Born and raised in Independence, Missouri, Margaret Weis attended the University of Missouri, Columbia, graduating in 1970 with a BA degree in Literature and Creative Writing. In 1983, she moved to Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, to take a job as book editor at TSR, inc., Producers of the Dungeons & Dragons® role-playing game.

At TSR, Weis became part of the Dragonlance® design team. Created by Tracy Hickman, the Dragonlance world has continued to intrigue fans of both the novel and the game for generations. 2004 was the twentieth anniversary of the Dragonlance Chronicles, which has sold over twenty million copies world wide. Dragons of Autumn Twilight was recently made into an animated film featuring the voices of Kiefer Sutherland, Michael Rosenbaum, and Lucy Lawless.

Weis is currently working on a new six-book series with Tracy Hickman, Dragonships of the Vindras, to be published by Tor.

Weis is also owner of Margaret Weis Productions, Ltd., publisher of the Ask the Angels advice board, the Serenity Role Playing Game, based on the movie by Joss Whedon, licensed from Universal Studios, and the Battlestar Galactica RPG, also licensed from Universal, among other exciting game and book projects.
Weis lives in Wisconsin with three border collies and a sheltie. Weis and her dogs, Dixie and Joey, enjoy competing in flyball tournaments.

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Andy Mangels is the USA Today best selling author and co-author of over twenty novels and non-fiction books - including Star Trek, Roswell, and Star Wars tomes- and is an award-winning comic book anthology editor. He is a member of the International Association of Media Tie-In Writers.

In addition to writing more upcoming books and contributing to anthologies, Andy has scripted and directed over forty-five half-hour DVD documentaries, as well as hosting commentary tracks and other DVD Special Features content, for Time Life, Entertainment Rights, and BCI Eclipse. Titles include He-Man, She-Ra, Real Ghostbusters, Secrets of Isis, Flash Gordon, Dungeons & Dragons, and many more.

Andy has also written licensed material based on properties from Lucasfilm, Paramount, New Line Cinema, Universal Studios, Warner Bros., 20th Century Fox, Microsoft, Abrams-Gentile, and Platinum Studios.

Over the last two decades, Andy’s comic-book work has been seen from DC Comics, Marvel Comics, Dark Horse, Wildstorm, Image, Innovation, WaRP Graphics, and others, and he was the editor of the award-winning Gay Comics anthology for eight years.

Andy has written hundreds of articles for entertainment and lifestyle magazines and newspapers in the United States, England, and Italy. He is a national award-winning activist in the gay community, and has raised thousands of dollars for charities. He is also one of the world’s foremost Wonder Woman collectors.

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As a full-time author, anthologist, and translator writing in both English and Spanish, Lawrence Schimel has published over 90 books in a wide range of genres, including the short story collections The Drag Queen of Elfland (Circlet), His Tongue (North Atlantic), and Two Boys in Love (Seventh Window); the graphic novel Vacation in Ibiza (NBM); the poetry collection Fairy Tales for Writers (A Midsummer Night's Press); and numerous children's books.

He has also edited many anthologies, including: The Future is Queer (Arsenal Pulp Press), Things Invisible to See: Lesbian and Gay Tales of Magic Realism (Circlet), First Person Queer (Arsenal Pulp Press), The Mammoth Book of New Gay Erotica (Carroll & Graf), PoMoSexuals: Challenging Assumptions About Gender and Sexuality (Cleis), Switch Hitters: Lesbians Write Gay Male Erotica and Gay Men Write Lesbian Erotica (Cleis), Kosher Meat (Sherman Asher), Tarot Fantastic (DAW), and Camelot Fantastic (DAW). His work has won the Spectrum Award, the Lambda Literary Award, and The Rhysling Award, among other prizes.

His shorter writings have been published in a diverse range of periodicals, such as the Christian Science Monitor, the Saturday Evening Post, Physics Today, Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, and The Lyric, and have been widely anthologized in The Random House Book of Science Fiction Stories, The Sandman: Book of Dreams, Chicken Soup for the Horse-Lover's Soul 2, and The Random House Treasury of Light Verse, among others.

He has lived in Madrid, Spain since 1999.

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Some of the things he writes are true: he's sold stories to Out Magazine, The Advocate, Star Trek Monthly, and Lavender Magazine, among others. He's interviewed Clive Barker, John Waters, and Esera Tuaolo, along with lots of boring straight people. A member of the Prism Comics’ Advisory Board, he is a writer of that organization's frequently-hit Queer Eye on Comics web feature.

Some of the things he writes are false: he makes up stories, and, incredibly, people sometimes pay him for them. Most often, his lies are written for comics. For DC, he’s written stories that have included Superman, Batman, and Green Lantern, but he's best known as a writer on the DC monthly, Scooby-Doo. Comics have obviously damaged his brain–in fact, they turned him into a part-time super-villain.

On nights and weekends, Terrance works as professional wrestler, Tommy “The SpiderBaby” Saturday. As The SpiderBaby, Terrance, a multi-titlist, has been featured on TV, radio, and the Internet. The International Gay Outdoors Organization recently named him one of the Nine Toughest Gays in America.

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The artist was born Mark Bautch on October 24, 1956, in St. Cloud, Minnesota. The descendant of German and Polish immigrants (some of whom were convicted felons), he attended Catholic grade school which forced a rebellious nature into his art and being. As a young adult he attended St. Cloud State University where he majored in jewelry design, printmaking, and pot smoking.

At the age of 23 he joined the sex cult of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, changed his name to Satyarthi, wore only red clothing, sold all of his worldly possessions (except his paint brushes), and moved to India. When he returned to the USA in 1980, Marc began to paint turbulent landscapes and fantasy art, including homoerotic subjects.

In 1995 using the pseudonym Marc DeBauch, he entered two paintings in the Tom of Finland Foundation Emerging Erotic Artist Competition and won First Place. DeBauch’s male nudes run the gamut of seriously pornographic to humorously erotic; the settings are often bucolic landscapes that belie the sensual undertone of the images.

His images have been published in several adult magazines, and erotic art books including The World’s Greatest Erotic Art of Today Volumes I and III and STRIPPED. Marc’s paintings are part of the permanent collections of the Kinsey Institute of Human Sexuality, the Tom of Finland Foundation, and The Leather Archives.

Marc currently lives in Minneapolis with Eduardo, his partner of 18 years, and their Boxer dogs Zorro and Xsa-Xsa.

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