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Bios
of Regional Participants
On
the spur of the moment, Joseph Abbott went to AggieCon
for a day in 2001 to meet some online acquaintances. This
led circuitously to a trip that fall to the Ohio Valley Filk
Festival in Columbus, Ohio, where he became thoroughly hooked
on filk and has been trying to spread the music back home
in Texas ever since. Toward that end, he is webmaster for
the Texas Filk Page (http://www.texasfilk.org). This is his fourth
ArmadilloCon, and as far as he can recall the first con of
any sort for which he has been asked to write about himself
in the third person for the program book. His day job (actually
his afternoon and evening job) is as a copy editor for the
Waco Tribune-Herald.
David Lee Anderson
is a science fiction and fantasy illustrator whose work has
appeared around the US and in Europe on paperback books, magazines,
in CD art collections, game cards and trade paperbacks. His
work has been seen at 440 science fiction convention art shows
around the country and Canada since 1980. He’s been
the Artist Guest of Honor at twenty conventions, Toastmaster
at two cons and Fan Guest of Honor once. He’s been on
hundreds of panels speaking about science fiction and fantasy
illustration and other subjects. He’s entertained people
at conventions as an MC for costume contests, narrator for
plays, played guitar and sang. Check out his art att www.davidleeanderson.com.
Kurt
Baty is a computer architect, physicist, ancient greek
numismatist, and a science fiction fan. Kurt enjoys reading
and collecting science fiction books and also enjoys going
to the worldcons, having (by 2004) attended 26 of them so
far, starting in Kansas City in 1976. Kurt lives with his
wife of 27 years on their acreage on Lake Travis outside of
Austin, Texas, where they enjoy their horses and boats. Kurt
Baty was (with party buddy Scott Bobo) fan guest of ArmadilloCon
24.
Paul
Benjamin has worked in the comics and comics-to-film industry
for 10 years. He began his career at Malibu Comics then went
to Platinum Studios where he developed J. Michael Straczynski’s
Jeremiah series for Showtime. As Managing Editor for
the Humanoids line in the US, Paul paired talent from the
American comics industry with writers and artists from around
the world, editing books such as Olympus with Geoff
Johns, Kris Grimminger and Butch Guice, Redhand with
Kurt Busiek and Eisner award-nominated I Am Legion
with John Cassaday. Paul is now a full-time writer whose credits
include The Wolverine Encyclopedia and Metal Hurlant.
Carol
Berg is a former software engineer who can't quite
believe what happened when she started dabbling in writing
a few years ago. Since her first novel was published in 2000,
her books have won the 2005 Geffen Award for Best Translated
Fantasy (TRANSFORMATION) and the 2004 Colorado Book Award
(SONG OF THE BEAST), and have been shortlisted for the Compton
Crook Award (TRANSFORMATION), and RT BookClub Reviewers’
Choice Award (RESTORATION). Her books have been translated
into Russian, German, Czech, Polish, and Hebrew, and her latest
release, DAUGHTER OF ANCIENTS, is shortlisted for the 2006
Prism Award. All amazing for someone who majored in math and
computer science so she wouldn’t have to write papers.
Jayme Lynn
Blaschke's fiction has appeared in Interzone and Writers
of the Future, among other places, as well as the forthcoming
Cross Plains Universe: Texans Celebrate Robert E. Howard.
He’s the former fiction editor of RevolutionSF.com,
and is currently the media director for Science Fiction &
Fantasy Writers of America. A collected volume of his SF-themed
interviews, Voices of Vision: Creators of Science Fiction
and Fantasy Speak, is available from the University of Nebraska
Press. Blaschke lives in New Braunfels, works at Texas State
University, and maintains a blog at http://jlbgibberish.blogspot.com/.
Scott
Bobo is best known as one of the two Party Fans who, with
Kurt Baty, spent 10 years reviewing parties at the WorldCon.
He is a charter member of FACT.
Elizabeth Burton, former Pennsylvanian
turned Austinite, has three fantasy novels in print--one now
translated into Swedish--and three erotic romance novellas
available in electronic format. A freelance editor and member
of the FACT board of directors, she is working on the third
book in the Everdark Wars trilogy while she helps get other
people published as the executive editor for Zumaya Publications
in British Columbia.
