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3:00pm EDT

Signing: Mark MacDicken/Gail Z. Martin

Signing

Guests

Mark MacDicken

Performing Artist, Flabbergast the Wizard

Gail Z. Martin

Literary Guest

Gail Z. Martin is the author of Scourge: A Darkhurst Novel, from Solaris Books. Gail is also the author of Vendetta: A Deadly Curiosities Novel and Trifles and Folly 1: A Deadly Curiosities Collection, the latest in her urban fantasy series set in Charleston, SC; Shadow and Flame is the fourth... Read More →

Friday July 15, 2016 3:00pm - 4:00pm EDT
Salon A (Signings)

4:00pm EDT

Signing: Darin Kennedy/Stephen Mark Rainey

Signing

Guests

Darin Kennedy

Author

Darin Kennedy, born and raised in Winston-Salem, NC, is a graduate of Wake Forest University and Bowman Gray School of Medicine. After completing family medicine residency in the mountains of Virginia, he served eight years as a United States Army physician and wrote his first novel... Read More →

Stephen Mark Rainey

Stephen Mark Rainey is the author of the novels Balak, The Lebo Coven, Dark Shadows: Dreams of the Dark (with Elizabeth Massie), The Nightmare Frontier, Blue Devil Island, The Monarchs, and others, including five novels for mid-grade readers in Elizabeth Massie's Ameri-Scares series... Read More →

Friday July 15, 2016 4:00pm - 5:00pm EDT
Salon A (Signings)

5:00pm EDT

Signing: JR Ralls

Signing

Guests

JR Ralls

JR Ralls is the writer and executive producer of Dark Dungeons (www.darkdungeonsthemovie.com ). JR says “making that film was one of the greatest experiences of my life. I funded it through Kickstarter and worked very hard to make sure all my backers got their rewards. As far as I can tell, each of them was satisfied with the movie I produced for them and I hope to get the... Read More →

Friday July 15, 2016 5:00pm - 6:00pm EDT
Salon A (Signings)

6:00pm EDT

Signing: Karen McCullough/Maya Preisler

Signing

Guests

Karen McCullough

Karen McCullough’s wide-ranging imagination makes her incapable of sticking to one genre for her storytelling. As a result, she’s the author of more than a dozen published novels and novellas, which span the mystery, fantasy, paranormal, and romantic suspense genres. A former... Read More →

Maya Preisler

Artist Guest, Geek Life

Maya Preisler has been creating art and telling stories since they were old enough to hold a pen, writing and illustrating their first science fiction novel at age eight. Maya is the proud author of a genre-bending spec fic novel and a short story in Corvid-19. Their artwork graces... Read More →

Friday July 15, 2016 6:00pm - 7:00pm EDT
Salon A (Signings)

10:00am EDT

Signing: David B. Coe/Edward McKeown

Signing

Guests

David B. Coe

Author, Editor, Writing

Biography of David B. Coe David B. Coe/D.B. Jackson is the author of more than two dozen novels and as many short stories. As D.B. Jackson (http://www.DBJackson-Author.com), he is the author of the Thieftaker Chronicles, a series set in pre-Revolutionary Boston that combines elements... Read More →

Edward McKeown

Edward McKeown escaped from NY, but his old hometown supplies much of the background to his humorous “Lair of the Lesbian Love Goddess” shorts, as his new hometown in Charlotte, North Carolina does for his Knight Templar urban fantasy series. He enjoys a wide variety of interests... Read More →

Saturday July 16, 2016 10:00am - 11:00am EDT
Salon A (Signings)

11:00am EDT

Signing: Steven Barnes

Signing

Guests

Steven Barnes

Writer Guest of Honor

Steven Barnes has published almost thirty novels and over three million words of science fiction and fantasy. He’s been nominated for Hugo, Nebula, and Cable Ace awards. While his television work includes Twilight Zone, Stargate SG1 and Andromeda, his “A Stitch In Time” episode... Read More →

