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Friday, June 26
 

1:00pm EDT

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

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

Henry Brown

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

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

VL Stuart

Author
VL ‘Tori’ Stuart is a journalist, novelist, and poet who resides between two volcanoes in Costa Rica. Their unique home lies between two volcanoes—a location that sparks curiosity, but as she assures, "No worries; only one of them is active."
avatar for Lee Ellis

Lee Ellis

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

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

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

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

Fred Phillips

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

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

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

Logan Stovall

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

Author
TC Ross is an Urban Fantasy author who also dabbles in related Historical Fantasy, Romantic Comedies, Gaslamp, Horror, and short stories. She resides in Texas with her family, feeding the Fae and watching out for shifters. Hopefully they never find her.
avatar for Molly McDonough

Molly McDonough

Author
Molly Ann McDonough is an author, poet, and multidisciplinary engineer. Her short fiction has been featured in science fiction and fantasy anthologies. Her debut poetry collection, Hope in Hateful Times (2026), examines resilience, the divine feminine, and how to foster joy and empathy... Read More →
Friday June 26, 2026 1:00pm - 2:00pm EDT
CC - Ballroom E (Main Event) Chattanooga Convention Center 1 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37403
  Main Program, Round Table

1:00pm EDT

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

Nick Braker

Author
Nick A. Braker is a sci-fi author blending interstellar intrigue, time travel, and cosmic alliances in series like Galactic Satori Wars & Essence Chronicles. A LibertyCon panelist on space opera, he also crafts gothic albums like Masquerade of Shadows. Drawing from Indiana roots... Read More →
Friday June 26, 2026 1:00pm - 2:00pm EDT
M - Plaza Ballroom C
  Main Program, Panel

1:00pm EDT

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

Jody Lynn Nye

Author, Past LGoH
Jody Lynn Nye lists her main career activity as ‘spoiling cats.’ When not engaged upon this worthy occupation, she writes fantasy and science fiction books and short stories.

Before breaking away from gainful employment to write full time, Jody worked as a file clerk, book-kee... Read More →
Guests
avatar for Julie Cochrane

Julie Cochrane

Author
Julie Cochrane was born in Ohio and begin crafting her first stories when she was five years old. She made her first attempts at novels in Social Studies and English classes. Cally's War with John Ringo was the first manuscript she ever finished. Sister Time and Honor of the Clan... Read More →
avatar for Karen Bogen

Karen Bogen

Author
A cat-loving native of Texas, K.B. Bogen is a self-confessed knit-/yarn-aholic. She spends much time knitting something (with the help of her three cats), inventorying her stash (also with the help of the cats), or fondling yarn anywhere within driving range (the cats don’t like... Read More →
avatar for Jim Beall

Jim Beall

STEM, Past SGoH
Jim Beall (BS-Math, MBA, PE) has been a nuclear engineer for 50 years, beginning as a nuclear engineering officer in the US Navy. Civilian experience includes design, construction, inspection, enforcement, and assessment with a nuclear utility, an architect engineering firm, and the... Read More →
avatar for Shami Stovall

Shami Stovall

Author
Shami Stovall is a multi-award-winning author of fantasy and science fiction. Before that, she taught history and criminal law at the college level. She loves John, reading, and writing about herself in the third person.
Friday June 26, 2026 1:00pm - 2:00pm EDT
CC - Meeting Room 5 (Main Event) Chattanooga Convention Center 1 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37403
  Main Program, Panel

2:00pm EDT

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

John Ringo

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

Keith Hedger

Author, Guest
Keith Hedger escaped Iowa at 19 to serve in the US Army which led to his (current) career in information technology. When not saving other people's data, he enjoys exercising, fishing, and hunting. He lives in Pella, Iowa with his wife. Fortunately, she tolerates his workouts and... Read More →
avatar for William S. Frisbee

William S. Frisbee

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

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

Author
J.E. Pittman dabbles in many speculative worlds. He blurs the borders between genre and crafts salient lies to tell a measure of truth. His work has been described as: capriciously chimeric, dreamlike, and a vivid enigma with indelible images stamped on your brain. His published works... Read More →
avatar for Greg Gagnon

Greg Gagnon

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

Author, Artist
Bill Willingham has been writing and drawing professionally for close to 50 years. His best known comic book creations have been his Elementals and Fables series. Recently his forthcoming sword and sorcery prose novel trilogy called Outrider has been announced by Raconteur Press... Read More →
avatar for Megan Sloane

Megan Sloane

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

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

Author
William Lehman can’t stay out of hot water… or cold water, either. After retiring from two careers in and around submarines, and a decade as a Reserve Police Officer for the City of Bremerton, Washington, (where far more things go on than you’d think) he’s traded in his police... Read More →
Friday June 26, 2026 2:00pm - 3:00pm EDT
CC - Ballroom E (Main Event) Chattanooga Convention Center 1 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37403
  Main Program, Round Table

5:00pm EDT

Opening Ceremonies
Friday June 26, 2026 5:00pm - 6:00pm EDT
CC - Ballroom E (Main Event)
Come one, come all to Opening Ceremonies!
Moderators
avatar for Brandy Bolgeo Hendren

Brandy Bolgeo Hendren

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

Henry Brown

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

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

Marshall Hoyt

Author
E. Marshall Hoyt is – under protest -- one of the writing Hoyts Taken in by the allure of science fiction and character driven stories, he's been integral in helping Sarah Hoyt (His mother) adapt to comic writing, and is helping both Daniel and Sarah in crafting the space adventure... Read More →
avatar for 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 Nathan Toronto

Nathan Toronto

Author
Nathan W. Toronto has taught strategy and planning to military officers for twenty years and is the author of How Militaries Learn and the Saga of the Emerald Moon. He publishes Bullet Points, a military science fiction magazine. Find him at nathantoronto.com or on Blue Sky (@bul... Read More →
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Mark Haynes

STEM, Dmarkhaynes Consulting
I’m a renaissance man trapped in a specialist’s body. My degree is in biology. That’s why I’m IT. I’ve worked as a software developer, with an elegant language for a more civilized age. I became a QA guy because breaking things is therapeutic. I became a process specialist... Read More →
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Nic Plume

Author
Nic Plume is the author of the military science fiction series ’Shadows of Peace’ and the short story ‘Rebels’ Cause’ in the Lost Brigade Universe’s anthology Standing Fast on Foreign Shores. She has also edited over forty science fiction novels for a best-selling aut... Read More →
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Tim Bischoff

Author / Owner, Southern Wilds
Tim “Cajun” Bischoff, born in Kentucky and raised in Bourbon country on a dairy farm. Writing along with cooking, fishing and cruising in his restored 1973 Chevelle are some of his passions. Tim has had three short stories published, the newest as author Timothy Hardy in 3 Ravens... Read More →
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Rob Reed

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

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

Author, Editor
An award-winning editor and genre writer, Philip K. Booker lives near Chattanooga, Tennessee, with his wife and five children collectively known as Clan Booker (trademark pending).

Writing stories across any genre, but he focuses on Urban Fantasy, Science Fiction and Horror-comedy. His stories are littered with humor, snark, and pop culture references. He is convinced that if his characters were alive and aware he's to blame for their problems, they'd be waiting... Read More →
avatar for Alexandra Klimek-Sidor

Alexandra Klimek-Sidor

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

Tony Andarian

Author, Publisher, Andarian Publishing
Tony Andarian is the author of the Sanctum of the Archmage epic fantasy novels and games. They are published by his personal imprint, Andarian Publishing.

Invested from a young age with an overactive imagination, he's had a lifelong love of science fiction, fantasy, computer gam... Read More →
avatar for Sam Robb

Sam Robb

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

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

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

Caitlin Roppoli

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

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

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

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

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

Bryan Jones

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

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

Anita Moore

Artist
Hello!
I'm Anita S. Moore and I'm an artist.
Art background: Self taught from early age, Sketching, scribbling, doodling in note paper margins, later pastels and eventually oil painting in high school.
I kept painting after high school for a few years. But it was the mid 90's w... Read More →
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 →
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Amy Brewer-Davenport

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

Sara Glassman

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

Kendra Irwin

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

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

STEM, Past SGoH
Ben Davis has a Ph.D. in Nuclear Physics and an M.S. in Nuclear Astrophysics from the University of Notre Dame. He taught at the college level for several years on a number of technical subjects ranging from computer programming and math to, of course, astronomy and physics. In the... Read More →
avatar for Bethanne Kim

Bethanne Kim

Author, Publisher
Bethanne Kim is a publisher with the new alternate history magazine “Eric Flint’s 1632 & Beyond” and a writer in the 1632verse. She also writes about emergency preparedness (including on TheSurvivalMom.com), zombies, being a Scout leader, the US Constitution, and whatever else... Read More →
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William Alan Ritch

Author
As President, Technician, Writer, Director, Producer - Bill Ritch is a long-serving member of ARTC and has directed and produced countless live and studio productions. He is the author of The Doom of the Mummy, The Menace From Earth (adapted from the Robert A. Heinlein short story... Read More →
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M.D. Boncher

Author
As an author, artist and musician, M. D. Boncher has lead a “Writer’s Life”. With several careers in many varied industries from security to hospitality to trucking logistics providing him a wide breadth of experience with the human condition from which to draw on for his work... Read More →
avatar for Nancy Northcott

Nancy Northcott

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

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

STEM
Kenneth Roy is a retired, professional engineer who is currently living in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. As a long-time hobby he has been working with the idea of terraforming. He invented the “Shell Worlds” concept as a way to terraform planets well outside a star’s Goldilocks’ zone... Read More →
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Jonathan Koan

Professional Book Reviewer

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Fred Hughes

Author
The International Bestselling Amazon Author of seven books of 'The Prince of Britannia' series. I'm currently working on my new series, 'The First Solar War.'

Having served 20 years in the US Navy, most of it on submarines, I developed a great appreciation for the written word... Read More →
avatar for Jeff Greason

Jeff Greason

Author, STEM
I grew up with middle class parents in rural Oregon, with some of my earliest memories being Star Trek, the Apollo 17 launch, and reading classic science fiction. As far as I know, I've always been interested in science and technology. I thought that by the time I was an adult, there... Read More →
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Danette Schardt-Cordova

Gaming
Danette Schardt-Cordova started tabletop gaming at twelve and computer gaming at fourteen with a TRaSh-80 from Radio Shack. Now she regularly streams her gaming (RPGs, Minecraft and whatever Charles(Ghost_Prime) drags her into) under the name Tamriel Mother in between taking care... Read More →
avatar for Irene Zielinski

Irene Zielinski

Gaming
Irene Zielinski is a game designer, editor, performer, and menace from Atlanta, Georgia. She created Scurvy Buggers, a troupe-style dramedy about found family and romance in the Golden Age of Piracy. Her newest project, Dahlia's Diversions for Peculiar Parties, is an anthology of... Read More →
avatar for Jon R. Osborne

Jon R. Osborne

Author
Jon R. Osborne turned a journalism education and a passion for role-playing games into writing science fiction and fantasy. His second book in The Milesian Accords modern fantasy trilogy, “A Tempered Warrior”, was a 2018 Dragon Awards finalist for Best Fantasy Novel. Jon is a... Read More →
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David Badurina

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

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

Author
Bart is a writer, photographer, inventor, and consulting Professional Engineer based in South Louisiana. He served over 34 years in the US Army, Active and Reserve, enlisted and officer, including as a Sergeant in the 82nd Airborne Division up to a Lt. Colonel engineer officer in... Read More →
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Julie Frost

Author
Julie Frost is an award-winning author of every shade of speculative fiction. She lives in Utah with a herd of guinea pigs, her husband, and a “kitten” who thinks she’s a warrior princess. She enjoys birding, and is on a quest to photograph 500 bird species in a calendar year... Read More →
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Wally Waltner

Author
Wally Waltner is a tech consulting executive and gentleman science fiction/fantasy author. Born and raised on a farm in South Dakota, his early creative muses led him down a musical path and earned music scholarships and eventually a BMus degree in brass performance from Saint Olaf... Read More →
avatar for Jim Beall

Jim Beall

STEM, Past SGoH
Jim Beall (BS-Math, MBA, PE) has been a nuclear engineer for 50 years, beginning as a nuclear engineering officer in the US Navy. Civilian experience includes design, construction, inspection, enforcement, and assessment with a nuclear utility, an architect engineering firm, and the... Read More →
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David M. Weber

Author, Past LGoH
David Weber was born in Cleveland a long, long time ago and grew up in rural South Carolina. He was a bookworm from childhood, blessed with a father who collected autographed copies of every E. E. Smith hardcover and introduced him to Jack Williamson at the tender age of 10, and a... Read More →
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 Gary W. Shelton

Gary W. Shelton

Gaming, STEM
Recently retired and returned to the Family farm in North Alabama. 30 years of experience working with the USDA - Agricultural research service in Mississippi, specializing in soybean genetics. Also Known as "Da Fish," has traveled the continental US in search of card games, good... Read More →
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Rita Beeman

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

Author, Past LGoH
Sarah A. Hoyt writes... Almost everything. And has. But this last year she's been wrestling with a monstrous-size space opera. She lives with her husband and a plethora of cats. Sons and daughters-in-law sometimes visit.

