Name: Authors Alley: Philip Ligon, Nick Braker, Al Hagan, Gini Koch, Kristin Janz/Donald Crankshaw, Julie Frost, Marina Fontaine, William Frisbee, Justin C. Feng
Start: 2026-06-27T16:00:00-0400
End: 2026-06-27T17:00:00-0400

Authors Alley: Philip Ligon, Nick Braker, Al Hagan, Gini Koch, Kristin Janz/Donald Crankshaw, Julie Frost, Marina Fontaine, William Frisbee, Justin C. Feng

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

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 →

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 →

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 →

Al Hagan

Author

Al Hagan is a retired IT project manager. His career also included a four-year tour of duty with the Marine Corps and a number of years in the intelligence community, working in Washington, D.C. and in foreign countries.

Gini Koch

Author

Gini Koch started writing in the American Southwest as something to do in between staring at pictures of good-looking leading men, but now sweats out the words, both literally and figuratively, in Hotlanta and dreams of dry heat.

She has over 70 titles but is best known for her... 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 →

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 →

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 →

Saturday June 27, 2026 4:00pm - 5:00pm EDT
M - Plaza Ballroom Mezzanine - Authors Alley Chattanooga Marriott Downtown 2 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402, USA

Authors Alley, Authors Alley

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Nick Braker

Donald Crankshaw

Kristin Janz

Philip Ligon

Al Hagan

Gini Koch

Julie Frost

Marina Fontaine

Justin C. Feng

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