Archon 31

“Pros”- Continued from page 37HEATHER URBANSKI is the author of Plagues, Apocalypses andBug-Eyed Monsters: How Speculative Fiction Shows Us OurNightmares. She is currently a teaching fellow at Lehigh University inBethlehem, Pennsylvania.GORDON VAN GELDER is a past attendee of Clarion West, Editor ofthe New York Review of Science Fiction, Editor at St. Martin’s Pressand is now the current Publisher and Editor of The Magazine ofFantasy and Science Fiction, a magazine with a six-decade history ofpublication, which he purchased in 2000.RAY VAN TILBURG was the Artist GoH way back at Archon 23. Rayis also a winner of the coveted Tucker Award for Excellence inConvention Partying. The Van Tilburgs are known throughout Fandomas con t-shirt entrepreneurs (including the official Archon31/TuckerCon/9th NASFiC t-shirts) and Ray and his wife Barb areboth members of the Archon Hall of Fame. You’ll find Ray airbrushingshirts in the Dealers’ Room. http://www.offworlddesigns.comAMY NEWELL VERSEMAN says “Never listen to fans who say ‘Trustme’” - she went from one con as a fan/volunteer straight to the Archoncommittee, working Hospitality, the Art Show, and the VIP Suite beforebeing Vice Chair for Archon 9. “Only - somehow the title doesn’t seemto fit - maybe I should work on that.” She met and married throughFandom and was one of the Fan GoHs of Archon 25 along with herlate husband David Verseman.CYNTHIA WARD is a 1992 graduate of the and she has sold to , ,and other anthologies and magazines. Cynthia’s appear regularly onAmazon.com and and irregularly in other websites and publications.She is working on her first novel, a futuristic mystery tentatively titledThe Killing Moon. http://www.cynthiaward.comRICK WILBER has had short stories published in magazines likeAsimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, Fantasy & Science Fiction,Elysian Fields Quarterly, Gulf Stream, Science Fiction Age, Analog,Spitball, and numerous anthologies. Dr. Wilber is the author of horrornovel The Cold Road, a co-founder of the Dell Magazines Award, anda Writer-In-Residence with the University of South Florida LibrarySpecial Collections. Rick also has a special connection to St. Louis asthe son of a former St. Louis Cardinals baseball player, which inspiresmuch of his writing.LEW WOLKOFF is a member of the Philly SF Society and was amember of the Con Committee for the Millennium Philcon Worldcon.GENE WOLFE was born in 1931; he grew up in Texas. His worksinclude The Book of the New Sun, The Book of the Long Sun, TheBook of the Short Sun, The Wizard Knight, and Soldier of Sidon. Heand Rosemary (she’s at the con) have four kids.LINDA WYATT – has been a member of fandom since the late 70’s,and is a long time enthusiast of masquerades, mysteries, StephenKing and SF&F movies and TV. She was a Worldcon AssistantMasquerade Director in 1991 and the RiverCon Masquerade Directorfrom 1991-2000. Now retired, she travels frequently to SF&Fconventions worldwide.MARC ZICREE is a television writer and producer for shows likeSliders and Lazarus Man, author of The Twilight Zone Companion,and , writing as Marc Scott Zicree, the primary author of the MagicTime series of novels - the first of which was a collaboration with ourGuest of Honor Barbara Hambly. http://zicree.com/JOY WARD — has been a freelance and staff writer for almost fifteenyears. Her work has been seen in a wide variety of publicationsincluding Government Review, Mother Jones, On the Issues,Memphis Flyer, and much more. Joy’s life has been filled with manyother species, from dogs to horses to turtles. Presently she shares ahome in St. Louis with two weimaraners, a coonhound mix and abeagle. Haint is Joy’s first novel. http://www.joyward.comWILLIAM R WARREN JR. is a cover and interior artist for Analog,Hitchcock, Tomorrow, Amazing Stories, Bridge and Ballantine. As aformer Boeing animator, his collaborative work has appeared on CNN,BBC, American networks and in Popular Mechanics. He’s a ChesleyAward nominee, published filkwriter (Ballad of Apollo XIII) and author.Hails from Sterling, KS and now lives in Central Washington.TONI WEISSKOPF is currently the Publisher at Baen Books. Tonicame into the SF publishing industry by way of fandom, making herfirst contacts at conventions and working her way up the editorialladder to the position of Executive Editor at Baen until the untimelypassing of Jim Baen in 2006 put the reins in her hands. She’s been aToastmaster and a Special Guest of Honor at previous Archons.http://www.baen.comRICHARD C. WHITE – Rich’s latest work, Star Trek: Starfleet Corpsof Engineers #63, Echoes of Coventry was released in May 2006 byPocket Books. Additionally he wrote Gauntlet Dark Legacy Paths ofFear in 2004 and Assault on Avengers Mansion for the Ultimate Hulkanthology. He also published a black and white comic, Chronicles ofthe Sea Dragon, in July 2005. http://www.nightwolfgraphics.com38