Chicks - Did You Say Chicks Part 27

Adam-Troy Castro's list of short story credits is considerably longer than his contribution to this anthology, which by itself isn't saying much, but still. He is currently hard at work on a Spider-Man trilogy scheduled to see the light of day in 1999.

Keith R. A. DeCandido left home at the age of sixteen to pursue a career in fisheries, but came back home an hour later when he realized he forgot to pack a lunch. He left home again at the age of twenty-one to pursue a career in publis.h.i.+ng, where he's had a bit more success. His editorial accomplishments range from the anthologiesOtherWereandUrban Nightmaresto editing a highly successful line of super hero novels to helping bring Alfred Bester back into print. With Jose R. Nieto he was written a Spider-Man novel calledVenom's Wrath, which will be unleashed on a panting reading public in the fall of 1998.

Doranna Duron spent her childhood filling notebooks first with stories and art, and then with novels.

After obtaining a degree in wildlife ill.u.s.tration and environmental education, she spent a number of years deep in the Appalachian Mountains. When she emerged, it was as a writer who found herself irrevocably tied to the natural world and its creatures.Dun Lady's Jess, Doranna's first published fantasy novel, received the 1995 Compton Crook/Stephen Tall award for the best first book in the fantasy, science fiction, and horror genres. The novelTouched by Magicfollowed, andJess'ssequel,Changespell, came out in February 1997. Doranna lives in upstate New York with an old hound and his irrepressible Cardigan companion, and a young Lipizzan gelding who thinks too much.

Laura Frankos has published a mystery novel,St. Oswald's Niche(Ivy Books), and has had science-fiction and fantasy short fiction appear ina.n.a.log, Chicks in Chainmail, Alien Pregnant by Elvis, and elsewhere. She is married to writer Harry Turtledove. They have collaborated on three daughters.

Marina Frants was born in the Soviet Union back when there was one, but left in a huff when she realized that no Soviet publisher had a decent fantasy line. Emigrating to the U.S., she went on to achieve a Master's in Electrical Engineering from MIT. A former book reviewer forPublishers Weekly, she has also written forThe Journal of Irreproducible Results, Wilson Library Bulletin, andHorror. Her short fiction has appeared in the magazinesPulphouseandDreams of Decadenceand in the anthology OtherWere: Stories of Transformation. In her copious spare time (hah!) she is working on a fantasy novel and also scuba dives and is an underwater photographer. She always wanted to write a Baba Yaga story, and is grateful to Esther for giving her and Keith the chance to write one.

Esther Friesner is still at large.

Laura Anne Gilman has been described as "the kind of person you see on a made-for-tv movie, the sweet co-ed who turns out to be a psycho killer." She denies this completely, of course, and on the advice of her lawyer. Her short fiction has appeared in the magazinesAmazing StoriesandDreams of Decadence, and the anthologiesLammas Night, Highwaymen: Robbers and Rogues, andUrban Nightmares, among others. Her story "Exposure" for the anthologyBlood Musewas reprinted in Oxford University Press'sBlood Thirst: 100 Years of Vampire Fictionin 1997, and another story, "Clean Up Your Room" fromDon't Forget Your s.p.a.ce Suit, Dear, was reprinted in a high school text book, where she can corrupt the young at will. She also co-edited the anthologyOtherWere: Stories of Transformation .

Elizabeth Moon is a native Texan who did not grow up on a ranch (she wishes), never owned an oil well (ditto), and wasn't a cheerleader with big hair (ditto, NOT.) To compensate for these fundamental gaps in a Texas girlhood, she joined the Marines, programmed computers, got elected to public office, worked on a rural ambulance crew, and finally started finis.h.i.+ng the stories she wrote. Her novelRemnant Populationwas a Hugo Nominee in 1997. Her most recent novel isOnce a Hero;a collection of short works,Phases, is forthcoming.

Jody Lynn Nye lists her main career as "spoiling cats." She lives northwest of Chicago with two of the above and her husband, SF author Bill Fawcett. Jody is a graduate of Loyola University of Chicago.

Before going on to writing full time, she worked in a variety of jobs, including as a technical operator/manager at a TV station, and wrote mystery games. Among the novels Jody has written are: Mythology 101, Mythology Abroad, andHigher Mythology, Taylor's Ark and Medicine Show. Jody also wroteThe Dragonlover's Guide to Pernand has collaborated with Anne McCaffrey onThe Death of Sleep, and three other novels.

