LibertyCon 38: Full Schedule

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9:00am EDT

Non-denominational Prayer Service

Sunday June 28, 2026 9:00am - 10:00am EDT

M - Plaza Ballroom C

Non-denominational Prayer Service, hosted by Gray Rinehart

Guests

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 →

Shari Robb

Editor

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 →

Gray Rinehart

Author, Performer, Past GoH

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 28, 2026 9:00am - 10:00am EDT
M - Plaza Ballroom C

Main Program, Event

10:00am EDT

Authors Alley: Lyndie Ferguson, Shami Stovall, April Kelley Jones, Jamie Garner, Pat Pebley, Reggi Broach, Kal Spriggs, David Boop, Rob Reed

Sunday June 28, 2026 10:00am - 11:00am EDT

M - Plaza Ballroom Mezzanine - Authors Alley

Come by the Author's/Artist's Alley to chat, buy a book or get an autograph!

Guests

J.B. Garner

Author

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 →

Lyndie Ferguson

Author

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.

Shami Stovall

Author

Shami Stovall is a multi-award-winning author of fantasy and science fiction. Before that, she taught history and criminal law at the college level. She loves John, reading, and writing about herself in the third person.

April Kelley Jones

Author, Editor

April Jones has navigated countless fictional worlds as a writer, editor, and teacher. When not wrangling words or cats, she’s learning languages and traveling the world. She lives in South Carolina with her favorite people and felines. Her latest project is Hell’s Judgement... Read More →

Pat Pebley

Author

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 on the keyboards to share his tales both real and from his vivid imagination with you. Do you like comedy? Swords and Sorcery? Sci Fi? Horror? Pat has books planned in all of these genres... Read More →

Reggi Broach

Author

Reggi Broach is a wife, mother, and grandmother. She works as an RN in a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. In her “other” life, she trained for several years in the USAF civilian auxiliary known as the Civil Air Patrol, as a squadron commander, safety officer, and emergency services... Read More →

Kal Spriggs

Author

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... Read More →

David Boop

Author

David Boop is a Denver-based speculative fiction author & editor. He’s also an award-winning essayist, and screenwriter. Before turning to fiction, David worked as a DJ, film critic, journalist, and actor.

David’s novels run the gamut, such as the sci-fi/noir She Murdered Me with Science, the Weird Western, The Drowned Horse Chronicle, and Rippers Resurrected:The Soul Changers, a historical, dark fantasy. Dave recently had a tribute collaborative mosaic novel come out in the late... Read More →

Rob Reed

Author

Rob Reed writes science fiction, fantasy, mysteries and thrillers. His fiction has been featured in the best-selling anthologies “Forged in Blood” and “Freehold: Resistance,” both edited by Michael Z. Williamson.

Rob co-edited (with Amie Gibbons) and published the urban... Read More →

Sunday June 28, 2026 10:00am - 11:00am EDT
M - Plaza Ballroom Mezzanine - Authors Alley Chattanooga Marriott Downtown 2 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402, USA

Authors Alley, Authors Alley

10:00am EDT

Autograph Session: Monalisa Foster and Zane Voss

Sunday June 28, 2026 10:00am - 11:00am EDT

CC - Ballroom F/G (Dealer's Room) - Autographs in Hall Outside

Autograph sessions will be directly in front of the Dealer's Room. Authors will cycle through hourly. Limit 5 books (if you bring more, get 5 signed and go to the back of the line.)

Guests

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 →

Monalisa Foster

Author

Monalisa is an award-winning science fiction author whose writing career really began when she taught herself English by 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... Read More →

Sunday June 28, 2026 10:00am - 11:00am EDT
CC - Ballroom F/G (Dealer's Room) - Autographs in Hall Outside Chattanooga Convention Center 1 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37403

Autograph Session, Autograph Session

10:00am EDT

The Art of Editing for Mass Market Publication

Sunday June 28, 2026 10:00am - 11:00am EDT

CC - Ballroom E (Main Event)

Chris Kennedy will moderate this panel on the art of editing for mass market publication.

Moderators

Chris Kennedy

Author, Publisher, Past GoH

Guests

Bill Fawcett

Author, Editor, Publisher, PGOH

Bill Fawcett is an American writer, editor, anthologist, and game designer. He co-authored the official Mycroft Holmes Mysteries and over a dozen other novels. Bill has also written almost a dozen historical non-fiction books. He founded Mayfair Games and also designs board and computer... Read More →

C.V. Walter

Author, Editor

Get ready to blast off into a galaxy of romance with C.V. Walter, the mastermind behind the pulse-pounding alien love story, “The Alien’s Accidental Bride”! This interstellar indie sensation is just the beginning – C.V. is currently crafting a whole universe of out-of-this-world... Read More →

Gary Poole

Editor

Gary Poole is the founder and longtime host of Robot Battles, has edited three national bestselling anthologies set in John Ringo's "Black Tide Rising" universe (which a fourth coming in 2023), and runs the Southern Fandom Resource Guide website.

And if that wasn't enough, he has been in radio for over thirty years (currently hosting a popular morning show in Chattanooga), is the managing editor of a longstanding alt-weekly news site, is a developmental editor for Baen Books, has voiced over 3,000 radio and television commercials... Read More →

Sunday June 28, 2026 10:00am - 11:00am EDT
CC - Ballroom E (Main Event) Chattanooga Convention Center 1 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37403

Literary/Publishing, Panel

10:00am EDT

Kaffeeklatsch

Sunday June 28, 2026 10:00am - 11:00am EDT

M - Plaza Ballroom A/B

Come out for a cup of coffee with the pros!

Guests

Henry Brown

Author

Henry Brown was born to a fierce Mongol chieftain and a mighty Viking warrior-queen who were promptly kidnapped by alien wargamers from another dimension, leaving him to be raised by wolves on the frozen steppes.

Trapped in an avalanche caused by a tremendous meteor strike and frozen alive, he stood in suspended animation as the centuries passed until a team of nubile swimsuit model archaeologists rescued him in 2010, nursed him back to peak health, fell in love with him, bought him a state-of-the-art... Read More →

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."

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 →

Lloyd Watson

Author

Lloyd Watson is the pen name used by the otherwise unremarkable Pediatrician, Hospitalist, Medical Educator, and Palliative Care Physician, Dr Scott Stephens. Feeling a need to make his life more complicated, he decided his lifelong hobby of writing Sci-fi and fantasy stories should... Read More →

Jonathan Koan

Professional Book Reviewer

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 →

Oren Truitt

Artist

Oren Truitt suffers from chronic insatiable curiosity. With a thirst to learn something new, he’s been a biologist, chemist, photographer, jeweler, gunsmith, actor, stuntman and teacher. Working on adding WRITER to the list. His passion is history. Oren needs a time machine and... Read More →

Doug Loss

STEM

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 →

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... Read More →

Wil McCarthy

Author

Engineer/Novelist/Journalist/Entrepreneur Wil McCarthy has been a professional writer since the mid-1980s. He is a former contributing editor for WIRED magazine and science columnist for the SyFy channel (previously SciFi channel), where his popular "Lab Notes" column ran from 1999 through 2009. A lifetime member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, he is a two-time winner of the AnLab award, and has been a finalist... Read More →

Greg Gagnon

Author

Greg Gagnon is an author, presenter, fan, reenactor, and coach. His published works include 2 entries in the Raconteur "Postcards"series. He is currently working on a Relationships book with his wife, Dr Catherine Gagnon, and several short stories across several genres. He has a research... Read More →

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 →

Natalie Rodgers

Artist

Nat Rodgers blends years of experience and animal behavior insight with a snarky sense of humor to create Cuteness & Vexation, an animal portrait series that endears weird, wonderful creatures to humans of all paths. Her latest project, The Wayward Menagerie, brings this same spirit... Read More →

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 →

William S. Frisbee

Author

Marine. Veteran. Martial artist. Gamer. Consultant. Father.

William S. Frisbee was forged in the Cold War, tempered in a Marine SOC unit, and reborn as a storyteller, he blends battlefield grit with boundless imagination. From Jules Verne to galactic wars—he’s lived the stories he now writes... Read More →

Rita Beeman

Publisher

Rita Beeman lives with her wiener dogs in Texas, where she loves to tend plants that thrive on her level of neglect.

Jamie Ibson

Author

Jamie Ibson is a medically retired redcoat from north of the ice wall. He's edited six anthologies for Chris Kennedy Publishing and now two for Baen, and is one of Buff Orpington's two editors for bringing his memoirs to light for the first time.

James Fox

Author

Native Californian, James Fox is a natural storyteller. After graduating from the Academy of Art in San Francisco, with a BFA in Directing, he became the Founder of Dawnrunner Inc. and has championed the company through numerous award-winning projects over fifteen years. As a writer... Read More →

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 →

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.

