Tales From a Lone Star: A Future Classics Anthology, Volume One

Melanie Fletcher has been a professional writer since 1995. When not writing, she knits, quilts, designs jewelry, makes dolls, fences, herds cats, and functions on far too little sleep. Her credits include "Think Small" (Enchantment Place, DAW Books), Sabre Dance (Yard Dog Press), and Random Realities (Belaurient Press). As well as being published in numerous countries and three languages, she has started writing SF and fantasy erotic romance in addition to her more PG-13 work (see "functions on far too little sleep"). God help you all.

William Ledbetter lives near Dallas with his family and too many animals. His short stories have appeared in Jim Baen's Universe, Writers of the Future Volume 28 and various other publications. He's an editor at Heroic Fantasy Quarterly and runs the annual Jim Baen Memorial Writing Contest for Baen Books and the National Space Society.

Jake Kerr began writing short fiction in 2010 after fifteen years as a music industry columnist and journalist on digital media. His first published story, "The Old Equations," was named a finalist for the Nebula Award and the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award. In 2012, he will return to Lightspeed magazine with his story "Requiem in the Key of Prose." He also has a new story forthcoming in Fireside Magazine.


A graduate of Kenyon College with degrees in English and Psychology, Kerr studied under writer-in-residence Ursula K. Le Guin and Peruvian playwright Alonso Alegria. Kerr lives in Dallas, Texas, where he is working on his first novel.

Paul Lamarre is originally from Connecticut but has found a new home in Texas with his wife and three kids. He served in the Navy as a nuclear mechanical operator spending many months at sea tucked away in the engine room of the USS MISSISSIPPI. He has degrees in Nuclear Engineering and Marketing. He writes speculative fiction and loves science fiction most of all. Known by friends as “Paul red shirt” his main goal is to survive the next away mission, or at least get through with minimal damage.

Michelle Muenzler's goal in life is to bring forth the bunny apocalypse and bury the earth with furry-soft goodness. When not working toward this goal, she experiments on her husband with new recipes and builds blockades around her NetBook to protect it from her cats. Her fiction leans toward dark fantasy with a twist of new weird, and if nobody dies in a story, then it probably wasn't written by her.

Gloria Oliver lives in Texas making sure to stay away from rolling tumbleweeds while bowing to the never ending wishes of her feline and canine masters.


She is the author of In the Service of Samurai, Vassal of El, Cross-eyed Dragon Troubles, Willing Sacrifice, and The Price of Mercy, all fantasy and young adult fantasy novels, several with romantic elements.


She is a member in good standing of EPIC and BroadUniverse though she has yet to make the list for Cat Slaves R Us.

C.A. has waited for the aliens at Manchu Piccu on the Millennium. Only the President of Peru with his heavily armed body guard arrived. (I've a story there.) Giving the aliens another chance, she visited Rosewell, NM. She decided the aliens have already arrived, and live amongst us. Surely you suspect a few.


C.A. has published stories in 4 Star Stories, the anthology Things You Can Create by Stone Thread Publishing, and The Dallas Writers' Journal.

S. Boyd Taylor has been published in such markets as Chi Zine, Orson Scott Card’s Intergalactic Medicine Show, and Drabblecast. He lives in Dallas, TX where he pursues many strange and wonderful hobbies such as meditation, Tai Chi, and singing along as loud as he can to the Beatles’ “Hello Goodbye.”