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Barry Bard" " Normally ebullient and enthusiastic, Barry Bard is silent about his accomplishments and contribution to fandom in Arizona and around the world. He brings us an overflowing freebee table and movie previews and much more. If (who are we kidding when) you stop by his dealer's table he always seems to have just what you are looking for. We hope he knows just how much he is appreciated by AZ fandom! |
Chuck Cady
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Mike Cassidy" " Mike attended his first conventon at the Del Webb tower in the middle of Phoenix in 1976, and has been attending ever since. He is a former Marine ( OORAH !!!) who rebuilds carburetors blindfolded, builds computers with out using instruction manuals and makes scale models with such excruciating detail that most people cry out "You MUST be CRAZY!". Mike currently spends most of his days maintaining and repairing equipment that tests little pieces of silicon impregnated with various kinds of metal oxides for a major multinational company. He has been seen recently at the Velavision corporate office at "The Big Building Plaza" in Dyptheria, AZ in high level talks with the Velavision board of directors. |
P.C. Cast
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Janeen DeBoard" " Janeen Deboard is a writer whose nom de plume is Janeen O'Kerry. Her books are all published by Leisure Books (Dorchester Publishing). She has just signed a contract for Sister of the Moon and Spirit of the Mist. Look for them in the Romance genre in spite of their time travel/magic elements. |
Phil Eklundhttp://www.io.com/~wasson/smg.html " " Game designer Phil Eklund, creator of Lords of Sierra Madre, Insecta and American Megafauna is the founder of Sierra Madre Games, makers of historical and conflict-simulation games. He is frequently found at local conventions and is always happy to sit down and play a game or two with you. The best thing about his games is the amount you learn while you're having fun playing. |
Maryeileen Flanagan" " Maryeileen Flanagan began costuming at the tender age of eight when she attempted to make a paper mache' horse for her jockey "character" to ride on Halloween. Since then she has advanced to costuming live horses and their riders as part of the "Once Upon a Time" and "Life of the Party"parade groups. After this fourth generation native Tempean graduated from Texas A&M with a BA/BS in English (and aminor in genetics) she entered the work force as a professional costume designer for the ASU Department of Dance. Her accomplishments and experience are diverse: author of several articles, poems and photographs published in various places (mostly horse magazines); she has been an English teacher at Tempe High School; has volunteered as programming chairman for several local cons as well as a World Fantasy Con and has helped facilitate several local "semi-pro" writers' groups. In her "copious amounts of spare time" she breeds Appaloosa and Walkaloosa horses using applied genetics and, with the help of her non-contractor friends, built a house/ranch near Gila Bend where she lives with three dogs, twenty (or so) horses, and the occassional overnight visit from her friends. |
Jessie Foster" " A gamer for over fifteen years, the majority of that spent as a game master, Jessie is the official Arizona representative for Steve Jackson Games and runs demonstrations of the gaming products produced by that company. A fan of Science Fiction and Fantasy movies and other media, Jessie is also an avid computer user and a martial artist. |
Alma Maria Garcia" " Alma Maria Garcia is a British transplant who married a Spaniard. She has an American family of three children, five grandchildren, and three "adopted" grandchildren. She loves writing, reading, making new friends, and listening to music. As a longtime member of OSFW, Alma contributed several reviews and short pieces to GPIC, their official Newsletter. She was responsible for all how-to articles, writing tips, and passing along general information to members of KEG and company, an online writing group, as well as coordinating and editing three of their online group novels. One of these novels (ALIENS WITHIN) was based on characters and a world she created. She is a member of SFWA and OSFW (Oklahoma Science Fiction Writers). |
Scott Glener
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Bennie Grezlik" " Aspiring SF writer Bennie Grezlik has been secretary of the Houston Writers League. His credits include a robot story in 1978 and 22 years as a technical writer and trainer in the electrical power industry. |
Thomas Harlan" " Author and Gamer Tom Harlan is working mighty hard at escaping the dreadful world of computer consulting and systems development into a happy and blood-stained existence as a professional writer. His current series from Tor Books is the Oath of Empire cycle. As well as Lords of the Earth, Tom runs RPG (role-playing game) campaigns in the Nihongi, Micea and the Babylon Five game-worlds, and has done some work for Wizards of the Coast |
Carol Johnson" " |
Alice and Marty Massoglia" " Fans and sellers of Science Fiction and Fantasy Books for the last 17 years, Alice has worked at Staff or Committee level for approximately a dozen regional or larger SF Conventions, and about the same number of local SF Conventions. She is a part of the group putting on Regency Dance events both locally and at conventions and is a member of one of the Baker Street Irregulars. Marty can usually be found at the dealer's table but is also well known for teaching regency, country and ballroom dancing at local conventions. Although living in Los Angeles, Alice considers herself to be part of Arizona fandom. |
Don Markstein" " Don makes his living as a writer and editor. In 1981, Don and his wife, GiGi Dane, founded Apatoons, a cooperative publication which has, in the years since, featured the work of some of animation's top commentators. He edited Comics Revue, a monthly anthology of newspaper comics, from 1984-87, and 1992-96. In 1992, he edited A Prince Valiant Companion, which, among other things, summarized the princely adventurer's entire career in Sunday comics from 1937-80. In 1994, he edited Hot Tips from Top Comics Creators, a compendium of wisdom about how to make comics, distilled from hundreds of interviews in Comics Interview magazine. In 1999, he started writing Don Markstein's Toonopedia™, a project he expects to work on for the rest of his life. Part of the reason is to share some of the information he's gathered. But it also works as an excuse to play with toons. |
Patricia Mathews" " Here is a writer who enjoys musical stylings of the filk genre. She has written a plethora of stories and a short novel. Her interests run to historical cycles, origins of the universe, and pop science in general. Allegedly, she plays bad guitar. |
Terry McGarryhttp://www.sff.net/people/m.mcgarry " " Terry McGarry has been a bartender on Wall Street, an English major at Princeton, a street trader in Ireland, and a Page O.K.'er at The New Yorker. She recently finished a term as vice-president of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. Her short fiction has appeared in three dozen magazines and anthologies, with more to come in Realms of Fantasy, The Ultimate Halloween, and elsewhere.Illumination is her first novel. She's working now on The Bindsman's Road, the next book about Eiden Myr. |
Catherine McMullenhttp://www.myfreeoffice.com/seanmcmullen
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Sean McMullenhttp://www.myfreeoffice.com/seanmcmullen http://www.bdsonline.net/seanmcmullen
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Yvonne Navarrohttp://www.para-net.com/~ynavarro " " Yvonne Navarro is most recently known for writing media tie-in novels such as Species and Buffy the Vampire Slayer but sold her first story to THE HORROR SHOW in 1984. |
Rusty Neal
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Adam Niswanderhttp://www.primenet.com/~adamn/
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David Perrine" " David Perrine is an entrepreneur, planning to build a live-action role-playing theme park northeast of the valley. He is also promoting a ballot initiative to establish a space program in Arizona. |
James Readehttp://www.riproarincomics.com
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