“Pros”-Continued from page 29Since leaving a 15-year stint as a medical illustrator in 1998, she’sdevoted herself to selling her own illustrations, sculpture and pottery,mostly at SCA, Pagan and SF events. See more athttp://www.ashandgriffin.com.CHRISTOPHER GARCIA edits the Hugo nominated fanzine The DrinkTank, co-edits SF/SF and is a former president of N3F and VP ofBASFA. http://efanzines.com/DrinkTank/index.htmHALEY ELIZABETH GARWOOD – has a Doctorate in Education andteaches English at Western Kentucky University. Her Warrior Queenseries takes forgotten women warriors who changed history andbrings them to life. Carefully researched material is woven intomemorable stories. http://www.haleyelizabethgarwood.com.DEBBIE GATES had never heard of filk before theChilds-Heltons joined Wild Mercy, and now her dogsand cats are wondering where she disappears to onweeekends. She is the chief Mac geek at a majorpublisher of computer books, because it’s fun andbecause something must support the instruments andthe weekend trips. http://www.wildmercy.com/CAROLYN IVES GILMAN – is an author from the St.Louis area. Her novel Halfway Human was publishedin 1998 and she was nominated for a Nebula Award forher story The Honeycrafters. Her short fiction hasappeared in numerous anthologies and “Best of”collections.ASHLEY GRAYSON founded and still runs the aptlynamed Ashley Grayson Literary Agency. With overthirty years experience operating his own independentagency, his group of agents represents clients such asauthors Geoffrey Landis, Bruce Coville and CarrieVaughn.BENNIE GREZLIK — has mainly been published byYard Dog Press in the past, with stories in four of theiranthologies. But Bennie is starting to break out intoother markets and will have a story appearing soon in Wondrous WebWorlds # 6 and will have a fantasy novel called The Ark of Ariannapublished by Stone Garden Publishing.LAURELL K. HAMILTON — is the author of 2 New York Times BestSeller series that mix mystery, fantasy, magic and romance. There arenow more than 6 million copies of her Anita Blake: Vampire Hunternovels in print worldwide, in 16 languages. Her second series aboutFey princess, Merry Gentry, continues with the most recent novelMistral’s Kiss. Strange Candy, a collection of short stories, wasrecently released. http://www.laurelkhamilton.orgGARY HANAK — <strong>Archon</strong> Filk anchor for the last decade or so. He’sbeen around filking since about 1987. Guitarist, singer, keyboardist,and closet accordion player, his filking credits include Filk GoH atNameThatCon 2001, M.O.O.N Con 2006, and Daranacon in Oct2007. Regular invitee for ShowMeCon (mainly because I’m a cheapdate). CDs include “Weekend Filker” (originals) and “Delusions ofAdequacy”(parodies)..SARA M. HARVEY – Born and raised in Northern California, Sara M.Harvey began writing under the tutelage of her 5th grade teacher. Shehas spent many years traveling the U.S. chasing variousemployments in the world of costume. A Year and A Day is her debutnovel, set in New York City, a place she came to love while studyingthere. Sara lives in Nashville with her sweetheart and fellow writer,Matt, and their “drama-dog”, Guinevere. http://www.saramharvey.comROSS HATHAWAY is the long suffering spouse of our Fan Guest ofHonor, Nancy Hathaway. This has led him into such ill-advisedpursuits as convention running and working in dealers’ rooms aroundthe country. In his spare time, Ross has worked in the California deserton government projects far too secret to describe here. He compilesthe weekly fannish e-newsletter The Dusk Petrol, which started out asa joke but has now lasted several years.TIM HAYS was one of the Chairmen of the first <strong>Archon</strong>way back in 1977, so blame all this on him (that’s whatwe do!). His mundane life includes working for thefederal government at the National GeospatialIntelligence Agency. You can ask him about it, but hemay have to kill you later... He was Co-Fan GoH of<strong>Archon</strong> 21 and currently resides in Europe.JOHN G. HEMRY writes the national best-selling LostFleet series under the pen name Jack Campbell(Dauntless, Fearless and Courageous in January 2008),and the JAG in Space series (Against All Enemies).John, a retired Navy Officer, lives in Maryland with hiswife (the incomparable S) and three great kids.http://www.johnghemry.comP.C. HODGELL is a fantasy