LibertyCon 37

LibertyCon 37

1:00pm EDT

Reading: M.D. Boncher

Friday June 20, 2025 1:00pm - 2:00pm EDT

M - Carter Room (Readings 1)

Come hear our authors read from their works.

Guests

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 →

Friday June 20, 2025 1:00pm - 2:00pm EDT
M - Carter Room (Readings 1) Chattanooga Marriott Downtown 2 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402, USA

Readings 1, Reading

1:00pm EDT

Reading: PGOH David M. Weber

Friday June 20, 2025 1:00pm - 2:00pm EDT

CC - Mtg Room 2 (Kids Programming/Readings)

Come hear Past Literary GOH David M. Weber read from his works.

Guests

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 →

Friday June 20, 2025 1:00pm - 2:00pm EDT
CC - Mtg Room 2 (Kids Programming/Readings) Chattanooga Convention Center 1 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402

Readings 1, Reading

2:00pm EDT

Reading: Julie Frost and Casey Moores

Friday June 20, 2025 2:00pm - 3:00pm EDT

M - Carter Room (Readings 1)

Come hear our authors read from their works.

Guests

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 →

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 →

Friday June 20, 2025 2:00pm - 3:00pm EDT
M - Carter Room (Readings 1) Chattanooga Marriott Downtown 2 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402, USA

Readings 1, Reading

2:00pm EDT

Reading: LGOH Charles E. Gannon

Friday June 20, 2025 2:00pm - 3:00pm EDT

CC - Mtg Room 2 (Kids Programming/Readings)

Come hear Literary GOH Charles E. Gannon read from his works.

Guests

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 →

Friday June 20, 2025 2:00pm - 3:00pm EDT
CC - Mtg Room 2 (Kids Programming/Readings) Chattanooga Convention Center 1 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402

Readings 1, Reading

3:00pm EDT

Reading: Jay Peterson

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

M - Carter Room (Readings 1)

Come hear our authors read from their works.

Guests

Jay Peterson

Jay Peterson has been everything from a nightclub bouncer to a chess coach. He once considered taking over the world, but balked once he had a look at the paperwork involved. His debut novel, Renfield Blues, was released in 2023. A sequel, Ghost Light, is currently in the works. When... Read More →

Friday June 20, 2025 3:00pm - 4:00pm EDT
M - Carter Room (Readings 1) Chattanooga Marriott Downtown 2 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402, USA

Readings 1, Reading

4:00pm EDT

Reading: David (Brena) Bock and David (D.J.) Butler

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

M - Carter Room (Readings 1)

Come hear our authors read from their works.

Guests

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 (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 →

Friday June 20, 2025 4:00pm - 5:00pm EDT
M - Carter Room (Readings 1) Chattanooga Marriott Downtown 2 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402, USA

Readings 1, Reading

6:00pm EDT

Reading: James L. Cambias and James Copley

Friday June 20, 2025 6:00pm - 7:00pm EDT

M - Carter Room (Readings 1)

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Guests

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 →

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 →

Friday June 20, 2025 6:00pm - 7:00pm EDT
M - Carter Room (Readings 1) Chattanooga Marriott Downtown 2 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402, USA

Readings 1, Reading

7:00pm EDT

Reading: Mark Haynes and Christopher Loric

Friday June 20, 2025 7:00pm - 8:00pm EDT

M - Carter Room (Readings 1)

Come hear our authors read from their works.

Guests

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 →

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 →

Friday June 20, 2025 7:00pm - 8:00pm EDT
M - Carter Room (Readings 1) Chattanooga Marriott Downtown 2 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402, USA

Readings 1, Reading

8:00pm EDT

Reading: Amie Gibbons and Julie Cochrane

Friday June 20, 2025 8:00pm - 9:00pm EDT

M - Carter Room (Readings 1)

Come hear our authors read from their works.

