Lisa Smedman is an author and a game designer. She has done extensive work on various role playing games for Wizards of the Coast, TSR and the extremely popular game - Deadlands! She is the author of five best selling Shadowrun novels - including The Lucifer Deck, Blood Sport, Psychotrope, The Forever Drug and Tails You Lose. In addition, Lisa has authored two novels and contributed numerous short stories for anthologies set in the Forgotten Realms world. Extinction is currently on the New York Times best seller list. Lisa lives in Vancouver, Canada.