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Due to professional commitments, the following previously confirmed guests will not be able to attend Dragon*Con this year:

• Tee Morris

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Note: Recent additions are marked with a » (within 7 days) or a » (within 14 days).

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• Doktor A
  Raised by the military and monitored by men in white coats until he was 16. Doktor A has always scribbled monsters.

• Lynn Abbey
  Lynn Abbey's first novel, DAUGHTER OF THE BRIGHT MOON, was published in 1978. Since then she's published more than two dozen novels . She is also responsible for the creation and resurrection of THIEVES' WORLD. She is currently working on a trilogy set in Florida.

• D. A. Adams
  D. A. Adams is the author of "The Brotherhood of Dwarves" and "Red Sky at Dawn" and has served 10+ years as an English Instructor. He was a programming guest at MidSouthCon, ConNooga, ChattaCon, AdventureCon, and numerous festivals. He is knowledgeable and fan-centered on panels with an excellent radio voice/personality.

• Karen Allen
  Karen Jane Allen is an American actress, best known for her role as Marion Ravenwood in Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981). Allen has also had roles in the films National Lampoon's Animal House (1978), The Wanderers (1979), Split Image (1982), Starman (1984), Scrooged (1988), The Sandlot (1993), Poster Boy (2004), and Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008), where she reprised her role as Marion Ravenwood.

• Richard L. Altstatt
  Richard “Hawk” Altstatt produces radiation models and performs radiation effects engineering for military and civilian purposes. He has four degrees in “fire” and is widely published on radiation topics. He is an Eagle Claw sensei, an excellent swordsman, and an expert on fire. Follow his Mad Science at madsci.us

• Lou Anders
  A 2008/2007 Hugo Award nominee, 2007 Chesley Award nominee and 2006 World Fantasy Award nominee, Lou Anders is the editorial director of the SF&F imprint Pyr (www.pyrsf.com), and seven critically-acclaimed anthologies. The author of The Making of Star Trek: First Contact and over 500 articles. www.pyrsf.com

• Kevin J. Anderson
  Kevin J Anderson has published over 100 novels, 46 of which have been national or international bestsellers; he is best known for his DUNE books with Brian Herbert, Star Wars novels, and his own "Saga of Seven Suns" and THE EDGE OF THE WORLD.

• Zachary William Anderson
  Zachary Anderson is the dean and inventor of Mad Scientist University, a card game published by Atlas Games. Mad Scientist University has been nominated for "party game of the year" by Games Magazine, and Zachary and Atlas are working together to put "Spring Break" out by spring of 2009.

• ArcAttack        Musical
  ArcAttack are those one guys with the giant musical lightning machines, and an uncanny ability to please crowds to a degree previously unheard of on mankind's planet earth.

• »Ben Armstrong
  This twisted horror show host has an Emmy nomination for Tales from 6 Feet Under and a Telly Award for The True NETHERWORLD Story of the Harvestman. In recent years he has hosted many events and spent his spare time creating evil scenarios and vile experiences for NETHERWORLD Haunted House.

• Heidi Arnhold
  Heidi Arnhold is the illustrator for Tokyopop's "Legends of the Dark Crystal", which hit shelves in November 2007. Since then she has also contributed to "Star Trek Uchu"(also published by Tokyopop).

• Catherine Ann Asaro
  Catherine Asaro is a bestselling writer and dancer/singer. Winner of the Nebula® for THE QUANTUM ROSE, she has twenty-four novels out. Her upcoming book, DIAMOND STAR(Baen), is about a rockstar in the future. Starflight-Music is releasing the book's soundtrack, Diamond Star, by the band Point Valid.

• Atlanta Radio Theatre Company        Theatrical
  The Atlanta Radio Theatre Company performs, records, and broadcasts dramatic audio -- fully dramatized, fully sound-scaped audio drama. We like to think that what we do is classic "old-time radio", as it would sound with today's technology and dramatic techniques.

• Attaboy
  Attaboy is an internationally shown artist, creator and toy designer whose work is seen in galleries, museums, toy boutiques, magazines (Newsweek, Wired, Juxtapoz, Clutter, Playtimes, etc.), calendars, and art books. After years of creating, recreating, and inventing award-winning and best selling toys for Hasbro and Milton Bradley, he went AWOL to create his own art and licensing studio.

• Ayria        Musical
  Ayria shakes the foundation of typical industrial-electro scene mixing femininity, old-school industrial, harsh electro, gothic Loltia and cyber punk. Ayria toured the U.S.A. in 2007 and 2008 supporting THE CRUXSHADOWS and COMBICHRIST, then Europe, Russia, Mexico and Japan. 2008 release "Hearts For Bullets" reveals iconic Ayria sound: intense electronic infectious hooks.

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• Catherine Bach
  In the 1970s, she had roles in the Matt Helm television series and in Thunderbolt and Lightfoot.
  
  In 1979, Catherine shot to notoriety as Daisy Duke on the original series The Dukes of Hazzard. After the "Dukes," she appeared in films Cannonball Run 2, Nutt House, and in TV series African Skies.

• Christina Barber
  Christina Barber is an award-winning author of speculative fiction works noted for their dark tones. Her works focus on the paranormal and dark forces of evil. Published books: Seely's Pond (Dark Urban Fantasy, April 2008), Spirits of Georgia's Southern Crescent(Non-Fiction, August 2008) and Greystone (2006 Speculative Romance).

• C. Kevin Barrett
  Dr. Barrett lectures on Biological and Forensic Anthropology at the Ohio State University and several other colleges in Ohio. His current research focuses on estimating developmental stress in prehistoric populations from North America and Europe, including Neandertals. His short fiction has appeared in magazines in Europe and the United States.

• Jeremy A. Bastian
  Jeremy Bastian is the creator, writer, and illustrator of Cursed Pirate Girl. A six issue story arc, with thirty six pages per issue coming out through Olympian Publishing this April.

• Davey Beauchamp
  Davey Beauchamp is the author of the Agency 32 series, Amazing Pulp Adventures and the Writers for Relief Charity Anthology Series. And is the creator of the award nominatted podcast Amazing Pulp Advenutres Radio Show.

• Trace Beaulieu
  Trace Beaulieu was a founding writer/performer on "Mystery Science Theater 3000" (MST3K) , playing Dr. Forrester and Crow" for the show's first seven seasons as well as the feature film version of MST.

• Bedlam Bards        Musical
  Loud, foot-stomping, beer-swilling, laugh-your-ass-off Celtic music inspired by Firefly, Battlestar Galactica, piracy, and of course, traditional Irish drinking binges. We're best known as the premier bards of the Browncoat movement, but we've also been named Renfaire Band of the Year.

• Michelle Belanger
  One of the most recognizable experts on vampires today, Michelle Belanger has appeared on HBO documentaries associated with True Blood, as well as shows on the History Channel, XYTV, and A&E. An author on numerous books on the paranormal, she is also a regular guest on "Paranormal State."

• Dirk Benedict
  Dirk Benedict is an American movie, television and stage actor, perhaps best known for playing the characters Lieutenant Templeton "Faceman" Peck in The A-Team television series and Lieutenant Starbuck in the original Battlestar Galactica film and television series.

• Julie Benz
  Star of cult classics such as "Buffy the Vampire Slayer," "Angel," and "Roswell," Benz has never been one to shy away from the challenging roles, and has continued her streak as a serial thriller alongside Sylvester Stallone in 2008's most anticipated action film, RAMBO.

• Bob Bergen
  Bob Bergen is an American voice actor. He is the current voice of Porky Pig (having performed the character in Tiny Toon Adventures, Space Jam, Looney Tunes: Back in Action, and the Duck Dodgers TV show), and formerly hosted Jep!, a kids' version of the popular game show Jeopardy!

• »Steve Berman
  Steve Berman's fantastical editing and writing endeavors have earned him nominations for the Andre Norton Award, Gaylactic Spectrum Award, and Lambda Literary Awards. His gothic YA novel, Vintage, was on the Rainbow List sponsored by the American Library Associations GLBT-Roundtable.

• »Pierre Bernard
  Pierre Bernard Graphic Artist from late Night with Conan O'Brien known for the Recliner of Rage. As well as other comedy appearances on the show.

• Mark F. Berry
  A writer-historian on classic sci-fi, fantasy, and horror movies and the fascinating people behind them, Mark authored The Dinosaur Filmography, the critically acclaimed definitive history of dino-cinema. His revealing interviews and retrospectives continue to feature in Video Watchdog, Filmfax, Monsters from the Vault, HorrorShow, Prehistoric Times, and more.

• Michael Connell Biehn
  Michael Connell Biehn (born July 31, 1956) is an American actor. He is best known for his roles in the Hollywood science fiction-action films such as The Terminator, Aliens and The Abyss.

• »Gina Biggs
  Gina Biggs is the creator of the romance webcomic, Red String. The series is published by Dark Horse Comics. Gina also runs the all-female indy press group, Strawberry Comics, which focuses on tales of love and romance.

• John Billingsley
  John Billingsley is an American actor, known for a number of memorable TV and film characters, perhaps his most notable being the role of Doctor Phlox on the television series Star Trek: Enterprise.

• Dee Bitner
  Dee Bitner is a certified hypnotist, a HypnoBirthing practitioner, an NLP pratictitioner, and a geek from a long line of geeks. She has explored the place hypnosis enjoys in roleplay and loves to explain and demonstrate the fun hypnosis can be to new audiences.

• Claudia Black
  Claudia Black is best known for her portrayals of Aeryn Sun and Vala Mal Doran in the science fiction television series Farscape and Stargate SG-1 respectively.