Her newest works include a humorous contemporary fantasy,The Magic TouchandThe s.h.i.+p Errant(Baen Books), a solo sequel toThe s.h.i.+p Who Won.

When not occupied in petting cats or writing fiction, Jody reads, travels, does calligraphy, or gardens.

Steven Piziks is an English teacher in southern Michigan, where he lives with his wife and son. His short stories have appeared inMarion Zimmer Bradley's Fantasy MagazineandSword and Sorceress. He just sold his first novel to Baen Books. When not writing, he plays the folk harp, dabbles in professional oral storytelling, and spends more time on-line than is probably good for him. This story is a sort of prequel to "h.o.a.rd"(Sword and SorceressIX), the first story he ever sold. "I always rather wondered exactly how one convinces a dragon to change vocations. Now I know."

Former Chick Elizabeth Ann Scarborough does not wear chainmail, but does like both mail and jewelry, some of which has chains. She is a former Army Nurse and served in Vietnam. Her novel,The Healer's War, was based on this experience and won the 1989 Nebula. She is the author of 21 novels, includingthe collaborativePowerstrilogy with Anne McCaffrey, and numerous short stories. She lives in a log cabin in a Victorian seaport on the Was.h.i.+ngton coast, and is ably a.s.sisted in all of her endeavors by four feline a.s.sociates.

Jan Stirling writes, "When I was thirty-eight they came out with a statistic that women my age were more likely to be killed by terrorists than married for the first time. Along came Steve, who proposed, rescuing me from those hypothetical terrorists. We married, I changed my name and moved to another country (Canada), thus beginning a whole new life. Within two years I tried writing for the very first time (this happens to a lot of SF&F spousal unite, must be something in the air) and two years later made my first sale toChicks in Chainmail."

S. M. Stirling. Stephen Michael Stirling: Born September 30,1953 in Metz, Alsace, France. (Or Germany, depending on who you ask.) Father born and raised in Newfoundland of Anglo-Scottish background; mother born in Lancas.h.i.+re, England, and raised in Lima, Peru and Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Residence: France, England, Canada, U.S.A., Kenya, several years each. Temporary residence in Italy, Israel, Tanzania, South Africa, Spain, Mexico. Education: Honors BA in History/English, Carleton University; LL.B., Osgoode Hall. Employment: farm, secretarial, bouncer (very temporarily). Have never practiced law due to moral scruples. Currently full-time novelist and husband of Janet Catherine Stirling (since 1988 for both). Hobbies: History, literature, anthropology. Brown belt, second dan, Tao Zen Chuan karate.

Harry Turtledove writes science fiction and fantasy, much of it alternate history and historical fantasy. He has won a Hugo Award for Best Novella and has been a Nebula finalist. Recent books includeFox and Empire(Baen),How Few Remain(Del Rey), and, with Richard Dreyfuss,The Two Georges(Tor). He is married to author Laura Frankos.

Lawrence Watt-Evans taught himself to read at age five in order to read a comic book story called "Last of the Tree People," and began writing his own stories a couple of years later. Eventually a fantasy novel actually sold, and since then several more novels and dozens of stories have made it into print, covering a wide range of fantasy, science fiction, and horror. His short story, "Why I Left Harry's Ail-Night Hamburgers," won the Hugo award in 1988; he served two years as president of the Horror Writers a.s.sociation. His most recent novel is ent.i.tledTouched by theG.o.ds, and his funniest, written in collaboration with Esther Friesner, isSplit Heirs. He lives in theMaryland suburbs ofWas.h.i.+ngton,D.C. , with his wife, a son, a daughter, a cat, and a gecko.

K. D. Wentworth lives inTulsa and teaches 4th grade at a local elementary school, but is considering giving up teaching to raise chinchillas because they have better tempers and have been known to clean up after themselves occasionally. In her secret life as a writer, she has sold over thirty short stories to such publications asF&SF, Alfred Hitchc.o.c.k's, Return to the Twilight Zone, andRealms of Fantasy. She also has three novels out from Del Rey-The Imperium Game, Moonspeaker, and HouseofMoons.

Sarah Zettel figures most of her quirks can be explained by the fact that she's a genetic Californian and a third-generation SF fan. She has, to date, committed fifteen short stories in three genre flavors: SF, fantasy, and horror. She has also completed two SF novels,ReclamationandFool's War, and is hard at work (really, really hard, honest) on her third.

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