Lisa:I was born and raised in Dorchester, and if you're from Boston and curious, it was St. Greg's parish, where two of my siblings still live.
I attended Girls' Latin School (as it was called then), and got my BA from UMass/Boston. I have worked in publishing since I was in college, starting at Baker's Plays in Boston, and then moving to Heinemann, in Portsmouth, NH., in 1988, where I was able to start and develop our own line of books on theatre -- putting both my major and my minor to work for me!
As for the books and all, well, Melissa pretty much says it all, below. In lieu of putting up my standard convention program bio, I put the more interesting stuff at the link below.
moreMelissa:Melissa Scott was born and raised in Little Rock, Arkansas, and graduated from Harvard College in 1981 with an AB in history. She received her PhD from Brandeis University in the Comparative History Department, defending a dissertation entitled "The Victory of the Ancients: Tactics, Technology, and the Use of Classical Precedent, 1538-1789." She is the author of nearly 20 science fiction novels as well as a nonfiction book on writing, Conceiving the Heavens: Creating the Science Fiction Novel. Her collaboration with Lisa A. Barnett has so far produced three novels - Point of Hopes, Point of Dreams, both set in the fantasy city of Astreiant, and The Armor of Light, set in an alternate Elizabethan England - and a not-very-short short story, "The Carmen Miranda Gambit," published in the 1990 collection Carmen Miranda's Ghost is Haunting Space Station Three. The authors live together in New Hampshire.
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