Guest Profiles

Guest Profile: Diane Duane

We regret to inform you, that due to unforseen circumstaces, Diane Duane will be unable to attend the convention this year.

Diane Duane was born in Manhattan, one of the boroughs of New York, sometime around the middle of the twentieth century.

Sometime in the intervening years, she managed to find herself living in County Wicklow in Ireland, along with three cats, four enormously over-worked computers, and her husband (fellow P-Con guest and occasional co-author) Peter Morwood.

Her first novel, The Door Into Fire, was published by Dell Books in 1979. Her output since then has been prodigious. She has published some thirty novels, numerous short stories, and various comics and computer games, as well as having written extensively for television.

In that medium alone she has produced scripts for animated shows as diverse as Transformers, My Little Pony, Scooby Doo, Spiderman and Batman, as well as having worked with Star Trek in many different forms, from the TV show to books, comics and computer games.

And we still haven't got around to the Young Wizards series of books, which has been going since 1983, when young wizards were thin on the ground. The latest book in the series, making it nine (not including short stories and other related novels), is A Wizard of Mars, which is due in May 2007. More Young Wizard news is available at Youngwizards.net. Her official website is at dianeduane.com, with the Out of Ambit blog here.

Diane is a lively and entertaining guest, and much in demand at conventions internationally, and we are delighted to have her at ours.

Guest Profile by Pádraig Ó Méalóid