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 […]

            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 […]

            Beverly A. Hale is a storyteller, no matter what else she does in the meanwhile. She recently participated in a Halloween reading of horror stories at Galileo’s in the Paseo District of Ok;ahoma  City with Oklahoma authors Steve Wedel and Craig Wolf. Her work has been published ias short stories, a novel, gaming adventures  […]

            Brad W. Foster is an illustrator, cartoonist, writer, publisher, and whatever other labels he can use to get him through the door! He’s won the Fan Artist Hugo a few times (five), picked up a Chesley award, and turned a bit of self-publishing started almost thirty years ago into the Jabberwocky Graphix publishing empire. […]

            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 […]

             Carole Nelson Douglas, the author of  50-some novels, moved to Texas to write fiction full-time after several years as an award-winning daily newspaper reporter and editor in St. Paul, Minnesota.
             She’s written some bestselling high fantasy novels in two series and a pair of SF thrillers, then took a few SF/F notions along when […]

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 […]

         Chris Roberson’s novels include Here, There & Everywhere, The Voyage of Night Shining White, Paragaea: A Planetary Romance, X-Men: The Return, Set the Seas on Fire, The Dragon’s Nine Sons, and the forthcoming End of the Century, Iron Jaw and Hummingbird, and Three Unbroken. His short stories have appeared in such magazines as Asimov’s, […]

David A. Cherry took a long time deciding what he wanted to do in life before he finally settled on art. Through the mid 70’s he was happy being a lawyer. Then in 1976 his sister C.J. Cherryh asked him to come along to Kansas City’s WorldCon and he stumbled on the acres of art […]

            David L. Gray, creator of the BUZZ BLASTER SPACE ENTREPRENEUR series of radio plays, is back at ConDFW for an encore performance. Join Buzz and his intrepid friends as they encounter manic robots and strange aliens in a series of space adventures.
            Written in the tradition of 1950’s radio space dramas, these half-hour productions […]

David Lee Anderson is a science fiction and fantasy illustrator. He’s shown paintings at more than 350 convention art shows and has been the selected Artist Guest of Honor at twenty conventions. He’s done work for TOR Books and BAEN Books, Tomorrow SF Magazine, Isaac Asimov’s SF Magazine, Mayfair Games, Bethesda Softworks, Yard Dog Press […]

            Dusty Rainbolt is an award-winning cat writer according to her answering machine. She’s the author of the humorous cat care books Cat Wrangling Made Easy: Maintaining Peace and Sanity in Your Multicat Home and Kittens For Dummies (yup, one of funny, yet useful Dummies books.) Her new book (fantasy or nonfiction-your call) Ghost Cats: Human […]

            Frances A. May is a librarian at UNT who teaches a library school course about fiction genres.  She reveled in the extensive research she did for her class.  She has always particularly loved the Literatures of the Imagination, especially Science Fiction and Fantasy, and is delighted with the proliferation of books with a paranormal […]

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 […]

           Glenn Yeffeth is the editor of numerous science fiction/media anthologies, including the bestselling TAKING THE RED PILL: SCIENCE, PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION IN THE MATRIX and Finding Serenity: Anti-Heroes, Lost Shepherds and Space Hookers in Joss Whedon’s Firefly. He is also the CEO and publisher of BenBella Books, the fast-growing Dallas-based independent press.
            Glenn Yeffeth’s website […]

            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 […]

J M McDermott’s first novel, LAST DRAGON, is the first trade paperback of
Wizards of the Coast’s new Discoveries imprint. Jeff VanderMeer’s review,
appearing in the April 2008 issue of “Realms of Fantasy” says of the novel,
“Relentless, dark, and dangerous…A rare kind of clarity inhabits
McDermott’s prose through the character of Zhan and the entire novel is a
breath […]

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 […]

The son of an inventor, Jerry is a Dallas area author whose writing credits include a SF novel (Travels, published by Grand Central Publishing) and dozens of short stories found in such magazines as Aboriginal Science Fiction. He also runs GroovyMojo Media, which publishes Dark Energy SF as well as Quantum Kiss.
            Jerry Davis’ website […]

             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 […]

            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 […]

     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 […]

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 […]

            Once upon a time Katharine Eliska Kimbriel was a nominee for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New SF/Fantasy Writer. She has since straddled that magic no-man’s-land called “too literary to be commercial, too commercial to be literary.” Kimbriel just wants to tell good stories.
            She has published two alternative history fantasies of […]

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 […]

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 […]

