Name: What's New from Cannon Publishing
Start: 2025-06-20T15:00:00-0400
End: 2025-06-20T16:00:00-0400

Friday June 20, 2025 3:00pm - 4:00pm EDT

CC - Ballroom E (Main Event Programming)

Publisher John Holmes will moderate this roundtable discussion of what's new and upcoming from Cannon Publishing.

Moderators

John Holmes

J.F. Holmes is a retired Army Senior Noncommissioned Officer, having served for 22 years in both the Regular Army and Army National Guard. During that time, he served as everything from an artillery section leader to a member of a Division level planning staff, with tours in Cuba... Read More →

Guests

Al Hagan

Al Hagan is a retired IT project manager. His career also included a four-year tour of duty with the Marine Corps and a number of years in the intelligence community, working in Washington, D.C. and in foreign countries.

Daniel Kemp

A couple history degrees, the Army, and a turbulent personal life inspired the Athenaeum Inc military thriller trilogy at Cannon (Door Number Three, Doubling Down and Triple Play). He’s also done shorts on everything from the sinking of the Bismarck to feeding dragons.

Shane Gries

Shane Gries is a career soldier, student of history and writer. He spent over seventeen years serving overseas. He’s a graduate of Airborne School, Ranger School, earned his Expert Infantryman Badge and did some time in combat. Now he writes books about zombies and stuff that blows... Read More →

James Copley

James Copley is a former Non-Commissioned Officer of the U.S. Army, having served over twenty-one years in both Active and Reserve/Guard units, variously trained as Infantry, Communications, and Ordnance specialties before finally retiring from the Army National Guard in 2016. During... Read More →

Lucas Marcum

Lucas Marcum is a critical care nurse practitioner, Army reservist and independent author. Since high school, he has written recreationally; but never really took the idea of publishing a book seriously until 2017, when he wandered into a Facebook group curated by and populated with... Read More →

H.Y. Gregor

H.Y. Gregor was born in Portland, Oregon, but will always call the mountains of Colorado home. She holds a bachelor's degree in political science but put it down often enough to narrowly avoid law school. Now she spends as much free time as possible weaving fantasy tales and battling... Read More →

Brian Gifford

A 27 year veteran, Cannon author Brian Gifford is a science fiction and fantasy nerd of the highest order. A lifelong student of physics and the arcana of IT alike, Brian spent a lifetime accumulating his unique view of the world. Unfortunately, he now insists on sharing it with... Read More →

Kevin Harris

Kevin grew up on fantasy and science fiction, finding inspiration for his writing in the Halls of Moria, with the man-eaters of Zamboula, and on the 'hurtling moons of Barsoom'. His first novel, 'A Darkness Come Again', is a Military Fantasy coming out this summer with Cannon Pub... Read More →

Claire Merrick

Tired of writing about bad news as a broadcast TV producer, Claire Merrick began using her free time to write urban fantasy stories, set to be released in 2025. Merrick's work is inspired by her love of small town mill smokestacks and the secrets they hide.

Charli Cox

Charli Cox writes in multiple genres including SciFi, Military SciFi, and Military Fantasy. She recently finished writing her first novel set in the world of Joint Task Force 13 and is working on a Car Warriors trilogy for Three Ravens Publishing. She is also working on a Fae Wars... Read More →

Jonathan LaForce

Born in southern Arizona, Jonathan LaForce spent his formative years in northern Los Angeles County before moving to Texas at the age of 19. Two years later, he enlisted in the USMC and found himself stationed in Hawaii. Had it not been so expensive, he'd have stayed in Hawaii at... Read More →

ML McIntosh

ML hails from the dark, beautiful places in Appalachia. Her childhood was cluttered, in the best possible way, by her father’s copies of Poe, Bradbury and their contemporaries as well as her mother’s pretty random vinyl LP collection. She grew up beneath misty mountains with a... Read More →

Jonathan Koan

Jonathan Koan is a Professional Book Reviewer on YouTube. His YouTube channel, "Jonathan Koan", features book reviews, author interviews, rankings, book hauls, unboxings, recommendations and more! He reviews Science Fiction, Fantasy, Media Tie-in Fiction, Thrillers, and more!

Friday June 20, 2025 3:00pm - 4:00pm EDT
CC - Ballroom E (Main Event Programming) Chattanooga Convention Center 1 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402

Literary/Publishing, Round Table

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