Who's Doing The Talking?

David B. Coe

David B. Coe is the award-winning author of nine fantasy novels and the occasional short story. His LonTobyn Chronicle (Children of Amarid , The Outlanders, and Eagle-Sage, all published by Tor Books) received the Crawford Fantasy Award, given annually by the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts to the best work by a new author in fantasy. His latest novel, The Sorcerers’ Plague (also from Tor Books), is the first installment in his Blood of the Southlands trilogy, a follow-up to the critically acclaimed Winds of the Forelands sequence (Rules of Ascension, Seeds of Betrayal, Bonds of Vengeance, Shapers of Darkness, Weavers of War). David’s novels have been translated into more than half a dozen languages, including Russian, German, French, and Spanish.

David received his undergraduate degree from Brown University and then attended Stanford University as a graduate student in United States history. He received both a Master’s and a Ph.D. from Stanford, completing his doctoral dissertation in U.S. environmental history in 1993. He briefly taught history at the University of the South, and continues to give guest lectures in the University’s environmental studies program. In 2006, David was a guest speaker at the Magic Casements Speculative Fiction Festival in Sydney, Australia. He has twice been a guest speaker at the Sewanee Young Writers’ Conference at the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee, and has twice been a faculty member at the annual South Carolina Writers’ Workshop Conference.

His web site can be found at: www.DavidBCoe.com

Faith Hunter

A native of Louisiana, Faith Hunter spent her early years on the bayou and rivers, learning survival skills and the womanly arts. She liked horses, dogs, fishing and crabbing much better than girly skills. Still does. History and ancient writings excite her even more, perhaps because she can trace her own family tree back to William the Conqueror’s invasion of England in 1066, later to Sehoy III, an American Indian, and to the gens de couleur libre, the free men of color in New Orleans at the time of the War Between the States.

As a girl, she fell in love with fantasy and sifi, reading five books a week, and wishing she, “could write that great stuff.” Teachers in high school convinced her she could, and she’s been writing ever since, with a desire to see ultimate good fight and defeat ultimate evil, and humans as part of the battle. Her books to date are Bloodring, Seraphs, and Host, now out in trade paperback, and soon to be released in mass market paperback.

Faith has two new books under contract to ROC, about a Cherokee Skinwalker. She is currently working on the role playing game of the Rogue Mage universe. She shares her life with her Renaissance Man and their dogs.

To find out more about Faith, go to www.faithhunter.net

Misty Massey

Misty Massey has always been a voracious reader. It was no surprise to anyone when she began writing. Her first attempt was a story based in the world of her favorite television show, The Wild Wild West (they call that sort of thing “fanfic” nowadays. She had no idea she was starting a trend.) She dabbled with short stories for years, even publishing a few in small press magazines, until she found and joined a writing critique group, and tried her hand at writing novels.

When she’s not writing, she enjoys reading, belly dancing with her troupe, the Beledi Beat Dancers, and playing a pirate character at the Carolina Renaissance Faire. Her novel, Mad Kestrel (coming from Tor Books in March 2008), was born from her fascination with pirates and her love of fantasy. Her secret identity as a mild-mannered middle school librarian allows her to keep up with current releases and new authors. She’s married to her best friend, and they have one son.

Drop by and visit Misty at www.mistymassey.com

Mindy Klasky

Mindy Klasky learned to read when her parents shoved a book in her hands and told her that she could travel anywhere in the world through stories. She never forgot that advice.

Mindy’s travels took her through multiple careers. After graduating from Princeton University, Mindy considered becoming a professional stage manager or a rabbi. Ultimately, though, she settled on being a lawyer, working as a litigator at a large Washington firm. When she realized that lawyering kept her from writing (and dating and sleeping and otherwise living a normal life), Mindy became a librarian, managing large law firm libraries. Mindy now writes full time.

For years, Mindy’s dating life was a travel extravaganza as well. She balanced twenty-eight first dates in one year, selecting eligible gentlemen from sources as varied as Washingtonian magazine ads, Single Volunteers of D.C., and supposedly-certain recommendations from best friends. Ultimately, she swore off the dating scene entirely. After two years of carefully-enforced datelessness, she made one last foray onto Match.com, where she met her husband – on her first match.

Mindy’s travels have also taken her through various literary genres. In addition to her Red Dress Ink and Mira books, Mindy has written numerous short stories and six traditional fantasy novels, including the award-winning, best-selling The Glasswrights’ Apprentice.

In her spare time, Mindy quilts, cooks, and tries to tame the endless to-be-read shelf in her home library. Her husband and cats do their best to fill the left-over minutes.

C. E. Murphy

C.E. Murphy, better known in real life as Catie, is the author of a variety of urban fantasy series (including the Walker Papers series and the Negotiator Trilogy), action-adventure romance (written under the name Cate Dermody), a forthcoming epic science fiction series entitled The Inheritors’ Cycle, and, beginning this spring, a monthly comic book called “Take A Chance”.

No wonder her editor and agent both politely suggested she find a hobby that *wasn’t* writing. She has, accordingly, taken up the tin whistle (though she usually puts it right back down again), and she pursues photography as regularly as she remembers to bring the camera with her when she leaves the house.

Born and raised in Alaska, Catie now resides in her ancestral homeland of Ireland with her husband (a gourmet chef), where she is making an effort to get out and see the countryside. Some days it even works!

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