LibertyCon 38: Full Schedule

arrow_back View All Dates

10:00am EDT

Reading: Isaac Craft and Bjorn Hasseler

Saturday June 27, 2026 10:00am - 11:00am EDT

M - Signal Mountain Room (Readings 1)

Come hear our authors read from their works.

Guests

Isaac Craft

Author

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

Author, Editor

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 27, 2026 10:00am - 11:00am EDT
M - Signal Mountain Room (Readings 1) Chattanooga Marriott Downtown 2 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402, USA

Readings 1, Reading

11:00am EDT

Reading: Frank Hood and Nic Plume

Saturday June 27, 2026 11:00am - 12:00pm EDT

M - Signal Mountain Room (Readings 1)

Come hear our authors read from their works.

Guests

Nic Plume

Author

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 aut... Read More →

Frank Hood

Author

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 27, 2026 11:00am - 12:00pm EDT
M - Signal Mountain Room (Readings 1) Chattanooga Marriott Downtown 2 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402, USA

Readings 1, Reading

12:00pm EDT

Raconteur Press Authors Read Fantasy!

Saturday June 27, 2026 12:00pm - 1:00pm EDT

CC - Meeting Room 2 (Kids Program/Readings 2)

Raconteur Press Authors Read Fantasy! Sam Robb (mod.)

Moderators

Sam Robb

Author

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 →

Guests

Wally Waltner

Author

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 →

T.C. Ross

Author

TC Ross is an Urban Fantasy author who also dabbles in related Historical Fantasy, Romantic Comedies, Gaslamp, Horror, and short stories. She resides in Texas with her family, feeding the Fae and watching out for shifters. Hopefully they never find her.

Saturday June 27, 2026 12:00pm - 1:00pm EDT
CC - Meeting Room 2 (Kids Program/Readings 2) Chattanooga Convention Center 1 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37403

Readings 1, Reading

1:00pm EDT

Reading: Jenny Wren and Nathan Toronto

Saturday June 27, 2026 1:00pm - 2:00pm EDT

M - Signal Mountain Room (Readings 1)

Come hear our authors read from their works.

Guests

Nathan Toronto

Author

Nathan W. Toronto has taught strategy and planning to military officers for twenty years and is the author of How Militaries Learn and the Saga of the Emerald Moon. He publishes Bullet Points, a military science fiction magazine. Find him at nathantoronto.com or on Blue Sky (@bul... Read More →

Jenny Wren

Author

Jenny grew up in the wilds of South Florida; trading beaches for mountains she moved to Tennessee for college. After graduating and spending a few years as a freelance ASL Interpreter she decided to plant some professional roots and picked up a corporate day job.

After several years of working her way through the labyrinth of getting published, she found Three Ravens Publishing. In the few years since then she’s picked up several Corner Scribblers flash fiction author credits and short stories in both Trailer Park volume I and II and most... Read More →

Saturday June 27, 2026 1:00pm - 2:00pm EDT
M - Signal Mountain Room (Readings 1) Chattanooga Marriott Downtown 2 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402, USA

Readings 1, Reading

2:00pm EDT

Reading: Amy DuBoff and Bill Willingham

Saturday June 27, 2026 2:00pm - 3:00pm EDT

M - Signal Mountain Room (Readings 1)

Come hear our authors read from their works.

Guests

Bill Willingham

Author, Artist

Bill Willingham has been writing and drawing professionally for close to 50 years. His best known comic book creations have been his Elementals and Fables series. Recently his forthcoming sword and sorcery prose novel trilogy called Outrider has been announced by Raconteur Press... Read More →

Amy DuBoff

Author

A.K. (Amy) DuBoff is an award-winning and USA Today bestselling indie author and screenwriter. She’s a lifelong fan of science fiction and fantasy in all its forms, including books, movies, shows, and games—and if it involves outer space, even better! Bringing her love of the... Read More →

Saturday June 27, 2026 2:00pm - 3:00pm EDT
M - Signal Mountain Room (Readings 1) Chattanooga Marriott Downtown 2 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402, USA

Readings 1, Reading

3:00pm EDT

Reading: Molly McDonough and LL Richman

Saturday June 27, 2026 3:00pm - 4:00pm EDT

M - Signal Mountain Room (Readings 1)

Come hear our authors read from their works.

