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Author Guest of Honor: Margaret Weis

Margaret Weis, divorced, remarried, has two children, David and Elizabeth Baldwin. Son David is creator of the Darkheart series and lives in Key West, Florida. Daughter Lizz is book editor with Wizards of the Coast. Ms Weis (now also Mrs. Don Perrin) lives in a converted barn in the Lake Geneva, Wisconsin area. The household also includes two collie dogs Laddie and Kelly, a black lab/retriever mix, Sasha, and three cats: Nicolai Mouseslayer; Motley Tatters; Shiva, Destroyer of Nations. Weis and husband Don are co-owners of the Game Guild, a game store located in beautiful downtown Lake Geneva.

Represented by

The Lazear Agency, Inc.
800 Washington Ave N Suite 660
Minneapolis, Minnesota, 55401
Jonathan Lazear (612) 332-8640
 
Margaret's Email Address is mweis@mag7.com.

Biographical Information

• Born, March 16, 1948, Independence, Missouri.
• Graduated, University of Missouri, Columbia, 1970, Bachelor of Arts, Major in Creative Writing and Literature.
• Advertising Director, Herald Publishing House, Independence, Missouri from 1972 to 1983.
• Division Director, Independence Press, trade division of Herald Publishing House from 1981 to 1983.
• Editor, book division, TSR Inc. makers of the DUNGEONS & DRAGONS® role-playing games, from 1983 to 1986.
• Currently Chair of the Board of the Game Guild, Inc., and a freelance author.

List of Works

as Margaret Baldwin:

• Wanted: Frank and Jesse James, the Real Story, (publisher: Simon and Schuster)
• Thanksgiving, (publisher: Franklin Watts)
• Computer Graphics, co-author, Gary Pack, (Franklin Watts)
• Robots and Robotics, co-author Gary Pack, (Franklin Watts)
• The Boys Who Saved the Children, (Simon and Schuster)
• Kisses of Death, (Simon and Schuster)
• Fortune Telling, (Simon and Schuster)
• Lost Childhood, co-author Janet Pack, (Simon and Schuster)
• Riddle of the Griffin, As Susan Lawson co-author Roger Moore, (TSR, inc.)

As Margaret Weis:

• Endless Catacombs, an Endless Quest book, (TSR, Inc.)
• The Tower of Midnight Dreams, (TSR, Inc.)

Star of the Guardian, a galactic fantasy saga, published by Bantam Books in paperback, beginning Fall 1990. Foreign rights include: Great Britain, Spain, Germany and Japan.

• The Lost King. Bestseller: Locus, Walden, B. Dalton.
• King's Test. Bestseller: Locus, Walden, B. Dalton.
• King's Sacrifice. Number one on bestseller list, Locus Fall 1991. Top Ten bestseller, Walden, B. Dalton.
• Ghost Legion. Back to prees after only one month. Top Ten bestseller, B. Dalton, Walden, Locus, Summer 1993.

Dragonlance Chronicles, co-authored with Tracy Hickman

• Dragons of Autumn Twilight (1984)
• Dragons of Winter Night (1984)
• Dragons of Spring Dawning (1984)
• Second Generation (1994)
• Dragons of Summer Flame (1995)

Dragonlance Legends, co-authored with Tracy Hickman

• Time of the Twins (1985)
• War of the Twins (1985)
• Test of the Twins (1985)

War of Souls, co-authored with Tracy Hickman

• Dragons of a Fallen Sun (March, 2000)

The Raistlin Chronicles

• The Soulforge (1997)
• Brothers in Arms (1999), coauthored with Don Perrin

The Dragonlance series has currently sold over sixteen million copies in the U.S. and Great Britain alone, twenty million copies worldwide. Foreign rights include: United Kingdom, Japan, France, Spain, Denmark, Italy, Germany, Finland, Isreal, Portugal, Hungary, Romania, Turkey, Czechoslovakia. Other unofficial editions purportedly exist in Russian and Korean. Bestsellers, New York Times, Locus, Walden and B. Dalton lists, Publishers Weekly.

