The "channel operators" (ChanOps) in #Authors help provide a nice friendly atmosphere in which everyone who follows our channel protocol is welcome.

If you are a ChanOp and don't have an up-to-date bio update it today.

F A W N N
   Pamela Rice Hahn is Channel Manager for #Authors, co-creator of the #Authors Web site, and Publisher/Editor-in-Chief of The Blue Rose Bouquet. Her body may not be as flexible as she'd like, but her writing skills are. Pam has publishing credits in all areas -- fiction, poetry, nonfiction (articles, business, features, food features and recipe development), and humor. She won the 1997 Midwest Writers Workshop Manny Award for Nonfiction for her personal essay, "You've Gotta Crawl Before You Can Walk." In addition to work as a tech editor and writer for Que, Macmillan Computer Publishing, Quessing, Sybex, Osborne, DDC, and other technical publishers, Pam is the author of The Unofficial Guide to Online Genealogy (IDG/Hungry Minds, 2001), as well as the lead author on Teach Yourself Grammar and Style in 24 Hours (Sams, Macmillan General Reference, June 2000), Master the Grill The Lazy Way (Alpha Books, Macmillan General Reference, June 1999; Pam is completing the work on the soon-to-be-reprinted, new and totally revised edition by Laurel Glen Publishing), and How to Use Microsoft Access 2000 (Sams, Macmillan Computer Publishing, July 1999). Pam is currently hard at work on other books that will be published in 2002. [Watch this space for details!] She is editor of several Web sites for Webseed Publishing: BreadBasics, HappyGrandparent, Info4Diabetics, AutoimmuneIllnesses, and PassionForJewelry. You can find more information on her personal Web site.
url: http://www.ricehahn.com

P L A T Y
   He goes by so many nicks, we don't know who he is. This international man of mystery has been identified recently as platypus, theLemur, MrWondrfl, and others. He writes pretty much whatever he wants. Lately he's been focusing on academia, but he's trying to get back to fiction. He has many projects in the works, mostly fantasy/sci-fi. He also works on a comic book, edits the Leading Edge, is creating an RPG and writing a paper on comic books as literature. He is the game master and Webmaster of Arthurian Online Role Playing, Webmaster and Founder of the Writers Group project, and proxy owner of his computer's vanity site. He is a Comparative Literature major at BYU, is happily married, and has two gorgeous daughters.
url: herb's world

L U R Q U E R
   Another geeque (who, until you've had him phone and sing in your ear, you can't imagine the depth of this young man's talents) who is my right hand.

D A T E S
   Sandy Fleming, author, software consultant, character fiction with a scientific flavour (UK, you know).
He is currently receiving wide acclaim for his Web site, ScotsText, which contains poems, and proverbs in the old Scots language.

D O J E R S
   Jodi has been into computers now since 1983 and has been online since 1984. She started out with a Vic-20 and soon upgraded to a C-64. She's been an op in #authors since it's origination back inm 1997. She has been a writer for Que Publishing and has her own website at www.gun-politics.com discussing the pros and cons of gun control vs gun rights.
url: www.key-net.net/users/doje/

I N D Y
   Erin Klitzke is a history and anthropology major at Grand Valley State University and a writer of speculative fiction (mostly sci-fantasy). She writes for the Grand Valley Lanthorn as an opinions columnist and the author of their current fiction serial, What Once Was Lost. She hopes to one day pursue a writing career, but, failing that, hopes to get a Ph.D in the history and archaeology of Roman Britain. She is an avid gamer (mostly D&D) and participates in local Renaissance festivals, including Grand Valley State's Festival. Web sites she maintains include her own at and the site for the Dashan Society, an interactive fiction group. She can be reached at ShainannRoe@swirve.com, AthensMcLeod@hotmail.com, or klitzkee@student.gvsu.edu.

M C R I S T O
   Richard Montanari aka MCristo has been a writer since 1989. His short fiction, features, essays and both film and literary criticism have appeared in The Chicago Tribune, The Detroit Free Press, Wordperfect Magazine, and scores of other regional and national publications. In 1995, his first novel DEVIANT WAY was published in hardcover by Simon & Schuster and is now available in more than a dozen countries as well as in PAPERBACK in the United States. In 1996 he signed a multibook contract with Avon Books. His next novel of suspense, THE VIOLET HOUR, will be published in hardcover by Avon in May, 1998. LIBERTINE, the sequel to DEVIANT WAY, will be published in hardcover in June, 1999. Foreign rights for both books have been sold in Europe, Scandinavia, Australia, Canada, Japan and South Africa.