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Sunday June 22, 2025 10:00am - 11:00am EDT

M - Plaza Ballroom A/B

Come out for a cup of coffee with the pros!

Guests

Kendra Irwin

Kendra Irwin is a tapestry artist, specializing in portraits and landscapes, as well as abstract fiber art, that can be viewed on IG @ladycentaur358. She works on a handmade loom, taking her inspiration from pop culture, animals and the colors and textures of Nature and was awarded... Read More →

David Alan Jones

David Alan Jones is a veteran of the United States Air Force, where he served as an Arabic linguist, a role that sharpened his ear for language and deepened his appreciation for complex storytelling. A 2016 Writers of the Future Silver Honorable Mention recipient, David writes across... Read More →

Becky R. Jones

Becky R. Jones is a recovering political science faculty member turned sci-fi/fantasy author. She is the author of the Academic Magic series (Academic Magic, Night Mage, and Magic Abroad) and several short stories in various anthologies, in addition to academic articles. She has been... Read More →

Carolyn Kay

Carolyn Kay grew up surrounded by fantasy and science fiction. Legos and Star Wars figures were her favorite toys, and Madeleine L’Engle and Tolkien graced her bookshelves. Carolyn melded her two favorite genres—steampunk and fantasy—into a series titled, “Galessel’s Tale... Read 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 →

Bart Kemper

Bart is a writer, photographer, inventor, and consulting Professional Engineer based in South Louisiana. He served over 34 years in the US Army, Active and Reserve, enlisted and officer, including as a Sergeant in the 82nd Airborne Division up to a Lt. Colonel engineer officer in... Read More →

Bethanne Kim

Bethanne Kim is a publisher with the new alternate history magazine “Eric Flint’s 1632 & Beyond” and a writer in the 1632verse. She also writes about emergency preparedness (including on TheSurvivalMom.com), zombies, being a Scout leader, the US Constitution, and whatever else... Read More →

Michael Kingswood

Michael Kingswood has published over 100 titles and has appeared anthologies from WMG Publishing, Stark Publishing, and Knotted Road Press. He produces a weekly podcast, Story Time With Michael Kingswood, which can be found in both video and audio formats everywhere great podcasts... Read More →

Alexandra Klimek-Sidor

Alexandra's work includes abstracted portraits, twisted creatures, and fantastical monsters from myth and fandoms alike. She specializes in alcohol ink paintings and engraved game accessories. She has shown her work in galleries in Greenville SC, the Oddities and Curiosities Expo... Read More →

Michael LaVoice

Michael LaVoice is a Science Fiction/Fantasy writer. He is the author of the Galaxy’s Most Wanted series from Aethon Books, the Gladius Leagues series from Chris Kennedy Publishing, as well as the upcoming SARCOM series with co-author Peter Stanley. He has multiple short stories... Read More →

Christopher Loric

A retired US Navy officer-turned-novelist, Christopher Loric grew up and attended school in Norman, OK. Earned his MBA in 1990 and his MA in National Security and Strategic Studies in 2004 (recertified in 2013). Joined the US Navy and went active on 14 Feb 1993. Deployed with the... Read More →

Doug Loss

Doug Loss is retired, but was an IT security analyst from Maryville, TN. He has been an SF reader since childhood (more than 55 years) and a war gamer for over 50 years. He's an avid blues music fan and is currently serving on the Board of Directors for the Interstellar Research Group... Read More →

Tamara Lowery

Tamara Lowery, author of The Adventures of Pigg & Woolfe serial and the Waves of Darkness series, is a native of Chattanooga. She writes pirates that aren't nice and vampires that don't sparkle as well as high-flying steampunk adventure.

Ian J. Malone

Ian J. Malone is the bestselling author of numerous works, including the MAKO space opera series and FREE BIRD RISING, the military scifi epic from the Four Horsemen Universe. Malone has written in a variety of arenas over the years, ranging from public health to news and sports... Read More →

Geoffrey Mandragora

Geoffrey Mandragora is a storyteller, not an author. He refuses to take himself seriously, or write anything too serious. His work is exciting, scary, and thrilling; but overall he strives to make his books fun, both to write and read. Which is why he writes in different genres.