Bill Crider The Completely Unauthorized
(and very brief) Autobiography of Bill Crider: I was born
on a mountaintop in Tennessee, kilt me a b’ar . . .
wait a minute. That’s not me. That’s Davy Crockett.
Sometimes I get the two of us mixed up. I was born in Mexia
(pronounced Muh-HAY-uh), Texas, and I never kilt me a b’ar.
I’ve been in a bar, and I’ve worn a kilt. I may
even have worn a kilt in a bar. But that’s another story.
My latest novel is A MAMMOTH MURDER.
Scott Cupp is a short story writer from San Antonio.
He is a former owner of Adventures in Crime and Space. He
is the co-editor of CROSS PLAINS UNIVERSE, an anthology of
Texas writers working with Robert E. Howard and his characters.
Bradley Denton's first professional story appeared
in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction in 1984,
and since then his stories and novels have run the gamut from
science fiction to fantasy to horror to "other."
His work has been honored with the John W. Campbell Memorial
Award (for Buddy Holly Is Alive and Well on Ganymede), the
World Fantasy Award (for the two-volume story collection A
Conflagration Artist/The Calvin Coolidge Home for Dead Comedians),
and the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award (for "Sergeant
Chip.") Brad's novel Laughin' Boy made its debut at ArmadilloCon
in 2005, and his latest story is "Blackburn and the Blade"
in the Joe Lansdale tribute anthology Lords of the Razor.
Aaron de Orive loves video games, comics, and movies.
Fortunately, he happens to be a professional video game designer,
comic book writer, and screenwriter. His most recent video
game writing endeavor, METROID PRIME 3: CORRUPTION, will launch
with the Nintendo Wii console later this year. GOOD GREEN
EARTH, his sci-fi comic book collaboration with artist Jim
Daly, should see publication sometime next year. And his original
horror screenplay, BLOOD WATERS, is in development with Cadre
Entertainment.
Rhonda Eudaly Rhonda Eudaly lives
in Fort Worth, Texas where she's worked in various industries
to support her writing habit and her cat, Dixon.
Rhondas
work is featured in The Four Redheads of the Apocalypse; Apex
Digest Issue #5; Flush Fiction; International House of Bubbas;
More Stories That Won't Make Your Parents Hurl; Fundamentally
Challenged; Sinister Sleuths; Cyber Oasis; Small Bites; Apex
Digest Online; Panic; and is featured in the March/April 2006
issue of Today's Christian, and the "Newbie Revelation"
column on CoffeeGeek.com. Coming Dec. 2006, Aegri Somnia,
by Apex Press. See www.RhondaEudaly.com
for links and information.
Mark Finn is the author
of Gods New and Used and Year of the Hare, as
well as hundreds of articles, essays, and reviews for RevolutionSF.com,
Dark Horse Comics, Wildside Press Monkeybrain Books, and others.
Finn also does double duty as the Creative Director for the
Violet Crown Radio
Players, where he writes, directs, and occasionally performs
old time radio scripts. Finn is active in Robert E. Howard
studies and scholarship. He has written introductions to several
REH books from Wildside Press. His interview with fellow Howard
scholar Rusty Burke recently appeared in Conversations
With Texas Writers from UT Press. Forthcoming works include
a biography of Robert E. Howard to commemorate the author's
centennial in 2006.
Brad
W. Foster actually makes a living as an artist, without
the use of a computer, strange though that might be in this
day and age. He's gotten a couple of awards along the way
(a Chesley, some Hugos) and worked for magazines like Amazing
SF, Talebones, Dragon, and Highlights for Children.
He's also done a few thousand odd little cartoons (at least)
that have been printed in zines all over the planet. Trees
have died for this?
Bill
Fountain is an artist, writer, actor, film maker
and teacher from Dallas. He is working on many projects in
all of those areas. He is most proud of his recent book “RAVEN”
based on the poem by Edgar Allan Poe, his recent stage adaptation
of “Carnival of Souls,” his recent one act play
“Hecate Hill” and his upcoming book “Masque
of the Red Planet.” More about this strange guy can
be discovered at www.levelgroundfilms.com
Local
software analyst, SF fan & author, and volunteer speaker
for NASA'a JPL space missions, John Gibbons
would probably get more writing done if he didn't have so
many hobbies.
