Jody Lynn Nye lists her main career activity as “spoiling cats.” She lives northwest of Chicago with two of the above and her husband, author and packager Bill Fawcett. She has published 30 books, including six contemporary fantasies, four SF novels, four novels in collaboration with Anne McCaffrey, including The Ship Who Won; edited a humorous anthology about mothers, Don’t Forget Your Spacesuit, Dear!; and written more than 80 short stories. Her latest books are Strong Arm Tactics, first in the Wolfe Pack series (Meisha Merlin Publishing), and Class Dis-Mythed, co-written with Robert Asprin.