BenBella

Karen Haber

Karen Haber is the author of eight novels including Star Trek Voyager: Bless the Beasts, co-author of Science of the X-Men, and editor of the Hugo-nominated essay collection celebrating J.R.R. Tolkien, Meditations on Middle Earth. Most recently she has helmed Kong Unbound, a book of essays and an official tie-in to the new movie, published by Pocket Books in October 2005. Her short fiction has appeared in Asimov’s science fiction magazine, the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction and many anthologies. She reviews art books for LOCUS magazine and profiles artists for Locus publications including Realms of Fantasy. She also co-edits the Best of Science Fiction and Fantasy anthologies series with Jonathan Strahan. Her newest science fiction novel, Crossing Infinity, a tale of gender confusions between worlds, was published in November 2005.

The Unauthorized X-Men

Vernell Hackett

Vernell Hackett is a freelance journalist in Nashville, Tenn., who has covered the Nashville music scene for a number of magazines, including Country Weekly, Classic Country & Western Music Magazine, the Home Services Guide, Bluegrass Unlimited, American Cowboy, Billboard Magazine, Country Song Roundup, Working Cowboy and Venues Today. A native of Riesel, Texas, Vernell moved to Nashville in 1973 to write articles about country music. She has interviewed many country, bluegrass, western and Christian artists, including Johnny Cash, Garth Brooks, Michael W. Smith, Dolly Parton, Brad Paisley, Don Edwards, Del McCoury, Willie Nelson, George Strait, Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Merle Haggard, Michael Martin Murphey, Waddie Mitchell, Reba McEntire, Trisha Yearwood, Stephen Curtis Chapman, Amy Grant, Larry Stephenson, LeAnn Rimes, Alan Jackson, Montgomery Gentry and Hanna McEuen. Vernell helped establish American Songwriter magazine in 1984, which she edited until 2004. She graduated from Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, Texas, with a B.S. degree in journalism. Vernell has written about a variety of subjects during her career, including music, art, and entertainment, travel, pets, food, legislation, characters, home décor, crafts, history, video and business.

Literary Cash

Olle Häger

Olle Häger was born in 1935. He grew up on a small homestead in Hälsingland, a province in the center of Sweden dominated by forest land and forestry. Olle broke away from his background and enrolled at Uppsala University, where he studied humanities. His academic studies were completed when he defended his dissertation in history dealing with the authenticity of the accounts of the life and deeds of the Swedish king Gustav Vasa in the 16th century. Since 1964 he has been a radio and television producer. He has specialized in historical documentaries, and he has received numerous national and international awards for his films. The government of Sweden awarded him an honorary professorship, a highly prestigious and rare award, in 1996 for his achievements. His work as a documentary filmmaker has been the object of academic examination in a recent Ph.D. dissertation: David Ludvigsson (2003), The Historian-Filmmaker’s Dilemma: Historical Documentaries in Sweden in the Era of Häger and Villius (Department of History, Uppsala University). Olle is also an author of books. He has published 10 historical books and several crime novels. At age 71 he still works as a documentary filmmaker at the Swedish Public Service Broadcaster—Sveriges Television (SVT). During his work with Benny’s Holocaust memoir, Magnus contacted Olle, who found the story so compelling that he wanted to make a film based on it. The film, entitled “A Round Trip to Hell”—with Benny Grünfeld in Auschwitz, was first aired in 1996, and has since then been shown numerous times in Sweden and several other countries. Olle also became involved in the book manuscript. In particular, he wrote the historical background to Benny’s highly personal account.

A Teenager in Hitler’s Death Camps

Joshua Halberstam

Dr. Joshua Halberstam is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication Arts & Sciences at Bronx Community College, and has taught at New York University and Teachers College, Columbia University. He is the author of eight books, including Everyday Ethics and Acing College and has recently published his first novel, A Seat at the Table.

Community College Guide

Adam Hall

Adam Hall was one of many pseudonyms for the English writer Elleston Trevor, who wrote 19 Quiller novels, including Quiller Balalaika.

Quiller

Quiller Salamander

Quiller Solitaire

Sherry Hamby, Ph.D.