Beverly
Hale lives in Oklahoma with her husband, 2 dogs (Jilly
- dog of order and Zoe -dog of chaos) and 10,000 books. She
has been published in gaming (DC Heroes), comics (Dark Horse
and Caliber Press), various short story anthologies, novels,
children's literature and has a cookbook out. Her first novel,
The Essence Of Stone, is a quest fantasy. Her newest
novel, No Good Deed, a humorous urban fantasy set in
Oklahoma City, will be coming out from Yard Dog Press. In
her spare time, Bev is learning different types of ethnic
cooking and attempting to learn several Asian languages.
Joan Upton Hall, freelance editor,
writing instructor, and long-time fan of Arthurian legend,
recently launched Arturo el Rey (Arthur the King),
Book 1 of her fantasy trilogy, Excalibur Regained (Zumaya
Publications). Her previous credits have been primarily nonfiction:
Grand Old Texas Theaters That Won’t Quit, Rx for
Your Writing Ills, 50 Writers’ Tips, a self-syndicated
column for writers’ newsletters, and many articles,
including two monthly columns for a newspaper. Ghostly
Tales from America’s Jails, an anthology she edited
for Atriad Press, is scheduled for release early in 2006.
Visit her website at: www.JoanUptonHall.com.
Scott A. Johnson is the
author of An American Haunting, Deadlands, and The
Mayor's Guide to the Stately Ghosts of Augusta. His short
stories have appeared in publications such as AlienSkin
Magazine, The Corpse, and All Hallows. He also
writes "Cold Spots," a twice-monthly column about real haunted
places, for The Horror Channel. When he's not writing horror
or chasing ghosts, he tells ghost stories at schools, teaches
Karate, and ponders the eternal mystery of how to get his
golf score out of the triple-digits. He currently resides
in San Marcos, TX, just outside of Austin.
National
bestselling author Julie Kenner's first book
hit the stores in February of 2000, and she's been on the
go ever since. Her books have hit lists as varied as USA Today,
Waldenbooks, Barnes & Noble, and Locus Magazine. She writes
a range of stories from sexy and quirky romances to chick
lit suspense to paranormal/fantasy mommy lit. Her foray into
the latter, Carpe Demon: Adventures of a Demon-Hunting Soccer
Mom, was selected as a Booksense Summer Paperback Pick for
2005, was a Target Breakout Book, was a Barnes & Noble
Number One SFF/Fantasy bestseller for seven weeks, and is
in development as a feature film with Warner Brothers and
1492 Pictures. It's follow-up, the recently released California
Demon: The Secret Life of a Demon-Hunting Soccer Mom topped
the B&N chart as well and has garnered rave reviews. Visit
Julie at http://www.juliekenner.com/.
Katharine Eliska Kimbriel has held
numerous traditional writer jobs (like correspondence school
instructor and gold caster,) has been nominated for the Campbell,
and has watched three imprints die under her feet. In other
words, she's ready to try success. She's published the Nuala
Chronicles (SF) and Tales of Alfreda Golden-Tongue (Fantasy)
as well as short fiction and nonfiction, and has written a
mystery-fantasy-romance she'd like to sell. She’s got
a chapbook out from Yard Dog Press, and a new Alfreda novel
in the works. Stop by her live journal (she's Alfreda89) for
occasional updates. Or try http://www.ke-kimbriel.com.
Ape
scholar Rick
Klaw spent the last year producing numerous articles
and essays on apes in pop culture for Moving Pictures, The
Greenwood Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy, RevolutionSF,
KongIsKing.net, King Kong Is Back! and other places. Klaw's
critical essays, reviews, and other observations (both ape
and otherwise) were collected in Geek Confidential: Echoes
From the 21st Century, published (fittingly enough) by MonkeyBrain,
Inc.
In a previous
life, Klaw was the award-winning editor of seventeen books
and numerous short stories. He was the co-founder and managing
editor of MOJO Press and the founding fiction editor for RevolutionSF.
