Name: Meet and Greet the First Timers! - Round Three
Start: 2025-06-20T16:00:00-0400
End: 2025-06-20T17:00:00-0400

Friday June 20, 2025 4:00pm - 5:00pm EDT

CC - Ballroom E (Main Event Programming)

Come welcome and get familiar with some of our first time at LibertyCon pros. Griffin Barber will host.

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.

Wayland Smith

WAYLAND SMITH is the pen name for a native Texan who has lived in Massachusetts, New York, Washington DC, and presently makes his home in Virginia. His rather unlikely list of jobs includes private investigator, comic book shop owner, ring crew for a circus (then he ran away from... Read More →

Steve Ruskin

Steve Ruskin writes thrillers with a hint of magic, and science fiction with a streak of rebellion. He is also an award-winning historian. He has been a university professor, a mountain bike guide, and a number of things in between. He can be found at www.steveruskin.com.

E.G. (Gene) Rowley

E.G. Rowley is a nationally recognized voice actor, radio host, award-winning playwright, and novelist, twice nominated for a Voice Arts Awards: Audiobook Narration of the Year - Best Voiceover. He is a U.S. Army veteran and served in both Afghanistan and Iraq. He is an avid outdoorsman... Read More →

Eric S. Raymond

Eric S. Raymond is a wandering anthropologist and troublemaking philosopher who happened to be in the right place at the right time, and has been wondering whether he should regret it ever since. He's probably best known for having wrtitten the foundational papers on open-source software... Read More →

Blaine Pardoe

Blaine Pardoe is a New York Times Bestselling and award winning author of numerous books in the true crime, science fiction, military non-fiction, political thriller, paranormal, and business management genres. He has appeared on a number of national television and radio shows to... Read More →

Nick Nethery

Nick Nethery writes science fiction, fantasy, mystery, westerns and whatever else presents a challenge or will entertain his friends and family. He has been published by the United States Naval Institute, Foreign Policy, Dragon Soul Press, and Raconteur Press, among others. He works... Read More →

Lisa D. Moore

Lisa D. Moore is a copy editor at Raconteur Press and aspiring journalist in North Texas. She is a military brat, Chestertonian, and MSTie. Her latest undertaking is learning videography, currently documenting SF/fandom history with her infinitely patient friend, Ben Yalow.

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!

Diane Kelly

Diane Kelly is a biologist at UMass Amherst who studies the functional morphology and neural control of vertebrate reproduction. She is also a science communicator: she has written for FiveThirtyEight, Wired.com, and Gizmodo,co-designed two science-themed card games, and is part ofthe... Read More →

Steve Johnson

Steve Johnson is a teacher from Virginia. He writes science-fiction and fantasy adventure stories when not hosting sf and fantasy adventure games. He prefers Kirk to Picard, Superman to Batman, and is married to Virginia, both glamorous and grounded, so he didn’t have to choose... Read More →

Nathan Balyeat

A USMC veteran, Nathan has written the fantasy short stories in the "Fellblade" and "Powers of the Night" settings and is working on a science fiction novel based on the life of the William Marshal. He has a degree in history and his hobbies include weightlifting, martial arts, and... Read More →

Griffin Barber

Griffin spent his youth in four different countries, learning three languages, and burning all his bridges. Finally settled in East Tennessee and retired from a day job as a police officer in a major metropolitan department out west, he lives the good life with his lovely wife, crazy-smart... Read More →

Friday June 20, 2025 4:00pm - 5:00pm EDT
CC - Ballroom E (Main Event Programming) Chattanooga Convention Center 1 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402

Main Programming, Round Table

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