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Friday, June 26
 

1:00pm EDT

Authors Alley: Dave Schroeder, Les Johnson, A.G. Thompson, Al Hagan, Daniel Allen Butler, Rob Howell, Nic Plume, Jay Peterson, Kevin Ikenberry
Friday June 26, 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
avatar for Nic Plume

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 →
avatar for A.G. Thompson

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 →
avatar for Daniel Allen Butler

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 →
avatar for Al Hagan

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.
avatar for Dave Schroeder

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 →
avatar for Les Johnson

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 →
avatar for Rob Howell

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 →
avatar for Jay Peterson

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 →
avatar for Kevin Ikenberry

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 →
Friday June 26, 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: Masters of Ceremonies Jacob and H.P. Holo, Special Guest of Honor S.M. Stirling, Marina Fontaine
Friday June 26, 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
avatar for S.M. Stirling

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 →
avatar for Marina Fontaine

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 →
avatar for Jacob Holo

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 →
avatar for H.P. Holo

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 →
Friday June 26, 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

World Building for Military Science Fiction
Friday June 26, 2026 1:00pm - 2:00pm EDT
M - Plaza Ballroom B
Terry Maggert moderates this panel on the essential elements for good world building in Military Science Fiction
Moderators
avatar for Terry Maggert

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 →
Guests
avatar for Mike Massa

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 →
avatar for Charles E. Gannon

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 →
avatar for Monalisa Foster

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 →
avatar for Nicholas Sansbury Smith

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 →
Friday June 26, 2026 1:00pm - 2:00pm EDT
M - Plaza Ballroom B Chattanooga Marriott Downtown 2 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402, USA
  Literary/Publishing, Panel

1:00pm EDT

Meet and Greet the First Timers! - Round One
Friday June 26, 2026 1:00pm - 2:00pm EDT
CC - Ballroom E (Main Event)
Come welcome and get familiar with some of our first time at LibertyCon pros. John Ringo will host.
Moderators
avatar for John Ringo

John Ringo

Author, Past LGoH
John Ringo's science fiction is action-oriented and abounding in characters to root for. He is the creator of the New York Times best-selling military science fiction series The Posleen Wars, with over one million copies in print. Ringo is also the author of the far-future science... Read More →
Guests
avatar for Henry Brown

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 →
avatar for VL Stuart

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."
avatar for Lee Ellis

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 →
avatar for J.T. Arralle

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 →
avatar for BK Gibson

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 →
avatar for Dane Clark Collins

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/.
avatar for Fred Phillips

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 →
avatar for William Meinert

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.
avatar for Jonathan Schattke

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.
avatar for Logan Stovall

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 →
avatar for T.C. Ross

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.
avatar for Molly McDonough

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 →
Friday June 26, 2026 1:00pm - 2:00pm EDT
CC - Ballroom E (Main Event) Chattanooga Convention Center 1 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37403
  Main Program, Round Table

1:00pm EDT

Out and About for Newcomers at LibertyCon
Friday June 26, 2026 1:00pm - 2:00pm EDT
M - Plaza Ballroom C
Author Nick Braker and his wife Charita host Out and About at LibertyCon, a look into the local eateries, shops and sightseeing nearby to the LibertyCon venue.
Moderators
avatar for Nick Braker

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 →
Friday June 26, 2026 1:00pm - 2:00pm EDT
M - Plaza Ballroom C
  Main Program, Panel

1:00pm EDT

The Xenoarchaeology Roadshow
Friday June 26, 2026 1:00pm - 2:00pm EDT
CC - Meeting Room 5 (Main Event)
Our colleagues from the University of Antares shipped us a fresh crate of alien artifacts, all in need of identification. Can you decipher their true use?
Moderators
avatar for Jody Lynn Nye

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 →
Guests
avatar for Julie Cochrane

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 →
avatar for Karen Bogen

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 →
avatar for Jim Beall

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 →
avatar for Shami Stovall

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.
Friday June 26, 2026 1:00pm - 2:00pm EDT
CC - Meeting Room 5 (Main Event) Chattanooga Convention Center 1 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37403
  Main Program, Panel

1:00pm EDT

Room Reset
Friday June 26, 2026 1:00pm - 2:00pm EDT
M - Plaza Ballroom A
Room Reset
Friday June 26, 2026 1:00pm - 2:00pm EDT
M - Plaza Ballroom A Chattanooga Marriott Downtown 2 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402, USA
  Private, Event

1:00pm EDT

Reading: PGOH David M. Weber
Friday June 26, 2026 1:00pm - 2:00pm EDT
CC - Meeting Room 2 (Kids Program/Readings 2)
Come hear Past Literary GOH David M. Weber read from his works.
Guests
avatar for David M. Weber

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 →
Friday June 26, 2026 1:00pm - 2:00pm EDT
CC - Meeting Room 2 (Kids Program/Readings 2) Chattanooga Convention Center 1 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37403
  Readings 1, Reading

1:00pm EDT

Reading: G. Scott Huggins and Mark Wandrey
Friday June 26, 2026 1:00pm - 2:00pm EDT
M - Director's Room
Come hear our authors read from their works.
Guests
avatar for Mark Wandrey

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 →
avatar for G. Scott Huggins

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 →
Friday June 26, 2026 1:00pm - 2:00pm EDT
M - Director's Room Chattanooga Marriott Downtown 2 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402, USA
  Readings 3, Reading

1:00pm EDT

Orbital Space Debris
Friday June 26, 2026 1:00pm - 2:00pm EDT
CC - Meeting Room 6 (Science Track)
Retired USAF Space Operations Officer Michael Morton presents Orbital Space Debris, focusing on what is space junk, why it's a problem, and what can be done about it.
Moderators
avatar for Michael Morton

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.
Friday June 26, 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

AI as Creative Amplifier: The Age of the Storyteller
Friday June 26, 2026 1:00pm - 3:00pm EDT
CC - Meeting Room 3 (Workshop Track)
In this AI Workshop, David Badurina will be firmly centered on storytelling craft, ethics, and authorial control, not AI art evangelism. The focus is as a creative amplifier in storytelling through multiple media, not a replacement, and with clear ethical boundaries established at the outset.
Moderators
avatar for David Badurina

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 →
Friday June 26, 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

Pokemon
Friday June 26, 2026 1:00pm - 3:00pm EDT
M - Tennessee River Room (Gaming Room)
Come Learn and play the 50-minute turn-based strategic battling card game featuring Pokémon creatures and their elaborate environment. Chance Cook host, age 8+, 2+ players, 2 hours
Friday June 26, 2026 1:00pm - 3:00pm EDT
M - Tennessee River Room (Gaming Room) Chattanooga Marriott Downtown 2 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402, USA
  Gaming, Gaming

1:00pm EDT

Open Crafting & Artist Space
Friday June 26, 2026 1:00pm - 5:00pm 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
avatar for Jonna Hayden

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 →
avatar for James Schardt

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 →
Friday June 26, 2026 1:00pm - 5:00pm EDT
M - East/West (Craft Room) Chattanooga Marriott Downtown 2 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402, USA
  Art/Workshops, Demonstration

2:00pm EDT

Packing Them In: Implications of Close Quarters Living and Working Spaces in MiLSF
Friday June 26, 2026 2:00pm - 3:00pm EDT
CC - Meeting Room 5 (Main Event)
Do any examples of MilSF reflect the reality of the hip-to-hip spaces in realistic spacecraft? How does it affect the story when space battleships and private staterooms aren’t a thing? 
Moderators
avatar for Casey Moores

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 →
Guests
avatar for Fred Hughes

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 →
avatar for David Hensley

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 →
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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 →
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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 →
avatar for Andy Presby

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.
Friday June 26, 2026 2:00pm - 3:00pm EDT
CC - Meeting Room 5 (Main Event) Chattanooga Convention Center 1 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37403

2:00pm EDT

Authors Alley: Dave Schroeder, Jamie Garner, A.G. Thompson, Al Hagan, Daniel Allen Butler, Rob Howell, Jason Cordova, Daniel Butler, Jay Peterson, Kevin Ikenberry
Friday June 26, 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
avatar for A.G. Thompson

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 →
avatar for J.B. Garner

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 →
avatar for Daniel Allen Butler

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 →
avatar for Al Hagan

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.
avatar for Dave Schroeder

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 →
avatar for Rob Howell

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 →
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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 →
avatar for Jay Peterson

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 →
avatar for Kevin Ikenberry

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 →
Friday June 26, 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: Cedar Sanderson, Rick Cartwright, Kelly Grayson
Friday June 26, 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
avatar for Kelly Grayson

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 →
avatar for Richard Cartwright

Richard Cartwright

Author
Richard Cartwright was born and raised in Tennessee when he was not bouncing around the country and Canada in the sleeper of his parents tractor trailer rig that his father bought after retiring from the Navy to go into trucking.

His first reading lessons were road signs at four. His education was disrupted at five when he was forced to start spending the school year at school. After acquiring a note at six to allow him to check out "advanced " books from the library, he discovered Heinlein and never looked... Read More →
avatar for Cedar Sanderson

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 →
Friday June 26, 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

Cat Magic the Game
Friday June 26, 2026 2:00pm - 3:00pm EDT
M - Tennessee River Room (Gaming Room)
David Sherrer will host the card game for lovers of cats, snark, and magical fun, based on the bestselling "Love, Lies, and Hocus Pocus book series." You must collect (or steal) the 5 items necessary to build your assigned artifact, while simultaneously trying to prevent the other players from collecting theirs. The first to successfully assemble their artifact will save the magical library and...
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Moderators
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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 →
Friday June 26, 2026 2:00pm - 3:00pm EDT
M - Tennessee River Room (Gaming Room) Chattanooga Marriott Downtown 2 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402, USA
  Gaming, Gaming

2:00pm EDT

Books They Don’t Want You to Read (and Why You Should)
Friday June 26, 2026 2:00pm - 3:00pm EDT
M - Plaza Ballroom A
Books They Don’t Want You to Read (and Why You Should - Once upon a time, adventure was adventurous, heroes were heroic, and villains twirled their mustaches without filing an apology afterward. Then the Culture Police showed up with red pens and trigger warnings. From Sax Rohmer’s Fu Manchu to Burroughs’ jungle lords, Lovecraft’s eldritch horrors, Fleming’s secret agents, and Dahl’s...
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Moderators
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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 →
Guests
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Nancy Edwards

Artist
Nancy Edwards has been in fandom for 40+ years and has the stories to back it up. She was the FGOH at the ninth NASFC, Tuckercon, due to her long friendship with Bob Tucker. She threw an adult relaxicon for several years called Czarcon which was totally non-PC.
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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.
Friday June 26, 2026 2:00pm - 3:00pm EDT
M - Plaza Ballroom A Chattanooga Marriott Downtown 2 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402, USA
  Literary/Publishing, Panel

2:00pm EDT

It Came From The Trailer Park 5 and Double Wide Vol. 1 Roundtable and Mass Autograph Session
Friday June 26, 2026 2:00pm - 3:00pm EDT
M - Plaza Ballroom B
It Came From The Trailer Park 5 and Double Wide Volume 1.  Return to the fun idea of revisiting the Classic Horror and Old-School Creature Feature genres with a hefty helping of B-rate tropes. William Joseph Roberts moderates this Roundtable discussion about the making of the new anthologies.
Moderators
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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 →
Guests
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
Friday June 26, 2026 2:00pm - 3:00pm EDT
M - Plaza Ballroom B Chattanooga Marriott Downtown 2 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402, USA
  Literary/Publishing, Round Table

2:00pm EDT

Serial Killers in Space
Friday June 26, 2026 2:00pm - 3:00pm EDT
M - Plaza Ballroom C
Megan Miller hosts "Serial Killers in Space." Psychopaths, just a human thing?  Is that alien "serial killer" really just a big game hunter according to his species? 
Moderators
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Megan Miller

Author
Megan Miller holds a Masters of Science from NC State University and is a proud PhD dropout from the University of Arizona at Tucson. She is currently the Executive Director of one of the largest non-profits fighting food scarcity in western North Carolina. A mother, stand-up comedian... Read More →
Guests
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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
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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 →
Friday June 26, 2026 2:00pm - 3:00pm EDT
M - Plaza Ballroom C
  Literary/Publishing, Panel

2:00pm EDT

Meet and Greet the First Timers! - Round Two
Friday June 26, 2026 2:00pm - 3:00pm EDT
CC - Ballroom E (Main Event)
Come welcome and get familiar with some of our first time at LibertyCon pros. John Ringo will host.
Moderators
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John Ringo

Author, Past LGoH
John Ringo's science fiction is action-oriented and abounding in characters to root for. He is the creator of the New York Times best-selling military science fiction series The Posleen Wars, with over one million copies in print. Ringo is also the author of the far-future science... Read More →
Guests
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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Megan Sloane

Editor
Megan Sloane is an editor of prose and comic book stories. She is a senior editor at 1First Comics and received her editing certificate from the University of California: Berkeley. Yes, she will receive your (written) comic book pitches and evaluate your comic sample pages.
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
Friday June 26, 2026 2:00pm - 3:00pm EDT
CC - Ballroom E (Main Event) Chattanooga Convention Center 1 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37403
  Main Program, Round Table

2:00pm EDT

Reading: Lee Ellis and David (Brena) Bock
Friday June 26, 2026 2:00pm - 3:00pm EDT
M - Signal Mountain Room (Readings 1)
Come hear our authors read from their works.
Guests
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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.
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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 →
Friday June 26, 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: LGOH Charles E. Gannon
Friday June 26, 2026 2:00pm - 3:00pm EDT
CC - Meeting Room 2 (Kids Program/Readings 2)
Come hear Literary GOH Charles E. Gannon read from his works.
Guests
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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 →
Friday June 26, 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

Reading: Shami Stovall and Claire Merrick
Friday June 26, 2026 2:00pm - 3:00pm EDT
M - Director's Room
Come hear our authors read from their works.
Guests
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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.
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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.
Friday June 26, 2026 2:00pm - 3:00pm EDT
M - Director's Room Chattanooga Marriott Downtown 2 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402, USA
  Readings 3, Reading

2:00pm EDT

AI Doesn't Want to Kill Us, It Has To! (And We're Going to Let It)
Friday June 26, 2026 2:00pm - 3:00pm EDT
CC - Meeting Room 6 (Science Track)
Former STEM GOH Dr. Ben Davis presents: AI Doesn't Want to Kill Us, It Has To! (And We're Going to Let It)
Moderators
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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 →
Friday June 26, 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

D&D: The Sunless Citadel (Age 12+)
Friday June 26, 2026 2:00pm - 4:00pm EDT
M - Tennessee River Room (Gaming Room)
The Sunless Citadel:  In this classic adventure now in its 25th anniversary, players need to solve the mystery of a sunken castle built deep in a crack in the earth. The kobolds who normally only harass the locals with mischievous raids have suddenly become emboldened. Dive into the depths of the earth and solve the mystery in this classic dungeon crawl! Age 12+, 2 hours. C.S. Ferguson hosts.

Guests
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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 →
Friday June 26, 2026 2:00pm - 4:00pm EDT
M - Tennessee River Room (Gaming Room) Chattanooga Marriott Downtown 2 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402, USA
  Gaming, Gaming

3:00pm EDT

25 Years of Munchkin, 30 Years of Dork Tower
Friday June 26, 2026 3:00pm - 4:00pm EDT
CC - Meeting Room 3 (Workshop Track)
Artist GOH John Kovalic will talk about his drawing 25 Years of Munchkin and 30 Years of Dork Tower.
Guests
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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 →
Friday June 26, 2026 3:00pm - 4:00pm EDT
CC - Meeting Room 3 (Workshop Track) Chattanooga Convention Center 1 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37403
  Art/Workshops, Presentation

3:00pm EDT

Mythology in Art
Friday June 26, 2026 3:00pm - 4:00pm EDT
M - Director's Room
From Medusa to Freya. From Apollo to Penelope. Talk to these artists about how they're weaving mythology from Japan, Greece, and Rome into their work, and how it sets them apart from the rest.
Moderators
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M. M. Schill

Artist, Editor, Past AGoH
M.M. Schill is an award-winning artist, illustrator, writer, and pro-editor. She also serves as associated editor at Pseudopod (a pro-market, award-winning, short horror podcast and E-zine). Outside of her artistic pursuits, she is a decades-long student of aikido and iaido, a power-lifter, and (most importantly) she's an outspoken activist for victims' rights... Read More →
Guests
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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 →
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Alexandra Klimek-Sidor

Artist
Alexandra's work includes abstracted portraits, twisted creatures, and fantastical monsters from myth and fandoms alike. She specializes in alcohol ink paintings and engraved game accessories. She has shown her work in galleries in Greenville, SC, the Oddities and Curiosities Expo... Read More →
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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 →
Friday June 26, 2026 3:00pm - 4:00pm EDT
M - Director's Room Chattanooga Marriott Downtown 2 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402, USA
  Art/Workshops, Panel

3:00pm EDT

Authors Alley: Dave Schroeder, Jamie Garner, A.G. Thompson, Philip Ligon, Rob Howell, Jason Cordova, Frank Hood, Gray Rinehart, Jay Peterson
Friday June 26, 2026 3:00pm - 4:00pm 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
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
Friday June 26, 2026 3:00pm - 4:00pm EDT
M - Plaza Ballroom Mezzanine - Authors Alley Chattanooga Marriott Downtown 2 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402, USA
  Authors Alley, Authors Alley

3:00pm EDT

Autograph Session: D.S. Watson, PGOH Robert Hampson
Friday June 26, 2026 3:00pm - 4:00pm 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
avatar for Robert E. Hampson

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 →
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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 →
Friday June 26, 2026 3:00pm - 4:00pm 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

3:00pm EDT

What is the Future of Game Design?
Friday June 26, 2026 3:00pm - 4:00pm EDT
M - Plaza Ballroom B
Game designers and gaming professionals from different disciplines come together to discuss the future of the game design in light of evolving tools and the impact of AI. Steve Jackson moderates.

Moderators
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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 →
Guests
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
Friday June 26, 2026 3:00pm - 4:00pm EDT
M - Plaza Ballroom B Chattanooga Marriott Downtown 2 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402, USA
  Gaming, Panel

3:00pm EDT

Raconteur Press Authors Read Boys Adventure!
Friday June 26, 2026 3:00pm - 4:00pm EDT
CC - Meeting Room 2 (Kids Program/Readings 2)
Raconteur Press Authors Read Boys Adventure! - Spearman Burke, moderates.
Moderators
avatar for Spearman Burke

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 →
Guests
avatar for Fred Phillips

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 →
avatar for Chris DiNote

Chris DiNote

Author
Chris “MOGS” DiNote retired from the United States Air Force as a full colonel with 25 years, 7 months, and 29 days of service, but who's counting? He deployed for Operations Enduring Freedom, Iraqi Freedom, and Noble Eagle, served in South Korea and Germany.  Chris is a graduate... Read More →
Friday June 26, 2026 3:00pm - 4:00pm EDT
CC - Meeting Room 2 (Kids Program/Readings 2) Chattanooga Convention Center 1 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37403
  Kids Program, Reading

3:00pm EDT

Challenges: The Early Days of the Star Kingdom
Friday June 26, 2026 3:00pm - 4:00pm EDT
CC - Meeting Room 5 (Main Event)
Challenges - Come explore new tales of the Honorverse set in the early days of the Star Kingdom. David Weber moderates. 
Moderators
avatar for David M. Weber

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 →
Guests
avatar for Daniel Allen Butler

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 →
avatar for Marisa Wolf

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 →
avatar for Jacob Holo

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 →
Friday June 26, 2026 3:00pm - 4:00pm EDT
CC - Meeting Room 5 (Main Event) Chattanooga Convention Center 1 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37403
  Literary/Publishing, Panel

3:00pm EDT

Get In The Robot!
Friday June 26, 2026 3:00pm - 4:00pm EDT
M - Plaza Ballroom A
A panel of authors who spend too much money on Gunpla and Battletech models talk
 about giant mechs and how they influence their writing. H.P. Holo hosts
Moderators
avatar for H.P. Holo

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 →
Guests
avatar for David Alan Jones

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 →
avatar for Zane Voss

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 →
avatar for Jon R. Osborne

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 →
avatar for Mark Wandrey

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 →
avatar for Kevin Ikenberry

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 →
Friday June 26, 2026 3:00pm - 4:00pm EDT
M - Plaza Ballroom A Chattanooga Marriott Downtown 2 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402, USA
  Literary/Publishing, Presentation

3:00pm EDT

Getting Started: Intro to MILSF for Friends
Friday June 26, 2026 3:00pm - 4:00pm EDT
M - Plaza Ballroom C
Getting Started: Your friend wants to know what’s the big deal with MilSF. You want them to “get it” like you do. Which three movies, which three books, and which three games do you recommend in order to simultaneously provoke, ensnare, and entertain your friend? Panelists and audience participate in identifying the best three choices, and vote on what options we give our hypothetical...
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Moderators
avatar for Brent Roeder

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
Guests
avatar for Alma T. C. Boykin

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 →
avatar for Scott Swoope

Scott Swoope

Author
Scott Swoope is a speculative fiction writer whose work blends the sweep of history with the imagination of science fiction and fantasy. His stories explore power, loyalty, and the human cost of ambition across worlds both ancient and futuristic.

When he’s not writing, Scott wo... Read More →
avatar for Melissa Olthoff

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 →
avatar for Jay Maynard

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 →
avatar for Gary Poole

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 →
Friday June 26, 2026 3:00pm - 4:00pm EDT
M - Plaza Ballroom C
  Literary/Publishing, Panel

3:00pm EDT

What's New from Cannon Publishing
Friday June 26, 2026 3:00pm - 4:00pm EDT
CC - Ballroom E (Main Event)
David Hensley will moderate this roundtable discussion of what's new and upcoming from Cannon Publishing.
Moderators
avatar for David Hensley

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 →
Guests
avatar for BK Gibson

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 →
avatar for David Appleby

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 →
avatar for Lucas Marcum

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 →
avatar for Charli Cox

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 →
avatar for Michael Morton

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.
avatar for Daniel Kemp

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.
avatar for Claire Merrick

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.
avatar for Brian Gifford

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 →
avatar for Jonathan LaForce

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 →
avatar for Al Hagan

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.
Friday June 26, 2026 3:00pm - 4:00pm EDT
CC - Ballroom E (Main Event) Chattanooga Convention Center 1 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37403
  Literary/Publishing, Round Table

3:00pm EDT

Reading: Jamie Ibson and Casey Moores
Friday June 26, 2026 3:00pm - 4:00pm EDT
M - Signal Mountain Room (Readings 1)
Come hear our authors read from their works.
Guests
avatar for Jamie Ibson

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.
avatar for Casey Moores

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 →
Friday June 26, 2026 3:00pm - 4:00pm EDT
M - Signal Mountain Room (Readings 1) Chattanooga Marriott Downtown 2 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402, USA
  Readings 1, Reading

3:00pm EDT

Space Update
Friday June 26, 2026 3:00pm - 4:00pm EDT
CC - Meeting Room 6 (Science Track)
Les Johnson moderates this update on what has happened in the past year in Space, and what might happen in the coming years.
Moderators
avatar for Les Johnson

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 →
Friday June 26, 2026 3:00pm - 4:00pm EDT
CC - Meeting Room 6 (Science Track) Chattanooga Convention Center 1 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37403
  STEM, Panel

4:00pm EDT

Laser Engraving: From Start to Finish
Friday June 26, 2026 4:00pm - 5:00pm EDT
M - Director's Room
You ever wondered what it takes to take to translate your art into a medium that doesn't involve paper or canvas? Chat with these visionary artists who take their work to the next level with laser engraving. Learn the process from start to finish!
Moderators
avatar for Everette Beach

Everette Beach

Auctioneer
I've been a Science Fiction fan since I learned to read. I had read everything in the "juvenile" science fiction / fantasy section of our library by the time I was 10 and had to get my mother to check out the "real" books in the adult section for me.  Yes, I am old enough to remember... Read More →
Guests
avatar for Robert Zielke

Robert Zielke

Artist
Robert Zielke: I have been in fandom since 1980. I read constantly and have over 1300 science fiction books. My hobbies include scuba diving, woodworking, and using lasers to create unique items. Diving at the TN Aquarium as a volunteer for over 17 years has been fun. My woodworking... Read More →
avatar for Alexandra Klimek-Sidor

Alexandra Klimek-Sidor

Artist
Alexandra's work includes abstracted portraits, twisted creatures, and fantastical monsters from myth and fandoms alike. She specializes in alcohol ink paintings and engraved game accessories. She has shown her work in galleries in Greenville, SC, the Oddities and Curiosities Expo... Read More →
Friday June 26, 2026 4:00pm - 5:00pm EDT
M - Director's Room Chattanooga Marriott Downtown 2 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402, USA
  Art/Workshops, Panel

4:00pm EDT

Visionary Art for RPGs
Friday June 26, 2026 4:00pm - 5:00pm EDT
CC - Meeting Room 3 (Workshop Track)
Ever wonder how those Roleplaying Games sell? It's the art. It draws you in, sits you down, and the next thing you know you've rolled a 1 and your party is toast (literally). Take a walk through the process with these incredible artists. Maggie Schill moderates
Moderators
avatar for M. M. Schill

M. M. Schill

Artist, Editor, Past AGoH
M.M. Schill is an award-winning artist, illustrator, writer, and pro-editor. She also serves as associated editor at Pseudopod (a pro-market, award-winning, short horror podcast and E-zine). Outside of her artistic pursuits, she is a decades-long student of aikido and iaido, a power-lifter, and (most importantly) she's an outspoken activist for victims' rights... Read More →
Guests
avatar for John Kovalic

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 →
avatar for Melissa Gay

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 →
avatar for Michael Bielaczyc

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 →
Friday June 26, 2026 4:00pm - 5:00pm EDT
CC - Meeting Room 3 (Workshop Track) Chattanooga Convention Center 1 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37403
  Art/Workshops, Panel

4:00pm EDT

Authors Alley: David Alan Jones, Philip Ligon, Jay Peterson, Frank Hood, Kelly Grayson, Casey Moores/Jamie Ibson, Robert Evans, Laura Montgomery, Fred Phillips
Friday June 26, 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
avatar for Fred Phillips

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 →
avatar for Laura Montgomery

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 →
avatar for Robert S. Evans

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 →
avatar for Philip Ligon

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 →
avatar for Jamie Ibson

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.
avatar for David Alan Jones

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 →
avatar for Jay Peterson

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 →
avatar for Frank Hood

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 →
avatar for Kelly Grayson

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 →
avatar for Casey Moores

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 →
Friday June 26, 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

4:00pm EDT

Autograph Session: PGOH Julie Cochrane, J.B. Garner, Teresa Howard
Friday June 26, 2026 4:00pm - 5:00pm 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
avatar for Teresa Howard

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 →
avatar for J.B. Garner

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 →
avatar for Julie Cochrane

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 →
Friday June 26, 2026 4:00pm - 5:00pm 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