Kelly Grayson

Author

Kelly Grayson is a highly-regarded critical care paramedic with a national reputation, award-winning EMS columnist, author and popular public speaker. When he isn’t prowling the seamy underbelly of the city looking for little old ladies who have fallen and can’t get up, Kelly... Read More →

Teresa Howard

Author

Teresa Howard was raised in Birmingham Alabama and lives there with her furry dachshund friend, Gracie Jane. She is a life-long fan of science fiction and fantasy and her dream since childhood has been to see her books in libraries and bookstores. This is a dream now fulfilled.

I... Read More →

Greg Eden

STEM

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 →

Joelle Presby

Author, STEM

Joelle Presby is a former U.S. Navy nuclear engineer and recovering corporate consultant who grew up in West Africa. Her first reader husband works in the space industry. Look for news, funny stories, and book release info on her website: joellepresby.com.

Cassandra Morgan

Author

Cassandra Morgan is an award-winning, multi-genre author residing in NW Ohio with her husband, daughter, and five ferocious felines. She is best known for her Silver Fox Mysteries series. When she’s not writing, she enjoys traveling, trying new foods, hitting the movies, and wrangling... Read More →

Andy Presby

STEM

Andy Presby is a NASA engineer and retired US Navy submarine officer. He consults on future technology for Joelle Presby and other science fiction authors. He has degrees in spacecraft systems engineering and astronautical engineering from the Naval Postgraduate School.

Gray Rinehart

Author, Performer, Past GoH

Dr. Ben Davis

STEM, Past SGoH

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 →

Jacob Holo

LibertyCon 38 Master of Ceremonies, Author

Jacob Holo has been a recreational geek since childhood, when he discovered Star Wars and Star Trek, and a professional geek since college, when he graduated from Youngstown State University with a degree in Electrical and Controls Engineering. He started writing when his parents... Read More →

H.P. Holo

LibertyCon 38 Master of Ceremonies, Author

H.P. Holo grew up in a family where it was dangerous to say, “I’m bored.” She’s also an incorrigible smart aleck. So when her parents told her to fix her boredom by reading a dictionary, she did. And then, just to be extra sassy, she began writing novels that required them... Read More →

Becky McCauley Rench

LibertyCon 38 STEM Guest of Honor, STEM

Rebecca (Becky) McCauley Rench is the Astrobiology Program Scientist in the Planetary Science Division at NASA Headquarters. She leads the Interdisciplinary Consortia for Astrobiology Research (ICAR)), which supports large, interdisciplinary astrobiology research teams, and the Planetary... Read More →

Nicholas Sansbury Smith

LibertyCon 38 Literary Guest of Honor, Author

Nicholas Sansbury Smith is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of the Hell Divers series. His other work includes the Extinction Cycle series, the Trackers series, and the Orbs series. He worked for Iowa Homeland Security and Emergency Management in disaster planning... Read More →

John Kovalic

LibertyCon 38 Artist Guest of Honor, Artist

John Kovalic is an award-winning cartoonist, game designer and writer. His works appeared everywhere from the NEW YORK TIMES to ROLLING STONE and DRAGON MAGAZINE. His world of geeky goodies includes DORK TOWER – one of the very first webcomics, debuting online in 1996.

John was a co-founder of Out of the Box Games, and helped in the creation of the revolutionary party game, APPLES TO APPLES. John is also responsible for the look of the fan-favorite perennial best-seller MUNCHKIN card game. He’s drawn more than 7,000 cards for the game... Read More →

S.M. Stirling

LibertyCon 38 Special Guest of Honor, Author

S.M. Stirling was born in France in 1953, to Canadian parents -- although his mother was born in England and grew up in Peru. After that he lived in Europe, Canada, Africa, and the US and visited several other continents. He graduated from law school in Canada but had his dorsal fin... Read More →

Logan Stovall

Author

Logan Stovall is a native to Chattanooga Tennessee. Having seen the tail end of the era before broadband internet and smart phones, Logan grew up on a healthy diet of Sci-Fi and Fantasy stories. X-Men comics, the DragonRiders of Pern, and the movie Dragonheart might have had too much... Read More →

Jonathan Schattke

STEM

Programmer, Nuclear Engineer, and trivial author Jonathan Schattke has been exploring the limits of science and the continuity of humanity for decades.

Dave Sarnow

STEM

Dr. David Sarnow (Lt Col USAF ret) is an MD, MPH with over twenty years of real-world public health experience in the Air Force and civilian sectors. His hands-on experience with public health planning and preparedness give him a unique perspective on disease and all-hazard respo... Read More →

Debbie Reynolds

Author, Editor

Debbie Reynolds is a writer, dreamer, and voracious reader who has always lived in the wilds of northern Pennsylvania. She works as an editor and proofreader for Sunbury Press and does freelance work when time permits. Her first book, Mending Shattered Dreams, a memoir, will be out... Read More →

Fred Phillips

Author

Fred Phillips has been writing stories since elementary school. Back then, he pecked them out with two fingers on a turquoise Remington manual typewriter he found in his grandparents’ closet. In those days, they were about thinly veiled versions of his friends and himself saving... Read More →

Julia Morgan Scott

Artist

Scientific illustration has been my "day job" for over twenty years, and I'm a member of the Guild of Natural Science Illustrators. My drawings of fossil and living mammals have appeared in many scientific journals and books, most recently published by Smithsonian Scholarly Press... Read More →

Laura Montgomery

Author

Laura Montgomery practices space law and writes science fiction. She writes space opera, lost colony worlds, and bourgeois legal science fiction. Her most recent novel, Planting Life, has been nominated for the Libertarian Futurist Society’s Prometheus Award.

In her legal practice she specializes in regulatory space law, with an emphasis on the FAA’s commercial space transportation regulations and the Outer Space Treaties. She spent over two decades in the FAA’s Office of the Chief Counsel working on space regulatory issues, and ta... Read More →

Michael Morton

Author

Michael Morton is a retired USAF space officer and now works for the Space Force as a civilian. He writes award-winning military sci-fi and fantasy and lives in Colorado Springs with his family. When he’s not writing, he enjoys camping and sampling the local adult beverages.

William Meinert

Author

William Meinert was in the US Army National Guard as a M-1 tanker for eight years. He followed that by being a Firefighter / Paramedic for 25 years, and now he risks his life by teaching Sixth Grade Social Studies. He has two published short stories and is actively writing.

Philip Ligon

Author

Philip Ligon has been trying to satisfy the writing bug that took hold since before he can remember. He fell in love with science fiction and fantasy in high school and began dabbling with writing fantastical stories, a passion which continues to this day. Adding an engineering background... 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 →

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 →

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.

Mary Hare

Author

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 →

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 →

Joseph Hower

Author

Joseph Hower is a former active-duty Marine from West Michigan. He and his wife share five children and four granddaughters. He is a professional musician and a retired electrical engineer. He spends his free time performing with two bands across West Michigan and tending to his lawn... Read More →

David Hensley

Author

David Hensley is an East Coast Hepaw born and raised in southwest Colorado. The town of Dolores, to be specific. He’s been to a lot of places and done a lot of things since then, including cowboying in the Utah desert, twenty years as an Aviation Structural Mechanic for the United... Read More →

David R.R. Greenberg

Author

David R.R. Greenberg is a fantasy and science-fiction writer. He has self-published two books: RAGING STORM and THE RIVALS. His short story "The Bastard's Tomb" was published in Raconteur Press’s anthology MOGGIES OF MARS. David is a member of the founding Class of 2028 at the University... Read More →

Tim Gilliland

Author

Born in the malarial fever swamps of Memphis TN, Tim was raised on corn squeezin’s, bent nails and broken glass. After a rough-and-tumble childhood in the upper middle class, he went to high school at old-line catholic school for 'bad boys.' Once the bruises healed he went into... Read More →

BK Gibson

Author, Gaming

Ben Gibson is a writer, reviewer, and publisher of TTRPG adventures under Coldlight Press, releasing multiple award-winning modules for a decade. Along with his wife, Karen, he also writes fiction under the pen name B. K. Gibson, including short stories for Raconteur Press and Autarch... Read More →

D. Jason Fleming

Author, Editor

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Michael Gants

Secretary, Author, LibertyCon™

Michael Gants is a science fiction and fantasy author and retired Navy submariner. He currently works as an inspector at Sequoyah Nuclear Plant. His other jobs have included nuclear mechanic, anti-terrorism trainer, small craft boarding specialist, programmer, journalist, and aquarium... 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 →

Justin C. Feng

STEM

Justin C. Feng is a postdoctoral physicist specializing in general relativity (GR) and gravitation, currently at CEICO at the Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague, Czechia. He obtained his Ph.D. from UT Austin in 2017, and has held postdoctoral positions... Read More →