Sherry Hamby, Ph.D., is research associate professor in the department of psychology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is co-author of The Conflict Tactics Scales handbook, and author or co-author of more than 50 other publications on victimization, assessment and other topics. Dr. Hamby is a recipient of awards from the National Register for Health Service Providers in Psychology and the American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children. She has been principal investigator on grants from the National Center for Health Statistics, Indian Health Service and other agencies. She is also a licensed clinical psychologist.

The Psychology of Joss Whedon

Gabriella M. Hancock

Gabriella M. Hancock is Peter Hancock’s daughter. She is completing a Bachelor of Science degree in psychology at the University of Central Florida’s Burnett Honors College.

The Psychology of Superheroes

Jillian Hancock

Jillian Hancock lives on the edge of the known world in Wellington, New Zealand. Information architect by day, writer by night, she spends her free time trapped in a complex barter cycle with ruthless pirates—but can’t really talk about it. Whenever the pirate cartel gets her down she reminds herself that somewhere, someone is doing an interpretive dance, which cheers her right up. Like everyone else in NZ, she knows a Hobbit personally.

House Unauthorized

Peter A. Hancock

Peter A. Hancock is Provost Distinguished Research Professor in the Department of Psychology and Institute for Simulation and Training at the University of Central Florida in Orlando, Fla. His research focuses on the future of human-machine symbiosis.

The Psychology of Harry Potter

The Psychology of Superheroes

Richard Hanley

Richard Hanley is a professor of philosophy at the University of Delaware. He is the author of Is Data Human? The Metaphysics of Star Trek, and several articles, including pieces in Star Wars and Philosophy and Superheroes and Philosophy.

Webslinger

Matthew Scott Hansen

Matthew Scott Hansen is the co-author of Andy Kaufman Revealed!: Best Friend Tells All. He lives in Granada Hills, Calif.

It’s in the Book, Bob!

Robin Hanson

Robin Hanson is a professor of economics at George Mason University. In 1998 Robin received his Ph.D. in social science from the California Institute of Technology, and then served as a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation health policy scholar at the University of California at Berkeley. Earlier he received a master’s in physics and a master’s in the philosophy of science from the University of Chicago, and spent nine years researching artificial intelligence, Bayesian statistics and hypertext publishing at Lockheed, NASA and independently. Robin’s work has appeared in several publications, including CATO Journal, International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Journal of Evolution and Technology, Social Philosophy and Policy, and Theory and Decision.

Taking the Red Pill

Richard Harland

Richard Harland lives between the golden beaches and green hills of Wollongong, south of Sydney in Australia. For 10 years, he was a university academic, with three published books on the philosophy of language. Then he resigned to become a full-time writer. He has published SF thrillers (the Eddon and Vail series), a fantasy trilogy (the Ferren books) and two gothic cult novels. His latest novel, The Black Crusade, won the Aurealis Award for Best Novel in any category of SF, fantasy or horror.

Navigating the Golden Compass

Kristen Harmel

Kristin Harmel is the author of the Warner Books/5 Spot novels How to Sleep with a Movie Star and The Blonde Theory, as well as the upcoming The Art of French Kissing (Warner Books, February 2008) and When You Wish (a YA novel from Delacorte Press/Random House, January 2008). She is a frequent contributor to People magazine and a freelance writer whose work has appeared in magazines including Glamour, American Baby, Men’s Health and YM. She appears regularly on the nationally syndicated TV morning show “The Daily Buzz.” After having lived in New York, Paris and Los Angeles, she now resides in Orlando, Fla., where she can be found every Thursday night on her couch, her TV tuned to ABC. She really has met Patrick Dempsey and would like to consider changing her name to Kristin Harmel-McDreamy. Visit her Web site at www.KristinHarmel.com.

Grey’s Anatomy 101

Steven Harper

Steven Harper lives in Ypsilanti, Mich., with his wife and son. He teaches English in Walled Lake, Mich., and he is appalled that the school requires him to teach Romeo and Juliet, which contains horrifying violence and shocking dirty jokes. His students think he’s hysterical, which isn’t the same as thinking he’s hilarious. He is the creator of the Silent Empire series for Roc Books, including Dreamer, Nightmare and Trickster. Currently, he’s working on Offspring, the fourth book. His books were nominated twice for the Spectrum Award. Visit his Web page at www.sff.net/people/spiziks.