4:00pm EDT

Dark Humor in MilSF
Friday June 26, 2026 4:00pm - 5:00pm EDT
CC - Meeting Room 5 (Main Event)
Dark Humor in MilSF: Putting characters in the worst situations and let them cope using humor. How does this inform the reader about the truth in the real world? Panelists explore their favorite examples of dark humor in MilSF and why it matters.
Guests
avatar for Sam Robb

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 →
avatar for David Badurina

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 →
avatar for Jody Lynn Nye

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 →
avatar for Terry Maggert

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 →
avatar for Gary Poole

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 →
Friday June 26, 2026 4:00pm - 5:00pm EDT
CC - Meeting Room 5 (Main Event) Chattanooga Convention Center 1 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37403
  Literary/Publishing, Panel

4:00pm EDT

How History Informs Science Fiction and Fantasy
Friday June 26, 2026 4:00pm - 5:00pm EDT
M - Plaza Ballroom C
Historian Daniel Butler hosts the discusssion "How History Informs Science Fiction and Fantasy."
Moderators
avatar for Daniel Allen Butler

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 →
Guests
avatar for Daniel Kemp

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.
avatar for S.M. Stirling

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 →
avatar for Nick Nethery

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 →
avatar for G. Scott Huggins

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 →
Friday June 26, 2026 4:00pm - 5:00pm EDT
M - Plaza Ballroom C
  Literary/Publishing, Panel

4:00pm EDT

Making MILSF Mandatory
Friday June 26, 2026 4:00pm - 5:00pm EDT
M - Plaza Ballroom B
Making MILSF Mandatory: Outside brief periods of consolidation, or even rarer periods of stable peace, conflict is the standard human condition. Understanding human stories which include speculative elements of managing, organizing, and responding to violence may improve our current decision making, and perhaps stave off the worst violence. Which stories should we be writing and reading to help...
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Moderators
avatar for Mike Massa

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
avatar for J. E. Pittman

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 →
avatar for Nathan Balyeat

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 →
avatar for Griffin Barber

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 →
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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 →
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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 →
Friday June 26, 2026 4:00pm - 5:00pm EDT
M - Plaza Ballroom B Chattanooga Marriott Downtown 2 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402, USA
  Literary/Publishing, Panel

4:00pm EDT

Space Cowboys
Friday June 26, 2026 4:00pm - 5:00pm EDT
M - Plaza Ballroom A
The Western genre and the Science Fiction genre often merge to great effect. What makes for good writing and world building when you meld these genres? David Boop moderates. 
Moderators
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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 →
Guests
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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 →
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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 →
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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.
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Matthew Skaggs

Author
Matthew Skaggs has Noir, SF, both Traditional and Weird Westerns, Steampunk, GameLit, and Alt-History short stories in print. So far. When not traveling, taking photos, researching, or writing, he relaxes in the Florida Panhandle sunshine with his totally awesome wife, their Swamp-doodle... Read More →
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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 →
Friday June 26, 2026 4:00pm - 5:00pm EDT
M - Plaza Ballroom A Chattanooga Marriott Downtown 2 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402, USA
  Literary/Publishing, Panel

4:00pm EDT

Reading: Devon Eriksen and Wil McCarthy
Friday June 26, 2026 4:00pm - 5:00pm EDT
M - Signal Mountain Room (Readings 1)
Come hear our authors read from their works.
Guests
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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 →
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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 →
Friday June 26, 2026 4:00pm - 5:00pm EDT
M - Signal Mountain Room (Readings 1) Chattanooga Marriott Downtown 2 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402, USA
  Readings 1, Reading

4:00pm EDT

Reading: Justin Watson and M.G. Martin (Specific Readings)
Friday June 26, 2026 4:00pm - 5:00pm EDT
CC - Meeting Room 2 (Kids Program/Readings 2)
Come out and listen as Justin Watson will read from the latest Romanov Reign novel, and M.G. Martin will read from her current work in progress Demonic Days (the sequel to Necromantic Nights).
Guests
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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 →
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Justin Watson

Author
Justin Watson was a field artilleryman in the United States Army for ten years. He deployed twice to Iraq and once to Afghanistan. He doesn’t count his deployment to Kuwait, but his wife sure does. Medically retired from the Army due to wounds sustained in Iraq, he now lives in... Read More →
Friday June 26, 2026 4:00pm - 5:00pm EDT
CC - Meeting Room 2 (Kids Program/Readings 2) Chattanooga Convention Center 1 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37403
  Readings 2, Reading

4:00pm EDT

How NASA Searches for Life
Friday June 26, 2026 4:00pm - 5:00pm EDT
CC - Meeting Room 6 (Science Track)
Embark on a thrilling journey through humanity’s quest to answer the age-old question: Are we alone in the universe? From wild speculation in pulp novels to today’s high-tech NASA missions, our search for extraterrestrial life has morphed into a dazzling, multi-disciplinary adventure worthy of any sci-fi epic. Discover how NASA Science channels our curiosity with cutting-edge spacecraft that...
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Guests
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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 →
Friday June 26, 2026 4:00pm - 5:00pm EDT
CC - Meeting Room 6 (Science Track) Chattanooga Convention Center 1 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37403
  STEM, Presentation

5:00pm EDT

Opening Ceremonies
Friday June 26, 2026 5:00pm - 6:00pm EDT
CC - Ballroom E (Main Event)
Come one, come all to Opening Ceremonies!
Moderators
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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
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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 →
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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 →
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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."
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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Alexandra Klimek-Sidor

Artist
Alexandra's work includes abstracted portraits, twisted creatures, and fantastical monsters from myth and fandoms alike. She specializes in alcohol ink paintings and engraved game accessories. She has shown her work in galleries in Greenville, SC, the Oddities and Curiosities Expo... Read More →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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Caitlin Roppoli

Artist
Caitlin Roppoli is a Senior Apprentice to Master Stained Glass Artist Leia Powell. She takes great inspiration from her grandfather, who was also a glazier, and she is following in his footsteps, learning as much as she can about the old world art medium. She travels to Wildcat Mountain... Read More →
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M. M. Schill

Artist, Editor, Past AGoH
M.M. Schill is an award-winning artist, illustrator, writer, and pro-editor. She also serves as associated editor at Pseudopod (a pro-market, award-winning, short horror podcast and E-zine). Outside of her artistic pursuits, she is a decades-long student of aikido and iaido, a power-lifter, and (most importantly) she's an outspoken activist for victims' rights... Read More →
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Ross Hathaway

Artist, Author
Ross Hathaway has spent 40+ years in the aerospace industry.  First, in the US Air Force as a navigator on C-141’s. Then, in commercial aircraft research, design and manufacturing, and finally at NASA at NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center.  His wife calls him “her rocket... Read More →
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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 →
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Leia Powell

Artist, Author, Past AGoH
Master Stained Glass Artisan Leia Powell has been creating glass masterpieces, breaking down barriers, and rejuvenating the old world artistry for over 25 years. The first stained glass artist to be nominated for the coveted Chesley Award, Leia is also the first glass artist in history... Read More →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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Amy Brewer-Davenport

Artist
Amy Brewer-Davenport is an award winning fantasy artist and lifelong con-goer, always looking for new inspiration or ways to inspire others to create. Through her work she emphasizes whimsy through color, texture, and chance. Along with her studio practice she teaches creativity workshops... Read More →
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Sara Glassman

Artist
Sara Glassman is a jewelry artist who focuses on bringing fiber art techniques to wire jewelry. She also has an interest in combining books with jewelry and has designed pieces around books or characters as well as used upcycled books in her art. In 2006 she founded Medusa’s Mirror... Read More →
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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 →
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Nancy Edwards

Artist
Nancy Edwards has been in fandom for 40+ years and has the stories to back it up. She was the FGOH at the ninth NASFC, Tuckercon, due to her long friendship with Bob Tucker. She threw an adult relaxicon for several years called Czarcon which was totally non-PC.
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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Nancy Northcott

Author
Nancy Northcott has loved comic books, mysteries, fantasy, history, and romance since childhood. A sucker for fast action and wrenching emotion, she combines the action and high stakes she loves in the books she writes.

On the way to becoming a published author, she taught courses... Read More →
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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 →
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Jonathan Koan

Professional Book Reviewer

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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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Charles Matheny

Gaming
Charles Matheny is a military veteran of fifteen years, serving six years in the Navy as an electronic technician on the USS Carl Vincent and nine years in the Army as a tanker in the 303rd Armored. After his service ended abruptly in a medical discharge, he eventually started a Twitch... Read More →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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.
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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John Ringo

Author, Past LGoH
John Ringo's science fiction is action-oriented and abounding in characters to root for. He is the creator of the New York Times best-selling military science fiction series The Posleen Wars, with over one million copies in print. Ringo is also the author of the far-future science... Read More →
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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 →
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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.
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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 →
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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 →
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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.
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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 →
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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 →
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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.
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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 →
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Kevin Pulliam

STEM
Kevin Pulliam, an Aerospace engineer, farms 130 acres of woods and pasture in North Alabama producing Grass Finished Beef, Forest Raised Pork, and Pastured Poultry and markets his regenerative farmstead’s products direct to the consumer. Regenerative farming improves the land through... Read More →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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.
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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Brian Lee Gnad

Author, STEM
Brian Lee Gnad is a software developer specializing in marine electronics integration. He currently works for a major marine products manufacturer and serves on the National Marine Electronics Association Technical Standards Committee working primarily on the NMEA 2000 and NMEA OneNet... Read More →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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Patricia McIntosh-Mize

Editor
Patty McIntosh-Mize is a lifelong nerd-girl and freelance editor. Most recently, she edited Theft of Fire, the amazing debut novel in the Orbital Space series by Devon Ericksen (now available in audiobook form!). When not editing, she knits and enjoys spending quality time with the Best Husband Ever... Read More →
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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 →
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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 →
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Debi Chowdhury

Professional Panelist
Member of International Costumers Guild, Sick Pups and Noel. Worldcon Masquerade Judge 2023 Chicago, Worldcon Masquerade CoDirector Helsinki 2017, Asst Director Worldcon Masquerade london 2014, Masquerade judge at Philcon, Balticon, Masquerade staff at many conventions. Costume panelist... Read More →
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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 →
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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 →
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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.
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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 →
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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.
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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.
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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 →
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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 →
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Tammie Darden

STEM
Tammie Darden is an everyday scientist in charge of a small production lab. Much to her surprise her work and insight has been found useful to story development by author friends.
Academically she continues her studies independently with a special emphasis on food science (which... Read More →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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Janet Spaulding

Editor
Janet has taught English for over twenty years She holds a Doctorate in Creative Invective as well as a black belt in sarcasm. All her puns are 100% intentional. In addition to teaching and editing, she has been a military contractor, a mortgage officer, a stand-up comedian and a... Read More →
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Matthew Skaggs

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

STEM
Dr. Mark Paulk is a retired member of the faculty at the University of Texas at Dallas, teaching software engineering. Before UTD, he was with Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh for 25 years, researching and teaching on best practices for software engineering and service management... Read More →
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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 →
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Atlanta Radio Theatre Company

Performer
Since 1984, the Atlanta Radio Theatre Company has been performing, recording, and broadcasting dramatic audio -- fully dramatized, fully sound-scaped audio drama, far beyond the readings and "audio books" you can find in every bookstore. We like to think that what we do is classic... Read More →
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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 →
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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 →
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Chris Oakley

Presenter
Chris Oakley owned and operated Oakley’s Gently Used Books, a bricks & mortar used bookshop with a specialty in Sci Fi/Fantasy, for more than 20 years (1995-2016) in Charlottesville, VA. She has been a bookseller at Madicon, MarsCon, MystiCon, RavenCon, Libertycon DSC50, DSC60 and... Read More →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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D. Jason Fleming

Author, Editor
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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.
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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 →
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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 →
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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.
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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 →
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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
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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Paul Sparks

Author
Paul Sparks served as a combat medic in the US Army with three combat deployments overseas. He has been a lifelong geek, plays various RPG's and enjoys reading and writing military science fiction. He lives with his cats in Ohio, where he volunteers with various animal adoption a... Read More →
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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 →
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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 →
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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.
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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Martha Knowles

Professional Panelist
Now retired, Martha Knowles was a professional librarian and records management specialist. She was the TVIW Treasurer from 2014-2020, and administrator and Registrar for the first four TVIW symposia. Since TVIW became the Interstellar Research Group, she has continued to be involved... Read More →
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Michael Z. Williamson

Author
Michael Z. Williamson is an SF author, military consultant, and Editor at Large for Survivalblog. His novels include the popular Freehold universe, and "The Hero" (with John Ringo). He has consulted for productions on Discovery Networks, the Outdoor Channel, and National Geographic... Read More →
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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 →
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Courtney Lytle Sarnow

Professional Panelist
Courtney Lytle Sarnow is a partner at Culhane Meadows and an Adjunct Professor at Emory Law. Her practice focuses on protecting creative works and providing consulting for innovative businesses. She has written a law school text book and several academic articles which are not really... Read More →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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.
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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Kara Metz

Artist, Tri-ME
Kara captures the unique beauty of nature from the enchanted forests of Maine to the stars above. Fantastical creatures, fictional planets, and popular references are just the first few layers in the labrynth of her mind. Watercolors and Spraypaint are her current focus but anything... Read More →
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Richard Cartwright

Author
Richard Cartwright was born and raised in Tennessee when he was not bouncing around the country and Canada in the sleeper of his parents tractor trailer rig that his father bought after retiring from the Navy to go into trucking.

His first reading lessons were road signs at four. His education was disrupted at five when he was forced to start spending the school year at school. After acquiring a note at six to allow him to check out "advanced " books from the library, he discovered Heinlein and never looked... Read More →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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Sam R. Kennedy

Artist
Sam R Kennedy paints galaxies, gods, and dreams—sometimes all in one frame. A cover artist for science fiction and fantasy, and a fine artist for Disney and beyond, Sam lives somewhere between the stars and the sketchbook.
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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 →
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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 →
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Chris DiNote

Author
Chris “MOGS” DiNote retired from the United States Air Force as a full colonel with 25 years, 7 months, and 29 days of service, but who's counting? He deployed for Operations Enduring Freedom, Iraqi Freedom, and Noble Eagle, served in South Korea and Germany.  Chris is a graduate... Read More →
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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.
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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.
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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 →
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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.
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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 →
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Justin Watson

Author
Justin Watson was a field artilleryman in the United States Army for ten years. He deployed twice to Iraq and once to Afghanistan. He doesn’t count his deployment to Kuwait, but his wife sure does. Medically retired from the Army due to wounds sustained in Iraq, he now lives in... Read More →
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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 →
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Chris Kennedy

Author, Publisher, Past GoH

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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 →
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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 →
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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/.
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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.
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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Everette Beach

Auctioneer
I've been a Science Fiction fan since I learned to read. I had read everything in the "juvenile" science fiction / fantasy section of our library by the time I was 10 and had to get my mother to check out the "real" books in the adult section for me.  Yes, I am old enough to remember... Read More →
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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.
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Scott Swoope

Author
Scott Swoope is a speculative fiction writer whose work blends the sweep of history with the imagination of science fiction and fantasy. His stories explore power, loyalty, and the human cost of ambition across worlds both ancient and futuristic.

When he’s not writing, Scott wo... Read More →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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.
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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H.Y. Gregor

Author
H.Y. Gregor was born in Portland, Oregon, but will always call the mountains of Colorado home. She holds a bachelor's degree in political science but put it down often enough to narrowly avoid law school. Now she spends as much free time as possible weaving fantasy tales and battling... Read More →
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Megan Miller

Author
Megan Miller holds a Masters of Science from NC State University and is a proud PhD dropout from the University of Arizona at Tucson. She is currently the Executive Director of one of the largest non-profits fighting food scarcity in western North Carolina. A mother, stand-up comedian... Read More →
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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 →
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David Truesdale

Editor
Dave Truesdale has edited Tangent Online since 1993. It has been nominated for the Hugo Award six times, and the World Fantasy Award once. A former editor of the Bulletin of the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America, he also served as a World Fantasy Award judge in 1998, and... Read More →
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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 →
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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 →
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Annastasia Webster

Artist
Annastasia Webster expresses her art in a variety of ways. Most currently she has been exploring the mediums of polymer clay and resin under the umbrella of Night Witch Studio. She has purple hair and lives in Louisville, KY with her husband and 3 cats.
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Morgan Metz

Artist
Morgan Metz: Stuck in nature with a mother who loves everything full of art and color, it was only natural to do the one thing she wouldn't touch, digital art! I've been forced to express myself through a variety of other mediums and even won an award for some of my work! Although... Read More →
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Tina Pierce

Artist
Tina Pierce is a third year Senior Apprentice to Master Stained Glass Artisan Leia Powell. A resident of Syracuse, New York, she learned exclusively through video chat during the covid shutdown. She is also the Art Show Director for JordanCon and is devoted to encouraging and promoting... Read More →
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Lori Morrow

Artist
Lori is a dot artist working in both 2D and 3D mediums. She has also enjoyed going back to her roots and designing Celtic knots and zentangle inspired mandalas

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Robert Zielke

Artist
Robert Zielke: I have been in fandom since 1980. I read constantly and have over 1300 science fiction books. My hobbies include scuba diving, woodworking, and using lasers to create unique items. Diving at the TN Aquarium as a volunteer for over 17 years has been fun. My woodworking... Read More →
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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 →
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Megan Sloane

Editor
Megan Sloane is an editor of prose and comic book stories. She is a senior editor at 1First Comics and received her editing certificate from the University of California: Berkeley. Yes, she will receive your (written) comic book pitches and evaluate your comic sample pages.
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
avatar for All Pros
Friday June 26, 2026 5:00pm - 6:00pm EDT
CC - Ballroom E (Main Event) Chattanooga Convention Center 1 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37403
  Main Program, Event

6:00pm EDT

Art Track Meetup
Friday June 26, 2026 6:00pm - 7:00pm EDT
M - Director's Room
Are you an Artist or Volunteer working in the Art Track this year? Come start the con off right and hang out for a minute before you have to be all famous for fans.
Moderators
avatar for Leia Powell

Leia Powell

Artist, Author, Past AGoH
Master Stained Glass Artisan Leia Powell has been creating glass masterpieces, breaking down barriers, and rejuvenating the old world artistry for over 25 years. The first stained glass artist to be nominated for the coveted Chesley Award, Leia is also the first glass artist in history... Read More →
Guests
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M. M. Schill

Artist, Editor, Past AGoH
M.M. Schill is an award-winning artist, illustrator, writer, and pro-editor. She also serves as associated editor at Pseudopod (a pro-market, award-winning, short horror podcast and E-zine). Outside of her artistic pursuits, she is a decades-long student of aikido and iaido, a power-lifter, and (most importantly) she's an outspoken activist for victims' rights... Read More →
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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 →
Friday June 26, 2026 6:00pm - 7:00pm EDT
M - Director's Room Chattanooga Marriott Downtown 2 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402, USA
  Art/Workshops, Event

6:00pm EDT

Sari Workshop
Friday June 26, 2026 6:00pm - 7:00pm EDT
CC - Meeting Room 3 (Workshop Track)
Master Costumer Debi Chowdhury will give a class on the creation of saris.
Guests
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Debi Chowdhury

Professional Panelist
Member of International Costumers Guild, Sick Pups and Noel. Worldcon Masquerade Judge 2023 Chicago, Worldcon Masquerade CoDirector Helsinki 2017, Asst Director Worldcon Masquerade london 2014, Masquerade judge at Philcon, Balticon, Masquerade staff at many conventions. Costume panelist... Read More →
Friday June 26, 2026 6:00pm - 7:00pm EDT
CC - Meeting Room 3 (Workshop Track) Chattanooga Convention Center 1 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37403
  Art/Workshops, Workshop

6:00pm EDT

Authors Alley: Jay Maynard, Tim Akers, Nathan Brindle, Marina Fontaine, David Boop, Julie Frost, April Kelley Jones, Zane Voss, William Frisbee
Friday June 26, 2026 6:00pm - 7:00pm 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
avatar for Jay Maynard

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 →
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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 →
avatar for Nathan Brindle

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 →
avatar for Marina Fontaine

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 →
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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 →
avatar for Julie Frost

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 →
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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 →
avatar for Zane Voss

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 →
Friday June 26, 2026 6:00pm - 7:00pm EDT
M - Plaza Ballroom Mezzanine - Authors Alley Chattanooga Marriott Downtown 2 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402, USA
  Authors Alley, Authors Alley

6:00pm EDT

Autograph Session: Karen Bogen, Lloyd Watson
Friday June 26, 2026 6:00pm - 7:00pm 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
avatar for Lloyd Watson

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 →
avatar for Karen Bogen

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 →
Friday June 26, 2026 6:00pm - 7:00pm 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

6:00pm EDT

AI Prompt: You Are a Ruthless Killing Machine…
Friday June 26, 2026 6:00pm - 7:00pm EDT
M - Plaza Ballroom B
Towards practical definition of MilSF for writing. AI for military use. Synthetic sentience versus expert systems. What
are the differences and what’s credible? Sci-Fi Combined Arms: Armor, Infantry, Artillery, Cyber… and AI? If MilSF is a serious genre, how hard to authors have to try?
Moderators
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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 →
Guests
avatar for Wayland Smith

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 →
avatar for Devon Eriksen

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 →
avatar for Mark Stallings

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 →
avatar for Daniel M. Hoyt

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 →
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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 →
Friday June 26, 2026 6:00pm - 7:00pm EDT
M - Plaza Ballroom B Chattanooga Marriott Downtown 2 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402, USA
  Literary/Publishing, Panel

6:00pm EDT

Poul Anderson Part 1 - Introduction, Fantasy, and Humor
Friday June 26, 2026 6:00pm - 7:00pm EDT
M - Plaza Ballroom A
Poul Anderson Part 1 - Introduction, Fantasy, and Humor: Ben Yalow and Toni Weisskopf will be discussing the following works:  Three Hearts & Three Lions, Operation Chaos, Hokas, and The High Crusade. 
Guests
avatar for Toni Weisskopf

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 →
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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 →
Friday June 26, 2026 6:00pm - 7:00pm EDT
M - Plaza Ballroom A Chattanooga Marriott Downtown 2 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402, USA
  Literary/Publishing, Panel

6:00pm EDT

What are the Tropes of Modern Fantasy?
Friday June 26, 2026 6:00pm - 7:00pm EDT
M - Plaza Ballroom C
What are the Tropes of Modern Fantasy? Our panel of fantasy writers will discuss how fantasy is evolving in the modern era, and how it's tropes are evolving with it. 
Moderators
avatar for Patricia McIntosh-Mize

Patricia McIntosh-Mize

Editor
Patty McIntosh-Mize is a lifelong nerd-girl and freelance editor. Most recently, she edited Theft of Fire, the amazing debut novel in the Orbital Space series by Devon Ericksen (now available in audiobook form!). When not editing, she knits and enjoys spending quality time with the Best Husband Ever... Read More →
Guests
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
avatar for Alma T. C. Boykin

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 →
Friday June 26, 2026 6:00pm - 7:00pm EDT
M - Plaza Ballroom C
  Literary/Publishing, Panel

6:00pm EDT

What's New in 1632 / Grantville
Friday June 26, 2026 6:00pm - 7:00pm EDT
CC - Meeting Room 5 (Main Event)
Bjorn Hasseler moderates this panel on what is new in the 1632 / Grantville universe in all it's alternate history glory.
Moderators
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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 →
Guests
avatar for Charles E. Gannon

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 →
avatar for Bethanne Kim

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 →
avatar for Jody Lynn Nye

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 →
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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 →
avatar for Griffin Barber

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 →
Friday June 26, 2026 6:00pm - 7:00pm EDT
CC - Meeting Room 5 (Main Event) Chattanooga Convention Center 1 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37403
  Literary/Publishing, Panel

6:00pm EDT

Reading: Rick Cartwright and James P. Nettles
Friday June 26, 2026 6:00pm - 7:00pm EDT
M - Signal Mountain Room (Readings 1)
Come hear our authors read from their works.
Guests
avatar for James P. Nettles

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 →
avatar for Richard Cartwright

Richard Cartwright

Author
Richard Cartwright was born and raised in Tennessee when he was not bouncing around the country and Canada in the sleeper of his parents tractor trailer rig that his father bought after retiring from the Navy to go into trucking.

