George RR Martin is author of the well-known fantasy saga A Song of Ice and Fire. Additionally, he has written a number of other novels and short stories, as well as editing such series as Wild Cards (I - XVII). He also wrote a number of teleplays for both the Twilight Zone and Beauty and the Beast.
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Visit his website at: www.georgerrmartin.com

Ursula Vernon is currently a freelance illustrator, artist, and creator of weird thingies. She lives in North Carolina, with too many art supplies and a cat.
Visit her website at: www.metalandmagic.com

White Plectrum is just a guy named Keith playing and singing and having fun. But at the same time, it's more than just that as well. It's the crew keeping everything together, it's the Filking 1001 panels, where musical carnage ensues, and, most of all, it's the fans providing their own input to the performances, just when it's needed (YAY GOO!). As an email signature written by Jerry Conner says, "We are Plectrum of Borg. You will be assimilated. Your musical distinctiveness will be added to our own. Seriousness is futile." Join the fun at www.plectrum.net

They've seen it all. Hopefully, they remember some of it.

Writer and Editor: Tiffany Trent

Tiffany Trent grew up in the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains of southwestern Virginia. She won her first major writing award in high school for a fantasy story. She continued in her resolve to be a writer throughout school, while receiving three master's degrees in English, Creative Writing, and Environmental Studies. She also writes nonfiction and has published essays and articles about environmental issues in China and Appalachia. To feed the muse, she has lived and worked in Hong Kong, mainland China, Oregon, Montana, and North Carolina variously as a technical editor and environmental educator. She is at work on Hallowmere, a ten-book young adult dark fantasy series forthcoming from Mirrorstone/Wizards of the Coast in 2007. She currently lives in Virginia with her wildlife biologist husband, four felines, and dog.
Find out more about her at www.tiffany-trent.com and www.hallowmere.com!

The Fragile Gravity team: Chris Impink and Barb Fischer

Chris and Barb are the creators of the web comic Fragile Gravity, a strip that features independent comics, conventions, and lately an invasionary force of penguins. Oh, and an extra-bitter stoat. Chris Impink does the artwork for the strip; he has been featured in Antarctic Press and did much of the graphic work for The Babylon Project role-playing game. Additionaly, his work has been feautured at various conventions such as Katsucon, Technicon, and Rising Star. He is also mildy notorious for co-founding Katsucon, though his team of spin doctors has kept that under wraps for many years. Barb Fischer does the writing for the strip; her latest endeavor is exploring parts of her dwarven heritage by quaffing and mining in the backyard. As she has no love for ale or gold, these parts have proven to be a bit difficult. Axes, on the other hand, she's taken to like a duck to water. Find out more at www.fragilegravity.com