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About Catherynne ValenteRacheline MalteseSeanan McGuire

Catherynne M. Valente is a NYTimes-bestselling fantasy / SF author whose novels include Palimpsest Deathless and The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making. In 2011 the latter book ranked #8 on the NYTimes bestseller list. Its sequel The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There was #5 on Time's Best Fiction of 2012. She has won the James Tiptree Jr. Award and three Locus Awards. As part of the SF Squeecast she has won two Hugo Awards. Seanan McGuire watches too much television which does not explain how she also writes three books a year (as two different people no less - she's also Mira Grant) dozens of short stories and endless blog posts. It has been posited that she may be a Time Lady herself or possibly an alien pod plant. Both seem equally likely. Seanan has been nominated for a variety of genre awards and won the 2011 Campbell Award for Best New Writer. Robert Smith is professor of Christian preaching at Beeson Divinity School Samford University in Birmingham Alabama where he received the Teacher of the Year award in 2005. His research interests include the place of passion in preaching the literary history of African American preaching Christological preaching and theologies of preaching. Smith and his wife have four children.