Lee Ellis

Author

Lee Ellis is a fantasy, sci-fi author with a background in filmmaking. He is most known for the Kildash series, as well as his horror short story, The River’s End, featured in Three Raven’s Trailer Park series. His other works include Exodus, God Blood, and The Devil’s Up T... Read More →

Rick Cutler

Author

Rick is a former click-monkey for a major corporation, an advertising salesman for a different and still major corporation, and now a writer of Science Fiction and Fantasy. Noted for his “Space Cowboy” series with Colt Ostergaard, he also has stories in “Glitched Grimm” and... Read More →

J.P. Chandler

Author

J.P. Chandler was born and raised in California, where he lived with his wife of many years until relocating to Utah in 2025. He uses writing in the genres of Science Fiction and Fantasy as his excuse for pursuing various interests. He first started writing fiction when he was fou... Read More →

Jay Burr

Author

Jay Burr spent years navigating the complex logic of the IT world before realizing that building entire galaxies was far more compelling than debugging code. A lifelong reader with a passion for the "what if," they have traded server racks for world-building and system architectures... Read More →

C.S. Brown

Author

C S Brown retired from the daily grind and moved to Central America to enjoy the warm weather and friendly atmosphere. Writing was the result of needing to make at least some of his time productive. In many ways, it is the embodiment of his lifelong dream. He has always wanted a pet... Read More →

Nick Braker

Author

Nick A. Braker is a sci-fi author blending interstellar intrigue, time travel, and cosmic alliances in series like Galactic Satori Wars & Essence Chronicles. A LibertyCon panelist on space opera, he also crafts gothic albums like Masquerade of Shadows. Drawing from Indiana roots... Read More →

J.T. Arralle

Author

J.T. Arralle was born in Riverside, California, grew up all over the place and finally settled in the heat and humidity of the southern United States where he currently resides with his family and a minor zoo.

He spends his spare time writing Epic Fantasy, Short Stories, Science Fiction, Horror and many other stories. He discovered a love for story telling while young and spent many years developing the stories and tales that make up his works. He has been influenced by some of the most proli... Read More →

Craig Bell

Author

A native Californian, Craig Bell and his wife Sara reside in the Pacific NW along with two terrorist cats named Arty and Tank. Along with the Gangrel War series, he's currently working on three distinct military sci-fi projects, one with the amazing Kevin Steverson.

Jared Austin

Author

Jared Austin is a young adult science fiction author who lives in the Rocket City—Huntsville, Alabama. With the Space City series, he hopes to show and inspire his daughter and son, as well as all of his readers, that science and technology are not dull subjects, but gateways to... Read More →

James S. Aaron

Author

James S. Aaron's most recent novel is Retreat Hell, coming soon from Aethon Books. He served in the U.S. Army as an operator and battery commander for the Patriot missile system. Now he wrangles chickens in Oregon. Learn more at jamesaaron.net.

Mark Haynes

STEM, Dmarkhaynes Consulting

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 →

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 →

Tim Bischoff

Author / Owner, Southern Wilds

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 →

Tony Andarian

Author, Publisher, Andarian Publishing

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 gam... Read More →

Sam Robb

Author

Melissa Gay

Artist, Author, Past AGoH

Melissa Gay paints primarily in acrylic and draws inspiration from mythology, folk legends, and fairy tales, as well as astrophotography, cosmology, and Earth sciences. Her paintings often combine sci-fi, fantasy, and wildlife art. She loves to build up dozens of thin layers of acrylic... Read More →

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 →

Kendra Irwin

Artist

Kendra Irwin is a tapestry and woven fiber artist and jewelry maker. Kendra has always been interested in various crafted arts such as calligraphy, embroidery, working with clay, drawing, painting, floral arrangements and making displays, among other things. Kendra became interested... Read More →

Bethanne Kim

Author, Publisher

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 →

William Alan Ritch

Author

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 →

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 →

Ken Roy

STEM

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 →

Fred Hughes

Author

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... Read More →

Jeff Greason

Author, STEM

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 →

Danette Schardt-Cordova

Gaming

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 →

Irene Zielinski

Gaming

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 →

Jon R. Osborne

Author

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 →

David Badurina

Author

David Badurina is an enigmatic storyteller, bestselling author, and multimedia creator whose work spans fiction, non-fiction, music, and AI-driven visual storytelling. His books include the absurdist sci-fi space opera SPACE PEW PEW, the urban fantasy thriller The Caretaker, the inspirational... Read More →

Bart Kemper

Author

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 →

Julie Frost

Author

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 →

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 →

Jim Beall

STEM, Past SGoH

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 →

David M. Weber

Author, Past LGoH

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 →

Les Johnson

Author, STEM, Past SGoH

Les Johnson is a physicist, author, CEO of Infinite Frontiers Consulting, and former Chief Technologist at the NASA George C. Marshall Space Flight Center. While at NASA, Les was developing the next generation of space technologies, from advanced space propulsion and power to human... Read More →

Gary W. Shelton

Gaming, STEM

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 →

Lydia Sherrer

Author

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 →

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 →

Brisco Woods

Author

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 →

Amanda Montandon

Author, Editor

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 →

Tamara Lowery

Author

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.

A.G. Thompson

Author

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 shooter for around a decade, is an avid reader (as most authors are), and is extremely knowledgeable in military history, especially as regards World War II. He is retired from a 29-year career at UPS, a devoted cat-person with a pair of large four foot... Read More →

Daniel Allen Butler

Author

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 →

Ted Begley

Author

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 →

Julie Cochrane

Author

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 →

Terry Maggert

Author, Editor, Publisher, Past GoH

Terry likes dragons, caffeine, space, giraffes, and books; order unimportant. He's the author of the Backyard Starship, Gold Medal Marine, Messenger, and Starcaster series, with more on the way. Join the gang on Facebook at the Cosmic Cantina for a laugh or three, and say hello if... Read More →

Spearman Burke

Author, Editor

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 →

David (Brena) Bock

Author

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.

William Joseph Roberts

Author, Publisher

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 →

Dan Hollifield

Author, Publisher

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 →

Kevin Steverson

Author

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 →

Michael LaVoice

Author

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 →

Nick Nethery

Author, Editor

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 →

Louise Herring-Jones

Author

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 →

Dave Schroeder

Author, Performer

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 small publishing house called Spiral Arm Press that primarily handles his own work, including an audiobook version of Xenotech Rising, the first book in his SF Humor series. Podium Publishing, from Toronto, Canada, produces audiobook versions of Dave's Congruent... Read More →

Marisa Wolf

Author

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 →

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 →

Nathan Balyeat

Author

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 →

Marina Fontaine

Author

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 incl... Read More →

Stewart Cobb

STEM

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 →

Claire Merrick

Author

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.

Wayland Smith

Author

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 →

Jamie Henson

Editor

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.

Casey Moores

Author

Casey Moores was a USAF rescue/special ops C-130 pilot for over 17 years- airdropping, air refueling, 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 →

Devon Eriksen

Author

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 →

Lucas Marcum

Author

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 →

Mark Stallings

Author

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 →

Steve Jackson

Author, Gaming, Publisher, Past Special GoH

Steve Jackson, founder and editor-in-chief of Steve Jackson Games, is a longtime SF fan, and gets away to cons when he can. He has been playing games for over 50 years, and designing them since 1976. He graduated from Rice University, where a lot of his time went to wargames and the... Read More →

Charles E. Gannon

Author, Past LGoH

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 →

Brian Gifford

Author

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 →

Karen Bogen

Author

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 →

David Bogen

STEM

David Bogen is a veteran power-system engineer whose career spans more than four decades of leadership in transmission network modeling, utility data standards, and real-time operational analytics. He began his career in 1981 after earning a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering... Read More →

Griffin Barber

Author, Editor

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 →

Melissa Olthoff

Author

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 →

David Alan Jones

Author

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 →

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 →

K.B. Carlisle

Author

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.

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 →

Geoffrey Mandragora

Author

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.

