Gillian Summers

Berta Platas and Michelle Roper make up the writing team behind Gillian Summers, the pseudonymous author of The Faire Folk Trilogy, an urban fantasy set in the world of the Renaissance Faires. Book one, The Tree Shepherd's Daughter, will be launched at the 2007 Dragon*Con. Berta Platas is prolific author and is best known for her 2006 bestseller, Cinderella Lopez, published by St. Martin's Press, as well as other Latina women's fiction. She is a longtime Atlanta resident and can usually be seen accompanied by her four comic-book buying, costume-ogling children, all of whom are now taller than herself. Michelle Roper, her husband Jack, and their three children can be found at the Renaissance Festival, where they will be heartily cheering "huzzah" at the joust.