His first reading lessons were road signs at four. His education was disrupted at five when he was forced to start spending the school year at school. After acquiring a note at six to allow him to check out "advanced " books from the library, he discovered Heinlein and never looked... Read More →
Friday June 26, 2026 6:00pm - 7:00pm EDT
M - Signal Mountain Room (Readings 1) Chattanooga Marriott Downtown 2 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402, USA
  Readings 1, Reading

6:00pm EDT

Reading: Stephanie Osborn and A.G. Thompson
Friday June 26, 2026 6:00pm - 7:00pm EDT
CC - Meeting Room 2 (Kids Program/Readings 2)
Come out and listen to Past STEM GOH Stephanie Osborn and A.G. Thompson read from their works!
Guests
avatar for A.G. Thompson

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 →
avatar for Stephanie Osborn

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 →
Friday June 26, 2026 6:00pm - 7:00pm EDT
CC - Meeting Room 2 (Kids Program/Readings 2) Chattanooga Convention Center 1 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37403
  Readings 2, Reading

6:00pm EDT

Rare Earths Aren’t Rare! Strategic minerals and Geopolitics
Friday June 26, 2026 6:00pm - 7:00pm EDT
CC - Meeting Room 6 (Science Track)
The name “rare earths” is a historical mistake. We’ll talk about the discovery of these elements, why they’re so important to the modern world, and why we (mostly) don’t produce them in the United States. Also a discussion of other strategic minerals (cobalt, titanium, etc.) and where we find them. Stephen Fleming presents.
Guests
avatar for Stephen Fleming

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 →
Friday June 26, 2026 6:00pm - 7:00pm EDT
CC - Meeting Room 6 (Science Track) Chattanooga Convention Center 1 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37403
  STEM, Presentation

6:00pm EDT

Zombie Assault! DEMO
Friday June 26, 2026 6:00pm - 8:00pm EDT
M - Tennessee River Room (Gaming Room)
Come see this demonstration of the fast-paced zombie themed card game with its designer. Try to keep your survivors alive while sending zombies to attack your opponent's survivors. Last player standing wins. But, if all the survivors die, no one wins, and zombies take over the world. Up to 10 players - Rob Reed hosts.
Guests
avatar for Rob Reed

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 →
Friday June 26, 2026 6:00pm - 8:00pm EDT
M - Tennessee River Room (Gaming Room) Chattanooga Marriott Downtown 2 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402, USA
  Gaming, Gaming

6:00pm EDT

Chris Kennedy Publishing - the Year Ahead
Friday June 26, 2026 6:00pm - 8:00pm EDT
CC - Ballroom E (Main Event)
Chris Kennedy Publishing - The Year Ahead
Moderators
avatar for Chris Kennedy

Chris Kennedy

Author, Publisher, Past GoH

Guests
avatar for James S. Aaron

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.
avatar for Fred Hughes

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 →
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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 →
avatar for Kevin Ikenberry

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 →
avatar for Mark Wandrey

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 →
avatar for Michael LaVoice

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 →
avatar for Chris Woods

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 →
Friday June 26, 2026 6:00pm - 8:00pm EDT
CC - Ballroom E (Main Event) Chattanooga Convention Center 1 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37403
  Literary/Publishing, Round Table

6:00pm EDT

Microscope
Friday June 26, 2026 6:00pm - 10:00pm EDT
M - Tennessee River Room (Gaming Room)
A unique kind of TTRPG more focused on story creation rather than playing a character. Players will go on a jourmey, jumping back and forth through time to build an entire world. Age 12+, 3-4 players, 4 hours. Joshua Kennedy hosts.
Friday June 26, 2026 6:00pm - 10:00pm EDT
M - Tennessee River Room (Gaming Room) Chattanooga Marriott Downtown 2 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402, USA
  Gaming, Gaming

6:00pm EDT

Open Crafting & Artist Space
Friday June 26, 2026 6:00pm - Saturday June 27, 2026 12:00am 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
avatar for Jonna Hayden

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 →
avatar for James Schardt

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 →
Friday June 26, 2026 6:00pm - Saturday June 27, 2026 12:00am EDT
M - East/West (Craft Room) Chattanooga Marriott Downtown 2 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402, USA
  Art/Workshops, Demonstration

7:00pm EDT

Conestoga’s In Space
Friday June 26, 2026 7:00pm - 8:00pm EDT
CC - Meeting Room 5 (Main Event)
Conestoga’s In Space: Is there a point to making MilSF logistics realistic-ish? Are explanations for time/distance/resupply helpful to story or just something that needs to be adequately hand-waved away? Let’s compare and contrast how some well known MilSF franchises address the questions which real life military planners invest so much to solve. Can logistics make a story better? (moderator...
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Moderators
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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
avatar for Henry Brown

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 →
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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 →
avatar for Jim Beall

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 →
avatar for David M. Weber

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 →
avatar for Charles E. Gannon

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 →
Friday June 26, 2026 7:00pm - 8:00pm EDT
CC - Meeting Room 5 (Main Event) Chattanooga Convention Center 1 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37403

7:00pm EDT

Authors Alley: Jay Maynard, Tim Akers, Nathan Brindle, Kristin Janz/Donald Crankshaw , David Boop, Julie Frost, Lyndie Ferguson, Zane Voss, William Frisbee
Friday June 26, 2026 7:00pm - 8:00pm 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
avatar for Donald Crankshaw

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 →
avatar for Kristin Janz

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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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.
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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 →
Friday June 26, 2026 7:00pm - 8:00pm EDT
M - Plaza Ballroom Mezzanine - Authors Alley Chattanooga Marriott Downtown 2 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402, USA
  Authors Alley, Authors Alley

7:00pm EDT

Autograph Session: John Ringo, Casey Moores, Lydia Sherrer
Friday June 26, 2026 7:00pm - 8:00pm 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
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John Ringo

Author, Past LGoH
John Ringo's science fiction is action-oriented and abounding in characters to root for. He is the creator of the New York Times best-selling military science fiction series The Posleen Wars, with over one million copies in print. Ringo is also the author of the far-future science... Read More →
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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 →
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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 →
Friday June 26, 2026 7:00pm - 8:00pm 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

7:00pm EDT

Outflanked
Friday June 26, 2026 7:00pm - 8:00pm 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...
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Moderators
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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 →
Friday June 26, 2026 7:00pm - 8:00pm EDT
M - Tennessee River Room (Gaming Room) Chattanooga Marriott Downtown 2 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402, USA
  Kids Program, Gaming

7:00pm EDT

Artificial Intelligence and the Current Copyright Lawsuits
Friday June 26, 2026 7:00pm - 8:00pm EDT
CC - Meeting Room 6 (Science Track)
Lawyer Courtney Lytle Sarnow will give a presentation on changes in copyright law with respect to AI and expain the current ongoing lawsuits.
Guests
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Courtney Lytle Sarnow

Professional Panelist
Courtney Lytle Sarnow is a partner at Culhane Meadows and an Adjunct Professor at Emory Law. Her practice focuses on protecting creative works and providing consulting for innovative businesses. She has written a law school text book and several academic articles which are not really... Read More →
Friday June 26, 2026 7:00pm - 8:00pm EDT
CC - Meeting Room 6 (Science Track) Chattanooga Convention Center 1 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37403
  Literary/Publishing, Presentation

7:00pm EDT

Eidolons of Night - Who are the Heirs of Edgar Allan Poe
Friday June 26, 2026 7:00pm - 8:00pm EDT
M - Plaza Ballroom C
Eidolons of Night - Who are the Heirs of Edgar Allan Poe? Come listen to these horror writers dish on who is worthy today to take up his mantle.  
Guests
avatar for M. M. Schill

M. M. Schill

Artist, Editor, Past AGoH
M.M. Schill is an award-winning artist, illustrator, writer, and pro-editor. She also serves as associated editor at Pseudopod (a pro-market, award-winning, short horror podcast and E-zine). Outside of her artistic pursuits, she is a decades-long student of aikido and iaido, a power-lifter, and (most importantly) she's an outspoken activist for victims' rights... Read More →
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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 →
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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 →
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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/.
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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 →
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Megan Miller

Author
Megan Miller holds a Masters of Science from NC State University and is a proud PhD dropout from the University of Arizona at Tucson. She is currently the Executive Director of one of the largest non-profits fighting food scarcity in western North Carolina. A mother, stand-up comedian... Read More →
Friday June 26, 2026 7:00pm - 8:00pm EDT
M - Plaza Ballroom C
  Literary/Publishing, Panel

7:00pm EDT

What's New in Humorous Science Fiction and Fantasy
Friday June 26, 2026 7:00pm - 8:00pm EDT
M - Plaza Ballroom A
Dave Schroeder moderates this panel on what's new in the worlds of humorous Science Fiction and Fantasy.
Moderators
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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 →
Guests
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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.
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
Friday June 26, 2026 7:00pm - 8:00pm EDT
M - Plaza Ballroom A Chattanooga Marriott Downtown 2 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402, USA
  Literary/Publishing, Panel

7:00pm EDT

Writing Divers for Non-Divers
Friday June 26, 2026 7:00pm - 8:00pm EDT
CC - Meeting Room 3 (Workshop Track)
David Appley presents "Writing Divers for Non-Divers." David will cover the basics, cave and search and rescue plus key points to think of when writing. Mike Massa will cover the military side and underwater boom. Q&A at the end. 
Moderators
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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 →
Guests
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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 →
Friday June 26, 2026 7:00pm - 8:00pm EDT
CC - Meeting Room 3 (Workshop Track) Chattanooga Convention Center 1 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37403
  Literary/Publishing, Presentation

7:00pm EDT

Reading: Michael Morton and Rob Howell
Friday June 26, 2026 7:00pm - 8:00pm EDT
M - Signal Mountain Room (Readings 1)
Come hear our authors read from their works.
Guests
avatar for Michael Morton

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.
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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 →
Friday June 26, 2026 7:00pm - 8:00pm EDT
M - Signal Mountain Room (Readings 1) Chattanooga Marriott Downtown 2 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402, USA
  Readings 1, Reading

7:00pm EDT

Reading: PGOH Robert Hampson
Friday June 26, 2026 7:00pm - 8:00pm EDT
CC - Meeting Room 2 (Kids Program/Readings 2)
Come hear Past STEM GOH Robert Hampson read from his works.
Guests
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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 →
Friday June 26, 2026 7:00pm - 8:00pm EDT
CC - Meeting Room 2 (Kids Program/Readings 2) Chattanooga Convention Center 1 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37403
  Readings 1, Reading

7:00pm EDT

Mixed Media Journaling
Friday June 26, 2026 7:00pm - 9:00pm EDT
M - Director's Room
Come join artist Amy Brewer-Davenport for a mixed media journaling workshop- beginners and beyond welcome. You'll leave with your own starter kit of supplies and fresh ideas. Pre-registation not necessary, but ensures your seat. Seats are limited at the door. Cost per seat $15. 20 Seats.
Moderators
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Amy Brewer-Davenport

Artist
Amy Brewer-Davenport is an award winning fantasy artist and lifelong con-goer, always looking for new inspiration or ways to inspire others to create. Through her work she emphasizes whimsy through color, texture, and chance. Along with her studio practice she teaches creativity workshops... Read More →
Friday June 26, 2026 7:00pm - 9:00pm EDT
M - Director's Room Chattanooga Marriott Downtown 2 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402, USA
  Art/Workshops, Workshop

7:00pm EDT

Meet the Guests of Honor
Friday June 26, 2026 7:00pm - 9:00pm EDT
M - Plaza Ballroom B
Co-Host of "Literary Treks" and "Two Sons of Tatooine," Book Reviewer on YouTube Jonathan Koan will do a recorded interview with the Guests of Honor.
Moderators
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Jonathan Koan

Professional Book Reviewer

Guests
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
Friday June 26, 2026 7:00pm - 9:00pm EDT
M - Plaza Ballroom B Chattanooga Marriott Downtown 2 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402, USA
  Main Program, Event

7:00pm EDT

Call of Cthulhu: The Haunting
Friday June 26, 2026 7:00pm - 10:00pm EDT
M - Tennessee River Room (Gaming Room)
Anita Moore will GM Call of Cthulhu: The Haunting.  The very first Call of Cthulhu scenario written by Sandy Peterson himself. Routine background check and investigation of an early acquired rental is anything but routine. 2-6 Investigators. Format is it blend of traditional plus pulp...because it's just fun that way! Game will run approximately 2.5 -3 hours.
Guests
avatar for Anita Moore

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 →
Friday June 26, 2026 7:00pm - 10:00pm EDT
M - Tennessee River Room (Gaming Room) Chattanooga Marriott Downtown 2 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402, USA
  Gaming, Gaming

8:00pm EDT

Authors Alley: Justin Watson, M.D. Boncher, David (Brena) Bock, Kristin Janz/Donald Crankshaw, Gini Koch, Lyndie Ferguson, Zane Voss, William Frisbee, G. Scott Huggins
Friday June 26, 2026 8:00pm - 9:00pm 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
avatar for G. Scott Huggins

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 →
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Justin Watson

Author
Justin Watson was a field artilleryman in the United States Army for ten years. He deployed twice to Iraq and once to Afghanistan. He doesn’t count his deployment to Kuwait, but his wife sure does. Medically retired from the Army due to wounds sustained in Iraq, he now lives in... Read More →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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.
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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 →
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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.
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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 →
Friday June 26, 2026 8:00pm - 9:00pm EDT
M - Plaza Ballroom Mezzanine - Authors Alley Chattanooga Marriott Downtown 2 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402, USA
  Authors Alley, Authors Alley

8:00pm EDT

Autograph Session: Jason Cordova, Melissa Olthoff
Friday June 26, 2026 8:00pm - 9:00pm 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
avatar for Melissa Olthoff

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 →
avatar for Jason Cordova

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 →
Friday June 26, 2026 8:00pm - 9:00pm 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

8:00pm EDT

Are You a Werewolf? Teens Edition
Friday June 26, 2026 8:00pm - 9:00pm EDT
M - Tennessee River Room (Gaming Room)
Tasty villagers trying to root out hungry werewolves from their village. Duncan Pickard hosts this teens edition of Are You a Werewolf? Age 12+
Friday June 26, 2026 8:00pm - 9:00pm EDT
M - Tennessee River Room (Gaming Room) Chattanooga Marriott Downtown 2 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402, USA
  Gaming, Gaming

8:00pm EDT

Quillcraft Press - Books for Writers, by Writers
Friday June 26, 2026 8:00pm - 9:00pm EDT
M - Plaza Ballroom C
Chris Kennedy moderates a discussion on Quillcraft Press, an imprint of Chris Kennedy Publishing, and the new work Titans Rising.
Moderators
avatar for Chris Kennedy

Chris Kennedy

Author, Publisher, Past GoH

Guests
avatar for Jon R. Osborne

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 →
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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 →
Friday June 26, 2026 8:00pm - 9:00pm EDT
M - Plaza Ballroom C
  Literary/Publishing, Panel

8:00pm EDT

The Art of Translation: When Cream of the Crop Becomes Yellow of the Egg
Friday June 26, 2026 8:00pm - 9:00pm EDT
CC - Meeting Room 5 (Main Event)
Words matter—but what happens when they cross borders?Translating fiction is part art, part chaos, and all nuance. It’s more than just swapping words. It’s about navigating cultural context, idiomatic landmines, and preserving the author’s voice. From idioms gone rogue to character voices lost in the shuffle, this panel dives into the strange and delightful world of fiction in translation....
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Moderators
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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 →
Guests
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
Friday June 26, 2026 8:00pm - 9:00pm EDT
CC - Meeting Room 5 (Main Event) Chattanooga Convention Center 1 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37403
  Literary/Publishing, Panel

8:00pm EDT

The Art of Villany
Friday June 26, 2026 8:00pm - 9:00pm EDT
M - Plaza Ballroom A
Creating compelling and 3-dimensional villains. Protagonists are good. Seriously, at least be good enough to be the hero in your tale, but you need a villain(s) for conflict and to really get things in gear. MG Martin hosts. 

Moderators
avatar for M.G. Martin

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 →
Guests
avatar for Jamie Ibson

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.
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
Friday June 26, 2026 8:00pm - 9:00pm EDT
M - Plaza Ballroom A Chattanooga Marriott Downtown 2 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402, USA
  Literary/Publishing, Panel

8:00pm EDT

Meet and Greet the First Timers! - Round Three
Friday June 26, 2026 8:00pm - 9:00pm EDT
CC - Ballroom E (Main Event)
Come welcome and get familiar with some of our first time at LibertyCon pros. Griffin Barber will host.
Moderators
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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 →
Guests
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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Robert Zielke

Artist
Robert Zielke: I have been in fandom since 1980. I read constantly and have over 1300 science fiction books. My hobbies include scuba diving, woodworking, and using lasers to create unique items. Diving at the TN Aquarium as a volunteer for over 17 years has been fun. My woodworking... Read More →
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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 →
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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.
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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 →
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Scott Swoope

Author
Scott Swoope is a speculative fiction writer whose work blends the sweep of history with the imagination of science fiction and fantasy. His stories explore power, loyalty, and the human cost of ambition across worlds both ancient and futuristic.

When he’s not writing, Scott wo... Read More →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
Friday June 26, 2026 8:00pm - 9:00pm EDT
CC - Ballroom E (Main Event) Chattanooga Convention Center 1 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37403
  Main Program, Round Table

8:00pm EDT

Reading: B.K. Gibson and Donald Mark Haynes
Friday June 26, 2026 8:00pm - 9:00pm EDT
M - Signal Mountain Room (Readings 1)
Come hear our authors read from their works.
Guests
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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 →
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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 →
Friday June 26, 2026 8:00pm - 9:00pm EDT
M - Signal Mountain Room (Readings 1) Chattanooga Marriott Downtown 2 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402, USA
  Readings 1, Reading

8:00pm EDT

Reading: Past Special GOH Julie Cochrane and Past AGOH Melissa Gay
Friday June 26, 2026 8:00pm - 9:00pm EDT
CC - Meeting Room 2 (Kids Program/Readings 2)
Come hear Past Special GOH Julie Cochrane and Past AGOH Melissa Gay read from their works. 
Guests
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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 →
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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 →
Friday June 26, 2026 8:00pm - 9:00pm EDT
CC - Meeting Room 2 (Kids Program/Readings 2) Chattanooga Convention Center 1 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37403
  Readings 2, Reading

8:00pm EDT

Orbital Denial
Friday June 26, 2026 8:00pm - 9:00pm EDT
CC - Meeting Room 3 (Workshop Track)
From Peter Hamilton to Neil Stephenson, the weaponized Kessler effect is a major plot device in SF. Is it a real problem at this time? Could a 1750 mile swath of orbital altitude be blocked off deliberately, and what is affected? 
Moderators
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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 →
Guests
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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.
Friday June 26, 2026 8:00pm - 9:00pm EDT
CC - Meeting Room 3 (Workshop Track) Chattanooga Convention Center 1 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37403
  STEM, Panel

8:00pm EDT

The Planetary Brain and the Power Beneath It
Friday June 26, 2026 8:00pm - 9:00pm EDT
CC - Meeting Room 6 (Science Track)
Artificial intelligence may feel weightless, but the machines behind it are anything but invisible to the engineers who power them. This presentation explores the growing collision between hyperscale AI, massive data centers, electrical infrastructure, cooling systems, and the future of civilization-scale computation. Drawing from both real-world power-system engineering and decades of science...
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Guests
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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 →
Friday June 26, 2026 8:00pm - 9:00pm EDT
CC - Meeting Room 6 (Science Track) Chattanooga Convention Center 1 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37403
  STEM, Presentation

8:00pm EDT

D&D: The Dragons of Stormwreck Isle (Age 12+)
Friday June 26, 2026 8:00pm - 10:00pm EDT
M - Tennessee River Room (Gaming Room)
The Dragons of Stormwreck Isle: The death of many dragons over the centuries on Stormwreck Isle has left behind a magical scar that causes unpredictable magical effects. Faced with the evil schemes of a vengeful dragon and the righteous anger of another, players must explore whether peace between feuding dragon families on the island is even possible, or whether only violence will resolve the...
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Guests
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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 →
Friday June 26, 2026 8:00pm - 10:00pm EDT
M - Tennessee River Room (Gaming Room) Chattanooga Marriott Downtown 2 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402, USA
  Gaming, Gaming

8:00pm EDT

Open Gaming with Steve Jackson
Friday June 26, 2026 8:00pm - 11:00pm EDT
M - Tennessee River Room (Gaming Room)
Steve Jackson will be hosting open games in the Game Room. Come one come all!
Guests
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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 →
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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 →
Friday June 26, 2026 8:00pm - 11:00pm EDT
M - Tennessee River Room (Gaming Room) Chattanooga Marriott Downtown 2 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402, USA
  Gaming, Gaming

8:00pm EDT

SagaBorn D100
Friday June 26, 2026 8:00pm - 11:00pm EDT
M - Tennessee River Room (Gaming Room)
SagaBorn D100 is a tabletop roleplaying game of dark fantasy, adventure, and discovery. Built on Chaosium’s BRP system, it uses a streamlined percentile skill mechanic – roll under your skill to succeed. Every sword swing, whispered spell, or desperate gamble is decided by the dice.The system is built in the world of the Dark Return, created by artist Michael Bielaczyc and...
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Guests
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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 →
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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/.
Friday June 26, 2026 8:00pm - 11:00pm EDT
M - Tennessee River Room (Gaming Room) Chattanooga Marriott Downtown 2 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402, USA
  Gaming, Gaming

9:00pm EDT

Cover Art Creation for Major Market Publishing
Friday June 26, 2026 9:00pm - 10:00pm EDT
CC - Meeting Room 5 (Main Event)
Ever wondered what makes a good book cover? What publishers are looking for? Join this group of pros from both sides of the fence and get an inside look into the process.

Moderators
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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 →
Guests
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Amy Brewer-Davenport

Artist
Amy Brewer-Davenport is an award winning fantasy artist and lifelong con-goer, always looking for new inspiration or ways to inspire others to create. Through her work she emphasizes whimsy through color, texture, and chance. Along with her studio practice she teaches creativity workshops... Read More →
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M. M. Schill

Artist, Editor, Past AGoH
M.M. Schill is an award-winning artist, illustrator, writer, and pro-editor. She also serves as associated editor at Pseudopod (a pro-market, award-winning, short horror podcast and E-zine). Outside of her artistic pursuits, she is a decades-long student of aikido and iaido, a power-lifter, and (most importantly) she's an outspoken activist for victims' rights... Read More →
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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 →
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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 →
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Chris Kennedy

Author, Publisher, Past GoH

Friday June 26, 2026 9:00pm - 10:00pm EDT
CC - Meeting Room 5 (Main Event) Chattanooga Convention Center 1 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37403
  Art/Workshops, Panel

9:00pm EDT

Sci/Fi and Fantasy Book Collecting
Friday June 26, 2026 9:00pm - 10:00pm EDT
CC - Meeting Room 3 (Workshop Track)
Chris Oakley's presentation will cover sci/fi and fantasy book collecting, valuing, researching, buying and selling including first editions, book club editions, tattered covers and signed copies. Bring your questions.
Moderators
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Chris Oakley

Presenter
Chris Oakley owned and operated Oakley’s Gently Used Books, a bricks & mortar used bookshop with a specialty in Sci Fi/Fantasy, for more than 20 years (1995-2016) in Charlottesville, VA. She has been a bookseller at Madicon, MarsCon, MystiCon, RavenCon, Libertycon DSC50, DSC60 and... Read More →
Friday June 26, 2026 9:00pm - 10:00pm EDT
CC - Meeting Room 3 (Workshop Track) Chattanooga Convention Center 1 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37403
  Art/Workshops, Presentation

9:00pm EDT

Authors Alley: Sarah A. Hoyt/Dan Hoyt, M.D. Boncher, Cassandra Morgan, David Sherrer/Lydia Sherrer , Gini Koch, David R.R. Greenberg, Tamara Lowery, Reggi Broach, A.G. Thompson
Friday June 26, 2026 9:00pm - 10:00pm 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
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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.
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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 →
Friday June 26, 2026 9:00pm - 10:00pm EDT
M - Plaza Ballroom Mezzanine - Authors Alley Chattanooga Marriott Downtown 2 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402, USA
  Authors Alley, Authors Alley

9:00pm EDT

Autograph Session: PGOH David M. Weber (30 minutes - 3 book limit), Charli Cox, Shami Stovall
Friday June 26, 2026 9:00pm - 10:00pm 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.) For David Weber, only a 30 minute session and a 3 book limit.
Guests
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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.
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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 →
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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 →
Friday June 26, 2026 9:00pm - 10:00pm 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

9:00pm EDT

What If There Was No Rome?
Friday June 26, 2026 9:00pm - 10:00pm EDT
CC - Ballroom E (Main Event)
A freeform worldbuilding discussion of what would the modern world look like if Remus defeated Romulus.  If the Roman Empire had not risen and dominated Europe – what would that political and ethnic landscape look like?  Who explores North America?  South America?  Asia? Would we have slower or more rapid development of technology without the Empire? Robert Hampson (mod.)
Moderators
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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 →
Guests
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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 →
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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."
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
Friday June 26, 2026 9:00pm - 10:00pm EDT
CC - Ballroom E (Main Event) Chattanooga Convention Center 1 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37403
  Literary/Publishing, Panel

9:00pm EDT

My Strangest True Experience
Friday June 26, 2026 9:00pm - 10:00pm EDT
M - Plaza Ballroom C
They say you write what you know. A panel where programming participants with very eclectic backgrounds share their strangest, true experiences, whether written down or not.  
Moderators
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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 →
Guests
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
Friday June 26, 2026 9:00pm - 10:00pm EDT
M - Plaza Ballroom C
  Main Program, Panel

9:00pm EDT

Reading: Nathan Balyeat and
Friday June 26, 2026 9:00pm - 10:00pm EDT
M - Signal Mountain Room (Readings 1)
Come hear our authors read from their works.
Guests
avatar for Nathan Balyeat

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 →
Friday June 26, 2026 9:00pm - 10:00pm EDT
M - Signal Mountain Room (Readings 1) Chattanooga Marriott Downtown 2 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402, USA
  Readings 1, Reading

9:00pm EDT

Reading: Past Literary GOH John Ringo
Friday June 26, 2026 9:00pm - 10:00pm EDT
CC - Meeting Room 2 (Kids Program/Readings 2)
Come hear Past Literary GOH John Ringo read from his works.
Guests
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John Ringo

Author, Past LGoH
John Ringo's science fiction is action-oriented and abounding in characters to root for. He is the creator of the New York Times best-selling military science fiction series The Posleen Wars, with over one million copies in print. Ringo is also the author of the far-future science... Read More →
Friday June 26, 2026 9:00pm - 10:00pm EDT
CC - Meeting Room 2 (Kids Program/Readings 2) Chattanooga Convention Center 1 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37403
  Readings 1, Reading

9:00pm EDT

Surviving the Apocalypse - Preserving the Harvest and Foraging
Friday June 26, 2026 9:00pm - 10:00pm EDT
M - Plaza Ballroom B
Tammie Darden moderates "Surviving the Apocalypse -Preserving the Harvest and Foraging." 
Moderators
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Tammie Darden

STEM
Tammie Darden is an everyday scientist in charge of a small production lab. Much to her surprise her work and insight has been found useful to story development by author friends.
Academically she continues her studies independently with a special emphasis on food science (which... Read More →
Guests
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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Kevin Pulliam

STEM
Kevin Pulliam, an Aerospace engineer, farms 130 acres of woods and pasture in North Alabama producing Grass Finished Beef, Forest Raised Pork, and Pastured Poultry and markets his regenerative farmstead’s products direct to the consumer. Regenerative farming improves the land through... Read More →
Friday June 26, 2026 9:00pm - 10:00pm EDT
M - Plaza Ballroom B Chattanooga Marriott Downtown 2 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402, USA
  STEM, Panel

9:00pm EDT

Art Track Win, Lose, or Draw
Friday June 26, 2026 9:00pm - 11:00pm EDT
M - Director's Room
Come watch the Art Show Artists and their special guests battle head to head in another epic edition of Art Track Win, Lost, or Draw. The stakes are high. The skills are mighty. The only question is who throws a chair first. Make sure you don’t miss it!
Moderators
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Leia Powell

Artist, Author, Past AGoH
Master Stained Glass Artisan Leia Powell has been creating glass masterpieces, breaking down barriers, and rejuvenating the old world artistry for over 25 years. The first stained glass artist to be nominated for the coveted Chesley Award, Leia is also the first glass artist in history... Read More →
Guests
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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 →
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Lori Morrow

Artist
Lori is a dot artist working in both 2D and 3D mediums. She has also enjoyed going back to her roots and designing Celtic knots and zentangle inspired mandalas

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Alexandra Klimek-Sidor

Artist
Alexandra's work includes abstracted portraits, twisted creatures, and fantastical monsters from myth and fandoms alike. She specializes in alcohol ink paintings and engraved game accessories. She has shown her work in galleries in Greenville, SC, the Oddities and Curiosities Expo... Read More →
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Caitlin Roppoli

Artist
Caitlin Roppoli is a Senior Apprentice to Master Stained Glass Artist Leia Powell. She takes great inspiration from her grandfather, who was also a glazier, and she is following in his footsteps, learning as much as she can about the old world art medium. She travels to Wildcat Mountain... Read More →
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Kara Metz

Artist, Tri-ME
Kara captures the unique beauty of nature from the enchanted forests of Maine to the stars above. Fantastical creatures, fictional planets, and popular references are just the first few layers in the labrynth of her mind. Watercolors and Spraypaint are her current focus but anything... Read More →
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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 →
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Annastasia Webster

