The Kingless Land

Ed Greenwood is an award-winning Canadian writer and game designer. Although most Canadians don't know his name, he has been in the top ten (usually top five) writers of bestselling Canadian fiction writers almost every year of the last two decades. Ed created the Forgotten Realms® fantasy world for the Dungeons and Dragons game; it has been featured in board, role-playing, computer, and card games; comic books; and a bestselling novel line that has spanned twenty years and hundreds of titles by more than sixty writers, including R. A. Salvatore's famous Drizzt novels. Ed is currently Canada's only judge for the prestigious World Fantasy Awards, and he has published over 170 books that have sold millions of copies worldwide in over a dozen languages. Ed usually writes fantasy but has also written science fiction, horror, romance, mysteries, song lyrics, poetry, and many, many magazine articles and columns. He even appeared (as himself) in comic books published by DC Comics and by TSR, Inc. Ed's novels regularly climb the New York Times and other major bestseller lists; his 1987 novel Spellfire has sold over three million copies worldwide in various editions, and the Waldenbooks bookstore chain reported that his novel Crown of Fire was its top-selling game-related publication of 1994. His writing has won many awards throughout the years, and he was inducted into the Academy of Adventure Gaming Arts and Design's Origins Awards Hall of Fame in 2003. Ed has been an editor of Dragon Magazine and a columnist for the Campaign Hack (Canada's longest-running gaming magazine), the media magazine Realms, Polyhedron Newszine, Cryptych, and several other fantasy and gaming periodicals. He is a charter lifetime member of the Role Playing Game Association and a lifetime active member of Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. He lives in Ontario, Canada.

Wanda McCaddon began recording books for the fledgling audiobook industry in the early 1980s and has since narrated well over six hundred titles for major audio publishers, as well as abridging, narrating, and coproducing classic titles for her own company, Big Ben. Audiobook listeners may be familiar with her voice under one of her two "nom de mikes," Donada Peters and Nadia May. The recipient of an Audie Award and more than twenty-five Earphones Awards, AudioFile magazine has named her one of recording's Golden Voices. Wanda also appears regularly on the professional stage in the San Francisco Bay Area.