Mel Odom is the author of dozens of books and several television and game tie-ins, including Buffy the Campire Slayer, Diablo, Sabrina the Teenage Witch, and novels set in Forgotten Realms. He received the American Librarian Association's ALEX Award for his novel, The Rover. He's also been a Stephen Tall finalist and was inducted into the Oklahoma Writer's Hall Of Fame. He lives with his wife in Moore, Oklahoma.