Andrew Cartmel is a television writer, novelist and playwright. He was born in London.

He worked for BBC television for three years as script editor of Doctor Who during the Sylvester McCoy era, responsible for bringing classic tales like "Remembrance of the Daleks", "Ghost Light" and "The Curse of Fenric" to the screen. He also script edited Casualty for the BBC and was lead writer and script editor on the TV drama Dark Knight, for Channel Five. He is currently writing for Torchwood.

His novels include The Wise and Warlock (Virgin Books) and Atom Bomb Blues (BBC).

Cartmel wrote two non-fiction Doctor Who titles: Through Time: An Unauthorised and Unofficial History of Doctor Who and the memoirs of his time working on the show, Script Doctor: The Inside Story of Doctor Who 1986-89.

His stage plays, produced on the London fringe, include End of the Night and Under the Eagle, hailed by Time Out London as ‘bitingly funny’.

Ben Aaronovitch (born 1964) is a London-born British writer who has worked on television series including Doctor Who, Casualty, Jupiter Moon (10 episodes) and Dark Knight. He is best known to the TimeGate audience for writing the Doctor Who serials "Remembrance of the Daleks" and "Battlefield", two of the true classics from the Seventh Doctor era. He has also written three spin-off novels in the Virgin Publishing New Adventures range (Transit, The Also People and So Vile a Sin), a new Bernice Summerfield novel and several short stories for the Big Finish anthology series Short Trips.

He is currently heading up B7 Enterprises, working as lead writer and script editor on the audio revival of the classic British space opera Blake's 7, with possible live action and animated projects in development.

www.blakes7.com

Kelly Yates is a self-taught artist whose love for comics began at age 12. After studying exercise sports science, commercial art and computer graphics in college, he and some friends in the Greensboro, NC area formed Tsunami Studios. His work for DC comics includes titles such as The Green Arrow Secret Files and The JLA/JSA Secret Files, and he's illustrated a series of character trading cards for Marvel Comics. He has also worked for companies such as Hanes Brands as the manager of the Marvel Comics license and K-Mart International as an illustrator on their children's clothing line. Most recently, his work can be seen in IDW's miniseries Doctor Who: The Forgotten. As a long-time fan of the show, Kelly says that "Doctor Who is one of my dream projects." In 2009, Image Comics will launch Kelly's own series, Amber Atoms, which he describes as "a modern-day female Flash Gordon." And he hopes to work on Doctor Who again in the future.

www.kellyyatesart.com

Kelly's appearance at TG 2010 is still tentative, work schedule permitting.

Melissa Scott was born and raised in Little Rock, Arkansas, where she discovered science fiction as the direct result of breaking her arm during junior high gym class. She was banished to the library, and there the assistant librarian suggested she might enjoy “what’s his name, Heinlein—or that Andre Norton guy.” He was right. She devoured everything available at school, and then discovered the collection created by the Little Rock Public Library’s À Son Goût Trust, which had been established to purchase “books people like to read”—SF, Fantasy, and Westerns.

Scott studied history at Harvard College, where she was involved with the now-defunct college-sanctioned SF ‘zine that spawned the Harvard/Radcliffe Science Fiction Association, and was introduced to a new round of media SF, particularly Doctor Who. She earned her PhD from Brandeis Univesity in the comparative history program with a dissertation titled “The Victory of the Ancients: Tactics, Technology, and the Use of Classical Precedent.” She also sold her first novel, The Game Beyond, and quickly became a part-time graduate student and and—almost—full-time writer.

Over the next twenty years, she published eighteen original novels and a handful of short stories, as well as tie-in novels for both Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (Proud Helios) and Star Trek: Voyager (The Garden). She won the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in 1986, and won Lambda Literary Awards in 1995, 1996, and again in 2001 with long-time partner and collaborator, the late Lisa A. Barnett. She has also been short-listed for the Tiptree Award. In the summer of 2009, good friend and fellow writer Jo Graham invited her to participate in a new project: a six-book series of tie-in novels for Stargate: Atlantis, to begin where the fifth season had ended. Scott was immediately hooked by the idea, and she, Graham, and Amy Griswold have been working on the project ever since.