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 →

MG Martin

M.G. Martin was born to a flamenco dancer and an International Man of Mystery in the great state of New York ‘lo these many years ago. A precocious child, she started writing while still in elementary school and dreamt of becoming a published author. As she became an adult, she... Read More →

Charles Matheny

Charles Matheny is a military veteran of fifteen years, serving six years in the Navy as an electronic technician on the USS Carl Vincent and nine years in the Army as a tanker in the 303rd Armored. After his service ended abruptly in a medical discharge, he eventually started a Twitch... Read More →

James P. Nettles

With a 30-plus-year career in consulting, Nettles has advised a diverse range of clients, from startups to Fortune 100 companies in financial technologies, media, entertainment, and green technologies. His work focuses on privacy, futurism, and disruptive technologies, exploring how... 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 →

Ian McMurtrie

Born on the island of Malta to an Oklahoma oil engineer and a Texas school teacher, author Ian McMurtrie a.k.a. LawDog was raised in Africa, the Middle East, and Europe. He has been a soldier, an EMT, a volunteer fireman, a short-order cook, the world's worst rodeo clown, and a peace... 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.

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.

Casey Moores

Casey Moores was a USAF rescue/special ops C-130 pilot for over 17 years- airdropping, air re-fueling, and flying into tiny blacked-out dirt airstrips in bad places using night vision goggles. He’s been to those places and done those things with those people. Now he lives a quieter... 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 →

Nancy Northcott

Nancy Northcott has loved comic books, mysteries, fantasy, history, and romance since childhood. A sucker for fast action and wrenching emotion, she combines the action and high stakes she loves in the books she writes. On the way to becoming a published author, she taught courses... Read More →

Melissa Olthoff

Melissa Olthoff spent her youth daydreaming about riding dragons and slaying monsters. After joining the United States Air Force, she might not have gotten to ride any dragons, but she had plenty of real-world adventures over the years—including flying the T-6, becoming a certified... Read More →

Jon R. Osborne

Jon R. Osborne turned a journalism education and a passion for role-playing games into writing science fiction and fantasy. His second book in The Milesian Accords modern fantasy trilogy, “A Tempered Warrior”, was a 2018 Dragon Awards finalist for Best Fantasy Novel. Jon is a... Read More →

Rick Partlow

Rick Partlow is an Army veteran with a degree in History from Florida Southern College. He is the author of 51 military SF and space opera novels including the Dragon Award finalist Direct Fire

Pat Pebley

Many phrases describe Pat Pebley. Lover of fine foods, strong drink, and women of questionable moral fiber. Pro Wrestler. Degenerate gambler. Metal head. Thespian. Dungeon Master (of the D&D variety). After years of adventures Caryville’s favorite son has decided to put his fingers... Read More →

J. Kenton Pierce

J. Kenton Pierce’s Science Fiction short stories and novels known collectively as the Tales from the Long Night. He lives near Pittsburgh and enjoys writing, shooting, and cheese. His work has been published in Abyss & Apex, the Grantville Gazette Baen's Universe Annex, and several... Read More →

Nic Plume

Nic Plume is the author of the military science fiction series ’Shadows of Peace’ and the short story ‘Rebels’ Cause’ in the Lost Brigade Universe’s anthology ‘Standing Fast on Foreign Shores’. She has also edited over forty science fiction novels for a best-selling... Read More →

Charles Prael

Charles Prael is a long-time fan and west coast SMOF of dubious repute, with a resume that looks like a scarf by its length. At the moment I'm launching a hedge fund that will fund several different space/satellite projects, and may wind up paying for a lunar mining base - among other... Read More →

Gregory Radabaugh

Greg Radabaugh, an author published by Raconteur Press and others, retired from the US Department of Defense after a 44-year career. He now works as a consultant for various commercial and government entities. Prior to his retirement, he was a member of the Department of Defense Senior... 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 →

William Alan Ritch

As President, Technician, Writer, Director, Producer - Bill Ritch is a long-serving member of ARTC and has directed and produced countless live and studio productions. He is the author of The Doom of the Mummy, The Menace From Earth (adapted from the Robert A. Heinlein short story... 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 →

William Joseph Roberts

William Joseph Roberts has been called a Renaissance man, and an insane squirrel wrangler by his peers. Since his enlistment ended, he has pursued careers as an industrial and architectural designer, design engineer, and is now an award-winning author, editor, and publisher with Three... Read More →

Ken Roy

Kenneth Roy is a retired, professional engineer who is currently living in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. As a long-time hobby he has been working with the idea of terraforming. He invented the “Shell Worlds” concept as a way to terraform planets well outside a star’s Goldilocks’ zone... Read More →

Joe Salem

Joe Salem writes technothrillers such as "Arrow Storm", alternate history short stories and sci-fi. The sci-fi novel has been in progress for so long, it will soon be sci-fact. He works in the oilfield in Houston.

