Also known as Richard Awlinson. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troy\_Den...

Scott Ciencin was a New York Times best-selling novelist of 90+ books. He wrote adult and children's fiction and worked in a variety of mediums including comic books. He created programs for Scholastic Books, designed trading cards, consulted on video games, directed and produced audio programs & TV commercials, and wrote in the medical field about neurosurgery and neurology. He first worked in TV production as a writer, producer and director. He lived in Sarasota, Florida with his wife (and sometimes co-author) Denise. (Also wrote under the pseudonyms Nick Baron and L.J. Oliver)

aka Richard Awlinson, J D Lowder James Lowder has worked extensively in fantasy and horror fiction on both sides of the editorial blotter. He's authored several best-selling dark fantasy novels, including Prince of Lies and Knight of the Black Rose, and has had short fiction appear in such anthologies as Shadows Over Baker Street and Genius Loci. He's penned comic book scripts for several companies and the city of Boston. His book and film reviews, feature articles, and role-playing game design work can be found in such diverse publications as Amazing Stories, Milwaukee Magazine, and The New England Journal of History. As an editor, he's directed lines or series for TSR, Chaosium, Green Knight Publishing, and CDS Books. He's helmed more than twenty anthologies, several of them not about zombies. In the media, he is a regular contributor to the Milwaukee Public Radio show "Lake Effect," provided werewolf lore on the TV show Weird or What?, and served as a puppeteer on the indie film Misfit Heights.

Richard Awlinson is the pseudonym used for the initial trilogy of the Avatar Series in the Forgotten Realms. Book One, Shadowdale, was written by Scott Ciencin Book Two, Tantras, was written by Scott Ciencin and edited by James Lowder Book Three, Waterdeep, was written by Troy Denning