• Dr. Bob Blackwood
  Dr. Bob Blackwood, former president of the International Press Club of Chicago, is a photojournalist and webmaster for his union. He and Dr. John Flynn authored: Future Prime: The Top Ten Science Fiction Films, published 2006. Blackwood is the film critic for the Columbia River Reader, distributed in Oregon and Washington.

• Jennifer Blanc
  Blanc joined the cast of Party of Five as Kate Bishop.She has worked on movies/TV films such as Dead Men Can't Dance and The Ride.She landed the role of Kendra on Dark Angel, starring Jessica Alba.Jennifer has continued to act in various tv shows/indie films.

• Darlene Bolesny
  Darlene Bolesny’s first book was published in 1996, but the publisher could not publish the rest of the series. Her longtime friend and business mentor, Robert Asprin, told her not to give up; he was right. DarkStar Publishing is now publishing the entire series!

• M H Bonham
  MH ("Maggie") Bonham is the multiple award-winning author of some 30 books including six fantasy novels: Prophecy of Swords, Runestone of Teiwas, Lachlei, Howling Dead, The King’s Champion, and Serpent Singer and Other Stories and one anthology, WolfSongs I.

• Barry Bostwick
  From 1996 to 2002, Bostwick portrayed Randall Winston, the Mayor of New York City in the sitcom Spin City opposite Michael J. Fox and his successor, Charlie Sheen. Since 2004, Bostwick has had a recurring role on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.  Barry has appeared in two cult classics, portraying "Brad" in "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" and as "Commander Ace Hunter" in "Mega Force."

• Bruce Boxleitner
  Bruce Boxleitner is an American actor and science fiction writer. He is best known for his leading roles in the television series How the West Was Won, Bring 'Em Back Alive, Scarecrow and Mrs. King (with Kate Jackson), and Babylon 5.

• Dr. John E. Bradford
  Dr. Bradford is President of SpaceWorks Engineering. His background is in space systems design with focus on advanced propulsion systems. He has served as Project Manager for numerous government sponsored programs with the DoD and NASA. He is also a part-time instructor in the School of Aerospace at Georgia Tech.

• Doug Bradley
  Doug Bradley is probably most famous for his role as Hellraiser's Pinhead - Dark Prince of Pain, Angel of Suffering, Leviathan's Lord of the Damned.

• »Jennie Breeden
  Jennie Breeden is the creator of the daily autobiographical webcomic The Devil's Panties. Over two thousand free comics online and three graphic novels in stores Jennie shares her stompy flame boots with the world.

• Dan Brereton
  Dan Brereton is an award-winning and widely acclaimed painter, illustrator, and comics writer, best known for Nocturnals. He's painted hundreds of covers and over 1,000 pages, a Rob Zombie album cover, and more.

• Bill Bridges
  Bill Bridges is a game designer at CCP/White Wolf. He is the co-creator of Holistic Design’s Fading Suns science fiction universe, and was the lead designer of the Storytelling system rules for White Wolf's World of Darkness games. He is an adviser for the Mythic Imagination Institute.

• John Bridges
  Currently a Concept Artist at CCP|White Wolf, JohnBridges has many years of experience as an illustrator for games, comics and advertising projects.

• Mark Brooks
  Mark Brooks has been a contracted artist for Marvel Comics for the last four years, working on such titles as Marvel Age, Spider-man, Amazing Spider-man, Ultimate Spider-man, Cable and Deadpool, Uncanny X-men, and New X-Men.

• Fiona Broome
  Fiona knows ghosts. She's written three ghost books (including The Ghosts of Austin, TX). She talks about ghosts and faeries on Psychic Rock Radio, and she's the paragenealogist for the British TV series, "Cromwell's Quest." Fiona also created HollowHill.com, one of the Internet's oldest and largest ghost websites.

• Ben Browder
  Browder is best known for his role as John Crichton on Farscape and can most recently be seen in Stargate SG-1 as Lieutenant Colonel Cameron Mitchell.

• Julie Caitlin Brown
  Julie portrayed Na'Toth on the legendary SF TV series Babylon 5 but also has numerous other TV, film, and stage acting credits as well as a continuing musical career.

• Matthew J Brown
  Matthew J. Brown is an academic philosopher and professional comics scholar. He has presented at SD Comic-Con and Dragon*Con, and organized last year's Dragon-Con academic mini-conference. He was written on Watchmen, Crisis on Infinite Earths, retcons, vigilantism, and the philosophy of food.

• Lois McMaster Bujold
  Bujold is best known for her series of novels featuring Miles Vorkosigan, a physically-impaired interstellar spy and mercenary admiral from the planet Barrayar, set approximately 1000 years in our future. Bujold is one of the most acclaimed writers in her field, having won the prestigious Hugo Award for best novel four times, matching Robert A. Heinlein's record.

• Chesya Burke
  With more than 40 publishing credits, including the acclaimed Chocolate Park, Chesya Burke has made her mark in horror and fantasy. She received the Twilight Tales award and an honorable mention in the Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror. Her articles appeared in the AANB published by Harvard/Oxford University Press.

• James Burns
  James Burns is the creator of the "Grumbles" comic strip, as well as several of his own comic books, and is a contributer to many comics anthologies.

• Laura A Burns
  Laura A. Burns is an engineer on NASA's James Webb Space Telescope since 1998, most recently for the Space Telescope Science Institute. She spent the summer of 2007 in Beijing, China at the International Space University. She is an avid scifi/fantasy fan and has contributed to several podcasts.

• Patrick Burns
  Paranormal investigator and star of TRU TV's "Haunting Evidence". Founder of "Ghost Hounds" - largest paranormal network in the south east USA

• Matt Busch
  Regarded as one of the top entertainment illustrators, Matt Busch has made a career out of tapping into every expressive art imaginable, surprising even his die-hard fans what he does next.

• Tim Byrd
  Tim Byrd is the author of Doc Wilde and The Frogs of Doom, the first novel in a pulp adventure series from G.P. Putnam's Sons.

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• Ginger Campbell, MD
  Dr. Ginger Campbell is best known as the creator and host of the Brain Science Podcast, which brings neuroscience to listeners from around the world. She also explores a wide variety of interests, including science fiction, on her Books and Ideas podcast.

• Charisma Carpenter
  Carpenter is best known as Cordelia Chase in the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel.

• Luciana Carro
  Best known for portrayal of Viper pilot Louanne "Kat" Katraine on Emmy Award winning series Battlestar Galactica. Also cast in the Wayan Brothers comedy White Chicks and the thriller Two for the Money, where she worked with Al Pacino and Rene Russo. Other credits: Smallville, The L Word and Everwood.

• James Cawley
  James Cawley is "Captain Kirk", the creator, executive producer of the award winning internet series Star Trek New Voyages: Phase II. A costumer on TNG, he was given original patterns and stage blueprints, appears in the new Trek movie, and was a consultant for JJ Abrams for the same project.

• Jamie Chambers
  Jamie Chambers is a writer and game designer, most known as the author of the Serenity Role Playing Game, along with game design for Battlestar Galactica, Supernatural, Demon Hunters, and Dragonlance.

• A. C. Charania
  A.C. Charania, President of SpaceWorks Commercial, is a strategic analyst in the areas of space system engineering, space commercialization, planetary defense, and far-term space technology. He holds a M.S. and B.S. in Aerospace Engineering from Georgia Tech and a B.A. in Economics/Mathematics from Emory University.

• Sandra Anglin Chastain
  Ms. Chastain is the author of more than 50 novels. She has also had numerous short stories published. She is currently working on a paranormal novel, as well as a YA paranormal. She is a partner in BelleBooks/BelleBridge Publishing Company.

• Justin Chon
  In 2008, Chon played Eric Yorkie in the film Twilight, based on the book by Stephenie Meyer.

• Claudia Christian
  Claudia Christian is most famous for her role as Commander Susan Ivanova on the science fiction television series, Babylon 5.

• Colin Christian
  Across their galactic, fictitious and erotic universe, Sas and Colin Christian rise to the level of some of the most famous artistic couples producing their work together: Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Gilbert and George, Eva and Adele, Jean Tinguely and Niki de Saint Phalle and Claus Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen.

• Sas Christian
  Across their galactic, fictitious and erotic universe, Sas and Colin Christian rise to the level of some of the most famous artistic couples producing their work together: Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Gilbert and George, Eva and Adele, Jean Tinguely and Niki de Saint Phalle and Claus Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen.

• Freddy Clements
  Freddy Clements is currently a Professor of Drama/Faculty Costume Designer at Jacksonville State University. He has designed costumes for some of the most renowned theaters in America. On the University level he has taught courses in costume design, costume construction, and advanced stage make-up.

• John Cmar
  John Cmar, MD, is an Instructor of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University and an Infectious Diseases specialist at Sinai Hospital of Baltimore, where he helps direct the Internal Medicine residency program and teaches evidence-based medicine. He also contributes to several podcast projects, including Mur Lafferty’s The Takeover.

• Julie Cochrane
  NYT best-selling author, with John Ringo, of Cally's War, Sister Time and Honor of the Clan

• Amanda Conner
  Amanda Conner started out in comics working on small projects for Marvel and Archie. She had been working as an illustrator for New York ad agencies Kornhauser and Calene and Kidvertisers. She worked on a number of launches and campaigns such as Arm & Hammer, PlaySchool and Nickelodeon, to name a few.

• Frank Conniff
  Frank Conniff is a comedy writer and performer who began his TV career writing for the Peabody award winning Comedy Central series "Mystery Science Theater 3000" (MST3K), where he also played "TV's Frank," the bumbling yet lovable mad scientist.

• Dave Cook
  Dave Cook is a local artist, illustrator and graphic designer. He is also the creator of Splatter Comix. This retro horror magazine features gory thrills, sly humor and “a bucket of blood in every issue - guaranteed.” The title has been picked up by Diamond Distributors and the first brain-crushing issue will be splattering stores in early October.
  

