David Andrusia has contributed to every edition of Frommer’s Gay & Lesbian Europe , and to the forthcoming Frommer’s California from $70 a Day . He is the author of New York Hot & Hip and L.A. Hot & Hip . He is also the author of two acclaimed career guides The Perfect Pitch , and Branding Yourself , and the best–selling Feng Shui Chic (with Carole Swann Meltzer). He also works as a career consultant. He can be reached at
[email protected]. Memphis Barbree’s resume includes stints as a newspaper reporter, landscape designer, videographer, and U.S. Army Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Defense Specialist. She has written for The Charlotte Observer , The Sun News (Myrtle Beach, S.C.) and Frommer’s New Mexico . The author who puts the “lesbian” in Frommer’s Gay & Lesbian Europe is currently based in the American Southwest. Haas Mroue has published poems, stories, and travel articles in journals and magazines including The Literary Review, The Michigan Quarterly Review , and Interiors . He’s written for Berlitz and National Geographic travel guides. This GWM grew up spending summers in the South of France and studied at American University of Paris. At the University of California, Berkeley, he guest–lectures for June Jordan’s Poetry for the People. He is the author of Frommer’s Paris from $80 a Day, and Frommer’s Memorable Walks in Paris as well as a contributor to Frommer’s Europe from $70 a Day and Frommer’s Argentina & Chile . When not on the road, he’s at home writing in a small cabin on the beach in Washington State. Donald Olson is a novelist, playwright, and travel writer. He has contributed travel stories to the New York Times and many other publications, including National Geographic’s Small Town Escapes , America’s Hidden Corners , and Weekend Getaways . He’s the author of the award–winning England For Dummies , London For Dummies , and Germany For Dummies , plus guidebooks to Oregon, Berlin, and the Pacific Northwest. His novels include The Secrets of Mabel Eastlake, Paradise Gardens, A Movie, and Queer Corners. Bantam London published his novel The Confessions of Aubrey Beardsley; his play Beardsley has been produced in the Netherlands, and London. My Three Husbands , his newest novel (under the nom de plume Swan Adamson) will be published by Kensington Books in 2003. Donald Olson was one of Genre magazine’s “2000 notable queers for the last 2000 years.”