Editor and contributor to Dragonlance Tales, anthologies of short stories and poetry set in Krynn, published by TSR, Inc.

Source Books Editor of

• The Art of Dragonlance (TSR)
• Leaves of the Inn of the Last Home (TSR)
• History of Dragonlance (TSR)
• Leaves of the Inn of the Last Home II (TSR)

Editor and Contributor to Dragonlance Adventures, hardback role-playing game supplement, written by Tracy Hickman.

Dragonlance Tales, Editor and Contributor, Collections of Short Stories, TSR publisher

• Love and War
• Magic of Krynn
• Kender, Gully Dwarves, and Gnomes
• The Reign of Istar
• The Cataclysm
• The War of the Lance
• Dragons of Krynn
• Dragons of Chaos
• Dragons of War
• Relics and Omens
• Heroes and Fools
• Rebels and Tyrants
• Best of Tales

The Darksword Trilogy, co-authored with Tracy Hickman

• Forging the Darksword
• Doom of the Darksword
• Triumph of the Darksword
• Darksword Adventures
• Legacy of the Darksword

Published originally beginning in 1988 by Bantam Books. Bestseller, New York Times, Locus, Walden and B. Dalton lists. Translation rights include: Great Britain, Germany, Japan, Poland, Israel, Spain, Denmark, and Italy.

The Rose of the Prophet Trilogy, co-authored with Tracy Hickman

• The Will of the Wanderer
• The Paladin of the Night
• The Prophet of Akran

Paperback, published in 1989 by Bantam Books. Bestsellers, New York Times, Locus, Walden, and B. Dalton lists. Translation rights include: Great Britain, Italy, Israel, France, and Germany.

The Deathgate Series, co-authored with Tracy Hickman

• Dragon Wing. Bestseller: Locus, Walden, B. Dalton.
• Elven Star. Bestseller: Locus, Walden, B. Dalton.
• Fire Sea. Bestseller: New York Times, Locus, Walden, B. Dalton.
• Serpent Mage. Bestseller: Locus, Walden, B. Dalton.
• The Hand of Chaos. Bestseller: Walden, B. Dalton.
• Into the Labyrinth. November, 1993.
• The Seventh Gate. August, 1994.

Published in hardcover and paperback, by Bantam Books, beginning in 1990. Selection of the Science Fiction Book Club of America and Doubleday Book Club. Foreign rights invclude: Great Britain, Italy, Germany, Holland, Spain, Japan, Denmark, and France. Rights to a video game sold to Legend, Inc.

The Starshield Books, co-authored with Tracy Hickman

• The Mantle of Kendis-Dai
• Nightsword

Published in 1997 by Del Rey.

The Sovereign Stone Triad, co-authored with Tracy Hickman

to be published beginning in Summer 2000 by Avon Eos

• Water from the Well of Darkness

Based on a world created by artist Larry Elmore, the Sovereign Stone novels use traditional fantasy elements in new and unique ways. The Sovereign Stone Game System by Don Perrin and Lester Smith introduces the world of Sovereign Stone in a role-playing game system elegantly simple in design, interesting and complex in play. Published by Sovereign Press, 1999.

The Mag Force 7 Series, co-authored with Don Perrin

• Knights of the Black Earth
• Robot Blues
• Hung Out

Published by Penguin/ROC. Selection, Doubleday Science Fiction Book Club. Foreign rights include: United Kingdom, Germany, Russian, Japan, Spain.

Star of the Guardians Collectible Trading Card Game. Designed by Margaret Weis and Don Perrin, this sci-fi fantasy game involves strategy and tactics, as well as a bit of fate and fortune. This takes card games into a new dimension-hyperdrive!

Wing Commander Collectible Trading Card Game

Testament of the Dragon Series, co-authored with David Baldwin

• Testament of the Dragon
• Dark Heart

Published by Teckno Books 1998.

Star of the Guardians is a trademark owned by Mag Force 7, Inc.
Wing Commander® is a registered trademark of ORIGIN Systems, Inc.

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