Sarah has published, she thinks, about fifty novels. She doesn't want to count. Don't make her count. She has won the Prometheus Award, the Dragon Award and been a finalist for the Colorado Book Award and the Mythopoeic. If she looks at you cross-eyed, it's because she'd rather be... Read More →
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Lydia Sherrer

Author
Award-winning and USA Today-bestselling author of snark-filled adventures, Lydia Sherrer thrives on creating stories you love to love, and hate to leave. She is the author of the bestselling urban fantasy Love, Lies, and Hocus Pocus universe of books featuring several series, which... Read More →
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Isaac Craft

Author
Isaac Craft writes science fiction and fantasy with horror elements. His flash-fiction stories are in nearly a dozen of the Cornerscribblers anthologies via Three Ravens Publishing and continues to work toward honing his craft. When not writing or reading, Isaac does digital illustration... Read More →
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John Ringo

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

Author
Brisco retired from the USAF and TNANG in 2015 and became a REALTOR working in east Tennessee. Seeing the success two of his siblings were having as authors, he decided to give it a try. Now, five short stories, one novella, and two novels later, he’s an official multi-national... Read More →
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Rick Partlow

Author
Rick Partlow is an Army veteran with a degree in History from Florida Southern College. He is the author of 51 military SF and space opera novels, including the Dragon Award finalist Direct Fire.
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Jody Lynn Nye

Author, Past LGoH
Jody Lynn Nye lists her main career activity as ‘spoiling cats.’ When not engaged upon this worthy occupation, she writes fantasy and science fiction books and short stories.

Before breaking away from gainful employment to write full time, Jody worked as a file clerk, book-kee... Read More →
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Amanda Montandon

Author, Editor
Amanda Montandon is a Colorado mountain girl living in North Carolina with her husband, author Kal Spriggs, their son, & 4 mischievous felines. A Jane-of-All-Trades, she has experience in law enforcement, veterinary care, private security, & more. She runs her own editing business... Read More →
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Tamara Lowery

Author
Tamara Lowery, author of The Adventures of Pigg & Woolfe serial and the Waves of Darkness series, is a native of Chattanooga. She writes pirates that aren't nice and vampires that don't sparkle as well as high-flying steampunk adventure.
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A.G. Thompson

Author
Reared on a West Texas ranch, A.G. Thompson is a veteran of the US Air Force, having served during the Cold War and earned the rank of Staff Sergeant. He earned Bachelor of Arts degrees in both English Literature and History from the University of Louisville.

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

Author
Daniel Allen Butler is a best-selling author, historian, and college-educated semi-professional beach bum. His previous works include "Unsinkable"--the Full Story of RMS Titanic; The Day the Lusitania Died; Warrior Queens - The Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth in World War II; The Age... Read More →
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Daniel Kemp

Author
A couple history degrees, the Army, and a turbulent personal life inspired the Athenaeum Inc military thriller trilogy at Cannon (Door Number Three, Doubling Down and Triple Play). He’s also done shorts on everything from the sinking of the Bismarck to feeding dragons.
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Ted Begley

Author
Ted Begley's career has consisted of such fields as cook, farmer, lightning rod salesman, and accountant. He lives in Kentucky with his wife of more than thirty years, Laura, who acts in the capacity of his first reader and editor. He has several short stories published in as many... Read More →
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Kevin Pulliam

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

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

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

Author
Julie Cochrane was born in Ohio and begin crafting her first stories when she was five years old. She made her first attempts at novels in Social Studies and English classes. Cally's War with John Ringo was the first manuscript she ever finished. Sister Time and Honor of the Clan... Read More →
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Terry Maggert

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

Author, Editor
After retiring from a globe spanning career of swashbuckling adventure in the U.S. Marine Corps, Spearman Burke decided to try his hand at this GI Bill thing he had been hearing about. He earned an interdisciplinary degree in English Literature and Creative Writing with a minor in... Read More →
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Jesse James Fain

Author
Jesse James Fain is a Science Fiction and Fantasy Author, Editor, and retired powerlifting champion. Jesse’s extensive experience in martial arts and weapons training leads to vibrant martial tales of revenge and combat that bring a taste of reality to fictional battles, along with... Read More →
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Mark Huston

Author
Mark Huston is a Chicago based author. He is published in Eric Flint's Ring of Fire Series and is a long-time contributor to the Grantville Gazette. His first novel, "Up-time Pride and Down-time Prejudice", was a Dragon Award Finalist. His work has also appeared in F&SF. Mark is and... Read More →
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David (Brena) Bock

Author
David Bock (also listed under the nom de plume Brena Bock) is a proud member of #TeamAndMore in several anthologies, including Space Force: Building the Legacy, Can't Go Home Again, and Saint's of Malta. Other stories are in the works along with a full length novel.
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William Joseph Roberts

Author, Publisher
William Joseph Roberts has been called a Renaissance man, and an insane squirrel wrangler by his peers. Since his enlistment ended, he has pursued careers as an industrial and architectural designer, design engineer, and is now an award-winning author, editor, and publisher with Three... Read More →
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Dan Hollifield

Author, Publisher
Dan L. Hollifield is the author of the ‘Mare Inebrium Spaceport Bar’ series of short stories. Other works include the “Adventures of Tom Darby” ongoing series of stories, one of which is titled ‘Abducted,’ and is available on Amazon. Further Tom Darby stories are awaiting... Read More →
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Kevin Steverson

Author
Kevin Steverson is a retired veteran of the U.S. Army. With several best-selling novels, including the Salvage Title Trilogy, picked up for development into feature film, he is also a published songwriter. When not at a convention or concert, he can be found in the foothills of the... Read More →
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Michael LaVoice

Author
Michael LaVoice is a Science Fiction/Fantasy writer. He is the author of the Galaxy’s Most Wanted series from Aethon Books, the Gladius Leagues series from Chris Kennedy Publishing, as well as the upcoming SARCOM series with co-author Peter Stanley. He has multiple short stories... Read More →
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Nick Nethery

Author, Editor
Nick Nethery writes science fiction, fantasy, mystery, westerns and whatever else presents a challenge or will entertain his friends and family. He has been published by the United States Naval Institute, Foreign Policy, Dragon Soul Press, and Raconteur Press, among others. He works... Read More →
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Brian Lee Gnad

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

Author
Louise Herring-Jones writes speculative fiction including science fiction, fantasy, historical fantasy, and alternate mystery. Her stories, appearing in fourteen anthologies, include “The Poulterer’s Tale” in God Bless Us, Every One—Christmas Carols beyond Dickens (Voodoo... Read More →
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Dave Schroeder

Author, Performer
Dave Schroeder (SHRAY-der) is the author of the Guardian Keeps and Congruent Mage fantasy series as well as the Xenotech Support science fiction humor series. He is a retired IT executive from Atlanta who enjoys performing with the Atlanta Radio Theatre Company.

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

Author
Marisa Wolf is a second-generation nerd who started writing genre stories at six. At least one was good enough to be laminated, and she's been chasing that high ever since. Over the years she taught middle school, was headbutted by an alligator, built a career in education, earned... Read More →
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LL Richman

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

Richman's series feature the pulse-pounding act... Read More →
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Bill Fawcett

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

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

Author, Editor
National bestselling author Jason Cordova is both a John W. Campbell Award and Dragon Award finalist (though not in the same year). He is the author of Mountain of Fire, To Tread Obsidian Shores (w/ Melissa Olthoff), and Monster Hunter Memoirs: Fever (w/ Larry Correia), and edito... Read More →
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Nathan Balyeat

Author
A USMC veteran, Nathan has written the fantasy short stories in the "Fellblade" and "Powers of the Night" settings and is working on a science fiction novel based on the life of the William Marshal. He has a degree in history and his hobbies include weightlifting, martial arts, and... Read More →
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Debi Chowdhury

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

Author
Marina Fontaine is a Russian by birth, an American by choice, and a writer of
optimistic fiction.

She uses her experience of living in a totalitarian society to demonstrate how human yearning for freedom and love endures in the darkest of circumstances.

Her dystopian works incl... Read More →
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Stewart Cobb

STEM
Stewart Cobb designs satellite navigation systems for a living and reads SF&F for inspiration. He earned a PhD in Aerospace Engineering and holds more than a dozen patents. He's been an Air Force officer and a flight controller for the Space Shuttle, but hasn't yet reached orbit... Read More →
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Claire Merrick

Author
Tired of writing about bad news as a broadcast TV producer, Claire Merrick began using her free time to write urban fantasy stories, set to be released in 2025. Merrick's work is inspired by her love of small town mill smokestacks and the secrets they hide.
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Wayland Smith

Author
WAYLAND SMITH is the pen name for a native Texan who has lived in Massachusetts, New York, Washington DC, and presently makes his home in Virginia. His rather unlikely list of jobs includes private investigator, comic book shop owner, ring crew for a circus (then he ran away from... Read More →
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Jamie Henson

Editor
Jamie Henson is the founder of Alpha Mercs, a private fellowship of writers forging craft, resilience, and timeless virtues. Together they stand for what storytelling was—and must be again. The forge is lit. Join the fellowship at omicronstation.com.
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Casey Moores

Author
Casey Moores was a USAF rescue/special ops C-130 pilot for over 17 years- airdropping, air refueling, and flying into tiny blacked-out dirt airstrips in bad places using night vision goggles.  He’s been to those places and done those things with those people. Now he lives a quieter... Read More →
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April Kelley Jones

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

Gaming
Roger and Janet Carden are the husband-and-wife team behind The Halfling and the Spaceman: Journeys In Active Fandom. (2022-present) The Halfling and the Spaceman is a podcast featuring a series of conversations with creators as they detail their personal journey from becoming inspired... Read More →
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Philip Ligon

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

Author, Editor, Publisher, Past Special GoH
Toni Weisskopf is the publisher of Baen Books, a leading publisher of SF and fantasy for 40 years. She is also a member of the Interstellar Research Group board of advisors. She is the mother of a delightful daughter, and presides over a household that includes three dogs, one cat... Read More →
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Devon Eriksen

Author
Devon Eriksen is a recent Chattanooga transplant, marksman, and life-long reader, with a particular fondness for classics from the golden age of science fiction. After growing up with images of the galaxy brought home by his JPL engineer father, he spent most of his career as a software... Read More →
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Lucas Marcum

Author
Lucas Marcum is a critical care nurse practitioner, Army reservist, and independent author. Since high school, he has written recreationally; but never really took the idea of publishing a book seriously until 2017, when he wandered into a Facebook group curated by and populated with... Read More →
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Dave Sarnow

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

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

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

Author
Mark Stallings is an Internationally published and Amazon Best Selling author, speaker at International conferences on technology topics, is a writer of Wuxia, Fantasy, and Military Sci-Fi. He is a competitive shooter, avid martial artist, drinker of craft beer, and motorcycle enthusiast.You... Read More →
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Steve Jackson

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

Author, Past Special GoH
Christopher Woods, writer of fiction, teller of tales, and professional liar was born way too long ago to be talking about it and has spent the majority of his life with a book in hand. He is known for his popular Soulguard series and creating the shared universe in The Fallen World... Read More →
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Amy DuBoff

Author
A.K. (Amy) DuBoff is an award-winning and USA Today bestselling indie author and screenwriter. She’s a lifelong fan of science fiction and fantasy in all its forms, including books, movies, shows, and games—and if it involves outer space, even better! Bringing her love of the... Read More →
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Charles E. Gannon

Author, Past LGoH
Dr. Charles E. Gannon is best known for the Caine Riordan series of hard sf novels, which include multiple best-sellers, 4 finalists for the Nebula, 2 for the Dragon, and a Compton Crook winner. His epic fantasy series, The Vortex of Worlds, has also been an awards finalist and a... Read More →
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Shami Stovall

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

Author
A 27 year veteran, Cannon author Brian Gifford is a science fiction and fantasy nerd of the highest order. A lifelong student of physics and the arcana of IT alike, Brian spent a lifetime accumulating his unique view of the world. Unfortunately, he now insists on sharing it with... Read More →
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Karen Bogen

Author
A cat-loving native of Texas, K.B. Bogen is a self-confessed knit-/yarn-aholic. She spends much time knitting something (with the help of her three cats), inventorying her stash (also with the help of the cats), or fondling yarn anywhere within driving range (the cats don’t like... Read More →
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Tammie Darden

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

Author, STEM, Past Special GoH
Daniel M. Hoyt is a systems architect for trajectory physics software, when not writing or wrangling royalty calculations. Dan has appeared in premier magazines like Analog and several anthologies, notably the recent Paladins of Valor and Bonds of Valor, with connected stories in... Read More →
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David Bogen

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

Author, Editor
Griffin spent his youth in four different countries, learning three languages, and burning all his bridges. Finally settled in East Tennessee and retired from a day job as a police officer in a major metropolitan department out west, he lives the good life with his lovely wife, crazy-smart... Read More →
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Janet Spaulding

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

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

Author
Many phrases describe Pat Pebley. Lover of fine foods, strong drink, and women of questionable moral fiber. Pro Wrestler. Degenerate gambler. Metal head. Thespian. Dungeon Master (of the D&D variety).