• Darwyn Cooke
  Darwyn Cooke is an Eisner Award-winning comic book writer, artist, cartoonist and animator, best known for his work on the comic books Catwoman, DC: The New Frontier and The Spirit.

• Bill Corbett
  Bill Corbett is a former writer and performer for Mystery Science Theater 3000 on the Sci-Fi Channel, and previously on Comedy Central. He provided the second incarnation of the robot Crow and other strange characters, including the all-powerful but clueless alien The Observer, a.k.a. "Brain Guy."

• Crossed Swords       Swashbucklers
  Broadswords, rapiers and even batlefs clash in this dazzling display of Hollywood-style combat. Harsch and Sakuta reveal secrets and demonstrate many behind-the scenes moves that make up your favorite movie, TV and theater sword fighting stunts.

• Joe Crowe
  Joe Crowe is writer and editor for science fiction magazine RevolutionSF.com. He hosts and writes GameBits, Daily Show-style video game news for Birmingham News and AL.com. He hosts game shows at sci-fi conventions and co-wrote Assembled, a book series about Marvel Comics' Avengers.

• Cruxshadows        Musical
  From humble origins in a Northern Florida town, the Cruxshadows have risen to become internationally recognized as one of the most popular darkwave bands of all time.

• Steven William Cummings
  Steven Cummings has been working in Comics and Manga since returning to America from Japan in 2002. Since moving back he has worked with all the major publishers in American, including Marvel Comics, DC Comics, Image Comics, Devil's Due, Tokyopop, and the French publisher Humanoids.

• Carl Cunningham
  Carl Cunningham is a published writer who has been particularly involved with covering various aspects of genre fandom for several years. He is also the co-author of two soon-to-be published travel guides and has various potential film, TV, and graphic novel projects in the works

• Colin Cunningham
  AKA 'Major Davis' on Stargate SG-1, Colin Cunningham is one of the busiest actors working today. He's co-starred with Arnold Schwarzennegger in THE 6th DAY and with Jennifer Garner in ELEKTRA. Currently starring as Brian Curtis on DAVINCI'S INQUEST, Colin is currently working with James Cromwell in the mini-series IMPACT.

• Larry D. Curtis
  A journalist known as MrCere at TheOneRing.net, is an event organizer and advocate for fans of books, film, and games, especially those involved in the works of J.R.R. Tolkien.

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• Jeremy Dale
  Jeremy Dale is a comic book artist most known for his work on G.I. Joe comics for Hasbro with creator Larry Hama as well as the 2008 Harvey Award-winning Popgun v.1 from Image Comics. He is a featured guest at several shows every year.

• Bruce Davison
  Bruce Davison is an Academy Award-nominated American actor and director, who is perhaps most notable as Senator and antagonist Robert Kelly in the X-Men series.

• Felicia Day
  Felicia can be seen online in Joss Whedon's Internet musical "Dr. Horrible's Sing-a-long Blog" and the web series "The Guild," which she created, writes and stars in. TV and film appearances include "House," "Strong Medicine," "Monk," "Buffy the Vampire Slayer," "Bring it on Again" and "Warm Springs."

• Aaron Armand de Orive
  Aaron's video game writing credits include Anarchy Online, Star Wars Galaxies, Tabula Rasa, Metroid Prime 3: Corruption, and the upcoming Star Wars: The Old Republic. Aaron is also the creator of the fantasy role-playing game SHARD: World of the False Dawn.

• Keith R.A. DeCandido
  Keith R.A. DeCandido (kradical.livejournal.com) is a writer, editor, anthologist, musician, podcaster, critic, essayist, blogger, and martial artist. His recent and upcoming work includes Star Trek: A Singular Destiny, the Farscape comic book (written with Rockne O'Bannon), the StarCraft: Ghost Academy manga series, and StarCraft: Ghost: Spectres.

• Brian Denham
  Brian Denham is the artist of The X-Files and StarCraft comic books from Wildstorm/DC Comics. His credits also include Star Trek, Iron Man: Hypervelocity, Nova, and Thunderbolts.

• Anna DeStefano
  Anna DeStefano is a best selling author of romantic suspense and paranormal romantic suspense for Harlequin, Silhouette and Dorchester Publishing. The Past Presidet Advisor for Georgia Romance Writers, a group of 300 authors that meets monthly in Atlanta, GA, Anna's published 11 novels since 2004, in over six different languages.

• Paul Dini
  Paul Dini is the multiple Eisner Award-winning writer of Batman Adventures and producer/writer of the Batman and Superman animated television series.

• »DJ Catt Ninetails        DJ
  DJ Catt Ninetails has spun at The Labyrinth Ball, Mobicon, Frolicon, The NOBLE New Years Fetish ball, and several other southern events.

• »DJ Nemesis        DJ
  DJ Nemesis has appeared at: Dragon Con, Imagicon, The Crimson Web, Phobia, Kink
  
  Patrol, Purgatory [Charlotte, NC], Black List [Club La Vela], and Sleep
  
  When You're Dead [Birmingham, AL] to name just a few. Don't fear the
  
  temptation, it only takes one bite: Industrial/EBM/Synthpop /Goth/
  
  Whatever.

• Lexa Doig
  Lexa Doig is a Canadian actress best known for her role as Rommie in the science fiction TV series, Andromeda.

• Linda L. Donahue
  Linda’s stories can be found in nearly twenty anthologies including Sword & Sorceress 23. She coauthored a story with Mike Resnick in Future Americas and recently sold a story to Esther Friesner’s Strip Mauled. Her novel, Jaguar Moon, will be released in April from Yard Dog Press.

• Elizabeth Donald
  Elizabeth Donald is a writer fond of things that go chomp in the night. She writes the Nocturnal Urges vampire mystery series and is a three-time winner of the Darrell Award. By day, she is a newspaper reporter and pop-culture blogger. Her next project is THE DREADMIRE CHRONICLES.

• Aaron Douglas
  Aaron Douglas, best known for his portrayal of Chief Galen Tyrol on Battlestar Galactica , is now moving on to his new show called The Bridge where he stars as Frank Leo, big city police officer turned president of the police association.

• Carole Nelson Douglas
  Douglas's 54 genre-crossing novels include SF/F, mystery, and romance bestsellers. Her 50-some writing awards include a NYT Notable Book of the Year. Current: the Midnight Louie feline PI and Irene Adler Sherlockian mystery series; the breakout Delilah Street, Paranormal Investigator, urban fantasy series (Dancing with Werewolves, Brimstone Kiss).

• »Kathleen Duey
  Kathleen Duey has published 72 books for kids and teens with S&S and Penguin. She speaks worldwide at schools, writer's conferences, and book events. Skin Hunger, first of the Resurrection of Magic trilogy, was a National Book Award Finalist and featured in Locus. Sacred Scars, volume two, releases August 2009.

• Elonka Dunin
  Elonka Dunin, author of "The Mammoth Book of Secret Codes and Cryptograms," and creator of the "Famous Unsolved Codes" and "Kryptos" websites, is also a Wikipedia administrator, and General Manager of Online Community at Simutronics Corporation, creators of the legendary online game GemStone and several others.

• Brian Dunning
  Brian Dunning is the host and producer of Skeptoid, one of the Top 5 science podcasts, with a weekly audience of over 60,000 listeners. He is also the executive producer and host of "The Skeptologists" and "Truth Hurts" television pilots.

• Talon Dunning
  Talon Dunning is a fantasy illustrator who's been working in the roleplaying game industry for over a decade. His credits include Star Wars, Ravenloft, Mage The Awakening, Mutants & Masterminds and many others.

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• »Carlos East
  Carlos and Ernesto East continue to make paintings, illustrations, and sculptures in their secret jungle laboratories located in Mexico City, Miami, and New York. Through the years this royal pair have used their mighty twin powers to create memorable works for NIKE, KIDROBOT, REEBOK, BACARDI, and VANS.

• Bob Eggleton
  Bob Eggleton is a science fiction, fantasy, and horror artist. Eggleton has been honored with the Hugo Award for Best Professional Artist eight times, first winning in 1994. He has also won the Chesley Award for Artistic Achievement in 1999 and was the guest of honor at Chicon 2000. 

• Josh Elder
  Josh Elder is the creator of the nationally syndicated comic strip and graphic novel series "Mail Order Ninja." He has also authored stories for "StarCraft: Frontline" and "The Batman Strikes." He is also CEO of ComicFeast, a digital comics distribution solution set to launch in the summer of '09.

• Egg Embry
  Egg Embry has written and/or edited comics for Arcana Studio [ANT, Ezra], Viper Comics [Dead@17] and Th3rd World Studio [Omega Chase]. As well as writing he has stepped up to producing art for the series Global Freezing at ComicsByEgg.com and producing The Burner for 4Js Publishing.

• Emerald Rose        Musical
  Emerald Rose continues to produce and perform their trademark blend of smart, quirky Celtic-inspired Folk Rock, announcing a new live release of recent material for Fall 2009. The band is also producing a retrospective DVD scheduled for release in 2010.

• John Everson
  John Everson is the Bram Stoker Award-winning author of the horror novels COVENANT, SACRIFICE and the upcoming THE 13TH, all in paperback from Leisure Books. He's also the publisher of Dark Arts Books, a digital bookcover artist and former syndicated pop music columnist with a weakness for The Pussycat Dolls.

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• Peter Facinelli
  Most recently, Facinelli joined the cast of the highly anticipated feature film 'Twilight" as Dr. Carlisle Cullen, the patriarch of the mysterious 'vampire' family, living in the small town of Forks, WA.

• Faith And The Muse        Musical
  Amidst a diverse musical background ranging from Dark Alternative Rock and Electronica to World Music & Neo-Classical, to Jazz, Avant Garde and Folk, Faith And The Muse provide one of the rarest experiences in art, theater and music.