Artist
Annastasia Webster expresses her art in a variety of ways. Most currently she has been exploring the mediums of polymer clay and resin under the umbrella of Night Witch Studio. She has purple hair and lives in Louisville, KY with her husband and 3 cats.
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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 →
Friday June 26, 2026 9:00pm - 11:00pm EDT
M - Director's Room Chattanooga Marriott Downtown 2 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402, USA
  Art/Workshops, Event

9:00pm EDT

No Sh*t There I Was ...
Friday June 26, 2026 9:00pm - 11:00pm EDT
M - Plaza Ballroom A
Justin Watson moderates this "war story" discussion with writers who are military veterans and first responders.
Moderators
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Justin Watson

Author
Justin Watson was a field artilleryman in the United States Army for ten years. He deployed twice to Iraq and once to Afghanistan. He doesn’t count his deployment to Kuwait, but his wife sure does. Medically retired from the Army due to wounds sustained in Iraq, he now lives in... Read More →
Guests
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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 →
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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 →
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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.
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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 →
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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 →
Friday June 26, 2026 9:00pm - 11:00pm EDT
M - Plaza Ballroom A Chattanooga Marriott Downtown 2 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402, USA
  Literary/Publishing, Panel

9:00pm EDT

History of Starfleet Power and Propulsion Systems
Friday June 26, 2026 9:00pm - 11:00pm EDT
CC - Meeting Room 6 (Science Track)
Andy Presby presents "History of Starfleet Power and Propulsion Systems" Hard Science and Star Trek Geekery come together for this presentation. Q&A session to follow.
Moderators
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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.
Friday June 26, 2026 9:00pm - 11:00pm EDT
CC - Meeting Room 6 (Science Track) Chattanooga Convention Center 1 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37403
  STEM, Presentation

10:00pm EDT

Authors Alley: Jesse James Fain, M.D. Boncher, Cassandra Morgan, David Sherrer/Lydia Sherrer, Gini Koch, David R.R. Greenberg, Tamara Lowery, Reggi Broach, Lee Ellis
Friday June 26, 2026 10:00pm - 11:00pm 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
avatar for Lee Ellis

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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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.
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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 →
Friday June 26, 2026 10:00pm - 11:00pm EDT
M - Plaza Ballroom Mezzanine - Authors Alley Chattanooga Marriott Downtown 2 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402, USA
  Authors Alley, Authors Alley

10:00pm EDT

Autograph Session: PGOH Terry Maggert, Bjorn Hasseler, James P. Nettles
Friday June 26, 2026 10:00pm - 11:00pm 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
avatar for James P. Nettles

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 →
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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 →
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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 →
Friday June 26, 2026 10:00pm - 11:00pm 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

10:00pm EDT

Editing for Magazines and Ezines
Friday June 26, 2026 10:00pm - 11:00pm EDT
CC - Meeting Room 3 (Workshop Track)
Is editing for print magazines and ezines different from other forms of editing? Are there special challenges that require different skillsets and a nuanced touch? Come join these practicing editors to find out! 
Moderators
avatar for Dan Hollifield

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 →
Guests
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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 →
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David Truesdale

Editor
Dave Truesdale has edited Tangent Online since 1993. It has been nominated for the Hugo Award six times, and the World Fantasy Award once. A former editor of the Bulletin of the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America, he also served as a World Fantasy Award judge in 1998, and... Read More →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
Friday June 26, 2026 10:00pm - 11:00pm EDT
CC - Meeting Room 3 (Workshop Track) Chattanooga Convention Center 1 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37403
  Literary/Publishing, Panel

10:00pm EDT

Making the Darkness Light
Friday June 26, 2026 10:00pm - 11:00pm EDT
CC - Ballroom E (Main Event)
Special GOH S.M. Stirling presents "Making the Darkness Light," an inner look at his current time travel series.
Moderators
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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 →
Friday June 26, 2026 10:00pm - 11:00pm EDT
CC - Ballroom E (Main Event) Chattanooga Convention Center 1 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37403
  Literary/Publishing, Panel

10:00pm EDT

Reading: Aaron Haskins and James S. Aaron
Friday June 26, 2026 10:00pm - 11:00pm EDT
M - Signal Mountain Room (Readings 1)
Come hear our authors read from their works.
Guests
avatar for James S. Aaron

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.
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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 →
Friday June 26, 2026 10:00pm - 11:00pm EDT
M - Signal Mountain Room (Readings 1) Chattanooga Marriott Downtown 2 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402, USA
  Readings 1, Reading

10:00pm EDT

Readings: Masters of Ceremonies Jacob Holo and H.P. Holo
Friday June 26, 2026 10:00pm - 11:00pm EDT
CC - Meeting Room 2 (Kids Program/Readings 2)
Come hear Masters of Ceremonies Jacob Holo and H.P. Holo read from their works.
Guests
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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 →
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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 →
Friday June 26, 2026 10:00pm - 11:00pm EDT
CC - Meeting Room 2 (Kids Program/Readings 2) Chattanooga Convention Center 1 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37403
  Readings 1, Reading

10:00pm EDT

War Comes to Sol: Space Fights In Our System
Friday June 26, 2026 10:00pm - 11:00pm EDT
CC - Meeting Room 5 (Main Event)
War Comes to Sol: Space Fights In Our System: Eventually, we Terrans will be fighting in the orbitals. Where is the high ground? Where are the strategic points of interest? Panelists postulate the tech levels of the scenario, then discuss the actual orbital mechanics, combat, and dominating the Sol system. 
Moderators
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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 →
Guests
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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 →
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John Ringo

Author, Past LGoH
John Ringo's science fiction is action-oriented and abounding in characters to root for. He is the creator of the New York Times best-selling military science fiction series The Posleen Wars, with over one million copies in print. Ringo is also the author of the far-future science... Read More →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
Friday June 26, 2026 10:00pm - 11:00pm EDT
CC - Meeting Room 5 (Main Event) Chattanooga Convention Center 1 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37403
  STEM, Panel

10:00pm EDT

It Came From the Trailer Park Game
Friday June 26, 2026 10:00pm - 11:59pm EDT
M - Tennessee River Room (Gaming Room)
You know those stories about the stuff that came from the trailer park? It’s your turn to crawl, run or ooze into the story! D20 system with The Hillbilly himself guiding you through the twists and convoluted turns of the trailer park! Up to 6 players
Moderators
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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 →
Friday June 26, 2026 10:00pm - 11:59pm EDT
M - Tennessee River Room (Gaming Room) Chattanooga Marriott Downtown 2 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402, USA
  Gaming, Gaming

10:00pm EDT

Spades Tournament (First Round and Second Round)
Friday June 26, 2026 10:00pm - Saturday June 27, 2026 12:00am EDT
M - Tennessee River Room (Gaming Room)
Every year THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE to win bragging rights for a year. Will you be the one? Sign-up sheets will be at the registration desk.
Moderators
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Dr. Mark Paulk

STEM
Dr. Mark Paulk is a retired member of the faculty at the University of Texas at Dallas, teaching software engineering. Before UTD, he was with Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh for 25 years, researching and teaching on best practices for software engineering and service management... Read More →
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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 →
Friday June 26, 2026 10:00pm - Saturday June 27, 2026 12:00am EDT
M - Tennessee River Room (Gaming Room) Chattanooga Marriott Downtown 2 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402, USA
  Gaming, Gaming

10:00pm EDT

Friday Night Karaoke
Friday June 26, 2026 10:00pm - Saturday June 27, 2026 1:00am EDT
M - Plaza Ballroom C
Sarah Martin will DJ Friday Night Karaoke! Come out and show us your pipes!
Guests
avatar for Sarah Martin

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 →
Friday June 26, 2026 10:00pm - Saturday June 27, 2026 1:00am EDT
M - Plaza Ballroom C
  Main Program, Event

11:00pm EDT

Open Filking with Gray Rinehart
Friday June 26, 2026 11:00pm - Saturday June 27, 2026 1:00am EDT
M - Signal Mountain Room (Readings 1)
Open Filking hosted by Gray Rinehart - come and participate!
Guests
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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 →
Friday June 26, 2026 11:00pm - Saturday June 27, 2026 1:00am EDT
M - Signal Mountain Room (Readings 1) Chattanooga Marriott Downtown 2 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402, USA
  Main Program, Filk
 
Saturday, June 27
 

8:30am EDT

Walking with the Pros
Saturday June 27, 2026 8:30am - 9:30am EDT
CC - Ballroom F/G (Dealer's Room) - Autographs in Hall Outside
Toni Weisskopf hosts Walking with the Pros, a chance to get a little exercise before the con on Saturday morning. Meet outside the dealer's room.
Guests
avatar for Toni Weisskopf

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 →
Saturday June 27, 2026 8:30am - 9:30am EDT
CC - Ballroom F/G (Dealer's Room) - Autographs in Hall Outside Chattanooga Convention Center 1 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37403
  Main Program, Event

10:00am EDT

Authors Alley: Jamie Garner, Mary Hare, Robert Hampson, David (Brena) Bock, M.D. Boncher, Karl Gallagher, C.S. Brown, James P. Nettles, Zane Voss
Saturday June 27, 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
avatar for Mary Hare

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 →
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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 →
avatar for J.B. Garner

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 →
avatar for Robert E. Hampson

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 →
avatar for David (Brena) Bock

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.
avatar for M.D. Boncher

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 →
avatar for Karl Gallagher

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 →
avatar for James P. Nettles

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 →
avatar for Zane Voss

Zane Voss

Author
Zane Voss holds bachelor's and master’s degrees in engineering from the Missouri University of Science & Technology. His day job is working as a partner in an engineering consulting firm in the steel industry. If you’re either interested or unable to flee quickly enough, he will... Read More →
Saturday June 27, 2026 10:00am - 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: PGOHs Jody Lynn Nye and Bill Fawcett, Julie Frost
Saturday June 27, 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
avatar for Julie Frost

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 →
avatar for Jody Lynn Nye

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 →
avatar for Bill Fawcett

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 →
Saturday June 27, 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

Cats in Science Fiction and Fantasy
Saturday June 27, 2026 10:00am - 11:00am EDT
CC - Meeting Room 5 (Main Event)
From the Cat Who Walked Through Walls to David Weber's Treecats, cats have been a fixture in SF&F for decades. Listen to these authors who have published genre cat stories expound on why cats will remain a fixture for the foreseeable future. 
Moderators
avatar for Rita Beeman

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.
Guests
avatar for Cassandra Morgan

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 →
avatar for Ross Hathaway

Ross Hathaway

Artist, Author
Ross Hathaway has spent 40+ years in the aerospace industry.  First, in the US Air Force as a navigator on C-141’s. Then, in commercial aircraft research, design and manufacturing, and finally at NASA at NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center.  His wife calls him “her rocket... Read More →
avatar for Amanda Montandon

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 →
avatar for Ted Begley

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 →
avatar for David R.R. Greenberg

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 →
avatar for Molly McDonough

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 →
Saturday June 27, 2026 10:00am - 11:00am EDT
CC - Meeting Room 5 (Main Event) Chattanooga Convention Center 1 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37403
  Literary/Publishing, Round Table

10:00am EDT

Managing Murderhobos
Saturday June 27, 2026 10:00am - 11:00am EDT
M - Plaza Ballroom C
How do you manage a party of free-wheeling murderhobos, whether they're players in a game or characters in your novel.  When the shortest point from A to B is killing everything and everyone in their path, how do you keep them inside the limits... or should you even bother? Kal Spriggs (moderator)
Moderators
avatar for Kal Spriggs

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 →
Guests
avatar for Justin Watson

Justin Watson

Author
Justin Watson was a field artilleryman in the United States Army for ten years. He deployed twice to Iraq and once to Afghanistan. He doesn’t count his deployment to Kuwait, but his wife sure does. Medically retired from the Army due to wounds sustained in Iraq, he now lives in... Read More →
avatar for William S. Frisbee

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 →
avatar for James Schardt

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 →
avatar for Jamie Ibson

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.
avatar for Nathan Balyeat

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 →
Saturday June 27, 2026 10:00am - 11:00am EDT
M - Plaza Ballroom C
  Literary/Publishing, Panel

10:00am EDT

Reading: Isaac Craft and Bjorn Hasseler
Saturday June 27, 2026 10:00am - 11:00am EDT
M - Signal Mountain Room (Readings 1)
Come hear our authors read from their works.
Guests
avatar for Isaac Craft

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 →
avatar for Bjorn Hasseler

Bjorn Hasseler

Author, Editor
Bjorn Hasseler found Eric Flint's novel 1632 in a public library. Then he discovered that fans were not just allowed but encouraged to write in the 1632 universe. He writes the Neustatter's European Security Service thread (A Matter of Security, Missions of Security, Security Threats... Read More →
Saturday June 27, 2026 10:00am - 11:00am EDT
M - Signal Mountain Room (Readings 1) Chattanooga Marriott Downtown 2 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402, USA
  Readings 1, Reading

10:00am EDT

Reading: Tamara Lowery and William Joseph Roberts
Saturday June 27, 2026 10:00am - 11:00am EDT
CC - Meeting Room 2 (Kids Program/Readings 2)
Come hear our authors read from their works.
Guests
avatar for William Joseph Roberts

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 →
avatar for Tamara Lowery

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.
Saturday June 27, 2026 10:00am - 11:00am EDT
CC - Meeting Room 2 (Kids Program/Readings 2) Chattanooga Convention Center 1 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37403
  Readings 2, Reading

10:00am EDT

Can Military Science Fiction Inform Culture?
Saturday June 27, 2026 10:00am - 11:00am EDT
CC - Ballroom E (Main Event)
The stories we tell ourselves shape our culture, and EVERYTHING is downstream of culture. How do we avoid the poor choices that led to the US Civil War and WW1 when warfare was initially viewed as a lark? What do you want YOUR grandkids to remember? Panelists select enduring works as examples of a generational MilSF library, fueled by audience prompts. 
Moderators
avatar for Melissa Olthoff

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 →
Guests
avatar for Wil McCarthy

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 →
avatar for Brent Roeder

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
avatar for Monalisa Foster

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 →
avatar for Kevin Ikenberry

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 →
avatar for Andy Presby

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.
Saturday June 27, 2026 10:00am - 11:00am EDT
CC - Ballroom E (Main Event) Chattanooga Convention Center 1 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37403
  STEM, Panel

10:00am EDT

Space Medicine: The long term effects for potential permanent residents of space colonies
Saturday June 27, 2026 10:00am - 11:00am EDT
CC - Meeting Room 6 (Science Track)
Space Medicine: the long term effects for potential permanent residents of space colonies (assume this would dependent on the where the colony would be - you could address the different aspects that derive from gravity (Moon, Mars, Venus, other planetary moons, etc.) as well as other physiological aspects that would happen to colonists, as well as showing the way towards selection of the preferred...
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Guests
avatar for Dave Sarnow

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 →
Saturday June 27, 2026 10:00am - 11:00am EDT
CC - Meeting Room 6 (Science Track) Chattanooga Convention Center 1 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37403
  STEM, Presentation

10:00am EDT

Puppetry Workshop
Saturday June 27, 2026 10:00am - 12:00pm EDT
CC - Meeting Room 3 (Workshop Track)
Bryan Jones hosts this workshop on basic puppetry and puppet making.
Moderators
avatar for Bryan Jones

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 →
Saturday June 27, 2026 10:00am - 12:00pm EDT
CC - Meeting Room 3 (Workshop Track) Chattanooga Convention Center 1 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37403
  Art/Workshops, Workshop

10:00am EDT

Terrain Master Class: Dice Towers
Saturday June 27, 2026 10:00am - 12:00pm EDT
M - Director's Room
Join Artist Anita S. Moore in this hands on terrain building workshop. Participants will use prepared materials to customize and create an interesting structure that may be used as a dice tower, and look very fetching in any RPG or tabletop gaming environment. Pre-registration required for extremely limited seats to participate, but spectators are welcome. Small items will also be available for...
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Moderators
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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 →
Saturday June 27, 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

Guest of Honor Brunch Banquet / Speeches
Saturday June 27, 2026 10:00am - 12:00pm EDT
M - Plaza Ballroom A/B
Guest of Honor Brunch Banquet / Guest of Honor Speeches
Guests
avatar for VL Stuart

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."
avatar for Lloyd Watson

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 →
avatar for Keith Hedger

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 →
avatar for Morgan Metz

Morgan Metz

Artist
Morgan Metz: Stuck in nature with a mother who loves everything full of art and color, it was only natural to do the one thing she wouldn't touch, digital art! I've been forced to express myself through a variety of other mediums and even won an award for some of my work! Although... Read More →
avatar for Lydia Sherrer

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 →
avatar for David Sherrer

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 →
avatar for Ann Robards

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 →
avatar for David Truesdale

David Truesdale

Editor
Dave Truesdale has edited Tangent Online since 1993. It has been nominated for the Hugo Award six times, and the World Fantasy Award once. A former editor of the Bulletin of the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America, he also served as a World Fantasy Award judge in 1998, and... Read More →
avatar for Teresa Howard

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 →
avatar for Debbie Reynolds

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 →
avatar for Greg Eden

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 →
avatar for Sarah Martin

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 →
avatar for Jonna Hayden

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 →
avatar for M.G. Martin

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 →
avatar for Donald Crankshaw

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 →
avatar for Kristin Janz

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 →
avatar for William Lehman

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 →
avatar for Justin C. Feng

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 →
avatar for James S. Aaron

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.
avatar for Lee Ellis

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 →
avatar for Jacob Holo

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 →
avatar for H.P. Holo

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 →
avatar for Becky McCauley Rench

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 →
avatar for Nicholas Sansbury Smith

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 →
avatar for John Kovalic

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 →
avatar for S.M. Stirling

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 →
avatar for Ken Roy

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 →
avatar for Jeff Greason

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 →
avatar for Bart Kemper

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 →
avatar for David M. Weber

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 →
avatar for Gary W. Shelton

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 →
avatar for Julie Cochrane

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 →
avatar for Terry Maggert

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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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Paul Sparks

Author
Paul Sparks served as a combat medic in the US Army with three combat deployments overseas. He has been a lifelong geek, plays various RPG's and enjoys reading and writing military science fiction. He lives with his cats in Ohio, where he volunteers with various animal adoption a... Read More →
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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 →
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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 →
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Martha Knowles

Professional Panelist
Now retired, Martha Knowles was a professional librarian and records management specialist. She was the TVIW Treasurer from 2014-2020, and administrator and Registrar for the first four TVIW symposia. Since TVIW became the Interstellar Research Group, she has continued to be involved... Read More →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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Kara Metz

Artist, Tri-ME
Kara captures the unique beauty of nature from the enchanted forests of Maine to the stars above. Fantastical creatures, fictional planets, and popular references are just the first few layers in the labrynth of her mind. Watercolors and Spraypaint are her current focus but anything... Read More →
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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 →
Saturday June 27, 2026 10:00am - 12:00pm EDT
M - Plaza Ballroom A/B Chattanooga Marriott Downtown 2 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402, USA
  Main Program, Banquet

10:00am EDT

Open Crafting & Artist Space
Saturday June 27, 2026 10:00am - 10:00pm 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
Saturday June 27, 2026 10:00am - 10:00pm EDT
M - East/West (Craft Room) Chattanooga Marriott Downtown 2 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402, USA
  Art/Workshops, Demonstration

11:00am EDT

Authors Alley: Jamie Garner, Mary Hare, Robert Hampson, David (Brena) Bock, M.D. Boncher, Karl Gallagher, Laura Montgomery, James P. Nettles, Zane Voss
Saturday June 27, 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
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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.
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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Zane Voss

Author
Zane Voss holds bachelor's and master’s degrees in engineering from the Missouri University of Science & Technology. His day job is working as a partner in an engineering consulting firm in the steel industry. If you’re either interested or unable to flee quickly enough, he will... Read More →
Saturday June 27, 2026 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: Griffin Barber, Melissa Gay, Les Johnson
Saturday June 27, 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
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
Saturday June 27, 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

Azul
Saturday June 27, 2026 11:00am - 12:00pm EDT
M - Tennessee River Room (Gaming Room)
In the game Azul, players take turns drafting colored tiles from suppliers to their player board. Players score points based on how they've placed their tiles to decorate the palace. The player with the most points at the end of the game wins. 2-4 players, 1 hr, age 8+, Amanda hosts
Saturday June 27, 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

Salvage Title Universe Roundtable
Saturday June 27, 2026 11:00am - 12:00pm EDT
CC - Ballroom E (Main Event)
Kevin Steverson moderates the Salvage Title Universe Roundtable.
Moderators
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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 →
Guests
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
Saturday June 27, 2026 11:00am - 12:00pm EDT
CC - Ballroom E (Main Event) Chattanooga Convention Center 1 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37403
  Literary/Publishing, Round Table

11:00am EDT

The Allure of Dark Fantasy
Saturday June 27, 2026 11:00am - 12:00pm EDT
CC - Meeting Room 5 (Main Event)
What is the core of our fascination with dark fantasy? Is it the imagery? The shiver down the spine that follows the finely crafted word? Join our intrepid panel as they explore all it's alluring aspects.
Moderators
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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 →
Guests
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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 →
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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.
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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 →
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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.
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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/.
Saturday June 27, 2026 11:00am - 12:00pm EDT
CC - Meeting Room 5 (Main Event) Chattanooga Convention Center 1 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37403
  Literary/Publishing, Panel

11:00am EDT

Wait, Are We The Bad Guys?
Saturday June 27, 2026 11:00am - 12:00pm EDT
M - Plaza Ballroom C
Wait, Are We The Bad Guys?: How to use MilSF to explore themes around insurgencies and ethics. Understanding rebellion and insurgency is at least as important as understanding institutionalized militaries. From Revolt in 2100 to Andor, plucky revolutionaries are painted as the “good guys.” When are MilSF revolutionaries the “bad guys?” Are they ever? Should they be? What does this tell us...
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Moderators
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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.
Guests
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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.
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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 →
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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.
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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 →
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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 →
Saturday June 27, 2026 11:00am - 12:00pm EDT
M - Plaza Ballroom C
  Literary/Publishing, Panel

11:00am EDT

Reading: Frank Hood and Nic Plume
Saturday June 27, 2026 11:00am - 12:00pm EDT
M - Signal Mountain Room (Readings 1)
Come hear our authors read from their works.
Guests
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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 →
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Frank Hood

Author
When I graduated college I wanted to be a great writer like Shakespeare, Bradbury, Hardy, or Heinlein. Five years later and $14 richer off my writing career, I decided I needed a career that put food on the table as well. My wife, a chemist and wonderful writer herself (S. T. Gaffney... Read More →
Saturday June 27, 2026 11:00am - 12:00pm EDT
M - Signal Mountain Room (Readings 1) Chattanooga Marriott Downtown 2 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402, USA
  Readings 1, Reading

11:00am EDT

Reading: Julie Frost and Tim Gilliland
Saturday June 27, 2026 11:00am - 12:00pm EDT
CC - Meeting Room 2 (Kids Program/Readings 2)
Come hear our authors read from their works.
Guests
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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 →
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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 →
Saturday June 27, 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

Fusion Primer
Saturday June 27, 2026 11:00am - 12:00pm EDT
CC - Meeting Room 6 (Science Track)
Jim Beall presents a primer on Fusion - Where it "began," how we got "here," a run-down of the types of fusion, and then a round-up of most of the current fusion research paths and their relative promises
Moderators
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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 →
Saturday June 27, 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

Open Crafting & Artist Space
Saturday June 27, 2026 11:00am - 10:00pm 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
avatar for James Schardt

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 →
Saturday June 27, 2026 11:00am - 10:00pm EDT
M - East/West (Craft Room) Chattanooga Marriott Downtown 2 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402, USA
  Art/Workshops, Demonstration

12:00pm EDT

Exploring First Principles
Saturday June 27, 2026 12:00pm - 1:00pm EDT
CC - Meeting Room 3 (Workshop Track)
Exploring First Principles: Do the organizational roots of the society behind the military constrain or enable capacity? Panelists consider meta-social/technic architecture of a society to determine the best and worst options. Star Wars or Star Trek? Dune or Starship Troopers – the stories and outcomes vary. Panelists consider philosophy, religious orders, technical education, social...
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Moderators
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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 →
Guests
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
Saturday June 27, 2026 12:00pm - 1:00pm EDT
CC - Meeting Room 3 (Workshop Track) Chattanooga Convention Center 1 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37403

12:00pm EDT

SF Battlefield Medicine and Bacta Tanks: No Easy Answers
Saturday June 27, 2026 12:00pm - 1:00pm EDT
CC - Meeting Room 5 (Main Event)
Science Fiction Battlefield Medicine and Bacta Tanks: No Easy Answers. Most MILSF handwaves solutions to future battlefield trauma (“Put him in the magic medic box!”,) yet MILSF can provocatively anticipate more realistic options, such as blood substitutes, and robotic surgery. What flavor of future medical technology is potentially achievable, and how should we represent it in MILSF? 
Moderators
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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 →
Guests
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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 →
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Paul Sparks

Author
Paul Sparks served as a combat medic in the US Army with three combat deployments overseas. He has been a lifelong geek, plays various RPG's and enjoys reading and writing military science fiction. He lives with his cats in Ohio, where he volunteers with various animal adoption a... Read More →
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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 →
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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 →
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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
Saturday June 27, 2026 12:00pm - 1:00pm EDT
CC - Meeting Room 5 (Main Event) Chattanooga Convention Center 1 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37403

12:00pm EDT

Teaching the Next Generation of Creatives
Saturday June 27, 2026 12:00pm - 1:00pm EDT
CC - Ballroom E (Main Event)
Join these artists and hear about how they're not only making a difference in mentoring the next generation, hear from those they're teaching about their experience, and how it's redirected their creative course.
Moderators
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Leia Powell

Artist, Author, Past AGoH
Master Stained Glass Artisan Leia Powell has been creating glass masterpieces, breaking down barriers, and rejuvenating the old world artistry for over 25 years. The first stained glass artist to be nominated for the coveted Chesley Award, Leia is also the first glass artist in history... Read More →
Guests
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Caitlin Roppoli

Artist
Caitlin Roppoli is a Senior Apprentice to Master Stained Glass Artist Leia Powell. She takes great inspiration from her grandfather, who was also a glazier, and she is following in his footsteps, learning as much as she can about the old world art medium. She travels to Wildcat Mountain... Read More →
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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 →
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Kara Metz

Artist, Tri-ME
Kara captures the unique beauty of nature from the enchanted forests of Maine to the stars above. Fantastical creatures, fictional planets, and popular references are just the first few layers in the labrynth of her mind. Watercolors and Spraypaint are her current focus but anything... Read More →
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Morgan Metz

Artist
Morgan Metz: Stuck in nature with a mother who loves everything full of art and color, it was only natural to do the one thing she wouldn't touch, digital art! I've been forced to express myself through a variety of other mediums and even won an award for some of my work! Although... Read More →
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Tina Pierce