Five Seasons of Angel

Charlaine Harris

Charlaine Harris, who writes one conventional mystery series and one humorous/vampire/romance/adventure mystery series, lives in southern Arkansas with a husband, three children, a ferret, two dogs and a duck. The duck stays outside. Charlaine won the 2002 Anthony Award for Dead Until Dark, the debut novel of her vampire series. Almost needless to say, she loves “Buffy.”

Seven Seasons of Buffy

David Harris

David Harris is an Australian physicist and science journalist. He previously presented a popular radio show in which callers would challenge him to answer their scientific questions. In the same spirit, he wrote 65 episodes of a television series that answered children’s science questions. He has also reported on science for newspapers and magazines, and is founding editor-in-chief of the magazine symmetry, which focuses on the world of particle physics, synchrotron x-ray science and cosmology. He is currently based in California at Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, which copublishes symmetry with Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory.

Alias Assumed

Todd Harris

Todd Harris is a commercial illustrator whose wide body of work includes video games, film and comic books. He lives in Los Angeles.

Little T Learns to Share

Harry Harrison

Harry Harrison is the author of numerous books including Make Room! Make Room!, Return to Eden and The Stainless Steel Rat series. He lives in New York City.

Deathworld

Shadows Fall

Star Smashers of the Galaxy Rangers

Carol Hart, Ph.D.

Carol Hart, Ph.D., is a freelance health and science writer based in Narberth, Pa., just outside of Philadelphia. She is the author of Good Food Tastes Good: An Argument for Trusting Your Senses and Ignoring the Nutritionists (forthcoming, SpringStreet Books) and Secrets of Serotonin (St. Martin’s Press, 1996, with a revised and expanded second edition forthcoming in early 2008).

The Science of Dune

Maryelizabeth Hart

Maryelizabeth Hart is co-owner of Mysterious Galaxy, an independent genre bookstore in San Diego. She co-authored companion books to “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” and “Angel” with husband Jeff Mariotte and regular Smart Pop contributor Nancy Holder. Her regular writing jobs are editor of the store’s newsletter, and reviews contributor. She has been reading her whole life and remains passionate about books.

Coffee at Luke’s: An Unauthorized Gilmore Girls Gabfest

Jesse Hassenger

Jesse Hassenger was born in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., a small town without an Irish mafia or a biker gang. He graduated from Wesleyan University in 2002 with a major in English, and currently lives in Brooklyn, N.Y. His reviews have appeared in PopMatters, The L Magazine, and on filmcritic.com; his fiction has appeared in Me Three and Dirt, and he is a member of the Blackout Writing Collective. He enjoys many types of pie and rarely writes in the third person.

Neptune Noir

Richard Hatch

Richard Hatch has portrayed “Battlestar Galactica’s” Apollo and Tom Zarek. A Golden Globe Award nominee, he is a veteran actor on screen—films and television—as well as the stage.

So Say We All

Candy Havens

Holt Medallion and double RITA finalist Candace Havens is the author of Charmed & Dangerous, Charmed & Ready, Charmed & Deadly and the upcoming Like a Charm (Berkley, 2008). A syndicated entertainment columnist, Havens is the managing editor for FYI Television, Inc. She is also the author of the BenBella biography Joss Whedon: The Genius Behind Buffy and a contributor to the anthologies Five Seasons of Angel and Alias Assumed: Sex, Lies and SD-6.

Alias Assumed

Five Seasons of Angel

Perfectly Plum

Heather Havrilesky

Heather Havrilesky grew up in Durham, N.C., and graduated from Duke University. In 1996, she and illustrator Terry Colon created “Filler,” a popular cartoon that ran for five years on Suck.com, one of the Web’s first pop culture magazines. She’s written for the LA Times, the Washington Post, New York, Spin, BookForum and NPR’s “All Things Considered.” She is currently a TV critic for Salon.com and maintains the Rabbit Blog. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband Bill and their two dogs.

