Thomas F. Monteleone is an American science fiction author and horror fiction author. His first novel, Seeds of Change was the lead-off title in the critically unsuccessful Laser Books line of science fiction titles (see for details), but he went on to become a popular writer of supernatural thrillers. He is no relation to Chicago Outfit mobster Tom Monteleone.

Monteleone has been a professional writer since 1972, and 4-time winner of the Bram Stoker Award. He has published more than 100 short stories in numerous magazines and anthologies. His stories have been nominated for many awards, and have appeared in lots of best-of-the-year compilations.

His notorious column of opinion and entertainment, T”he Mothers And Fathers Italian Association,” currently appears in Cemetery Dance magazine. He is the editor of seven anthologies, including the highly acclaimed Borderlands series edited with his wife, Elizabeth, of which, Borderlands 5, won a Bram Stoker Award in 2003.

He has written for the stage and television, having scripts produced for American Playhouse (which won him the Bronze Award at the International TV and Film Festival of New York and the Gabriel Award), George Romero’s Tales from the Darkside, and a series on Fox TV entitled Night Visions. He has written many feature-length screenplays, none of which have been produced.

Of his thirty-six books, his novel, The Blood of the Lamb received the 1993 Bram Stoker Award, and The New York Times Notable Book of the Year Award. His four collections of selected short fiction are Dark Stars and Other Illuminations (1981), Rough Beasts and Other Mutations (2003),The Little Brown Book of Bizarre Stories (2004), and Fearful Symmetries (2004),which won the 2004 Bram Stoker Award. His novels, The Resurrectionist and Night of Broken Souls, global thrillers from Warner Books, received rave reviews and have been optioned for films. The Reckoning (2000), a sequel to The Blood of the Lamb, and The Eyes of the Virgin (2002) have been published by Forge. His omnibus volume of essays about the book and film industries entitled The Mothers And Fathers Italian Association was recently published by Borderlands Press (www.borderlandspress.com) and won the 2003 Bram Stoker Award for Non-Fiction. He is also the author of the bestseller, The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Writing a Novel (2004), and is currently at work on his latest novel, an historical thriller. His books and stories have been translated into twelve foreign languages. He’s a writer—please don’t call him an “author.”

      A native of the Dallas area (Denton), Aaron Allston fled long ago to Austin. There, from a secret lair with a 30-year mortgage, he plans someday to decide what to do with the rest of his life.
      In the meantime, he writes SF&F novels, including entries in the Star Wars: Legacy of the Force series (Betrayal, Exile, Fury) and the Doc Sidhe series (Doc Sidhe, Sidhe-Devil). He has also worked in the role-playing game field, designing supplements for Champions, GURPS, Dungeons & Dragons, and many more systems.

      Visit his web site at www.AaronAllston.com.

             John’s film credits include writing, directing, producing, and animating.  In 1987 he and partner, Keith Alcorn, founded DNA Productions, Inc., a full service animation company based in Dallas, Texas, that currently produces 3D animation for feature films and television.  DNA has created animation for such projects as the Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius feature film for Paramount, The Ant Bully feature for Warner Brothers, as well as the Adventures of Jimmy Neutron television series on Nickelodeon.

             In 1997 Davis wrote and directed the first all-3D animated special for primetime — Santa Vs. The Snowman.  It aired as an ABC Christmas special, and it won a Gold Award from the World Fest-Houston International Film Festival, as well as a Lone Star Award.  The film currently runs in IMAX 3D theaters during the Christmas season.  

             In 1999, Davis served as animation director for Fox’s Christmas special Olive the Other Reindeer for Simpson’s creator Matt Groening.  The project was produced at DNA Productions and earned Davis an Emmy nomination in 2000. 

             Davis is the creator of Jimmy Neutron.  Begun as a short film in 1995, he later wrote, directed, and produced the feature film, Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius, earning him an Academy Award nomination in the new Animated Feature category in 2002.  Davis was also creator and producer of The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius television series.   

             His most recent project, the 3D animated feature film entitled The Ant Bully opened in theatres and in IMAX 3D on July 28, 2006.   John served as writer, director, and producer (along with producer Tom Hanks).  The film was produced for Hank’s Playtone Productions and Warner Brothers.

             John’s other writing assignments include the live-action script adaptation of Robert A. Heinlein’s The Star Beast for Warner Brothers in 2006.

             John A. Davis graduated from Southern Methodist University in 1984 with a BFA in film production, receiving the first ever Nash Clay Parsley award for outstanding graduating senior in film.  He currently resides in Dallas, Texas.

John Davis’s website can be found at www.dnahelix.com

Chris Donahue is an Electrical Engineer currently working for Dallas Water Utilities. He has worked in semiconductor, defense and other engineering fields as well as serving as an avionics tech in the Navy. He is a history and movies buff. He has been writing novels for years and gone into short stories about three years ago. He has sales to Yard Dog Press (Flush Fiction and Houston, We’ve Got Bubbas), From the Asylum Press (Loving the Undead), Lulu Press (Speculative Realms) and co-autohored as story with his wife, Linda in Elder Signs Press (High Seas Cthulhu).