Artist
Tina Pierce is a third year Senior Apprentice to Master Stained Glass Artisan Leia Powell. A resident of Syracuse, New York, she learned exclusively through video chat during the covid shutdown. She is also the Art Show Director for JordanCon and is devoted to encouraging and promoting... Read More →
Saturday June 27, 2026 12:00pm - 1:00pm EDT
CC - Ballroom E (Main Event) Chattanooga Convention Center 1 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37403
  Art/Workshops, Panel

12:00pm EDT

Authors Alley: Gray Rinehart, Keith Hedger, Robert Hampson, David Sherrer/Lydia Sherrer, M.D. Boncher, Karl Gallagher, Dane Clark Collins, Shami Stovall, Zane Voss
Saturday June 27, 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
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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 →
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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/.
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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.
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Zane Voss

Author
Zane Voss holds bachelor's and master’s degrees in engineering from the Missouri University of Science & Technology. His day job is working as a partner in an engineering consulting firm in the steel industry. If you’re either interested or unable to flee quickly enough, he will... Read More →
Saturday June 27, 2026 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: David Boop, Lloyd Watson
Saturday June 27, 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. Limit 5 books (if you bring more, get 5 signed and go to the back of the line.)
Guests
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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 →
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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 →
Saturday June 27, 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

Munchkin Tournament
Saturday June 27, 2026 12:00pm - 1:00pm EDT
M - Tennessee River Room (Gaming Room)
Kat Waller will host a multi-round Munchkin Tournament. Final round will on Sunday with Steve Jackson.
Saturday June 27, 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

The Romance of Steampunk
Saturday June 27, 2026 12:00pm - 1:00pm EDT
M - Plaza Ballroom C
Dan Hollifield moderates this panel discussion on the myriad worlds of the Steampunk genre.
Moderators
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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 →
Guests
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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 →
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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 →
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Matthew Skaggs

Author
Matthew Skaggs has Noir, SF, both Traditional and Weird Westerns, Steampunk, GameLit, and Alt-History short stories in print. So far. When not traveling, taking photos, researching, or writing, he relaxes in the Florida Panhandle sunshine with his totally awesome wife, their Swamp-doodle... Read More →
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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.
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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 →
Saturday June 27, 2026 12:00pm - 1:00pm EDT
M - Plaza Ballroom C
  Literary/Publishing, Panel

12:00pm EDT

Banquet Cleanup
Saturday June 27, 2026 12:00pm - 1:00pm EDT
M - Plaza Ballroom A/B
Room Reset
Saturday June 27, 2026 12:00pm - 1:00pm EDT
M - Plaza Ballroom A/B Chattanooga Marriott Downtown 2 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402, USA
  Main Program, Banquet

12:00pm EDT

Raconteur Press Authors Read Fantasy!
Saturday June 27, 2026 12:00pm - 1:00pm EDT
CC - Meeting Room 2 (Kids Program/Readings 2)
Raconteur Press Authors Read Fantasy! Sam Robb (mod.)
Moderators
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Sam Robb

Author
Sam Robb is an urban fantasy writer from Pittsburgh who draws inspiration from back alleys, graffiti, and urban exploration. He’s published in his flash fiction collection, One October Night, as well as multiple anthologies, and edited the Stories in the Key of Tull anthologies... Read More →
Guests
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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 →
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T.C. Ross

Author
TC Ross is an Urban Fantasy author who also dabbles in related Historical Fantasy, Romantic Comedies, Gaslamp, Horror, and short stories. She resides in Texas with her family, feeding the Fae and watching out for shifters. Hopefully they never find her.
Saturday June 27, 2026 12:00pm - 1:00pm EDT
CC - Meeting Room 2 (Kids Program/Readings 2) Chattanooga Convention Center 1 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37403
  Readings 1, Reading

12:00pm EDT

Reading: Monalisa Foster and Jay Peterson
Saturday June 27, 2026 12:00pm - 1:00pm EDT
M - Signal Mountain Room (Readings 1)
Come hear our authors read from their works.
Guests
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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 →
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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 →
Saturday June 27, 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

Electricity, Water, and AI
Saturday June 27, 2026 12:00pm - 1:00pm EDT
CC - Meeting Room 6 (Science Track)
As artificial intelligence, cloud computing, and hyper-scale digital infrastructure expands, data centers are becoming one of the defining industrial systems of the 21st century. But these facilities are more than anonymous buildings full of servers—they reshape electrical grids, water resources, regional economics, and even the geography of computation itself. This panel will try to explores...
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Moderators
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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 →
Guests
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Brian Lee Gnad

Author, STEM
Brian Lee Gnad is a software developer specializing in marine electronics integration. He currently works for a major marine products manufacturer and serves on the National Marine Electronics Association Technical Standards Committee working primarily on the NMEA 2000 and NMEA OneNet... Read More →
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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 →
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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.
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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 →
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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 →
Saturday June 27, 2026 12:00pm - 1:00pm EDT
CC - Meeting Room 6 (Science Track) Chattanooga Convention Center 1 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37403
  STEM, Panel

12:00pm EDT

Blood on the Clocktower
Saturday June 27, 2026 12:00pm - 2:00pm EDT
M - Tennessee River Room (Gaming Room)
Blood on the Clocktower is a social deduction game where players assume secret roles and work to identify and execute a hidden Demon among them, all while engaging in strategic discussions and deception. Galen Tackett hosts, 7-20 players, 2 hours, age 15+
Saturday June 27, 2026 12:00pm - 2:00pm EDT
M - Tennessee River Room (Gaming Room) Chattanooga Marriott Downtown 2 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402, USA
  Gaming, Gaming

12:00pm EDT

Introduction to Dungeons and Dragons, 3rd Edition
Saturday June 27, 2026 12:00pm - 4:00pm EDT
M - Tennessee River Room (Gaming Room)
Kat Hosmum will host a beginners session of intro to D&D - 2-6 players, pre-made character sheets. Age 16+
Saturday June 27, 2026 12:00pm - 4:00pm EDT
M - Tennessee River Room (Gaming Room) Chattanooga Marriott Downtown 2 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402, USA
  Gaming, Gaming

1:00pm EDT

MILSF Talk Like A Pirate Day
Saturday June 27, 2026 1:00pm - 2:00pm EDT
M - Plaza Ballroom C
MilSF Talk Like A Pirate Day: Space pirates are a recurring trope, and recent RL discussion about reviving national letters or marque to deal with rogue actors refreshes the topic. How can MilSF make space pirates realistic? Resupply, personnel, battle damage, etc. Is space begun enough to hide in and small enough to let an honest space pirate make a buck? 
Moderators
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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
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
Saturday June 27, 2026 1:00pm - 2:00pm EDT
M - Plaza Ballroom C

1:00pm EDT

Not Just For Vets
Saturday June 27, 2026 1:00pm - 2:00pm EDT
CC - Meeting Room 5 (Main Event)
Interest in Mil SF speculative fiction has expanded well beyond the core audience of even 25 years ago. Commercial competition for audience capture between brands is one driver. Using speculative Mil SF to explore concerning or threatening topics which saturate 24x7 news cycles is another. What is the balance between “topics of the moment” and more highly speculative topics which creators...
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Moderators
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Justin Watson

Author
Justin Watson was a field artilleryman in the United States Army for ten years. He deployed twice to Iraq and once to Afghanistan. He doesn’t count his deployment to Kuwait, but his wife sure does. Medically retired from the Army due to wounds sustained in Iraq, he now lives in... Read More →
Guests
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
Saturday June 27, 2026 1:00pm - 2:00pm EDT
CC - Meeting Room 5 (Main Event) Chattanooga Convention Center 1 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37403
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1:00pm EDT

Artist Guest of Honor Guided Tour of the Art Show
Saturday June 27, 2026 1:00pm - 2:00pm EDT
CC - Meeting Room 4 - (Art Show)
Leia Powell will give a Guided Tour of the Art Show with AGOH John Kovalic and Art Show Participants.
Guests
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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 →
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Ross Hathaway

Artist, Author
Ross Hathaway has spent 40+ years in the aerospace industry.  First, in the US Air Force as a navigator on C-141’s. Then, in commercial aircraft research, design and manufacturing, and finally at NASA at NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center.  His wife calls him “her rocket... Read More →
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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 →
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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 →
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Nancy Edwards

Artist
Nancy Edwards has been in fandom for 40+ years and has the stories to back it up. She was the FGOH at the ninth NASFC, Tuckercon, due to her long friendship with Bob Tucker. She threw an adult relaxicon for several years called Czarcon which was totally non-PC.
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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 →
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Robert Zielke

Artist
Robert Zielke: I have been in fandom since 1980. I read constantly and have over 1300 science fiction books. My hobbies include scuba diving, woodworking, and using lasers to create unique items. Diving at the TN Aquarium as a volunteer for over 17 years has been fun. My woodworking... Read More →
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Annastasia Webster

Artist
Annastasia Webster expresses her art in a variety of ways. Most currently she has been exploring the mediums of polymer clay and resin under the umbrella of Night Witch Studio. She has purple hair and lives in Louisville, KY with her husband and 3 cats.
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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 →
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Tina Pierce

Artist
Tina Pierce is a third year Senior Apprentice to Master Stained Glass Artisan Leia Powell. A resident of Syracuse, New York, she learned exclusively through video chat during the covid shutdown. She is also the Art Show Director for JordanCon and is devoted to encouraging and promoting... Read More →
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Everette Beach

Auctioneer
I've been a Science Fiction fan since I learned to read. I had read everything in the "juvenile" science fiction / fantasy section of our library by the time I was 10 and had to get my mother to check out the "real" books in the adult section for me.  Yes, I am old enough to remember... Read More →
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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 →
avatar for Morgan Metz

Morgan Metz

Artist
Morgan Metz: Stuck in nature with a mother who loves everything full of art and color, it was only natural to do the one thing she wouldn't touch, digital art! I've been forced to express myself through a variety of other mediums and even won an award for some of my work! Although... Read More →
avatar for Lori Morrow

Lori Morrow

Artist
Lori is a dot artist working in both 2D and 3D mediums. She has also enjoyed going back to her roots and designing Celtic knots and zentangle inspired mandalas

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Sam R. Kennedy

Artist
Sam R Kennedy paints galaxies, gods, and dreams—sometimes all in one frame. A cover artist for science fiction and fantasy, and a fine artist for Disney and beyond, Sam lives somewhere between the stars and the sketchbook.
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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 →
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Alexandra Klimek-Sidor

Artist
Alexandra's work includes abstracted portraits, twisted creatures, and fantastical monsters from myth and fandoms alike. She specializes in alcohol ink paintings and engraved game accessories. She has shown her work in galleries in Greenville, SC, the Oddities and Curiosities Expo... Read More →
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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 →
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Caitlin Roppoli

Artist
Caitlin Roppoli is a Senior Apprentice to Master Stained Glass Artist Leia Powell. She takes great inspiration from her grandfather, who was also a glazier, and she is following in his footsteps, learning as much as she can about the old world art medium. She travels to Wildcat Mountain... Read More →
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M. M. Schill

Artist, Editor, Past AGoH
M.M. Schill is an award-winning artist, illustrator, writer, and pro-editor. She also serves as associated editor at Pseudopod (a pro-market, award-winning, short horror podcast and E-zine). Outside of her artistic pursuits, she is a decades-long student of aikido and iaido, a power-lifter, and (most importantly) she's an outspoken activist for victims' rights... Read More →
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Leia Powell

Artist, Author, Past AGoH
Master Stained Glass Artisan Leia Powell has been creating glass masterpieces, breaking down barriers, and rejuvenating the old world artistry for over 25 years. The first stained glass artist to be nominated for the coveted Chesley Award, Leia is also the first glass artist in history... Read More →
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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 →
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Amy Brewer-Davenport

Artist
Amy Brewer-Davenport is an award winning fantasy artist and lifelong con-goer, always looking for new inspiration or ways to inspire others to create. Through her work she emphasizes whimsy through color, texture, and chance. Along with her studio practice she teaches creativity workshops... Read More →
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Sara Glassman

Artist
Sara Glassman is a jewelry artist who focuses on bringing fiber art techniques to wire jewelry. She also has an interest in combining books with jewelry and has designed pieces around books or characters as well as used upcycled books in her art. In 2006 she founded Medusa’s Mirror... Read More →
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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 →
avatar for Kara Metz

Kara Metz

Artist, Tri-ME
Kara captures the unique beauty of nature from the enchanted forests of Maine to the stars above. Fantastical creatures, fictional planets, and popular references are just the first few layers in the labrynth of her mind. Watercolors and Spraypaint are her current focus but anything... Read More →
Saturday June 27, 2026 1:00pm - 2:00pm EDT
CC - Meeting Room 4 - (Art Show) Chattanooga Convention Center 1 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37403
  Art/Workshops, Event

1:00pm EDT

Dream Weaving with Kendra
Saturday June 27, 2026 1:00pm - 2:00pm EDT
M - Director's Room
Join fiber artist Kendra Irwin for an up close demonstration and a chance to try your hand at weaving. A limited amount of fiber starter kits will be available for $20 during the demo.
Moderators
avatar for Kendra Irwin

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 →
Saturday June 27, 2026 1:00pm - 2:00pm EDT
M - Director's Room Chattanooga Marriott Downtown 2 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402, USA
  Art/Workshops, Demonstration

1:00pm EDT

Authors Alley: Les Johnson, Jay Maynard, Nathan Brindle, David Sherrer/Lydia Sherrer, Casey Moores/Jamie Ibson, David R.R. Greenberg, April Kelley Jones, Terry Maggert, D.S. Watson
Saturday June 27, 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
avatar for Jamie Ibson

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.
avatar for Lydia Sherrer

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 →
avatar for David Sherrer

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 →
avatar for Les Johnson

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 →
avatar for Jay Maynard

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 →
avatar for Nathan Brindle

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 →
avatar for Casey Moores

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 →
avatar for David R.R. Greenberg

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 →
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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 →
avatar for Terry Maggert

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 →
avatar for D.S. Watson

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 →
Saturday June 27, 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: Kevin Ikenberry, Chris Kennedy, James Fox
Saturday June 27, 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
avatar for James Fox

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 →
avatar for Chris Kennedy

Chris Kennedy

Author, Publisher, Past GoH

avatar for Kevin Ikenberry

Kevin Ikenberry

Author
Kevin Ikenberry is a life-long space geek and retired Army officer. As an adult, he managed the U.S. Space Camp program, two Challenger Learning Centers, and served on active duty in space operations before Space Force was a thing. He’s an international bestselling science fiction... Read More →
Saturday June 27, 2026 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 History Works
Saturday June 27, 2026 1:00pm - 2:00pm EDT
CC - Meeting Room 3 (Workshop Track)
Special Guest of Honor S.M. Stirling presents "How History Works" and will illustrate how a lot of history is the result of low-probability accidents bouncing off each other, and will provide examples.
Guests
avatar for S.M. Stirling

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 →
Saturday June 27, 2026 1:00pm - 2:00pm EDT
CC - Meeting Room 3 (Workshop Track) Chattanooga Convention Center 1 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37403
  Literary/Publishing, Presentation

1:00pm EDT

Vampires in Pop Culture - Heroes or Monsters?
Saturday June 27, 2026 1:00pm - 2:00pm EDT
M - Plaza Ballroom A/B
Vampires in today's Pop Culture are portrayed in strikingly different ways. Can their reputations truly be rehabilitated? Our panel of authors who write vampires will tackle the core of the argument - are they Heroes or Monsters?   
Moderators
avatar for Geoffrey Mandragora

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.
Guests
avatar for Jay Peterson

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 →
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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 →
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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 →
avatar for Tamara Lowery

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.
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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 →
Saturday June 27, 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 Raconteur Press
Saturday June 27, 2026 1:00pm - 2:00pm EDT
CC - Ballroom E (Main Event)
Ian McMurtrie (aka Lawdog) will moderate this roundtable on what's the year holds in store for Raconteur Press.
Moderators
avatar for Ian McMurtrie

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 →
Guests
avatar for Bill Willingham

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 →
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Chris DiNote

Author
Chris “MOGS” DiNote retired from the United States Air Force as a full colonel with 25 years, 7 months, and 29 days of service, but who's counting? He deployed for Operations Enduring Freedom, Iraqi Freedom, and Noble Eagle, served in South Korea and Germany.  Chris is a graduate... Read More →
avatar for Jonna Hayden

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 →
avatar for Rita Beeman

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.
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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 →
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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 →
Saturday June 27, 2026 1:00pm - 2:00pm EDT
CC - Ballroom E (Main Event) Chattanooga Convention Center 1 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37403
  Literary/Publishing, Panel

1:00pm EDT

Reading: Jenny Wren and Nathan Toronto
Saturday June 27, 2026 1:00pm - 2:00pm EDT
M - Signal Mountain Room (Readings 1)
Come hear our authors read from their works.
Guests
avatar for Nathan Toronto

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 →
avatar for Jenny Wren

Jenny Wren

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

After several years of working her way through the labyrinth of getting published, she found Three Ravens Publishing. In the few years since then she’s picked up several Corner Scribblers flash fiction author credits and short stories in both Trailer Park volume I and II and most... Read More →
Saturday June 27, 2026 1:00pm - 2:00pm EDT
M - Signal Mountain Room (Readings 1) Chattanooga Marriott Downtown 2 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402, USA
  Readings 1, Reading

1:00pm EDT

Reading: LGOH Nicholas Sansbury Smith
Saturday June 27, 2026 1:00pm - 2:00pm EDT
CC - Meeting Room 2 (Kids Program/Readings 2)
Come hear LGOH Nicholas Sansbury Smith read from his works.
Guests
avatar for Nicholas Sansbury Smith

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 →
Saturday June 27, 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

Exoplanets: Detection Methodology and Recent Developments
Saturday June 27, 2026 1:00pm - 2:00pm EDT
CC - Meeting Room 6 (Science Track)
Step into the cutting edge of real world cosmic discovery as NASA’s leading astrobiologist Dr. Becky McCauley Rench guides you through how thousands of newly discovered exoplanets—many stranger than anything in our own solar system—are reshaping our understanding of what worlds can be, how they form, and where life might take hold. This talk dives into the surprising ways planetary science,...
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Guests
avatar for Becky McCauley Rench

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 →
Saturday June 27, 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

Catan
Saturday June 27, 2026 1:00pm - 3:00pm EDT
M - Tennessee River Room (Gaming Room)
Players are settlers building roads, settlements, and cities on the island of Catan, gathering resources through dice rolls and trading with other players. Age 10+, 3-4 players, 2 hours, board game. Cael Tackett hosts.
Saturday June 27, 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

Letting Go of Control
Saturday June 27, 2026 2:00pm - 3:00pm EDT
M - Director's Room
Stop picking at it! Did your mom ever tell you that? Discuss the art of letting go with these artists and how they know when the art is done. Perfectionists? Who us? Nahhhh.
Moderators
avatar for M. M. Schill

M. M. Schill

Artist, Editor, Past AGoH
M.M. Schill is an award-winning artist, illustrator, writer, and pro-editor. She also serves as associated editor at Pseudopod (a pro-market, award-winning, short horror podcast and E-zine). Outside of her artistic pursuits, she is a decades-long student of aikido and iaido, a power-lifter, and (most importantly) she's an outspoken activist for victims' rights... Read More →
Guests
avatar for Amy Brewer-Davenport

Amy Brewer-Davenport

Artist
Amy Brewer-Davenport is an award winning fantasy artist and lifelong con-goer, always looking for new inspiration or ways to inspire others to create. Through her work she emphasizes whimsy through color, texture, and chance. Along with her studio practice she teaches creativity workshops... Read More →
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Kara Metz

Artist, Tri-ME
Kara captures the unique beauty of nature from the enchanted forests of Maine to the stars above. Fantastical creatures, fictional planets, and popular references are just the first few layers in the labrynth of her mind. Watercolors and Spraypaint are her current focus but anything... Read More →
avatar for Julia Morgan Scott

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 →
Saturday June 27, 2026 2:00pm - 3:00pm EDT
M - Director's Room Chattanooga Marriott Downtown 2 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402, USA
  Art/Workshops, Panel

2:00pm EDT

Technical Writing - My Journey as an Influencer
Saturday June 27, 2026 2:00pm - 3:00pm EDT
CC - Meeting Room 3 (Workshop Track)
Donald Mark Haynes presents Technical Writing - My Journey as an Influencer, where he will cover such topics as types of technical writing, business models, writing styles, finding a publisher, etc.
Moderators
avatar for Mark Haynes

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 →
Saturday June 27, 2026 2:00pm - 3:00pm EDT
CC - Meeting Room 3 (Workshop Track) Chattanooga Convention Center 1 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37403
  Art/Workshops, Presentation

2:00pm EDT

Authors Alley: M.G.Martin, Jay Maynard, Nathan Brindle, Gini Koch, Jesse James Fain, David R.R. Greenberg, Lyndie Ferguson, William Frisbee, D.S. Watson
Saturday June 27, 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
avatar for M.G. Martin

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 →
avatar for William S. Frisbee

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 →
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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 →
avatar for Nathan Brindle

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 →
avatar for Gini Koch

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 →
avatar for Jesse James Fain

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 →
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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 →
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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.
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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 →
Saturday June 27, 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: William Lehman
Saturday June 27, 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
avatar for William Lehman

William Lehman

Author
William Lehman can’t stay out of hot water… or cold water, either. After retiring from two careers in and around submarines, and a decade as a Reserve Police Officer for the City of Bremerton, Washington, (where far more things go on than you’d think) he’s traded in his police... Read More →
Saturday June 27, 2026 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

Munchkin Tournament
Saturday June 27, 2026 2:00pm - 3:00pm EDT
M - Tennessee River Room (Gaming Room)
Kat Waller will host a multi-round Munchkin Tournament. Final round will on Sunday with Steve Jackson.
Saturday June 27, 2026 2:00pm - 3:00pm EDT
M - Tennessee River Room (Gaming Room) Chattanooga Marriott Downtown 2 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402, USA
  Gaming, Gaming

2:00pm EDT

Are You a Werewolf? Kids Edition
Saturday June 27, 2026 2:00pm - 3:00pm EDT
M - Tennessee River Room (Gaming Room)
Tasty villagers trying to root out hungry werewolves from their village. Duncan Pickard hosts this Kids edition of Are You a Werewolf? Age 6+
Saturday June 27, 2026 2:00pm - 3:00pm EDT
M - Tennessee River Room (Gaming Room) Chattanooga Marriott Downtown 2 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402, USA
  Kids Program, Gaming

2:00pm EDT

Reading for Kids - K.B. Carlisle
Saturday June 27, 2026 2:00pm - 3:00pm EDT
CC - Meeting Room 2 (Kids Program/Readings 2)
YA Author K.B. Carlisle will read from his works.
Guests
avatar for K.B. Carlisle

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.
Saturday June 27, 2026 2:00pm - 3:00pm EDT
CC - Meeting Room 2 (Kids Program/Readings 2) Chattanooga Convention Center 1 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37403
  Kids Program, Kids Program

2:00pm EDT

Orchetypes
Saturday June 27, 2026 2:00pm - 3:00pm EDT
M - Plaza Ballroom C
Orchetypes: A discussion of orcs throughout fantasy, including their historical origins, interspecies relations, phenotypes and roles in classic and current fantasy. 
Moderators
avatar for Brian Gifford

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 →
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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 →
Guests
avatar for BK Gibson

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 →
avatar for Tony Andarian

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 →
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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 →
avatar for Tim Akers

Tim Akers

Author
Tim Akers is a fantasy novelist, a gamer, and utterly unemployable in the traditional sense. His novels include the dark fantasy Wraithbound, lighter portal series Knight Watch, and high action hard magic world of Bladecaster. He lives in Chicago with his indefatigable wife and a... Read More →
Saturday June 27, 2026 2:00pm - 3:00pm EDT
M - Plaza Ballroom C
  Literary/Publishing, Panel

2:00pm EDT

The Mystique of the Paranormal
Saturday June 27, 2026 2:00pm - 3:00pm EDT
M - Plaza Ballroom A/B
Come explore the mystique of the paranormal - apparations, esp, auras, clairvoyance, pschokinesis and why it still fascinates us.  Debi Chowdhury (mod)
Moderators
avatar for Debi Chowdhury

Debi Chowdhury

Professional Panelist
Member of International Costumers Guild, Sick Pups and Noel. Worldcon Masquerade Judge 2023 Chicago, Worldcon Masquerade CoDirector Helsinki 2017, Asst Director Worldcon Masquerade london 2014, Masquerade judge at Philcon, Balticon, Masquerade staff at many conventions. Costume panelist... Read More →
Guests
avatar for Rob Reed

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 →
avatar for David (Brena) Bock

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.
avatar for Louise Herring-Jones

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 →
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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 →
Saturday June 27, 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

Building the Ultimate Bug Out Bag
Saturday June 27, 2026 2:00pm - 3:00pm EDT
CC - Meeting Room 5 (Main Event)
Panel discussion of the pro and cons of bugging in vs. bugging out and why you always should have a bug out bag. John Locke moderator.


