Who's Next?

SF Signal asked me to be part of their latest "Mind Meld" feature, in which they pose the same question to eight or ten smart people -- and, in this case, also to me -- and run all of the answers together.

In this case, the question was Q: Which new or little-known genre writers will be tomorrow's big stars? Why?, which has the potential, for all of us answering it, of pissing off any writer-friends whom we fail to mention. But we bravely soldiered on, and you can see the answers of people like Ellen Datlow, Gardner Dozois, Jonathan Strahan, Niall Harrison, Colleen Lindsay, and l'il ol' me (bringing up the rear) here.