — writing, speaking and teaching — in the vast and complex area of intellectual property. Spoo is frequently invited to speak both nationally and internationally on topics related to intellectual property, entertainment law, law and literature and contracts.
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Robin Roberts
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Robin Roberts is the author of five schoalry book on gender and popular culture, including ANNE MCCAFFREY: A LIFE WITH DRAGONS.
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Ron Wolfe
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Ron Wolfe is a feature writer and cartoonist for the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette newspaper in Little Rock. His novella, "Our Friend Electricity," in the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, is reprinted in two best-of-the-year anthologies. He is co-author (with John Wooley) of the horror novels Old Fears and Death's Door, and wrote for the comics series, Hellraiser, based on the Clive Barker movies. In past life, he was editor of the children's page, Trib Kids, for the Tulsa Tribune. He hoped ever so desperately that his wholesome kids' page readers wouldn't follow him into the pain-wracked pages of Hellraiser by mistake. In fact, the skink wished too hard: both the Epic comics magazine and the afternoon newspaper folded. He's glad to hear Tulsa didn't. Buy him a Coney Islander hot-dog with chili.
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S. M. Sterling
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Conestoga 14's Guest of Honor is S. M. Sterling, writer of alternate history novels. The Emberverse and Draka series' are some of his more prominent work.
In the Emberverse books, the island of Nantucket is left behind when it became an "Island in the Sea of Time". Electricity, high gas pressures, and fast combustion (including explosives and gunpowder) no longer work in this world. The stories revolve around how different survivors and groups of people adapt and live in this changed environment.
"I read history obsessively;" Sterling says in an interview for Locus Magazine, "it's been my second great love, outside of science fiction, since I was a teenager. And you always come across these points where things could have happened one way or another, just as easily. ... Another appeal of alternate history is that everyone has one of those turning points in their own life."
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Selina Rosen's short fiction has appeared in several magazines and anthologies including Sword and Sorceress, Turn the Other Chick, the two newest Thieves' World anthologies, Here Be Dragons (2008 Dragon*Con anthology), Which Way to the Mall, Strip Mauled, Space Sirens, Space Grunts, Wolf Song, Vol I, Haunted Hearths, and Aoife's Kiss.
Her novels include Queen of Denial, Recycled, the Chains of Freedom trilogy, Strange Robby, The Host trilogy, Fire & Ice, Hammer Town, Reruns, Bad Lands (with Laura J. Underwood), and Sword Masters. She also has two published novellas, The Boatman and Material Things. Her first play, In Herman's Garage, premiered to sold-out crowds at the Mulberry Community Theater in Mulberry, Arkansas.
Check out her website (below) for her continuing series, The House. It's posted in episodes—approximately two per month.
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Sherri Dean
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Sherri Dean was born both late AND backwards, which explains a lot. The bulk of her work is available through Yard Dog Press as a writer and cover artist. Her latest story, co-written with Bill D. Allen of YDP fame is "Tinker's Damn" from the Science Fiction Trails anthology and has been compared to 'Pygmalian' meets 'Steampunk'. Having no shame allows her to perform in the YDP Roadshow and The Merlene Show (think Martha Stewart married Larry the Cable guy.) A long time costumer and active member of Fandom (co-chair of 2, count 'em 2 ConQuesTs in KC, Mo and no fatalities!) Sherri collects, among other things, non-fiction vampire books, commands armies of flying monkeys and is easily distracted by shiny objects. She likes presents, will autograph almost anything and welcomes emails at conbarbie@hotmail.com
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Award-winning children's author, Stacy A. Nyikos, has spent most of her life living and traveling the world. Her journeys provide the material and ideas for her stories. Her imagination does the rest. She has written three picture books — Squirt, Shelby and Dizzy — and a middle grade fantasy novel, Dragon Wishes. Currently, she is working on a middle grade historical fiction story set in New Zealand during the late 1800s. Stacy has spoken at a variety of conferences across the U.S., including NCTE, CLA, TLA, and the Red Dirt Festival. Her books have won the Nautilus award, San Francisco Book Festival, Mmom's Choice Awards, among others. She lives in Tulsa, Oklahoma, with her husband, two daughters, and most loyal writing partner, her dog, Mulligan.
