The Sorceress of Karres
 Eric Flintis the author/creator of theNew York Timesbest-selling Ring of Fire series. 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, 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. Dave Freeris an ichthyologist turned author living in a remote part of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, with his wife and chief proof-reader, Barbara, four dogs and four cats, and two sons Paddy and James. His first book—The Forlorn(Baen)—came out in 1999. Since then he has co-authored with Eric Flint (Rats, Bats and Vats,The Rats, the Bats and the Ugly,Pyramid Scheme, andPyramid Power) and, with Mercedes Lackey and Eric Flint (The Shadow of the Lion,This Rough Magic,The Wizard of Karres) as well as writing another solo novel,A Mankind Witch, andvarious shorter works. Besides working as a fisheries scientist for the Western Cape shark fishery he has worked as a commercial diver, and as a relief chef at several luxury game lodges. His other interests are rock climbing (he's still good at it), diving, flyfishing (he's still bad at it), fly-tying, wine-tasting and the preparation of food, especially by traditional means—smoking and salting, all the good unhealthy things.