After years of adventures Caryville’s favorite son has decided to put his fingers on the keyboards to share his tales both real and from his vivid imagination with you. Do you like comedy? Swords and Sorcery? Sci Fi? Horror? Pat has books planned in all of these genres... Read More →
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Aaron Haskins

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

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

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

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

Author
Melissa Olthoff spent her youth daydreaming about riding dragons and slaying monsters. After joining the United States Air Force, she might not have gotten to ride any dragons, but she had plenty of real-world adventures over the years—including flying the T-6, becoming a certified... Read More →
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Kal Spriggs

Author
Kal Spriggs is a US Army combat veteran, gamer, and science fiction and fantasy author. He has visited over 35 countries and has worked in a variety of industries including environmental remediation, farming, civil engineering, the military, and transportation. Kal has drawn upon... Read More →
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Chris Oakley

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

Author
Jay Peterson has been everything from a nightclub bouncer to a chess coach. He once considered taking over the world, but balked once he had a look at the paperwork involved. His debut novel, Renfield Blues, was released in 2023. A sequel, Ghost Light, is currently in the works.
When not writing, Jay is a film and TV actor, usually known for playing supernatural creatures. He most recently appeared in Red One, The Piano Lesson, and The Conjuring:The Devil Made Me Do It... Read More →
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Jonathan LaForce

Author
Born in southern Arizona, Jonathan LaForce spent his formative years in northern Los Angeles County before moving to Texas at the age of 19. Two years later, he enlisted in the USMC and found himself stationed in Hawaii. Had it not been so expensive, he'd have stayed in Hawaii at... Read More →
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David Alan Jones

Author
David Alan Jones is a veteran of the United States Air Force, where he served as an Arabic linguist, a role that sharpened his ear for language and deepened his appreciation for complex storytelling. A 2016 Writers of the Future Silver Honorable Mention recipient, David writes across... Read More →
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C.S. Ferguson

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

Author, Editor
Bjorn Hasseler found Eric Flint's novel 1632 in a public library. Then he discovered that fans were not just allowed but encouraged to write in the 1632 universe. He writes the Neustatter's European Security Service thread (A Matter of Security, Missions of Security, Security Threats... Read More →
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John Locke

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

Author, Editor
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K.B. Carlisle

Author
KB Carlisle is a husband, father, panda enthusiast, former time traveler and professional desk chair warmer.

His debut novel The Book of Rose won the 2024 Imadjin Award for Best Young Adult Novel.

Check out all of his work at kbcarlisle.com.
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Frank Hood

Author
When I graduated college I wanted to be a great writer like Shakespeare, Bradbury, Hardy, or Heinlein. Five years later and $14 richer off my writing career, I decided I needed a career that put food on the table as well. My wife, a chemist and wonderful writer herself (S. T. Gaffney... Read More →
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Gerald Hall

Author
Gerald Hall has had an extraordinarily diverse background. A lifelong science fiction fan, Gerald is a graduate of the N.C. State University's School of Engineering. After graduation, he served in uniform as part of the Intelligence Community for more than thirty years, deploying... Read More →
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Geoffrey Mandragora

Author
Geoffrey Mandragora is a storyteller, not an author. He refuses to take himself seriously, or write anything too serious. His work is exciting, scary, and thrilling; but overall he strives to make his books fun, both to write and read. Which is why he writes in different genres.
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Cassandra Morgan

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

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

Author
Zane Voss holds bachelor's and master’s degrees in engineering from the Missouri University of Science & Technology. His day job is working as a partner in an engineering consulting firm in the steel industry. If you’re either interested or unable to flee quickly enough, he will... Read More →
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J.B. Garner

Author
Talented top flight author and editor Jamie Beth "J. B." Garner has written over twenty novels across multiple genres and edited hundreds more. J.B.’s seen and done many things in her life, from honors student to factory worker to garbage collector to construction worker. In addition... Read More →
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C.V. Walter

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

Editor
Shari Robb is a loving wife, mother, technical writer, and counselor. She has worked as an editor for political campaigns, multiple non-fiction books, and shorts from the Alpha Mercs. Her work as a freelance editor includes multiple SF/Fantasy anthologies, including game fiction... Read More →
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Robert E. Hampson

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

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

She has over 70 titles but is best known for her... Read More →
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Stephanie Osborn

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

Author
Greg Radabaugh, an author published by Raconteur Press and others, retired from the US Department of Defense after a 44-year career. He now works as a consultant for various commercial and government entities. Prior to his retirement, he was a member of the Department of Defense Senior... Read More →
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M.G. Martin

Author
M.G. Martin was born to a flamenco dancer and an International Man of Mystery in the great state of New York, ‘lo these many years ago. A precocious child, she began writing stories in elementary school and dreamed of one day becoming a published author. As an adult, she eschewed... Read More →
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Monalisa Foster

Author
Monalisa is an award-winning science fiction author whose writing career really began when she taught herself English by translating Heinlein juveniles at the public library. She would copy sentences in English, translate them into Romanian, and then write out new words ten times... Read More →
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Karl Gallagher

Author, STEM
Karl K. Gallagher is a systems engineer, currently performing data analysis for a major aerospace company. In the past he calculated trajectories for a commercial launch rocket start-up, operated satellites as a US Air Force officer, and selected orbits for government and commercial... Read More →
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Ian McMurtrie

Author, Publisher
Born on the island of Malta to an Oklahoma oil engineer and a Texas school teacher, author Ian McMurtrie a.k.a. LawDog was raised in Africa, the Middle East, and Europe. He has been a soldier, an EMT, a volunteer fireman, a short-order cook, the world's worst rodeo clown, and a peace... Read More →
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D.S. Watson

Author
D.S. Watson started his professional writing career as a reporter for the Shelbyville Times Gazette. He also worked for the U.S.D.A Forest Service, and as a writer-editor for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms. He wrote disability opinions for the Social Security Administration... Read More →
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Paul Sparks

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

Author
With a 30-plus-year career in consulting, Nettles has advised a diverse range of clients, from startups to Fortune 100 companies in financial technologies, media, entertainment, and green technologies. His work focuses on privacy, futurism, and disruptive technologies, exploring how... Read More →
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Jay Maynard

Author
Jay Maynard is a lifelong computer geek whose career spans everything from embedded systems — like the ones in microwave ovens — to IBM mainframes. When he’s not in front of a keyboard, he’s on ham radio, serving on the Fairmont, Minnesota city council, tinkering with his... Read More →
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Lyndie Ferguson

Author
Lyndie Ferguson is the author of the Urban Fantasy Series, THE ANGELQUEST CHRONICLES. She loves paranormal books and movies with quirky characters and larger-than-life storylines. When she’s not writing, she loves to travel and spend time with her family.
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Laura Begley

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

STEM
Charles Prael is a long-time fan and west coast SMOF of dubious repute, with a resume that looks like a scarf by its length. At the moment I'm launching a hedge fund that will fund several different space/satellite projects, and may wind up paying for a lunar mining base - among other... Read More →
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J. Kenton Pierce

Author
J. Kenton Pierce’s Science Fiction short stories and novels known collectively as the Tales from the Long Night. He lives near Pittsburgh and enjoys writing, shooting, and cheese. His work has been published in Abyss & Apex, the Grantville Gazette Baen's Universe Annex, and several... Read More →
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Rob Howell

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

His parents discovered b... Read More →
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Tim Akers

Author
Tim Akers is a fantasy novelist, a gamer, and utterly unemployable in the traditional sense. His novels include the dark fantasy Wraithbound, lighter portal series Knight Watch, and high action hard magic world of Bladecaster. He lives in Chicago with his indefatigable wife and a... Read More →
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Mary Hare

Author
I’m a wife, mother, and grandmother, who had a four-year stint in the USAF in the Manned SpaceFlight Support Group at the Johnson Space Center in the 80’s, where I met and married my husband, also in the USAF at the time. Since then, almost every job I’ve had has involved computers... Read More →
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Gary Poole

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

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

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

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

Gaming, Publisher
David Sherrer is a born storyteller and has been an obsessive gamer ever since he was seduced by Magic: The Gathering at the tender age of fourteen. He has alternately owned a gaming store, street performed for a living, and survived eleven years in the soul-crushing world of telecommunications. He lucked out by marrying a force of nature (otherwise known as his wife), determined to making living... Read More →
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Courtney Lytle Sarnow

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

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

Author
Having been born in California and raised in Kansas, Scott Huggins grew up as confused as one might expect. He began writing whilst traveling in post-Soviet Russia and Germany, and was one of the 20th Century’s last Writers of the Future (1999). The future arrived immediately thereafter... Read More →
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Rich Groller

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

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

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

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

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

Author
Nathan C. Brindle is a senior software engineer with a BA and most of an MA in History.
There is a story behind that, of course. He's worked 30 years for a company in Maryland
you've probably never heard of, despite living in Indianapolis, Indiana, for all but one year
of his lif... Read More →
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Stephen Fleming

STEM, Boostphase
At various times, Stephen Fleming has been paid to be an optical physicist, laser fabricator, software developer, field engineer, product manager, corporate trainer, marketing executive, salesman, general manager, entrepreneur, author, venture capitalist, board member, investment... Read More →
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Kara Metz

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

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

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

Author, Past Special GoH
Ben Yalow’s very first convention he attended as a fan was Lunacon in 1971, followed later that year by his first Worldcon, Noreascon. Ben first started staffing conventions at the very first Star Trek convention in January 1972, followed by the Worldcon in 1973, Torcon 2. He has... Read More →
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Fred Phillips

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

Author
Kevin Ikenberry is a life-long space geek and retired Army officer. As an adult, he managed the U.S. Space Camp program, two Challenger Learning Centers, and served on active duty in space operations before Space Force was a thing. He’s an international bestselling science fiction... Read More →
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J.T. Arralle

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Author
TC Ross is an Urban Fantasy author who also dabbles in related Historical Fantasy, Romantic Comedies, Gaslamp, Horror, and short stories. She resides in Texas with her family, feeding the Fae and watching out for shifters. Hopefully they never find her.
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Molly McDonough

Author
Molly Ann McDonough is an author, poet, and multidisciplinary engineer. Her short fiction has been featured in science fiction and fantasy anthologies. Her debut poetry collection, Hope in Hateful Times (2026), examines resilience, the divine feminine, and how to foster joy and empathy... Read More →
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Justin Watson

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

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

Author, Publisher, Past GoH

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David Boop

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I... Read More →
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BK Gibson

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Author

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

After several years of working her way through the labyrinth of getting published, she found Three Ravens Publishing. In the few years since then she’s picked up several Corner Scribblers flash fiction author credits and short stories in both Trailer Park volume I and II and most... Read More →
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Joelle Presby

