Melinda M. Snodgrass is a failed opera singer, recovered lawyer, and now a novelist and screenwriter. She worked on Star Trek: The Next Generation, Reasonable Doubts, and Profiler and has written movies and TV pilots. Together with George R. R. Martin she co-created the Wild Cards book series, currently the longest-running shared world anthology in existence. George R. R.

Martin is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of many novels, including those of the acclaimed series A Song of Ice and Fire-- A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and A Dance with Dragons --as well as related works such as Fire & Blood, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, The World of Ice & Fire, and Rise of the Dragon, the last two with Elio M. García, Jr., and Linda Antonsson. He lives with his lovely wife, Parris, in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Michael Komark is a renowned illustrator who works exclusively in the digital medium. In 2003, he began his career in cover illustration, and has sinced worked with all the major publishers, as well as with such clients as Blizzard Entertainment, Dark Horse Comics, Electronic Arts, Fantasy Flight Games, Marvel, Sony Computer Entertainment America, Sony Online Entertainment, Ubisoft, and Wizards of the Coast. Elizabeth Leggett is a two-time fan artist Hugo winner, a five-time Chesley nominee, gallery artist, and SF novel cover designer. She has had two solo shows at George R.

R. Martin's theater, the Jean Cocteau Cinema, and has exhibited twice in the Lea Gallery at the Mazza Museum. She exhibited and curated a gallery show, "Readings," for Santa Fe's KEEPContemporary gallery.