Guests

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 →

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 →

Friday June 20, 2025 8:00pm - 9:00pm EDT
M - Carter Room (Readings 1) Chattanooga Marriott Downtown 2 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402, USA

Readings 1, Reading

8:00pm EDT

Reading: Past Special GOH Chris Woods

Friday June 20, 2025 8:00pm - 9:00pm EDT

CC - Mtg Room 2 (Kids Programming/Readings)

Come hear Past Special GOH Chris Woods read from his works.

Guests

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 →

Friday June 20, 2025 8:00pm - 9:00pm EDT
CC - Mtg Room 2 (Kids Programming/Readings) Chattanooga Convention Center 1 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402

Readings 1, Reading

9:00pm EDT

Reading: Craig Stanfill

Friday June 20, 2025 9:00pm - 10:00pm EDT

M - Carter Room (Readings 1)

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Guests

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 →

Friday June 20, 2025 9:00pm - 10:00pm EDT
M - Carter Room (Readings 1) Chattanooga Marriott Downtown 2 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402, USA

Readings 1, Reading

10:00pm EDT

Reading: G. Scott Huggins and Mark Huston

Friday June 20, 2025 10:00pm - 11:00pm EDT

M - Carter Room (Readings 1)

Come hear our authors read from their works.

Guests

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 →

Mark Huston

Mark Huston is a Chicago based author. He is published in Eric Flint's Ring of Fire Series and is a long-time contributor to the Grantville Gazette. His first novel, "Up-time Pride and Down-time Prejudice", was a Dragon Award Finalist. His work has also appeared in F&SF. Mark is and... Read More →

Friday June 20, 2025 10:00pm - 11:00pm EDT
M - Carter Room (Readings 1) Chattanooga Marriott Downtown 2 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402, USA

Readings 1, Reading

10:00pm EDT

Reading: Past Literary GOH John Ringo

Friday June 20, 2025 10:00pm - 11:00pm EDT

CC - Mtg Room 2 (Kids Programming/Readings)

Come hear Past Literary GOH John Ringo read from his works.

Guests

John Ringo

John Ringo's science fiction is action-oriented and abounding in characters to root for. He is the creator of the New York Times best-selling military science fiction series The Posleen Wars, with over one million copies in print. Ringo is also the author of the far-future science... Read More →

Friday June 20, 2025 10:00pm - 11:00pm EDT
CC - Mtg Room 2 (Kids Programming/Readings) Chattanooga Convention Center 1 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402

Readings 1, Reading

10:00am EDT

Reading: Isaac Craft and Bjorn Hasseler

Saturday June 21, 2025 10:00am - 11:00am EDT

M - Carter Room (Readings 1)

Come hear our authors read from their works.

Guests

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 →

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 →

Saturday June 21, 2025 10:00am - 11:00am EDT
M - Carter Room (Readings 1) Chattanooga Marriott Downtown 2 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402, USA

Readings 1, Reading

10:00am EDT

Reading: PGOH Robert Hampson

Saturday June 21, 2025 10:00am - 11:00am EDT

CC - Mtg Room 2 (Kids Programming/Readings)

Come hear Past STEM GOH Robert Hampson read from his works.

Guests

Robert E. Hampson

Dr. Robert E. Hampson is a Neuroscientist and author. By day, he is a professor at Wake Forest School of Medicine, studying how our brains encode memory. By night, he writes military, adventure and hard-science Science Fiction as well as nonfiction articles explaining science to the... Read More →

Saturday June 21, 2025 10:00am - 11:00am EDT
CC - Mtg Room 2 (Kids Programming/Readings) Chattanooga Convention Center 1 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402

Readings 1, Reading

11:00am EDT

Reading: Frank Hood and Nic Plume

Saturday June 21, 2025 11:00am - 12:00pm EDT

M - Carter Room (Readings 1)

Come hear our authors read from their works.

Guests

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 →

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 →

Saturday June 21, 2025 11:00am - 12:00pm EDT
M - Carter Room (Readings 1) Chattanooga Marriott Downtown 2 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402, USA

Readings 1, Reading

12:00pm EDT

Reading: Charli Cox and Brian Gifford

Saturday June 21, 2025 12:00pm - 1:00pm EDT

M - Carter Room (Readings 1)

Come hear our authors read from their works.