Shari Robb

Editor

Gregory Radabaugh

Author

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 →

M.G. Martin

Author

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 began writing stories in elementary school and dreamed of one day becoming a published author. As an adult, she eschewed... Read More →

Ian McMurtrie

Author, Publisher

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 →

D.S. Watson

Author

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 →

James P. Nettles

Author

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 →

Jay Maynard

Author

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 →

Laura Begley

Editor

Laura has one husband (author Ted Begley), five cats, and a comfy chair from which she enjoys working as a copy editor for Raconteur Press. Laura has been specializing in editing the boys adventure books along with almost a dozen anthologies. She’s a little shy, but enjoys meeting... Read More →

J. Kenton Pierce

Author

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 →

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 →

David Sherrer

Gaming, Publisher

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. He lucked out by marrying a force of nature (otherwise known as his wife), determined to making living... Read More →

G. Scott Huggins

Author

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 →

Charli Cox

Author

Charli Cox is a best-selling Military Sci-Fi, Military Fantasy, and Horror Comedy author. She also writes Sci-Fi and Alternate History stories.
If you enjoyed Fae Wars: Northwest Front and want to see more stories about Ash and “Gunny,” Cannon Publishing has you covered. "Sasq... Read More →

Nathan Brindle

Author

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 lif... Read More →

Stephen Fleming

STEM, Boostphase

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 →

Ben Yalow

Author, Past Special GoH

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 →

Sunday June 28, 2026 10:00am - 11:00am EDT
M - Plaza Ballroom A/B Chattanooga Marriott Downtown 2 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402, USA

Main Program, Kaffeeklatsch

10:00am EDT

Reading: David Appleby and Philip Booker

Sunday June 28, 2026 10:00am - 11:00am EDT

M - Signal Mountain Room (Readings 1)

Come hear our authors read from their works.

Guests

Philip K. Booker

Author, Editor

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. His stories are littered with humor, snark, and pop culture references. He is convinced that if his characters were alive and aware he's to blame for their problems, they'd be waiting... Read More →

David Appleby

Author

Dave Appleby is a Scottish electrician by day and writer by night, returning to LibertyCon for the third time. Writing in the Last Brigade Universe and with a foray into an alt-history of the Roman Empire, plus several works in progress. Areas of interest included research methodology... Read More →

Sunday June 28, 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

10:00am EDT

Reading: PGOH Jody Lynn Nye

Sunday June 28, 2026 10:00am - 11:00am EDT

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

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

Guests

Jody Lynn Nye

Author, Past LGoH

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-kee... Read More →

Sunday June 28, 2026 10:00am - 11:00am EDT
CC - Meeting Room 2 (Kids Program/Readings 2) Chattanooga Convention Center 1 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37403

Readings 1, Reading

10:00am EDT

Brain Science Fireside Chat

Sunday June 28, 2026 10:00am - 11:00am EDT

CC - Meeting Room 6 (Science Track)

This year's topic: "Building Brains." Doctors Robert Hampson and Brent Roeder will discuss some of their more exciting moments in emerging brain science.

Guests

Brent Roeder

Author, STEM

Brent Roeder, PhD, is a neuroscience researcher that is exploring how to restore damaged memory function. A lifelong geek, he enjoys writing sci-fi and fantasy to relax from work. Very occasionally, he even remembers to finish a story

Robert E. Hampson

Author, STEM, Past SGoH

Dr. Robert E. Hampson is a scientist and author whose passion for both neuroscience and storytelling drives his hard science fiction writing. With a Ph.D. in Physiology & Pharmacology, Dr. Hampson has spent over four decades researching how the brain encodes memory and developing... Read More →

Sunday June 28, 2026 10:00am - 11:00am EDT
CC - Meeting Room 6 (Science Track) Chattanooga Convention Center 1 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37403

STEM, Panel

10:00am EDT

Chain Mail Workshop

Sunday June 28, 2026 10:00am - 12:00pm EDT

M - Director's Room

Bryan Jones will conduct a workshop on the ancient skill of creating chain mail. He will provide rings and fittings gratis for each attendee to make a chain mail bracelet.

Moderators

Bryan Jones

Artist

Bryan Jones is a chainmail smith and digital artist who proudly hails from Huntsville, Alabama, the "Rocket City." He grew up in a computer-literate home long before computers were cool and enjoys transferring his imagination into digital space vistas. On the other end of the space-time... Read More →

Sunday June 28, 2026 10:00am - 12:00pm EDT
M - Director's Room Chattanooga Marriott Downtown 2 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402, USA

Art/Workshops, Workshop

10:00am EDT

Open Crafting & Artist Space

Sunday June 28, 2026 10:00am - 3:00pm EDT

M - East/West (Craft Room)

Open Crafting & Artist Space: Make It Take It Costuming, Sit 'n' Stitch - Knitting, Crocheting, etc., Miniature Painting, etc. Instructors Available

Guests

Jonna Hayden

Artist, Author, Publisher

Jonna Hayden is a professional Costume Designer, clothing historian, and long-time SF geek. After many years of hiding in the Science Fiction section of the school library, she found her tribe when she attended Orycon 5. She builds shows for the Opera, Ballet, and anyone else who... Read More →

James Schardt

Author

James Schardt is a 21 year veteran of the US Army as an AH-64 Apache Attack Helicopter Armament Systems Repairer and a graduate of Austin Peay State University. He lives in Kentucky with his wife and too many cats. He enjoys shooting muzzleloaders, painting toy soldiers, and miniatures... Read More →

Sunday June 28, 2026 10:00am - 3:00pm EDT
M - East/West (Craft Room) Chattanooga Marriott Downtown 2 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402, USA

Art/Workshops, Demonstration

11:00am EDT

Authors Alley: Lyndie Ferguson, Jamie Garner, Pat Pebley, Reggi Broach, Kal Spriggs, David Boop, VL Stuart, David Sherrer/Lydia Sherrer, Nathan Brindle

Sunday June 28, 2026 11:00am - 12:00pm EDT

M - Plaza Ballroom Mezzanine - Authors Alley

Come by the Author's/Artist's Alley to chat, buy a book or get an autograph!

Guests

VL Stuart

Author

J.B. Garner

Author

Lydia Sherrer

Author

David Sherrer

Gaming, Publisher

Lyndie Ferguson

Author

Pat Pebley

Author

Reggi Broach

Author

Kal Spriggs

Author

David Boop

Author

Nathan Brindle

Author

Sunday June 28, 2026 11:00am - 12:00pm EDT
M - Plaza Ballroom Mezzanine - Authors Alley Chattanooga Marriott Downtown 2 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402, USA

Authors Alley, Authors Alley

11:00am EDT

Autograph Session: PLGOH Sarah A. Hoyt, Daniel M. Hoyt, Kevin Steverson, PAGOH Melissa Gay

Sunday June 28, 2026 11:00am - 12:00pm EDT

CC - Ballroom F/G (Dealer's Room) - Autographs in Hall Outside

Autograph sessions will be directly in front of the Dealer's Room. Authors will cycle through hourly. Limit 5 books (if you bring more, get 5 signed and go to the back of the line.)

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 →

Melissa Gay

Artist, Author, Past AGoH

Kevin Steverson

Author

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 →

Sunday June 28, 2026 11:00am - 12:00pm EDT
CC - Ballroom F/G (Dealer's Room) - Autographs in Hall Outside Chattanooga Convention Center 1 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37403

Autograph Session, Autograph Session

11:00am EDT

Champion Tournament Round of Munchkin with Steve Jackson

Sunday June 28, 2026 11:00am - 12:00pm EDT

M - Tennessee River Room (Gaming Room)

Steve Jackson will be part of the Champion Tournament Round of Munchkin.

Guests

Irene Zielinski

Gaming

Steve Jackson

Author, Gaming, Publisher, Past Special GoH

Sunday June 28, 2026 11:00am - 12:00pm EDT
M - Tennessee River Room (Gaming Room) Chattanooga Marriott Downtown 2 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402, USA

Gaming, Gaming

11:00am EDT

No Girl Bosses!

Sunday June 28, 2026 11:00am - 12:00pm EDT

M - Plaza Ballroom C

No Girl Bosses! Writing strong female characters who aren’t MarySues .Balancing strengths and weaknesses to craft realistic female characters, facing daunting challenges and holding their own. Can a strong female character exist in an equal partnership with a strong male character? Yes! She can!

Moderators

M.G. Martin

Author

Guests

Julie Frost

Author

Terry Maggert

Author, Editor, Publisher, Past GoH

K.B. Carlisle

Author

Cedar Sanderson

Author

Cedar Sanderson is a multifaceted creator whose work spans both the literary and visual arts. Cedar is celebrated for her engaging storytelling and her ability to captivate audiences with her vibrant imagery and thoughtful narratives. Her work not only entertains but also invites... Read More →

Alma T. C. Boykin

Author

Alma T. C. Boykin, author of over a hundred novels and short stories, spent her growing-up years in flat places without trees. After living Back East and traveling all over northern Europe, she turned travels into stories, some of which happen to have footnotes. Beware: she also... Read More →

Sunday June 28, 2026 11:00am - 12:00pm EDT
M - Plaza Ballroom C

Literary/Publishing, Panel

11:00am EDT

What are the Tropes of Modern Science Fiction?

