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“Pros”-Continued from page 28edited four anthologies, and gives writing workshops. She also walks,cooks, knits, investigates wine, travels, watches movies, enjoysmusic, studies history, and adores animals.http://www.janetpack.com.DAVID DEEN is a professional illustrator and former resident of St.Louis who recently abandoned our fannish community to tackle thefrontiers of Boston, Mass. He’s done 3D modeling for computer gamessuch as Age of Empires and Railroad Tycoon II & III, but has given upthat glamorous life to take on the more traditional role of starving artist,doing book covers and selling in con art shows. Congratulate him onthe recent birth of his son. http://www.daviddeen.comDAVID DEITRICK has been lucky enough to work (and teach) in justabout every aspect and medium in the art field. He’s drawn, painted,and sculpted to create illustration, design (of several flavors) and fineart. http://www.davidr3deitrick.comLORI DEITRICK is a frequent collaborator with her husband David onart and graphic design projects, although their collaborations take theform of doing separate pieces for the same overall project and notworking together on single pieces of art.MARK DODSON is a voice actor born in St.Louis who is best known for the voice of“Salacious B. Crumb” in Return of the Jediand voices in the Gremlins films. This is hisfirst appearance at Archon.LINDA DONAHUE is the author of severalpieces of short fiction appearing inpublications from a number of small presspublishers, perhaps most notably as one ofThe Four Redheads of the Apocalypse from Art : John KaufmanYard Dog Press. Prior to that, she wasknown across fandom as a member of the Ravenar dance troupe,performing at conventions across the Midwest and at Worldcons.She’s an experienced instructor of tai chi and has judged andcompeted in martial arts competitions winning several medals alongthe way.GARDNER DOZOIS was the Editor of Asimov’s Science FictionMagazine for twenty years and is still the Editor of the annualanthology series The Year’s Best Science Fiction from St. Martin’sPress. He’s won 15 Hugo Awards for Editing and two Nebula Awardsfor his own writing. He’s the Author or Editor of over 100 books.Gardner was Guest of Honor at Archon 23.ELONKA DUNIN — of Simutronics (play.net) is a founding member ofthe International Game Developers Associationn’s Online GamesCommittee, a world-traveler and an award winning cryptographercurrently working on cracking “Kryptos.” Lately she has been helpingthe war on terrorism by teaching about Al Qaeda codes.http://www.elonka.com“GORGEOUS” GARY EHRLICH stalks the hallways of Northeastconventions and assorted filk conventions. A mild-mannered structuralengineer in mundania, at cons he can be found on stage or in the filkroom offering songs of space flight, lunar colonies and hyperspacehotels http://www.speakeasy.org/~electro/electro.htmlBILL FAWCETT, a past Archon Guest of Honor, has been a professor,teacher, corporate executive, and college dean. He is one of thefounders of Mayfair Games and has designed both board games andcomputer games. As a book packager, his company Bill Fawcett andAssociates has packaged over 250 books for every major publisher.He’s the author of several novels of his own, and edited andcontributed to the classic military SF series The Fleet with DavidDrake. As an anthologist Bill has edited or co-edited over 50anthologies.DOUG FERGUSON - Since Pikachu pays his rent, Doug Fergusonruns Pokémon USA’s Operations. Formerly a comic & game retailer inSaint Louis (The Raven’s Loft), Doug joined Wizards of the Coast in1994 when their signature game, Magic: The Gathering wastransforming the game industry. Doug has attended over 20 Archonssince 1980 and you’ll probably find him with a beer in his hand chattingwith friends.SHEILA FINCH has published eight science fiction novels, more thanthirty short stories, and a number of articles about SF and writing. Sheis probably best known for her series about the Guild of Xenolinguists(the novella, Reading the Bones, won a Nebula). A collection of thelingster stories, THE GUILD OF XENOLINGUISTS, will be publishedby Golden Gryphon Press this summer. Home is Long Beach, CA,where she lives with a cat and two retired racing greyhounds.jan howard finder AKA WOMBAT has been reading SF for 50 years &active in SF circles for 30 years. He’s chairednumerous conventions, been an HonoredGuest at the 1993 Worldcon in SanFrancisco, and published an award winningfanzine, The Spang Blah. He’s participatedin, judged and MC’d masquerades. He sold ashort story in 81 and edited an SF anthology,Alien Encounters. He has otheraccomplishments far too numerous tomention and was the Fan GoH at Archon 30last year.ERIC FLINT is a writer of science fiction andfantasy. His “official” writing career began with the publication in 1993of a short story entitled Entropy, and the Strangler. That story won firstplace in the Winter 1992 Writers of the Future contest. His first solonovel was Mother of Demons published by Baen Books in 1993. Sincethen he’s gone on to write over 30 novels, both solo and withcollaborators such as David Weber, Mercedes Lackey, David Drakeand Dave Freer. Besides editing several collections of classic SF forBaen Books, he was the original General Editor for Jim Baen’sUniverse. http://www.ericflint.comMICHAEL F. FLYNN began selling science fiction in 1984, rapidlybecoming a mainstay of Analog SF. His stories have also appeared inAsimov’s, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, and WeirdTales. Author of eight novels and two story collections, Flynn is bestknown for the four-book Firestar series and the critically praised TheWreck of The River of Stars.MITCH FOUST – has been a professional illustrator for the pasttwenty years. His many art credits include book covers, comic books,and role playing games. He has a Marketing degree from theUniversity of Memphis and is currently the Art Director at Mid-American Specialties in Memphis, TN, where he lives with his wifeKathy and two children. News and current artwork can be found athttp://www.mitchfoust.com.KIM FRITTS – was born, raised and schooled (BA in Illustration atWash. U.) in St. Louis where she sold her first sculpture, a weldeddragon made in her senior year of high school at her first SF con.“Pros”-Continued on page 3229