Fairs' Point (43 page)

Once again, I have to thank Jo Graham, Amy Griswold, and the First Readers on LJ for their help and advice. Steve Berman also deserves a hearty thank you, both for his patience and his editorial skills; thanks also to Alex Jeffers for both the edit and the design, and to Ben Baldwin for another gorgeous cover.

Also, I would like to note that I offered a guest appearance i
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Fairs’ Poin
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as part of LiveJournal’s Help the South auction, specifically to benefit the Greater Birmingham Humane Society, which was tasked with helping animals affected by the 2011 tornado outbreaks in the Southeast. Mr. Sasha and Kikumaru Moo, cats cleverly disguised as basket terriers Sieur Sasha and Silklands Warrior (more familiarly known as “Moo”), condescend to appear through the efforts of their human, who won the spot with a generous double donation.  Thank you very much indeed!

Melissa Scott is from Little Rock, Arkansas, and studied history at Harvard College and Brandeis University, where she earned her PhD in the Comparative History program with a dissertation titled
“Victory of the Ancients: Tactics, Technology, and the Use of Classical Precedent.”She is the author of more than twenty science fiction and fantasy novels, most with queer themes and characters, and has won Lambda Literary Awards fo
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Trouble and Her Friend
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,
Shadow Ma
n
, an
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Point of Dream
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, the last written with her late partner, Lisa A. Barnett. She has also won a Spectrum Award fo
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Shadow Ma
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and again in 2010 for the short story “The Rocky Side of the Sky”
(
Peripher
y
, Lethe Press) as well as the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. She can be found on LiveJournal at mescott.livejournal.com.