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Doug Lain is the editor of Diet Soap, and the author of the collection "Last Week's Apocalypse," and the novel "Billy Moon:1968" due out in 2010 from Tor Books. He recognizes that he is a member of the entertained public — a public that Guy Debord described in his 1978 film In Girum Imus Nocte et Consumimur Igni as “dying in droves on the freeways, and in each flu epidemic and each heat wave, and with each mistake of those who adulterate their food, and each technical innovation profitable to the numerous entrepreneurs for whose environmental developments they serve as guinea pigs.”

Last week Lain drank six Starbuck’s coffees and daydreamed about revolution 12.5 times. Douglas Lain lives in Portland, Oregon with his wife and four children.
douglain@dietsoap.org

M. K. Hobson (born January 21, 1969) is a speculative fiction and fantasy writer. In 2003 she was a Pushcart Prize nominee. She lives in Oregon City, Oregon.

Hobson's short fiction has appeared in magazines such as SCI FICTION, the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Realms of Fantasy, Strange Horizons, and ChiZine. Her work has also appeared in anthologies such as Polyphony 5 and Polyphony 6 and Medicine Show. Hobson's stories have received Honorable Mentions in “Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror” and “Year’s Best Science Fiction."

She has two historical fantasy novels forthcoming from Bantam Spectra, the first of which (The Native Star) is scheduled to appear in Spring 2010.

mkhobson@dietsoap.org