Neptune Noir

Thomas Hayden

Thomas Hayden is a freelance journalist and writer with a special interest in science, medicine and culture. Formerly a staff writer at Newsweek and U.S. News & World Report, his articles and reviews have appeared in more than a dozen publications, including National Geographic, Nature and the Washington Post. He is also the co-author of On Call in Hell: A Doctor’s Iraq War Story, which was a national bestseller in 2007. He lives in San Francisco with his wife and fellow writer, Erika Check Hayden.

Sex and War

Karen Hayes

A sci-fi TV junkie since the first season of the original “Star Trek,” K. Stoddard Hayes finally validated her addiction when she sold her first article to Babylon 5 magazine. Since then, she has written about many genre series, including “Stargate: SG-1,” “Buffy” and “Angel,” “Star Trek” and, of course, “Farscape.” She is also the author of Xena, Warrior Princess: The Complete Illustrated Companion. She recently contributed five articles on classic television series to The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy, including the “Farscape” entry. When not programming her VCR to catch the latest episodes of current TV series, she likes to take her family to the beach or the movies, read comic books and plot to overthrow the male domination of screenwriting.

Five Seasons of Angel

Farscape Forever

Natalie Haynes

Natalie Haynes is a comedian and writer. Her first stand-up show was nominated for a Perrier Best Newcomer Award at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2002. Her first novel, The Great Escape, is published in September 2007, and she writes regularly for The Times. She reviews theater, film, books and television for BBC “Newsnight Review.”

Serenity Found

Linda Heath

Dr. Linda Heath is a professor of psychology at Loyola University Chicago, where her teaching and research interests focus on media effects, research methodology, and psychology and law. She received her M.A. and Ph.D. from Northwestern University in social psychology and her B.A. from the Ohio State University.

House Unauthorized

The Psychology of the Simpsons

Kyle Duane Hebert

Kyle Hebert lives and writes in Lexington, Ky. His fiction has appeared in The Glut, Sexy Stranger and Mitochondria’s First Anthology of Rarities and Loose Ends. He is also the fiction editor for Nougat. His first manuscript for a novel is sitting on an editor’s desk waiting to be read.

Literary Cash

Sibylle Hechtel

Sibylle Hechtel received her Ph.D. in biology from the University of California, Irvine. She taught the Biology of Aging at the University of Michigan while researching mitochondrial DNA evolution and later worked as a faculty research fellow at Caltech studying repetitive DNA. After several years of working 60 to 70 hours weekly in labs with no windows, she quit academics to work as a writer. Her work has been published in New Scientist, Red Herring, Reuters Health and others. She wrote a book on rock climbing due out in 2007.

The Science of Dune

George Hedley

George Hedley owns a $50 million construction and real estate development business as well as HARDHAT Presentations. Over the last five years, as a much-requested popular professional speaker, George speaks 50 times per year to business audiences, conventions, associations and at company meetings. As many as 25,000 people see him present keynote speeches or seminars every year. George is based in Costa Mesa, Calif.

Get Your Business To Work!

John Hemry

John G. Hemry also writes under the name Jack Campbell and is the author of several novels, including the first and so far only legal thriller military SF series (a.k.a. “JAG” in space), which includes A Just Determination, Burden of Proof, Rule of Evidence and Against All Enemies. His latest space opera is The Lost Fleet: Dauntless (August 2006) under the Jack Campbell pen name. John loves the first Star Wars trilogy but wishes George had stopped there. He wanted to marry a woman like Leia and ended up with one who’s pretty darn close but even better. He’s also the author of the Stark’s War series and numerous short fiction stories, as well as nonfiction articles on topics like interstellar navigation. A retired U.S. Navy officer, he lives in Maryland with his wife “S” and three children.

Navigating the Golden Compass

Star Wars on Trial

Totally Charmed

Amy Hendel

Amy Hendel, R-PA, IDEA, ACSM, is a family lifestyle therapist, registered physician assistant and well-known TV personality, health expert, reporter, correspondent, producer and writer for a wide variety of television and radio shows and print publications. She reaches millions of people through a broad spectrum of media outlets including guest spots on NBC’s “Today,” Fox News and Rachael Ray, as a traveling expert/correspondent for NBC Health Fairs where she speaks to audiences throughout the country, as “Healthy Home” segment host on “Housesmarts” and as a regular coach and mentor for iVillage.com, a Web site with more than 16 million subscribers. As CEO of healthgal.com, her daily newsletter hits thousands of homes.