Danette Schardt-Cordova

Danette Schardt-Cordova started tabletop gaming at twelve and computer gaming at fourteen with a TRaSh-80 from Radio Shack. Now she regularly streams her gaming (RPGs, Minecraft and whatever Charles(Ghost_Prime) drags her into) under the name Tamriel Mother in between taking care... Read More →

Dave Schroeder

Dave Schroeder (SHRAY-der) is the author of the Guardian Keeps and Congruent Mage fantasy series as well as the Xenotech Support science fiction humor series. He is a retired IT executive from Atlanta who enjoys performing with the Atlanta Radio Theatre Company. Dave also runs a... Read More →

Gary W. Shelton

Recently retired and returned to the Family farm in North Alabama. 30 years of experience working with the USDA - Agricultural research service in Mississippi, specializing in soybean genetics. Also Known as "Da Fish," has traveled the continental US in search of card games, good... Read More →

David Sherrer

David Sherrer is a born storyteller and has been an obsessive gamer ever since he was seduced by Magic the Gathering at the tender age of fourteen. He has alternately owned a gaming store, street performed for a living, and survived eleven years in the soul crushing world of telecommunications... Read More →

Lydia Sherrer

Award-winning and USA Today-bestselling author of snark-filled adventures, Lydia Sherrer thrives on creating stories you love to love, and hate to leave. She is the author of the bestselling urban fantasy Love, Lies, and Hocus Pocus universe of books featuring several series, which... Read More →

Stephen J. Simmons

Stephen J. Simmons started writing shortly after he retired from the Navy, primarily because his children had grown too old to listen to bedtime stories and the cats never laughed at the funny bits. He sold over a dozen flash-fiction stories to various online publishing venues, every... Read More →

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 →

Amanda Montandon

Amanda Montandon is a Colorado mountain girl living in North Carolina with her husband, author Kal Spriggs, their son, & 4 mischievous felines. A Jane-of-All-Trades, she has experience in law enforcement, veterinary care, private security, & more. She runs her own editing business... Read More →

Mark Stallings

Mark Stallings is an Internationally published and Amazon Best Selling author, speaker at International conferences on technology topics, is a writer of Wuxia, Fantasy, and Military Sci-Fi. He is a competitive shooter, avid martial artist, drinker of craft beer, and motorcycle enthusiast.You... Read More →

Craig Stanfill

Craig W. Stanfill obtained his PhD in artificial intelligence in 1983, and has spent his career doing ground-breaking research in AI and enterprise computing. He has written numerous scientific papers, co-founded a software company, and been awarded more than 80 patents. He continues... Read More →

Kevin Steverson

Kevin Steverson is a retired veteran of the U.S. Army. With several best-selling novels, including the Salvage Title Trilogy, picked up for development into feature film, he is also a published songwriter. When not at a convention or concert, he can be found in the foothills of the... Read More →

Nick Steverson

Nick Steverson is a 2023 Imadjinn Award winner for Best Science Fiction Novel. Multiple works with Chris Kennedy Publishing in the Salvage Title Universe, Four Horsemen Universe, Ashes of Entecea, and Fallen World. Other works include co-editing 13 Stories Of Horror and a short in... Read More →

Martin Tays

Martin Tays has done many things in his life, some of them frankly quite odd. He ran a nuclear reactor on a fast attack submarine, built props for movies and TV shows, ran security for a 50,000 resident apartment complex, and professionally wrangled rats. He has also washed dishes... Read More →

A.G. Thompson

Reared on a West Texas ranch, A.G. Thompson is a veteran of the US Air Force, having served during the Cold War and earned the rank of Staff Sergeant. He earned Bachelor of Arts degrees in both English Literature and History from the University of Louisville. He has been a competition... Read More →

