About me
David Weber was born in Cleveland a long, long time ago, and grew up in rural South Carolina. He was a bookworm from childhood, blessed with a father who collected autographed copies of every E. E. Smith hardcover and introduced him to Jack Williamson at the tender age of 10 and a mother who ran her own ad agency and encouraged him to write. From that start, with a love of history from a very early age and as a practitioner of RPGs before the world had ever heard of something called Dungeons & Dragons, it was inevitable he would fall into evil company and become a writer of science fiction himself. He sold his first novel to Jim Baen, his enabler at Baen Books, in 1989. Since that time, he has perpetrated 75 solo and collaborative novels and an unconscionable number of anthologies upon an innocent and unsuspecting public. Thirty-three of his books have been New York Times bestsellers. He is perhaps best known for his character Honor Harrington, whom he hopes never to meet in a dark alley, given all the bones she has to pick with him. LibertyCon attendees should be warned never to press his “talk button,” because they will never get him to shut up again.
Sharon Rice-Weber was the science fiction and fantasy manager in a Waldenbooks Store in 1990, when she had the misfortune to meet David Weber. Her initial reaction was "I thought you had to read before you shopped in bookstores," but she persevered and started recommending science fiction novels to him. At which point, he said the dread words "I've written a novel, you know." Rather than running away, she let him hand her a copy of the manuscript. And, when his first novel came out in 1991, she called him and said "David! Your books have come in, and we've already sold half of them! . . . Should I keep the other one for you?" She also got him invited to his first science fiction convention, got him invited back the next year, and sponsored his first book signing in the very store in which they met. And in 1998, she married him, thus proving the questionable nature of her judgment.
For the ensuing 27 years, she has been his constant support, the manager of his schedule, the mother of his children, and the love of his life, and he could not imagine being without her.