Hendel’s master’s level R-PA degree followed her Bachelor of Science degree. She is a personal trainer, fitness instructor and nutritionist; and her professional affiliations include the California Association of Physician Assistants, the American Association of Physician Assistants, the American College of Sports Medicine and the International Association of Fitness Professionals (IDEA).

Fat Families, Thin Families

C. Lenny Henderson

C. Lenny Henderson, CFP, became a Certified Financial Planner while working as a financial advisor at a major Wall Street firm. He followed the advice of Making Work Optional and is now pursuing a medical degree. He lives in Oklahoma City.

Making Work Optional

Nancy Henderson

Nancy Henderson is an award-winning writer who enjoys pursuing stories that break societal stereotypes and challenge readers to look at human issues in a new light. She has published hundreds of articles in major periodicals ranging from Parade and the New York Times to Smithsonian, Woman’s Day and Southwest Airlines Spirit. In recent years, two of her primary areas of expertise—human interest and business—have “accidentally” meshed into a specialty that focuses on people who are making a difference through their work. Nancy is a member of the American Society of Journalists and Authors and the Authors Guild. She has won two Print Journalism EDI (Equality, Dignity and Independence) awards from Easter Seals for “raising awareness of disability issues and encouraging realistic portrayals of people with disabilities.” One of the honors was for “An Enabling Workforce,” a story she wrote about Habitat International, Inc. for Nation’s Business in 1998. Nancy’s magazine articles about Habitat have also prompted numerous calls and letters from socially conscious entrepreneurs, disability groups and parents with disabled children, as well as many unsolicited invitations for Habitat owner, David Morris, to share his message at workshops for business, education, healthcare and disability groups throughout the U.S. Nancy lives in Chattanooga, Tenn.

Able!

Magnus Henrekson

Magnus Henrekson was born in 1958. In November 1956, at age 19, his biological mother Gabriella Zador (b. Palfy, 1937–2006) escaped Hungary following the Soviet invasion. After a short interim in an Austrian refugee camp she came to Sweden in early 1957. She became pregnant later that year, and rather than opting for a life as a single mother in a foreign country she decided to give up her child. As a result, Magnus grew up as an adopted child in a Swedish farming family. He knew from an early age that he was adopted and that his biological mother was Hungarian. He first met his biological mother in 1984, and it took several years before she told him who his biological father was. Gabriella’s first years in Sweden had been tumultuous and the pregnancy was the result of a brief relationship. The father had never been informed of the pregnancy, let alone the birth of his son. Magnus contacted his biological father Benny Grünfeld in 1992, and they began to make up for time lost. Benny retired a year later, and, partly as a way of getting to know each other, they compiled Benny’s memories from the Holocaust years into a book manuscript. Very early on Magnus showed talent for academic studies and had a vivid interest in social matters. He eventually specialized in economics. After receiving his Ph.D. in 1990 he has been an academic economist. In Sweden he is a well-known and respected academic, and for almost 20 years he has been a keen and frequent controversial participant in the Swedish public debate. He is currently Jacob Wallenberg Professor of Economics at the Stockholm School of Economics and president of the Research Institute of Industrial Economics in Stockholm. In his research he has covered a wide array of topics, but in recent years his main interest has been the role of entrepreneurship for economic development and prosperity. Magnus is married to Karin and has two daughters, Ebba and Hedvig, born in 1992 and 1994, respectively.

A Teenager in Hitler’s Death Camps

Nancy Herkness

Nancy Herkness is the author of two award-winning novels: A Bridge to Love and Shower of Stars. She learned how to “deconstruct” at Princeton University, where she studied English literature and creative writing. Born and raised in the mountains of West Virginia, Nancy now lives in New Jersey with her husband, two children and a golden retriever. She was shocked to discover that, according to the Desperate Housewives Quiz, she most resembles the character of Gabrielle. Of course, she wouldn’t mind having Gabby’s figure or her shoes.