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When the moon isn't full, Wedel can be found living quietly with his wife and kids and working as a school teacher in Oklahoma City. He is best known as the author of The Werewolf Saga books.
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Talia Gryphon
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Talia Gryphon lives in Oklahoma with her family and critters. During a fifteen year career in the non-exact science of mental health, it occurred to her that supernatural and preternatural beings she'd read about would have problems and issues of their own to deal with, but had no one to listen or take them on as patients or clients, so she began sketching out her thoughts, speculative psychological profiles, and possible diagnoses. Thoughts became notes, notes became pages, pages became books: hence the Gillian Key, ParaDoc Series was developed. She is a Board Certified Professional Counselor, a member of the American Psychotherapy Association, Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America and Horror Writers of America.
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Taylor Anderson
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Taylor Anderson is the author of the acclaimed "Destroyermen" Series, including Destroyermen: Into the Storm, Destroyermen: Crusade, Destroyermen: Maelstrom, and the upcoming Destroyermen: Distant Thunders. He has a Master's Degree in History and when time allows, enjoys teaching at Tarleton State University. He is a gun maker and forensic ballistic archaeologist. He is a technical and dialogue consultant for movies and documentaries and has even done some acting.
He is a member of the National Historical Honor Society and the United States Field Artillery Association—which awarded him the Honorable Order of St. Barbara.
He owns a collection of 18th and 19th Century artillery pieces and fires them for movies, documentaries, competition and fun. He knows precisely what cannons are capable of and that is reflected in his writing.
As a sailor, he is conversant in the capricious vagaries of the weather and the sea and as a historian, he is trained to research what he cannot experience first-hand. He loves old music, old trucks, old guns, and old dogs—but would give everything to go into space. He lives in Texas with his wife Christine, his daughter Rebecca, and his Golden Retriever, High-Top Brass Tacitus, or "Tass" for short.
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Tony Daniel is the author of four science fiction books, the latest of which is Superluminal, as well as an award-winning short story collection, The Robot's Twilight Companion. He was a Hugo finalist in 1996 for his short story "Life on the Moon," which also won the Asimov's Reader's Choice Award. Daniel's short stories have been much anthologized and have been collected in multiple year's best compilations. Daniel is a lecturer in creative writing and the literature of science fiction at the University of Texas at Dallas. Born in Alabama, Daniel has led a peripatetic life. He's lived in St. Louis, Los Angeles, Seattle, Prague and New York City, and is now settled in Allen, Texas with his wife and two children.
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Tony Frazier
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Tony Frazier's superhero fiction has appeared in Jim Baen's Universe, Strange Horizons, Escape Pod, and Australia. He also blogs about movies, comics, old radio and television over at They Stole Frazier's Brain. He is currently trying to sell a suspense novel (which features a death ray) and has a webcomic on hold that he needs to pick up again.
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Travis S. Taylor
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Travis Shane Taylor is a born and bred southerner and resides just outside Huntsville, Alabama. He has a Doctorate in Optical Science and Engineering, a Master's degree in Physics, a Master's degree in Aerospace Engineering, all from the University of Alabama in Huntsville; a Master's degree in Astronomy from the Univ. of Western Sydney, and a Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from Auburn University. He is a licensed Professional Engineer in the state of Alabama.
Dr. Taylor has worked on various programs for the Department of Defense and NASA for the past sixteen years. He is currently working on several advanced propulsion concepts, very large space telescopes, space based beamed energy systems, future combat technologies and systems, and next generation space launch concepts. He is also involved with multiple MASINT, SIGINT, IMINT, and HUMINT concept studies
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William Ledbetter lives near Dallas with his family and way too many animals. He writes speculative fiction, facilitates the Jim Baen Memorial Writing contest for Baen book and the National Space Society, runs a Dallas writer group called Future Classics and is an active member of his local National Space Society chapter.
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William R. Eakin
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While 70 some stories by William R. Eakin have appeared in the big genre magazines (like F&SF, scifi.com, Amazing Stories, etc.), and in fact have appeared seven times in Realms of Fantasy (most recently in the 15th Anniversary issue), they are intended to be strange in style: Baroque, playful, funky southern, but finally something that touches the heart (or as Shawna McCarthy says, messes with the "brain stem"). Sam'sdot is now releasing a multivolume collection! sam'sdot.com
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