Oren Truitt

Woodley Oren Truitt III is a man of many parts. In his 64 years he has packed in several careers and adventures. Oren holds a BS in biology & chemistry and a MA in History with a Certificate of Archival Administration. He hopes someday to go back for his doctorate in history... Read More →

Brian Urbanek

Brian has been making games since the mid 90s, and still hasn't learned his lesson. He works primarily in online video games, and specializes in economies, systems work, and social mechanics. Some of his highest profile recent titles are XCom 2 and the last eight years of Call of... Read More →

Wally Waltner

Wally Waltner is a tech consulting executive and gentleman science fiction/fantasy author. Born and raised on a farm in South Dakota, his early creative muses led him down a musical path and earned music scholarships and eventually a BMus degree in brass performance from Saint Olaf... Read More →

Benjamin Wallace

Benjamin Wallace is the bestselling author of Post-Apocalyptic Nomadic Warriors, Junkers, the Dad vs. series and other nonsense. He lives in Dallas, Texas where he complains about the heat. A lot.

D.S. Watson

D.S. Watson started his professional writing career as a reporter for the Shelbyville Times Gazette. He also worked for the U.S.D.A Forest Service, and as a writer-editor for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms. He wrote disability opinions for the Social Security Administration... 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 →

Brisco Woods

Brisco retired from the USAF and TNANG in 2015 and became a REALTOR working in east Tennessee. Seeing the success two of his siblings were having as authors, he decided to give it a try. Now, five short stories, one novella, and two novels later, he’s an official multi-national... Read More →

Irene Zielinski

Irene Zielinski is a game designer, editor, performer, and menace from Atlanta, Georgia. She created Scurvy Buggers, a troupe-style dramedy about found family and romance in the Golden Age of Piracy. Her newest project, Dahlia's Diversions for Peculiar Parties, is an anthology of... 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 →

Chaz Kemp

LC37 Artist Guest of Honor

Chaz loves SteamPunk, CyberPunk, and Fantasy. SteamPunk and CyberPunk are all about creatively defying authority and forging your own path. It’s resistance as art. Fantasy is all about visualizing your dream and then defying the odds to achieve it no matter who you are or what you... Read More →

Kim Steadman

LC37 STEM Guest of Honor

Kim Steadman received both her Bachelor of Science and Master of Science in Aerospace Engineering from Georgia Tech. After graduate school, Kim started her career at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. While at JPL, she worked on several missions including the Mars Exploration Rover... Read More →

Ben Yalow

LC37 Special Guest of Honor

Ben Yalow’s very first convention he attended as a fan was Lunacon in 1971, followed later that year by his first Worldcon, Noreascon. Ben first started staffing conventions at the very first Star Trek convention in January 1972, followed by the Worldcon in 1973, Torcon 2. He has... 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 →

Julie Cochrane

Julie Cochrane was born in Ohio and begin crafting her first stories when she was five years old. She made her first attempts at novels in Social Studies and English classes. Cally's War with John Ringo was the first manuscript she ever finished. Sister Time and Honor of the Clan... Read More →

Dr. Ben Davis

Ben Davis has a Ph.D. in Nuclear Physics and an M.S. in Nuclear Astrophysics from the University of Notre Dame. He taught at the college level for several years on a number of technical subjects ranging from computer programming and math to, of course, astronomy and physics. In the... Read More →

Melissa Gay

Melissa Gay thinks of creating art as illustrating personal myths-- half-dreamed bedtime stories, chance encounters in misty woods, hazy glimpses of far-flung civilizations through a handmade telescope, scenes to fire the imagination. Beginning her career as a scientific illustrator... Read More →

Sarah A. Hoyt

Sarah A. Hoyt writes... Almost everything. And has. But this last year she's been wrestling with a monstrous-size space opera. She lives with her husband and a plethora of cats. Sons and daughters-in-law sometimes visit. Sarah has published, she thinks, about fifty novels. She doesn't... Read More →

Daniel M. Hoyt

Daniel M. Hoyt is a systems architect for trajectory physics software, when not writing or wrangling royalty calculations. Dan has appeared in premier magazines like Analog and several anthologies, notably the recent Paladins of Valor and Bonds of Valor, with connected stories in... Read More →

