Name: World Building for Horror and Urban Fantasy
Start: 2025-06-21T19:00:00-0400
End: 2025-06-21T20:00:00-0400

Saturday June 21, 2025 7:00pm - 8:00pm EDT

M - Plaza Ballroom C

H.Y. Gregor moderates this panel discussion on the requirements of good world building for realistic horror and urban fantasy.

Moderators

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 →

Guests

Julie Frost

Julie Frost is an award-winning author of every shade of speculative fiction. She lives in Utah with a herd of guinea pigs, her husband, and a “kitten” who thinks she’s a warrior princess. She enjoys birding, and is on a quest to photograph 500 bird species in a calendar year... Read More →

Lyndie Ferguson

Lyndie Ferguson is the author of the Urban Fantasy Series, THE ANGELQUEST CHRONICLES. She loves paranormal books and movies with quirky characters and larger-than-life storylines. When she’s not writing, she loves to travel and spend time with her family.

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 →

Marisa Wolf

Marisa Wolf is a second-generation nerd who started writing genre stories at six. At least one was good enough to be laminated, and she's been chasing that high ever since. Over the years she taught middle school, was headbutted by an alligator, built a career in education, earned... Read More →

Sam Robb

Sam Robb is an urban fantasy writer from Pittsburgh who draws inspiration from back alleys, graffiti, and urban exploration. He’s published in his flash fiction collection, One October Night, as well as multiple anthologies, and edited the Stories in the Key of Tull anthologies... Read More →

Saturday June 21, 2025 7:00pm - 8:00pm EDT
M - Plaza Ballroom C

Literary/Publishing, Panel

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