His writings
have also appeared in The Austin Chronicle, Science Fiction
Weekly, Nova Express, Electric Velocipede, Farscape Forever,
Conversations With Texas Writers, and other venues. His Robert
E. Howard-inspired short story (with Paul O. Miles) "Penny
A Word" will appear in Cross Plains Universe.
Klaw lives
in Austin, TX with his wife, a cat and an enormous collection
of books. He is currently hard at work on his next book which
thankfully has nothing to do with apes.
Joe R. Lansdale is the author of
nearly thirty award winning novels and numerous award winning
short stories. His novella, Bubba Ho Tep was filmed
starring Bruce Campbell, directed by Don Coscarelli. He has
recently written a screen adaptation of his novel, The
Big Blow, for Scott Free, the production company owned
by Ridley and Tony Scott. A short story of his, Incident
On And Off A Mountain Road, is currently being filmed
by Don Coscarelli for the Showtime Event, Masters Of Horror.
He has a new novel out next year, a Vintage Original trade
paper novel titled Lost Echoes. He is presently at
work on a new novel for Knopf.
Alexis
Glynn Latner's novelettes and short stories have
been published in Analog, Amazing Stories, and the anthology
Bending the Landscape: Horror. She lives in Houston, Texas and
works at the Rice University Library. Besides writing SFF, she
does editing, writes magazine articles about science, technology,
and aviation, and teaches creative writing in the Rice University
School of Continuing Studies. For fun and real-life adventure
she is a sailplane pilot.
Lee Martindale slings short fiction
as an anthologist (Such A Pretty Face and writer. Her
most recent stories appear in Esther Friesner’s Turn
The Other Chick, Diane Paxson’s Sword & Sorceress
XXI, and Selina Rosen’s upcoming International
House Of Bubbas. When not working in prose, she filks
(The Ladies Of Trade Town CD), is a Lifetime Active
member of SFWA, a fencing member of the SFWA Musketeers, a
Named Bard, and a member of the SCA. She and husband George
live in Plano, TX, where she keeps friends and fans in the
know at http://www.HarpHaven.net.
C.
J. Mills is a summer bird (Minesota 5-6 months in summer,
Texas the rest of the year), who writes SF, but also suspense
and historical fiction; a life-long gardener who can’t
get the hang of planting in Texas in the “wrong”
seasons; and the possessor of eight completed novels, 4 pets,
3 grown children, 3 young grandchildren, 2 houses, and 1 husband.
At present I’m writing a novel about the Viking invasion
of England 865-875, rewriting my contemporary suspense novel,
and beginning to write articles about pernicious effects of
fundamentalist religions on politics and democracy, here and
in other parts of the world.
Houston
resident John
Moore joined FACT in 1984 and sold his first short
story to Aboriginal SF in 1986. His third novel, The
Unhandsome Prince, was recently released by Ace. His newest
book, Bad Prince Charlie, will be published next spring.
A chemical engineer by day, John has no children, pets, or
responsibilities, and aspires to live the life of a dissolute
wastrel.
Chris
Nakashima-Brown writes short fiction and criticism
from his home in Austin. His recent work has appeared or is
forthcoming in Cross Plains Universe (The Robert E. Howard
Centennial Anthology), Spicy Slipstream Stories, Adventure
vol. 1, Argosy, Strange Horizons, The Infinite Matrix, RevolutionSF,
and Space Squid. More information can be found at www.nakashima-brown.net
Jess Nevins is the author of The Encyclopedia
of Fantastic Victoriana (MonkeyBrain Books), a guide to genre
fiction of the 19th century. He has also written two companions
to Alan Moore's graphic novels, The League of Extraordinary
Gentlemen. He has forthcoming: a third companion to the League;
The Encyclopedia of Pulp Heroes, a guide to characters in
genre fiction from 1902-1945; The Encyclopedia of Golden Age
Superheroes, a guide to characters appearing in comic books
between 1935 and 1949; and a novel of alternate history. Nevins
is a reference librarian at Sam Houston State University.
