Eric Flint launched the bestselling Ring of Fire series in 2000 with 1632. There are currently eight volumes in this series in print, and six volumes of a magazine devoted to the series available on-line at www.baen.com. Flint's impressive first novel, Mother of Demons (Baen), was selected by SF Chronicle as one of the best novels of 1997. With David Drake he has written six popular novels in the Belisarius series, including the new novel The Dance of Time, and with David Weber collaborated on 1633, a novel in the Ring of Fire series, and on Crown of Slaves, a best of the year pick by Publishers Weekly. Flint received his masters degree in history from UCLA and was for many years a labor union activist. He lives with his wife in East Chicago, IL, and is working on further books in the Ring of Fire series.
Andrew Dennis, in addition to co-writing the New York Times best seller, 1634: The Galileo Affair, had a story in Baen's The Ring of Fire, and has had many nonfiction pieces published on the subjects of law and the paranormal. By way of a day job, he's a lawyer and he lives in Preston, England with his wife and children.