SUZY McKEE CHARNAS, who confines her considerable skills to no one genre, lives in Albuquerque and is the author of the landmark THE VAMPIRE TAPESTRY, and DORO-THEA DREAMS.

ROBERT E. VARDEMAN also lives in Albuquerque and is the author of dozens of fantasy, sf, and western novels, in-cluding the CENOTAPH ROAD and WORLDS OF CHAOS series.

WENDY WEBB lives in Georgia, is a full-time nurse, and has just completed her first novel. According to her, she taught her father, Bryan, all he knows about writing.

LESLIE ALAN HORVITZ, despite the numerous misspell-ings of his name to the contrary, is a man. His best-selling novels include THE DYING.

THOMAS F. MONTELEONE lives in Baltimore, sells cable television on the side, is the author of FANTASMA and, with Jon DeChance, of CROOKED HOUSE.

BOB BOOTH, a typesetter by trade, book collector by incli-nation, lives in Rhode Island, where he's trying to convince his daughter not to practice too hard for her part in The Bad Seed.

NANCY HOLDER has lived in Japan, studied ballet in Ger-many, and now lives in San Diego. She speaks fluent Cali-fornian which her two border collies, Nan and Ron, do not understand at all.