Name: World Building for Epic Fantasy
Start: 2025-06-22T14:00:00-0400
End: 2025-06-22T15:00:00-0400

Sunday June 22, 2025 2:00pm - 3:00pm EDT

CC - Mtg Room 5 (Main Event Programming)

Rob Howell moderates this panel on the essential elements for world building in the Epic Fantasy.

Moderators

Rob Howell

Rob Howell is the publisher of New Mythology Press, including his work as editor of the Libri Valoris anthologies of heroic fantasy. He’s the creator of the Firehall Sagas, an author in the Four Horsemen Universe, and a writer and editor in Luke Gygax’s World of Okkorim. He writes... Read More →

Guests

David (D.J.) Butler

Dave (D.J.) Butler has mostly recovered from being a lawyer. He writes fantasy for adults (WITCHY EYE, Baen) and kids (THE KIDNAP PLOT, Knopf), loves languages and board games, and plays bad guitar. He's married and has three kids. Dave is also acquisitions editor for Kevin J. Anderson's... Read More →

Tim Akers

Tim Akers is a fantasy novelist, a gamer, and utterly unemployable in the traditional sense. His novels include the dark fantasy Wraithbound, lighter portal series Knight Watch, and high action hard magic world of Bladecaster. He lives in Chicago with his indefatigable wife and a... Read More →

M.D. Boncher

As an author, artist and musician, M. D. Boncher has lead a “Writer’s Life”. With several careers in many varied industries from security to hospitality to trucking logistics providing him a wide breadth of experience with the human condition from which to draw on for his work... Read More →

Charles E. Gannon

LC37 Literary Guest of Honor

Dr. Charles E. Gannon is best known for the Caine Riordan series of hard sf novels, which include multiple best-sellers, 4 finalists for the Nebula, 2 for the Dragon, and a Compton Crook winner. His epic fantasy series, The Vortex of Worlds, has also been an awards finalist and a... Read More →

Tony Andarian

Tony Andarian is the author of the Sanctum of the Archmage epic fantasy novels and games. They are published by his personal imprint, Andarian Publishing. Invested from a young age with an overactive imagination, he's had a lifelong love of science fiction, fantasy, computer games... Read More →

Sunday June 22, 2025 2:00pm - 3:00pm EDT
CC - Mtg Room 5 (Main Event Programming) Chattanooga Convention Center 1 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402

Literary/Publishing, Panel

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