David Palumbo studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, and his illustrations have appeared on book covers, album covers, collectible card games, magazines, comics, and advertising. He is the son of artist Julie Bell and stepson of artist Boris Vallejo. Some of his work can be seen at The Illustration of David Palumbo. How [...]

Phil Foglio was born in Mount Vernon NY and grew up in Hartsdale NY. He attended the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts, earning a BFA in cartooning. In 1985 he illustrated Robert Lynn Asprin’s MythAdventures series for Donning/Starblaze, and later did a comic adaptation of Another Fine Myth for indie publisher WaRP Graphics. His comedy/SF [...]

Gail Carriger was born in Bolinas, West Marin, CA. She attended high school at Marin Academy, and did her undergrad work at Oberlin College. She got a master’s of science in archaeological materials at Nottingham University in England in 2000, and went to the University of California Santa Cruz for her MA in anthropology, with [...]

Cherie Priest was born in Tampa FL. She attended Southern Adventist University in Tennessee and got her master’s in rhetoric (composition/critical theory) at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. Her first novel Four & Twenty Blackbirds appeared in 2003 from a small press, and was later revised and expanded for publication by Tor in 2005. [...]

From the September 2010 issue of Locus Magazine Last week, I found myself wide awake in bed next to my wife, mulling over an e-mail I’d gotten just before lying down (checking e-mail before bed being as bad a habit as eating before bed – both of which I’m trying to stop doing). The e-mail [...]