Guests
avatar for Tammie Darden

Tammie Darden

STEM
Tammie Darden is an everyday scientist in charge of a small production lab. Much to her surprise her work and insight has been found useful to story development by author friends.
Academically she continues her studies independently with a special emphasis on food science (which... Read More →
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Kevin Pulliam

STEM
Kevin Pulliam, an Aerospace engineer, farms 130 acres of woods and pasture in North Alabama producing Grass Finished Beef, Forest Raised Pork, and Pastured Poultry and markets his regenerative farmstead’s products direct to the consumer. Regenerative farming improves the land through... Read More →
avatar for Tim Bischoff

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 →
avatar for Bethanne Kim

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 →
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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 →
Saturday June 27, 2026 2:00pm - 3:00pm EDT
CC - Meeting Room 5 (Main Event) Chattanooga Convention Center 1 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37403
  Main Program, Panel

2:00pm EDT

Reading: Amy DuBoff and Bill Willingham
Saturday June 27, 2026 2:00pm - 3:00pm EDT
M - Signal Mountain Room (Readings 1)
Come hear our authors read from their works.
Guests
avatar for Bill Willingham

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 →
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Amy DuBoff

Author
A.K. (Amy) DuBoff is an award-winning and USA Today bestselling indie author and screenwriter. She’s a lifelong fan of science fiction and fantasy in all its forms, including books, movies, shows, and games—and if it involves outer space, even better! Bringing her love of the... Read More →
Saturday June 27, 2026 2:00pm - 3:00pm EDT
M - Signal Mountain Room (Readings 1) Chattanooga Marriott Downtown 2 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402, USA
  Readings 1, Reading

2:00pm EDT

Where's My Flying Car, Dammit!
Saturday June 27, 2026 2:00pm - 3:00pm EDT
CC - Meeting Room 6 (Science Track)
Former STEM GOH Dr. Ben Davis presents: Where's My Flying Car, Dammit!
Moderators
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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 →
Saturday June 27, 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

Charity Art Jam
Saturday June 27, 2026 2:00pm - 4:00pm EDT
CC - Meeting Room 4 - (Art Show)
Watch the Artists bounce around ideas and complete their vision before time runs out. All the pieces will go to the Charity Auction to be auctioned off! Ann Robards moderates.
Moderators
avatar for Ann Robards

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 →
Guests
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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 →
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Sara Glassman

Artist
Sara Glassman is a jewelry artist who focuses on bringing fiber art techniques to wire jewelry. She also has an interest in combining books with jewelry and has designed pieces around books or characters as well as used upcycled books in her art. In 2006 she founded Medusa’s Mirror... Read More →
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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 →
Saturday June 27, 2026 2:00pm - 4:00pm EDT
CC - Meeting Room 4 - (Art Show) Chattanooga Convention Center 1 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37403
  Art/Workshops, Event

2:00pm EDT

Rules of Engagement - Savage Worlds
Saturday June 27, 2026 2:00pm - 4:00pm EDT
M - Tennessee River Room (Gaming Room)
Jon Osborne and Mark Wandrey will host Rules of Engagement - Four Horsemen Universe (4HU) RPG using Savage Worlds.. First come first served.
Guests
avatar for Jon R. Osborne

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 →
avatar for Mark Wandrey

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 →
Saturday June 27, 2026 2:00pm - 4:00pm EDT
M - Tennessee River Room (Gaming Room) Chattanooga Marriott Downtown 2 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402, USA
  Gaming, Gaming

2:00pm EDT

Baen Travelling Road Show
Saturday June 27, 2026 2:00pm - 4:00pm EDT
CC - Ballroom E (Main Event)
Toni Weisskopf will be running the crowd through the best of what's going on in the Baen universe in this perennial event. (And there will be giveaways!)
Moderators
avatar for Toni Weisskopf

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 →
Guests
avatar for John Ringo

John Ringo

Author, Past LGoH
John Ringo's science fiction is action-oriented and abounding in characters to root for. He is the creator of the New York Times best-selling military science fiction series The Posleen Wars, with over one million copies in print. Ringo is also the author of the far-future science... Read More →
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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 →
avatar for Shami Stovall

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.
avatar for Aaron Haskins

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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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Sam R. Kennedy

Artist
Sam R Kennedy paints galaxies, gods, and dreams—sometimes all in one frame. A cover artist for science fiction and fantasy, and a fine artist for Disney and beyond, Sam lives somewhere between the stars and the sketchbook.
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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 →
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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.
avatar for David M. Weber

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 →
avatar for Les Johnson

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 →
avatar for Lydia Sherrer

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 →
avatar for Jody Lynn Nye

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 →
avatar for Marisa Wolf

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 →
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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 →
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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 →
avatar for Mike Massa

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 →
avatar for Charles E. Gannon

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 →
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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 →
avatar for Melissa Olthoff

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 →
Saturday June 27, 2026 2:00pm - 4:00pm EDT
CC - Ballroom E (Main Event) Chattanooga Convention Center 1 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37403
  Main Program, Event

2:00pm EDT

Call of Cthulhu: The Brockford House
Saturday June 27, 2026 2:00pm - 5:00pm EDT
M - Tennessee River Room (Gaming Room)
Anita Moore will GM Call of Cthulhu: The Brockford House.  The new house is a very old house, and as it turns out has very dangerous secrets. 2-6 Players Format will be a surprise.....Because it's really really more fun that way!
Game will run approximately 3 hours.
Guests
avatar for Anita Moore

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 →
Saturday June 27, 2026 2:00pm - 5:00pm EDT
M - Tennessee River Room (Gaming Room) Chattanooga Marriott Downtown 2 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402, USA
  Gaming, Gaming

2:00pm EDT

Open Crafting & Artist Space
Saturday June 27, 2026 2:00pm - 10:00pm 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
Artists
avatar for Jonna Hayden

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 →
Saturday June 27, 2026 2:00pm - 10:00pm EDT
M - East/West (Craft Room) Chattanooga Marriott Downtown 2 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402, USA
  Art/Workshops, Demonstration

3:00pm EDT

Authors Alley: M.G.Martin, Justin Feng, Al Hagan, Gini Koch, Kristin Janz/Donald Crankshaw, Julie Frost, Lyndie Ferguson, William Frisbee, D.S. Watson
Saturday June 27, 2026 3:00pm - 4:00pm 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
avatar for Justin C. Feng

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 →
avatar for M.G. Martin

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 →
avatar for William S. Frisbee

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 →
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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 →
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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 →
avatar for Al Hagan

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.
avatar for Gini Koch

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 →
avatar for Julie Frost

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 →
avatar for Lyndie Ferguson

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.
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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 →
Saturday June 27, 2026 3:00pm - 4:00pm EDT
M - Plaza Ballroom Mezzanine - Authors Alley Chattanooga Marriott Downtown 2 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402, USA
  Authors Alley, Authors Alley

3:00pm EDT

Autograph Session: Robert S. Evans, Lee Ellis, Frank Hood
Saturday June 27, 2026 3:00pm - 4:00pm 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
avatar for Frank Hood

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 →
avatar for Lee Ellis

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 →
avatar for Robert S. Evans

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

3:00pm EDT

Spades Tournament (Final Round)
Saturday June 27, 2026 3:00pm - 4:00pm EDT
M - Tennessee River Room (Gaming Room)
THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE! Will you be the one?
Moderators
avatar for Dr. Mark Paulk

Dr. Mark Paulk

STEM
Dr. Mark Paulk is a retired member of the faculty at the University of Texas at Dallas, teaching software engineering. Before UTD, he was with Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh for 25 years, researching and teaching on best practices for software engineering and service management... Read More →
Guests
avatar for Gary W. Shelton

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 →
Saturday June 27, 2026 3:00pm - 4:00pm EDT
M - Tennessee River Room (Gaming Room) Chattanooga Marriott Downtown 2 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402, USA
  Gaming, Gaming

3:00pm EDT

AI Copyright Suits and the Fight for Authors and Publishers Rights
Saturday June 27, 2026 3:00pm - 4:00pm EDT
CC - Meeting Room 3 (Workshop Track)
Lawyer Courtney Lytle Sarnow will discuss the proliferation of AI copyright lawsuits and how it affects authors and publishers.
Moderators
avatar for Courtney Lytle Sarnow

Courtney Lytle Sarnow

Professional Panelist
Courtney Lytle Sarnow is a partner at Culhane Meadows and an Adjunct Professor at Emory Law. Her practice focuses on protecting creative works and providing consulting for innovative businesses. She has written a law school text book and several academic articles which are not really... Read More →
Saturday June 27, 2026 3:00pm - 4:00pm EDT
CC - Meeting Room 3 (Workshop Track) Chattanooga Convention Center 1 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37403
  Literary/Publishing, Presentation

3:00pm EDT

Tales of the E4 Mafia
Saturday June 27, 2026 3:00pm - 4:00pm EDT
M - Plaza Ballroom A/B
The E4 Mafia isn’t a myth. They’re how tasks get handled. Rank says one thing. Reality says another. Meet the folks behind the stories.
Moderators
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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 →
Guests
avatar for Daniel Kemp

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.
avatar for Michael LaVoice

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 →
avatar for David Hensley

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 →
Saturday June 27, 2026 3:00pm - 4:00pm EDT
M - Plaza Ballroom A/B Chattanooga Marriott Downtown 2 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402, USA
  Literary/Publishing, Panel

3:00pm EDT

The Art of Editing for Anthologies
Saturday June 27, 2026 3:00pm - 4:00pm EDT
M - Plaza Ballroom C
The Art of Editing for Anthologies explores the nuances that make it different from say, editing short stories and examines factors such as continuity, time lines, history, and co-dependency, depending on the type of anthology you are writing for. 
Moderators
avatar for Jamie Henson

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.
Guests
avatar for Amanda Montandon

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 →
avatar for Daniel M. Hoyt

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 →
avatar for Shari Robb

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 →
avatar for Laura Begley

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 →
avatar for Debbie Reynolds

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 →
Saturday June 27, 2026 3:00pm - 4:00pm EDT
M - Plaza Ballroom C
  Literary/Publishing, Panel

3:00pm EDT

Writing for Kids and Young Adults
Saturday June 27, 2026 3:00pm - 4:00pm EDT
CC - Meeting Room 5 (Main Event)
What captures the imagination of the young and turns them into lifelong readers? How is writing for kids and young adults different from writing for adults (and not just the obvious i.e. the avoidance of "adult" content) Come join our panelists to explore what makes for good children's literature. 
Moderators
avatar for Nick Nethery

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 →
Guests
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Janet Spaulding

Editor
Janet has taught English for over twenty years She holds a Doctorate in Creative Invective as well as a black belt in sarcasm. All her puns are 100% intentional. In addition to teaching and editing, she has been a military contractor, a mortgage officer, a stand-up comedian and a... Read More →
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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.
avatar for Cedar Sanderson

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 →
avatar for Jared Austin

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 →
avatar for Laura Montgomery

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 →
Saturday June 27, 2026 3:00pm - 4:00pm EDT
CC - Meeting Room 5 (Main Event) Chattanooga Convention Center 1 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37403
  Literary/Publishing, Panel

3:00pm EDT

Reading: Molly McDonough and LL Richman
Saturday June 27, 2026 3:00pm - 4:00pm EDT
M - Signal Mountain Room (Readings 1)
Come hear our authors read from their works.
Guests
avatar for Molly McDonough

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 →
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LL Richman

Author
L.L. Richman has a diverse career background, having spent more than a decade working in radiation physics, and twice that as a director of film and video. Richman is also a pilot and has close ties to the special forces community.

Richman's series feature the pulse-pounding act... Read More →
Saturday June 27, 2026 3:00pm - 4:00pm EDT
M - Signal Mountain Room (Readings 1) Chattanooga Marriott Downtown 2 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402, USA
  Readings 1, Reading

3:00pm EDT

Reading: David Badurina
Saturday June 27, 2026 3:00pm - 4:00pm EDT
CC - Meeting Room 2 (Kids Program/Readings 2)
Come hear author David Badurina read from his works.
Guests
avatar for David Badurina

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 →
Saturday June 27, 2026 3:00pm - 4:00pm EDT
CC - Meeting Room 2 (Kids Program/Readings 2) Chattanooga Convention Center 1 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37403
  Readings 2, Reading

3:00pm EDT

Roko's Basilisk: A Modern Thought Experiment at the Edge of AI, Ethics, and Internet Folklore
Saturday June 27, 2026 3:00pm - 4:00pm EDT
CC - Meeting Room 6 (Science Track)
This presentation explores Roko’s Basilisk, one of the most notorious and controversial thought experiments to emerge from online discussions about artificial intelligence, decision theory, and existential risk. At its core, Roko’s Basilisk asks whether a hypothetical future superintelligent AI might have incentives to punish people who knew about its possible creation but failed to help bring...
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Guests
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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 →
Saturday June 27, 2026 3:00pm - 4:00pm EDT
CC - Meeting Room 6 (Science Track) Chattanooga Convention Center 1 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37403
  STEM, Presentation

3:00pm EDT

Painting with Alcohol Ink with Alexandra Klimek-Sidor
Saturday June 27, 2026 3:00pm - 5:00pm EDT
M - Director's Room
Join Alexandra Klimek-Sidor in this EXTREMELY popular workshop painting without brushes! Pre-registration not necessary, but ensures your seat. Seats are limited at the door. Cost per seat $20. 30 Seats.
Moderators
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Alexandra Klimek-Sidor

Artist
Alexandra's work includes abstracted portraits, twisted creatures, and fantastical monsters from myth and fandoms alike. She specializes in alcohol ink paintings and engraved game accessories. She has shown her work in galleries in Greenville, SC, the Oddities and Curiosities Expo... Read More →
Saturday June 27, 2026 3:00pm - 5:00pm EDT
M - Director's Room Chattanooga Marriott Downtown 2 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402, USA
  Art/Workshops, Workshop

3:00pm EDT

Cosmic Patrol Kid's RPG: Doomsday Protocols
Saturday June 27, 2026 3:00pm - 5:00pm EDT
M - Tennessee River Room (Gaming Room)
Doomsday Protocols: Greetings patrolmen! The Rocketship Hannibal last reported in a week ago and is now twenty four hours overdue for check-in. We are concerned that something may have befallen them. She's a cruiser-class rocket ship outfitted for scientific research and lacks the atomic firepower for dealing with large threats. Your mission is to locate the Hannibal and assist Captain Young and...
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Guests
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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 →
Saturday June 27, 2026 3:00pm - 5:00pm EDT
M - Tennessee River Room (Gaming Room) Chattanooga Marriott Downtown 2 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402, USA
  Kids Program, Gaming

4:00pm EDT

Technological Future of War
Saturday June 27, 2026 4:00pm - 4:15pm EDT
CC - Meeting Room 3 (Workshop Track)
Past Master of Ceremonies Mike Massa moderates this roundtable on the Technological Future of War and how the steady march of technology makes combat across all spheres more lethal.
Moderators
avatar for Mike Massa

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
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Chris DiNote

Author
Chris “MOGS” DiNote retired from the United States Air Force as a full colonel with 25 years, 7 months, and 29 days of service, but who's counting? He deployed for Operations Enduring Freedom, Iraqi Freedom, and Noble Eagle, served in South Korea and Germany.  Chris is a graduate... Read More →
avatar for Rick Partlow

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.
avatar for Charles E. Gannon

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 →
avatar for Gerald Hall

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 →
avatar for Gray Rinehart

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 →
Saturday June 27, 2026 4:00pm - 4:15pm EDT
CC - Meeting Room 3 (Workshop Track) Chattanooga Convention Center 1 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37403
  STEM, Round Table

4:00pm EDT

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
avatar for Nick Braker

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 →
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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 →
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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 →
avatar for Philip Ligon

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 →
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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.
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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 →
avatar for Julie Frost

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 →
avatar for Marina Fontaine

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 →
avatar for Justin C. Feng

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

4:00pm EDT

Autograph Session: LGOH Nicholas Sansbury Smith, Nathan Toronto
Saturday June 27, 2026 4:00pm - 5:00pm 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
avatar for Nathan Toronto

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

4:00pm EDT

Cat Magic the Game
Saturday June 27, 2026 4:00pm - 5:00pm EDT
M - Tennessee River Room (Gaming Room)
David Sherrer will host the card game for lovers of cats, snark, and magical fun, based on the bestselling "Love, Lies, and Hocus Pocus book series." You must collect (or steal) the 5 items necessary to build your assigned artifact, while simultaneously trying to prevent the other players from collecting theirs. The first to successfully assemble their artifact will save the magical library and...
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Moderators
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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 →
Saturday June 27, 2026 4:00pm - 5:00pm EDT
M - Tennessee River Room (Gaming Room) Chattanooga Marriott Downtown 2 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402, USA
  Gaming, Gaming

4:00pm EDT

Anthromech Roundtable
Saturday June 27, 2026 4:00pm - 5:00pm EDT
CC - Ballroom E (Main Event)
Anthromech is an anthology that was conceived by Bill Webb, where a senior author works with a junior author to develop their story, illustrating the concept of "paying it forward." Roundtable will discuss the dynamics and introduce some of the junior authors. Chis Kennedy (mod.)
Moderators
avatar for Chris Kennedy

Chris Kennedy

Author, Publisher, Past GoH

Guests
avatar for M.D. Boncher

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 →
avatar for Joseph Hower

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 →
avatar for Robert E. Hampson

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 →
avatar for Kevin Steverson

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 →
avatar for Craig Bell

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.
avatar for Scott Swoope

Scott Swoope

Author
Scott Swoope is a speculative fiction writer whose work blends the sweep of history with the imagination of science fiction and fantasy. His stories explore power, loyalty, and the human cost of ambition across worlds both ancient and futuristic.

When he’s not writing, Scott wo... Read More →
avatar for William S. Frisbee

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 →
avatar for Richard Cartwright

Richard Cartwright

Author
Richard Cartwright was born and raised in Tennessee when he was not bouncing around the country and Canada in the sleeper of his parents tractor trailer rig that his father bought after retiring from the Navy to go into trucking.

His first reading lessons were road signs at four. His education was disrupted at five when he was forced to start spending the school year at school. After acquiring a note at six to allow him to check out "advanced " books from the library, he discovered Heinlein and never looked... Read More →
avatar for David Appleby

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 →
avatar for April Kelley Jones

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 →
avatar for Mark Stallings

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 →
avatar for Jay Burr

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 →
avatar for Charli Cox

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 →
Saturday June 27, 2026 4:00pm - 5:00pm EDT
CC - Ballroom E (Main Event) Chattanooga Convention Center 1 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37403
  Literary/Publishing, Round Table

4:00pm EDT

Historical Research and How it Affects Worldbuilding
Saturday June 27, 2026 4:00pm - 5:00pm EDT
CC - Meeting Room 5 (Main Event)
Historian Daniel Butler will moderate this discussion on historical research and how it affects worldbuilding
Moderators
avatar for Daniel Allen Butler

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 →
Guests
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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 →
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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 →
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Matthew Skaggs

Author
Matthew Skaggs has Noir, SF, both Traditional and Weird Westerns, Steampunk, GameLit, and Alt-History short stories in print. So far. When not traveling, taking photos, researching, or writing, he relaxes in the Florida Panhandle sunshine with his totally awesome wife, their Swamp-doodle... Read More →
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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.
Saturday June 27, 2026 4:00pm - 5:00pm EDT
CC - Meeting Room 5 (Main Event) Chattanooga Convention Center 1 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37403
  Literary/Publishing, Panel

4:00pm EDT

The Worlds of Edie Skye and Jacob Holo
Saturday June 27, 2026 4:00pm - 5:00pm EDT
M - Plaza Ballroom A/B
Come join our Masters of Ceremonies as they discuss the literary Worlds of Edie Skye and Jacob Holo
Moderators
avatar for H.P. Holo

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 →
avatar for Jacob Holo

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 →
Saturday June 27, 2026 4:00pm - 5:00pm EDT
M - Plaza Ballroom A/B Chattanooga Marriott Downtown 2 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402, USA
  Literary/Publishing, Panel

4:00pm EDT

Worst Writing Advice
Saturday June 27, 2026 4:00pm - 5:00pm EDT
M - Plaza Ballroom C
Kal Spriggs moderates a panel discussion going over some of the worst writing advice we have ever received, much of it from professional writers, editors, and publishers.  We'll talk about what the advice was, why it was bad, and what to do instead.
Moderators
avatar for Kal Spriggs

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 →
Guests
avatar for Amy DuBoff

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 →
avatar for Terry Maggert

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 →
avatar for Jason Cordova

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 →
Saturday June 27, 2026 4:00pm - 5:00pm EDT
M - Plaza Ballroom C
  Literary/Publishing, Panel

4:00pm EDT

What's New from Steve Jackson Games
Saturday June 27, 2026 4:00pm - 5:00pm EDT
CC - Meeting Room 6 (Science Track)
Steve Jackson dishes on the latest developments from his secret games laboratory. Will include autograph session at the end of the presentation.
Moderators
avatar for Steve Jackson

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 →
Guests
avatar for John Kovalic

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 →
avatar for Irene Zielinski

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 →
Saturday June 27, 2026 4:00pm - 5:00pm EDT
CC - Meeting Room 6 (Science Track) Chattanooga Convention Center 1 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37403
  Main Program, Presentation

4:00pm EDT

Reading: Tim Akers and J.E. Pittman
Saturday June 27, 2026 4:00pm - 5:00pm EDT
M - Signal Mountain Room (Readings 1)
Come hear our authors read from their works.
Guests
avatar for J. E. Pittman

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 →
avatar for Tim Akers

Tim Akers

Author
Tim Akers is a fantasy novelist, a gamer, and utterly unemployable in the traditional sense. His novels include the dark fantasy Wraithbound, lighter portal series Knight Watch, and high action hard magic world of Bladecaster. He lives in Chicago with his indefatigable wife and a... Read More →
Saturday June 27, 2026 4:00pm - 5:00pm EDT
M - Signal Mountain Room (Readings 1) Chattanooga Marriott Downtown 2 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402, USA
  Readings 1, Reading

4:00pm EDT

Reading: J.B. Garner and Bethanne Kim
Saturday June 27, 2026 4:00pm - 5:00pm EDT
CC - Meeting Room 2 (Kids Program/Readings 2)
Come hear our authors read from their works.
Guests
avatar for Bethanne Kim

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 →
avatar for J.B. Garner

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 →
Saturday June 27, 2026 4:00pm - 5:00pm EDT
CC - Meeting Room 2 (Kids Program/Readings 2) Chattanooga Convention Center 1 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37403
  Readings 2, Reading

5:00pm EDT

The Great Stained Glass Race
Saturday June 27, 2026 5:00pm - 6:00pm EDT
M - Director's Room
Past AGoH, Head of Art Track, and Master Stained Glass Artisan Leia Powell has brought in two of her senior apprentices in this battle to the dea….. Band-Aid! Watch three stained glass artists cut the same pattern out in a timed exercise to see if Leia's still got the chops, or if her shining stars have left her in the dust.
Moderators
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Leia Powell

Artist, Author, Past AGoH
Master Stained Glass Artisan Leia Powell has been creating glass masterpieces, breaking down barriers, and rejuvenating the old world artistry for over 25 years. The first stained glass artist to be nominated for the coveted Chesley Award, Leia is also the first glass artist in history... Read More →
Guests
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Caitlin Roppoli

Artist
Caitlin Roppoli is a Senior Apprentice to Master Stained Glass Artist Leia Powell. She takes great inspiration from her grandfather, who was also a glazier, and she is following in his footsteps, learning as much as she can about the old world art medium. She travels to Wildcat Mountain... Read More →
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Tina Pierce

Artist
Tina Pierce is a third year Senior Apprentice to Master Stained Glass Artisan Leia Powell. A resident of Syracuse, New York, she learned exclusively through video chat during the covid shutdown. She is also the Art Show Director for JordanCon and is devoted to encouraging and promoting... Read More →
Saturday June 27, 2026 5:00pm - 6:00pm EDT
M - Director's Room Chattanooga Marriott Downtown 2 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402, USA
  Art/Workshops, Event

5:00pm EDT

Authors Alley: Al Hagan/Dan Kemp/Brian Gifford/Lucas Marcum, Philip Ligon, Ross Hathaway, K.B. Carlisle, Kevin Steverson, Teresa Howard/Tim Gilliland, Wayland Smith, Nick Braker, Reggi Broach
Saturday June 27, 2026 5:00pm - 6:00pm 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
avatar for Nick Braker

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 →
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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 →
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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.
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Ross Hathaway

Artist, Author
Ross Hathaway has spent 40+ years in the aerospace industry.  First, in the US Air Force as a navigator on C-141’s. Then, in commercial aircraft research, design and manufacturing, and finally at NASA at NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center.  His wife calls him “her rocket... Read More →
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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 →
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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.
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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 →
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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.
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
Saturday June 27, 2026 5:00pm - 6:00pm EDT
M - Plaza Ballroom Mezzanine - Authors Alley Chattanooga Marriott Downtown 2 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402, USA
  Authors Alley, Authors Alley

5:00pm EDT

Autograph Session: David Bock, Rick Cutler
Saturday June 27, 2026 5:00pm - 6:00pm 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
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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 →
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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.
Saturday June 27, 2026 5:00pm - 6:00pm 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

5:00pm EDT

Escape! The Devouring Ooze
Saturday June 27, 2026 5:00pm - 6:00pm 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
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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 →
Saturday June 27, 2026 5:00pm - 6:00pm EDT
M - Tennessee River Room (Gaming Room) Chattanooga Marriott Downtown 2 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402, USA
  Gaming, Gaming

5:00pm EDT

Building and Sustaining the Culture of Your Writing Group
Saturday June 27, 2026 5:00pm - 6:00pm EDT
CC - Meeting Room 5 (Main Event)
Building and Sustaining the Culture of Your Writing Group Discuss core values (e.g., trust, accountability, fun), why they matter for productivity, and how to evolve them. Emphasizes long-term benefits of culture in a writing group, appealing to both new and veteran attendees. Alpha Mercs hosts.
Moderators
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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.
Guests
avatar for Richard Cartwright

Richard Cartwright

Author
Richard Cartwright was born and raised in Tennessee when he was not bouncing around the country and Canada in the sleeper of his parents tractor trailer rig that his father bought after retiring from the Navy to go into trucking.

His first reading lessons were road signs at four. His education was disrupted at five when he was forced to start spending the school year at school. After acquiring a note at six to allow him to check out "advanced " books from the library, he discovered Heinlein and never looked... Read More →
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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 →
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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 →
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T.C. Ross

Author
TC Ross is an Urban Fantasy author who also dabbles in related Historical Fantasy, Romantic Comedies, Gaslamp, Horror, and short stories. She resides in Texas with her family, feeding the Fae and watching out for shifters. Hopefully they never find her.
Saturday June 27, 2026 5:00pm - 6:00pm EDT
CC - Meeting Room 5 (Main Event) Chattanooga Convention Center 1 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37403
  Literary/Publishing, Round Table

5:00pm EDT

Destroyer of Worlds
Saturday June 27, 2026 5:00pm - 6:00pm EDT
M - Plaza Ballroom C
LGOH Nicholas Sansbury Smith will moderate "Destroyer of Worlds", an in-depth look at writing post apocalyptic fiction.
Moderators
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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 →
Guests
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
Saturday June 27, 2026 5:00pm - 6:00pm EDT
M - Plaza Ballroom C
  Literary/Publishing, Panel

5:00pm EDT

On Writing Boy's Adventure Books
Saturday June 27, 2026 5:00pm - 6:00pm EDT
M - Plaza Ballroom A/B
On Writing Boy's Adventure Books - Raconteur Press authors discuss the art of writing adventure books for boys. Chris DiNote hosts.
Moderators
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Chris DiNote

Author
Chris “MOGS” DiNote retired from the United States Air Force as a full colonel with 25 years, 7 months, and 29 days of service, but who's counting? He deployed for Operations Enduring Freedom, Iraqi Freedom, and Noble Eagle, served in South Korea and Germany.  Chris is a graduate... Read More →
Guests
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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 →
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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.
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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 →
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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 →
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Janet Spaulding

Editor
Janet has taught English for over twenty years She holds a Doctorate in Creative Invective as well as a black belt in sarcasm. All her puns are 100% intentional. In addition to teaching and editing, she has been a military contractor, a mortgage officer, a stand-up comedian and a... Read More →
Saturday June 27, 2026 5:00pm - 6:00pm EDT
M - Plaza Ballroom A/B Chattanooga Marriott Downtown 2 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402, USA
  Literary/Publishing, Panel

5:00pm EDT

Putting the Science in Science Fiction
Saturday June 27, 2026 5:00pm - 6:00pm EDT
CC - Meeting Room 3 (Workshop Track)
Wil McCarthy hosts  "Putting the Science in Science Fiction," a discussion on how to translate technical and scientific fact into accessible fiction.