Guests

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 →

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 →

Saturday June 21, 2025 12:00pm - 1:00pm EDT
M - Carter Room (Readings 1) Chattanooga Marriott Downtown 2 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402, USA

Readings 1, Reading

12:00pm EDT

Reading: PGOH Melissa Gay

Saturday June 21, 2025 12:00pm - 1:00pm EDT

CC - Mtg Room 2 (Kids Programming/Readings)

Come hear Past Artist GOH Melissa Gay read from her works.

Guests

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 →

Saturday June 21, 2025 12:00pm - 1:00pm EDT
CC - Mtg Room 2 (Kids Programming/Readings) Chattanooga Convention Center 1 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402

Readings 1, Reading

1:00pm EDT

Reading: David Badurina and Philip K. Booker

Saturday June 21, 2025 1:00pm - 2:00pm EDT

M - Carter Room (Readings 1)

Come hear our authors read from their works.

Guests

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 →

Philip K. Booker

An award-winning editor and genre writer, Philip K. Booker lives near Chattanooga, Tennessee, with his wife and five children collectively known as Clan Booker (trademark pending). Writing stories across any genre, but he focuses on Urban Fantasy, Science Fiction and Horror-comedy... Read More →

Saturday June 21, 2025 1:00pm - 2:00pm EDT
M - Carter Room (Readings 1) Chattanooga Marriott Downtown 2 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402, USA

Readings 1, Reading

2:00pm EDT

Reading: Amy DuBoff and Nathan Brindle

Saturday June 21, 2025 2:00pm - 3:00pm EDT

M - Carter Room (Readings 1)

Come hear our authors read from their works.

Guests

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 →

Amy DuBoff

A.K. (Amy) DuBoff is an award-winning and USA Today bestselling indie author and screenwriter. She is a lifelong sci-fi and fantasy fan—and if it involves outer space, even better! Amy is most known for creating the acclaimed Cadicle Universe, which includes interconnected space... Read More →

Saturday June 21, 2025 2:00pm - 3:00pm EDT
M - Carter Room (Readings 1) Chattanooga Marriott Downtown 2 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402, USA

Readings 1, Reading

3:00pm EDT

Reading: Mary Hare and LL Richman

Saturday June 21, 2025 3:00pm - 4:00pm EDT

M - Carter Room (Readings 1)

Come hear our authors read from their works.

Guests

Mary Hare

I’m a wife, mother, and grandmother, who had a four-year stint in the USAF in the Manned SpaceFlight Support Group at the Johnson Space Center in the 80’s, where I met and married my husband, also in the USAF at the time. Since then, almost every job I’ve had has involved computers... Read More →

LL Richman

L.L. Richman has a diverse career background, having spent more than a decade working in radiation physics, and twice that as a director of film and video. Richman is also a pilot and has close ties to the special forces community. Richman's series feature the pulse-pounding action... Read More →

Saturday June 21, 2025 3:00pm - 4:00pm EDT
M - Carter Room (Readings 1) Chattanooga Marriott Downtown 2 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402, USA

Readings 1, Reading

4:00pm EDT

Reading: Tim Akers and James S. Aaron

Saturday June 21, 2025 4:00pm - 5:00pm EDT

M - Carter Room (Readings 1)

Come hear our authors read from their works.

Guests

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 →

Saturday June 21, 2025 4:00pm - 5:00pm EDT
M - Carter Room (Readings 1) Chattanooga Marriott Downtown 2 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402, USA

Readings 1, Reading

5:00pm EDT

Reading: Joe Salem and J. Kenton Pierce

Saturday June 21, 2025 5:00pm - 6:00pm EDT

M - Carter Room (Readings 1)

Come hear our authors read from their works.

Guests

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.

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 →

Saturday June 21, 2025 5:00pm - 6:00pm EDT
M - Carter Room (Readings 1) Chattanooga Marriott Downtown 2 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402, USA

Readings 1, Reading

6:00pm EDT

Reading: Tim Bischoff and Rick Cartwright

Saturday June 21, 2025 6:00pm - 7:00pm EDT

M - Carter Room (Readings 1)

Come hear our authors read from their works.