Gloria Oliver lives in Texas with
her husband, daughter, three cats, and one ferret. She is
the author of the novels In the Service of Samurai,
and Vassal of El, both in the Fantasy genre. She also
has stories in the Four Bubbas of the Apocalypse, Small
Bites, and Fundamentally Challenged anthologies.
When not busy working with numbers at work, she enjoys reading,
writing, watching movies, Japanese Anime, trying to learn
Japanese, and making her mind mush by translating Japanese
comics.
Cary
G. Osborne of Norman, Okla., is the author of the Iroshi
trilogy (Iroshi, The Glaive, Persea) and the Deathweave
series(Deathweave, Darkloom) in science fiction. Her
sixth book was a fantasy titled Winter Queen. Her most
recently completed novel is an alternate history titled Cross
Over the River and she is currently working on an historical
fiction, a fantasy, and two romantic mysteries. Most of her
short stories have been in the horror genre, both published
and unpublished. However, last year she had an article published
in Chicken Soup for the Fisherman’s Soul. Meanwhile,
she is working on an audio book proposal, and maybe even some
gaming books.
Lawrence Person is a science
fiction writer living in Austin, Texas. His short fiction
has appeared in Asimov's, Analog, Postscripts, Fear, Jim Baen's
Universe and several anthologies, including the forthcoming
Cross Plains Universe. He also edits the Hugo-nominated SF
critical magazine Nova Express, and runs the Turkey City Writer's
Workshop. His non-fiction has appeared in National Review,
Reason, Whole Earth Review, Locus Online, The Freeman, The
World & I, Science Fiction Eye, The New York Review of
Science Fiction, and Slashdot.org. He owns such a large library
(mostly science fiction first editions) he had to buy a two-story
house to put it in, and then adopted a golden retriever to
drag him out of his house on a regular basis. He also makes
a mean batch of salsa.
John Picacio has illustrated covers
for books by Harlan Ellison, Michael Moorcock, Robert Silverberg,
Frederik Pohl, Jeffrey Ford, Joe R. Lansdale, Robert Heinlein,
Graham Joyce, and many, many more. He is currently one of
the six finalists for the prestigious Hugo Award in the Best
Professional Artist category (his second consecutive nomination),
and he has won the International Horror Guild Award, the Chesley
Award, and the much-coveted World Fantasy Award. A lush, 200-page
hardcover collection of his work, COVER STORY: THE ART OF
JOHN PICACIO, is now available from MonkeyBrain Books. For
more info, please see www.johnpicacio.com.
John
S. Quarterman is CEO of InternetPerils, Inc. He first
used the
ARPANET at Harvard, worked on ARPANET software at BBN, and
published the
first maps of the Internet with MIDS in 1993. His most recent
book is
Risk Management Solutions for Sarbanes-Oxley Section 404 IT
Compliance
ISBN 0-7645-9839-2. He also wrote The Matrix, a comprehensive
look at
the history, technology and people of computer networks worldwide,
and
co-author of The Design and Implementation of the 4.3BSD UNIX
Operating
System, and six other books.
Jessica Reisman
would like to be referred to from now on as the Great LaRue.
She's been writing for most of her life and is told she is
quite good, but no one ever throws flowers. If you decide
to throw flowers, please remove any thorns, and consider throwing
money instead. Her fiction has appeared or is forthcoming
in The Third Alternative, SciFiction, Realms of Fantasy,
Interzone, and some anthologies. Her first novel, The
Z Radiant, debuted in 2004. She feels a little old for
it, but happy nonetheless. She lives in Austin, Texas, where
she indulges various mild vices.
Carrie Richerson
lives in Austin with such notorious characters as Jeep the
WonderDog, Houdini the Escape Artist, and the Artful Dodger.
Her stories have appeared in F & SF, Amazing
Stories, Realms of Fantasy, and a number of anthologies.
New stories in Asimov's SF and the e-zine Aeon
should be out in time for ArmadilloCon.
Chris Roberson's short fiction
can be found in the anthologies Live Without a Net, The Many
Faces of Van Helsing, FutureShocks, and Forbidden Planets,
and in the pages of Asimov's, Postscripts, and Subterranean
Magazine. His novels include Here, There & Everywhere,
The Voyage of Night Shining White, and Paragaea: A Planetary
Romance, and he is the editor of the anthology Adventure Vol.