Guests

Molly McDonough

Author

Molly Ann McDonough is an author, poet, and multidisciplinary engineer. Her short fiction has been featured in science fiction and fantasy anthologies. Her debut poetry collection, Hope in Hateful Times (2026), examines resilience, the divine feminine, and how to foster joy and empathy... Read More →

LL Richman

Author

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 act... Read More →

Saturday June 27, 2026 3:00pm - 4:00pm EDT
M - Signal Mountain Room (Readings 1) Chattanooga Marriott Downtown 2 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402, USA

Readings 1, Reading

4:00pm EDT

Reading: Tim Akers and J.E. Pittman

Saturday June 27, 2026 4:00pm - 5:00pm EDT

M - Signal Mountain Room (Readings 1)

Come hear our authors read from their works.

Guests

J. E. Pittman

Author

J.E. Pittman dabbles in many speculative worlds. He blurs the borders between genre and crafts salient lies to tell a measure of truth. His work has been described as: capriciously chimeric, dreamlike, and a vivid enigma with indelible images stamped on your brain. His published works... Read More →

Tim Akers

Author

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 27, 2026 4:00pm - 5:00pm EDT
M - Signal Mountain Room (Readings 1) Chattanooga Marriott Downtown 2 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402, USA

Readings 1, Reading

5:00pm EDT

Reading: Jesse James Fain and Matthew Skaggs

Saturday June 27, 2026 5:00pm - 6:00pm EDT

M - Signal Mountain Room (Readings 1)

Come hear our authors read from their works.

Guests

Matthew Skaggs

Author

Matthew Skaggs has Noir, SF, both Traditional and Weird Westerns, Steampunk, GameLit, and Alt-History short stories in print. So far. When not traveling, taking photos, researching, or writing, he relaxes in the Florida Panhandle sunshine with his totally awesome wife, their Swamp-doodle... Read More →

Jesse James Fain

Author

Jesse James Fain is a Science Fiction and Fantasy Author, Editor, and retired powerlifting champion. Jesse’s extensive experience in martial arts and weapons training leads to vibrant martial tales of revenge and combat that bring a taste of reality to fictional battles, along with... Read More →

Saturday June 27, 2026 5:00pm - 6:00pm EDT
M - Signal Mountain Room (Readings 1) Chattanooga Marriott Downtown 2 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402, USA

Readings 1, Reading

6:00pm EDT

Reading: Robert S. Evans and William Lehman

Saturday June 27, 2026 6:00pm - 7:00pm EDT

M - Signal Mountain Room (Readings 1)

Come hear our authors read from their works.

Guests

Robert S. Evans

Artist, Author

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 →

William Lehman

Author

William Lehman can’t stay out of hot water… or cold water, either. After retiring from two careers in and around submarines, and a decade as a Reserve Police Officer for the City of Bremerton, Washington, (where far more things go on than you’d think) he’s traded in his police... Read More →

Saturday June 27, 2026 6:00pm - 7:00pm EDT
M - Signal Mountain Room (Readings 1) Chattanooga Marriott Downtown 2 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402, USA

Readings 1, Reading

7:00pm EDT

Reading: M.D. Boncher and VL Stuart

Saturday June 27, 2026 7:00pm - 8:00pm EDT

M - Signal Mountain Room (Readings 1)

Come hear our authors read from their works.

Guests

VL Stuart

Author

VL ‘Tori’ Stuart is a journalist, novelist, and poet who resides between two volcanoes in Costa Rica. Their unique home lies between two volcanoes—a location that sparks curiosity, but as she assures, "No worries; only one of them is active."

M.D. Boncher

Author

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 →

Saturday June 27, 2026 7:00pm - 8:00pm EDT
M - Signal Mountain Room (Readings 1) Chattanooga Marriott Downtown 2 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402, USA

Readings 1, Reading

8:00pm EDT

Reading: Daniel Kemp and Jonathan LaForce

Saturday June 27, 2026 8:00pm - 9:00pm EDT

M - Director's Room

Come hear our authors read from their works.

Guests

Daniel Kemp

Author

A couple history degrees, the Army, and a turbulent personal life inspired the Athenaeum Inc military thriller trilogy at Cannon (Door Number Three, Doubling Down and Triple Play). He’s also done shorts on everything from the sinking of the Bismarck to feeding dragons.

