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 Photo by Jackie Olivie Richard Freeborn is editor and publisher of Oceans of the Mind, which has published on a consistent quarterly schedule since 2000. More subscribers are always welcome to help reach the goal of running Oceans of the Mind from the aft cabin of his sail boat. His ‘day job’ is as Product Director for a healthcare software start up company based in Florida. He has been writing all forms of fiction since high school and is currently marketing a screenplay about nano-technology.
Personal Knowbase - a great information manager   Bridget McKenna is the author of six published novels and numerous works of short fiction which have appeared in such markets as Asimov’s, Amazing Stories, and Fantasy & Science Fiction. She reads, writes, and edits compulsively, loves Indian food, and lives wherever the winds blow her, apparently.  Marti McKenna has written and edited on a variety of projects for Sierra OnLine, Electronic Arts, ImagiNation Network, Sony, RealNetworks, Microsoft, and other companies. Her short fiction has appeared in Tomorrow SF and the anthology More Amazing Stories, and with Lorelei Shannon she edited a horror anthology, Hours of Darkness (Scorpius Digital Publishing, 2001).
 Bruce Holland Rogers lives in London, England, and writes mostly short fiction, which is about as handy a way to make a living as is writing mostly poetry. It’s a good thing that his wife, Holly Arrow, is employed. She has a one-year appointment teaching organizational behavior at the London Business School. Ordinarily, Bruce and Holly live in Eugene, Oregon, one of the few places on earth with winters as soggy as the winters in England, and Holly teaches at the University of Oregon. Bruce’s stories have won the World Fantasy Award, a Pushcart Prize, two Nebula Awards, and a Stoker. He also teaches writing seminars in Crete and is a member of the permanent faculty at the Whidbey Writers Workshop low-residency MFA program in the state of Washington. His collection, The Keyhole Opera, has won the 2006 World Fantasy Award.
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 J. Alan Brown has published nearly two dozen stories and essays in print and on the web. He can be reached at ReadJAlanBrown@hotmail.com.
 Maggie Della Rocca lives Golden Valley, Minnesota, with her husband of twenty seven years, Patrick Sullivan. Over two of those decades, they ran a film/video business together and raised two sons. For the last two years, she has been writing a fantasy series as part of a game project called "The Splintered Lands". This past summer, she attended the Odyssey Fantasy Workshop in Manchester, New Hampshire, taught by Jeanne Cavelos. "The Doll Queen" was written as part of her coursework at the workshop. The author has loved dolls all her life—and so did her mother.  Robert Moriyama is pushing 50 (and 50 is pushing back), single, and a Systems Analyst in the Planning Department of Canada’s largest airport. He grew up (sort of) in the Silver Age of comic books; the first ’grown-up’ book he remembers reading was an Ace Double featuring Eric Frank Russell’s ’Sentinels from Space’. He has been writing sporadically since his early teens, but started producing more when the current era of webzines provided new potential markets (or at least an audience). His stories have appeared in the (now-defunct) Titan webzine, Dementia (now Demensions), Planet Relish (also now defunct—is there a pattern here?), Ralan’s Spectravaganza (Honorable Mention ’B’ both last year and this year) and mainly in the Aphelion webzine. He took over Short Story Editing duties at Aphelion from Carey Semar in February of this year, but continues to write when inspiration and spare time coincide.
Robert’s work includes a series of stories featuring Al Majius, wizard for hire, and several entries in the ’Nightwatch’ novella series created by Aphelion Serials/Novellas editor Jeff Williams, all of which have appeared in Aphelion; a website, Materia Magica, provides a synopsis of and a link to each story in the Al Majius series.
Materia Magica - synopses of Robert’s "Al Majius" series of stories. Aphelion - Robert has new material here almost every month  After nearly twenty years in advertising, PR, and corporate communications, Susan Wing decided she was sufficiently distanced from reality to plunge into speculative fiction. An active member of the Compuserve SFLit Forum (to whom she is eternally grateful, you know who you are), Susan’s currently working on several improbable stories, and building a solid foundation of rejection slips. She lives in Massachusetts with one husband, two teenage sons, and a hyperactive Brittany. Her "Beyond the Bodice" won the 2004 Tundra Prize from the Emily Chesley Reading Circle.  Kim Zimring lives in Atlanta, Georgia where she practices inpatient internal medicine. She is married to a scientist who aspires to madness but has not yet succeeded in re-animating the dead, controlling giant squid, or conquering Tokyo with outer-space death rays. This year, she placed first in the 2nd Quarter of the Writers of the Future Contest; the story will appear in their 15 September 2007 anthology. She also has a story in the September 2007 Asimov's SF.
Writers of the Future 
 Ralan lives in Scandinavia, earning his living writing, in one way or another, and running his triple Bram Stoker Award Nominated writers’ resource web site. His work has appeared in numerous publications. To the consternation of his old English teachers, several have even won contests, awards, and/or reader’s polls.
Ralan’s SpecFic & Humor Webstravaganza is a writers resource with over 585 constantly updated listings for speculative & humor fiction markets (poetry, nonfiction & art needs for these markets are also included) and contests, more then 780 categorized writing links, plus dead markets, how to submit, manuscript format, response times, and info about Ralan’s fiction.
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