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“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 Archon 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