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Elisabeth Fairchild

Regency-period romance, Elisabeth Fairchild’s work is described as “theme-driven, lushly set and lyrically layered wit—Jane Austen style.” Half English (her mother still maintains U.K. citizenship) with a keen ear for British voice, a sharp eye for accurate and evocative setting and a wry tongue-in-cheek wit, the award-winning author is also published in Germany, Italy, Bulgaria and the Netherlands.

Her last three releases, Sugarplum Surprises, A Game of Patience and Valentine’s Change of Heart, have been chosen as “Top Pick” releases. She is currently working on a new book and dabbling with a Regency period screenplay. For a sneak peek at sample chapters, visit www.gimarc.com/fairchild.html. Write Elisabeth at fairchild@gimarc.com.

Flirting with Pride & Prejudice

Bill Fawcett

Bill has been a professor, teacher, corporate executive and college dean. He is one of the founders of Mayfair Games, a board and role-play gaming company, and designed award-winning board games and role-playing modules. He more recently produced and designed several computer games. As a book packager, a person who prepares series of books from concept to production for major publishers, his company Bill Fawcett & Associates has packaged more than 250 books for every major publisher. Bill began his own novel writing with a juvenile series, Swordquest, for Ace SF in the early ’80s and has written several since. The Fleet science fiction series he edited and contributed to with David Drake has become a classic of military science fiction. He has collaborated on several mystery novels as Quinn Fawcett, including the Authorized Mycroft Holmes and Madame Vernet mysteries. His recent works include Making Contact: A UFO Contact Handbook, and a series of books about great mistakes in history: It Seemed Like a Good Idea, You Did What? and How to Lose a Battle. As an anthologist Bill has edited or co-edited more than fifty anthologies.

So Say We All

Stepping Through the Stargate

Dino Felluga

Dino Felluga is an English professor at Purdue University, West Lafayette, Ill. His first book, The Perversity of Poetry: Romantic Ideology and the Popular Male Poet of Genius is forthcoming from the SUNY Press. He is currently working on expanding a Web site (with accompanying book) that introduces critical theory to students and scholars by way of popular culture: www.purdue.edu/guidetotheory.

Taking the Red Pill

J.R. Fettinger

J. R. Fettinger is the webmaster of Spidey Kicks Butt (www.spideykicksbutt.com), and the author of all essays on the site. He lives with his wife Karen and children Rachel and Spencer in Medina, Ohio. He hopes he is closer to the Ben Parker model of fatherhood than the Norman Osborn one, but his kids will have the final say on that.

Webslinger

Sandy Field, Ph.D.

Sandy Field, Ph.D., is a freelance science writer based in Lewisburg, Pa. She holds a B.S. degree in genetics from the University of California, Davis and a Ph.D. in biochemistry, cell and molecular biology from Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y. She specializes in continuing medical education, writing in the areas of oncology and infectious disease. Her other passions include science fiction, forensic science, San Francisco Giants baseball, bicycling, Tae Kwon Do and cooking for her family. Visit her Web site at www.fieldscientific.com.

The Science of Dune

Randall Fitzgerald

Randall Fitzgerald has been an investigative newspaper and magazine reporter and book author for 37 years. He has written investigative features for Reader’s Digest, the Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal. His most recent book is The Hundred Year Lie: How Food And Medicine Are Destroying Your Health, published in hardcover in 2006 by Penguin/Dutton and in paperback in 2007 by Plume.

Toxic Beauty

Judy Fitzwater

Judy Fitzwater is the author of the Jennifer Marsh mystery series, published by Ballantine Books, and the suspense novel No Safe Place, a May 2006 release from Silhouette Bombshell. A former journalist and an Air Force brat, she now lives with her husband in the Washington, D.C., area, where she writes novels filled with mystery, humor and suspense.

Neptune Noir

Miellyn Fitzwater

Miellyn Fitzwater writes and produces television promos for TLC series, including “Miami Ink” and “What Not to Wear.” She has also penned and produced several independent short movies. She lives in Washington, D.C., with her very own “Luke” and their three plants. Miellyn not so secretly wants to be Amy Sherman-Palladino when she grows up.

Coffee at Luke’s: An Unauthorized Gilmore Girls Gabfest

Thomas Flamson

Thomas Flamson is a doctoral candidate in anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles. His research interests include intentionality, theory of mind, and the role of emotions in risky decision-making. His current research focuses on the evolutionary origins of humor and aesthetic preferences, and their role in developing social relationships. Besides being a long-time fan of Joss Whedon’s work, he was once served Cheetos by Seth Green (“Oz” from “Buffy” and “Angel”) at a party.

The Psychology of Joss Whedon

Melanie M. Fletcher

Melanie Fletcher is a woman of simple tastes—she likes to write, preferably for money. Her fiction includes “Star Quality” (Selling Venus, Circlet Press), “Hermaphrodite” (Crossing the Border, Indigo/Gollancz), “Bartok and the Unicorn” (Quantum Muse, July 2002), “The Female of the Species” (Quantum Muse, April 2003) and “A Rose By Any Other Name” (The Four Bubbas of the Apocolypse, Yard Dog Press). She has also produced the chapbooks The Stories That Would Not Die! and Dark Matter—Erotica SF and Fantasy (Belaurient Press).