Jonathan LaForce

Author

Born in southern Arizona, Jonathan LaForce spent his formative years in northern Los Angeles County before moving to Texas at the age of 19. Two years later, he enlisted in the USMC and found himself stationed in Hawaii. Had it not been so expensive, he'd have stayed in Hawaii at... Read More →

Saturday June 27, 2026 8:00pm - 9:00pm EDT
M - Director's Room Chattanooga Marriott Downtown 2 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402, USA

Readings 1, Reading

8:00pm EDT

Reading: Past SPGOH Chris Woods

Saturday June 27, 2026 8:00pm - 9:00pm EDT

CC - Meeting Room 2 (Kids Program/Readings 2)

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

Guests

Chris Woods

Author, Past Special GoH

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 →

Saturday June 27, 2026 8:00pm - 9:00pm EDT
CC - Meeting Room 2 (Kids Program/Readings 2) Chattanooga Convention Center 1 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37403

Readings 1, Reading

8:00pm EDT

Reading: The Writing Hoyts

Saturday June 27, 2026 8:00pm - 9:00pm EDT

M - Signal Mountain Room (Readings 1)

Come hear the legendary Hoyts read from their works.

Guests

Marshall Hoyt

Author

E. Marshall Hoyt is – under protest -- one of the writing Hoyts Taken in by the allure of science fiction and character driven stories, he's been integral in helping Sarah Hoyt (His mother) adapt to comic writing, and is helping both Daniel and Sarah in crafting the space adventure... Read More →

Sarah A. Hoyt

Author, Past LGoH

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 want to count. Don't make her count. She has won the Prometheus Award, the Dragon Award and been a finalist for the Colorado Book Award and the Mythopoeic. If she looks at you cross-eyed, it's because she'd rather be... Read More →

Daniel M. Hoyt

Author, STEM, Past Special GoH

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 →

Saturday June 27, 2026 8:00pm - 9:00pm EDT
M - Signal Mountain Room (Readings 1) Chattanooga Marriott Downtown 2 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402, USA

Readings 1, Reading

9:00pm EDT

Reading: Jason Cordova and Kevin Ikenberry

Saturday June 27, 2026 9:00pm - 10:00pm EDT

M - Signal Mountain Room (Readings 1)

Come hear our authors read from their works.

Guests

Jason Cordova

Author, Editor

National bestselling author Jason Cordova is both a John W. Campbell Award and Dragon Award finalist (though not in the same year). He is the author of Mountain of Fire, To Tread Obsidian Shores (w/ Melissa Olthoff), and Monster Hunter Memoirs: Fever (w/ Larry Correia), and edito... Read More →

Kevin Ikenberry

Author

Kevin Ikenberry is a life-long space geek and retired Army officer. As an adult, he managed the U.S. Space Camp program, two Challenger Learning Centers, and served on active duty in space operations before Space Force was a thing. He’s an international bestselling science fiction... Read More →

Saturday June 27, 2026 9:00pm - 10:00pm EDT
M - Signal Mountain Room (Readings 1) Chattanooga Marriott Downtown 2 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402, USA

Readings 1, Reading

10:00pm EDT

Reading: Zane Voss and Keith Hedger

Saturday June 27, 2026 10:00pm - 11:00pm EDT

M - Signal Mountain Room (Readings 1)

Come hear our authors read from their works.

Guests

Keith Hedger

Author, Guest

Keith Hedger escaped Iowa at 19 to serve in the US Army which led to his (current) career in information technology. When not saving other people's data, he enjoys exercising, fishing, and hunting. He lives in Pella, Iowa with his wife. Fortunately, she tolerates his workouts and... Read More →

Zane Voss

Author

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 →

Saturday June 27, 2026 10:00pm - 11:00pm EDT
M - Signal Mountain Room (Readings 1) Chattanooga Marriott Downtown 2 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402, USA

Readings 1, Reading

10:00am EDT

11:00am EDT

12:00pm EDT

1:00pm EDT

2:00pm EDT

3:00pm EDT

4:00pm EDT

5:00pm EDT

6:00pm EDT

7:00pm EDT

8:00pm EDT

8:00pm EDT

8:00pm EDT

9:00pm EDT

10:00pm EDT

Get help with the event