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

STEM
Greg Eden is from New Zealand where he trained in radio communications and has worked in England, Wales, Austria, Ghana Nigeria, Sudan and Chad. He has installed radio equipment in garbage trucks, has been a communications officer for the UK Fire Service, has set up paging networks... Read More →
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James Fox

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

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

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

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

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

Stephen J. Simmons started writing shortly after he retired from the Navy, primarily because his children had grown too old to listen to bedtime stories and the cats never laughed at the funny bits.  He sold over a dozen flash-fiction stories to various online publishing venues... Read More →
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David Truesdale

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Robert Zielke

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

Author, Artist
Bill Willingham has been writing and drawing professionally for close to 50 years. His best known comic book creations have been his Elementals and Fables series. Recently his forthcoming sword and sorcery prose novel trilogy called Outrider has been announced by Raconteur Press... Read More →
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Megan Sloane

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

STEM
Doug Loss is retired, but was an IT security analyst from Maryville, TN. He has been an SF reader since childhood (more than 55 years) and a war gamer for over 50 years. He's an avid blues music fan and is currently serving on the Board of Directors for the Interstellar Research Group... Read More →
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J. E. Pittman

Author
J.E. Pittman dabbles in many speculative worlds. He blurs the borders between genre and crafts salient lies to tell a measure of truth. His work has been described as: capriciously chimeric, dreamlike, and a vivid enigma with indelible images stamped on your brain. His published works... Read More →
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Greg Gagnon

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

Author, Guest
Keith Hedger escaped Iowa at 19 to serve in the US Army which led to his (current) career in information technology. When not saving other people's data, he enjoys exercising, fishing, and hunting. He lives in Pella, Iowa with his wife. Fortunately, she tolerates his workouts and... Read More →
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Lloyd Watson

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

LibertyCon 38 Special Guest of Honor, Author
S.M. Stirling was born in France in 1953, to Canadian parents -- although his mother was born in England and grew up in Peru. After that he lived in Europe, Canada, Africa, and the US and visited several other continents. He graduated from law school in Canada but had his dorsal fin... Read More →
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Gray Rinehart

Author, Performer, Past GoH
Graham W. "Gray" Rinehart Rinehart is a writer, an editor, a singer/songwriter, and a retired Air Force officer. He is the only person to have commanded a USAF satellite tracking station, written speeches for Presidential appointees, devised a poetic form, and had music on The Dr... Read More →
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Nicholas Sansbury Smith

LibertyCon 38 Literary Guest of Honor, Author
Nicholas Sansbury Smith is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of the Hell Divers series. His other work includes the Extinction Cycle series, the Trackers series, and the Orbs series. He worked for Iowa Homeland Security and Emergency Management in disaster planning... Read More →
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Becky McCauley Rench

LibertyCon 38 STEM Guest of Honor, STEM
Rebecca (Becky) McCauley Rench is the Astrobiology Program Scientist in the Planetary Science Division at NASA Headquarters. She leads the Interdisciplinary Consortia for Astrobiology Research (ICAR)), which supports large, interdisciplinary astrobiology research teams, and the Planetary... Read More →
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H.P. Holo

LibertyCon 38 Master of Ceremonies, Author
H.P. Holo grew up in a family where it was dangerous to say, “I’m bored.” She’s also an incorrigible smart aleck. So when her parents told her to fix her boredom by reading a dictionary, she did. And then, just to be extra sassy, she began writing novels that required them... Read More →
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Jacob Holo

LibertyCon 38 Master of Ceremonies, Author
Jacob Holo has been a recreational geek since childhood, when he discovered Star Wars and Star Trek, and a professional geek since college, when he graduated from Youngstown State University with a degree in Electrical and Controls Engineering. He started writing when his parents... Read More →
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John Kovalic

LibertyCon 38 Artist Guest of Honor, Artist
John Kovalic is an award-winning cartoonist, game designer and writer. His works appeared everywhere from the NEW YORK TIMES to ROLLING STONE and DRAGON MAGAZINE. His world of geeky goodies includes DORK TOWER – one of the very first webcomics, debuting online in 1996.

John was a co-founder of Out of the Box Games, and helped in the creation of the revolutionary party game, APPLES TO APPLES. John is also responsible for the look of the fan-favorite perennial best-seller MUNCHKIN card game. He’s drawn more than 7,000 cards for the game... Read More →
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Friday June 26, 2026 5:00pm - 6:00pm EDT
CC - Ballroom E (Main Event) Chattanooga Convention Center 1 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37403
  Main Program, Event

7:00pm EDT

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

Professional Book Reviewer

Guests
avatar for S.M. Stirling

S.M. Stirling

LibertyCon 38 Special Guest of Honor, Author
S.M. Stirling was born in France in 1953, to Canadian parents -- although his mother was born in England and grew up in Peru. After that he lived in Europe, Canada, Africa, and the US and visited several other continents. He graduated from law school in Canada but had his dorsal fin... Read More →
avatar for Becky McCauley Rench

Becky McCauley Rench

LibertyCon 38 STEM Guest of Honor, STEM
Rebecca (Becky) McCauley Rench is the Astrobiology Program Scientist in the Planetary Science Division at NASA Headquarters. She leads the Interdisciplinary Consortia for Astrobiology Research (ICAR)), which supports large, interdisciplinary astrobiology research teams, and the Planetary... Read More →
avatar for Nicholas Sansbury Smith

Nicholas Sansbury Smith

LibertyCon 38 Literary Guest of Honor, Author
Nicholas Sansbury Smith is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of the Hell Divers series. His other work includes the Extinction Cycle series, the Trackers series, and the Orbs series. He worked for Iowa Homeland Security and Emergency Management in disaster planning... Read More →
avatar for Jacob Holo

Jacob Holo

LibertyCon 38 Master of Ceremonies, Author
Jacob Holo has been a recreational geek since childhood, when he discovered Star Wars and Star Trek, and a professional geek since college, when he graduated from Youngstown State University with a degree in Electrical and Controls Engineering. He started writing when his parents... Read More →
avatar for H.P. Holo

H.P. Holo

LibertyCon 38 Master of Ceremonies, Author
H.P. Holo grew up in a family where it was dangerous to say, “I’m bored.” She’s also an incorrigible smart aleck. So when her parents told her to fix her boredom by reading a dictionary, she did. And then, just to be extra sassy, she began writing novels that required them... Read More →
avatar for John Kovalic

John Kovalic

LibertyCon 38 Artist Guest of Honor, Artist
John Kovalic is an award-winning cartoonist, game designer and writer. His works appeared everywhere from the NEW YORK TIMES to ROLLING STONE and DRAGON MAGAZINE. His world of geeky goodies includes DORK TOWER – one of the very first webcomics, debuting online in 1996.

John was a co-founder of Out of the Box Games, and helped in the creation of the revolutionary party game, APPLES TO APPLES. John is also responsible for the look of the fan-favorite perennial best-seller MUNCHKIN card game. He’s drawn more than 7,000 cards for the game... Read More →
Friday June 26, 2026 7:00pm - 9:00pm EDT
M - Plaza Ballroom B Chattanooga Marriott Downtown 2 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402, USA
  Main Program, Event

8:00pm EDT

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

Author, Editor
Griffin spent his youth in four different countries, learning three languages, and burning all his bridges. Finally settled in East Tennessee and retired from a day job as a police officer in a major metropolitan department out west, he lives the good life with his lovely wife, crazy-smart... Read More →
Guests
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Nathan Toronto

Author
Nathan W. Toronto has taught strategy and planning to military officers for twenty years and is the author of How Militaries Learn and the Saga of the Emerald Moon. He publishes Bullet Points, a military science fiction magazine. Find him at nathantoronto.com or on Blue Sky (@bul... Read More →
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Lloyd Watson

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

When he’s not writing, Scott wo... Read More →
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Jay Burr

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

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

Author, Editor
Debbie Reynolds is a writer, dreamer, and voracious reader who has always lived in the wilds of northern Pennsylvania. She works as an editor and proofreader for Sunbury Press and does freelance work when time permits. Her first book, Mending Shattered Dreams, a memoir, will be out... Read More →
Friday June 26, 2026 8:00pm - 9:00pm EDT
CC - Ballroom E (Main Event) Chattanooga Convention Center 1 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37403
  Main Program, Round Table

9:00pm EDT

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

Author, Publisher
Born on the island of Malta to an Oklahoma oil engineer and a Texas school teacher, author Ian McMurtrie a.k.a. LawDog was raised in Africa, the Middle East, and Europe. He has been a soldier, an EMT, a volunteer fireman, a short-order cook, the world's worst rodeo clown, and a peace... Read More →
Guests
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Oren Truitt

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

Author
Ted Begley's career has consisted of such fields as cook, farmer, lightning rod salesman, and accountant. He lives in Kentucky with his wife of more than thirty years, Laura, who acts in the capacity of his first reader and editor. He has several short stories published in as many... Read More →
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Wayland Smith

Author
WAYLAND SMITH is the pen name for a native Texan who has lived in Massachusetts, New York, Washington DC, and presently makes his home in Virginia. His rather unlikely list of jobs includes private investigator, comic book shop owner, ring crew for a circus (then he ran away from... Read More →
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William Lehman

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

Author
C S Brown retired from the daily grind and moved to Central America to enjoy the warm weather and friendly atmosphere. Writing was the result of needing to make at least some of his time productive. In many ways, it is the embodiment of his lifelong dream. He has always wanted a pet... Read More →
Friday June 26, 2026 9:00pm - 10:00pm EDT
M - Plaza Ballroom C
  Main Program, Panel

10:00pm EDT

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

Treasurer, Professional Panelist, LibertyCon™
Sarah has been hanging around LibertyCon for years, so it was only a matter of time till Brandy and Don roped her into volunteering as staff and even convincing her to join the Board of Directors, now serving as LibertyCon's Treasurer and Webmaster. Conveniently, she has years of... Read More →
Friday June 26, 2026 10:00pm - Saturday June 27, 2026 1:00am EDT
M - Plaza Ballroom C
  Main Program, Event

11:00pm EDT

Open Filking with Gray Rinehart
Friday June 26, 2026 11:00pm - Saturday June 27, 2026 1:00am EDT
M - Signal Mountain Room (Readings 1)
Open Filking hosted by Gray Rinehart - come and participate!
Guests
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Gray Rinehart

Author, Performer, Past GoH
Graham W. "Gray" Rinehart Rinehart is a writer, an editor, a singer/songwriter, and a retired Air Force officer. He is the only person to have commanded a USAF satellite tracking station, written speeches for Presidential appointees, devised a poetic form, and had music on The Dr... Read More →
Friday June 26, 2026 11:00pm - Saturday June 27, 2026 1:00am EDT
M - Signal Mountain Room (Readings 1) Chattanooga Marriott Downtown 2 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402, USA
  Main Program, Filk
 
Saturday, June 27
 

8:30am EDT

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

Author, Editor, Publisher, Past Special GoH
Toni Weisskopf is the publisher of Baen Books, a leading publisher of SF and fantasy for 40 years. She is also a member of the Interstellar Research Group board of advisors. She is the mother of a delightful daughter, and presides over a household that includes three dogs, one cat... Read More →
Saturday June 27, 2026 8:30am - 9:30am EDT
CC - Ballroom F/G (Dealer's Room) - Autographs in Hall Outside Chattanooga Convention Center 1 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37403
  Main Program, Event

10:00am EDT

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

VL Stuart

Author
VL ‘Tori’ Stuart is a journalist, novelist, and poet who resides between two volcanoes in Costa Rica. Their unique home lies between two volcanoes—a location that sparks curiosity, but as she assures, "No worries; only one of them is active."
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Lloyd Watson

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

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

Lydia Sherrer

Author
Award-winning and USA Today-bestselling author of snark-filled adventures, Lydia Sherrer thrives on creating stories you love to love, and hate to leave. She is the author of the bestselling urban fantasy Love, Lies, and Hocus Pocus universe of books featuring several series, which... Read More →
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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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Ann Robards

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

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

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

STEM
Greg Eden is from New Zealand where he trained in radio communications and has worked in England, Wales, Austria, Ghana Nigeria, Sudan and Chad. He has installed radio equipment in garbage trucks, has been a communications officer for the UK Fire Service, has set up paging networks... Read More →
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Sarah Martin

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

Jonna Hayden

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

Author
M.G. Martin was born to a flamenco dancer and an International Man of Mystery in the great state of New York, ‘lo these many years ago. A precocious child, she began writing stories in elementary school and dreamed of one day becoming a published author. As an adult, she eschewed... Read More →
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Donald Crankshaw