Farscape Forever

Stepping Through the Stargate

Natasha Fondren

When she’s not crushing on Ranger, Natasha Fondren keeps her fingers busy playing the roles of writer and pianist in Ohio. Thanks to Lula, she’s learning to look on the bright side, even when disasters strike.

Perfectly Plum

Gary Fong

Gary Fong is a globally renowned photographer, inventor and entrepreneur. He is the father of “story-booking,” now the industry standard in wedding photography, in which candid shots are arranged in real time to tell a story, as opposed to the archaic method of taking posed, stilted shots. He is also the inventor of the Lightsphere®, a specially colored dome that is held in place over the flash unit of a camera. Before long, more than 200,000 units were sold worldwide, thus creating a multimillion-dollar plastics business. Since inventing the Lightsphere®, Fong has built a veritable cottage industry around variations on the popular product, including The Origami and The Puffer, all of which have become standard equipment used by most wedding photographers worldwide. He is considered one of the most influential photographers and inventors of his generation.

Accidental Millionaire

D. C. "Dorothy" Fontana

D. C. Fontana has credits as a writer on such diverse television series as “Star Trek,” “Bonanza,” “The Waltons,” “The Streets of San Francisco” and “Dallas.” She has served as story editor on the original “Star Trek” series, “Star Trek Animated,” “Fantastic Journey” and “Logan’s Run,” and as associate producer on “Star Trek: The Next Generation.” She has experience in writing children’s shows, science fiction, westerns, action adventure, mysteries, daytime specials, animation and interactive games. She is a member of Mystery Writers of America, Romance Writers of America and the Society of Children’s Book Writers & Illustrators, as well as the Writers’ Guild of America, west, and Writers’ Guild of Canada.

Boarding the Enterprise

Paul Fontana

Paul Fontana graduated from Colby College in 1996 with honors in philosophy. This essay was written while he was studying the New Testament at Harvard Divinity School. He currently lives in New York City.

Taking the Red Pill

James L. Ford

James L. Ford is a professor of East Asian religions in the department of religion at Wake Forest University, N.C. He earned an M.A. in 1996 and Ph.D. in 1998 in East Asian religions from Princeton University. Dr. Ford’s primary research centers on medieval Japanese Buddhism and he recently completed a manuscript titled Boundless Devotion: Jokei (1155-1213) and the Discourse of Kamakura Buddhism. At present, he is executive secretary for the Society for the Study of Japanese Religion and serves on the steering committee for the Japanese Religions Group of the American Academy of Religion.

Taking the Red Pill

Karen Joy Fowler

Karen Joy Fowler is the New York Times bestselling author of The Jane Austen Book Club, which has also been an Oprah Book Club book. She is also the author of Sister Noon (a PEN/Faulkner finalist), Sarah Canary, The Sweetheart Season and the story collection Black Glass. She lives in Davis, Calif.

Flirting with Pride & Prejudice

Nancy Franklin

Nancy Franklin is an associate professor of psychology at Stony Brook University, specializing in human cognition and memory. She received her Ph.D. in 1989 at Stanford University, where she trained with Barbara Tversky and Gordon Bower. Her current research concerns false memory and emotional influences on memory and judgment.

House Unauthorized

The Psychology of Harry Potter

Jonathan B. Freeman

Jonathan B. Freeman recently completed his B.A. in psychology and gender & sexuality studies at New York University, and is currently a doctoral student at Tufts University, earning his Ph.D. in experimental psychology. He is currently interested in the social, neural, cultural and cognitive processes involved in person construal, first impressions, social evaluation and interpersonal interaction. In search of nuanced understandings, he tries to work at multiple levels of analysis: social (and cognitive) psychology, social and cultural neuroscience and critical/cultural studies of gender, sexuality, race, class and capitalism. Hopefully not having to entirely abandon his delusional ideas about making sense of interesting mental life and its inextricable ties to society and culture, he desperately tries to reconcile a secret infatuation with Mr. Incredible with his varied resistances against heteronormative patriarchy.

The Psychology of Superheroes

Karyn M. Frick, Ph.D.

Karyn M. Frick, Ph.D., is an associate professor of behavioral neuroscience in the Department of Psychology at Yale University. She received her B.A. from Franklin and Marshall College, and her M.A. and Ph.D. in psychology from the Johns Hopkins University. Her research focuses on the neurobiology of learning and memory, with particular interest in how hormones, aging and the environment affect these processes. She spends way too much time watching reality TV, including “Survivor,” and still feels that Boston Rob should have won “Survivor: All-Stars” (at least he got the girl!).

The Psychology of Survivor

Charlotte Fullerton

Charlotte Fullerton grew up in New England with the same school uniform, hairstyle and academic attitude as Rory, but left her own version of Stars Hollow behind for Los Angeles to attend the University of Southern California’s School of Cinema-Television. Currently, Charlotte is a busy freelance writer of children’s books, pop culture magazines and some of your kids’ favorite animated TV shows. Still, she is perhaps best known as one of the creators of the fan-favorite Star Wars short film, “Troops.” Whenever Charlotte gets homesick, she has lunch on the Warner Bros lot and walks around the Gilmore Girls’ exteriors decorated for fall or winter—which she doesn’t have to rake or shovel.

Coffee at Luke’s: An Unauthorized Gilmore Girls Gabfest