Sunday June 28, 2026 11:00am - 12:00pm EDT

CC - Meeting Room 3 (Workshop Track)

What are the Tropes of Modern Science Fiction? Our panel of writers will discuss how science fiction is evolving in the modern era, and how it's tropes are evolving with it.

Moderators

James P. Nettles

Author

Guests

A.G. Thompson

Author

Ted Begley

Author

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 →

J.P. Chandler

Author

Tim Gilliland

Author

Sunday June 28, 2026 11:00am - 12:00pm EDT
CC - Meeting Room 3 (Workshop Track) Chattanooga Convention Center 1 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37403

Literary/Publishing, Panel

11:00am EDT

Kaffeeklatsch Room Reset

Sunday June 28, 2026 11:00am - 12:00pm EDT

M - Plaza Ballroom A/B

Room reset after the Kaffeeklatsch

Sunday June 28, 2026 11:00am - 12:00pm EDT
M - Plaza Ballroom A/B Chattanooga Marriott Downtown 2 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402, USA

Main Program, Kaffeeklatsch

11:00am EDT

Reading: Karen Bogen and Michael LaVoice

Sunday June 28, 2026 11:00am - 12:00pm EDT

M - Signal Mountain Room (Readings 1)

Come hear our authors read from their works.

Guests

Michael LaVoice

Author

Karen Bogen

Author

Sunday June 28, 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

11:00am EDT

Reading: Brian Gifford and Kelly Grayson

Sunday June 28, 2026 11:00am - 12:00pm EDT

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

Come hear our authors read from their works.

Guests

Brian Gifford

Author

Kelly Grayson

Author

Sunday June 28, 2026 11:00am - 12:00pm EDT
CC - Meeting Room 2 (Kids Program/Readings 2) Chattanooga Convention Center 1 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37403

Readings 2, Reading

11:00am EDT

Omnipresent Surveillance at Scale - What's New for 2026

Sunday June 28, 2026 11:00am - 12:00pm EDT

CC - Meeting Room 5 (Main Event)

Omnipresent Surveillance at Scale – What’s new for 2026? Recent examples include fitness trackers on warships, flight and ship tracking, citizen/netizen intelligence networks. Is Hiding Possible Anymore, and can visual, electronics, and logistical signatures truly be hidden? Have any SF entries reflected this? How would realistic Mil SF change? Panelists and audience reflect on the last 12 months of developments, and try to predict what’s next?

Moderators

Mike Massa

Author, Past GoH

Mike Massa has lived an adventurous life, including stints as a sailor, a banker, and a tech-head. He's lived outside the US for several years, beyond the usual military deployments. Mike writes novels and shorts in MilSF, SF, Fantasy, Horror, and non-fiction.

A lover of Liberty Con, he has been attending since 2007. Mike is married with three sons, and a growing cohort of grandsons, who check daily to see if today is the day they can pull down the old lion. Not yet... Read More →

Guests

Nathan Toronto

Author

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 →

Aaron Haskins

Author

A.C. Haskins is an economist, data geek, and combat veteran, and occasionally he writes stuff related to his many interests, including (but not limited to) ancient and medieval history, mythology, martial arts, guns, and theoretical economics. He lives in Michigan with his lovely... Read More →

Andy Presby

STEM

Gregory Radabaugh

Author

Sunday June 28, 2026 11:00am - 12:00pm EDT
CC - Meeting Room 5 (Main Event) Chattanooga Convention Center 1 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37403

STEM, Panel

11:00am EDT

Who Owns the Moon / Space Mining

Sunday June 28, 2026 11:00am - 12:00pm EDT

CC - Meeting Room 6 (Science Track)

Stephen Fleming presents "Who Owns the Moon / Space Mining" - The last year has seen a flurry of activity in extracting resources from “celestial objects”—the Moon, Mars, asteroids, and comets. How practical are these plans in the near term? And who owns these resources? What laws apply to their extraction and use? How much freedom to operate is there for space miners today, and what laws and policies still need to be addressed?

Guests

Stephen Fleming

STEM, Boostphase

Sunday June 28, 2026 11:00am - 12:00pm EDT
CC - Meeting Room 6 (Science Track) Chattanooga Convention Center 1 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37403

STEM, Presentation

11:00am EDT

Four Horsemen Universe (4HU) Roundtable, Mass Autograph and Game Fulfillment

Sunday June 28, 2026 11:00am - 1:00pm EDT

CC - Ballroom E (Main Event)

Four Horsemen Universe (4HU) Roundtable and Mass Autograph session with Game fulfillment, Mark Wandrey and Jon Osborne (mod)

Moderators

Mark Wandrey

Author

International bestselling author of military sci-fi, space opera, and zombie apocalypse, Mark Wandrey is also the only 4 time DragonCon Dragon Award finalist!

Newest Release - Winged Hussars: Andromeda - Book 9 in the 4HU Phoenix Initiative series, set in the Four Horsemen mil-s... Read More →

Guests

David Alan Jones

Author

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 →

D. Jason Fleming

Author, Editor

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Rob Howell

Author, Publisher

Rob is the the creator of the Firehall Sagas, a contributor in Luke Gygax’s World of Okkorim, and an author in the Four Horsemen Universe. He writes epic fantasy, space opera, hard-boiled detective stories, alternate history, and whatever else seems fun.

His parents discovered b... Read More →

Kevin Ikenberry

Author

Chris Kennedy

Author, Publisher, Past GoH

Jon R. Osborne

Author

Marisa Wolf

Author

Casey Moores

Author

Mark Stallings

Author

Melissa Olthoff

Author

Robert E. Hampson

Author, STEM, Past SGoH

Sunday June 28, 2026 11:00am - 1:00pm EDT
CC - Ballroom E (Main Event) Chattanooga Convention Center 1 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37403

Literary/Publishing, Round Table

12:00pm EDT

Hybrid Publishing

Sunday June 28, 2026 12:00pm - 1:00pm EDT

CC - Meeting Room 3 (Workshop Track)

Literary GOH Nicholas Sansbury Smith will discuss his hybrid publishing approach working with big publishers and self publishing. Q&A to follow.

Moderators

Nicholas Sansbury Smith

LibertyCon 38 Literary Guest of Honor, Author

Sunday June 28, 2026 12:00pm - 1:00pm EDT
CC - Meeting Room 3 (Workshop Track) Chattanooga Convention Center 1 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37403

Art/Workshops, Presentation

12:00pm EDT

Mixed Media: Endless Possibilities

Sunday June 28, 2026 12:00pm - 1:00pm EDT

M - Director's Room

Watercolor and Acrylic? Resin and Styrofoam? Beads and Yarn? Anything can be art with enough perseverence and foul language. Join us and here about what it's like to color outside the lines of your medium and why the results are so amazing.

Guests

Star Roberts

Artist

Star Roberts is a Mixed Media artist known as Starski. She creates in a variety of mediums and styles including paper, polymer clay, stained glass, found objects, and doodles. She prefers working in small scale, creating pieces that often fit in the palm of your hand. She loves color... Read More →

Anita Moore

Artist

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 w... Read More →

Kendra Irwin

Artist

Sunday June 28, 2026 12:00pm - 1:00pm EDT
M - Director's Room Chattanooga Marriott Downtown 2 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402, USA

Art/Workshops, Panel

12:00pm EDT

Authors Alley: Marina Fontaine, Les Johnson, Kal Spriggs, Lee Ellis, D.S. Watson, Nathan Brindle, Devon Eriksen, Jesse James Fain, Nic Plume

Sunday June 28, 2026 12:00pm - 1:00pm EDT

M - Plaza Ballroom Mezzanine - Authors Alley

Come by the Author's/Artist's Alley to chat, buy a book or get an autograph!

Guests

Lee Ellis

Author

Devon Eriksen

Author

Marina Fontaine

Author

Les Johnson

Author, STEM, Past SGoH

Kal Spriggs

Author

D.S. Watson

Author

Nathan Brindle

Author

Jesse James Fain

Author

Nic Plume

Author

Sunday June 28, 2026 12:00pm - 1:00pm EDT
M - Plaza Ballroom Mezzanine - Authors Alley Chattanooga Marriott Downtown 2 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402, USA

Authors Alley, Authors Alley

12:00pm EDT

Autograph Session: PGOH David M. Weber (30 minutes - 3 book limit), PGOH Charles E. Gannon

Sunday June 28, 2026 12:00pm - 1:00pm EDT

CC - Ballroom F/G (Dealer's Room) - Autographs in Hall Outside

Autograph sessions will be directly in front of the Dealer's Room. Authors will cycle through hourly. For David Weber, only a 30 minute session and a 3 book limit. For Charles E. Gannon and DJ Butler, full session and 5 book limit.

