Time Spike
Eric Flint's impressive first novel,Mother of Demons(Baen), was selected bySF Chronicleas one of the best novels of 1997. With David Drake he has written six popular novels in the Belisarius series, including the new novelThe Dance of Time, and with David Weber collaborated on1633, a novel in the Ring of Fire series, and onCrown of Slaves, a best of the year pick byPublishers Weekly. Flint received his masters degree in history from UCLA and was for many years a labor union activist. He lives in East Chicago, IL, with his wife and is working on more books in the best-selling Ring ofFire series.MarilynKosmatkawrites fiction.  Some believe her stories come from a childhood littered with hookers, drug dealers, murderers, ex-mob members and a lone CIA agent.  Others believe the stories come from her experiences as a nurse.  She cared for the cast-off babies of drug addicts.  She bandaged the elderly, beaten by their own children.  Then she went to work on death row.  Years have passed since she entered the maximum security prison system with its bars, concertina wire, and midnight executions.  But when pressed, she will admit these are years that can haunt the pages of a writer’s stories.