Career
She was a Guest of Honor at OryCon in 2008, Foolscap in 2000, and ArmadilloCon in 1988, and was Toastmaster at the World Fantasy Convention in 1989. Buchanan plans to retire in March 2014, after 30 years with Ace. She is also occasionally a fiction writer
Her published work includes three short stories in the anthologies Alternate Kennedys, Whatdunnits II, and By Any Other Fame, all edited by Mike Resnick, and also the novel White Silence (1999), a Highlander tie-in.
Prior to her career in publishing, she worked as a social worker