1. Roberson has been a finalist for the World Fantasy Award
for Short Fiction, twice for the John W. Campbell Award for
Best New Writer, and twice for the Sidewise Award for Best
Alternate History Short Form (winning in 2004 with his story
“O One”). Visit him online at www.chrisroberson.net.
Josh
Rountree is a lifelong Texan, but regardless
of stereotype, he doesn't ride a horse very well, he never
says ya'll when referring to a single person, and he can count
the number of oil wells he owns on no hands. Josh lives in
Austin with his wife and two sons, all of whom think he's
sort of weird. His short fiction has appeared in Realms of
Fantasy, Lone Star Stories, and other cool markets. His story
"Wood on Bone" received honorable mention in The Year's Best
Fantasy & Horror #17. For the complete scoop, visit www.joshrountree.com
Patrice
Sarath is an Austin-based writer. Her short stories
have appeared in magazines and anthologies including Year's
Best Fantasy 3, Realms of Fantasy, Black Gate, and Alfred
Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine. She is a graduate of the
popular Armadillocon Writer's Workshop.
Rie Sheridan has been published in
several ezines, as well as on the EOTU and Planet Relish websites.
Stories appear in the electronic version of Double Dragon
ePress' From Within The Mist and Mundania Press' Beyond
The Mundane: Flights Of Mind. Her poetry appeared in Mythic
Circle and Dreams of Decadence magazines. While
The Blood That Binds and The Lute And The Liar
are currently out-of-print, her anthology Rievisions
is available from Mundania and her Young Adult fantasy, The
Right Hand Of Velachaz from LTD Books. Information regarding
her books can be found at: http://www.riewriter.com/books.htm.
Sherlock
is a very eclectic San Antonio artist. Achieved a University
summa cum laude BFA in drawing, and then scribbled the rest
of her life away. Sherlock does fine art, graphic art, fan
art, illustrations, paintings, sewing, wild experimentation...you
name it. She's done a few clip art collections, illustrated
a book or two and snagged a Hugo nomination among other things…always
busy with something. A few of the latest creations include
almost a dozen illustrations for ANALOG, a CD cover (Geronimo
Trevino III), a Cthlulu-like monster mask, an animé
character doll (complete with light-up forehead gem and poseable
skeleton), illustrations for Jonathan Frid's (Barnabas Collins!)
King Richard III flash project, a large painting of Elvis,
a Styx club t-shirt, dragons and cartoons for conventions
and the like, painted gourds, fun signs, and funny animal
covers for Colorado Book Associates' catalogs. Coming up is
art for a funny science/ecology book for kids--Dr. DNA and
the Anacondas (by Lucas Miller, Austin's singing zoologist).
When not figuring out how to insanely combine things, Sherlock
clerks at the local library part-time, coaches her brilliant
up-and-coming manga-enthused sister Amy, or trips over the
overstuffed chow-mix, Paddington.
Willie Siros has been called "the Cardinal Richelieu
of Texas science fiction" by Howard Waldrop. Willie had an
awful lot to do with the creation of FACT, ArmadilloCon, SolarCon,
LoneStarCon, InstaCon, SerCon, and ALAMO. Currently he devotes
himself to being a bookseller with Adventures in Crime &
Space.
Caroline Spector was an Associate Editor for Amazing
Magazine. She also edited many role-playing game modules and
wrote three computer game hint books.
Then she decided to branch out and write fiction.
Her novel, Scars, was released in November, 2005. She will
have a story in the upcoming Wild Cards book, Inside Straight.
She lives in Texas with her husband, noted game designer Warren
Spector. You can reach her at her website: www.carolinespector.com
Warren
Spector received a BS in Speech from Northwestern
University and an MA in Radio-TV-Film from the University
of Texas at Austin. In 1983, just shy of his PhD in Communication,
Warren joined Steve Jackson Games where he worked on a variety
of boardgames and RPGs while rising to the position of Editor-in-Chief.
