Bud Sparhawk is the author of the novels Distant Seas, Dreams of Earth, Magician!, Shattered Dreams, and Vixen, as well as two print collections: Sam Boone: Front To Back, and Dancing with Dragons. He has three e-Novels available through Amazon and other channels. Bud has been a three-time novella finalist for the Nebula award: Primrose and Thorn (Analog, May 1996), Magic's Price (Analog, March 2001), and Clay's Pride (Analog, July/August 2004). His work has appeared in two Year's Best anthologies: Year's Best SF #11 (EOS), David Harwell-Editor) and The Years Best Science Fiction, Fourteenth Annual Collection, (St Martins Press, Garner Dozois - Editor.) His short stories have appeared frequently in Analog Fact/Fiction, less so in Asimov's, as well as in five Defending the Future and other anthologies, publications and audio books. He has put out several collections of some of his published works in ebook format. A complete bibliography can be found at: http: //budsparhawk.com. He also writes an occasional blog on the pain of writing at http: //budsparhawk.blogspot.com.