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

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

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

Justin C. Feng

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

James S. Aaron

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

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

Jacob Holo

LibertyCon 38 Master of Ceremonies, Author
Jacob Holo has been a recreational geek since childhood, when he discovered Star Wars and Star Trek, and a professional geek since college, when he graduated from Youngstown State University with a degree in Electrical and Controls Engineering. He started writing when his parents... Read More →
avatar for H.P. Holo

H.P. Holo

LibertyCon 38 Master of Ceremonies, Author
H.P. Holo grew up in a family where it was dangerous to say, “I’m bored.” She’s also an incorrigible smart aleck. So when her parents told her to fix her boredom by reading a dictionary, she did. And then, just to be extra sassy, she began writing novels that required them... Read More →
avatar for Becky McCauley Rench

Becky McCauley Rench

LibertyCon 38 STEM Guest of Honor, STEM
Rebecca (Becky) McCauley Rench is the Astrobiology Program Scientist in the Planetary Science Division at NASA Headquarters. She leads the Interdisciplinary Consortia for Astrobiology Research (ICAR)), which supports large, interdisciplinary astrobiology research teams, and the Planetary... Read More →
avatar for Nicholas Sansbury Smith

Nicholas Sansbury Smith

LibertyCon 38 Literary Guest of Honor, Author
Nicholas Sansbury Smith is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of the Hell Divers series. His other work includes the Extinction Cycle series, the Trackers series, and the Orbs series. He worked for Iowa Homeland Security and Emergency Management in disaster planning... Read More →
avatar for John Kovalic

John Kovalic

LibertyCon 38 Artist Guest of Honor, Artist
John Kovalic is an award-winning cartoonist, game designer and writer. His works appeared everywhere from the NEW YORK TIMES to ROLLING STONE and DRAGON MAGAZINE. His world of geeky goodies includes DORK TOWER – one of the very first webcomics, debuting online in 1996.

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

S.M. Stirling

LibertyCon 38 Special Guest of Honor, Author
S.M. Stirling was born in France in 1953, to Canadian parents -- although his mother was born in England and grew up in Peru. After that he lived in Europe, Canada, Africa, and the US and visited several other continents. He graduated from law school in Canada but had his dorsal fin... Read More →
avatar for Ken Roy

Ken Roy

STEM
Kenneth Roy is a retired, professional engineer who is currently living in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. As a long-time hobby he has been working with the idea of terraforming. He invented the “Shell Worlds” concept as a way to terraform planets well outside a star’s Goldilocks’ zone... Read More →
avatar for Jeff Greason

Jeff Greason

Author, STEM
I grew up with middle class parents in rural Oregon, with some of my earliest memories being Star Trek, the Apollo 17 launch, and reading classic science fiction. As far as I know, I've always been interested in science and technology. I thought that by the time I was an adult, there... Read More →
avatar for Bart Kemper

Bart Kemper

Author
Bart is a writer, photographer, inventor, and consulting Professional Engineer based in South Louisiana. He served over 34 years in the US Army, Active and Reserve, enlisted and officer, including as a Sergeant in the 82nd Airborne Division up to a Lt. Colonel engineer officer in... Read More →
avatar for David M. Weber

David M. Weber

Author, Past LGoH
David Weber was born in Cleveland a long, long time ago and grew up in rural South Carolina. He was a bookworm from childhood, blessed with a father who collected autographed copies of every E. E. Smith hardcover and introduced him to Jack Williamson at the tender age of 10, and a... Read More →
avatar for Gary W. Shelton

Gary W. Shelton

Gaming, STEM
Recently retired and returned to the Family farm in North Alabama. 30 years of experience working with the USDA - Agricultural research service in Mississippi, specializing in soybean genetics. Also Known as "Da Fish," has traveled the continental US in search of card games, good... Read More →
avatar for Julie Cochrane

Julie Cochrane

Author
Julie Cochrane was born in Ohio and begin crafting her first stories when she was five years old. She made her first attempts at novels in Social Studies and English classes. Cally's War with John Ringo was the first manuscript she ever finished. Sister Time and Honor of the Clan... Read More →
avatar for Terry Maggert

Terry Maggert

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

Stewart Cobb

STEM
Stewart Cobb designs satellite navigation systems for a living and reads SF&F for inspiration. He earned a PhD in Aerospace Engineering and holds more than a dozen patents. He's been an Air Force officer and a flight controller for the Space Shuttle, but hasn't yet reached orbit... Read More →
avatar for Toni Weisskopf

Toni Weisskopf

Author, Editor, Publisher, Past Special GoH
Toni Weisskopf is the publisher of Baen Books, a leading publisher of SF and fantasy for 40 years. She is also a member of the Interstellar Research Group board of advisors. She is the mother of a delightful daughter, and presides over a household that includes three dogs, one cat... Read More →
avatar for Karen Bogen

Karen Bogen

Author
A cat-loving native of Texas, K.B. Bogen is a self-confessed knit-/yarn-aholic. She spends much time knitting something (with the help of her three cats), inventorying her stash (also with the help of the cats), or fondling yarn anywhere within driving range (the cats don’t like... Read More →
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David Bogen

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

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

Author
Gerald Hall has had an extraordinarily diverse background. A lifelong science fiction fan, Gerald is a graduate of the N.C. State University's School of Engineering. After graduation, he served in uniform as part of the Intelligence Community for more than thirty years, deploying... Read More →
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Gregory Radabaugh

Author
Greg Radabaugh, an author published by Raconteur Press and others, retired from the US Department of Defense after a 44-year career. He now works as a consultant for various commercial and government entities. Prior to his retirement, he was a member of the Department of Defense Senior... Read More →
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Paul Sparks

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

Author
J. Kenton Pierce’s Science Fiction short stories and novels known collectively as the Tales from the Long Night. He lives near Pittsburgh and enjoys writing, shooting, and cheese. His work has been published in Abyss & Apex, the Grantville Gazette Baen's Universe Annex, and several... Read More →
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Rob Howell

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

His parents discovered b... Read More →
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Martha Knowles

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

Author, Performer, Past GoH
Graham W. "Gray" Rinehart Rinehart is a writer, an editor, a singer/songwriter, and a retired Air Force officer. He is the only person to have commanded a USAF satellite tracking station, written speeches for Presidential appointees, devised a poetic form, and had music on The Dr... Read More →
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Rich Groller

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

STEM, Boostphase
At various times, Stephen Fleming has been paid to be an optical physicist, laser fabricator, software developer, field engineer, product manager, corporate trainer, marketing executive, salesman, general manager, entrepreneur, author, venture capitalist, board member, investment... Read More →
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Kara Metz

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

Author, Past Special GoH
Ben Yalow’s very first convention he attended as a fan was Lunacon in 1971, followed later that year by his first Worldcon, Noreascon. Ben first started staffing conventions at the very first Star Trek convention in January 1972, followed by the Worldcon in 1973, Torcon 2. He has... Read More →
Saturday June 27, 2026 10:00am - 12:00pm EDT
M - Plaza Ballroom A/B Chattanooga Marriott Downtown 2 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402, USA
  Main Program, Banquet

12:00pm EDT

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

2:00pm EDT

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


Guests
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Tammie Darden

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

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

Author / Owner, Southern Wilds
Tim “Cajun” Bischoff, born in Kentucky and raised in Bourbon country on a dairy farm. Writing along with cooking, fishing and cruising in his restored 1973 Chevelle are some of his passions. Tim has had three short stories published, the newest as author Timothy Hardy in 3 Ravens... Read More →
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Bethanne Kim

Author, Publisher
Bethanne Kim is a publisher with the new alternate history magazine “Eric Flint’s 1632 & Beyond” and a writer in the 1632verse. She also writes about emergency preparedness (including on TheSurvivalMom.com), zombies, being a Scout leader, the US Constitution, and whatever else... Read More →
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John Locke

Professional Panelist
John M. Locke is a Retired Veteran of the United States Army. Notable assignments included the 3rd Armored Div, 82nd Airborne Div and 2nd Infantry Division. He served in the first Gulf War with 3rd Bn, 73rd Armor, the only Airborne Armor unit in the free world. John retired from the... Read More →
Saturday June 27, 2026 2:00pm - 3:00pm EDT
CC - Meeting Room 5 (Main Event) Chattanooga Convention Center 1 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37403
  Main Program, Panel

2:00pm EDT

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

Author, Editor, Publisher, Past Special GoH
Toni Weisskopf is the publisher of Baen Books, a leading publisher of SF and fantasy for 40 years. She is also a member of the Interstellar Research Group board of advisors. She is the mother of a delightful daughter, and presides over a household that includes three dogs, one cat... Read More →
Guests
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John Ringo

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

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

Shami Stovall

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

Aaron Haskins

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

LibertyCon 38 Master of Ceremonies, Author
Jacob Holo has been a recreational geek since childhood, when he discovered Star Wars and Star Trek, and a professional geek since college, when he graduated from Youngstown State University with a degree in Electrical and Controls Engineering. He started writing when his parents... Read More →
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H.P. Holo

LibertyCon 38 Master of Ceremonies, Author
H.P. Holo grew up in a family where it was dangerous to say, “I’m bored.” She’s also an incorrigible smart aleck. So when her parents told her to fix her boredom by reading a dictionary, she did. And then, just to be extra sassy, she began writing novels that required them... Read More →
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Sam R. Kennedy

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

LibertyCon 38 Special Guest of Honor, Author
S.M. Stirling was born in France in 1953, to Canadian parents -- although his mother was born in England and grew up in Peru. After that he lived in Europe, Canada, Africa, and the US and visited several other continents. He graduated from law school in Canada but had his dorsal fin... Read More →
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Joelle Presby

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

Author, Past LGoH
David Weber was born in Cleveland a long, long time ago and grew up in rural South Carolina. He was a bookworm from childhood, blessed with a father who collected autographed copies of every E. E. Smith hardcover and introduced him to Jack Williamson at the tender age of 10, and a... Read More →
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Les Johnson

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

Author, Past LGoH
Jody Lynn Nye lists her main career activity as ‘spoiling cats.’ When not engaged upon this worthy occupation, she writes fantasy and science fiction books and short stories.

Before breaking away from gainful employment to write full time, Jody worked as a file clerk, book-kee... Read More →
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Marisa Wolf

Author
Marisa Wolf is a second-generation nerd who started writing genre stories at six. At least one was good enough to be laminated, and she's been chasing that high ever since. Over the years she taught middle school, was headbutted by an alligator, built a career in education, earned... Read More →
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Jason Cordova

Author, Editor
National bestselling author Jason Cordova is both a John W. Campbell Award and Dragon Award finalist (though not in the same year). He is the author of Mountain of Fire, To Tread Obsidian Shores (w/ Melissa Olthoff), and Monster Hunter Memoirs: Fever (w/ Larry Correia), and edito... Read More →
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Casey Moores

Author
Casey Moores was a USAF rescue/special ops C-130 pilot for over 17 years- airdropping, air refueling, and flying into tiny blacked-out dirt airstrips in bad places using night vision goggles.  He’s been to those places and done those things with those people. Now he lives a quieter... Read More →
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Mike Massa

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

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

Author, Past LGoH
Dr. Charles E. Gannon is best known for the Caine Riordan series of hard sf novels, which include multiple best-sellers, 4 finalists for the Nebula, 2 for the Dragon, and a Compton Crook winner. His epic fantasy series, The Vortex of Worlds, has also been an awards finalist and a... Read More →
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Griffin Barber

Author, Editor
Griffin spent his youth in four different countries, learning three languages, and burning all his bridges. Finally settled in East Tennessee and retired from a day job as a police officer in a major metropolitan department out west, he lives the good life with his lovely wife, crazy-smart... Read More →
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Melissa Olthoff

Author
Melissa Olthoff spent her youth daydreaming about riding dragons and slaying monsters. After joining the United States Air Force, she might not have gotten to ride any dragons, but she had plenty of real-world adventures over the years—including flying the T-6, becoming a certified... Read More →
Saturday June 27, 2026 2:00pm - 4:00pm EDT
CC - Ballroom E (Main Event) Chattanooga Convention Center 1 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37403
  Main Program, Event

4:00pm EDT

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

Steve Jackson

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

LibertyCon 38 Artist Guest of Honor, Artist
John Kovalic is an award-winning cartoonist, game designer and writer. His works appeared everywhere from the NEW YORK TIMES to ROLLING STONE and DRAGON MAGAZINE. His world of geeky goodies includes DORK TOWER – one of the very first webcomics, debuting online in 1996.

