April 19-21 in Raleigh-Durham, NC RESERVE ROOM
April 19-21 in Raleigh-Durham, NC RESERVE ROOM
The author of five film reference books, one steampunk novel and multiple short stories, Fraser Sherman was born in England but spent most of his life in Florida. He’d still be there (god help him!) if he hadn’t fallen in love and moved to Durham to marry her. Their family has since grown by four…
Wendy S. Delmater has edited the acclaimed science fiction and fantasy magazine Abyss & Apex since 2006. She’s a professional editor of science fiction and fantasy novels and short stories. She is also the editor of several Best of Abyss & Apex anthologies, and the author of numerous non-fiction books including the Better Dating Through Engineering series, Plant a Garden…
Roger and Janet Carden are the husband-and-wife team behind The Halfling and the Spaceman: Journeys Into Active Fandom. (2022-present) The Halfling and the Spaceman is a podcast featuring a series of conversations with creators as they detail their personal journey from becoming inspired by fandom to being creators in their own right. In addition, the…
Monalisa’s writing career really began when she taught herself English by reading and translating Heinlein juveniles at the public library. She would copy sentences in English, translate them into Romanian, and then write out new words ten times, filling entire notebooks and giving herself a helluva writing callous. After she devoured the juvenile section, she…
As an author, artist and musician, MD 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. He has a passion for history, philosophy, civics and…
Mark Stallings is an Amazon Best Selling author living in Colorado Springs, Colorado since the early 80’s. He is a publisher of the Eldros Legacy, speaks at International conferences on technology topics, is a writer of Wuxia, Fantasy, and Military Sci Fi. Mark is a competitive shooter, avid martial artist, drinker of craft beer, and…
Kal Spriggs is a US Army combat veteran, gamer, and science fiction and fantasy author. He has visited over 35 countries and has worked in a variety of industries including environmental remediation, farming, civil engineering, the military, and transportation. Kal has drawn upon those experiences to write over thirty novels with complex characters who live…
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’s taught middle school, been headbutted by an alligator, earned a black belt in Tae Kwon Do, and finally decided to finish…
Kacey Ezell is a retired helicopter pilot with 3000+ hours in the UH-1N Huey, Mi-171, and EC130 helicopters. When not beating the air into submission, she writes sci-fi/fantasy/horror/noir/alternate history fiction. She is a two-time Dragon Award Finalist for Best Alternate History and won the 2018 Year’s Best Military and Adventure Science Fiction Readers’ Choice Award….
In 1980 two things happened to put me on my long and winding path to become a writer. I purchased Dungeons and Dragons, teaching myself to play so that I could run the game for my friends, and I joined the school newspaper. Gaming and creating stories gave me a social life, a framework for…