• Sean Patrick Fannon
  Sean Patrick Fannon is the author and creator of the 2008 Origins-nominated Shaintar: Immortal Legends and is the Marketing/PR Manager for DriveThruRPG and RPGNow. He has over two decades of experience in RPGs and gaming, including work with GAMA, Hero Games, and writing The Fantasy Roleplaying Gamer's Bible.

• Bill Fawcett
  Bill has been a professor, teacher, corporate executive, and college dean. He is one of the founders of Mayfair Games, a board and role play gaming company. As a book packager, a person who prepares series of books from concept to production for major publishers, his company Bill Fawcett & Associates has packaged over 250 titles for virtually every major publisher.

• Tom Felton
  Tom Felton is an English actor and singer. He is best known for playing the role of Draco Malfoy in the Harry Potter film series, the movie adaptations of the best-selling Harry Potter fantasy novels by author J. K. Rowling.

• Susan Fichtelberg
  Susan Fichtelberg is the author of Encountering Enchantment: A Guide to Speculative Fiction for Teens and with Bonnie Kunzel, the co-author of Tamora Pierce: Teen Reads Student Companion to Young Adult. Literature. She regularly presents programs on fantasy and science fiction for children and teens at state and national conferences.

• Rob Fitz
  Rob Fitz is a make-up FX artist. He worked on over twenty feature films like "Surrogates" and "Edge of Darkness". He directed the film "God of Vampires" and won Best Picture at Shockerfest in Modesto, CA. "God of Vampires" has several nominations including best picture and best special FX.

• Joe Flanigan
  Joe Flanigan is an American television actor best known as Major/Lt. Colonel John Sheppard in Stargate Atlantis.

• Charles Fleischer
  Charles Fleischer is best known as the voice behind Roger in Who Framed Roger Rabbit. He has also co-starred in the films A Nightmare On Elm Street, Back To The Future 2, The Polar Express, and more recently in David Fincher's film Zodiac.

• Stephen Fleming
  Stephen Fleming is Chief Commercialization Officer of Georgia Tech, an active aerospace investor, and a director of XCOR Aerospace. He is a highly-sought-after speaker on alternative space access, science and technology policy, technology transfer, venture capital investment, and interesting things going on in the laboratories at Georgia Tech.

• Tom Fleming
  Tom has done everything from Design costumes for the WWE, to Cover & Trading Card Art for Marvel & DC Comics, to artwork for Magic the Gathering, World of Warcraft and Movie and TV work. Tom has been featured in "Spectrum" and is a 3 time Chesley Award Nominee!

• Louise Fletcher
  An Academy Award winner and American icon, Louise Fletcher is best known to baby-boomers as Nurse Ratched in One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest. For Generation Xers however, she is the cunning Kai Winn on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.

• Eric Flint
  Eric Flint is a science fiction and fantasy author as well as an editor. As an author, he has published about thirty novels. As an editor, he has issued about as many anthologies.

• Jason Flowers
  Jason Flowers has recently ventured into the comic book industry. His first work being published in FC9 Comics, and recently in Horror Hound Magazine. Currently his time is split between being the poster artist for the Atlanta based horror show:  SPLATTER CINEMA, doing art for the ATLANTA HORRORFEST, ATLANTA ROLLERGIRLS, and working on a few new horror graphic novels, BLOODY OLDE ENGLUND and THE STRANGE ADVENTURES OF EMORY FALLS. 

• John L. Flynn
  John L. Flynn, Ph.D. is the author of 13 books, two screenplays, several dozen articles and short stories. He is a member of the Science Fiction Writers of America, and has been nominated for three Hugo Awards. Dr. Flynn is a department chair at Baltimore City Community College in Maryland.

• Bill Fogarty
  Bill Fogarty is a director at the largest performing arts center in the south, has written and directed for theatre and television, and has owned and operated Haunted Houses in Florida and Georgia.

• Rick Forrester
  Acted in Surface, American Gothic, October Sky, and Cherry Falls. Voice roles in Shinesman, Blue Sub 6, Clamp School Detectives, Virtua Fighter, and Shogun Assassin 3-5.

• Alan Dean Foster
  An American author of fantasy and science fiction. He authored 10 volumes of novelizations based upon Star Trek: The Animated Series, several involving taking the script for a half-hour episode and expanding it into a full-length novel. It has long been known that Foster co-wrote the original novelization of Star Wars.

• Eugie Foster
  Eugie publications include stories in Realms of Fantasy, Interzone, Cricket, InterGalactic Medicine Show, Baen's Universe, and anthologies Best New Fantasy (Prime), Heroes in Training (DAW), and Best New Romantic Fantasy 2 (Juno). Her collection, Returning My Sister's Face and Other Far Eastern Tales of Whimsy and Malice, debuts in 2009 (Norilana Books).

• »Francesco Francavilla
  Francesco Francavilla is probably best known as theartist of the Zorro comics series with writer Matt Wagner. He is also theartist of the recent horror GN Sorrow (Image) and the upcoming Frazetta Comics special Dracula Meets the Wolfman with writer Steve Niles. He also does concept art and storyboards for several film studios, as well as magazine and freelance illustrations.

• »Chandra Free
  Chandra Free is the creator of the dark psychological comic, "The God Machine," published by Archaia. She has also worked on Sullengrey as a digital painter on issues 5, 6, and parts of the graphic novel, "Cemetery Things."

• Bonita Friedericy
  Bonita Friedericy is an American actress. She currently can be seen in the television series Chuck as NSA Director General Beckman.
  
  She has also appeared on Star Trek: Enterprise, The Nine, The West Wing, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation.

• Friggatriskaidekaphobia Treatment Nurse
  Margaret Downey created the Friggatriskaidekaphobia Treatment Nurse in 2002. As the character, Downey hosts a Friday the 13th Philadelphia party. Penn and Teller say that the character is a "strong gimmick" to convey critical thinking skills.

• Stephen Furst
  Furst played the character of Vir in the Warner Bros. Science fiction hit BABYLON 5.

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• Dr. Pamela L. Gay
  Pamela produces the popular science podcast, Astronomy Cast, with Fraser Cain. Each week, they take their international audience on an educational journey through the cosmos. As a professional astronomer, Pamela's research focuses on variable stars and public outreach.

• Huck Gee
  Huck has released numerous production toys through Kidrobot including figures for The Standard, DJ Qbert and a series of figures for Barney's New York which come immaculately dressed in the 2005 spring collections of five of the worlds most famous fashion designers: Marc Jacobs, Dries Van Noten, Jil Sander, Rick Owens, and Duckie Brown.

• Stephen L. Gibson
  Thousands of people have come to know Stephen Gibson's journey to a skeptical worldview through his media appearances, DVDs, podcasts, and two books: Truth-Driven Thinking, and his latest—a novel illustrating the dangers of uncritical acceptance of dogmatic beliefs—A Secret of the Universe.

• Allan Gilbreath
  Allan Gilbreath is the award-wining author of the Galen vampire series and Jack Lago mysteries. He is also a publisher, speaker, and performer featured on television, radio, and web/pod casts.

• Laura Anne Gilman
  Laura Anne Gilman is the author of the "Retrievers" and "Paranormal Scene Investigations" urban fantasy series for Luna, and the forthcoming Vineart War novels from Pocket, while her short fiction has appeared in major markets, including Realms of Fantasy. Her first short story collection, Dragon Virus, will be out in 2010.

• Ron Glass
  Rons most recent work includes the cult science fiction series "Firefly", in which he played Shephed Book, a religious man with a mysterious past. Glass reprised his role from "Firefly" in the 2005 film "Serenity". Up next you can see Ron Glass starring as Judge Fenton in episodes of "Shark."

• Paul Goddard
  PAUL GODDARD has been involved with two Sci-Fi classics: THE MATRIX, and the Henson/Sci-Fi Channel's extraordinary FARSCAPE series. Many don't realize that the man behind the mask of the unpredictable Banik Stykera, STARK, in Farscape is also the man behind the shades of AGENT BROWN in the original Matrix.

• Christopher Golden
  Christopher Golden has written dozens of fantasy, horror, and thriller novels for adults and teens. He co-wrote BALTIMORE, OR, THE STEADFAST TIN SOLDIER AND THE VAMPIRE with Mike Mignola, and is currently writing the screenplay. He has also written many books set in the worlds of BUFFY and HELLBOY.

• Dr. Frank Gordon
  Dr. Gordon is a clinical psychologist who is interested in a variety of fields, including Psychology, relgion and the biology of behavior change.

• Stephen Granade
  Dr. Granade is a senior scientist specializing in quantum mechanics and space-based sensors. His sensors have flown in space, and will guide the Shuttle to the Hubble Space Telescope in May 2009. He has provided scientific commentary for CBS Marketwatch and won awards for presentations to non-scientist audiences.

• Erin Gray
  Erin Gray is best known to SF audiences as "Colonel Wilma Deering" from Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, but her credits span everything from Silver Spoons and The Hitchhiker to Baywatch. 
  

• Kevin R. Grazier
  Dr. Kevin Grazier is a planetary scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and he is currently the science advisor for the SCI FI channel series, Battlestar Galactica, Eureka, and the PBS animated series The Zula Patrol. He is also co-author of the book "Science of Battlestar Galactica"

• Andrew Greenberg
  Andrew Greenberg, co-creator of HDI's "Fading Suns" and original developer of White Wolf's "Vampire: The Masquerade," is now Kaneva.com's Game Studio Manager. Computer game credits include Star Trek: Starfleet Academy, Emperor of the Fading Suns, Warhammer 40K: Final Liberation, Merchant Prince II, Mall Tycoon, Railroad Tycoon Mobile.

