Multiple New York Times best-selling author S.M. Stirling is a Canadian-American best known for his Draka series of alternate history novels and his Change science fiction saga. Stirling lives in New Mexico. New York Times best-selling author Eric Flint is the creator of the legendary Ring of Fire alternate history series, and many other science fiction novels. Mercedes Lackey is the New York Times best-selling author of the Bardic Voices series and the Serrated Edge series (both Baen), the Heralds of Valdemar series, and many more. Among her popular Baen titles are The Fire Rose, The Lark and the Wren, as well as The Shadow of the Lion, and Burdens of the Dead with Eric Flint and Dave Freer. She lives in Oklahoma. Jody Lynn Nye lives in Illinois with her husband and two cats of superior bearing. Her numerous works of science fiction and fantasy include An Unexpected Apprentice and its sequel, A Forthcoming Wizard, Applied Mythology, Advanced Mythology, and others. She has collaborated with New York Times best-selling author Anne McCaffrey on The Death of Sleep, The Ship Who Won, Doona and other novels, and with another New York Times best-selling author, Robert Asprin, on books in his Myth series, such as the recent Myth-Chief, and the forthcoming new novel in his dragon series, Dragons Deal. Her Imperium Jeeves-like rollicking space opera series includes The View from the Imperium and Fortunes of the Imperium. Bill Fawcett is the creator of the Fleet series of military science fiction novels with David Drake and the editor of over 300 science fiction and adventure collections and anthologies.