Steve Jackson

Steve Jackson graduated from Rice University in Houston. While there, he spent most of his time playing wargames and working on the student paper, the Thresher (he spent two years as editor). He became a writer and game publisher, proving that college can be very valuable as long... Read More →

Les Johnson

Les is a physicist, author, and NASA technologist. He has been a LibertyCon GoH 3 times, winner of the Phoenix Award, and was featured in the March 2019 issue of National Geographic. Les leads two NASA space missions, holds 3 patents, and is a member of the International Academy of... Read More →

Terry Maggert

Terry has authored 79 books, including the Backyard Starship, Peacemaker Wars, and Messenger series. He lives on a compound near Nashville, and is actively seeking to purchase a giraffe. He's a car enthusiast, a runner, and a collector of vintage science fiction in all forms. He is... Read More →

Anita Moore

Hello! I'm Anita S. Moore and I'm an artist. Art background: Self taught from early age, Sketching, scribbling, doodling in note paper margins, later pastels and eventually oil painting in high school. I kept painting after high school for a few years. But it was the mid 90's... Read More →

David M. Weber

David Weber was born in Cleveland a long, long time ago, and grew up in rural South Carolina. He was a bookworm from childhood, blessed with a father who collected autographed copies of every E. E. Smith hardcover and introduced him to Jack Williamson at the tender age of 10 and a... Read More →

Toni Weisskopf

Toni Weisskopf is the publisher of Baen Books, a leading publisher of SF and fantasy for 40 years. She is also a member of the Interstellar Research Group board of advisors. She is the mother of a delightful daughter, and presides over a household that includes three dogs, one cat... Read More →

Chris Woods

Christopher Woods, writer of fiction, teller of tales, and professional liar was born way too long ago to be talking about it and has spent the majority of his life with a book in hand. He is known for his popular Soulguard series and creating the shared universe in The Fallen World... Read More →

Shari Robb

Shari Robb is a loving wife, mother, technical writer, and counselor. She has worked as an editor for political campaigns, multiple non-fiction books, and shorts from the Alpha Mercs. Her work as a freelance editor includes multiple SF/Fantasy anthologies, including game fiction... Read More →

James S. Aaron

I'm James Stegall, a guy living in Oregon. I'm currently the author of 14 science fiction novels as James S. Aaron. My work includes the Aeon 14 Sentience Wars with M.D. Cooper, Galactic Law with J.N. Chaney. My latest project is a military science fiction trilogy in Jeffery H. Haskell'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 →

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 →

David Badurina

David Badurina is a speculative fiction author from the frozen tundra of New Hampshire. David is a father, business owner, 4th degree black belt, host of The MIRTH QUAKE Web Show, and a little too fond of the absurd. In 2024 he released his sci-fi space comedy novel, SPACE PEW PEW... 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 →

Jim Beall

Jim Beall (BS-Math, MBA, PE) has been a nuclear engineer for 50 years, beginning as a nuclear engineering officer in the US Navy. Civilian experience includes design, construction, inspection, enforcement, and assessment with a nuclear utility, an architect engineering firm, and the... Read More →

Ted Begley

Ted Begley's career has consisted of such fields as cook, farmer, lightning rod salesman, and accountant. He lives in Kentucky with his wife of more than thirty years, Laura, who acts in the capacity of his first reader and editor. He has several short stories published in as many... Read More →

Laura Begley

As a copy editor for Raconteur Press, I have four anthologies to my credit: Goblin Bazaar; From the Brim to the Dregs; Coffee Capers; and Moggie Noir: Dames, Derringers, and Detectives. I also had the pleasure of copy editing “Storm-Dragon,” a boys SF/F action-adventure novel... Read More →

Tim Bischoff

Tim “Cajun” Bischoff, born in Kentucky and raised in Bourbon country on a dairy farm. Writing along with cooking, fishing and cruising in his restored 1973 Chevelle are some of his passions. Tim has had three short stories published, the newest as author Timothy Hardy in 3 Ravens... Read More →

David (Brena) Bock

David Bock (also listed under the nom de plume Brena Bock) is a proud member of #TeamAndMore in several anthologies, including Space Force: Building the Legacy, Can't Go Home Again, and Saint's of Malta. Other stories are in the works along with a full length novel.