Saturday July 16, 2016 11:00am - 12:00pm EDT
Salon A (Signings)

12:00pm EDT

Signing: Nicole Given Kurtz/Cheralyn Lambeth

Signing

Guests

Nicole Givens Kurtz

Speculative pulp author, Nicole Givens Kurtz, writes science fiction, fantasy, and horror. Her most popular work, futuristic pulp series, Cybil Lewis blends whodunit mysteries within futuristic, post-apocalyptic world-building. Her novels have been named as finalists in the Fresh... Read More →

Cheralyn Lambeth

Cheralyn likes to refer to herself as a "movie fan who went pro," crediting her work in the film/TV/entertainment industry to her early love of Star Wars. After a brief stint in the Air Force Reserve, she went on to study drama and Radio/Television/Motion Pictures at the University... Read More →

Saturday July 16, 2016 12:00pm - 1:00pm EDT
Salon A (Signings)

1:00pm EDT

Signing: Stephen Mark Rainey/Michael G. Williams

Signing

Guests

Stephen Mark Rainey

Stephen Mark Rainey is the author of the novels Balak, The Lebo Coven, Dark Shadows: Dreams of the Dark (with Elizabeth Massie), The Nightmare Frontier, Blue Devil Island, The Monarchs, and others, including five novels for mid-grade readers in Elizabeth Massie's Ameri-Scares series... Read More →

Michael G. Williams

Literary Guest

Michael G. Williams writes queer-themed science fiction, urban fantasy, and horror celebrating monsters, macabre humor, and subverted expectations. He’s the author of three series for Falstaff Books: the award-winning vampire/urban fantasy series The Withrow Chronicles; the th... Read More →

Saturday July 16, 2016 1:00pm - 2:00pm EDT
Salon A (Signings)

2:00pm EDT

Signings: Jennifer McCollom/JR Ralls

Signing

Guests

Jennifer McCollom

Professional make-up artist, Jennifer McCollom has worked on feature films and television shows. Her film credits include The Hunger Games, Taking Liberty, The Conjuring, Leatherheads, Talladega Nights, The Box, the Oscar nominated June Bug, MAX, and most recently The Disappointment... Read More →

JR Ralls

JR Ralls is the writer and executive producer of Dark Dungeons (www.darkdungeonsthemovie.com ). JR says “making that film was one of the greatest experiences of my life. I funded it through Kickstarter and worked very hard to make sure all my backers got their rewards. As far as I can tell, each of them was satisfied with the movie I produced for them and I hope to get the... Read More →

Saturday July 16, 2016 2:00pm - 3:00pm EDT
Salon A (Signings)

3:00pm EDT

Signing: AJ Hartley/Stuart Jaffe

Guests

A.J. Hartley

Special Literary Guest

A.J. Hartley is the international and NY Times bestselling author of a dozen novels including the mystery/thrillers THE MASK OF ATREUS, ON THE FIFTH DAY, WHAT TIME DEVOURS and TEARS OF THE JAGUAR and the young adult fantasy adventures ACT OF WILL and WILL POWER. The first of his Darwen... Read More →

Stuart Jaffe

Stuart Jaffe is the author of The Max Porter Paranormal-Mysteries, The Malja Chronicles post-apocalyptic fantasy series, The Bluesman pulp series, and much more including the stand alone novels FOUNDERS and REAL MAGIC. His short stories have been collected in 10 BITS OF MY BRAIN and... Read More →

Saturday July 16, 2016 3:00pm - 4:00pm EDT
Salon A (Signings)

4:00pm EDT

Signing: Janine Spendlove/Angela Pritchett

Guests

Angela Pritchett

Angela Pritchett is a costumer, author, youtube host, special fx makeup artist, actor, and educator. She has a degree in music education and a masters degree in Ethnomusicology, where she focused on Japanese Pop music and culture in America.She writes short fiction for adults and... Read More →

