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Author GoH: Daniel C. Nielsen (in attendance) & Lee Killough (in absentia)
Lee Killough sends her regrets and best wishes, but due to a family emergency she had no choice but to cancel her commitment. Please keep her in mind and wish her well as she goes through a troubling time in her life.
Daniel C. Nielsen, Fan Guest of Honor for WillyCon XII held in 2010, is gallantly stepping into the breach and taking on the post of Author GoH for WillyCon XIV with only three days' notice.
Dan started coming to WillyCon several years ago and has been actively attending conventions ever since. In 2006 Dan released his first gothic poetry collection “These Old Bones” and his first dark fantasy novel, “Darksteel Destinies.” 2010 saw the release of the follow up novel to Darksteel Destinies entitled “Lords of the Earth,” a new novella called the “ArcheoMage: Curse of the RelicThief,” and two poetry collections, “Slow Suicides of the Soul” and a “Best of Daniel C Nielsen” which should have at least 160 poems in it written over the course of the last 20 years.
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Lee Killough has been storytelling since the age of four or five, when she began making up her own bedtime stories. So when she discovered science fiction and mysteries about age eleven, she began writing her own science fiction and mysteries. Because her great fear was running out of these by reading everything her small hometown library had. It took her late husband Pat Killough, though, years later, to convince her to try selling her work. Her first published stories were science fiction and her short story, "Symphony For a Lost Traveler", earned a Hugo Award nomination in 1985.
She used to joke that she wrote SF because she dealt with non-humans every day...spending twenty-seven years as chief technologist in the Radiology Department at Kansas State University's Veterinary Medical Teaching Hospital before retiring to write full-time.
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Because she loves both SF and mysteries and hated choose between the two genres, her work combines them. Except for one fantasy, The Leopard’s Daughter, most of her novels are mysteries with SF or fantasy elements...with a preference for supernatural detectives: vampire, werewolves, even a ghost. She has set her procedurals in the future, on alien words, and in the country of dark fantasy. Her best known detective is vampire cop Garreth Mikaelian, of Blood Hunt, Bloodlinks, and Blood Games. Five of her novels and a novella are now available as e-books and she is editing more to turn into e-books.
Lee makes her home in Manhattan, Kansas, with her book-dealer husband Denny Riordan, a spunky terrier mix, and a house crammed with books.
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Below is information on Lee Killough's written work...
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"Caveat Emptor," Analog, Conde Nast, May 1970 |