David Bogen

David Bogen (BSEE, PE, Corporate Fellow) has been in the electric utility industry for more than 40 years and has helped implement many changes that analyze, control and monitor the conditions of the electric transmission system. In 1990 David earned his Professional Engineering License... Read More →

Karen Bogen

A cat-loving native of Texas, K.B. Bogen is a self-confessed knit-/yarn-aholic. She spends much time knitting something (with the help of her three cats), inventorying her stash (also with the help of the cats), or fondling yarn anywhere within driving range (the cats don’t like... 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 →

Nathan Brindle

Nathan C. Brindle is a senior software engineer with a BA and most of an MA in History. There is a story behind that, of course. He's worked 30 years for a company in Maryland you've probably never heard of, despite living in Indianapolis, Indiana, for all but one year of his life... Read More →

Douglas Burbey

Doug Burbey is the universe creator of, and author in, the Blood War urban fantasy series. He is constantly preparing to: repel the demon hordes, slay zombies, brew beer and defeat the insidious plots of the bureaucratic machinery. Doug grew up in the Philippines as a military brat... Read More →

Spearman Burke

After retiring from a globe spanning career of swashbuckling adventure in the U.S. Marine Corps, Spearman Burke decided to try his hand at this GI Bill thing he had been hearing about. He earned an interdisciplinary degree in English Literature and Creative Writing with a minor in... Read More →

Daniel Allen Butler

Daniel Allen Butler is a best-selling author, historian, and college-educated semi-professional beach bum. His previous works include "Unsinkable"--the Full Story of RMS Titanic; The Day the Lusitania Died; Warrior Queens - The Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth in World War II; The Age... Read More →

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 →

James L. Cambias

James L. Cambias is an SF writer and game designer. His most recent novel is The Scarab Mission, in 2023. His short stories have appeared in Nature, F&SF, and several anthologies. His most recent game is Weird War I. He is a partner in Zygote Games and blogs at www.jamescambias.c... Read More →

K.B. Carlisle

KB Carlisle is a husband, father, panda enthusiast, former time traveler and professional desk chair warmer. His debut novel The Book of Rose won the 2024 Imadjin Award for Best Young Adult Novel. Check out all of his work at kbcarlisle.com.

Richard Cartwright

Richard Cartwright was born and raised in Tennessee when he was not bouncing around the country and Canada in the sleeper of his parents tractor trailer rig that his father bought after retiring from the Navy to go into trucking. His first reading lessons were road signs at four... Read More →

Stewart Cobb

Stewart Cobb designs satellite navigation systems for a living and reads SF&F for inspiration. He earned a PhD in Aerospace Engineering and holds more than a dozen patents. He's been an Air Force officer and a flight controller for the Space Shuttle, but hasn't yet reached orbit... Read More →

Jason Cordova

Bestselling author Jason Cordova was born in California and is both a John W. Campbell Award and Dragon Award finalist (though not in the same year). He is the editor of the anthology Dancing with Destruction, author of the novel Mountain of Fire, and co-author of Monster Hunter Memoirs... Read More →

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 →

Isaac Craft

Isaac Craft writes science fiction and fantasy with horror elements. His flash-fiction stories are in nearly a dozen of the Cornerscribblers anthologies via Three Ravens Publishing and continues to work toward honing his craft. When not writing or reading, Isaac does digital illustration... Read More →

Tammie Darden

Tammie Darden is an everyday scientist in charge of a small production lab. Much to her surprise her work and insight has been found useful to story development by author friends. Academically she continues her studies independently with a special emphasis on food science (which encompasses... Read More →

Randee Dawn

Randee Dawn is a Brooklyn-based author and journalist focusing on speculative fiction across the categories (science-fiction, fantasy and horror) at night, while writing entertainment and lifestyle stories during the day for publications including Today.com, NBCNews.com, Variety... Read More →

Greg Eden

Greg Eden is from New Zealand where he trained in radio communications and has worked in England, Wales, Austria, Ghana Nigeria, Sudan and Chad. He has installed radio equipment in garbage trucks, has been a communications officer for the UK Fire Service, has set up paging networks... Read More →

Devon Eriksen

Devon Eriksen is a recent Chattanooga transplant, marksman, and life-long reader, with a particular fondness for classics from the golden age of science fiction. After growing up with images of the galaxy brought home by his JPL engineer father, he spent most of his career as a software... Read More →