Guests

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 →

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 →

Saturday June 21, 2025 6:00pm - 7:00pm EDT
M - Carter Room (Readings 1) Chattanooga Marriott Downtown 2 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402, USA

Readings 1, Reading

7:00pm EDT

Reading: Randee Dawn and Rob Howell

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

M - Carter Room (Readings 1)

Come hear our authors read from their works.

Guests

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 →

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 →

Saturday June 21, 2025 7:00pm - 8:00pm EDT
M - Carter Room (Readings 1) Chattanooga Marriott Downtown 2 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402, USA

Readings 1, Reading

8:00pm EDT

Reading: The Writing Hoyts

Saturday June 21, 2025 8:00pm - 9:00pm EDT

M - Carter Room (Readings 1)

Come hear the legendary Hoyts read from their works.

Guests

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 →

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 →

Saturday June 21, 2025 8:00pm - 9:00pm EDT
M - Carter Room (Readings 1) Chattanooga Marriott Downtown 2 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402, USA

Readings 1, Reading

9:00pm EDT

Reading: Zane Voss and K. Anders

Saturday June 21, 2025 9:00pm - 10:00pm EDT

M - Carter Room (Readings 1)

Come hear our authors read from their works.

Guests

Zane Voss

Zane Voss holds bachelor's and master’s degrees in engineering from the Missouri University of Science & Technology. His day job is working as a partner in an engineering consulting firm in the steel industry. If you’re either interested or unable to flee quickly enough, he will... Read More →

K. Anders

K. Anders is the author of multiple short stories including two which ranked #1 in their respective categories on the Amazon Best Seller list including Science fiction and comedy! His first novel "Dragonsworn" is set to be published by Jumpmaster Press in late summer 2025.

Saturday June 21, 2025 9:00pm - 10:00pm EDT
M - Carter Room (Readings 1) Chattanooga Marriott Downtown 2 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402, USA

Readings 1, Reading

10:00pm EDT

Reading: Jason Cordova and Chris Smith

Saturday June 21, 2025 10:00pm - 11:00pm EDT

M - Carter Room (Readings 1)

Come hear our authors read from their works.

Guests

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 →

Chris Smith

A native Texan by birth (if not geography), Chris moved 'home' as soon as he could. Attending Texas A+M, he learned quickly that there was more to college than beer and football games. He relocated to San Antonio, attending SAC and UTSA, graduating in late 2000 with a BA in Lit... Read More →

Saturday June 21, 2025 10:00pm - 11:00pm EDT
M - Carter Room (Readings 1) Chattanooga Marriott Downtown 2 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402, USA

Readings 1, Reading

10:00pm EDT

Readings from the Milesian Accords

Saturday June 21, 2025 10:00pm - 11:00pm EDT

M - Plaza Ballroom C

Jon R. Osborne has opened up his series, the Milesian Accords, to contributors for the first time. This panel will explore the series and will provide some readings from new contributors.

Guests

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 →

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 →

David Shadoin

David "Shady" Shadoin is a trouble-making, scotch-drinking, corn-fed Nebraska boy the United States Air Force managed to turn into a somewhat decent pilot of whirly birds. All of his publications can be found at Chris Kennedy Publishing or Amazon, as some are a part of the famous... Read More →

Saturday June 21, 2025 10:00pm - 11:00pm EDT
M - Plaza Ballroom C

Readings 1, Panel

10:00am EDT

Reading: PGOH Jody Lynn Nye

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

CC - Mtg Room 2 (Kids Programming/Readings)

Come hear Past Special GOH Jody Lynn Nye read from her works.