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

Gaming
Irene Zielinski is a game designer, editor, performer, and menace from Atlanta, Georgia. She created Scurvy Buggers, a troupe-style dramedy about found family and romance in the Golden Age of Piracy. Her newest project, Dahlia's Diversions for Peculiar Parties, is an anthology of... Read More →
Saturday June 27, 2026 4:00pm - 5:00pm EDT
CC - Meeting Room 6 (Science Track) Chattanooga Convention Center 1 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37403
  Main Program, Presentation

5:00pm EDT

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

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

6:00pm EDT

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

6:00pm EDT

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

Author
As President, Technician, Writer, Director, Producer - Bill Ritch is a long-serving member of ARTC and has directed and produced countless live and studio productions. He is the author of The Doom of the Mummy, The Menace From Earth (adapted from the Robert A. Heinlein short story... Read More →
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Dave Schroeder

Author, Performer
Dave Schroeder (SHRAY-der) is the author of the Guardian Keeps and Congruent Mage fantasy series as well as the Xenotech Support science fiction humor series. He is a retired IT executive from Atlanta who enjoys performing with the Atlanta Radio Theatre Company.

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

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

7:00pm EDT

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

Everette Beach

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

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

John Kovalic

LibertyCon 38 Artist Guest of Honor, Artist
John Kovalic is an award-winning cartoonist, game designer and writer. His works appeared everywhere from the NEW YORK TIMES to ROLLING STONE and DRAGON MAGAZINE. His world of geeky goodies includes DORK TOWER – one of the very first webcomics, debuting online in 1996.

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

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

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

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

9:00pm EDT

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

10:00pm EDT

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

H.P. Holo

LibertyCon 38 Master of Ceremonies, Author
H.P. Holo grew up in a family where it was dangerous to say, “I’m bored.” She’s also an incorrigible smart aleck. So when her parents told her to fix her boredom by reading a dictionary, she did. And then, just to be extra sassy, she began writing novels that required them... Read More →
Guests
avatar for Philip K. Booker

Philip K. Booker

Author, Editor
An award-winning editor and genre writer, Philip K. Booker lives near Chattanooga, Tennessee, with his wife and five children collectively known as Clan Booker (trademark pending).

Writing stories across any genre, but he focuses on Urban Fantasy, Science Fiction and Horror-comedy. His stories are littered with humor, snark, and pop culture references. He is convinced that if his characters were alive and aware he's to blame for their problems, they'd be waiting... Read More →
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Julie Frost

Author
Julie Frost is an award-winning author of every shade of speculative fiction. She lives in Utah with a herd of guinea pigs, her husband, and a “kitten” who thinks she’s a warrior princess. She enjoys birding, and is on a quest to photograph 500 bird species in a calendar year... Read More →
avatar for Marisa Wolf

Marisa Wolf

Author
Marisa Wolf is a second-generation nerd who started writing genre stories at six. At least one was good enough to be laminated, and she's been chasing that high ever since. Over the years she taught middle school, was headbutted by an alligator, built a career in education, earned... Read More →
avatar for 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 Geoffrey Mandragora

Geoffrey Mandragora

Author
Geoffrey Mandragora is a storyteller, not an author. He refuses to take himself seriously, or write anything too serious. His work is exciting, scary, and thrilling; but overall he strives to make his books fun, both to write and read. Which is why he writes in different genres.
Saturday June 27, 2026 10:00pm - 11:00pm EDT
M - Plaza Ballroom C
  Main Program, Panel

10:00pm EDT

Musings on Nantucket and the Emberverse
Saturday June 27, 2026 10:00pm - 11:00pm EDT
CC - Meeting Room 3 (Workshop Track)
Special GOH S.M. Stirling presents "Musings on Nantucket and the Emberverse," a retrospective look at these interconnected alternate history series.
Moderators
avatar for S.M. Stirling

S.M. Stirling

LibertyCon 38 Special Guest of Honor, Author
S.M. Stirling was born in France in 1953, to Canadian parents -- although his mother was born in England and grew up in Peru. After that he lived in Europe, Canada, Africa, and the US and visited several other continents. He graduated from law school in Canada but had his dorsal fin... Read More →
Saturday June 27, 2026 10:00pm - 11:00pm EDT
CC - Meeting Room 3 (Workshop Track) Chattanooga Convention Center 1 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37403
  Main Program, Presentation

11:00pm EDT

Open Filking with Gray Rinehart
Saturday June 27, 2026 11:00pm - Sunday June 28, 2026 1:00am EDT
M - Signal Mountain Room (Readings 1)
Open Filking hosted by Gray Rinehart - come and participate!
Guests
avatar for Gray Rinehart

Gray Rinehart

Author, Performer, Past GoH
Graham W. "Gray" Rinehart Rinehart is a writer, an editor, a singer/songwriter, and a retired Air Force officer. He is the only person to have commanded a USAF satellite tracking station, written speeches for Presidential appointees, devised a poetic form, and had music on The Dr... Read More →
Saturday June 27, 2026 11:00pm - Sunday June 28, 2026 1:00am EDT
M - Signal Mountain Room (Readings 1) Chattanooga Marriott Downtown 2 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402, USA
  Main Program, Filk
 
Sunday, June 28
 

9:00am EDT

Non-denominational Prayer Service
Sunday June 28, 2026 9:00am - 10:00am EDT
M - Plaza Ballroom C
Non-denominational Prayer Service, hosted by Gray Rinehart
Guests
avatar for Sam Robb

Sam Robb

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

Editor
Shari Robb is a loving wife, mother, technical writer, and counselor. She has worked as an editor for political campaigns, multiple non-fiction books, and shorts from the Alpha Mercs. Her work as a freelance editor includes multiple SF/Fantasy anthologies, including game fiction... Read More →
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 →
Sunday June 28, 2026 9:00am - 10:00am EDT
M - Plaza Ballroom C
  Main Program, Event

10:00am EDT

Kaffeeklatsch
Sunday June 28, 2026 10:00am - 11:00am EDT
M - Plaza Ballroom A/B
Come out for a cup of coffee with the pros!
Guests
avatar for Henry Brown

Henry Brown

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

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

VL Stuart

Author
VL ‘Tori’ Stuart is a journalist, novelist, and poet who resides between two volcanoes in Costa Rica. Their unique home lies between two volcanoes—a location that sparks curiosity, but as she assures, "No worries; only one of them is active."
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Nathan Toronto

Author
Nathan W. Toronto has taught strategy and planning to military officers for twenty years and is the author of How Militaries Learn and the Saga of the Emerald Moon. He publishes Bullet Points, a military science fiction magazine. Find him at nathantoronto.com or on Blue Sky (@bul... Read More →
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Lloyd Watson

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

Professional Book Reviewer

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Keith Hedger

Author, Guest
Keith Hedger escaped Iowa at 19 to serve in the US Army which led to his (current) career in information technology. When not saving other people's data, he enjoys exercising, fishing, and hunting. He lives in Pella, Iowa with his wife. Fortunately, she tolerates his workouts and... Read More →
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Oren Truitt

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

STEM
Doug Loss is retired, but was an IT security analyst from Maryville, TN. He has been an SF reader since childhood (more than 55 years) and a war gamer for over 50 years. He's an avid blues music fan and is currently serving on the Board of Directors for the Interstellar Research Group... Read More →
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Stephen J. Simmons

Stephen J. Simmons started writing shortly after he retired from the Navy, primarily because his children had grown too old to listen to bedtime stories and the cats never laughed at the funny bits.  He sold over a dozen flash-fiction stories to various online publishing venues... Read More →
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Wil McCarthy

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

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

Author, Artist
Bill Willingham has been writing and drawing professionally for close to 50 years. His best known comic book creations have been his Elementals and Fables series. Recently his forthcoming sword and sorcery prose novel trilogy called Outrider has been announced by Raconteur Press... Read More →
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Natalie Rodgers

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

Author
J.E. Pittman dabbles in many speculative worlds. He blurs the borders between genre and crafts salient lies to tell a measure of truth. His work has been described as: capriciously chimeric, dreamlike, and a vivid enigma with indelible images stamped on your brain. His published works... Read More →
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William S. Frisbee

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

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

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

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

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

Author
Molly Ann McDonough is an author, poet, and multidisciplinary engineer. Her short fiction has been featured in science fiction and fantasy anthologies. Her debut poetry collection, Hope in Hateful Times (2026), examines resilience, the divine feminine, and how to foster joy and empathy... Read More →
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T.C. Ross

Author
TC Ross is an Urban Fantasy author who also dabbles in related Historical Fantasy, Romantic Comedies, Gaslamp, Horror, and short stories. She resides in Texas with her family, feeding the Fae and watching out for shifters. Hopefully they never find her.
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Kelly Grayson

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

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

I... Read More →
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Greg Eden

STEM
Greg Eden is from New Zealand where he trained in radio communications and has worked in England, Wales, Austria, Ghana Nigeria, Sudan and Chad. He has installed radio equipment in garbage trucks, has been a communications officer for the UK Fire Service, has set up paging networks... Read More →
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Joelle Presby

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

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

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

Author, Performer, Past GoH
Graham W. "Gray" Rinehart Rinehart is a writer, an editor, a singer/songwriter, and a retired Air Force officer. He is the only person to have commanded a USAF satellite tracking station, written speeches for Presidential appointees, devised a poetic form, and had music on The Dr... Read More →
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Dr. Ben Davis

STEM, Past SGoH
Ben Davis has a Ph.D. in Nuclear Physics and an M.S. in Nuclear Astrophysics from the University of Notre Dame. He taught at the college level for several years on a number of technical subjects ranging from computer programming and math to, of course, astronomy and physics. In the... Read More →
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Jacob Holo

LibertyCon 38 Master of Ceremonies, Author
Jacob Holo has been a recreational geek since childhood, when he discovered Star Wars and Star Trek, and a professional geek since college, when he graduated from Youngstown State University with a degree in Electrical and Controls Engineering. He started writing when his parents... Read More →
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H.P. Holo

LibertyCon 38 Master of Ceremonies, Author
H.P. Holo grew up in a family where it was dangerous to say, “I’m bored.” She’s also an incorrigible smart aleck. So when her parents told her to fix her boredom by reading a dictionary, she did. And then, just to be extra sassy, she began writing novels that required them... Read More →
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Becky McCauley Rench

LibertyCon 38 STEM Guest of Honor, STEM
Rebecca (Becky) McCauley Rench is the Astrobiology Program Scientist in the Planetary Science Division at NASA Headquarters. She leads the Interdisciplinary Consortia for Astrobiology Research (ICAR)), which supports large, interdisciplinary astrobiology research teams, and the Planetary... Read More →
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Nicholas Sansbury Smith

LibertyCon 38 Literary Guest of Honor, Author
Nicholas Sansbury Smith is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of the Hell Divers series. His other work includes the Extinction Cycle series, the Trackers series, and the Orbs series. He worked for Iowa Homeland Security and Emergency Management in disaster planning... Read More →
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John Kovalic

LibertyCon 38 Artist Guest of Honor, Artist
John Kovalic is an award-winning cartoonist, game designer and writer. His works appeared everywhere from the NEW YORK TIMES to ROLLING STONE and DRAGON MAGAZINE. His world of geeky goodies includes DORK TOWER – one of the very first webcomics, debuting online in 1996.