Robert S. Evans

Robert S. Evans is a Georgia native film writer and director. He attended the New York Film Academy, and shortly afterwards caught the attention of industry veteran Jeff Burr (Leatherface: Texas Chainsaw Massacre 3) . Robert caught his first break with the film "The Last Piece Standing... Read More →

Stephen Fleming

At various times, Stephen Fleming has been paid to be an optical physicist, laser fabricator, software developer, field engineer, product manager, corporate trainer, marketing executive, salesman, general manager, entrepreneur, author, venture capitalist, board member, investment... Read More →

Marina Fontaine

Marina Fontaine is a Russian by birth, an American by choice, and a writer of optimistic fiction. She uses her experience of living in a totalitarian society to demonstrate how human yearning for freedom and love endures in the darkest of circumstances. Her dystopian works include... Read More →

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 →

J.B. Garner

Talented top flight author and editor Jamie Beth "J. B." Garner has written over twenty novels across multiple genres and edited hundreds more. J.B.’s seen and done many things in her life, from honors student to factory worker to garbage collector to construction worker. In addition... Read More →

Amie Gibbons

Amie was born and raised in the Salt Lake Valley. She started making up stories before she could read and would act them out with her dolls and stuffed animals. She started actually writing them down in college, just decided to do it one day and couldn't stop. She loves urban fantasy... 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 →

Jeff Greason

I grew up with middle class parents in rural Oregon, with some of my earliest memories being Star Trek, the Apollo 17 launch, and reading classic science fiction. As far as I know, I've always been interested in science and technology. I thought that by the time I was an adult, there... Read More →

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 →

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 →

Bjorn Hasseler

Bjorn Hasseler found Eric Flint's novel 1632 in a public library. Then he discovered that fans were not just allowed but encouraged to write in the 1632 universe. He writes the Neustatter's European Security Service thread (A Matter of Security, Missions of Security, Security Threats... Read More →

Mark Haynes

I’m a renaissance man trapped in a specialist’s body. My degree is in biology. That’s why I’m IT. I’ve worked as a software developer, with an elegant language for a more civilized age. I became a QA guy because breaking things is therapeutic. I became a process specialist... Read More →

James V. Henson

Jamie Henson is the founder of Alpha Mercs, a private fellowship of writers forging craft, resilience, and timeless virtues. Together they stand for what storytelling was—and must be again. The forge is lit. Join the fellowship at omicronstation.com.

Louise Herring-Jones

Louise Herring-Jones writes speculative fiction including science fiction, fantasy, historical fantasy, and alternate mystery. Her stories, appearing in fourteen anthologies, include “The Poulterer’s Tale” in God Bless Us, Every One—Christmas Carols beyond Dickens (Voodoo... Read More →

Dan Hollifield

Dan L. Hollifield is the author of the ‘Mare Inebrium Spaceport Bar’ series of short stories. Other works include the “Adventures of Tom Darby” ongoing series of stories, one of which is titled ‘Abducted,’ and is available on Amazon. Further Tom Darby stories are awaiting... Read More →

Frank Hood

When I graduated college I wanted to be a great writer like Shakespeare, Bradbury, Hardy, or Heinlein. Five years later and $14 richer off my writing career, I decided I needed a career that put food on the table as well. My wife, a chemist and wonderful writer herself (S. T. Gaffney... Read More →

Fred Hughes

The International Bestselling Amazon Author of seven books of 'The Prince of Britannia' series. I'm currently working on my new series, 'The First Solar War.' Having served 20 years in the US Navy, most of it on submarines, I developed a great appreciation for the written word. Naval... Read More →

G. Scott Huggins

Having been born in California and raised in Kansas, Scott Huggins grew up as confused as one might expect. He began writing whilst traveling in post-Soviet Russia and Germany, and was one of the 20th Century’s last Writers of the Future (1999). The future arrived immediately thereafter... Read More →

Jay Maynard

Jay Maynard is a lifelong computer geek whose career spans everything from embedded systems — like the ones in microwave ovens — to IBM mainframes. When he’s not in front of a keyboard, he’s on ham radio, serving on the Fairmont, Minnesota city council, tinkering with his... Read More →

Sunday June 22, 2025 10:00am - 11:00am EDT
M - Plaza Ballroom A/B Chattanooga Marriott Downtown 2 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402, USA

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