• Robert Greenberger
  A freelance writer/editor, Bob Greenberger has worked for DC Comics, Marvel Comics, and ComicMix. Author of numerous Star Trek novels, he's also written several non-fiction works on Batman.

• Hugh S. Gregory
  Professionally an avid Spaceflight Historian based in Vancouver, Canada, he has produced and sold videos on spaceflight history. His latest research includes the conceptual theory for the ELDSRR space reactor, Project MOSS for the Musk Observatory and recently co-authored a paper in Cartographica about mapping on Mars.

• Eric Griffin
  Eric Griffin is the best-selling author of the Tremere Trilogy (White Wolf Publishing): Widow's Walk, Widow's Weeds, and Widow's Might. His publishing experience includes working as an editor, a fiction developer, and a game designer.

• Rosemary Ellen Guiley
  Rosemary Ellen Guiley is a leading expert on the paranormal with 41 books in print, including 9 encyclopedias. Special areas of expertise: vampires; werewolves; ghosts; paranormal investigations; demons; djinn; spirit communications; shadow people; alien encounters; dreams & astral travel; fairies; angels; and interdimensional portals. Would like to work with Derek again.

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• Dean Haglund
  Dean is probably best known for his nine seasons playing Langly, one of the computer geeks known as "The Lone Gunmen" from the hit FOX TV series The X-Files. He also starred in the The X-Files spin-off series The Lone Gunmen. His character is so popular that Dean is a main attraction at X-File and Sci-Fi conventions all over North America. He appears on trading cards, T-Shirts and even has his own comic book ("The Lone Gunman" published by Dark Horse Comics). 

• Stacy Hague-Hill
  An Assistant Editor at Tor Books, Stacy Hague-Hill works with an expanding list of sf & f novels, including works by L.E. Modesitt, Jr., Dave Farland, and more. She is also the editor for the tie-in to BioWare's RPG, Dragon Age, and works with the Dune titles, FlashForward, and others.

• Cully Hamner
  Cully Hamner is these days mainly known for drawing DC Comics' latest BLUE BEETLE series, and as the co-creator, with Warren Ellis, of RED, now in development as a feature film from Summit Entertainment.

• David Harmer
  David Harmer's newest gaming books are The Aftermath! Survivors Guide and Aftermath! Technology! 2.0, released in 2008, and Aftermath! Magic! 2.0 releasing in 2009. David is spearheading the rebirth of Fantasy Games Unlimited.

• Charlaine Harris
  Charlaine Harris has been a published novelist for over twenty-five years. Not a traditional mystery, nor yet pure science fiction or romance, DEAD UNTIL DARK broke genre boundaries to appeal to a wide audience of people who just enjoy a good adventure. Each subsequent book about Sookie Stackhouse, telepathic Louisiana barmaid and friend to vampires, werewolves, and various other odd creatures, has drawn more readers. The southern vampire books are published in Japan, Great Britain, Greece, Germany, Thailand, Spain, France, and Russia.

• Nicole Harsch       Swashbucklers
  Nicole Harsch and Mike Sakuta are the Crossed Swords. For over 20 years, their Crossed Swords Stage Combat Shows have been seen across the continental U.S. and Canada at renaissance festivals and science fiction conventions and, of course, previous Dragon*Cons.

• Raven Hart
  Raven Hart is the author of the Savannah Vampires series from Ballantine books: The Vampire's Seduction, The Vampire's Secret, The Vampire's Kiss, The Vampire's Betrayal, and the January 2009 release, The Vampire's Revenge. The series stars aristocratic blood drinker William Thorne and blue-collar, NASCAR-loving Jack McShane.

• A.J. Hartley
  A.J. Hartley is the author of a new hardcover fantasy series from Tor, the first of which, Act of Will, was released to critical acclaim this March. He is also the USA Today and New York Times bestselling author of 3 mystery/thrillers, and a world renowned professor of Shakespeare.

• Richard Hatch
  Golden Globe nominee Richard Hatch (Original and re-imagined Battlestar series) starred in Dead Mans Curve, co-authored 8 BG novels, comics, edited/wrote "SO SAY WE All", BG manga for Tokyopop, filmed SEASON OF DARKNESS and "WHO THE FRACK IS THE REAL RICHARD HATCH"

• Jason Hawes
  Jason is the founder of TAPS and main star of Scifi channel Ghost Hunters. He is also a New York Times best selling author, with their new book coming out in late 2009.

• Gary Kim Hayes
  Former Managing Editor of Critical Mass SF Magazine and a multi-award winner for his short fiction, his new fantasy novel Sleag's Quest is at Baen Books.

• Tom Heintjes
  Tom Heintjes is the co-publisher and senior editor of Hogan's Alley, and he was managing editor of The Comics Journal, where he helped spearhead the battle to help Jack Kirby obtain his original art from Marvel Comics.

• Mark Henry
  Mark Henry is a humorous urban fantasy author of the Amanda Feral, Celebrity Ghoul series. His first novel, Happy Hour of the Damned, introduced the genre's first zombie protagonist and was optioned for a series by Showtime. He is a founding member of the League of Reluctant Adults.

• Diana Tixier Herald
  Diana Tixier Herald is the co author of Fluent in Fantasy: The Next Generation and Strictly Science Fiction as well as several other readers' advisory guides.

• Richard Herd
  Richard Herd is known to millions for a variety of roles: John the Supreme Commander in V, his recurring role as Admiral William Noyce on Seaquest, as Admiral Owen Paris on Star Trek: Voyager, and three seasons as Captain Dennis Sheridan in T.J. Hooker among numerous guest star roles.

• Rita Herron
  Multi-award winning author of over 50 books and workshop speaker, Rita Herron writes paranormal romantic suspense novels for Grand Central Publishing. 2008 brought the first in her Demonborn series, Insatiable Desire. Look for book two in the trilogy, Dark Hunger, August 2009 and book three in 2010!

• Virginia Hey
  Virginia Hey has achieved prominence, recognition and success as she played an Alien Priest "Zhaan" for 3 years on the Saturn award-winning television series "Farscape", USA Sci-Fi channels number one hit show 2001-2004.

• Kathryn Hinds
  Kathryn Hinds is a novelist, mythologist, poet, copy editor, and author of more than forty young-adult books about ancient, medieval, and early modern cultures, mostly focusing on social history. She has just finished writing a six-book series, Barbarians!, and is at work on a new series, Fantastic Creatures.

• Kane Hodder
  Kane Warren Hodder (born April 8, 1955) is an American actor and stuntman. Standing 6' 3½" (192 cm), he is best known for his portrayal of Jason Voorhees in the Friday the 13th film series.

• Bill Holbrook
  Bill Holbrook is the creator of the comic strips "On the Fastrack" and "Safe Havens" which are internationally syndicated by King Features. His pioneering webcomic "Kevin & Kell" was launched online in 1995 and is now featured in 14 book collections.

• Eva Hopkins
  Eva Hopkins is the art assistant and office goddess for Joseph Michael Linsner and Dawn.

• Kriss Hougland
  Kriss Hougland works as an analyst and developer for NASA's International Space Station Training and Crew Operations Branch which is responsible for astronaut operations of experiment aboard the ISS. His technical expertise spans payload design to space operations. He is the electronics and computer expert for a NASA outreach program.

• Dr. Stephen D. Howe
  Dr. Steven Howe is the Director fo the Center for Space Nuclear Research at the Idaho National Laboratory. He is also the CEO of Hbar Technologies which is commercializing antimatter. Long time DC attendee; well versed in space exploration; on Evil Geniuses panel 2 years

• George Hrab        Musical
  Multi-instrumentalist, singer, songwriter, skeptic, podcaster, producer, composer and heliocentrist George Hrab has written and produced six independent CDs; published one book; performed for President Clinton; and is considered one of the preeminent skeptic/science/atheist/geek-culture music icons of his generation.

• John Hudgens
  John Hudgens is a filmmaker, animator, and artist who created several award winning Star Wars parody films, the feature documentary American Scary, and has also worked on such varied properties as Babylon 5, Crimson Skies, MechWarrior, and Star Wars.

• »Matt Hughes
  The works of artist Matt Hughes have appeared in publications and galleries around the world. He is best known for his pioneering of the art movement Gothic Art Nouveau. Mr. Hughes was a judge in the DragonCon art show 2008.

• J. C. Hutchins
  J.C. Hutchins is the author of Personal Effects: Dark Art (a thriller combining a novel with an Alternate Reality Game) and the 7th Son: Descent, both published this year by St. Martin's Press. Through use of social media, 50,000 people have enjoyed his free 7th Son and Personal Effects audiobooks.

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• Richard Jakiel
  Richard Jakiel has written over 60 articles for a wide variety of professional and popular publications, including such mainstream magazines as Astronomy and Sky and Telescope. He recently co-authored Galaxies: How to Observe Them (2006) and is currently working on a number of related projects relating to astronomy, archaeo-astronomy and geochemistry.

• Bill "Splat" Johnson
  Bill “Splat” Johnson is a Georgia based make up effects artist who has now worked on over 40 movies including: “The Book of Eli”, “The Crazies”, “Ben 10 Alien Swarm”, “H2”, “Zombieland”, “Year One”, “The Patriot”, and “Eight Legged Freaks”.

• Les Johnson
  Les Johnson is Deputy Manager of NASA’s Advanced Concepts Office, has written 3 popular science books and a soon-to-be published science fiction novel for Baen. He published in Analog and was Technical Consultant for the movie, Lost In Space. He appeared in numerous documentaries on the Discovery and Science Channels.

• Benjamin Curtis Jones
  A true expert in the field of entertainment illustration, Ben's artwork is stunning. His recent work includes the Indiana Jones Heritage cards for Topps, and the theatrical release poster for "Conjurer", a suspense-thriller produced by Vids Media, released at the Fox Theatre in Atlanta, Ga.