David Read is co-editor of the biggest independantly-run Stargate website on the globe, Gateworld.net. David became interested in science fiction when his dad introduced him to the original Star Trek at only three years old. Until the age of six Trek and Public Television were the only programming he was allowed to watch, solidifying his attraction to the genre. He joined GateWorld.net as an editor for the Stargate Omnipedia at the end of SG-1 Season Six, and over the years has worked to make himself an invaluable co-editor with GateWorld partner Darren Sumner. He now participates in interviews, news and podcasts for the website. He currently freelances for Fox Home Entertainment—Stargate’s DVD distributor—as well as the official Stargate magazine, and currently works for Propworx, a company developing a series of official auctions of Stargate properties.

www.gateworld.net
www.stargateartifacts.com

Louis Robinson currently makes his living as a professional singer/songwriter and can be found regularly performing and working with other singer/songwriters in the area. Before coming to America, he worked for the BBC for many years, in a number of capacities in both television and radio. He wrote, produced, composed and directed many different productions. In the '70s, he worked in the film editing department, contributing to such shows as The Brothers (starring Colin Baker and Kate O'Mara), The Onedin Line, Doomwatch (created by Kit Pedler and Gerry Davis, famous for also creating the Cybermen), and of course, Doctor Who. After leaving the BBC for two years, he returned in 1984 as Program Associate of the hit show Telly Addicts. He worked on the entire run of that show, from the development of its pilot in 1984 to the final episode in 1996. Robinson is also a Sherlock Holmes expert, and enjoys giving presentations on that subject. Visit www.louisrobinson.com.

Mike Langford—a writer and actor of bizarre and wacky twists—is best known for creating and producing Professor Satyre's Sci-Fried Sideshow, exhibiting the wildest parodies of SF classics in captivity, since 1999. In dementia such as "Andy Griffith's Twilight Zone", "Come to Salvador Dollywood", and "Ed Wood's Blade Runner", Mike can be blamed for scripting and giving voice to dozens of characters. His retro-weirdness has   ranged across the stage, the printed page, films, and radio for over a fortieth of a millennium. As a student at UGA, Mike created the cult film classic: "Beat the Sh*t Out of All Monsters". Next, he wrote several SF shorts for anthologies and co-edited two poetry anthologies: Once Upon A Midnight, a modern tribute to Poe, and The Usual Suspects Meet Frankenstein, for which he also produced an audio book. On WREK-FM, Mike co-hosted the subGenius radio show, "Bob's Slacktime Funhouse". Mike has written and performed numerous roles with Sketchworks and with Atlanta Radio Theater. With The Mighty Rasillon Art Players, he played both Theoden and Denethor in "The Return of the King and I" and a  Stan Lee character for "The Brotherhood of Damn Sassy Mutants". On Sunday nights at The Java Monkey in Decatur, you might catch Mike reciting "Kubla Khan", as Boris Karloff, or one of his own poems—such as "The Haunted Refrigerator"—as if read by Peter Lorre and Mr. Magoo.

Andy Runtan has always loved to draw and always loved comics. After college and a career in corporate America, he finally followed his heart and hasn't looked back since. In 2001 he created the breakout all-ages series of graphic novels, Owly, which features a kind-hearted little owl who's always searching for new friends and adventure. The Owly series has earned praise from fans and critics alike, winning multiple awards including the Howard E. Day Memorial Prize, the Harvey Award, two Ignatz Awards, and the 2006 Eisner Award for Best Publication for a Younger Audience. He relies on a mixture of symbols, icons, and expressions to tell Owly's silent stories, and his work showcases his love of wildlife and the outdoors.

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