Tamara Siler Jones' Ghosts in the Snow won the Compton Crook/Stephen Tall Memorial Award for the best first SF/Fantasy Novel of 2004. After listening to her on several panels at Balticon, I got her first book and was impressed with the style and the content. This is an author that doesn't pull her punches, her characters are three dimensional and the plots are driven by a melding of character, plot, and world. Due to the dark nature of her books, we chose to interview Tamara for our October issue.

(Source: Bantam)