Kevin was born on the year of 1957 in south central Oklahoma in quite close proximity to the geographical center of nowhere.  Shortly there after he grabbed a number two pencil and a Big Chief writing tablet and started reproducing the local wildlife.  That project continues to this day though the technique and tools have changed greatly.  Along the way Kevin earned a degree in Fine Arts with postgraduate additions and has studied under several internationally acclaimed artists.  Though his own studies are never completed he is an Oklahoma accredited art teacher and has taught high school art and vocational painting classes.  He also teaches private classes in painting, drawing, and Photoshop.  During the early eighties Kevin was a medalic art designer with Award Design Medals, Noble, OK.  While there he designed over 1,000 product lines of fashion art and a piece that headed into space on the ill-fated ‘Challenger’ space shuttle expedition.  Later Kevin became associated with Realm Press, a comics publisher in Michigan and worked there as artist and art director for their ‘Battle Star Galactica’ and ‘The Drakkon Wars’ licensed series.  In ’90 Kevin was a quarterly winner in the L.Ron Hubbard Illustrators of the Future Contest and attended the Los Vegas awards presentations.  ‘My Star Press’ owned by ‘Star Trek’ writer and ‘Communicator’ fanzine editor Larry Nemecek, has commissioned Kevin to produce several Trek related art pieces over the years for their many publications.  In the late ‘90’s Kevin relocated to the heart of Hollywood and began work on a pre-syndication comic strip and discovered the emerging field of digital imaging.  While there he was a guest of several local conventions including LosCon, and the San Diego Comics Con.  After two more years of drawing comics Kevin was picked up by Warner Brothers Studios and was involved with some aspect of almost every motion picture produced by them between 2001 and 2006, including ‘The Matrix,’ Looney Toons, Back in Action,’ Last Samurai,’ The first four Harry Potter films, and ‘Batman Begins.’  Over this period Kevin has produced several magazine and paperback book covers and taken awards at convention art shows to numerous to mention.  For spare time hobbies he enjoys writing, sculpting, and being a fossil enthusiast.

Born in Texas and educated on both coasts, K. Hutson Price did time as a government contractor, recruiter, and specialist.  Before that there were short stints in used car sales, public service, and even was the waterfront director for a girl scout camp.  However, now Price flings information at prepubescent individuals as a 4 th grade teacher in a low-income public school.

Price is the LETS (Law Enforcement Teaching students) liason for a local school district as well as a member of the Texas Defensive Shooters club.  So far these facts remain mutually exclusive.

Price’s writing is influenced by Joss Whedon’s every word, the insane things students pull at school,  and almost anything that Yard Dog Press throws out there.  To experience that odd blending of styles, readers can find Price’s short fiction in International House of Bubbas, Underglass, This Way Up, Under the Clocktower , and Flush Fiction.  Both anthologies are available in the dealer’s room.

All the hobbies that were once entered into with wild abandon have been whittled down to stalking Brad Denton, feral cricket slaying and the occasional Olympic hamster toss event.   However, Price does continue to collect money, but will happily accept fan mail and free drinks in lieu of folding cash.

Glenn Sixbury is an author, father, and co-owner of a software development firm.  He lives in the middle of nowhere surrounded by a madding crowd comprised of wife, children, a large herd of cats, and a solitary dog.  For the past couple years he’s been striving for a sense of normalcy in his life but has given up on this idea and has chosen instead to accept his fate, interesting though nerve-wracking it may be.  His first published novel, Earth Final Conflict: Legacy, is one of the few media tie-in novels that can be enjoyed by anyone and has officially become a collector’s item.  His latest published story appears in the International House of Bubbas.  His latest unpublished story appears in Juli Mandala’s star-studded yet ethereal Anthology from Hell, which is, without a doubt, the funniest and most interesting collection of short stories not yet published.

When not standing behind her husband, Brad, with a two by four to make sure he finishes his various writing projects, Sue performs in various community theatre productions. With her husband she is a caretaker of the home owned by two cats named Pewter and Ashe, who at last report were planning to take over the universe. She has had stories in “Computing Times,” as well as the Yard Dog Press chapbook collection Playing with Secrets, and the anthologies Small Bites, International House of Bubbas, and Rotten Relations (with Brad). A second collaborative story with her husband appears in Houston, We Got Bubbas. Her latest solo story appeared in Flush Fiction from Yard Dog Press.

Like many aerospace engineers, Scott is a frustrated astronaut wanna-be (unlike some, he freely admits this). Scott has held the world’s third-best job, and once received an award for making a planeload of scientists ill. He has worked for both the Space Shuttle and Space Station programs, and when talking to non-techie types he describes his current job as “making sure the shuttle gets into space with no gigantic kabooms”.

Off the job, Scott is a polyamorous vegetarian single parent (just like everyone else in fandom). Past hobbies have included SCA rapier combat and tall-ship sailing, but these days his primary evening activities seem to be cook and chauffeur (see “single parent” earlier).

Cat arrives from Arlington – that’s Texas, not the national cemetery, although his puns can be deadly and have reportedly jeopardized his allotted nine lives.  (Actually, he’s recently moved to Fort Worth, but close enough … wherever he’s from, just pretend he’s a famous dead artist and purchase his paintings accordingly.)  His background includes a degree in fine arts from the University of Science and Arts in Oklahoma.  From there, Cat leaned just how far an art degree would take him … across town and into a 10-year stint with an UnFortunate 500 company … as an industrial chemist.  He often wonders if there isn’t some frustrated chemist out there sweating over a drawing board and muttering, “What the hell happened to my resume?” Prolonged exposure to hazardous materials did little to improve Cat’s humor, but it did convince him that he wasn’t making a better living through chemistry.  In 1991 he moved on to greener pastures – in preference to becoming a permanent part of the “underground” movement!   Currently, in addition to being an award-winning painter and cunning linguist, Cat is making broad brushstrokes as a popular speaker and auctioneer, and continues to gain prominence as a fan entertainer.  He has been a featured auctioneer at numerous conventions throughout the Southwest, including the famed five and a half hour marathon auction of WorldCon 51.

            Cat Conrad’s website can be found at http://www.ArtistsInResidence.com/Cat.