Welcome to Wisteria Lane

Richard E. Heyman

Richard E. Heyman, Ph.D., is research professor of psychology at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. His research focuses on family dysfunction, especially family violence. He has authored or co-authored more than 60 scholarly papers, book chapters and books and has received over 20 federal research grants. His alliance with Ashley was forged two and a half years ago when she arrived at Stony Brook and her passion for “Survivor” got him to start watching the show.

The Psychology of Harry Potter

The Psychology of Survivor

Darren Hudson Hick

Darren Hudson Hick is a doctoral candidate in philosophy at the University of Maryland, College Park, and the former managing editor of the Comics Journal. He has previously contributed to the Smart Pop anthology Webslinger: SF and Comic Writers on Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man. For more information, visit www.typetoken.com.

Batman Unauthorized

Webslinger

Janine Hiddlestone

Janine Hiddlestone is a lecturer and tutor in politics, history and communications at James Cook University in Australia. She has a Ph.D. in political history and has published on the place of war in culture and history, and how pop culture became the centerpiece of so much of the public’s understanding—and misunderstanding—of events. She has explored the influence of technology on pop culture, and vice versa, and its pedagogical uses in encouraging students to develop an interest in political and historical issues. She has also attained infamy among her colleagues as a pop culture tragic.

Coffee at Luke’s: An Unauthorized Gilmore Girls Gabfest

Grey’s Anatomy 101

Halo Effect

Raelynn Hillhouse

Raelynn Hillhouse has slipped across closed borders, smuggled jewels and been recruited as a spy by two of the world’s most notorious intelligence services (they failed). The St. Louis Post-Dispatch wrote that “she’s truly like James Bond and Indiana Jones all rolled into one.” Her widely acclaimed first novel, Rift Zone, draws from her experiences. Her next novel, Outsourced (Forge, May 2007), is about an operative who becomes a target in the multibillion-dollar War on Terror, and the only one he can trust is his ex-fiancée—who’s been hired to kill him. A former professor and Fulbright fellow, Hillhouse lives in Hawaii.

James Bond in the 21st Century

This is Chick-Lit

Andrea Hirsch

Andrea Schicke Hirsch has been a bookseller, freelance editor and copywriter, teacher and paralegal. She studied theatre and English at Fordham University and has a master’s degree in education from the University of Bridgeport. A Connecticut native, she lives in Wilton, Conn., with her family.

This is Chick-Lit

Dave Hodgson

Dr. Dave Hodgson is an ecologist, working at the Centre for Ecology and Conservation on the Cornwall (U.K.) campus of the University of Exeter. He lives in the middle of Cornwall and enjoys views of the North and South coasts. He and Penny share their house and garden with Merlin, the magic dog, and Patch and Bridget, the depraved bunnies. When not studying the maintenance of biodiversity, he plays drums for warblefly, the kickingest trad-punk band this side of anywhere.

Navigating the Golden Compass

Steven A. Hoffman

Steven A. Hoffman has lived in 17 states and countries and has been very happy to call Sioux Falls, S.D., home since 1997. When he’s not writing, he oversees a seven-gallery visual arts center, a science center with three floors of hands-on exhibits, a domed large format theater and a performing arts center with 1,900- and 300-seat theaters. Professionally, Steve has curated performing arts series, festivals, events and individual performances for more than 15 years. Steve holds degrees from the University of Illinois and University of Wisconsin and has worked and taught in Chicago, New York, Ann Arbor, Mich., and Madison, Wis. He is actively involved with a variety of local and national boards, associations and panels and has previously been published in several literary and trade publications. Since living in South Dakota his appreciation for country music, fishing and hunting has steadily grown. Steve can be contacted at SH.writings@hotmail.com.

Literary Cash

Nancy Holder

Nancy Holder is a four-time Bram Stoker Award–winning author, and was nominated a fifth time for one of her “Buffy” novels. She also received a special award from Amazon.com for The Angel Chronicles, Volume 1. She has written or cowritten over three dozen projects in the “BtVS” and “Angel” universes. Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Watcher’s Guide, Volume 1, coauthored with Christopher Golden, appeared on the USA Today bestseller list and was described in Entertainment Weekly and the Wall Street Journal as “superb.” She lives in San Diego with her 8-year-old daughter, Belle, a daunting karate student and key soccer defender, who, as of this writing, is eagerly awaiting her first softball season.

