Jennifer Fallon is the author of the bestselling Tide Lords series, the Hythrun Chronicles, the Demon Child trilogy and the Seconds Sons Trilogy, published in Australia, the US, the UK, German, France and Russia. With Sonny Whitelaw, Jennifer co-authored the Stargate-SG-1 novel, Roswell, and has published horror and sci-fi short stories in a number of publications, including the Official Stargate magazine and Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine and has a story coming out in a new anthology this year about robots. She is currently working on a new series, Riftrunners, a screenplay, a story for the new Zorro anthology, a superhero short story for Moonstone Publications in the US and a novella for the upcoming Legends of Australian Fantasy to be published by HarperCollins Australia, in 2009.

Jennifer has an MA in Creative Writing from Queensland University of Technology and is a qualified TAFE/Polytech Trainer with many years experience in teaching adults and young adults through various institutes including Northern Territory Writers Centre and conventions such as Supernova. She has also conducted workshops at the Singapore Writers' Festival. She appears regularly on ABC radio as the resident movie reviewer in Central Australia and sometimes moonlights as an announcer.

www.jenniferfallon.com

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Sonny Whitelaw has authored eight novels including five Stargate tie-in novels, edited the anthology, Journeys of the Mind, and is a regular contributor of short fiction to various publications including the official Stargate magazine, Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine and Escape Velocity. She won a Draco Award in 2005 for her eco-thriller, The Rhesus Factor, while Stargate Atlantis Exogenesis was short listed for the 2007 International Scribe Award.

Since 1980 Sonny has worked as a freelance journalist, a foreign correspondent for an Hawaiian newspaper, contributing editor for the international inflight magazine Island Spirit, and as a tourism copywriter for the Vanuatu Government, for whom she also wrote an encyclopedia and educational manuals. Sonny's non-fiction work has appeared in such prestigious publications as National Geographic, The Washington Times educational magazine, The World and I. In 2006 her non-fiction essays were selected to appear in the Australian Government anniversary edition, Voices of Australia, and in 2008 the World's Best Women's Travel Writing anthology.

Sonny has a degree in anthropology and geography from Sydney University, an MA in Creative Writing, Postgraduate Diploma in Environmental Management, and is a qualified TAFE/Polytech Trainer who regularly runs seminars and writing workshops for schools, libraries, the Queensland Writer's Centre and numerous writer's festivals and conventions.

In 2008 Sonny moved to a 5 acre property in the foothills of the Southern Alps of New Zealand's South Island. When she's not having an enormous amount of fun exploring her adopted home, she's working on a young adult urban fantasy series.

Find out more about Sonny here, www.sonnywhitelaw.com

Rowena Cory Daniells has sold around thirty children's books ranging from early readers, through primary to young adult. Some are 'faction' (fact made interesting), most are fiction, ranging across the genres. She has sold to both the trade market and the educational market.

Rowena is also published in adult fantasy with her 'Last T'En' trilogy selling in Australia the US and Germany. The first book of the trilogy won Romantic Book of the Year and was in the final three for both the PRISM and SAPPHIRE Romantic SF awards in the US. Book three of the series was a finalist in Romantic Books of the Year award. She has sold numerous short stories, appearing in Dreaming Downunder which won World Best fantasy. Her new fantasy series King Rolen's Kin will be released in 2010.

Rowena has a Masters in Arts Research and six children. She has served on the management committees of Romance Writers of Australia, the Queensland Writers Centre, the Brisbane Writers Festival and Fantastic Queensland. She has run workshops for libraries, schools, the children's festivals Voices on the Coast and the Somerset Literary Festival as well as Queensland Writers Centre, Romance Conferences, the World SF Convention in Melbourne, Australian National SF Conventions and the New Zealand's National SF Convention and is currently a lecturer at Qantm Digital Media College, Brisbane, Australia.

You can learn more about Rowena at www.corydaniells.com

Sabine C. Bauer holds a Ph.D. in English Literature from The Shakespeare Institute, Birmingham University, Birmingham, UK, and has trained as a stage director at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, Bristol, UK. In the course of six years she produced and directed nearly twenty plays, from classics to avant-garde, and from children's theatre to Shakespeare. She devised and led workshops for the Goethe Institute and various performing arts colleges in the UK, and was awarded the Arronson Guest Lectureship at Berea College, Berea, Kentucky, USA, where she directed Shakespeare's The Tempest and taught Principles of Directing, Intro to Shakespeare, and a Dramaturgy Practicum. She also presented a lecture at the University of Minnesota and was a panelist at the International Dramaturgy Symposium at Mount Holyoke, has worked extensively as a translator for various magazines, including Playboy (Germany), and contributed a series of academic essays to the Tennessee Williams A to Z (Facts on File, 2005).

After having been commissioned to write a children's play (which she also directed for The European Theatre Company, London, UK) in 2000, Sabine's focus turned to writing. In 2004, Sabine published the first of three Stargate novels for Fandemonium Ltd. under license to Metro Goldwyn Mayer (MGM) and has recently been contracted for a fourth. She has also published several short stories and is working on two original novels.

Sabine has edited nine novels for Fandemonium Ltd., two for Double Dragon Inc., and numerous web-published stories. German-born and -raised, Sabine is bilingual in German and English and has lived in the UK for sixteen years. Four years ago she left Europe for the Canadian west coast, which she still considers to be one of the smartest moves she ever made.

(novels written by Sabine; does not include plays, non-fiction, and editorial work)