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

LibertyCon 38 Special Guest of Honor, Author
S.M. Stirling was born in France in 1953, to Canadian parents -- although his mother was born in England and grew up in Peru. After that he lived in Europe, Canada, Africa, and the US and visited several other continents. He graduated from law school in Canada but had his dorsal fin... Read More →
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Logan Stovall

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Author
Born in southern Arizona, Jonathan LaForce spent his formative years in northern Los Angeles County before moving to Texas at the age of 19. Two years later, he enlisted in the USMC and found himself stationed in Hawaii. Had it not been so expensive, he'd have stayed in Hawaii at... Read More →
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Daniel Kemp

Author
A couple history degrees, the Army, and a turbulent personal life inspired the Athenaeum Inc military thriller trilogy at Cannon (Door Number Three, Doubling Down and Triple Play). He’s also done shorts on everything from the sinking of the Bismarck to feeding dragons.
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Mary Hare

Author
I’m a wife, mother, and grandmother, who had a four-year stint in the USAF in the Manned SpaceFlight Support Group at the Johnson Space Center in the 80’s, where I met and married my husband, also in the USAF at the time. Since then, almost every job I’ve had has involved computers... Read More →
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Kevin Ikenberry

Author
Kevin Ikenberry is a life-long space geek and retired Army officer. As an adult, he managed the U.S. Space Camp program, two Challenger Learning Centers, and served on active duty in space operations before Space Force was a thing. He’s an international bestselling science fiction... Read More →
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Joseph Hower

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

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

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

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

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

Author, Editor
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Michael Gants

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

Author
Jesse James Fain is a Science Fiction and Fantasy Author, Editor, and retired powerlifting champion. Jesse’s extensive experience in martial arts and weapons training leads to vibrant martial tales of revenge and combat that bring a taste of reality to fictional battles, along with... Read More →
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Justin C. Feng

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

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

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

Author

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

STEM, Dmarkhaynes Consulting
I’m a renaissance man trapped in a specialist’s body. My degree is in biology. That’s why I’m IT. I’ve worked as a software developer, with an elegant language for a more civilized age. I became a QA guy because breaking things is therapeutic. I became a process specialist... Read More →
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Nic Plume

Author
Nic Plume is the author of the military science fiction series ’Shadows of Peace’ and the short story ‘Rebels’ Cause’ in the Lost Brigade Universe’s anthology Standing Fast on Foreign Shores. She has also edited over forty science fiction novels for a best-selling aut... Read More →
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Tim Bischoff

Author / Owner, Southern Wilds
Tim “Cajun” Bischoff, born in Kentucky and raised in Bourbon country on a dairy farm. Writing along with cooking, fishing and cruising in his restored 1973 Chevelle are some of his passions. Tim has had three short stories published, the newest as author Timothy Hardy in 3 Ravens... Read More →
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Tony Andarian

Author, Publisher, Andarian Publishing
Tony Andarian is the author of the Sanctum of the Archmage epic fantasy novels and games. They are published by his personal imprint, Andarian Publishing.

Invested from a young age with an overactive imagination, he's had a lifelong love of science fiction, fantasy, computer gam... Read More →
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Sam Robb

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

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

Artist, Author
Robert S. Evans is a Georgia native film writer and director. He attended the New York Film Academy, and shortly afterwards caught the attention of industry veteran Jeff Burr (Leatherface: Texas Chainsaw Massacre 3) . Robert caught his first break with the film "The Last Piece Standing... Read More →
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Kendra Irwin

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

Author, Publisher
Bethanne Kim is a publisher with the new alternate history magazine “Eric Flint’s 1632 & Beyond” and a writer in the 1632verse. She also writes about emergency preparedness (including on TheSurvivalMom.com), zombies, being a Scout leader, the US Constitution, and whatever else... Read More →
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William Alan Ritch

Author
As President, Technician, Writer, Director, Producer - Bill Ritch is a long-serving member of ARTC and has directed and produced countless live and studio productions. He is the author of The Doom of the Mummy, The Menace From Earth (adapted from the Robert A. Heinlein short story... Read More →
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M.D. Boncher

Author
As an author, artist and musician, M. D. Boncher has lead a “Writer’s Life”. With several careers in many varied industries from security to hospitality to trucking logistics providing him a wide breadth of experience with the human condition from which to draw on for his work... Read More →
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Ken Roy

STEM
Kenneth Roy is a retired, professional engineer who is currently living in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. As a long-time hobby he has been working with the idea of terraforming. He invented the “Shell Worlds” concept as a way to terraform planets well outside a star’s Goldilocks’ zone... Read More →
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Fred Hughes

Author
The International Bestselling Amazon Author of seven books of 'The Prince of Britannia' series. I'm currently working on my new series, 'The First Solar War.'

Having served 20 years in the US Navy, most of it on submarines, I developed a great appreciation for the written word... Read More →
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Jeff Greason

Author, STEM
I grew up with middle class parents in rural Oregon, with some of my earliest memories being Star Trek, the Apollo 17 launch, and reading classic science fiction. As far as I know, I've always been interested in science and technology. I thought that by the time I was an adult, there... Read More →
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Danette Schardt-Cordova

Gaming
Danette Schardt-Cordova started tabletop gaming at twelve and computer gaming at fourteen with a TRaSh-80 from Radio Shack. Now she regularly streams her gaming (RPGs, Minecraft and whatever Charles(Ghost_Prime) drags her into) under the name Tamriel Mother in between taking care... Read More →
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Irene Zielinski

Gaming
Irene Zielinski is a game designer, editor, performer, and menace from Atlanta, Georgia. She created Scurvy Buggers, a troupe-style dramedy about found family and romance in the Golden Age of Piracy. Her newest project, Dahlia's Diversions for Peculiar Parties, is an anthology of... Read More →
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Jon R. Osborne

Author
Jon R. Osborne turned a journalism education and a passion for role-playing games into writing science fiction and fantasy. His second book in The Milesian Accords modern fantasy trilogy, “A Tempered Warrior”, was a 2018 Dragon Awards finalist for Best Fantasy Novel. Jon is a... Read More →
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David Badurina

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

Author
Bart is a writer, photographer, inventor, and consulting Professional Engineer based in South Louisiana. He served over 34 years in the US Army, Active and Reserve, enlisted and officer, including as a Sergeant in the 82nd Airborne Division up to a Lt. Colonel engineer officer in... Read More →
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Julie Frost

Author
Julie Frost is an award-winning author of every shade of speculative fiction. She lives in Utah with a herd of guinea pigs, her husband, and a “kitten” who thinks she’s a warrior princess. She enjoys birding, and is on a quest to photograph 500 bird species in a calendar year... Read More →
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Wally Waltner

Author
Wally Waltner is a tech consulting executive and gentleman science fiction/fantasy author. Born and raised on a farm in South Dakota, his early creative muses led him down a musical path and earned music scholarships and eventually a BMus degree in brass performance from Saint Olaf... Read More →
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Jim Beall

STEM, Past SGoH
Jim Beall (BS-Math, MBA, PE) has been a nuclear engineer for 50 years, beginning as a nuclear engineering officer in the US Navy. Civilian experience includes design, construction, inspection, enforcement, and assessment with a nuclear utility, an architect engineering firm, and the... Read More →
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David M. Weber

Author, Past LGoH
David Weber was born in Cleveland a long, long time ago and grew up in rural South Carolina. He was a bookworm from childhood, blessed with a father who collected autographed copies of every E. E. Smith hardcover and introduced him to Jack Williamson at the tender age of 10, and a... Read More →
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Les Johnson

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

Gaming, STEM
Recently retired and returned to the Family farm in North Alabama. 30 years of experience working with the USDA - Agricultural research service in Mississippi, specializing in soybean genetics. Also Known as "Da Fish," has traveled the continental US in search of card games, good... Read More →
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Lydia Sherrer

Author
Award-winning and USA Today-bestselling author of snark-filled adventures, Lydia Sherrer thrives on creating stories you love to love, and hate to leave. She is the author of the bestselling urban fantasy Love, Lies, and Hocus Pocus universe of books featuring several series, which... Read More →
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Isaac Craft

Author
Isaac Craft writes science fiction and fantasy with horror elements. His flash-fiction stories are in nearly a dozen of the Cornerscribblers anthologies via Three Ravens Publishing and continues to work toward honing his craft. When not writing or reading, Isaac does digital illustration... Read More →
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Brisco Woods

Author
Brisco retired from the USAF and TNANG in 2015 and became a REALTOR working in east Tennessee. Seeing the success two of his siblings were having as authors, he decided to give it a try. Now, five short stories, one novella, and two novels later, he’s an official multi-national... Read More →
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Amanda Montandon

Author, Editor
Amanda Montandon is a Colorado mountain girl living in North Carolina with her husband, author Kal Spriggs, their son, & 4 mischievous felines. A Jane-of-All-Trades, she has experience in law enforcement, veterinary care, private security, & more. She runs her own editing business... Read More →
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Tamara Lowery

Author
Tamara Lowery, author of The Adventures of Pigg & Woolfe serial and the Waves of Darkness series, is a native of Chattanooga. She writes pirates that aren't nice and vampires that don't sparkle as well as high-flying steampunk adventure.
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A.G. Thompson

Author
Reared on a West Texas ranch, A.G. Thompson is a veteran of the US Air Force, having served during the Cold War and earned the rank of Staff Sergeant. He earned Bachelor of Arts degrees in both English Literature and History from the University of Louisville.

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

Author
Daniel Allen Butler is a best-selling author, historian, and college-educated semi-professional beach bum. His previous works include "Unsinkable"--the Full Story of RMS Titanic; The Day the Lusitania Died; Warrior Queens - The Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth in World War II; The Age... Read More →
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Ted Begley

Author
Ted Begley's career has consisted of such fields as cook, farmer, lightning rod salesman, and accountant. He lives in Kentucky with his wife of more than thirty years, Laura, who acts in the capacity of his first reader and editor. He has several short stories published in as many... Read More →
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Julie Cochrane

Author
Julie Cochrane was born in Ohio and begin crafting her first stories when she was five years old. She made her first attempts at novels in Social Studies and English classes. Cally's War with John Ringo was the first manuscript she ever finished. Sister Time and Honor of the Clan... Read More →
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Terry Maggert

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

Author, Editor
After retiring from a globe spanning career of swashbuckling adventure in the U.S. Marine Corps, Spearman Burke decided to try his hand at this GI Bill thing he had been hearing about. He earned an interdisciplinary degree in English Literature and Creative Writing with a minor in... Read More →
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David (Brena) Bock

Author
David Bock (also listed under the nom de plume Brena Bock) is a proud member of #TeamAndMore in several anthologies, including Space Force: Building the Legacy, Can't Go Home Again, and Saint's of Malta. Other stories are in the works along with a full length novel.
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William Joseph Roberts

Author, Publisher
William Joseph Roberts has been called a Renaissance man, and an insane squirrel wrangler by his peers. Since his enlistment ended, he has pursued careers as an industrial and architectural designer, design engineer, and is now an award-winning author, editor, and publisher with Three... Read More →
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Dan Hollifield

Author, Publisher
Dan L. Hollifield is the author of the ‘Mare Inebrium Spaceport Bar’ series of short stories. Other works include the “Adventures of Tom Darby” ongoing series of stories, one of which is titled ‘Abducted,’ and is available on Amazon. Further Tom Darby stories are awaiting... Read More →
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Kevin Steverson

Author
Kevin Steverson is a retired veteran of the U.S. Army. With several best-selling novels, including the Salvage Title Trilogy, picked up for development into feature film, he is also a published songwriter. When not at a convention or concert, he can be found in the foothills of the... Read More →
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Michael LaVoice

Author
Michael LaVoice is a Science Fiction/Fantasy writer. He is the author of the Galaxy’s Most Wanted series from Aethon Books, the Gladius Leagues series from Chris Kennedy Publishing, as well as the upcoming SARCOM series with co-author Peter Stanley. He has multiple short stories... Read More →
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Nick Nethery

Author, Editor
Nick Nethery writes science fiction, fantasy, mystery, westerns and whatever else presents a challenge or will entertain his friends and family. He has been published by the United States Naval Institute, Foreign Policy, Dragon Soul Press, and Raconteur Press, among others. He works... Read More →
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Louise Herring-Jones

Author
Louise Herring-Jones writes speculative fiction including science fiction, fantasy, historical fantasy, and alternate mystery. Her stories, appearing in fourteen anthologies, include “The Poulterer’s Tale” in God Bless Us, Every One—Christmas Carols beyond Dickens (Voodoo... Read More →
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Dave Schroeder

Author, Performer
Dave Schroeder (SHRAY-der) is the author of the Guardian Keeps and Congruent Mage fantasy series as well as the Xenotech Support science fiction humor series. He is a retired IT executive from Atlanta who enjoys performing with the Atlanta Radio Theatre Company.

