Sharon Lee and Steve Miller

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Sharon Lee was born in Baltimore, Maryland, and lived there until
the late eighties, when she relocated to Central Maine with her
charming and talented co-author husband, Steve Miller. From 1997-2000
she was Executive Director of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers
of America, Inc. All of the rest of her day-jobs have been boring
things like copy editor for night side news at a daily paper,
copywriter for an advertising agency, tractor trailer delivery
person, phone order taker at LL Bean -- and secretary. Lots and lots
of secretary.

Sharon has been writing since she was four or five. Her first
"work," printed out in one of those marble-backed copy
books, was titled "How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin." "Yes,
I happened to have a Golden Book of the same title, from which I had
painstakingly copied the 'work,' but I had a Clever Plan involving
hiding the book under my bed before passing the story off as my own.
Alas, I was busted by my dad, who recommended that I find something
more useful to do with my time." she explains.

Her first short story was published in Amazing Stories in
1980; the first collaborative novel with her husband Steve Miller
Agent of Change was published in 1988. "I started writing
seriously (as opposed to ripping off Rudyard Kipling) back in the
seventies sometime, because I had read a whole bunch of mediocre
stories and finally uttered the Fateful Phrase: 'I can do better than
that!'"

Sharon Lee and Steve Miller write space opera set in the Liaden
Universe®, a science fiction universe of their own devising.
Duainfey, the first book in a dark fantasy duology, was out
from Baen in September 2008, the sequel, Longeye, is scheduled
for April 2009 ... but check the dealer's room to be sure.
Fledgling and Saltation -- both Liaden Universe novel
originally serialized on the web.
Are due out from Baen in 2009 and 2010. Sharon also recently sold
Carousel Tides, an urban seaside fantasy, to Baen, with a
publication date TBA.

Steve Miller

Steve Miller was born in Baltimore during the summer of 1950, and
is the grandson of award-winning poet and radio personality Dorothea
Neale. He has been an active fan and writer since the 1960s when he
began writing SF book reviews for fanzines in the US, France, and
Texas... and for newspapers in Baltimore and elsewhere. "I owe a
lot to Amazing. I got my first polite rejection from Amazing,
and I got my first usefully instructional rejection from Amazing.
I sold my first three pro stories to Amazing. My first piece
of fan mail came from there -- it was a letter from Andre Norton,
who'd been shown my story by a friend."

Steve graduated to writing professional science fiction after
teaching SF and writing for several years, going to Clarion West in
1973, and a stint as Curator of Science Fiction for the University of
Maryland's UMBC SF Research Collection. He has also been active in
chess since 1966, and has been a tournament player and team member of
high school, collegiate, and club teams as well as a USCF tournament
director and President of several chess clubs.

Steve joined forces with Sharon Lee in the late 70s; for awhile
they operated the Book Castle SF bookstore and the Dreams Garth
Agency dealing in genre art. In the mid-eighties they began working
on Agent of Change, the first book in one of the better known
series in SF today, the Liaden Universe series. Steve started BPLAN
Virtuals, an early (and short-lived) electronic book publishing
company, in the late 1980s while he was acting as PR Director for
North Country Press. SRM Publisher, Ltd was formed in 1995 as an
outgrowth of fan interest in Liaden material.

In addition to the Liaden books Steve and Sharon have collaborated
on short stories, anthologies, and on other science fiction and
fantasy novels, with Duainfey, their latest, published by Baen
Books in hard back last September and in paperback in March of 2009.

Steve now acts as Publisher for SRM Publisher, is a Trustee for
the Winslow, Maine, Public Library, and still keeps cats and
confusion with Sharon amid the rolling hills of Central Maine.