Martin Greenberg: Crime Spells

Dean Wesley Smith is the bestselling author of over eighty novels under various names. He has published over a hundred short stories and has been nominated for just about every award in science fiction and fantasy and horror; he has even won a few of them. He is the former editor and publisher of Pulphouse Publishing. His most recent novel in science fiction is All Eve’s Hallows . He is currently writing thrillers under another name.

Michael A. Stackpole is an award-winning author, game and computer game designer, and poet whose first novel, Warrior: En Garde , was published in 1988. Since then, he has written forty-one other novels, including eight New York Times bestselling novels in the Star Wars line, of which X-Wing: Rogue Squadron and I, Jedi are the best known. Mike lives in Arizona and in his spare time spends early mornings at Starbucks, collects toy soldiers and old radio shows, plays indoor soccer, rides his bike, and listens to Irish music in the finer pubs in the Phoenix area. His website is www.stormwolf.com .

Leslie Claire Walker grew up among the darkly magical, lush bayous and urban jungles of the Texas Gulf Coast. These days she lives in Houston with assorted animal and plant companions and two harps. Her fiction has appeared in Fantasy Magazine , Chiaroscuro , and two previous DAW Books anthologies- Hags, Sirens and Other Bad Girls of Fantasy and Cosmic Cocktails . She is hard at work on her current novel about a teenage runaway and a rock star who ride the skies with the Wild Hunt on Halloween night. Catch up with her at http://leslieclairewalker.com.

Phaedra M. Weldon has written short stories for several anthologies, as well as novellas published in shared universe fields such as Star Trek and BattleTech . Her first Shadowrun book, Triptych, will be released in April 2009, and Phantasm, the third book in the Zoë Martinque series, will be released in June 2009.