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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

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 →
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 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

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
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 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 →
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 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 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 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 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 →
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

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

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 →
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 →
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 →
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 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 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 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

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 →
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 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 →
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 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 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.
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 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

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 →
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 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 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 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 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 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.
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 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

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
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 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 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 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 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 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 →
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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

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.
avatar for Reggi Broach

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
 
Saturday, June 27
 

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 →
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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.
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 →
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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 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

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
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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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 →
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 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

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
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 →
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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 →
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 →
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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

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.
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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 →
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 →
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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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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 →
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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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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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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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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

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 →
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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 →
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 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 →
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 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.
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 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

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 →
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 →
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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.
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 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

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 →
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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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 →
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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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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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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

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
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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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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

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

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
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 →
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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 →
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 →
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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

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.
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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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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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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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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 →
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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 →
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 →
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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 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

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.
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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 →
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 →
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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.
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

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 →
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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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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
 
Sunday, June 28
 

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
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 →
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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 →
avatar for Reggi Broach

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 →
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 →
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 →
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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

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
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 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 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 →
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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 →
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.
avatar for Pat Pebley

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 →
avatar for Reggi Broach

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 →
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 →
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 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 →
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

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 →
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 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 →
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 →
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 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 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 →
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

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.
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 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.
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 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 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 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 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 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 →
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

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
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 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 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.
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 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 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 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 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 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 →
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
 

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