Guests

Charles E. Gannon

Author, Past LGoH

David M. Weber

Author, Past LGoH

Sunday June 28, 2026 12:00pm - 1:00pm EDT
CC - Ballroom F/G (Dealer's Room) - Autographs in Hall Outside Chattanooga Convention Center 1 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37403

Autograph Session, Autograph Session

12:00pm EDT

Escape! The Devouring Ooze

Sunday June 28, 2026 12:00pm - 1:00pm EDT

M - Tennessee River Room (Gaming Room)

Escape! The Devouring Ooze is a chaotic, competitive board game set in the dangerous sewers beneath Kowal. You lead a gang of boggarts trying to outrun a massive, ever-hungry Devouring Ooze. As you race through twisting sewer tiles, you’ll fight rivals, grab loot, and push your luck — only the smartest and fastest gang survives! Age 10+ 2-4 players, 1 hr. M. Bielaczyc hosts

Guests

Michael Bielaczyc

Artist, Gaming

Michael Bielaczyc has been working professionally in the art field since 2001 when he founded Aradani Studios with his brother Paul. Together they have exhibited across America selling both their artwork and costuming. He works in many mediums from oil paint to latex prosthetics... Read More →

Sunday June 28, 2026 12:00pm - 1:00pm EDT
M - Tennessee River Room (Gaming Room) Chattanooga Marriott Downtown 2 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402, USA

Gaming, Gaming

12:00pm EDT

Poul Anderson Part 2 - Science Fiction

Sunday June 28, 2026 12:00pm - 1:00pm EDT

M - Plaza Ballroom C

Poul Anderson Part 2 - Science Fiction: Ben Yalow and Toni Weisskopf will be discussing the following works: Van Rijn/Flandry, Tau Zero, Time Patrol, and Star Fox.

Guests

Toni Weisskopf

Author, Editor, Publisher, Past Special GoH

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 →

Ben Yalow

Author, Past Special GoH

Sunday June 28, 2026 12:00pm - 1:00pm EDT
M - Plaza Ballroom C

Literary/Publishing, Panel

12:00pm EDT

The Fae vs. The Undead - Who Wins?

Sunday June 28, 2026 12:00pm - 1:00pm EDT

M - Plaza Ballroom A/B

Across folklore and fantasy the question of who would win in a match-up between Fairy Folk and the Undead such as Vampires and Zombies is an interesting question. Julie Cochrane moderates this discussion of who the likely winner might be.

Moderators

Julie Cochrane

Author

Guests

Cedar Sanderson

Author

Jay Peterson

Author

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 not writing, Jay is a film and TV actor, usually known for playing supernatural creatures. He most recently appeared in Red One, The Piano Lesson, and The Conjuring:The Devil Made Me Do It... Read More →

Geoffrey Mandragora

Author

Louise Herring-Jones

Author

Lucas Marcum

Author

Sunday June 28, 2026 12:00pm - 1:00pm EDT
M - Plaza Ballroom A/B Chattanooga Marriott Downtown 2 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402, USA

Literary/Publishing, Panel

12:00pm EDT

Raconteur Press Authors Read Sci/Fi!

Sunday June 28, 2026 12:00pm - 1:00pm EDT

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

Raconteur Press Authors Read Sci/Fi! Nick Nethery (mod.)

Moderators

Nick Nethery

Author, Editor

Guests

J. Kenton Pierce

Author

Rick Cutler

Author

Sunday June 28, 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

12:00pm EDT

Reading: Lydia Sherrer and Laura Montgomery

Sunday June 28, 2026 12:00pm - 1:00pm EDT

M - Signal Mountain Room (Readings 1)

Come hear our authors read from their works.

Guests

Laura Montgomery

Author

Lydia Sherrer

Author

Sunday June 28, 2026 12:00pm - 1:00pm EDT
M - Signal Mountain Room (Readings 1) Chattanooga Marriott Downtown 2 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402, USA

Readings 3, Reading

12:00pm EDT

Astrobiology - A Planet by Planet Approach on How We Look and What We Could Expect to Find?

Sunday June 28, 2026 12:00pm - 1:00pm EDT

CC - Meeting Room 6 (Science Track)

Join NASA’s leading astrobiologist Dr. Becky McCauley Rench for an exhilarating tour of the most intriguing worlds in our solar system and beyond as we explore the question that has captivated humanity for generations: are we alone? What can the runaway greenhouse of Venus, the dried riverbeds of Mars, the subsurface oceans of Europa and Enceladus, the organic haze of Titan, and the stunning variety of exoplanets across our galaxy tell us together? This talk connects the dots between these worlds, blending frontier science with big-picture imagination. Learn how NASA missions and modern astrobiology guide the search for life—from subsurface seas to distant atmospheres—and what these extraordinary worlds reveal about the possibilities for life elsewhere in the universe.

Guests

Becky McCauley Rench

LibertyCon 38 STEM Guest of Honor, STEM

Sunday June 28, 2026 12:00pm - 1:00pm EDT
CC - Meeting Room 6 (Science Track) Chattanooga Convention Center 1 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37403

STEM, Presentation

12:00pm EDT

Low(er) Cost Space and it's Impact on War

Sunday June 28, 2026 12:00pm - 1:00pm EDT

CC - Meeting Room 5 (Main Event)

Low(er) Cost Space and it's Impact on War. SST = $54k/kg, Falcon 9 Heavy =$1400/kg, Starship single use = $450/kg. More payloads, cheaper replacements, practical space warfare? Who has the advantage? Stewart Cobb moderates.

Moderators

Stewart Cobb

STEM

Guests

Rick Partlow

Author

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.

Daniel M. Hoyt

Author, STEM, Past Special GoH

Karl Gallagher

Author, STEM

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 →

Charles Prael

STEM

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 →

Stephen Fleming

STEM, Boostphase

Sunday June 28, 2026 12:00pm - 1:00pm EDT
CC - Meeting Room 5 (Main Event) Chattanooga Convention Center 1 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37403

STEM, Panel

1:00pm EDT

Authors Alley: Tamara Lowery, Cassandra Morgan, Kristin Janz/Donald Crankshaw, Julie Frost, David R.R. Greenberg, James P. Nettles, Casey Moores/Jamie Ibson, Frank Hood, A.G. Thompson

Sunday June 28, 2026 1:00pm - 2:00pm EDT

M - Plaza Ballroom Mezzanine - Authors Alley

Come by the Author's/Artist's Alley to chat, buy a book or get an autograph!

Guests

A.G. Thompson

Author

Jamie Ibson

Author

Donald Crankshaw

Author, Editor, Publisher

Despite having a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, Donald Crankshaw much prefers to read and write fantasy instead of science fiction. He has previously published stories in Nature Futures, Intergalactic Medicine Show, and Black Gate. He currently publishes the Mysterion online magazine... Read More →

Kristin Janz

Author, Editor, Publisher

Kristin Janz is co-editor/publisher of online fantasy and science fiction magazine Mysterion (MysterionOnline.com), and three Mysterion anthologies. Mysterion stories have been finalists for the WSFA Small Press and Realm Awards, and are about Christianity, but not always Christian... Read More →

Tamara Lowery

Author

Cassandra Morgan

Author

Julie Frost

Author

David R.R. Greenberg

Author

James P. Nettles

Author

Casey Moores

Author

Frank Hood

Author

Sunday June 28, 2026 1:00pm - 2:00pm EDT
M - Plaza Ballroom Mezzanine - Authors Alley Chattanooga Marriott Downtown 2 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402, USA

Authors Alley, Authors Alley

1:00pm EDT

Autograph Session: LGOH Nicholas Sansbury Smith, Bill Willingham

Sunday June 28, 2026 1:00pm - 2:00pm EDT

CC - Ballroom F/G (Dealer's Room) - Autographs in Hall Outside

Autograph sessions will be directly in front of the Dealer's Room. Authors will cycle through hourly. Limit 5 books (if you bring more, get 5 signed and go to the back of the line.)

Guests

Bill Willingham

Author, Artist

Nicholas Sansbury Smith

LibertyCon 38 Literary Guest of Honor, Author

Sunday June 28, 2026 1:00pm - 2:00pm EDT
CC - Ballroom F/G (Dealer's Room) - Autographs in Hall Outside Chattanooga Convention Center 1 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37403

Autograph Session, Autograph Session

1:00pm EDT

How to become an Epic Game Master

Sunday June 28, 2026 1:00pm - 2:00pm EDT

CC - Meeting Room 5 (Main Event)

Roger Carden of The Halfling and the Spaceman podcast and the producer of "Applied Game Mastery ” will moderate a panel discussion on how to become an epic game master.

Guests

Dane Clark Collins

Author

Dane Clark Collins is a writer of fantasy, science fiction, horror and the occasional nonfiction currently living in the Nashville, TN area. He is also an experimental, atmospheric psych rock musician, and some of his work can be found at https://www.creativegrimoire.com/.

