October 3-5, 2008
Crowne Plaza Hotel Detroit Metro Airport Romulus, Michigan USA
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Authors
Tiffany Aaron
By day, I'm a mild-mannered Assistant Curator at my local museum. By night, I'm a fallen angel or anything I want to be. That's the wonderful thing about writing or reading for that matter, I can become people I'd never dream of being in real life. Day dreaming as a child got me in trouble, but now that I'm an adult, it gets me in trouble in a good way.
Anne Harris
Anne Harris writes science fiction, fantasy and, as Jessica Freely, m/m romance. Her novels include Accidental Creatures, which won the Spectrum Award for glbt sf, and Inventing Memory, a Book Sense Pick. Her short story, "Still Life with Boobs," was a 2005 Nebula Award finalist. She also mentors grad students in Seton Hill University's Writing Popular Fiction program.
Webpage Link: friskbiskit.com
Sarah Zettel
Merrie Haskell
Merrie Haskell began writing because her early heroes wrote: Laura Ingalls Wilder, Emily of New Moon and Jo March were all determined writers. At age eleven, she walked dogs and babysat in order to save up for her first typewriter. She feels she has always written--she just hasn't always written professionally. She wrote her first story at the age of seven but she didn't start rigorously submitting stories until she was twenty-seven. She sold her first short story for copies that first year. Since then, she has sold fiction to Asimov's, Strange Horizons, Electric Velocipede, Escape Pod, PodCastle and other venues. See http://www.merriehaskell.com for more.
Daniel J. Hogan
Michigan native Daniel J. Hogan is the author of the fantasy-comedy-adventure novel, The Magic of Eyri, which he describes as "Wizard of Oz meets Monty Python and the Holy Grail." He is currently working on the next Magic of Eyri book in between writing short stories and shamelessly promoting himself at conventions across the state. His non-writing interests include film, animation and teaching kittens to play ping-pong.
Tracy Chowdhury
In 1975 Tracy was born in the small town of Tunkhannock, Pennsylvania. She was the oldest of five siblings, all of whom are boys. She spent much of her early childhood in imaginary play, always fascinated by the possibility of magic and intrigued by dragons, fairies, unicorns and other mystical things. She developed a love for reading and it wasn’t long before she began to write her own short stories. Mostly they focused on the extraordinary . . . be it fact, fiction, or somewhere in between. As she continued to grow in her talent and mature as a woman, the stories became ever more complex and the scenarios developed depth.
In 1998 Tracy graduated from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio with a degree in Zoology (science is a love second only to writing). Later in the same year she got married to her college sweetheart. It was around that time that she entered an AD&D campaign with a good friend by the name of Ted Mark Crim. She began to write down the details of his campaign, and such was how she began to write her first novel, Shadow Over Shandahar – Child of Prophecy.
Currently Tracy lives in Cincinnati, Ohio with her husband, four children, and hairless cat. She works in the field of molecular biology for the university and is in the midst of writing the second duology in the Chronicles of Shandahar series with help from her co-author . . . none other than the esteemed Mr. Crim. The tentative release date for the third novel is planned to be in early 2009.
Michael Poe
Michael LaFlamme and Michael Poe have known each other for over thirty years. In that time they have been fast food cooks, waiters, actors, students, patients, husbands, husbands again, maintenance engineers, assemblers, comedians (so they claim), pirates (Really! They were taking applications!), video and shoe store managers (please kill us now), delivery drivers, bartenders, airport security during the first Gulf war, and band camp janitors (ew). Having tried every other dirty job, they figured they might as well try being authors. Michael Poe lives near Detroit.
Webpage link: www.BLACKSENT.com and www.blacksent.deviantart.com
Michael A. LaFlamme
Michael LaFlamme and Michael Poe have known each other for over thirty years. In that time they have been fast food cooks, waiters, actors, students, patients, husbands, husbands again, maintenance engineers, assemblers, comedians (so they claim), pirates (Really! They were taking applications!), video and shoe store managers (please kill us now), delivery drivers, bartenders, airport security during the first Gulf war, and band camp janitors (ew). Having tried every other dirty job, they figured they might as well try being authors. Michael LaFlamme lives in Ann Arbor.
Webpage link: www.BLACKSENT.com and www.blacksent.deviantart.com
Matthew Keaton
M. Keaton was born human but managed to overcome his handicap to become a theoretical nuclear chemist and skilled author with nearly three decades of experience. In addition to his technical writing, he writes fiction across four different genres and three age groups. Further details may be found on his website.
Webpage link: http://archangelpress.net/Cover.htm
William Jones
William Jones writes across genres many genres. He has edited several fiction anthologies and magazines. His work also reaches into the role-playing industry, where he has published role-playing books. William's latest fiction work is The Strange Cases of Rudolph Pearson. His upcoming novel Voodoo Virus is scheduled for release later this year. When not writing fiction, teaches English at a university in Michigan
Webpage link: www.williamjoneswriter.com
Rick Moore
Steven Climer
A member of the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI) Steven Lee Climer lives in Metropolitan Detroit, and is also a PhD student at Wayne State University studying English Composition. Considered an expert in Children's Literature, Creative Writing, and Composition, he is also a professor of English at Baker College of Allen Park, MI and has been an adjunct instructor of Composition at Wayne County Community College.
Steven is also the inventor of the revolutionary educational card game system called PlayIt4Word© (patent-pending). PlayIt4Word is great for learning parts of speech in a fun way, and is great for ESL, basic writers, K-12, first year composition, and community literacy programs.
Steven is also the founder and developer of Spookytown Books and Gifts http://www.spookytownbooks.com – an online bookstore focused on sci-fi, fantasy, and horror for children and young adults.
He has sold the motion picture rights of his novel Demonesque to After Dark Productions, and is the recipient of several honors including the Darrell Award, Eppie for Best Horror Novel 2000, and 1997 finalist for Best First Novel from the International Horror Guild for the classic dark fantasy Dream Thieves (ISBN: 978-0-7599-0471-2).
Steven is the author of the critically-acclaimed children's fantasy series Pieces of the World (M: ISBN: 978-1931095532; Infinite Keep: ISBN: 978-1931095631; Lighthouse Rock: ISBN: 978-1931095877) from Silver Lake Publishing. His latest children’s fantasy novel Once Upon a Halloween Night will be published in August 2008 by Hardshell Word Factory (www.hardshell.com).
Samuel Travis Clemmons
The business card for Samuel Travis Clemmons lists him as an Author - Lecturer - Philosopher - Time Traveler - Public Nuisance - Sometime Ne'er Do Well. The man claims to be an "Alternate Reality Counterpart" of the man that everyone knows as Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens). Yes this is all a load of bullfeathers ... But you've got to start a biography somewhere.
The man who created the character of Samuel Travis Clemmons was born and raised in Central Kentucky. Being someone who loves an intricately woven tall tale (the more absurd the better) he wrote and began performing a comedy routine called Marc Twain: The Time Traveler. In order to keep his storytelling from being railroaded into following the actual events of Mark Twain's life, he decided it would be best to create a fictional Marc Twain who had been born in an alternate realm of existence.
So if a friend tells you that he's headed to a science fiction convention to meet Marc Twain ... Ask him to spell the first name before you call him a liar.