Four years later, he moved to TSR, where he added boardgame
design, choose-your-own-adventure books and novels to his
resume. Warren entered the world of electronic games with
ORIGIN in 1989, co-producing Ultima VI and Wing
Commander and producing Ultima Underworld 1 and
2, Ultima VII: Serpent Isle, System Shock, Wings
of Glory, Bad Blood, Martian Dreams and others. In 1997,
after a year as General Manager of Looking Glass Austin, Warren
started Ion Storm’s Austin development studio. He was
project director on Ion’s award-winning action/RPG,
Deus Ex, published in June 2000. Deus Ex was
reissued in a 2001 Game of the Year edition and, in 2002,
as Deus Ex: The Conspiracy on PS2. As Studio Director,
he oversaw development of Deus Ex: Invisible War, released
in December 2003, and Thief: Deadly Shadows, released
in June 2004. He left Ion Storm in November 2004 to “pursue
other interests.”
Mel
Tatum is the author of "Billy Frank, the POW and
the Geneva Convention," which appears in the anthology International
House of Bubbas from Yard Dog Press and "Timeline," which
appears in YDP's Flush Fiction anthology. She lives, works
and plays in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where she is a law professor,
a member of the City of Tulsa Pipes and Drums, and a has done
programming at Conestoga for six years now. She'll let you
figure out which is "work" and which is "play."
Mikal Trimmhas sold
a multitude of speculative stories and poems to numerous magazines
in four countries. Some of his more recent work appears (or
will soon appear) in Black Gate, Weird Tales, Postscripts,
Surreal, and various anthologies scattered hither and yon.
He also knows how to dance the waltz, polka, twist, and Smurf.
(And pray there's no Karioke at the Con...).
Howard Waldrop has been a professional
writer for 36 years. His groundbreaking fiction is frequently
nominated for major awards, and his story "The Ugly Chickens"
won both the Nebula and World Fantasy awards. Howard has been
called a "National Treasure" by Gardner Dozois. His ArmadilloCon-closing
reading on Sunday is sure to be a highlight of the convention.
Howard lives in Austin, Texas.
Lynn
Ward is a late bloomer whose work has appeared in small
press and anthologies. Currently she's writing the second
part of a trilogy per request of an interested editor. Interesting,
considering the first book was supposed to be a single volume.
She's a speech pathologist, cat lover, martial artist and
snarling questioner of authority.
Martha Wells is the author of seven
fantasy novels, including "Wheel of the Infinite"
and the Nebula-nominated "The Death of the Necromancer."
Her most recent novels are a fantasy trilogy: "The Wizard
Hunters," "The Ships of Air," and "The
Gate of Gods," published HarperCollins Eos. She has had
short stories in the magazines "Realms of Fantasy"
and "Black Gate", the anthology "Elemental,"
and essays in the nonfiction anthologies "Farscape Forever"
and "Mapping the World of Harry Potter." She also
has a media-tie-in novel, "Stargate Atlantis: Reliquary."
Her books have been published in eight languages, including
French, Spanish, German, Russian, and Dutch.
Wendy Wheeler is co-founder of
the SlugTribe SF/F group, the longest-running study group
of the Writers League of Texas. Her short fiction has been
selected for THE YEAR’S BEST FANTASY AND HORROR, and
has appeared in Analog, Aboriginal SF, Gorezone, Pandora,
Dead of Night and others. She's also had work in theme anthologies
SNOW WHITE, BLOOD RED and SILVER BIRCH, BLOOD MOON (both edited
by Datlow/Windling) and in THE CRAFTERS PARTS I AND II (edited
by Stasheff/Fawcett). She has taught fiction courses for UT
Informal Classes and across central Texas and was co-coordinator
of the DilloCon writers workshop for many years. She also
writes genre screenplays and hopes to option one soon. For
more information her website is www.wendy-wheeler.com.
Steve Wilson co-edited the fiction section
of RevolutionSF.com and the zine Space Squid. His stories
have appeared in Opium.com and Parageography. As a freelance
journalist, He has occasionally written on genre-related topics,
such as my "San Diego Comic Con Survival Guide" in this month's
GQ, an essay in the Buffy/Angel crit book "Reading the Slayer"
(Tauris Parket, 2002).
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