Michael Bielaczyc

Artist, Gaming

BK Gibson

Author, Gaming

Roger and Janet Carden

Gaming

Roger and Janet Carden are the husband-and-wife team behind The Halfling and the Spaceman: Journeys In 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... Read More →

Sunday June 28, 2026 1:00pm - 2:00pm EDT
CC - Meeting Room 5 (Main Event) Chattanooga Convention Center 1 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37403

Gaming, Panel

1:00pm EDT

Outflanked

Sunday June 28, 2026 1:00pm - 2:00pm EDT

M - Tennessee River Room (Gaming Room)

Outflanked is a deceptively simple game of territory takeover based on Lydia Sherrer's bestselling Love, Lies, and Hocus Pocus Universe.

Unleash your strategic genius, playing as one of four beloved book characters, to outflank your opponents and dominate the board!

This game can be played with 2-4 players. Gameplay lasts about 15-30 minutes. For those with younger family members who want to join, the content is appropriate for all ages.

If you're already a fan of Lily and her intrepid friends, you'll love the beautiful new art and strategic interaction inspired by the stories you've read. David Sherrer hosts.

Moderators

David Sherrer

Gaming, Publisher

Sunday June 28, 2026 1:00pm - 2:00pm EDT
M - Tennessee River Room (Gaming Room) Chattanooga Marriott Downtown 2 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402, USA

Kids Program, Gaming

1:00pm EDT

Big Target or Big Capability?

Sunday June 28, 2026 1:00pm - 2:00pm EDT

M - Plaza Ballroom A/B

Discussion on whether large, expensive, manned systems are a capability or a liability, given what we know now. Are giant spaceships feasible anymore, or do singles ships, unmanned systems and AI dominate the future? The panel returns with fresh real world ammo: the B21 and the Defiant class (ST: DS9 vibes!) BBG.

Moderators

Jim Curtis

Author

JL Curtis is a retired Naval Flight Officer, retired engineer in the defense industry, an NRA instructor, and now lives in north Texas writing full time. He has novels out in three different series, The Grey Man (urban fiction), Rimworld (military science fiction), and a new series... Read More →

Guests

Tim Gilliland

Author

Charles Prael

STEM

Nathan Balyeat

Author

Daniel M. Hoyt

Author, STEM, Past Special GoH

Nick Braker

Author

Sunday June 28, 2026 1:00pm - 2:00pm EDT
M - Plaza Ballroom A/B Chattanooga Marriott Downtown 2 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402, USA

Literary/Publishing, Panel

1:00pm EDT

What's New from 3 Ravens Publishing Roundtable

Sunday June 28, 2026 1:00pm - 2:00pm EDT

CC - Ballroom E (Main Event)

William Joseph Roberts moderates this roundtable discussing what the coming year holds for Three Ravens Publishing.

Moderators

William Joseph Roberts

Author, Publisher

Guests

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 →

Lee Ellis

Author

William Lehman

Author

J.T. Arralle

Author

Fred Phillips

Author

Tim Bischoff

Author / Owner, Southern Wilds

Philip K. Booker

Author, Editor

Bart Kemper

Author

Isaac Craft

Author

Brisco Woods

Author

Jesse James Fain

Author

Dan Hollifield

Author, Publisher

Marisa Wolf

Author

Chris Woods

Author, Past Special GoH

Rich Groller

Director of Programming, Author, LibertyCon™

Our own LibertyCon Director of Programming, Dr. Richard Groller, is also an author in his own right. He is co-author of The Warrior's Edge (with Janet Morris and COL John Alexander), and a contributing author to The American Warrior (Janet and Chris Morris, Eds.), and to 7 volumes... Read More →

Michael Gants

Secretary, Author, LibertyCon™

Charli Cox

Author

Sunday June 28, 2026 1:00pm - 2:00pm EDT
CC - Ballroom E (Main Event) Chattanooga Convention Center 1 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37403

Literary/Publishing, Round Table

1:00pm EDT

World Building for Alternate History

Sunday June 28, 2026 1:00pm - 2:00pm EDT

M - Plaza Ballroom C

Historian Dan Butler moderates this discussion on the elements of worldbuilding for Alternate History.

Moderators

Daniel Allen Butler

Author

Guests

Joseph Hower

Author

Daniel Kemp

Author

Mark Huston

Author

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 →

Bjorn Hasseler

Author, Editor

S.M. Stirling

LibertyCon 38 Special Guest of Honor, Author

Sunday June 28, 2026 1:00pm - 2:00pm EDT
M - Plaza Ballroom C

Literary/Publishing, Panel

1:00pm EDT

Sketching the Munchkin Card Winners

Sunday June 28, 2026 1:00pm - 2:00pm EDT

M - Director's Room

AGOH John Kovalic will sketch the Munchkin Card winners from the Charity Art Auction. Steve Jackson will host.

Moderators

Steve Jackson

Author, Gaming, Publisher, Past Special GoH

Guests

John Kovalic

LibertyCon 38 Artist Guest of Honor, Artist

Sunday June 28, 2026 1:00pm - 2:00pm EDT
M - Director's Room Chattanooga Marriott Downtown 2 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402, USA

Main Program, Event

1:00pm EDT

Reading: William S. Frisbee and Karl Gallagher

Sunday June 28, 2026 1:00pm - 2:00pm EDT

M - Signal Mountain Room (Readings 1)

Come hear our authors read from their works.

Guests

William S. Frisbee

Author

Karl Gallagher

Author, STEM

Sunday June 28, 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

1:00pm EDT

Reading: Reggi Broach and Alma Boykin

Sunday June 28, 2026 1:00pm - 2:00pm EDT

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

Come hear our authors read from their works.

Guests

Reggi Broach

Author

Alma T. C. Boykin

Author

Sunday June 28, 2026 1:00pm - 2:00pm EDT
CC - Meeting Room 2 (Kids Program/Readings 2) Chattanooga Convention Center 1 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37403

Readings 2, Reading

1:00pm EDT

How GPS Really Works

Sunday June 28, 2026 1:00pm - 2:00pm EDT

CC - Meeting Room 6 (Science Track)

Kevin Ikenberry will present "How GPS Really Works." GPS has made navigating our lives easy. But how does it work? Why do we blame GPS when things go awry? This session teaches the brief history of the GPS system and delves into how the system works -- and how the core principles are things we've known since middle school.

Guests

Kevin Ikenberry

Author

Sunday June 28, 2026 1:00pm - 2:00pm EDT
CC - Meeting Room 6 (Science Track) Chattanooga Convention Center 1 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37403

STEM, Presentation

1:00pm EDT

Terminator 2026: School drones and Police UAVs

Sunday June 28, 2026 1:00pm - 3:00pm EDT

CC - Meeting Room 3 (Workshop Track)

Terminator 2026: School drones and Police UAVs: Unmanned systems are becoming ubiquitous in public safety applications, not just military scenarios. RoboCop is here. In war contexts, machines have been making independent targeting decisions. Now that’s possible in a civil context. Panelists revisit the Autonomous Effectors concept, and build a table of permissible/impermissible autonomous actions indexed by urgency/expediency in civilian use. This is a topic coming to everyday Americans.

Moderators

Ian McMurtrie

Author, Publisher

Guests

Jonathan Schattke

STEM

Programmer, Nuclear Engineer, and trivial author Jonathan Schattke has been exploring the limits of science and the continuity of humanity for decades.

Gerald Hall

Author

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 →

Griffin Barber

Author, Editor

John Locke

Professional Panelist

John M. Locke is a Retired Veteran of the United States Army. Notable assignments included the 3rd Armored Div, 82nd Airborne Div and 2nd Infantry Division. He served in the first Gulf War with 3rd Bn, 73rd Armor, the only Airborne Armor unit in the free world. John retired from the... Read More →

Michael Morton

Author

Sunday June 28, 2026 1:00pm - 3:00pm EDT
CC - Meeting Room 3 (Workshop Track) Chattanooga Convention Center 1 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37403

Art/Workshops, Workshop

1:00pm EDT

Magic the Gathering: Archenemy Nicol Bolas

Sunday June 28, 2026 1:00pm - 3:00pm EDT

M - Tennessee River Room (Gaming Room)

Magic the Gathering - Archenemy Nicol Bolas: Team up to take down the ancient elder dragon and powerful planeswalker Nicol Bolas. Three 60-card decks available for up to three players in a three-on-one match against the scheming god-emperor, whose 60-card deck also uses a separate 20-card scheme deck, representing intricate centuries-long plans he has enacted to achieve his goals. Nicol Bolas is outnumbered. But you are outmatched! CS Ferguson hosts, 2 hours

Guests

C.S. Ferguson

Author

C. S. Ferguson is the #1 bestselling author of the Transhuman War series. In his spare time he enjoys rock collecting, hiking, kenjutsu, escrima, jiu jitsu, and gardening. He lives in the PNW with a very special dog, an assassin cat, two birds, two aquascapes, and a hundred house... Read More →

Sunday June 28, 2026 1:00pm - 3:00pm EDT
M - Tennessee River Room (Gaming Room) Chattanooga Marriott Downtown 2 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402, USA

Gaming, Gaming

2:00pm EDT

Authors Alley: Tamara Lowery, Cassandra Morgan, Kristin Janz/Donald Crankshaw, Julie Frost, David R.R. Greenberg, James P. Nettles, David Alan Jones, Frank Hood, Rob Reed

Sunday June 28, 2026 2:00pm - 3:00pm EDT

M - Plaza Ballroom Mezzanine - Authors Alley

Come by the Author's/Artist's Alley to chat, buy a book or get an autograph!