Moderators
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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 →
Guests
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
Saturday June 27, 2026 5:00pm - 6:00pm EDT
CC - Meeting Room 3 (Workshop Track) Chattanooga Convention Center 1 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37403
  Literary/Publishing, Panel

5:00pm EDT

Atlanta Radio Theatre Company (ARTC) Setup - Closed
Saturday June 27, 2026 5:00pm - 6:00pm EDT
CC - Ballroom E (Main Event)
Room closed for Atlanta Radio Theatre Company setup
Guests
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Atlanta Radio Theatre Company

Performer
Since 1984, the Atlanta Radio Theatre Company has been performing, recording, and broadcasting dramatic audio -- fully dramatized, fully sound-scaped audio drama, far beyond the readings and "audio books" you can find in every bookstore. We like to think that what we do is classic... Read More →
Saturday June 27, 2026 5:00pm - 6:00pm EDT
CC - Ballroom E (Main Event) Chattanooga Convention Center 1 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37403
  Main Program, Event

5:00pm EDT

Reading: Jesse James Fain and Matthew Skaggs
Saturday June 27, 2026 5:00pm - 6:00pm EDT
M - Signal Mountain Room (Readings 1)
Come hear our authors read from their works.
Guests
avatar for Matthew Skaggs

Matthew Skaggs

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

Author
Jesse James Fain is a Science Fiction and Fantasy Author, Editor, and retired powerlifting champion. Jesse’s extensive experience in martial arts and weapons training leads to vibrant martial tales of revenge and combat that bring a taste of reality to fictional battles, along with... Read More →
Saturday June 27, 2026 5:00pm - 6:00pm EDT
M - Signal Mountain Room (Readings 1) Chattanooga Marriott Downtown 2 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402, USA
  Readings 1, Reading

5:00pm EDT

Reading: PGOH Gray Rinehart
Saturday June 27, 2026 5:00pm - 6:00pm EDT
CC - Meeting Room 2 (Kids Program/Readings 2)
Come hear PGOH Gray Rinehart read from his works.
Guests
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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 →
Saturday June 27, 2026 5:00pm - 6:00pm EDT
CC - Meeting Room 2 (Kids Program/Readings 2) Chattanooga Convention Center 1 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37403
  Readings 2, Reading

5:00pm EDT

Interstellar Research Group (IRG) (Formerly TVIW) Update Panel
Saturday June 27, 2026 5:00pm - 6:00pm EDT
CC - Meeting Room 6 (Science Track)
The IRG Update Panel will cover the recent activities of the Interstellar Research Group along with our vision for the future of space exploration both within our solar system and eventually to planets orbiting other stars. Stephen Euin Cobb moderator.
Guests
avatar for Jeff Greason

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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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Martha Knowles

Professional Panelist
Now retired, Martha Knowles was a professional librarian and records management specialist. She was the TVIW Treasurer from 2014-2020, and administrator and Registrar for the first four TVIW symposia. Since TVIW became the Interstellar Research Group, she has continued to be involved... Read More →
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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 →
Saturday June 27, 2026 5:00pm - 6:00pm EDT
CC - Meeting Room 6 (Science Track) Chattanooga Convention Center 1 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37403
  STEM, Round Table

5:00pm EDT

Introduction to Dungeons and Dragons for Kids, 3rd Edition
Saturday June 27, 2026 5:00pm - 9:00pm EDT
M - Tennessee River Room (Gaming Room)
Kat Hosmum will host a beginners sessions of intro to D&D - 2-6 players, pre-made character sheets. No experience necessary.
Saturday June 27, 2026 5:00pm - 9:00pm EDT
M - Tennessee River Room (Gaming Room) Chattanooga Marriott Downtown 2 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402, USA
  Gaming, Gaming

6:00pm EDT

The Affect of AI on Professional Artists
Saturday June 27, 2026 6:00pm - 7:00pm EDT
M - Director's Room
Why yes, we did put this on the schedule. Why? Because more and more traditional artists are having to get part-time jobs to pay their bills and we need YOU to know why AI Art may seem all the rage, but without the diligence and training of these humans, it wouldn't exist to begin with.
Moderators
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M. M. Schill

Artist, Editor, Past AGoH
M.M. Schill is an award-winning artist, illustrator, writer, and pro-editor. She also serves as associated editor at Pseudopod (a pro-market, award-winning, short horror podcast and E-zine). Outside of her artistic pursuits, she is a decades-long student of aikido and iaido, a power-lifter, and (most importantly) she's an outspoken activist for victims' rights... Read More →
Guests
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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 →
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Amy Brewer-Davenport

Artist
Amy Brewer-Davenport is an award winning fantasy artist and lifelong con-goer, always looking for new inspiration or ways to inspire others to create. Through her work she emphasizes whimsy through color, texture, and chance. Along with her studio practice she teaches creativity workshops... Read More →
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Sam R. Kennedy

Artist
Sam R Kennedy paints galaxies, gods, and dreams—sometimes all in one frame. A cover artist for science fiction and fantasy, and a fine artist for Disney and beyond, Sam lives somewhere between the stars and the sketchbook.
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Annastasia Webster

Artist
Annastasia Webster expresses her art in a variety of ways. Most currently she has been exploring the mediums of polymer clay and resin under the umbrella of Night Witch Studio. She has purple hair and lives in Louisville, KY with her husband and 3 cats.
Saturday June 27, 2026 6:00pm - 7:00pm EDT
M - Director's Room Chattanooga Marriott Downtown 2 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402, USA
  Art/Workshops, Panel

6:00pm EDT

Authors Alley: Al Hagan/Brian Gifford/Lucas Marcum, Cassandra Morgan, Tim Akers, Kevin Steverson, Teresa Howard/Tim Gilliland, Wayland Smith, Nick Braker, Reggi Broach, Frank Hood
Saturday June 27, 2026 6:00pm - 7:00pm 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
avatar for Nick Braker

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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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.
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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Frank Hood

Author
When I graduated college I wanted to be a great writer like Shakespeare, Bradbury, Hardy, or Heinlein. Five years later and $14 richer off my writing career, I decided I needed a career that put food on the table as well. My wife, a chemist and wonderful writer herself (S. T. Gaffney... Read More →
Saturday June 27, 2026 6:00pm - 7:00pm EDT
M - Plaza Ballroom Mezzanine - Authors Alley Chattanooga Marriott Downtown 2 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402, USA
  Authors Alley, Authors Alley

6:00pm EDT

Autograph Session: A.G. Thompson, MG Martin, Stephanie Osborn
Saturday June 27, 2026 6:00pm - 7:00pm 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
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
Saturday June 27, 2026 6:00pm - 7:00pm 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

6:00pm EDT

Zombie Dice
Saturday June 27, 2026 6:00pm - 7:00pm EDT
M - Tennessee River Room (Gaming Room)
You are a zombie. You want braaains. More brains than any of your zombie buddies. Zombie Dice is fun for any zombie fan. The 13 custom dice are your victims. Push your luck to eat their brains, but stop before the shotgun blasts end your turn!. 2+ players, 30 minutes - 1 hour, age 10+ Melina hosts.
Saturday June 27, 2026 6:00pm - 7:00pm EDT
M - Tennessee River Room (Gaming Room) Chattanooga Marriott Downtown 2 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402, USA
  Gaming, Gaming

6:00pm EDT

Nertz
Saturday June 27, 2026 6:00pm - 7:00pm EDT
M - Tennessee River Room (Gaming Room)
Nertz is a mix of Speed and Solitaire. Fast paced game. Players will simultaniously play solitaire to win points and try to get rid of the 13 card Nertz pile to win. Age 8+, 2 - 12 players, 30 minutes. Amanda McGill hosts.
Saturday June 27, 2026 6:00pm - 7:00pm EDT
M - Tennessee River Room (Gaming Room) Chattanooga Marriott Downtown 2 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402, USA
  Kids Program, Gaming

6:00pm EDT

Facebook Ads for Authors: Turning Clicks into Readers
Saturday June 27, 2026 6:00pm - 7:00pm EDT
CC - Meeting Room 3 (Workshop Track)
David Sherrer presents "Facebook Ads for Authors: Turning Clicks into Readers." Step-by-step insights into creating, targeting, and scaling Facebook ad campaigns that convert browsers into loyal fans. Focus will be on Ad creative, audiences, ROI, scaling campaigns, and adapting to algorithm changes.

Guests
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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 →
Saturday June 27, 2026 6:00pm - 7:00pm EDT
CC - Meeting Room 3 (Workshop Track) Chattanooga Convention Center 1 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37403
  Literary/Publishing, Presentation

6:00pm EDT

Spec-Ops in Spaaaaaaace!
Saturday June 27, 2026 6:00pm - 7:00pm EDT
M - Plaza Ballroom A/B
Spec-Ops in Spaaaaaaace!: The popularization of Special Operations military formations continues, even though they represent a small minority of the world’s military forces. How can speculative Mil SF inform readers/watchers of the strengths and weaknesses of these “high-speed, low-drag” groups? Which MilSF properties incorporate SpecOps realistically? Can SpecOps over-exposure translate...
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Moderators
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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
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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Kevin Ikenberry

Author
Kevin Ikenberry is a life-long space geek and retired Army officer. As an adult, he managed the U.S. Space Camp program, two Challenger Learning Centers, and served on active duty in space operations before Space Force was a thing. He’s an international bestselling science fiction... Read More →
Saturday June 27, 2026 6:00pm - 7:00pm EDT
M - Plaza Ballroom A/B Chattanooga Marriott Downtown 2 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402, USA
  Literary/Publishing, Panel

6:00pm EDT

What's New in Paranormal Romance?
Saturday June 27, 2026 6:00pm - 7:00pm EDT
M - Plaza Ballroom C
Gini Koch will moderate this roundtable discussion on what's new in Paranormal Romance.
Moderators
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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 →
Guests
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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 →
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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 →
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Nancy Northcott

Author
Nancy Northcott has loved comic books, mysteries, fantasy, history, and romance since childhood. A sucker for fast action and wrenching emotion, she combines the action and high stakes she loves in the books she writes.

On the way to becoming a published author, she taught courses... Read More →
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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.
Saturday June 27, 2026 6:00pm - 7:00pm EDT
M - Plaza Ballroom C
  Literary/Publishing, Panel

6:00pm EDT

Art and Charity Auction Setup - Closed
Saturday June 27, 2026 6:00pm - 7:00pm EDT
CC - Meeting Room 5 (Main Event)
Closed for setup of the LC 38's Art and Charity Auction.
Saturday June 27, 2026 6:00pm - 7:00pm EDT
CC - Meeting Room 5 (Main Event) Chattanooga Convention Center 1 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37403
  Main Program, Event

6:00pm EDT

Reading: Robert S. Evans and William Lehman
Saturday June 27, 2026 6:00pm - 7:00pm EDT
M - Signal Mountain Room (Readings 1)
Come hear our authors read from their works.
Guests
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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 →
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William Lehman

Author
William Lehman can’t stay out of hot water… or cold water, either. After retiring from two careers in and around submarines, and a decade as a Reserve Police Officer for the City of Bremerton, Washington, (where far more things go on than you’d think) he’s traded in his police... Read More →
Saturday June 27, 2026 6:00pm - 7:00pm EDT
M - Signal Mountain Room (Readings 1) Chattanooga Marriott Downtown 2 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402, USA
  Readings 1, Reading

6:00pm EDT

Reading: Charli Cox and Mark Huston
Saturday June 27, 2026 6:00pm - 7:00pm EDT
CC - Meeting Room 2 (Kids Program/Readings 2)
Come hear our authors read from their works.
Guests
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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 →
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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 →
Saturday June 27, 2026 6:00pm - 7:00pm EDT
CC - Meeting Room 2 (Kids Program/Readings 2) Chattanooga Convention Center 1 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37403
  Readings 2, Reading

6:00pm EDT

Intriguing Rocks on Mars: the Cheyava Falls Potential Biosignature
Saturday June 27, 2026 6:00pm - 7:00pm EDT
CC - Meeting Room 6 (Science Track)
Join NASA astrobiologist Dr. Becky McCauley Rench for an exploration of one of the most exciting real world discoveries to fire the imagination of science fiction fans: the Cheyava Falls rock found by the Perseverance rover on Mars. This strange, splotchy stone—riddled with organic molecules, hydrated minerals, and chemical patterns reminiscent of microbial energy sources on Earth—has become...
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Guests
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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 →
Saturday June 27, 2026 6:00pm - 7:00pm EDT
CC - Meeting Room 6 (Science Track) Chattanooga Convention Center 1 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37403
  STEM, Presentation

6:00pm EDT

Atlanta Radio Theatre Company (ARTC)
Saturday June 27, 2026 6:00pm - 8:00pm EDT
CC - Ballroom E (Main Event)
Atlanta Radio Theatre Company (ARTC) presents, from the Dean of American Science Fiction, Robert A. Heinlein, a story more prescient than anyone could have imagined, “Solution Unsatisfactory”. Also included in this year’s offering, Ron N. Butler’s “Rory Rammer, Space Marshal: The Angel of Destruction”.
Guests
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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 →
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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 →
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Atlanta Radio Theatre Company

Performer
Since 1984, the Atlanta Radio Theatre Company has been performing, recording, and broadcasting dramatic audio -- fully dramatized, fully sound-scaped audio drama, far beyond the readings and "audio books" you can find in every bookstore. We like to think that what we do is classic... Read More →
Saturday June 27, 2026 6:00pm - 8:00pm EDT
CC - Ballroom E (Main Event) Chattanooga Convention Center 1 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37403
  Main Program, Event

7:00pm EDT

Five Mercs, Five Takes: A Live Critique Workshop
Saturday June 27, 2026 7:00pm - 8:00pm EDT
CC - Meeting Room 3 (Workshop Track)
Five Alpha Mercs critique short excerpts from volunteer authors (pre-submitted or on-the-spot, 500 word limit). Highlight diverse perspectives. Workshop with timed segments; provides feedback forms as handouts and gives attendees something dynamic and educational—see critiques in action.
Guests
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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 →
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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 →
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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.
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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 →
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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 →
Saturday June 27, 2026 7:00pm - 8:00pm EDT
CC - Meeting Room 3 (Workshop Track) Chattanooga Convention Center 1 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37403
  Art/Workshops, Workshop

7:00pm EDT

Authors Alley: Michael Morton/Charli Cox, Cassandra Morgan, Tim Akers, Kevin Steverson, Teresa Howard/Tim Gilliland, Wayland Smith, Kevin Ikenberry, David Boop, Frank Hood
Saturday June 27, 2026 7:00pm - 8:00pm 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
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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.
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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Frank Hood

Author
When I graduated college I wanted to be a great writer like Shakespeare, Bradbury, Hardy, or Heinlein. Five years later and $14 richer off my writing career, I decided I needed a career that put food on the table as well. My wife, a chemist and wonderful writer herself (S. T. Gaffney... Read More →
Saturday June 27, 2026 7:00pm - 8:00pm EDT
M - Plaza Ballroom Mezzanine - Authors Alley Chattanooga Marriott Downtown 2 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402, USA
  Authors Alley, Authors Alley

7:00pm EDT

Autograph Session: J.E. Pittman, David Badurina
Saturday June 27, 2026 7:00pm - 8:00pm 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
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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 →
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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 →
Saturday June 27, 2026 7:00pm - 8:00pm 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

7:00pm EDT

The Night Cage
Saturday June 27, 2026 7:00pm - 8:00pm EDT
M - Tennessee River Room (Gaming Room)
The Night Cage is an atmospheric horror board game where players will work together to explore the ever changing maze and escape. Players must each collect a key, find a gate, and escape as a group. Age 14+, 1-5 players, 1 hour. Emma Booker hosts.
Saturday June 27, 2026 7:00pm - 8:00pm EDT
M - Tennessee River Room (Gaming Room) Chattanooga Marriott Downtown 2 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402, USA
  Gaming, Gaming

7:00pm EDT

Flamecraft
Saturday June 27, 2026 7:00pm - 8:00pm EDT
M - Tennessee River Room (Gaming Room)
Flamecraft is a cute and strategic board game where players take on the role of artisans who work with magical dragons to craft enchanted items and enhance their shops to become the most successful Flamekeeper in town. Age 10+, 1-5 players, 1 hour. Elizabeth Rowland hosts.
Saturday June 27, 2026 7:00pm - 8:00pm EDT
M - Tennessee River Room (Gaming Room) Chattanooga Marriott Downtown 2 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402, USA
  Kids Program, Gaming

7:00pm EDT

Uno
Saturday June 27, 2026 7:00pm - 8:00pm EDT
M - Tennessee River Room (Gaming Room)
Uno is a card-shedding game where the goal of the game is to be the first to discard all of your cards. Age 7+, 2 - 6 players. Katelyn hosts.
Saturday June 27, 2026 7:00pm - 8:00pm EDT
M - Tennessee River Room (Gaming Room) Chattanooga Marriott Downtown 2 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402, USA
  Kids Program, Gaming

7:00pm EDT

What's New in Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy
Saturday June 27, 2026 7:00pm - 8:00pm EDT
M - Plaza Ballroom A/B
Shami Stovall moderates this roundtable discussion on what's new in Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy.
Moderators
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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.
Guests
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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.
Saturday June 27, 2026 7:00pm - 8:00pm EDT
M - Plaza Ballroom A/B Chattanooga Marriott Downtown 2 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402, USA
  Literary/Publishing, Round Table

7:00pm EDT

World Building for Horror and Urban Fantasy
Saturday June 27, 2026 7:00pm - 8:00pm EDT
M - Plaza Ballroom C
Sam Robb moderates this panel discussion on the requirements of good world building for realistic horror and urban fantasy.
Moderators
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Sam Robb

Author
Sam Robb is an urban fantasy writer from Pittsburgh who draws inspiration from back alleys, graffiti, and urban exploration. He’s published in his flash fiction collection, One October Night, as well as multiple anthologies, and edited the Stories in the Key of Tull anthologies... Read More →
Guests
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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.
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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.
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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 →
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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 →
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Megan Miller

Author
Megan Miller holds a Masters of Science from NC State University and is a proud PhD dropout from the University of Arizona at Tucson. She is currently the Executive Director of one of the largest non-profits fighting food scarcity in western North Carolina. A mother, stand-up comedian... Read More →
Saturday June 27, 2026 7:00pm - 8:00pm EDT
M - Plaza Ballroom C
  Literary/Publishing, Panel

7:00pm EDT

Reading: M.D. Boncher and VL Stuart
Saturday June 27, 2026 7:00pm - 8:00pm EDT
M - Signal Mountain Room (Readings 1)
Come hear our authors read from their works.
Guests
avatar for VL Stuart

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."
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M.D. Boncher

Author
As an author, artist and musician, M. D. Boncher has lead a “Writer’s Life”. With several careers in many varied industries from security to hospitality to trucking logistics providing him a wide breadth of experience with the human condition from which to draw on for his work... Read More →
Saturday June 27, 2026 7:00pm - 8:00pm EDT
M - Signal Mountain Room (Readings 1) Chattanooga Marriott Downtown 2 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402, USA
  Readings 1, Reading

7:00pm EDT

Reading: Lucas Marcum and D.S. Watson
Saturday June 27, 2026 7:00pm - 8:00pm EDT
CC - Meeting Room 2 (Kids Program/Readings 2)
Come hear our authors read from their works.
Guests
avatar for D.S. Watson

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 →
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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 →
Saturday June 27, 2026 7:00pm - 8:00pm EDT
CC - Meeting Room 2 (Kids Program/Readings 2) Chattanooga Convention Center 1 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37403
  Readings 2, Reading

7:00pm EDT

Reading: Lloyd Watson and
Saturday June 27, 2026 7:00pm - 8:00pm EDT
M - Director's Room
Come hear our authors read from their works.
Guests
avatar for Lloyd Watson

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 →
Saturday June 27, 2026 7:00pm - 8:00pm EDT
M - Director's Room Chattanooga Marriott Downtown 2 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402, USA
  Readings 3, Reading

7:00pm EDT

Waiting for Warp Drives
Saturday June 27, 2026 7:00pm - 8:00pm EDT
CC - Meeting Room 6 (Science Track)
Warp drives may or may not be possible. But there are plenty of technologies necessary for deep-space exploration that don’t require any exotic physics, just good old fashioned engineering. We’ll talk about some of the most useful, as well as ways to get from here to here in a time of constrained NASA funding. Jeff Greason presents.
Guests
avatar for Jeff Greason

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 →
Saturday June 27, 2026 7:00pm - 8:00pm EDT
CC - Meeting Room 6 (Science Track) Chattanooga Convention Center 1 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37403
  STEM, Presentation

7:00pm EDT

Art and Charity Auction
Saturday June 27, 2026 7:00pm - 9:00pm EDT
CC - Meeting Room 5 (Main Event)
Come out and bid at LC 38's Art and Charity Auction. Our charity of choice this year is ART 120.
Moderators
avatar for Everette Beach

Everette Beach

Auctioneer
I've been a Science Fiction fan since I learned to read. I had read everything in the "juvenile" science fiction / fantasy section of our library by the time I was 10 and had to get my mother to check out the "real" books in the adult section for me.  Yes, I am old enough to remember... Read More →
Guests
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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Dr. Mark Paulk

STEM
Dr. Mark Paulk is a retired member of the faculty at the University of Texas at Dallas, teaching software engineering. Before UTD, he was with Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh for 25 years, researching and teaching on best practices for software engineering and service management... Read More →
Saturday June 27, 2026 7:00pm - 9:00pm EDT
CC - Meeting Room 5 (Main Event) Chattanooga Convention Center 1 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37403
  Main Program, Event

8:00pm EDT

ARTC Improv Show
Saturday June 27, 2026 8:00pm - 9:00pm EDT
CC - Ballroom E (Main Event)
ARTC Improv Show 
Saturday June 27, 2026 8:00pm - 9:00pm EDT
CC - Ballroom E (Main Event) Chattanooga Convention Center 1 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37403

8:00pm EDT

Authors Alley: Michael Morton/Charli Cox/B.K. Gibson/Claire Merrick, Kelly Grayson, 1632 (Bethanne Kim/Bjorn Hasseler), Kevin Steverson, Teresa Howard/Tim Gilliland, Wayland Smith, Kevin Ikenberry, Nic Plume, David Boop
Saturday June 27, 2026 8:00pm - 9:00pm 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
avatar for Claire Merrick

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.
avatar for BK Gibson

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 →
avatar for Tim Gilliland

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 →
avatar for Bethanne Kim

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 →
avatar for Bjorn Hasseler

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 →
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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 →
avatar for Michael Morton

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.
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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 →
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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 →
avatar for Teresa Howard

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 →
avatar for Wayland Smith

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 →
avatar for Kevin Ikenberry

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 →
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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 →
avatar for David Boop

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 →
Saturday June 27, 2026 8:00pm - 9:00pm EDT
M - Plaza Ballroom Mezzanine - Authors Alley Chattanooga Marriott Downtown 2 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402, USA
  Authors Alley, Authors Alley

8:00pm EDT

Autograph Session: Gini Koch, Keith Hedger
Saturday June 27, 2026 8:00pm - 9:00pm 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
avatar for Keith Hedger

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 →
avatar for Gini Koch

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

8:00pm EDT

Coup
Saturday June 27, 2026 8:00pm - 9:00pm EDT
M - Tennessee River Room (Gaming Room)
Coup is a social deduction card game where players are given two cards. They will attempt to eliminate the other players by lying and calling their bluffs until only one player remains. 30 min - 1 hr, 2-6 players, age 14+, Daniel hosts
Saturday June 27, 2026 8:00pm - 9:00pm EDT
M - Tennessee River Room (Gaming Room) Chattanooga Marriott Downtown 2 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402, USA
  Gaming, Gaming

8:00pm EDT

Gizmos
Saturday June 27, 2026 8:00pm - 9:00pm EDT
M - Tennessee River Room (Gaming Room)
Gizmos will have players playing contestants in a science fair by having them pluck energy marbles to create new Gizmos to add to their machines. Age 14+, 2-4 players, board game, 1 hour. Chance Cook hosts.
Saturday June 27, 2026 8:00pm - 9:00pm EDT
M - Tennessee River Room (Gaming Room) Chattanooga Marriott Downtown 2 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402, USA
  Gaming, Gaming

8:00pm EDT

Learn to Play Gizmos
Saturday June 27, 2026 8:00pm - 9:00pm EDT
M - Tennessee River Room (Gaming Room)
Gizmos will have beginner players playing contestants in a science fair by having them pluck energy marbles to create new Gizmos to add to their machines. Age 14+, 2-4 players, board game, 1 hour. Chance Cook hosts.
Saturday June 27, 2026 8:00pm - 9:00pm EDT
M - Tennessee River Room (Gaming Room) Chattanooga Marriott Downtown 2 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402, USA
  Gaming, Gaming

8:00pm EDT

Black Swan Events Are Everyday - Living in a White Swan World
Saturday June 27, 2026 8:00pm - 9:00pm EDT
M - Plaza Ballroom A/B
Writing exceptional or unusual events into Mil/SF is easier when the real world is so unpredictable, so often. Panelists discuss how White Swan mentality reflects on works/events past and how it affects their writing.


