Thomas M. Wagner (Martin to his friends) has a double resume in science fiction and fantasy. His website SFReviews.Net has become one of the web’s leading sites devoted exclusively to original SF and fantasy book reviews.  With an average of 12,000 visitors a day, it currently boasts an archive of over 540 reviews. What Martin does for a living is something else entirely. Since 2002 he has been a film/TV industry professional in Austin, and is currently working on his directorial debut with the feature documentary Bloody Work. Martin has been a ConDFW participant since 2004.

Thomas M. Wagner’s website can be found at http://www.sfreviews.net.

            Amy Sisson is a writer, book reviewer, academic librarian, and graduate of the Clarion West writers workshop. Most recently, her fiction has appeared in “The Sky’s the Limit”, a 20th anniversary celebration of “Star Trek: The Next Generation” (Pocket Books, Oct. 2007).  Stories in her “Unlikely Patron Saints” series appeared and are archived on Strange Horizons (April 2007 and September 2007).

            Amy Sisson’s website can be found at http://www.amysisson.com.

            Bradley H. Sinor has seen his short stories published in numerous anthologies, such as KNIGHT FANTASTIC, DRACULA IN LONDON, BUBBAS OF THE APOCOLYPSE, MERLIN, MEN WRITING SF AS WOMEN, HAUNTED HOLIDAYS, ON CRUSADE, INTERNATIONAL HOUSE OF BUBBAS, GATEWAYS, SMALL BITES and ALL HELL BREAKING LOOSE, SPACE CADETS, THE GRANTVILLE GAZETTE. 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 latest stories will be in the anthologies PLACES TO GO, PEOPLE TO KILL, RING OF FIRE 2 and HOUSTON, WE GOT BUBBAS (written with his wife Sue).
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 and THE CHERRYH ODESSEY.

            Bradley H. Sinor’s website is http://www.zettesworld/Sinor/index.htm.

            Rie Sheridan has been writing since she first picked up a crayon.  Her short story anthology, RIEVISIONS, is available from Mundania Press, and the YA Novel THE RIGHT HAND OF VELACHAZ is available from Writer’s Exchange ePress. She has two chapbooks with YardDog Press featuring the inestimable team of Bruce Vincent and Roxanne Rogers — TALES FROM THE HOME FOR WAYWARD SPIRITS AND BAR-B-QUE GRILL and BRUCE AND ROXANNE SAVE THE WORLD…AGAIN.  She also has two romantic fantasies available, THE LUTE AND THE LIAR from Awestruck Books and SIDHE MOVED THROUGH THE FAIRE from Midnight Showcase.

            Rie Sheridan’s website can be found at http://www.riewriter.com.

Nina Romberg is the bestselling author of twenty internationally published books in several popular genres, including horror novels THE SPIRIT STALKER and SHADOW WALKERS. She is also the founder and developer of Way of the Writer, a unique approach to writer motivation and support through hypnosis CDs. Writing as Jane Archer, she created THE FIRST FIRE: STORIES OF THE CHEROKEE, KICKAPOO, KIOWA AND TIGUA and TEXAS INDIAN MYTHS AND LEGENDS, American Indian mythology and history books with stories featured on audio inside a storyteller’s tipi in Frontier Texas!, a museum in Abilene. OUT OF THE WEST was optioned for a television movie, and she is currently at work on a shamanic paranormal romantic suspense novel. Visit her at janearcher.com and wayofthewriter.com.

            Jane Archer’s website is: http://www.janearcher.com.

            Gloria Oliver lives in Texas with her husband, daughter, and three cats.  She is the author of the novels In the Service of Samurai, Vassal of El, and Willing Sacrifice all in the Fantasy and YA/Fantasy genres.  Two of the novels were finalists in the EPPIES.  Cross-eyed Dragon Troubles is due for release in 2008 and Price of Mercy around 2010.  She also has stories in The Four Bubbas of the Apocalypse, Houston: We’ve Got Bubbas, Small Bites, and Fundamentally Challenged 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, Japanese Anime.   To find out more, please
visit www.gloriaoliver.com

     Julia S. Mandala is a Kansas City native, now living in Plano, TX.  She has a B.A. in History from Kansas State University and a law degree from Tulane University.  Her hobbies include scuba diving, middle-eastern dance, costuming and music.    

     Her chapbooks, Four Redheads of the Apocalypse, co-authored with Linda Donahue, Dusty Rainbolt and Rhonda Eudaly (for which she was the Photoshop artist and one of the cover models), and Dracula’s Lawyer, are available from Yard Dog Press.  She also has stories in YDP’s International House of Bubbas, Houston, We’ve Got Bubbas and Flush Fiction.  Her other short stories have appeared in The Mammoth Book of Comic Fantasy II, MZB’s Fantasy Magazine and Adventures of Sword & Sorcery.

            Joy Marie Ledet is both a talented sculptor and illustrator. As a sculptor she is best known for her whimsical dragon figures and cookie jars (”Joyous Dragons”), but she can create almost anything. Her newest line consists of fine silver jewelry hand sculpted from precious metal clay (”Mythic Jewelry”). As an illustrator she has produced graphite, color pencil and acrylic work inspired by her dragons, cats, mythology and folklore (Joy Marie Ledet Fine Drawings and Illustration). Her illustrations have appeared in genre magazines, comics, book interiors and several book covers. Through the years Ledet has won over 50 awards for her art, among them a Chesley for Best Monochrome Work.

            William Ledbetter lives near Dallas with his wife, two of his three kids and way too many animals. His science fiction and fantasy short stories have been published by Fantasist Enterprises for their “Sails & Sorcery” anthology, Jim Baen’s Universe and several Yard Dog Press anthologies including “Houston, we’ve got Bubbas.”  He also leads a Dallas writers group called Future Classics and is an active member of the local National Space Society chapter.  

            William Ledbetter’s website can be found at http://www.WilliamLedbetter.com.

            Thomas W. Knowles writes SF stories (”Curtain Call,” “Luck of the Draw,” “Captured Angel,” and “Just the Right Light”) that cross genres and mix true history with myth and legend. His award-winning non-fiction books deal with Americana, Victoriana, and military and law enforcement history. The American West is his favorite subject whether he’s writing SF, historical fiction, or non-fiction, and he’s visited that period in his Wild West series edited with Joe R. Lansdale, and in his three-volume, authorized history of the Texas Rangers, THEY RODE FOR THE LONE STAR.

            In 2007, Tom and his business partners founded two new Texas-based publishing companies, Lone Star Publishing and Dark Star Books.

            His website is http://members.aol.com/thomask2/wildwestshow/wws1.html.