- The contributors to MURDER BY MAGIC include well-known writers with strong fan followings. Laura Resnick won the John W. Campbell Award as Best New Science Fiction/Fantasy Writer; Carole Nelson Douglas, the author of over 40 novels, won an American Mystery Award; and Susan Krinard's debut, "Prince of Wolves (Bantam, 1993), was a bestseller.- Aspect has had several successful themed anthologies: the Knights Templar anthologies have nearly 74,000 combined copies in print, the African American anthology "Dark Matter (2000) won the prestigious World Fantasy Award for Best Anthology, and Brian M. Thomsen's "A Yuletide Universe was published in 11/03 and shipped 15,000 copies.- Rosemary Edghill is the author of the Bast mysteries (Forge Books), which include "Speak Daggers to Her (1994), "Book of Moons (1996), and "The Bowl of Night (1996). She also writes fantasy and science fiction, including the Twelve Treasures series, as well as romances such as "Met By Moonlight (Kensington, 1998) and "Fleeting Fancy (St. Martin's, 1992). She has collaborated on bestselling novels with Marion Zimmer Bradley, Mercedes Lackey, and Andre Norton.