• Doug Jones
  Doug Jones is an American film and television actor best known to science fiction, fantasy, and horror fans for his various roles playing non-human characters, often in heavy makeup, in films and television series such as Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Hellboy, Pan's Labyrinth and Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer.

• Gary Jones
  Gary Jones is a Welsh-born actor best known for his recurring role as Sgt. Walter Harriman in Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis.

• Alessandro Juliani
  Alessandro Juliani is a Canadian actor and singer. He recently starred as Tactical Officer Lieutenant Felix Gaeta on the Sci Fi Channel television program Battlestar Galactica. He previously voiced the character L Lawliet in the English version of the anime series Death Note.

• Peter Jurasik
  Peter Jurasik, Babylon 5's Ambassador, Londo Mollari, has a surprising list of onscreen and offscreen credits. Yes, he actually played in Tron, too.

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• Stacia Kane
  Stacia Kane is the author of the upcoming Del Rey dark urban fantasy series beginning with UNHOLY GHOSTS, as well as the popular Megan Chase series with Juno Books.

• Neil Kaplan
  Neil Kaplan is best known for having been a voice actor on video games, anime and children’s television.  Neil’s voice over work on television has included several seasons on various versions of the “Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers,” as well as the popular series “Digimon,” “Higglytown Heroes,” and the quirky “Tokyo Pig.”

• Lloyd Kaufman
  Lloyd Kaufman is one of the very few genuine auteur filmmakers. He has written, produced, and/or directed more than thirty films, including The Toxic Avenger and Tromeo and Juliet. Kaufman is president of the world-famous Troma Entertainment, the oldest and, arguably, longest-running truly independent film studio in history.

• Susan Kearney
  USA Today Best Selling author Susan Kearney has written over 50 books for publishers such as Grand Central Publishing, Simon and Schuster, Tor, Harlequin and Berkley. She has written for Star Trek and her most current project is The Pendragon Legacy, a futuristic romance trilogy scheduled for release in 2009.

• Bill Keel
  Astronomer Bill Keel, author of "The Sky at Einstein's Feet" and "The Road to Galaxy Formation", has appeared at DragonCon since 2004. He has presented overnight "Live Astronomy" sessions, and spoken on cosmology, extrasolar planets, public-participation discovery in astronomy, and space technology.

• Sherrilyn Kenyon
  International phenomenon, Sherrilyn Kenyon has over sixteen million books in print in 36 countries. With four #1 New York Times bestsellers this year alone, she's the #1 bestselling author of adult vampire novels in the world. She's also the only author to have her work translated into both manga and comics.

• Jackie Kessler
  Jackie Kessler is the co-author, with Caitlin Kittredge, of the upcoming BLACK AND WHITE (Bantam Spectra, June 2009). Superheroes, baby! Jackie is also the author of HELL'S BELLES, THE ROAD TO HELL, and HOTTER THAN HELL. (Sexy, scary demons!) 

• Richard Kiel
  Co-starred as "Jaws" in the James Bond movies, also Happy Gilmore, Pale Rider, Cannonball II, Silver Streak, Force 10 From Navaronne, The Longest Yard, (original) and guest starred in 100's of TV shows such as The Twilight Zone, Wild Wild West, Barbary Coast, Man From U.N.C.L.E., etc.

• Kaza Kingsley
  Kaza Kingsley wrote the bestselling young adult Erec Rex fantasy series, winning many awards, and Borders Books Original Voices pick. The series is coming out around the world, with an eight-book deal in the U.S. by Simon and Schuster. Book Three, The Search for Truth, is out in June.

• James P Kinney III
  Physicist James Kinney has studied the mechanics and thermodynamics of zymurgy, beer making, for more than a decade. He brings news methods of beer production for a space going civilization.

• Caitlin Kittredge
  Caitlin Kittredge is the author of the bestselling Nocturne City series as well as the Black London novels and the Iron Codex steampunk trilogy for young adults. She lives in Seattle.

• Richard A. Knaak
  Richard A. Knaak is the NY Times Bestselling Author of 40 novels including for WarCraft, Diablo, Dragonlance, and his Dragonrealm series. His works include The Legend of Huma, the War of the Ancients, and the Sunwell manga. He has written for the Beastmaster and Conan and has been published worldwide.

• Nancy Knight
  Author of 12 novels, numerous short stories, and 7 produced plays , a movie accepted in 2008 D*C Film Festival. She is a free-lance editor with two books out 2009 which she ghost wrote. She is a partner in a film production company with options on 2 projects. She is a writing coach.

• Alethea Kontis
  NYT best-selling author of The Dark-Hunter Companion and the AlphaOops series of picture books.

• Mary Robinette Kowal
  Mary Robinette Kowal is the 2008 recipient of the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. Her fiction appears in Asimov's, Cosmos, and Doctor Who: Destination Prague. In addition to writing, she is a professional puppeteer and voice actor.

• George Krstic
  Creator, writer and director George Krstic has worked on such major properties as "Star Wars," and "Speed Racer" as well as his own TV series "Megas XLR."

• Bonnie Kunzel
  Bonnie Kunzel is a retired young adult librarian who loves to read and talk about books. An acknowledged expert on the subjects of young adult literature, science fiction and fantasy, she presents programs nationally. Her publishing credits include Strictly Science Fiction, Fluent in Fantasy and Tamora Pierce among others.

• Katherine Kurtz
  An outstanding writer of high fantasy, Katherine Kurtz is best-known for her epic, ground-breaking Chronicles of the Deryni.

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• Stephen & Suzie Lackey
  Stephen and Suzie Lackey directed the award winning documentary Fans and Freaks: The Culture of Comics and Conventions. They both write for Cinegeek.com. Stephen wrote a horror novela Middling Meat and is contributing writer for Mania.com. Stephen does a podcast for Cinegeek available on the website and Itunes.

• Mur Lafferty
  Mur Lafferty is a new media expert, award-winning podcaster and author. She's the host of I Should Be Writing and the author of Playing For Keeps.

• Cheralyn Lambeth
  Cheralyn Lambeth is a professional prop, costume, and puppet builder/peformer whose work includes multiple feature films (The Muppet Christmas Carol, Leatherheads), TV shows (Dinosaurs!) and various interactive properties (Star Trek: The Experience at the Las Vegas Hilton, Cartoon Network). She also writes nonfiction paranormal books with Schiffer Publishing.

• Rich Larson
  Penciler Rich Larson has teamed with airbrush artist Steve Fastner to produce fantasy art for comics, magazines, books, games and record covers since 1976. Their latest books include Tricks & Treats, Bed & Bondage 2, and Pocket Pal 2.

• Rosemary Laurey
  Georgia Evans is a pseudonym for USA Today Bestseller Rosemary Laurey. Georgia launches in June, July and August 2009 with Bloody Good, Bloody Awful and Bloody Right: a dark Dark Fantasy, WW2 set vampire trilogy from Kensington Publishing. Rosemary has participated in Derek Tatum’s Dark Fantasy track in previous years.

• Misty Lee
  Misty Lee is a magician whose stage performance combines, music, theatre, and a bit of acting with her natural charisma to create a spectacular production for audiences of all ages.

• Rob Levy
  Rob's is president of the STL CIA fan club. He is a pop culture writer for St. Louis Magazine, film editor for Ink19.com, columnist, podcaster and coleader for the music forum for Needcoffee.com. He's been a panelsist for several conventions and ran media programming for the 2007 NASfic.

• J F Lewis
  J. F. Lewis is the author of the Void City series published by Pocket Books. Staked, his debut novel, was published in March 2008, and ReVamped, the sequel, was released in March 2009. He is a member of both the SFWA and the HWA and maintains the SFWA Pressbook.

• »Leo Liebelman
  Currently Leo is pursuing his art full-time, finishing up a book for Arcana Comics and also doing some riveting covers for "Heavy Metal," and a secret "Planet of the Apes" project. Recent work has appeared for Forest Primevil and Radical Publishing.

• Joseph Michael Linsner
  Michael Linsner has become one of the comic book industry's most celebrated artists; Cry for Dawn Volume I, published in 1989, marked his debut.

• Todd Livingston
  Todd Livingston is a filmmaker and award-winning comics creator who recently released the comicbook mini-series "The ODD Squad" and "Sheena: Dark Rising," the graphic novel "Chopper Zombie," and modeled as Professor X in the Marvel one-shot "X-Men Origins: Jean Grey."

• Kelly Lockhart
  Kelly Lockhart has been working in the entertainment business for over two decades, doing voicework for over 2,000 radio and television commercials and over a hundred infomercials and commercial films. He also organizes the long-running Robot Battles competitions around the country, with the largest event held every year at Dragon*Con.

• Traci Lords
  Traci Lords exploded on the scene in 1986 via a tabloid TV feeding frenzy. Reporters had a field day with the notorious teenager who had left behind an abusive home and landed on the pages of Penthouse Magazine.

• John Lotshaw
  John Lotshaw is a cartoonist, animator, and the owner of Moonbase LLC, the publishers of Kevin & Kell by Bill Holbrook, among other webcomics.

• Travis Louie
  Travis Louie draws and paints in a basement studio in his house in Upstate New York. He is constantly writing in his journals, creating characters and stories that often become the basis for his paintings. The visual style of his work is heavily influenced by his love for 19th century ephemera, human oddities, sideshows, atomic age sci-fi, horror, German expressionist and noir films. When he is not painting, he curls up into a little ball and hides under the stairs.

• George Lowe
  Cartoon Networks wildly popular Adult Swim block was built on the cult hit Space Ghost Coast to Coast which ran for a decade with legions of fans responsible for its success. George Lowe is the ad-libbing madman behind Space Ghost and its his honor to visit Atlanta for Dragoncon.