Moderators
avatar for James P. Nettles

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 →
Guests
avatar for James S. Aaron

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.
avatar for Fred Hughes

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 →
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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 →
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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 →
avatar for Stewart Cobb

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 →
Saturday June 27, 2026 8:00pm - 9:00pm EDT
M - Plaza Ballroom A/B Chattanooga Marriott Downtown 2 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402, USA
  Literary/Publishing, Panel

8:00pm EDT

What Makes for a Good Editor?
Saturday June 27, 2026 8:00pm - 9:00pm EDT
M - Plaza Ballroom C
What are the skillsets that make for a good editor? Editor's across several areas dish on the essential skills that are across the board. 
Moderators
avatar for Patricia McIntosh-Mize

Patricia McIntosh-Mize

Editor
Patty McIntosh-Mize is a lifelong nerd-girl and freelance editor. Most recently, she edited Theft of Fire, the amazing debut novel in the Orbital Space series by Devon Ericksen (now available in audiobook form!). When not editing, she knits and enjoys spending quality time with the Best Husband Ever... Read More →
Guests
avatar for Jesse James Fain

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 →
avatar for Megan Sloane

Megan Sloane

Editor
Megan Sloane is an editor of prose and comic book stories. She is a senior editor at 1First Comics and received her editing certificate from the University of California: Berkeley. Yes, she will receive your (written) comic book pitches and evaluate your comic sample pages.
avatar for Amanda Montandon

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 →
avatar for D. Jason Fleming

D. Jason Fleming

Author, Editor
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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 →
Saturday June 27, 2026 8:00pm - 9:00pm EDT
M - Plaza Ballroom C
  Literary/Publishing, Panel

8:00pm EDT

Reading: Daniel Kemp and Jonathan LaForce
Saturday June 27, 2026 8:00pm - 9:00pm EDT
M - Director's Room
Come hear our authors read from their works.
Guests
avatar for Daniel Kemp

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.
avatar for Jonathan LaForce

Jonathan LaForce

Author
Born in southern Arizona, Jonathan LaForce spent his formative years in northern Los Angeles County before moving to Texas at the age of 19. Two years later, he enlisted in the USMC and found himself stationed in Hawaii. Had it not been so expensive, he'd have stayed in Hawaii at... Read More →
Saturday June 27, 2026 8:00pm - 9:00pm EDT
M - Director's Room Chattanooga Marriott Downtown 2 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402, USA
  Readings 1, Reading

8:00pm EDT

Reading: Past SPGOH Chris Woods
Saturday June 27, 2026 8:00pm - 9:00pm EDT
Come hear Past Special GOH Chris Woods read from his works.
Guests
avatar for Chris Woods

Chris Woods

Author, Past Special GoH
Christopher Woods, writer of fiction, teller of tales, and professional liar was born way too long ago to be talking about it and has spent the majority of his life with a book in hand. He is known for his popular Soulguard series and creating the shared universe in The Fallen World... Read More →
Saturday June 27, 2026 8:00pm - 9:00pm EDT
  Readings 1, Reading

8:00pm EDT

Reading: The Writing Hoyts
Saturday June 27, 2026 8:00pm - 9:00pm EDT
M - Signal Mountain Room (Readings 1)
Come hear the legendary Hoyts read from their works.
Guests
avatar for Marshall Hoyt

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 →
avatar for Sarah A. Hoyt

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 →
avatar for Daniel M. Hoyt

Daniel M. Hoyt

Author, STEM, Past Special GoH
Daniel M. Hoyt is a systems architect for trajectory physics software, when not writing or wrangling royalty calculations. Dan has appeared in premier magazines like Analog and several anthologies, notably the recent Paladins of Valor and Bonds of Valor, with connected stories in... Read More →
Saturday June 27, 2026 8:00pm - 9:00pm EDT
M - Signal Mountain Room (Readings 1) Chattanooga Marriott Downtown 2 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402, USA
  Readings 1, Reading

8:00pm EDT

Remote Viewing and the World of Intelligence
Saturday June 27, 2026 8:00pm - 9:00pm EDT
CC - Meeting Room 6 (Science Track)
Remote Viewing and the World of Intelligence: Learn about the practice, terminology, and data collection capabilities in use today with a focus on the US intelligence community (IC). Find out why the IC was interested in remote viewing and how it was used in actual operations.
Moderators
avatar for Gregory Radabaugh

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 →
Saturday June 27, 2026 8:00pm - 9:00pm EDT
CC - Meeting Room 6 (Science Track) Chattanooga Convention Center 1 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37403
  STEM, Presentation

8:00pm EDT

The Art and Science of Gunsmithing
Saturday June 27, 2026 8:00pm - 9:00pm EDT
CC - Meeting Room 3 (Workshop Track)
Master Gunsmith Oren Truitt will moderate this panel discussion on the art and science of gunsmithing. 
Moderators
avatar for Oren Truitt

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 →
Guests
avatar for Rob Reed

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 →
avatar for Aaron Haskins

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 →
avatar for Michael Z. Williamson

Michael Z. Williamson

Author
Michael Z. Williamson is an SF author, military consultant, and Editor at Large for Survivalblog. His novels include the popular Freehold universe, and "The Hero" (with John Ringo). He has consulted for productions on Discovery Networks, the Outdoor Channel, and National Geographic... Read More →
avatar for Jim Curtis

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 →
Saturday June 27, 2026 8:00pm - 9:00pm EDT
CC - Meeting Room 3 (Workshop Track) Chattanooga Convention Center 1 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37403
  STEM, Panel

8:00pm EDT

Alien RPG
Saturday June 27, 2026 8:00pm - 11:00pm EDT
M - Tennessee River Room (Gaming Room)
Alien: Life on LV-426 is mostly hard labor. But a few days ago something unusual happened. A colonist on an exploration run came back from infected with something. Then your team was sent out to survey Sacrum Range to the south of the colony. Your vehicle suffered a malfunction, though, and calls back to the colony have gone unanswered. Your food and water are running out. Hadley's Hope is a day's...
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Guests
avatar for C.S. Ferguson

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 →
Saturday June 27, 2026 8:00pm - 11:00pm EDT
M - Tennessee River Room (Gaming Room) Chattanooga Marriott Downtown 2 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402, USA
  Gaming, Gaming

9:00pm EDT

ARTC Teardown - Closed
Saturday June 27, 2026 9:00pm - 10:00pm EDT
CC - Ballroom E (Main Event)
ARTC Teardown - Closed
Saturday June 27, 2026 9:00pm - 10:00pm EDT
CC - Ballroom E (Main Event) Chattanooga Convention Center 1 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37403

9:00pm EDT

Toned Paper Magic with Melissa Gay
Saturday June 27, 2026 9:00pm - 10:00pm EDT
M - Director's Room
Work with Artist Melissa Gay in this hands-on workshop about using cool and warm-toned paper to practice shading low tones and highlights, while she teaches you how much fun it is to start with a mid-tone as your paper color. Pre-registration not necessary, but ensures your seat. Seats are limited at the door. Cost per seat $25. 10 Seats.
Moderators
avatar for Melissa Gay

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 →
Saturday June 27, 2026 9:00pm - 10:00pm EDT
M - Director's Room Chattanooga Marriott Downtown 2 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402, USA
  Art/Workshops, Workshop

9:00pm EDT

Authors Alley: Dan Kemp/Jonathan Laforce/Claire Merrick, Daniel Allen Butler, Kelly Grayson, 1632 (Bethanne Kim/Bjorn Hasseler), Kevin Steverson, Teresa Howard/Tim Gilliland, Wayland Smith, Daniel Butler, Tamara Lowery, Nic Plume
Saturday June 27, 2026 9:00pm - 10:00pm 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
avatar for Claire Merrick

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.
avatar for Tim Gilliland

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 →
avatar for Daniel Allen Butler

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 →
avatar for Nic Plume

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 →
avatar for Bethanne Kim

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 →
avatar for Daniel Kemp

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.
avatar for Jonathan LaForce

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 →
avatar for Bjorn Hasseler

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 →
avatar for Kelly Grayson

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 →
avatar for Kevin Steverson

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 →
avatar for Teresa Howard

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 →
avatar for Wayland Smith

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 →
avatar for Tamara Lowery

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.
Saturday June 27, 2026 9:00pm - 10:00pm EDT
M - Plaza Ballroom Mezzanine - Authors Alley Chattanooga Marriott Downtown 2 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402, USA
  Authors Alley, Authors Alley

9:00pm EDT

Autograph Session: Jesse James Fain, JP Chandler
Saturday June 27, 2026 9:00pm - 10:00pm 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
avatar for J.P. Chandler

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 →
avatar for Jesse James Fain

Jesse James Fain

Author
Jesse James Fain is a Science Fiction and Fantasy Author, Editor, and retired powerlifting champion. Jesse’s extensive experience in martial arts and weapons training leads to vibrant martial tales of revenge and combat that bring a taste of reality to fictional battles, along with... Read More →
Saturday June 27, 2026 9:00pm - 10:00pm 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

9:00pm EDT

Author Branding 101: Building a Brand That Sells Books
Saturday June 27, 2026 9:00pm - 10:00pm EDT
CC - Meeting Room 3 (Workshop Track)
David Sherrer presents "Author Branding 101: Building a Brand That Sells Books."  Discover how to define your author identity, craft consistent visuals, and connect with readers across all platforms. Focus will be on Author identity, consistent messaging, building reader trust, Expanding your brand.

Guests
avatar for Lydia Sherrer

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 →
avatar for David Sherrer

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 →
Saturday June 27, 2026 9:00pm - 10:00pm EDT
CC - Meeting Room 3 (Workshop Track) Chattanooga Convention Center 1 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37403
  Literary/Publishing, Presentation

9:00pm EDT

Writing for the Comics
Saturday June 27, 2026 9:00pm - 10:00pm EDT
M - Plaza Ballroom A/B
How different is writing for the comics than say writing for anthologies? Insiders provide how it is done. 
Moderators
avatar for Nancy Northcott

Nancy Northcott

Author
Nancy Northcott has loved comic books, mysteries, fantasy, history, and romance since childhood. A sucker for fast action and wrenching emotion, she combines the action and high stakes she loves in the books she writes.

On the way to becoming a published author, she taught courses... Read More →
Guests
avatar for Sarah A. Hoyt

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 →
avatar for John Ringo

John Ringo

Author, Past LGoH
John Ringo's science fiction is action-oriented and abounding in characters to root for. He is the creator of the New York Times best-selling military science fiction series The Posleen Wars, with over one million copies in print. Ringo is also the author of the far-future science... Read More →
avatar for David Boop

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 →
avatar for Bill Willingham

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 →
avatar for Megan Sloane

Megan Sloane

Editor
Megan Sloane is an editor of prose and comic book stories. She is a senior editor at 1First Comics and received her editing certificate from the University of California: Berkeley. Yes, she will receive your (written) comic book pitches and evaluate your comic sample pages.
Saturday June 27, 2026 9:00pm - 10:00pm EDT
M - Plaza Ballroom A/B Chattanooga Marriott Downtown 2 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402, USA
  Literary/Publishing, Panel

9:00pm EDT

Art and Charity Auction Teardown - Closed
Saturday June 27, 2026 9:00pm - 10:00pm EDT
CC - Meeting Room 5 (Main Event)
Closed for teardown of the LC 38's Art and Charity Auction.
Saturday June 27, 2026 9:00pm - 10:00pm EDT
CC - Meeting Room 5 (Main Event) Chattanooga Convention Center 1 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37403
  Main Program, Event

9:00pm EDT

Reading: Jason Cordova and Kevin Ikenberry
Saturday June 27, 2026 9:00pm - 10:00pm EDT
M - Signal Mountain Room (Readings 1)
Come hear our authors read from their works.
Guests
avatar for Jason Cordova

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 →
avatar for Kevin Ikenberry

Kevin Ikenberry

Author
Kevin Ikenberry is a life-long space geek and retired Army officer. As an adult, he managed the U.S. Space Camp program, two Challenger Learning Centers, and served on active duty in space operations before Space Force was a thing. He’s an international bestselling science fiction... Read More →
Saturday June 27, 2026 9:00pm - 10:00pm EDT
M - Signal Mountain Room (Readings 1) Chattanooga Marriott Downtown 2 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402, USA
  Readings 1, Reading

9:00pm EDT

Feral Ladies Reading and Shenanigans
Saturday June 27, 2026 9:00pm - 10:00pm EDT
CC - Meeting Room 2 (Kids Program/Readings 2)
Come enjoy the feral ladies readings and shenanigans.
Guests
avatar for Marisa Wolf

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 →
avatar for Melissa Olthoff

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 →
Saturday June 27, 2026 9:00pm - 10:00pm EDT
CC - Meeting Room 2 (Kids Program/Readings 2) Chattanooga Convention Center 1 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37403
  Readings 2, Reading

9:00pm EDT

Prepping for the Apocalypse - HAM Radio
Saturday June 27, 2026 9:00pm - 10:00pm EDT
M - Plaza Ballroom C
Prepping for the Apocalypse - HAM Radio! Come join some folks who can talk about the importance of amateur radio when the apocalypse arrives! 
Moderators
avatar for Kevin Pulliam

Kevin Pulliam

STEM
Kevin Pulliam, an Aerospace engineer, farms 130 acres of woods and pasture in North Alabama producing Grass Finished Beef, Forest Raised Pork, and Pastured Poultry and markets his regenerative farmstead’s products direct to the consumer. Regenerative farming improves the land through... Read More →
Guests
avatar for Brian Lee Gnad

Brian Lee Gnad

Author, STEM
Brian Lee Gnad is a software developer specializing in marine electronics integration. He currently works for a major marine products manufacturer and serves on the National Marine Electronics Association Technical Standards Committee working primarily on the NMEA 2000 and NMEA OneNet... Read More →
avatar for Jay Maynard

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 →
avatar for Nathan Brindle

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 →
avatar for Greg Eden

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 →
Saturday June 27, 2026 9:00pm - 10:00pm EDT
M - Plaza Ballroom C
  STEM, Panel

9:00pm EDT

Redshifted Civilizations, Galactic Empires, and the Fermi Paradox
Saturday June 27, 2026 9:00pm - 10:00pm EDT
CC - Meeting Room 6 (Science Track)
Dr. Justin Feng will present a paper presented to the IRG on time dilation and galactic civilizations. Abstract: Given the vast distances between stars in the Milky Way and the long timescales required for interstellar travel, we consider how a civilization might overcome the constraints arising from finite lifespans and the speed of light without invoking exotic or novel physics. We consider...
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Guests
avatar for Justin C. Feng

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 9:00pm - 10:00pm EDT
CC - Meeting Room 6 (Science Track) Chattanooga Convention Center 1 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37403
  STEM, Presentation

9:00pm EDT

DREAD: The Three Hour Tour
Saturday June 27, 2026 9:00pm - 11:00pm EDT
M - Tennessee River Room (Gaming Room)
All aboard for a relaxed and casual tour aboard the tiny S. S. Guppy. There definitely won't be complications when rough weather drives the Guppy into the Navy's latest stealth experiment...

DREAD is a Jenga-based horror RPG system ideal for one-shots. Great for beginners to TTRPGs, too. Characters will be premade. Ben Gibson, Gamemaster, 2 hours, 3-7 players
Guests
avatar for BK Gibson

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 →
Saturday June 27, 2026 9:00pm - 11:00pm EDT
M - Tennessee River Room (Gaming Room) Chattanooga Marriott Downtown 2 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402, USA
  Gaming, Gaming

9:00pm EDT

Open Gaming with Steve Jackson
Saturday June 27, 2026 9:00pm - 11:00pm EDT
M - Tennessee River Room (Gaming Room)
Open Gaming with Steve Jackson - come out and join the fun!
Guests
avatar for Steve Jackson

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 →
Saturday June 27, 2026 9:00pm - 11:00pm EDT
M - Tennessee River Room (Gaming Room) Chattanooga Marriott Downtown 2 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402, USA
  Gaming, Gaming

9:00pm EDT

Scurvy Buggers RPG
Saturday June 27, 2026 9:00pm - 11:00pm EDT
M - Tennessee River Room (Gaming Room)
Avast ye swabs! Irene Zielinski will GM "Scurvy Buggers", a troupe-style ahistorical fiction pirate RPG of her design. Up to 6 players. 2 hours.
Guests
avatar for Irene Zielinski

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 →
Saturday June 27, 2026 9:00pm - 11:00pm EDT
M - Tennessee River Room (Gaming Room) Chattanooga Marriott Downtown 2 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402, USA
  Gaming, Gaming

10:00pm EDT

Authors Alley: Dan Kemp/Jonathan LaForce/Claire Merrick, David Alan Jones, Daniel Allen Butler, 1632 (Bethanne Kim/Bjorn Hasseler), Kevin Steverson, Teresa Howard/Tim Gilliland, Wayland Smith, Daniel Butler, Tamara Lowery, Nathan Toronto
Saturday June 27, 2026 10:00pm - 11:00pm 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
avatar for Nathan Toronto

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 →
avatar for Claire Merrick

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.
avatar for Tim Gilliland

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 →
avatar for Daniel Allen Butler

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 →
avatar for Bethanne Kim

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 →
avatar for Daniel Kemp

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.
avatar for Jonathan LaForce

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 →
avatar for Bjorn Hasseler

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 →
avatar for David Alan Jones

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 →
avatar for Kevin Steverson

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 →
avatar for Teresa Howard

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 →
avatar for Wayland Smith

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 →
avatar for Tamara Lowery

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.
Saturday June 27, 2026 10:00pm - 11:00pm EDT
M - Plaza Ballroom Mezzanine - Authors Alley Chattanooga Marriott Downtown 2 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402, USA
  Authors Alley, Authors Alley

10:00pm EDT

Autograph Session: T.C. Ross, VL Stuart
Saturday June 27, 2026 10:00pm - 11:00pm 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
avatar for VL Stuart

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."
avatar for T.C. Ross

T.C. Ross

Author
TC Ross is an Urban Fantasy author who also dabbles in related Historical Fantasy, Romantic Comedies, Gaslamp, Horror, and short stories. She resides in Texas with her family, feeding the Fae and watching out for shifters. Hopefully they never find her.
Saturday June 27, 2026 10:00pm - 11:00pm 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

10:00pm EDT

Are You a Werewolf?
Saturday June 27, 2026 10:00pm - 11:00pm EDT
M - Tennessee River Room (Gaming Room)
Tasty villagers trying to root out hungry werewolves from their village. Duncan Pickard hosts this classic edition of Are You a Werewolf? Age 15+
Saturday June 27, 2026 10:00pm - 11:00pm EDT
M - Tennessee River Room (Gaming Room) Chattanooga Marriott Downtown 2 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402, USA
  Gaming, Gaming

10:00pm EDT

Masters of Military Science Fiction
Saturday June 27, 2026 10:00pm - 11:00pm EDT
CC - Meeting Room 5 (Main Event)
The Masters of Military SF discuss their craft. Mike Massa moderates.
Moderators
avatar for Mike Massa

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
avatar for David M. Weber

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 →
avatar for John Ringo

John Ringo

Author, Past LGoH
John Ringo's science fiction is action-oriented and abounding in characters to root for. He is the creator of the New York Times best-selling military science fiction series The Posleen Wars, with over one million copies in print. Ringo is also the author of the far-future science... Read More →
avatar for Charles E. Gannon

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 →
Saturday June 27, 2026 10:00pm - 11:00pm EDT
CC - Meeting Room 5 (Main Event) Chattanooga Convention Center 1 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37403
  Literary/Publishing, Panel

10:00pm EDT

The Art of Interviewing
Saturday June 27, 2026 10:00pm - 11:00pm EDT
CC - Ballroom E (Main Event)
Jonathan Koan will host "The Art of Interviewing" with fellow seasoned interviewers, and discuss how to formulate and conduct an insightful and entertaining interview. 
Moderators
avatar for Jonathan Koan

Jonathan Koan

Professional Book Reviewer

Guests
avatar for Roger and Janet Carden

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 →
avatar for Gary Poole

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 →
Saturday June 27, 2026 10:00pm - 11:00pm EDT
CC - Ballroom E (Main Event) Chattanooga Convention Center 1 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37403
  Literary/Publishing, Panel

10:00pm EDT

Monster Hunting for Fun and Profit
Saturday June 27, 2026 10:00pm - 11:00pm EDT
M - Plaza Ballroom C
Monster Hunting for Fun and Profit - H.P. Holo moderates - kill monsters, get paid (or maybe build armor out of their bones)! Join these authors as they chat about what goes into writing a good monster hunting story.
Moderators
avatar for H.P. Holo

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 →
Guests
avatar for Philip K. Booker

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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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.
Saturday June 27, 2026 10:00pm - 11:00pm EDT
M - Plaza Ballroom C
  Main Program, Panel

10:00pm EDT

Musings on Nantucket and the Emberverse
Saturday June 27, 2026 10:00pm - 11:00pm EDT
CC - Meeting Room 3 (Workshop Track)
Special GOH S.M. Stirling presents "Musings on Nantucket and the Emberverse," a retrospective look at these interconnected alternate history series.
Moderators
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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 →
Saturday June 27, 2026 10:00pm - 11:00pm EDT
CC - Meeting Room 3 (Workshop Track) Chattanooga Convention Center 1 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37403
  Main Program, Presentation

10:00pm EDT

Reading: Zane Voss and Keith Hedger
Saturday June 27, 2026 10:00pm - 11:00pm EDT
M - Signal Mountain Room (Readings 1)
Come hear our authors read from their works.
Guests
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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 →
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Zane Voss

Author
Zane Voss holds bachelor's and master’s degrees in engineering from the Missouri University of Science & Technology. His day job is working as a partner in an engineering consulting firm in the steel industry. If you’re either interested or unable to flee quickly enough, he will... Read More →
Saturday June 27, 2026 10:00pm - 11:00pm EDT
M - Signal Mountain Room (Readings 1) Chattanooga Marriott Downtown 2 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402, USA
  Readings 1, Reading

10:00pm EDT

Reading: Gini Koch and Nathan Brindle
Saturday June 27, 2026 10:00pm - 11:00pm EDT
CC - Meeting Room 2 (Kids Program/Readings 2)
Come hear our authors read from their works.
Guests
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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 →
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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 →
Saturday June 27, 2026 10:00pm - 11:00pm EDT
CC - Meeting Room 2 (Kids Program/Readings 2) Chattanooga Convention Center 1 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37403
  Readings 2, Reading

10:00pm EDT

Reading: Logan Stovall and Mary Hare
Saturday June 27, 2026 10:00pm - 11:00pm EDT
M - Director's Room
Come hear our authors read from their works.
Guests
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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 →
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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 →
Saturday June 27, 2026 10:00pm - 11:00pm EDT
M - Director's Room Chattanooga Marriott Downtown 2 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402, USA
  Readings 3, Reading

10:00pm EDT

Streaming 103 Workshop
Saturday June 27, 2026 10:00pm - 11:00pm EDT
CC - Meeting Room 6 (Science Track)
Learn the basics of the technical and business sides of steaming, to include netiquette, internet security, and personal security as a streamer.
Guests
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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 →
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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 →
Saturday June 27, 2026 10:00pm - 11:00pm EDT
CC - Meeting Room 6 (Science Track) Chattanooga Convention Center 1 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37403
  STEM, Presentation

10:00pm EDT

It Came From the Trailer Park Game
Saturday June 27, 2026 10:00pm - 11:59pm EDT
M - Tennessee River Room (Gaming Room)
You know those stories about the stuff that came from the trailer park? It’s your turn to crawl, run or ooze into the story! D20 system with The Hillbilly himself guiding you through the twists and convoluted turns of the trailer park! Up to 6 players
Moderators
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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 →
Saturday June 27, 2026 10:00pm - 11:59pm EDT
M - Tennessee River Room (Gaming Room) Chattanooga Marriott Downtown 2 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402, USA
  Gaming, Gaming

10:00pm EDT

Mad Scientist Guest of Honor Edition Roundtable
Saturday June 27, 2026 10:00pm - Sunday June 28, 2026 12:00am EDT
M - Plaza Ballroom A/B
Roundtable discussion of various and timely science topics moderated by Les Johnson. This is a remarkable panel dating back to the earliest LibertyCons. Everyone gets a say but no one gets to say too much. This year the participants will be the current STEM GOH and 4 Past Science Guests of Honor.
Moderators
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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 →
Guests
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
Saturday June 27, 2026 10:00pm - Sunday June 28, 2026 12:00am EDT
M - Plaza Ballroom A/B Chattanooga Marriott Downtown 2 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402, USA
  STEM, Round Table

11:00pm EDT

Open Filking with Gray Rinehart
Saturday June 27, 2026 11:00pm - Sunday June 28, 2026 1:00am EDT
M - Signal Mountain Room (Readings 1)
Open Filking hosted by Gray Rinehart - come and participate!
Guests
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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 →
Saturday June 27, 2026 11:00pm - Sunday June 28, 2026 1:00am EDT
M - Signal Mountain Room (Readings 1) Chattanooga Marriott Downtown 2 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402, USA
  Main Program, Filk
 
Sunday, June 28
 

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
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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 →
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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 →
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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
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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 →
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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.
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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.
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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
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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 →
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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
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Chris Kennedy

Author, Publisher, Past GoH

Guests
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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 →
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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 →
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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
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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 →
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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."
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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 →
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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 →
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Jonathan Koan

Professional Book Reviewer

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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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.
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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.
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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 →
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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 →
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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.
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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.
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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 →
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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.
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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.
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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.
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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.
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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.
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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.
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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 →
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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.
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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.
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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.
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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.
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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 →
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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.
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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.
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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 →
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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.
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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
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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 →
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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 →
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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
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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."
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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.
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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
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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 →
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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 →
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
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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 →
Guests
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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 →
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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 →
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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.
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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 →
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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
avatar for James P. Nettles

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 →
Guests
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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
avatar for Michael LaVoice

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 →
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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 →
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
avatar for Brian Gifford

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 →
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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 →
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...
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Moderators
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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
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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.
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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 →
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...
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Guests
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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 →
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
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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
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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Chris Kennedy

Author, Publisher, Past GoH

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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 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
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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 →
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
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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
avatar for Lee Ellis

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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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

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
avatar for Charles E. Gannon

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 →
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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 →
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
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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
avatar for Toni Weisskopf

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 →
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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 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
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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 →
Guests
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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 →
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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 →
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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.
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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 →
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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 →
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
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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 →
Guests
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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 →
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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 →
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
avatar for Laura Montgomery

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 →
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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 →
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...
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Guests
avatar for Becky McCauley Rench

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 →
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
avatar for Stewart Cobb

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 →
Guests
avatar for Rick Partlow

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.
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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 →
avatar for Karl Gallagher

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 →
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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 →
avatar for Stephen Fleming

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 →
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
avatar for A.G. Thompson

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 →
avatar for Jamie Ibson

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.
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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 →
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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 →
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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.
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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
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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 →
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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 →
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
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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/.
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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 →
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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 →
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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...
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Moderators
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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 →
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
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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
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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
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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 →
Guests
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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
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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 →
Guests
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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 →
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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.
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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
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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 →
Guests
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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 →
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
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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 →
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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 →
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
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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 →
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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 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
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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 →
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...
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Moderators
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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 →
Guests
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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.
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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.
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...
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Guests
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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
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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.
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 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
avatar for Melissa Olthoff

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 →
avatar for Marisa Wolf

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 →
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
avatar for Kal Spriggs

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 →
Guests
avatar for Chris Woods

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 →
avatar for Bart Kemper

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 →
avatar for Terry Maggert

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 →
avatar for Jacob Holo

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 →
avatar for Jonathan LaForce

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 →
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
avatar for Gary Poole

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 →
Guests
avatar for Wil McCarthy

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 →
avatar for Robert S. Evans

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 →
avatar for Amy DuBoff

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 →
avatar for David Boop

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 →
avatar for James Fox

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 →
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
avatar for Rob Howell

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 →
Guests
avatar for G. Scott Huggins

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 →
avatar for Tony Andarian

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 →
avatar for M.D. Boncher

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 →
avatar for Charles E. Gannon

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 →
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
avatar for Cedar Sanderson

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 →
avatar for Jay Maynard

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 →
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
avatar for S.M. Stirling

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 →
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
avatar for Stephanie Osborn

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
avatar for Rick Partlow

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
avatar for Nathan Toronto

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 →
avatar for Ken Roy

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 →
avatar for Jeff Greason

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 →
avatar for Aaron Haskins

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 →
avatar for Charles Prael

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 →
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
avatar for Brandy Bolgeo Hendren

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
avatar for Sarah Martin

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 →
avatar for Ann Robards

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 →
avatar for Rich Groller

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 →
avatar for Michael Gants

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 →
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
 

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