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            K.D. Wentworth has sold more than seventy pieces of short fiction to such markets as Fantasy and Science Fiction, Hitchcock’s, Realms of Fantasy, Dying For It, Return to the Twilight Zone, and The Chick Is in the Mail. She is a two-time Nebula nominee...

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            Wil Upchurch is a long time game editor for such titles as DARK INHERITANCE, DAWNFORGE, MIDNIGHT, SKRAAG: CITY OF ORKS, and WILDERNESS AND WASTELAND. Check out his thoughts on the gaming industry at his online journal.             Wil Upchurch’s website can be found at...

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            Mel Tatum is the author of “Billy Frank, the POW and the Geneva Convention,” published in Yard Dog Press’ International House of Bubbas Anthology and “Timeline,” in the Flush Fiction anthology forthcoming from Yard Dog. She is also the author of numerous other things...

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            Davette Shands earned the Chesley in 1998 for Best Monochrome – Unpublished for “Waiting for Antony”, depicting Cleopatra’s yearning for Marc Antony. She has shown her artwork at numerous conventions but has not had the time recently to pursue it, due to her writing...

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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...

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Thomas W. Knowles writes SF stories (“Curtain Call,” “Luck of the Draw,” “Captured Angel,” and “Just the Right Light”) that cross genres and mix actual history with myth and legend.  His award-winning non-fiction books deal with Americana, Victoriana, and military and law enforcement history.  The...

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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...

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William Ledbetter is a speculative fiction writer, with short stories in multiple publications, including Jim Baen’s Universe and several Yard Dog Press anthologies.  He is also a sometimes editor, currently working helping out at Heroic Fantasy Quarterly and Quantum Kiss ezines, and runs the annual...

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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. Her recent sales include “Think Small” (Enchantment Place, DAW Books) and “Lost in Whitby” (Fabulous Whitby, Shrew Press UK),...

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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...

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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...

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P.N. ELROD has sold more than twenty novels and as many short stories in several genres. She is best known for her VAMPIRE FILES series and has edited several anthologies including MY BIG FAT SUPERNATURAL HONEYMOON, STRANGE BREW, and the forthcoming DARK AND STORMY KNIGHTS...

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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...

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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...

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Lou Antonelli is a long-time newspaper editor who started writing s-f and fantasy in 2002 when he was 45. ConDFW  II in 2003 was the first con he ever attended. After seven years he’s had 47 short stories published in the U.S., Canada, Australia and...

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Carole Nelson Douglas (www.carolenelsondouglas.com), author of 55 novels in multiple genres, is a former daily newspaper reporter/editor. Her Delilah Street, Paranormal Investigator urban fantasy series, with starred Publisher’s Weekly reviews for DANCING WITH WEREWOLVES and BRIMSTONE KISS, returned Carole to fantasy after 15 years of...

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Rachel Caine is the author of the popular Weather Warden series (Ill Wind, Heat Stroke, Chill Factor, Windfall, Firestorm, Thin Air, Gale Force and Cape Storm).  The ninth (and last) Weather Warden novel, Total Eclipse, will be released in August 2010.  February 2010 also sees the release of Unknown, the second book of...

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Robert Stikmanz is author of The Hidden Lands of Nod cycle of off-beat fantasy novels. He is also creator of Nod’s Way, a fantasy divination system rooted in his fictional world, and of Dvarsh, an invented language for which he is currently preparing a dictionary....

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Stephen Patrick  has been published in several genres, including horror, sci fi and mystery and his writing has appeared in Great Mystery and  Suspense, Whispering Spirits, The Writer’s Post Journal, Aphelion, Bewildering Stories, and Abandoned Towers among others. His short story won the 2009 ConDFW short story contest and has...

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Michael Ashleigh Finn is a short story author trying his hand at novel writing. He is also a freelance thematic consultant, currently working for Dynamite Entertainment  on the Hugo-nominated  Jim Butcher’s The Dresden Files.  He is also a moderator for www.jimbutcheronline.com, and was chief editor for the...

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