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Stephanie D. Shaverlives in Southern California, where she is gainfully employed by Blizzard Entertainment. When she’s not doing things for them, she’s probably writing or catching up on sleep. You can find more at sdshaver.com, along with occasional ramblings on life and pictures of food she’s making for herself and her family.

A lover of local history and fantastical possibilities, Louisa Swannspins tales that span multiple genres, including historical fantasy, science fiction, mystery, and her newest love: steampunk. Her short stories have appeared in Mercedes Lackey’s Elemental Masters and Valdemar anthologies (which she’s thrilled to participate in!); Esther Friesner’s Chicks and Balances ; and several Fiction River anthologies, including No Humans Allowed and Reader’s Choice . Her new steampunk/weird west series, The Peculiar Adventures of Miss Abigail Crumb , is available at your favorite etailer. Find out more at louisaswann.com or friend her on Facebook @SwannWriter.

Elizabeth Vaughanis the USA Today -Bestselling Author of Warprize , the first volume of the Chronicles of the Warlands. You can learn more about her writing at writeandrepeat.com.

Elisabeth Waterssold her first story in 1980 to The Keeper’s Price , the first of the Darkover anthologies. She went on to sell stories to a variety of anthologies. Her first novel, a fantasy called Changing Fate , was awarded the 1989 Gryphon Award and published by DAW Books in 1994. Its sequel, Mending Fate , was published in 2016. She has also worked as a supernumerary with the San Francisco Opera, where she appeared in La Gioconda , Manon Lescaut , Madama Butterfly , Khovanshchina , Das Rheingold , Werther , and Idomeneo .

Phaedra Weldongrew up in the thick, atmospheric land of South Georgia. Most nights, especially those in October, were spent on the back of pickup trucks in the center of cornfields, telling ghost stories, or in friends’ homes playing RPGs. She got her start writing in shared worlds ( Eureka!, Star Trek, BattleTech, Shadowrun ) and selling original stories to DAW anthologies before she sold her first urban fantasy series to traditional publishing. Currently, her published series include the Zoe Martinique Investigations, the Eldritch Files, the Witches of Castle Falls and the upcoming paranormal women’s fiction series Ravenwood Hills.

Mercedes Lackey is a full-time writer and has published numerous novels and works of short fiction, including the bestselling Heralds of Valdemar series. She is also a professional lyricist and a licensed wild bird rehabilitator. She lives in Oklahoma with her husband and collaborator, artist Larry Dixon, and their flock of parrots.

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