Guests

Jody Lynn Nye

Jody Lynn Nye lists her main career activity as ‘spoiling cats.’ When not engaged upon this worthy occupation, she writes fantasy and science fiction books and short stories.Before breaking away from gainful employment to write full time, Jody worked as a file clerk, book-keeper... Read More →

Sunday June 22, 2025 10:00am - 11:00am EDT
CC - Mtg Room 2 (Kids Programming/Readings) Chattanooga Convention Center 1 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402

Readings 1, Reading

10:00am EDT

Reading: Shane Tourtellotte and Rachel Aukes

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

M - Carter Room (Readings 1)

Come hear our authors read from their works.

Guests

Shane Tourtellotte

Shane Tourtellotte has been a pro SF writer since 1998, making his primary residence in Analog. His eight-year detour into baseball writing included some alternate history, so it counts too. Don’t hold that one Hugo nomination against him: it was many years ago. Shane lives in western... Read More →

Rachel Aukes

Rachel Aukes is the bestselling novelist of over forty books, including the Bounty Hunter series with Podium Entertainment. Her post-apocalyptic novel, 100 Days in Deadland, made Suspense Magazine’s Best of the Year list. She writes in a number of genres, including science fiction... Read More →

Sunday June 22, 2025 10:00am - 11:00am EDT
M - Carter Room (Readings 1) Chattanooga Marriott Downtown 2 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402, USA

Readings 1, Reading

11:00am EDT

Reading: Wally Waltner and Karen Bogen

Sunday June 22, 2025 11:00am - 12:00pm EDT

M - Carter Room (Readings 1)

Come hear our authors read from their works.

Guests

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 →

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 →

Sunday June 22, 2025 11:00am - 12:00pm EDT
M - Carter Room (Readings 1) Chattanooga Marriott Downtown 2 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402, USA

Readings 1, Reading

12:00pm EDT

Reading: Gerald Hall and Tamara Lowery

Sunday June 22, 2025 12:00pm - 1:00pm EDT

M - Carter Room (Readings 1)

Come hear our authors read from their works.

Guests

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.

Gerald Hall

Gerald Hall has had an extraordinarily diverse background. A lifelong science fiction fan, Gerald is a graduate of the N.C. State University's School of Engineering. After graduation, he served in uniform as part of the Intelligence Community for more than thirty years, deploying... Read More →

Sunday June 22, 2025 12:00pm - 1:00pm EDT
M - Carter Room (Readings 1) Chattanooga Marriott Downtown 2 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402, USA

Readings 1, Reading

12:00pm EDT

Reading: PGOH Gray Rinehart

Sunday June 22, 2025 12:00pm - 1:00pm EDT

CC - Mtg Room 2 (Kids Programming/Readings)

Come hear Past Master of Ceremonies Gray Rinehart read from his works.

Guests

Gray Rinehart

Graham W. "Gray" Rinehart Rinehart is a writer, an editor, a singer/songwriter, and a retired Air Force officer. He is the only person to have commanded a USAF satellite tracking station, written speeches for Presidential appointees, devised a poetic form, and had music on The Dr... Read More →

Sunday June 22, 2025 12:00pm - 1:00pm EDT
CC - Mtg Room 2 (Kids Programming/Readings) Chattanooga Convention Center 1 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402

Readings 1, Reading

1:00pm EDT

Reading: J.B. Garner and Karl Gallagher

Sunday June 22, 2025 1:00pm - 2:00pm EDT

M - Carter Room (Readings 1)

Come hear our authors read from their works.

Guests

Karl Gallagher

Karl K. Gallagher is a systems engineer, currently performing data analysis for a major aerospace company. In the past he calculated trajectories for a commercial launch rocket start-up, operated satellites as a US Air Force officer, and selected orbits for government and commercial... 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 →

Sunday June 22, 2025 1:00pm - 2:00pm EDT
M - Carter Room (Readings 1) Chattanooga Marriott Downtown 2 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402, USA

Readings 1, Reading

2:00pm EDT

Reading: Devon Eriksen and Geoffrey Mandragora

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

M - Carter Room (Readings 1)

Come hear our authors read from their works.

Guests

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 →

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.

Sunday June 22, 2025 2:00pm - 3:00pm EDT
M - Carter Room (Readings 1) Chattanooga Marriott Downtown 2 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402, USA

Readings 1, Reading