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“Pros”- Continued from page 33REBECCA MCDANNOLD – began her Artist’s career at HallmarkCards, Inc. doing “straight stuff.” But her love of fantasy and whimsicalthemes makes her most comfortable in the fantasy and SF arena. Heraward winning work has caught the eye of collectors across thecountry and she has been commissioned to do their portraits bycelebrities such as Ozzie Smith and Mark Victor Hansen, co-author ofthe Chicken Soup for the Soul books.JACK MCDEVITT has written thirteen novels and sixty short stories.Seven of the novels and six stories have made the final Nebula ballot.Most recent are Odyssey, and the short fiction collection, Outbound.McDevitt has won the John W. Campbell Award and the 2006 NebulaAward for Best Novel for Seeker, and the SESFA and Phoenix Awardsfor lifetime achievement.MICHAEL MCFADDEN – For three decades, “McFadden” has been afandom household name in St. Louis. An artist and fan of the highestquality, Michael has been a regular at Archon since its conception. Heis known for his sporadically published fanzine, Son of Grafan.Michael recently relocated to Sarasota, Florida, to head the QualityControl department of CGC, a comic book grading company.BETH MEACHAM has been involved with Science Fiction publishingfor over 30 years, both as an Author and an Editor, most of that timewith Tor Books. She’s edited books by many of the best known authorsin SF and F, including Piers Anthony, Ben Bova, Damon Knight andJack Vance.DONALD MEAD made his first professional genre fiction sale to F &SF with the story iKlawa in the April 2006 issue. He’s also hadinterviews with Glen Cook and Joe Haldeman published in StrangeHorizons.DAVID MEANS, FSA Scot, has been a regular attendee ofconventions on the central and southern plains for nearly thirty years.David spent most of the 1980’s working on conventions such asOKon, SoonerCon, and ConTest, but is now active in several otherhobbies, including genealogy, model railroading, and Scottish/Celtichistory. In “real life” David has focused his career on writing softwarefor flight simulators, both civilian and military.HENRY MELTON – travels half the year with his wife Mary Ann, anature photographer, through SF cons and National Wildlife Refuges.Henry’s short fiction has been published in magazines andanthologies, most frequently in Analog. He’s currently writing YA SFnovels and testing the self-publishing waters from his website athttp://www.henrymelton.com.R.M. MELUCH has been publishing science fiction for thirty years.She admits to being thirty years old – though being a science fictionwriter she does not always count in base 10. Her latest novels areTHE MYRIAD and WOLF STAR, being books 1 and 2 in the Tour ofthe Merrimack series. Book 3, THE SAGITTARIUS COMMAND, willbe out in November from DAW Books. http://www.rmmeluch.comTOM MESEROLE has his own Class of Long Range Star Fighters, amarvelous art collection and a wife from a Terry Pratchett novel. He ispublished in 3 different fields, has spent decades turning sciencefiction into real telecom services and is a Tucker Award winner forExcellence in SF Con Partying. He worked as part of the camera crewon the creation of the Star Trek Borg Invasion amusement film/ride inLas Vegas. He has chaired and been Fan GOH at multiple SF cons.He has helped Disney market SF rides and visited the set of multiplesci-fi TV shows.JENNIFER MIDKIFF began her music career playing harp and singing34high, but after several years with Wild Mercy, she also plays bass andsings low. She teaches high school music, plays for weddings andanother Celtic band, directs a church choir and has her first child. Inher spare time, Jen is searching for a pharmaceutical substitute forsleep. http://www.wildmercy.com/STEVE MILLER is one half of the writing team of Sharon Lee andSteve Miller, which makes him one of the authors of the popularLiaden Universe series of novels. In no particular order he has been areviewer — of music, of books and of typewriters — a reporter, aneditor, a professional chess tournament director, a librarian, an editor,a sysop, an editor and a resource specialist for a statewide electronicbulletin board system. On the side, hehe’s currently running SRMPublisher Ltd. http://www.korval.comDEBORAH MILLITELLO has had stories published in DragonMagazine, MZB’s FM, Science Fiction Age, Aladdin Master of theLamp, Witch Fantastic, Sword and Sorceress, and Bruce Coville’sBook of Nightmares. Her first novel, Thief’s Luck, a YA fantasymystery, was published Sept. 2006 by Double Dragon Publishing. Amember of the Alternate Historians, she lives in southern Illinois withher husband Carl.C.J. MILLS is the author of Winter World, and several additionalnovels in the same series. C. J. lives in Austin most of the year, butspends summers in Minnesota with her family, friends and fruit trees.She works half-time at a residential mental health facility (grade onementally-ill) and continues to write SF and suspense, though she hasnot been continuing to sell, alas.ELIZABETH MOON made her first fiction sales (two short stories) in1986, quickly followed by the sale of her first novel Sheepfarmer’sDaughter which was released in 1988. More science fiction andfantasy novels and dozens of short fiction pieces followed includingthe remaining two volumes of The Deed of Paksenarrion and theNebula Award winning Speed of Dark. Her other interests includechoir singing, fencing (she’s a member of the SFWA Musketeers) andnature photography. She was our guest of Honor at Archon 30.http://www.elizabethmoon.comRAE MORGAN is the pen name for an author of paranormal andurban fantasy. She has recently become the Senior Editor for a sharedurban fantasy world called Terran Realm for Liquid Sky Books. In thatcapacity, she is actively seeking new authors and will be happy todiscuss potential submissions with TuckerCon guests and attendees.http://www.raemorgan.comSANDRA C. MORRESE – is a native of southern Illinois. As a writer,she’s appeared in Marion Zimmer Bradley’s Fantasy Magazine, andthe anthologies Sword and Sorceress XI and Four Moons of Darkover.She has recently returned to the position she previously held asadvertising director for the Bulletin, the trade journal of SFWA. Sheowns a custom T-Shirt business called Morr Designs, ran the Writer’sWorkshop at Archon 22 & 23, has taught creative writing at adulteducation centers in Maryland and Missouri.TEE MORRIS has been writing adventures in far-off lands and far-offworlds since the fifth grade. Inspired by numerous volumes under the“Choose Your Own Adventure” title and , he wrote many short storiesof his own. A character he created as an actor led to his first publishedfantasy novel. His novels include Legacy of Morevi and BillibubBaddings and the Case of the Singing Sword. He’s also the co-authorof Podcasting for Dummies. http://www.teemorris.comMIKE SHEPARD MOSCOE is an author and retired civil servant.“Pros”-Continued on page 35