Grantville Gazette V (Ring of Fire)
Eric Flint is the author/creator of theNew York Timesbest-selling Ring of Fire series. His  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, and with David Weber collaborated on1633, and1634: The Baltic War, two novels 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 of Fire series.