• Daniel Loxton
  Writer, illustrator, and paranormal critic Daniel Loxton is the Editor of skepticism's premier critical thinking publication for kids, Junior Skeptic magazine. He specializes in computer generated art for magazine covers (usually of photorealistic monsters and dinosaurs). He is the author of two illustrated kids books on evolution (due 2009 and 2010).

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• Jonathan Maberry
  Jonathan Maberry is a multiple Bram Stoker Award winning author of PATIENT ZERO, ZOMBIE CSU, PUNISHER: NAKED KILL, WOLVERINE: GHOSTS, and many other books, short stories and articles. He is co-creator of ON THE SLAB, an entertainment news show for ABC Disney.

• Scott MacMillan
  Scott MacMillan (occasionally known as Mr. Katherine Kurtz) was educated at the University of Southern California and the American Film Institute. He has been a film-maker, an award-winning editor of Western fiction, a world-class black-powder shootist, a mounted police officer, a novelist, a screenwriter, a reserve army officer, a vintage car enthusiast, an expert on antique arms and armour, and an avid student of heraldry, military history, crumbling castles, chivalry, and Scottish and Irish heritage.

• Jim Mahfood
  Jim Mahfood aka Food One is a muralist, comic book artist, painter, live art show rocker and drunken freestyler extraordinaire. He has been working professionally as an artist since 1997, amassing an impressive cult following across the globe. His comic book work includes: lllustrating filmmaker Kevin Smith's "Clerks" comics and illustrating various Spider-Man projects at Marvel Comics.

• Don Maitz
  Art received two Hugos, a Howard, an Inkpot, a Society of Illustrators' Award, and ten Chesley Awards. Maitz created the Captain Morgan Rum character and concept art for two feature films. Don Maitz is an artist member of the American Society of Marine Artists. www.paravia.com/DonMaitz

• Racheline Maltese
  Racheline wrote The Book of Harry Potter Trifles, Trivias and Particularities and is an SFF columnist for websites including Gather and IllusionTV. Her fiction has appeared in numerous outlets. Also a working actor, Racheline voiced Desire and Delirium in a performance of Neil Gaiman's The Sandman to benefit the CBLDF.

• Mari Mancusi
  Mari Mancusi is the author of the hit teen Blood Coven Vampire series as well as 9 other novels for both adults and teens. She works as an Emmy Award winning television producer in New York City.

• Julia S. Mandala
  Julia S. Mandala, best known as one author of The Four Redheads of the Apocalypse, also has works in Witch Way to the Mall, (Baen), The Mammoth Book of Comic Fantasy II, (Carroll & Graf), and her novel House of Doors. She is a scuba diver, photographer, costumer and belly dancer.

• Marrus
  Marrus got her start inking for Valiant and ElfQuest Comics. She has illustrated magazines, adventure games, and book & album covers, as well as body painted for fashion shows & music videos. In her spare time, she storyboards for the film industry. Her illustrated memoirs will be published in 2009.

• James Marsters
  James Marsters may best be known around the world for his ever-popular cult character Spike, the punk-goth vampire he played on Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel.  A fan favorite, Marsters has received and been nominated for numerous awards worldwide.

• Gail Z. Martin
  Gail Z. Martin is the author of The Chronicles of The Necromancer series (The Summoner, The Blood King, Dark Haven, Dark Lady's Chosen (2010)). She also hosts the Ghost in the Machine Fantasy Podcast which interviews SF/F and paranormal fiction authors. Her third book, Dark Haven, launches in 2009.

• Laura Martin
  Laura Martin is a colorist. She is currently the colorist on Astonishing X-Men and Thor. She will be coloring Adam Hughes on All Star Wonder Woman and Cully Hamner on Black Lightning, and has colored Ultimates, Authority Planetary, and Ruse (just to name a few). She's won multiple awards for her work as a colorist including the Eisner, Harvey, Eagle, Squidy, and Wizard fan awards.

• Lee Martindale
  Lee Martindale's short stories have appeared in numerous anthologies, including Turn the Other Chick, Catopolis, LowPort, Sword & Sorceress XIV, XVII, and XXI, several Bubbas of the Apocalypse anthos, three collections from Yard Dog Press, and Witch Way To The Mall. She also edited the groundbreaking Such A Pretty Face.

• Randy Martinez
  Randy Martinez is a Southern California Illustrator whose art has depicted everything from Star Wars, rocks stars to Monsters and Aliens.

• Patrick Mason
  Patrick Mason spends his time as a Reactor Engineer at a Nuclear power plant in St. Francisville, Louisiana. When not moving control rods or reloading nuclear fuel he spreads the good word of nuclear power. Over the last three years he has become DragonCon's resident nuclear power expert.

• Menton J Matthews III
  Menton J. Matthews III is the creator, writer, and artist for his new graphic novel series Ars Memoria.

• Ginny Mauldin-Kinney
  A veteran JPL Solar System Ambassador since 2002, Ginny Mauldin-Kinney educates the public on all JPL missions. As liaison to STS-126 shuttle crew; she recently published an extensive interview with pilot Eric Boe. Ginny's collaborated on two space related books and is often featured on NPR.

• James Maxey
  James Maxey is the author of the Dragon Age trilogy consisting of Bitterwood, Dragonforge, and Dragonseed, plus author of the cult-classic superhero novel, Nobody Gets the Girl. His short fiction has appeared in Asimov's, IGMS, and numerous anthologies. More information about his writing can be found at dragonprophet.blogspot.com.

• Peter Mayhew
  Peter Mayhew played Chewbacca in 4 of the 6 Star Wars movies and continues to be a fan favorite. He has been noted by Steve Sansweet of Lucasfilm as a good will ambassador.

• Todd McCaffrey
  The son of Anne McCaffrey and one of the inheritors of Pern, Todd McCaffrey has collaborated with Anne McCaffrey on three Pern novels, written two solo Pern novels, and numerous short stories and other works of fiction. "Dragonheart" is his latest solo book; he is currently working on its sequel.

• Kandyse McClure
  Kandyse stared as Anastasia "Dee" Dualla, a Petty Officer Second Class in the Colonial Fleet, on Battlestar Galactica.

• Sandra Ann McDonald
  Sandra McDonald's published novels are all love, duty and really big spaceships. Her short fiction about sexy firemen, gay superheros and transvestite ghosts has appeared in many national and small press magazines. She is a Navy veteran, and also writes fanfic from her secret office aboard the TARDIS.

• Mary McDonnell
  Currently McDonnell has been receiving magnificent reviews for her portrayal of President Laura Roslin in the Sci-Fi channel's hit series "Battlestar Galactica." Critics continue to call it "the best show on television."

• Paul McGillion
  Paul McGillion was born in Paisley, Scotland but emigrated with his family to Canada at the age of 2. He's worked extensively in film, TV and theatre for over 15 years and is best known for the role of 'Dr.Carson Beckett', the loveable Scottish physician in 'Stargate: Atlantis. Paul also recently co-starred in the Lifetime movie 'Just Breathe' alongside 'The Office's Melora Hardin, independent feature 'A Dog's Breakfast' with Atlantis co-star David Hewlett and will be appearing in JJ Abram's upcoming 'Star Trek' feature film.

• Robert Duncan McNeill
  Robert Duncan McNeill is an American actor, producer, movie director, and television director who is best known for his role as Lieutenant Tom Paris on the television show Star Trek: Voyager.

• Tara McPherson
  Tara McPherson is a painter, poster artist, and freelance illustrator based out of New York City.? Her clients include DC Comics, Warner Brothers, Dark Horse Comics, KidRobot, Spin, Pepsi, Fanta, Goldenvoice, Harper Collins, Bloomsbury, Revolver, Knitting Factory, Playstation 2, House of Blues, Punk Planet, Dogfish Head Brewery, and Nike/Wyden & Kennedy, among others.

• Richelle Mead
  Richelle Mead is a New York Times & USA Today Bestselling author of teen and adult urban fantasy novels. Her YA series, Vampire Academy, has received honors from the American Library Association. All of her series have sold foreign rights in a number of languages and are available worldwide.

• Travis Scott Merrill
  Travis Scott Merrill is currently in his fifth season at the Alabama Shakespeare Festival as a costume crafts artisan, specializing in leatherwork, mask-making, millinery, puppetry, armor construction, airbrush painting for large scale theatrical productions, and works with some of the best costume designers in the US.

• Byron Patrick Merritt
  Byron Merritt is the grandson of author Frank Herbert and nephew of Brian Herbert, author of the new DUNE series coauthored with Kevin J. Anderson. Byron is also a writer in his own right, with stories published around the internet, near his home in Monterey, California, and in magazines abroad.

• Tanya Michna
  Award-winning author Tanya Michna (also writing as Tanya Michaels) has sold more than forty books and short stories and is published in a dozen languages worldwide. Her nonfiction essays include "Dean Winchester: Bad-Ass or Soccer Mom?" in the 2009 anthology In the Hunt, based on the popular show Supernatural.

• Vic Mignogna
  Vic is a professional music composer/producer and veteran actor most well known as the voice of Edward Elric in Fullmetal Alchemist. He's also featured in DBZ, Bleach, Trinity Blood, Naruto and many other anime and video games

• Mike Mignola
  Mike Mignola is best known as the creator of the Hellboy comics.

• Kara Mikos
  Kara Mikos was first published in Vampire: The Masquerade. She works in law helping parties fight for their rights. She spoke at Dragon*Con 2006 about First Amendment rights and pornography and returned for the last two years to speak about the Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Amendments with the movie Busted!