            Lillian Stewart Carl’s work often features paranormal/fantasy themes and always features plots based on mythology, history, and archaeology. The latest of her fourteen (so far) novels is THE BURNING GLASS, third in a cross-genre series that begins with THE SECRET PORTRAIT and continues on with THE MURDER HOLE. “Authentic dialect, detailed descriptions of the […]

        Linda Donahue grew up an Air Force brat.  She has degrees in computer science, Russian studies, and a Masters in Earth science education, along with a commercial instrument pilot’s certification, a SCUBA certification, and is certified by NASA to borrow moon rock samples. Currently, she’s teaching tai chi and belly dance when not writing. […]

             Lou Antonelli is a life-long journalist and currently the managing editor of the Mount Pleasant (Tx.) Daily Tribune. He has won awards for news, features, column and editorial writing from the Texas Press Association and is a member of the Associated Press Managing Editors (APME).
              He began writing s-f and fantasy as a sideline […]

            Martha Wells is the author of seven fantasy novels, including Wheel of the Infinite, City of Bones, The Element of Fire, 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, all currently out in paperback […]

            Known affectionately by her kids as “Indiana Mom”, student anthropologist Mel White has renounced the Dilbert-In-CubeLand existence of a computer programmer for a life of adventure, books, and lots and lots of homework. In addition to her current research on the PaleoIndian “White Shaman” site in South Texas, she authored a number of papers […]

            Melanie Fletcher is an expatriate Chicagoan who currently lives in North Dallas with her husband the Bodacious Brit~A 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.  It’s a long story.  Her recent publications include […]

Dr. Paul Abell is a planetary scientist assigned to the Astromaterials Research and Exploration Directorate at NASA Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas and a research scientist at the Planetary Science Institute in Tucson, Arizona.. He has been studying potentially hazardous asteroids and near-Earth objects for over 7 years. He was a telemetry officer for the […]

            Paul Black is an award-winning author whose first novel, The Tels, won Writer’s Digest’s 2005 Book of the Year for Genre Fiction, along with being a finalist in the Independent Publisher’s Book Awards and The Eric Hoffer Book of the Year Award. His second book, Soulware, was also a finalist in the IP Book […]

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 […]

   
Rachel Caine is the author of the popular Weather Warden series (Ill Wind, Heat Stroke, Chill Factor, Windfall, Firestorm, and Thin Air).  Her seventh Weather Warden novel, Gale Force, will be released in the fall of 2008.
 She also writes to Morganville Vampires series (Glass Houses, The Dead Girls’ Dance, and Midnight Alley).  Glass Houses was […]

            Rhonda Eudaly lives in Arlington, Texas where she’s worked in offices, banking, radio, and education to support her writing and her cat, Dixon. She is recently married to a wonderful man, Jimmy, and his dog, Diamond. She likes to spend time with friends and family, swing dance, and read.  Her two passions are writing and […]

            Richard D. Weber was formerly Special Agent in Charge of Dignitary Protection with the U.S. Department of State’s Diplomatic Security Service. He protected the late Princess Diana and Prince Charles, the Secretary of State, The Prime Minister of Israel, and Saudi Arabia’s and Jordan’s ambassadors to name but a few. He’s a graduate of […]

            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 […]

            Scott Cupp is an award-winning short story writer from San Antonio. He frequently writes about the West with absurdist situations. His work can be found at www.revolutionsf.com and in the books RAZORED SADDLES, SOUTH FROM MIDNIGHT, FREAK SHOW, and WEIRD BUSINESS (among others). He recently edited the CROSS PLAINS UNIVERSE anthology with Joe R. […]

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 […]

            Selina’s short fiction has appeared in several magazines and anthologies including Sword and Sorceress 16, three of the MZB Fantasy Mags, Turn the Other Chick, both of the newest Thieves World anthologies, and Anthology At the End of the Universe.  Look for her new story, “The Big Trash,” in the spring issue of HelixOnLine.            […]

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 […]

            Teddy Harvia (aka David Thayer) is a well-known humorous fan artist from Dallas, Texas. Born in Oklahoma he soon rectified that situation and became a true Texan. In his 20s, Teddy discovered Science Fiction and the world of conventions. Art was an early part of his life and became a central part of his […]

            Teresa Patterson co-authored THE WORLD OF ROBERT JORDAN’S THE WHEEL OF TIME with Robert Jordan and THE WORLD OF SHANNARA with Terry Brooks. She has also written various fantasy stories, including “The Gift” featured in THE TIME OF THE VAMPIRES, and non-fiction articles. She served two terms as President of the Association of Science […]

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 […]

            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 […]

            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 […]