writer whose novels includeGod Stalk, Dark of the Moon (sometimes publishedtogether as Dark of the Gods), Seekers Mask, and ToRide a Rathorn, all part of a series concerned withpersonal responsibility in the face of imminent godhood,honor, and occasional arboreal drift.BARBARA M. HODGES – has been accused of living ina Fantasy world... they are half right. In this world she lives in Nipomo,CA and shares her life with Jeff, two basset hounds, Ophelia andWinston, and a ginger-striped tabby, Wallace.http://barbarahodges.gobot.comWILLIAM J. HODGSON – is an Artist/Writer living in Piedmont,Oklahoma. In addition to his art showing at almost 20 <strong>Archon</strong>s, it hasbeen at 350+ conventions, 100+ gallery/museum/group shows and inover 350 illustrations. He has about 300 writing publications, mostlynon-fiction. Current projects include assembling a show for a galleryin Florida and screenplay work – though he is disappointed that oneof his current “bosses” got arrested for drunken anti-semitism.BUTCH HONECK – was the Artist GoH at <strong>Archon</strong> 27. He worksprimarily in bronze, has won numerous awards for his sculptures andis a regular feature at Dealers’ Rooms across the country.http://www.honecksculpture.comWALTER H. HUNT is the author of four novels in the Dark Winguniverse, the most recent of which is The Dark Crusade, “set in afuture when humankind has spread to the stars and encountered otheralien races.” He’s a former programmer and technical writer and anavid gamer. http://www.walterhunt.comDAVID HARTWELL has worked for Signet (1971-1973), BerkleyPutnam (1973-1978), Pocket (where he founded the Timescapeimprint, 1978-1983, and created the Pocket Books publishing line),and Tor, and has published numerous anthologies. Since 1995, histitle at Tor/Forge Books has been Senior Editor. He won the 2006Hugo Award for Best Professional Editor. “Pros”-Continued on page 3332Art : David Deen
“Pros”- Continued from page 32STEVEN VINCENT JOHNSON is a free lance artist/illustratorspecializing in Science Fiction, Astronomical and New Age themes.During normal business hours he’s employed (full-time) at theDepartment of Transportation (DOT), State of Wisconsin, Madison,where he’s involved in developing large scale image processingapplications using AIS+, Advance Image System and ContentManager. http://www.orionworks.comMICHALES JOY – (or “the Author Formerly Known as MichalesWarwick Joy”) has been publishing through traditional andnontraditional means for eleven years. He has written novels,collections of short stories, and kept a literary website stocked withessays and stories for two years. His last novel, Season of Peril, waspublished by Tigress Press. He is preparing to launch a new project in2007 that he’s very excited about. Ask him for details.JOHN KAUFMAN – is a St. Louis area artist who certainly should havelearned to send us a bio after last year. We hear John has recentlyconverted the backyard of his home into a theme park combining StarWars with the Mary Tyler Moore Show (“Oh Lou, I am your father…”).John is more than capable of using traditional techniques, but prefersto work primarily in the digital format. http://jekaufmann.com/DANIEL M. KIMMEL is a professional film critic, lecturer and authorwith several non-fiction books about the film and television industriesto his credit, including books about the FOX television network andDreamWorks Studios.JON KLEMENT lives in Creve Coeur, Missouri with his wife, GeNea’,and three children. He teaches high school chemistry and forensics inCedar Hill, MO and does freelance Web design and programming. Jonhas been a lifelong fan of super-heroes and science fiction. He’s theauthor of the Rush and the Grey Fox comic stories and the relatednovels. http://www.rushandthegreyfox.comSTACEY KLEMSTEIN is a novelist and an award-winning copywriter.Her Science Fiction romance, The Silver Spoon, was released inSeptember 2004 (Runestone Publishing), and Bitter Pill, the first bookin her Rennie Harlow mystery series, is scheduled for release in mid-2008 (Echelon Press). Find her online athttp://www.myspace/staceyklemstein.E.E. KNIGHT – National bestselling, award-winning author E.E. Knightis best known for his Vampire Earth and Age of Fire novels. He residesin Oak Park, Illinois with his wife, three cats and several fearsomepiles of books. Find him online at