Janine K. Spendlove

Janine K. Spendlove is a KC-130 pilot in the United States Marine Corps. In the writing world, she is an award winning author primarily known for her War of the Seasons fantasy series. She has several short stories published in various speculative fiction anthologies, to include... Read More →

Saturday July 16, 2016 4:00pm - 5:00pm EDT
Salon A (Signings)

5:00pm EDT

Signing: Samantha Bryant/Alexandra Christian

Signing

Guests

Samantha Bryant

Teacher Foreign Languages, Orange County Schools

I've been a teacher for 26 years in Alaska, Kansas, Kentucky, and North Carolina, working with students from 6th grade through college in English, Spanish, Drama, and Technology (and even Chorus, once). At ALS, I teach Spanish via technology. Besides teaching, I write. I'm a novelist... Read More →

Alexandra Christian

Literary Guest, Writing

Alexandra Christian is an author of mostly romance with a speculative slant. Her love of Stephen King and sweet tea has flavored her fiction with a Southern Gothic sensibility that reeks of Spanish moss and deep-fried eccentricity. Her guiding principle as a romance novelist has always... Read More →

Saturday July 16, 2016 5:00pm - 6:00pm EDT
Salon A (Signings)

10:00am EDT

Signing: Edward McKeown/Angela Pritchett

Signing

Guests

Edward McKeown

Edward McKeown escaped from NY, but his old hometown supplies much of the background to his humorous “Lair of the Lesbian Love Goddess” shorts, as his new hometown in Charlotte, North Carolina does for his Knight Templar urban fantasy series. He enjoys a wide variety of interests... Read More →

Angela Pritchett

Angela Pritchett is a costumer, author, youtube host, special fx makeup artist, actor, and educator. She has a degree in music education and a masters degree in Ethnomusicology, where she focused on Japanese Pop music and culture in America.She writes short fiction for adults and... Read More →

Sunday July 17, 2016 10:00am - 11:00am EDT
Salon A (Signings)

11:00am EDT

Signing: Gail Z. Martin/Karen McCullough

Signing

Guests

Gail Z. Martin

Literary Guest

Gail Z. Martin is the author of Scourge: A Darkhurst Novel, from Solaris Books. Gail is also the author of Vendetta: A Deadly Curiosities Novel and Trifles and Folly 1: A Deadly Curiosities Collection, the latest in her urban fantasy series set in Charleston, SC; Shadow and Flame is the fourth... Read More →

Karen McCullough

Karen McCullough’s wide-ranging imagination makes her incapable of sticking to one genre for her storytelling. As a result, she’s the author of more than a dozen published novels and novellas, which span the mystery, fantasy, paranormal, and romantic suspense genres. A former... Read More →

Sunday July 17, 2016 11:00am - 12:00pm EDT
Salon A (Signings)

12:00pm EDT

Signing: Steven Barnes

Signing

Guests

Steven Barnes

Writer Guest of Honor

Steven Barnes has published almost thirty novels and over three million words of science fiction and fantasy. He’s been nominated for Hugo, Nebula, and Cable Ace awards. While his television work includes Twilight Zone, Stargate SG1 and Andromeda, his “A Stitch In Time” episode... Read More →

Sunday July 17, 2016 12:00pm - 1:00pm EDT
Salon A (Signings)

1:00pm EDT

Signing: Darin Kennedy/David B. Coe

Signing

Guests

David B. Coe

Author, Editor, Writing

Biography of David B. Coe David B. Coe/D.B. Jackson is the author of more than two dozen novels and as many short stories. As D.B. Jackson (http://www.DBJackson-Author.com), he is the author of the Thieftaker Chronicles, a series set in pre-Revolutionary Boston that combines elements... Read More →

Darin Kennedy

Author

Darin Kennedy, born and raised in Winston-Salem, NC, is a graduate of Wake Forest University and Bowman Gray School of Medicine. After completing family medicine residency in the mountains of Virginia, he served eight years as a United States Army physician and wrote his first novel... Read More →

Sunday July 17, 2016 1:00pm - 2:00pm EDT
Salon A (Signings)