Tales From Jabbas Palace (Kevin Anderson) (49 page)

KENNETH C. FLINT of Omaha, Nebraska, is to date the author of fifteen novels for Bantam Doubleday Dell Books. All are works of adventure/fantasy, many of which are based. upon ancient Celtic legends and myths. One of his short stories was included in Tales from the Mos Eisley Cantina. Award-winning fantasy author ESTHER M. FRIESNER has a PhD from Yale University and a lifelong interest in cultures and mythologies beyond the Greek/ Norse/Celtic realm. She is perhaps best known for her humorous works such as the recently published trilogy Majyk By Accident, Majyk By Hook or Crook, and Majyk By Design from Ace Books. However, she also enjoys a growing reputation for writing more serious fantasies such as the critically acclaimed Yesterday We Saw Mermaids from Tor Books. In addition, she has been branching out in science fiction novels and is currently working on The Sherwood Game for Baen Books. Her STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE novel, Warchild, appeared in September 1994. of the Jedi, sent her to a galaxy a long time ago and far, far away. She attended college at the University of California in Riverside and spent one year at the University of Bordeaux in France. After obtaining a master’s degree in medieval history, she held a variety of jobs: model, clerk, high school teacher, karate instructor (she holds a black belt in Shotokan Karate), technical writer. Her novels are mostly sword-and-sorcery fantasy, though she has also written a historical whodunit, a vampire novel, and novels and novelizations from television shows, notably Beauty and the Beast and Star Trek. She edited an anthology of original vampire stories, Sisters of the Night. Her interests besides writing include dancing, painting, historical and fantasy costuming, and occasionally carpentry. She resides in a big, ugly house in Los Angeles with the two cutest Pekingeses in the world.

DARYL F. MALLETT is a freelance writer and editor, an employee of American West Airlines, and father of a delightful little boy named Jake, among other things. Though known for his nonfiction work with the Borgo Press and the Science Fiction Research Association, this marks his first professional fiction sale.

J. D. MONTGOMERY does not exist… not really.

JUDITH and GARFIELD REEVES-STEVENS have been a writing team since 1986. In fiction they have written three novels in the ongoing STAR TREK series, the first novel in the ALIEN NATION series, and have created their own action-adventure fantasy series in THE CHRONICLES OF GALEN SWORD. In nonfiction, they are authors of The Making of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and the forthcoming Art of Star Trek. Their other writing credits range from comic books to episodes of Beyond Reality, MTV’s Catwalk, The Legend of Prince Valiant, and Batman: The Animated Series. For the 1994—95 television season, the Reeves-Stevenses have helped develop and are executive story editors for the new animated science fiction series Phantom 2040, a futuristic updating of Lee Falk’s classic costumed hero.

JENNIFER ROBERSON has published two best-selling fantasy series, the CHRONICLES OF THE CHEYSULI and the SWORD-DANCER saga, as well as the historical novels Lady of the Forest, a reinterpretation of the Robin Hood legend, and Glen of Sorrows, recounting the Massacre of Glencoe in the highlands of seventeenth-century Scotland. She has also published many short stories, including “Soup’s On” in Tales from the Mos Eisley Cantina, which first introduced the assassin Dannik Jerriko. Her upcoming projects include a fantasy collaboration with Melanie Rawn and Kate Elliott, titled The Golden Key, and a fantasy trilogy called Shade and Shadow.

KATHY TYERS is the author of Star Wars: The Truce at Bakura and four other Bantam Spectra novels. Kathy hung up her dancing costumes and laid aside her finger cymbals to study taste kwon do with her son. Tae kwon do is better exercise, but she misses the music. Kathy lives with her family near Bozeman, Montana. She is currently working on her next novel for Bantam

DEBORAH WHEELER grew up mostly in California, went to college in Oregon, grew her hair long and protested everything during the sixties. It took her a long time and three academic degrees (bachelor’s in biology, master’s in psychology, doctorate in chiropractic) to figure out what she needed to do in life was to write. At the end of the seventies she hit total career burnout trying to be superwoman, dean of a chiropractic college, and new mother, dumped the career but not the kid, started writing seriously. She’s since had a second child, studied martial arts (four years of tai chi ch’uan, eighteen years of kung fu), and lived in France. She teaches a parent-toddler gym class at the local Y and is fairy godmother/volunteer slavedriver for the library at the local elementary school. She has had short stories published in almost all the Sword and Sorceress and Darkover anthologies, also in Spells of Wonder, Pandora, MZB’ s Fantasy magazine, and Fantasy and ‘ Science Fiction. She will also have stories in (upcoming anthologies) Sisters of the Night, Witch Fantastic, and Return to Avalon. Her first novel, Jaydium, came out from DAW in May 1993 and her second, Northlight, is in the pipeline for early 1995.

DAVE WOLVERTON is the author of several novels, including Star Wars: The Courtship of Princess Leia, The Golden Queen, Serpent Catch, Path of the Hero, and On My Way to Paradise. In 1986 he won the grand prize for the Writers of the Future contest. He has worked as a prison guard, missionary, business manager, editor, and technical writer.

WILLIAM F. WU is best known for his contemporary fantasy short story “Wong’s Lost and Found Emporium,” a multiple-award nominee that was adapted into an episode of the revived Twilight Zone. A five-time nominee for the Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy awards, he is the author of the six-volume series ISAAC ASIMOV’S ROBOTS IN TIME, for Avon. Wu was born and raised in the Kansas City area and educated at the University of Michigan, where he received a PhD in American Culture. He is divorced and now lives in the Mojave Desert north.of Los Angeles. prestigious Hugo Award for his novella “Cascade Point,” In non-STAR WARS work, his recent novels include Conquerors’ Pride and Conquerors’ Heritage.