Five Seasons of Angel

Finding Serenity

Seven Seasons of Buffy

Alesia Holliday

Alesia Holliday’s first book was all about being a desperate housewife. The autobiographical E-mail to the Front was the first book to tell the real truth about military families when one spouse is at war. After several years as a trial lawyer, Alesia is a “recovering” attorney turned award-winning author. For news of her novels—romantic comedies, chick-lit and mysteries—please visit her online at www.alesiaholliday.com. For news of her latest Desperate Mom moment, you can visit her blog and laugh at her. (Everybody else does.) Alesia, who in her college days was a lot like Gabrielle, is now firmly in Lynette’s camp. Except Alesia’s kids are way, way better behaved. And there are no rats.

Flirting with Pride & Prejudice

Welcome to Wisteria Lane

Robert Hood

Robert Hood is a widely published writer of horror fiction who also indulges his abiding passion for genre cinema through irregular critiquing. His articles “Nights of the Celluloid Dead: a History of Zombie Films” and “Killer Koalas: Australian and New Zealand Horror Films” are available, along with other film comment, via his Web site (www.roberthood.net). He recently co-edited (with Robin Pen) an international anthology of original stories entitled Daikaiju! Giant Monster Tales (Agog! Press, 2005) and won an Atheling Award for Genre Criticism for a piece on the film “The Weight of Water.” He lives in Wollongong, which is a regional city south of Sydney on the east coast of NSW, Australia.

King Kong is Back!

Misty Hook

Misty K. Hook, Ph.D., first developed her love for all things Joss Whedon during her doctoral training in counseling psychology. After getting her degree, Dr. Hook spent five years as an assistant professor of psychology teaching classes on gender and family issues. Her students quickly learned about her love of both “Buffy” and feminism and often gave her “Buffy”-related items. Dr. Hook is now a licensed psychologist in private practice where she deals a lot with gender issues. In her spare time, she enjoys spending time with her husband and son, who she hopes will be as much of a feminist as Joss Whedon.

Alias Assumed

Neptune Noir

The Psychology of Harry Potter

The Psychology of the Simpsons

The Psychology of Joss Whedon

David Hopkins

David Hopkins is a high-school English teacher and comic-book writer (Karma Incorporated, Emily Edison and Antigone). He lives in Arlington, Texas, with his wife Melissa and their daughter Kennedy. If anyone from Marvel reads this, he’d like a job writing Spider-Man—thank you very much. Visit David’s Web site at www.antiherocomics.com

Webslinger

Ellen Hopkins

Ellen Hopkins is a poet and award-winning author, with 20 published nonfiction books for children and five New York Times bestselling young adult novels-in-verse. Her sixth novel publishes August 2009. She is currently hard at work on her seventh and says she hopes for a Printz nomination before she reaches her expiration date. Hopkins lives with her husband, 11-year-old son, two dogs, one cat and a “whole mess of fish” on her hilltop estate near Carson City, Nev.

A New Dawn

Flirtin’ With The Monster

Winston Howlett

Savage Empire: Prophecies

Tanya Huff

Tanya Huff lives and writes in rural Ontario, Canada, with her partner Fiona Patton, six and a half cats and an unintentional Chihuahua. Her latest book and the third of the Tony Foster novels, Smoke and Ashes, will be out in hardcover in June 2006.

Finding Serenity

Star Wars on Trial

Totally Charmed

Ashley N. Hunt, M.A.

Ashley N. Hunt, M.A., is a graduate student in the clinical psychology Ph.D. program at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. Her research interests include couples conflict and communication and the observational methodologies used to study such phenomena. Ashley hopes that her strategies and alliances will help her outwit, outplay and outlast the challenges of graduate school.

The Psychology of Survivor

Elizabeth Hutcheson

Elizabeth Hutcheson is a freelance features writer and photographer living in Ireland.

Fake Alibis