http://www.vampjac.com or ridiculehim through his blog at http://eeknight.livejournal.com.LLOYD KROPP is the author of four published novels, with two moresubmitted to agents and a seventh in progress. He’s a ProfessorEmeritus at Southern Illinois University – Edwardsville where hedirected the creative writing program, the Poetry Outreach Program,and taught a variety of literature courses as well as mythology andEgyptian Hieroglyphs.ALEXIS GLYNN LATNER has had stories appear in Analog, Amazingand the anthologies Bending the Landscape: Horror and HorrorsBeyond II. Her science fiction novel Hurricane Moon (Pyr) came out inJuly 2007. She works at the Rice University library in Houston andteaches creative writing through the Rice School of ContinuingStudies.LAURA LEHEW – former fan girl and convention organizer LauraLeHew is an award winning poet with ~50 publications to date. Herpoems have appeared or are forthcoming in such journals/anthologiesas Alehouse Press, Ellipsis, Elysian Fields Quarterly, Pank, PearlMagazine and Tiger’s Eye. She raises five cats with her husband HalPomeranz. She is a past <strong>Archon</strong> Fan GoH.EDWARD M. LERNER is a physicist, computer scientist andcurmudgeon by training. Now writing full time, he applies all threeskills to his science fiction. His latest books are Moonstruck, thecomputer-themed collection Creative Destruction and (in September2007, with Larry Niven) the Ringworld prequel Fleet of Worlds.http://www.sfwa.org/members/lerner/JACQUELINE C. LICHTENBERG set the stage for her popular Sime-Gen universe when her first professional SF novel House of Zeor waspublished in 1974. Since that time she’s had 20 novels published,numerous short stories and the non-fiction book Star Trek Lives.http://www.simegen.com/jl/JEAN LORRAH is the author of more than twenty novels, most ofwhich are in the process of being reprinted now in theBorgo/Wildside/Amazon project. Her current works in progress arescreenplays, as that is where increasing amounts of new material isneeded. Find Jean’s latest news at http://www.jeanlorrah.com.CARL LUNDGREN has been a working Artist for four decades,beginning with concert posters in the 60’s, continuing as an SF andFantasy illustrator with over 300 covers in the 70’s and 80’s, and sincethat time working on his own fine art projects, including running hisown gallery. Somewhere in those years he found time to help organizethe Association of Science Fiction and Fantasy Artists.http://www.carllundgren.comJULIA S. MANDALA is a Kansas City native, now living in Plano, TX.Her hobbies include scuba diving, middle-eastern dance, costumingand music. She has a BA in History and a law degree. Her wok as anauthor appears in Four Redheads of the Apocalypse, Dracula’sLawyer, International House of Bubbas and Houston, We’ve GotBubbas and Flush Fiction (all from Yard Dog Press), MZB’s FantasyMagazine and Adventures of Sword & Sorcery.LEE MARTINDALE is a writer, editor, anthologist, activist, bard,swordsman, Redhead, and Hell on Wheels. She’s also a member ofSFWA and a fencing member of the SFWA Musketeers. For a full listof credits, visit her website at http://www.harphaven.net.DAVID MARUSEK has had short fiction published in Playboy, Nature,MIT Technology Review and Asimov’s, and has been excerpted inScientific American. In 2005, Tor Books released Marusek’s first novel,Counting Heads. According to publisher’s Weekly, “Marusek’s writingis ferociously smart, simultaneously horrific and funny…” His first shortstory collection Getting to Know You was recently published and he’sworking on his second novel, Mind Over Oship (no, that’s not a typo).RACHAEL MAYO – is an artist from the KC area who uses watercolorand colored pencil in combination, as well as pen & ink, markers andacrylic paint. She is fond of bright color schemes, curvilinear lineworkand muscular anatomy. Rachael shows her art online athttp://elfwood.lysator.liu.se/art/r/a/rachaelm/rachaelm.html. She maybe contacted at wingsoflightning@yahoo.com.KELLY MCCULLOUGH is the author of the WebMage series (Ace).His short fiction has appeared in numerous venues including WeirdTales and Writers of the Future. His illustrated SF short storycollection, The Chronicles of the Wandering Star, is part of the middleschool science curriculum, Interactions in Physical Science.http://www.kellymccullough.com“Pros”-Continued on page 3433