Name: Authors Alley: Marina Fontaine, Les Johnson, Kal Spriggs, Lee Ellis, D.S. Watson, Nathan Brindle, Devon Eriksen, Jesse James Fain, Nic Plume
Start: 2026-06-28T12:00:00-0400
End: 2026-06-28T13:00:00-0400

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

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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

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Lee Ellis

Devon Eriksen

Marina Fontaine

Les Johnson

Kal Spriggs

D.S. Watson

Nathan Brindle

Jesse James Fain

Nic Plume

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