Guests

David Alan Jones

Author

Donald Crankshaw

Author, Editor, Publisher

Kristin Janz

Author, Editor, Publisher

Tamara Lowery

Author

Cassandra Morgan

Author

Julie Frost

Author

David R.R. Greenberg

Author

James P. Nettles

Author

Frank Hood

Author

Rob Reed

Author

Sunday June 28, 2026 2:00pm - 3:00pm EDT
M - Plaza Ballroom Mezzanine - Authors Alley Chattanooga Marriott Downtown 2 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402, USA

Authors Alley, Authors Alley

2:00pm EDT

Autograph Session: Feral Ladies Autographs and Shenanigans- Melissa Olthoff, Marisa Wolf

Sunday June 28, 2026 2:00pm - 3:00pm EDT

CC - Ballroom F/G (Dealer's Room) - Autographs in Hall Outside

Autograph sessions will be directly in front of the Dealer's Room. Authors will cycle through hourly. Limit 5 books (if you bring more, get 5 signed and go to the back of the line.)

Guests

Melissa Olthoff

Author

Marisa Wolf

Author

Sunday June 28, 2026 2:00pm - 3:00pm EDT
CC - Ballroom F/G (Dealer's Room) - Autographs in Hall Outside Chattanooga Convention Center 1 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37403

Autograph Session, Autograph Session

2:00pm EDT

Men Writing Romance

Sunday June 28, 2026 2:00pm - 3:00pm EDT

M - Plaza Ballroom C

It isn't just about her breasting boobily down the stairs, we promise! A panel with male authors who write romance, tips and tricks for prospective authors, and how to try and write something that appeals to a broad audience. Kal Spriggs mod.

Moderators

Kal Spriggs

Author

Guests

Chris Woods

Author, Past Special GoH

Bart Kemper

Author

Terry Maggert

Author, Editor, Publisher, Past GoH

Jacob Holo

LibertyCon 38 Master of Ceremonies, Author

Jonathan LaForce

Author

Sunday June 28, 2026 2:00pm - 3:00pm EDT
M - Plaza Ballroom C

Literary/Publishing, Panel

2:00pm EDT

The Art of Screenwriting

Sunday June 28, 2026 2:00pm - 3:00pm EDT

M - Plaza Ballroom A/B

How is screenwriting different from writing a novel or a series of short stories? Come listen as these experienced screenwriters dish on the art.

Moderators

Gary Poole

Editor

Guests

Wil McCarthy

Author

Robert S. Evans

Artist, Author

Amy DuBoff

Author

David Boop

Author

James Fox

Author

Sunday June 28, 2026 2:00pm - 3:00pm EDT
M - Plaza Ballroom A/B Chattanooga Marriott Downtown 2 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402, USA

Literary/Publishing, Panel

2:00pm EDT

World Building for Epic Fantasy

Sunday June 28, 2026 2:00pm - 3:00pm EDT

CC - Meeting Room 5 (Main Event)

Rob Howell moderates this panel on the essential elements for world building in the Epic Fantasy.

Moderators

Rob Howell

Author, Publisher

Guests

G. Scott Huggins

Author

Tony Andarian

Author, Publisher, Andarian Publishing

M.D. Boncher

Author

Charles E. Gannon

Author, Past LGoH

Sunday June 28, 2026 2:00pm - 3:00pm EDT
CC - Meeting Room 5 (Main Event) Chattanooga Convention Center 1 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37403

Literary/Publishing, Panel

2:00pm EDT

Reading: Jay Maynard and Cedar Sanderson

Sunday June 28, 2026 2:00pm - 3:00pm EDT

M - Signal Mountain Room (Readings 1)

Come hear our authors read from their works.

Guests

Cedar Sanderson

Author

Jay Maynard

Author

Sunday June 28, 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

2:00pm EDT

Reading: Special GOH S.M. Stirling

Sunday June 28, 2026 2:00pm - 3:00pm EDT

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

Come hear Special GOH S.M. Stirling read from his works.

Guests

S.M. Stirling

LibertyCon 38 Special Guest of Honor, Author

Sunday June 28, 2026 2:00pm - 3:00pm EDT
CC - Meeting Room 2 (Kids Program/Readings 2) Chattanooga Convention Center 1 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37403

Readings 1, Reading

2:00pm EDT

Rock and Roll: The New Madrid Fault System

Sunday June 28, 2026 2:00pm - 3:00pm EDT

CC - Meeting Room 6 (Science Track)

Stephanie Osborn presents Rock and Roll: The New Madrid Fault -- In the middle of North America there is a major fault system, buried under the sediments of the Mississippi River, that has the capability of devastating the central United States. Why do so few people know about it? What caused it? Will it break loose again?

Guests

Stephanie Osborn

Author, STEM, Past SGoH

Few can claim the varied background of award-winning author Stephanie Osborn, the Interstellar Woman of Mystery. Veteran of more than 20 years in the civilian space program, as well as various military space defense programs, she worked on numerous space shuttle flights and the International... Read More →

Sunday June 28, 2026 2:00pm - 3:00pm EDT
CC - Meeting Room 6 (Science Track) Chattanooga Convention Center 1 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37403

STEM, Presentation

2:00pm EDT

Three and a Half Years On: Ukraine/Russian War Lessons Learned

Sunday June 28, 2026 2:00pm - 3:00pm EDT

CC - Ballroom E (Main Event)

Three and a Half Years On: Has Mil/SF helped up with the UKR/RU War and the Newest Lessons Learned?” We return to this topic because unmanned systems still dominating isn’t new, yet something else (tactics, AI) may be. Software based efficiencies in munitions assignment has come true since last year. What else is new?

Moderators

Rick Partlow

Author

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.

Guests

Nathan Toronto

Author

Ken Roy

STEM

Jeff Greason

Author, STEM

Aaron Haskins

Author

Charles Prael

STEM

Sunday June 28, 2026 2:00pm - 3:00pm EDT
CC - Ballroom E (Main Event) Chattanooga Convention Center 1 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37403

STEM, Panel

3:00pm EDT

Closing Ceremonies - Come Bitch at Brandy!

Sunday June 28, 2026 3:00pm - 5:00pm EDT

CC - Ballroom E (Main Event)

Did you have a great time at the convention? Or was there something that absolutely irritated you? Either way, come out and let us know at our Closing Ceremonies.

Moderators

Brandy Bolgeo Hendren

Chairman, Presenter, LibertyCon™

Brandy Bolgeo Hendren is the Chairman of the Board of Directors of LibertyCon and the daughter of the founder of LibertyCon, Richard T. "Uncle Timmy" Bolgeo. Brandys first convention was Chattacon 2 in 1976 and since that time she has been actively involved in the fandom community... Read More →

Guests

Sarah Martin

Treasurer, Professional Panelist, LibertyCon™

Sarah has been hanging around LibertyCon for years, so it was only a matter of time till Brandy and Don roped her into volunteering as staff and even convincing her to join the Board of Directors, now serving as LibertyCon's Treasurer and Webmaster. Conveniently, she has years of... Read More →

Ann Robards

Director of Art, Professional Panelist, LibertyCon™

Reading her way through the children's section of the local Public Library, 10-year-old Ann found Ray Bradbury's R is For Rocket and S is For Space in the back corner. Thank you, Mr. Bradbury, for sparking a lifelong love of the Science Fiction and Fantasy genres. Both parents (Mom the traditional artist, Dad the photographer) ignited an interest in and appreciation of art, so it is no surprise that Ann has what she thinks is... Read More →

Rich Groller

Director of Programming, Author, LibertyCon™

Michael Gants

Secretary, Author, LibertyCon™

Sunday June 28, 2026 3:00pm - 5:00pm EDT
CC - Ballroom E (Main Event) Chattanooga Convention Center 1 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37403

Main Program, Event