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

Author
Marisa Wolf is a second-generation nerd who started writing genre stories at six. At least one was good enough to be laminated, and she's been chasing that high ever since. Over the years she taught middle school, was headbutted by an alligator, built a career in education, earned... Read More →
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Jason Cordova

Author, Editor
National bestselling author Jason Cordova is both a John W. Campbell Award and Dragon Award finalist (though not in the same year). He is the author of Mountain of Fire, To Tread Obsidian Shores (w/ Melissa Olthoff), and Monster Hunter Memoirs: Fever (w/ Larry Correia), and edito... Read More →
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Nathan Balyeat

Author
A USMC veteran, Nathan has written the fantasy short stories in the "Fellblade" and "Powers of the Night" settings and is working on a science fiction novel based on the life of the William Marshal. He has a degree in history and his hobbies include weightlifting, martial arts, and... Read More →
avatar for Marina Fontaine

Marina Fontaine

Author
Marina Fontaine is a Russian by birth, an American by choice, and a writer of
optimistic fiction.

She uses her experience of living in a totalitarian society to demonstrate how human yearning for freedom and love endures in the darkest of circumstances.

Her dystopian works incl... Read More →
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Stewart Cobb

STEM
Stewart Cobb designs satellite navigation systems for a living and reads SF&F for inspiration. He earned a PhD in Aerospace Engineering and holds more than a dozen patents. He's been an Air Force officer and a flight controller for the Space Shuttle, but hasn't yet reached orbit... Read More →
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Claire Merrick

Author
Tired of writing about bad news as a broadcast TV producer, Claire Merrick began using her free time to write urban fantasy stories, set to be released in 2025. Merrick's work is inspired by her love of small town mill smokestacks and the secrets they hide.
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Wayland Smith

Author
WAYLAND SMITH is the pen name for a native Texan who has lived in Massachusetts, New York, Washington DC, and presently makes his home in Virginia. His rather unlikely list of jobs includes private investigator, comic book shop owner, ring crew for a circus (then he ran away from... Read More →
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Jamie Henson

Editor
Jamie Henson is the founder of Alpha Mercs, a private fellowship of writers forging craft, resilience, and timeless virtues. Together they stand for what storytelling was—and must be again. The forge is lit. Join the fellowship at omicronstation.com.
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Casey Moores

Author
Casey Moores was a USAF rescue/special ops C-130 pilot for over 17 years- airdropping, air refueling, and flying into tiny blacked-out dirt airstrips in bad places using night vision goggles.  He’s been to those places and done those things with those people. Now he lives a quieter... Read More →
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Devon Eriksen

Author
Devon Eriksen is a recent Chattanooga transplant, marksman, and life-long reader, with a particular fondness for classics from the golden age of science fiction. After growing up with images of the galaxy brought home by his JPL engineer father, he spent most of his career as a software... Read More →
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Lucas Marcum

Author
Lucas Marcum is a critical care nurse practitioner, Army reservist, and independent author. Since high school, he has written recreationally; but never really took the idea of publishing a book seriously until 2017, when he wandered into a Facebook group curated by and populated with... Read More →
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Mark Stallings

Author
Mark Stallings is an Internationally published and Amazon Best Selling author, speaker at International conferences on technology topics, is a writer of Wuxia, Fantasy, and Military Sci-Fi. He is a competitive shooter, avid martial artist, drinker of craft beer, and motorcycle enthusiast.You... Read More →
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Steve Jackson

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

Author, Past LGoH
Dr. Charles E. Gannon is best known for the Caine Riordan series of hard sf novels, which include multiple best-sellers, 4 finalists for the Nebula, 2 for the Dragon, and a Compton Crook winner. His epic fantasy series, The Vortex of Worlds, has also been an awards finalist and a... Read More →
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Brian Gifford

Author
A 27 year veteran, Cannon author Brian Gifford is a science fiction and fantasy nerd of the highest order. A lifelong student of physics and the arcana of IT alike, Brian spent a lifetime accumulating his unique view of the world. Unfortunately, he now insists on sharing it with... Read More →
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Karen Bogen

Author
A cat-loving native of Texas, K.B. Bogen is a self-confessed knit-/yarn-aholic. She spends much time knitting something (with the help of her three cats), inventorying her stash (also with the help of the cats), or fondling yarn anywhere within driving range (the cats don’t like... Read More →
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David Bogen

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

Author, Editor
Griffin spent his youth in four different countries, learning three languages, and burning all his bridges. Finally settled in East Tennessee and retired from a day job as a police officer in a major metropolitan department out west, he lives the good life with his lovely wife, crazy-smart... Read More →
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Melissa Olthoff

Author
Melissa Olthoff spent her youth daydreaming about riding dragons and slaying monsters. After joining the United States Air Force, she might not have gotten to ride any dragons, but she had plenty of real-world adventures over the years—including flying the T-6, becoming a certified... Read More →
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David Alan Jones

Author
David Alan Jones is a veteran of the United States Air Force, where he served as an Arabic linguist, a role that sharpened his ear for language and deepened his appreciation for complex storytelling. A 2016 Writers of the Future Silver Honorable Mention recipient, David writes across... Read More →
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Bjorn Hasseler

Author, Editor
Bjorn Hasseler found Eric Flint's novel 1632 in a public library. Then he discovered that fans were not just allowed but encouraged to write in the 1632 universe. He writes the Neustatter's European Security Service thread (A Matter of Security, Missions of Security, Security Threats... Read More →
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K.B. Carlisle

Author
KB Carlisle is a husband, father, panda enthusiast, former time traveler and professional desk chair warmer.

His debut novel The Book of Rose won the 2024 Imadjin Award for Best Young Adult Novel.

Check out all of his work at kbcarlisle.com.
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Frank Hood

Author
When I graduated college I wanted to be a great writer like Shakespeare, Bradbury, Hardy, or Heinlein. Five years later and $14 richer off my writing career, I decided I needed a career that put food on the table as well. My wife, a chemist and wonderful writer herself (S. T. Gaffney... Read More →
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Geoffrey Mandragora

Author
Geoffrey Mandragora is a storyteller, not an author. He refuses to take himself seriously, or write anything too serious. His work is exciting, scary, and thrilling; but overall he strives to make his books fun, both to write and read. Which is why he writes in different genres.
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Shari Robb

Editor
Shari Robb is a loving wife, mother, technical writer, and counselor. She has worked as an editor for political campaigns, multiple non-fiction books, and shorts from the Alpha Mercs. Her work as a freelance editor includes multiple SF/Fantasy anthologies, including game fiction... Read More →
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Gregory Radabaugh

Author
Greg Radabaugh, an author published by Raconteur Press and others, retired from the US Department of Defense after a 44-year career. He now works as a consultant for various commercial and government entities. Prior to his retirement, he was a member of the Department of Defense Senior... Read More →
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M.G. Martin

Author
M.G. Martin was born to a flamenco dancer and an International Man of Mystery in the great state of New York, ‘lo these many years ago. A precocious child, she began writing stories in elementary school and dreamed of one day becoming a published author. As an adult, she eschewed... Read More →
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Ian McMurtrie

Author, Publisher
Born on the island of Malta to an Oklahoma oil engineer and a Texas school teacher, author Ian McMurtrie a.k.a. LawDog was raised in Africa, the Middle East, and Europe. He has been a soldier, an EMT, a volunteer fireman, a short-order cook, the world's worst rodeo clown, and a peace... Read More →
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D.S. Watson

Author
D.S. Watson started his professional writing career as a reporter for the Shelbyville Times Gazette. He also worked for the U.S.D.A Forest Service, and as a writer-editor for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms. He wrote disability opinions for the Social Security Administration... Read More →
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James P. Nettles

Author
With a 30-plus-year career in consulting, Nettles has advised a diverse range of clients, from startups to Fortune 100 companies in financial technologies, media, entertainment, and green technologies. His work focuses on privacy, futurism, and disruptive technologies, exploring how... Read More →
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Jay Maynard

Author
Jay Maynard is a lifelong computer geek whose career spans everything from embedded systems — like the ones in microwave ovens — to IBM mainframes. When he’s not in front of a keyboard, he’s on ham radio, serving on the Fairmont, Minnesota city council, tinkering with his... Read More →
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Laura Begley

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

Author
J. Kenton Pierce’s Science Fiction short stories and novels known collectively as the Tales from the Long Night. He lives near Pittsburgh and enjoys writing, shooting, and cheese. His work has been published in Abyss & Apex, the Grantville Gazette Baen's Universe Annex, and several... Read More →
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Tim Akers

Author
Tim Akers is a fantasy novelist, a gamer, and utterly unemployable in the traditional sense. His novels include the dark fantasy Wraithbound, lighter portal series Knight Watch, and high action hard magic world of Bladecaster. He lives in Chicago with his indefatigable wife and a... Read More →
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David Sherrer

Gaming, Publisher
David Sherrer is a born storyteller and has been an obsessive gamer ever since he was seduced by Magic: The Gathering at the tender age of fourteen. He has alternately owned a gaming store, street performed for a living, and survived eleven years in the soul-crushing world of telecommunications. He lucked out by marrying a force of nature (otherwise known as his wife), determined to making living... Read More →
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G. Scott Huggins

Author
Having been born in California and raised in Kansas, Scott Huggins grew up as confused as one might expect. He began writing whilst traveling in post-Soviet Russia and Germany, and was one of the 20th Century’s last Writers of the Future (1999). The future arrived immediately thereafter... Read More →
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Charli Cox

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

Author
Nathan C. Brindle is a senior software engineer with a BA and most of an MA in History.
There is a story behind that, of course. He's worked 30 years for a company in Maryland
you've probably never heard of, despite living in Indianapolis, Indiana, for all but one year
of his lif... Read More →
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Stephen Fleming

STEM, Boostphase
At various times, Stephen Fleming has been paid to be an optical physicist, laser fabricator, software developer, field engineer, product manager, corporate trainer, marketing executive, salesman, general manager, entrepreneur, author, venture capitalist, board member, investment... Read More →
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Ben Yalow

Author, Past Special GoH
Ben Yalow’s very first convention he attended as a fan was Lunacon in 1971, followed later that year by his first Worldcon, Noreascon. Ben first started staffing conventions at the very first Star Trek convention in January 1972, followed by the Worldcon in 1973, Torcon 2. He has... Read More →
Sunday June 28, 2026 10:00am - 11:00am EDT
M - Plaza Ballroom A/B Chattanooga Marriott Downtown 2 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402, USA
  Main Program, Kaffeeklatsch

11:00am EDT

Kaffeeklatsch Room Reset
Sunday June 28, 2026 11:00am - 12:00pm EDT
M - Plaza Ballroom A/B
Room reset after the Kaffeeklatsch
Sunday June 28, 2026 11:00am - 12:00pm EDT
M - Plaza Ballroom A/B Chattanooga Marriott Downtown 2 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402, USA
  Main Program, Kaffeeklatsch

1:00pm EDT

Sketching the Munchkin Card Winners
Sunday June 28, 2026 1:00pm - 2:00pm EDT
M - Director's Room
AGOH John Kovalic will sketch the Munchkin Card winners from the Charity Art Auction. Steve Jackson will host.
Moderators
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Steve Jackson

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

LibertyCon 38 Artist Guest of Honor, Artist
John Kovalic is an award-winning cartoonist, game designer and writer. His works appeared everywhere from the NEW YORK TIMES to ROLLING STONE and DRAGON MAGAZINE. His world of geeky goodies includes DORK TOWER – one of the very first webcomics, debuting online in 1996.

John was a co-founder of Out of the Box Games, and helped in the creation of the revolutionary party game, APPLES TO APPLES. John is also responsible for the look of the fan-favorite perennial best-seller MUNCHKIN card game. He’s drawn more than 7,000 cards for the game... Read More →
Sunday June 28, 2026 1:00pm - 2:00pm EDT
M - Director's Room Chattanooga Marriott Downtown 2 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402, USA
  Main Program, Event

3:00pm EDT

Closing Ceremonies - Come Bitch at Brandy!
Sunday June 28, 2026 3:00pm - 5:00pm EDT
CC - Ballroom E (Main Event)
Did you have a great time at the convention? Or was there something that absolutely irritated you? Either way, come out and let us know at our Closing Ceremonies.
Moderators
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Brandy Bolgeo Hendren

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

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

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

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

Secretary, Author, LibertyCon™
Michael Gants is a science fiction and fantasy author and retired Navy submariner. He currently works as an inspector at Sequoyah Nuclear Plant. His other jobs have included nuclear mechanic, anti-terrorism trainer, small craft boarding specialist, programmer, journalist, and aquarium... Read More →
Sunday June 28, 2026 3:00pm - 5:00pm EDT
CC - Ballroom E (Main Event) Chattanooga Convention Center 1 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37403
  Main Program, Event
 

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