• Trish Milburn
  Trish Milburn writes romance for Harlequin American under her own name and young adult fiction for Razorbill under the name Tricia Mills. She is one of the founders of the Supernatural Sisters blog and the winner of the 2004 Golden Heart in the Young Adult category for her paranormal manuscript, Coven.

• Cindy Miles
  Cindy Miles is the national bestselling author of 5 ghostly romances. Witnessing near-death experiences as a cardiac nurse, coupled with a life-long interest in ghosts, has given her mysterious and whimsical romances a unique twist. She lives in haunted Savannah, GA, with her husband and kids.

• Rebecca Moesta
  Rebecca Moesta is the author of numerous SF/F novels, mainly in the young adult field, including STAR WARS YOUNG JEDI KNIGHTS, JUNIOR JEDI KNIGHTS, BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER, and her own series, CRYSTAL DOORS.

• Jason Momoa
  Jason Momoa is best known for his roles as "Jason Ioane" in Baywatch and as "Ronon Dex," an elite firearms and m?l?e warrior in Stargate Atlantis.

• Anthony Montgomery
  Anthony T. Montgomery (b. June 2, 1971, Indianapolis, Indiana) is an American film and television actor.He is best known in the role of Ensign Travis Mayweather on the television series Star Trek: Enterprise.Montgomery is the grandson of jazz musician Wes Montgomery.

• James A. Moore
  James A. Moore has been writing professionally for over 20 years in the field of horror, young adult and thriller fiction. His tie in novels include work for White Wolf Games and Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

• Tony Moran
  Tony Moran played the original Michael Myers in Halloween 1 & 2, which has placed him within the top horror Icon status for the roll played in the classic slasher film that has become the staple of horror lovers around the world.

• Sharon Morgan
  Sharon Morgan is one the foremost experts on corset making. She is the owner of Alterdtyme Corsets and corset maker for Romantasy Corsets, one of the oldest modern corset companies. Sharon has designed corsets for television, theater, film, playboy and the music industry. Now working with Theater UAB.

• Eric Morin
  Eric currently lives in NC, writing stories that would be deemed off kilter at the least and working on the web comic, NORMAN.

• Tracy S. Morris
  Tracy Morris is the author of fifteen published fiction stories, two novels and countless articles, including the Tranquility novel series. Forthcoming credits include stories and essays in the Baen anthology Strip Mauled and the Benbella anthology In the Hunt: Unauthorized Essays on Supernatural. She writes paranormal articles for Firefox news.

• Dean Motter
  DEAN MOTTER, artist/writer/designer, relaunched his creation Mister X for Dark Horse in 2008/09. He's written the Dominic Fortune serial appearing in Marvel Comics' Tales to Astonish, the Spirit for DC, designed FSG's new Ray Bradbury graphic novels. He wrote and illustrated the graphic novel The Prisoner: Shattered Visage.

• Chris Mueller
  Chris Mueller is a freelance costume designer and technician. He has worked in various capacities in costuming in some of the countries most prestigious regional and educational theatres. This will be Chris' third year bringing his costuming expertise to the Dragon Con costuming panel.

• Kate Mulgrew
  Mulgrew's first television role was of older daughter Mary Ryan on the soap opera Ryan's Hope from 1975 to 1977.  She became a fan favorite and is still associated with the show long after its cancellation.  Mulgrew is perhaps best known for her role as Captain Kathryn Janeway on the science fiction television series Star Trek: Voyager which ran from 1995 to 2001.

• Sabutai Musashi
  Subatai Musashi is the current Grandmaster of Ninkage ryu bujutsu; a Japanese martial arts system that includes bare-handed study such as Aikijutsu, weapons study, such as Kenjutsu and Iaijutsu, and internal arts. Grandmaster Musashi and his students have provided exciting demonstrations of Ninkage ryu at DragonCon since 2005.

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• Ted Naifeh
  Comics creator Ted Naifeh is responsible for many dark, delicious worlds. These include the gothic romance Gloomcookie (with Serena Valentino), Courtney Crumrin (optioned for a movie by DreamWorks in 2007), and the all-ages Polly and the Pirates. Currently he is illustrating The Good Neighbors by bestselling author Holly Black.

• Michael Nankin
  Michael Nankin is a director of 8 episodes of BATTLESTAR GALACTICA, as well as episodes of EUREKA, THE DRESDEN FILES, THE SARAH CONNOR CHRONICLES, VERITAS and INVASION, among many others. He is the writer of THE GATE and its sequel. He has been a working writer/director for the past 30 years.

• Scott Nicholson
  Author of seven novels, 60 short stories, six screenplays, and a new comic book series, Scott Nicholson is also an editor for Post Mortem Comics Studio. He has served as an extra in independent films and hosts an annual paranormal conference in the Blue Ridge Mountains.

• Joe Nickell
  JOE NICKELL may be the world's only full-time, salaried professional paranormal investigator. A former magician, private detective, and scholar, he writes for Skeptical Inquirer science magazine; has authored two dozen books; appeared on In Search Of, Oprah, etc.; and has been profiled on Today and in The New Yorker.

• Jasika Nicole
  Nicole portrays the character of Astrid Farnsworth in the TV series Fringe.

• Leonard Nimoy
  Leonard Nimoy is an American actor, film director, poet, musician and photographer, best known for playing the character of Spock on Star Trek.

• John Noble
  At the end of 2007 John Noble appeared in two episodes of the Twentieth Century Fox series 24 as Consul Markov directed by Jon Cassar. Currently, he is starring in the new JJ Abrams series The Fringe.

• Steven Novella
  Dr. Novella is the host of the popular science podcast, The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe, author of the science blog NeuroLogica, editor of Science-Based Medicine and contributor to SkepticBlog. He has been a recognized leader in the skeptical movement for over a decade.

• Jody Lynn Nye
  Jody Lynn Nye lists her main career activity as "spoiling cats." When not engaged in this worthy endeavor, she has published more than thirty-five books and over a hundred short stories. Her latest books are "A Forthcoming Wizard" (TOR Books) and "Myth-Fortunes," (Wildside Press) co-written with the late Robert Asprin.

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• Kathie Olivas
  Kathie Olivas is a multi-media artist who resides with her husband and fellow artist, Brandt Peters, in Tampa, FL and Albuquerque, NM. At 31, she has been featured in numerous galleries across the globe and is represented in the permanent collection at the Tampa Museum of Art. She received her bachelor's degree in visual arts from the University of South Florida.

• Jana Oliver
  Jana Oliver is best known for her Time Rovers® Series set in 1888 London during the reign of Jack the Ripper. A combination of steam punk, science fiction and historical mystery, the series has won ten awards. The author still wonders if someone didn't add the scores correctly.

• Edward James Olmos
  For the last 5 years , EJO starred in the Sci Fi Channel's breakout hit, "Battlestar Galactica," as Admiral William Adama. In 2008 he's been preparing for his next project in which he will act, direct and produce "The Crystal Frontier," a drama that examines U.S.-Mexico border issues.

• Heather Osborn
  Heather Osborn is currently an editor of paranormal romance and urban fantasy novels at Tor Books. A huge fan of all things science fiction, fantasy, and romance, Heather is firmly convinced she found her dream job running Tor's paranormal romance line.

• Terri Osborne
  Terri Osborne is a media tie-in and original dark fantasy author. Her past work in the Doctor Who and Star Trek universes paved the way for the launch of her REALMS NEXT DOOR dark fantasy universe in 2009.

• Annie Owens
  Annie was born in Alabama, “parcel posted to the Philippines,” and after three years, was returned to the States and educated in the San Francisco Bay Area where she earned her BFA in film and video.

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• James Palmer
  James is an author, editor, and short story writer whose work has appeared in Strange Horizons, RevolutionSF, and SciFaikuest, among others. James edited the charity anthology Voices for the Cure, benefiting the American Diabetes association. James is writing several pulp-style stories for anthologies being published this year by Airship 27 Productions.

• Jason Palmer
  Jason is an Illustrator working in the entertainment industry with a variety of properties such as Star Wars, Star Trek, Indiana Jones, and Battlestar Galactica. He may be best known for his licensed series of Firefly/Serenity collectible art.

• Jimmy Palmiotti
  Multi Award winning character creator with a wide range of experience in advertising, production, consulting, editorial, film writing, development and production, media presentation and video game development. Just a few of his clients include Nike, Nickelodeon, Universal pictures, Disney, Warner Brothers, DreamWorks, Lion's Gate, Vidmark, Starz, Fox Atomic, Alliance films, New Line, Spike TV, MTV, 2kgames, Midway, Radical games, Activision and THQ games.

• Pandora Celtica        Musical
  Pandora Celtica is a five part acapella group that has been playing fandom events all along the Rocky mountains for the last 6 years. We feature strong harmonies and haunting lyrics. We sing "dark folk", the kind of songs other folk bands are scared of.

• Teresa Patterson
  Teresa Patterson: co-author The World of the Wheel of Time with Robert Jordan, The World of Shannara with Terry Brooks, No Quarter, with Robert Asprin, Eric DiCarlo. Authored stories in anthologies including Here be Dragons, articles in collections including It Looked Good On Paper. Chesley winner; former President of ASFA.

• D.M. Paul
  Doug Paul is an Aerospace Engineer as well as the author of the One Wizard Place series of fantasy/sci-fi novels. He is also the owner of Arctic Wolf Publishing, a book and graphic novel publishing company with more than 20 titles to its list.

• Carlos Pedraza
  Carlos Pedraza is writer/co-executive producer for the Hugo-nominated Star Trek: Phase II, and for the forthcoming series, Buck Rogers. Carlos wrote Blood and Fire with David Gerrold and was a writer-producer for Star Trek: Hidden Frontier. His work was featured in Variety, NBC, MSNBC, ABC, BBC and NY Times.

• Mary Jo Pehl
  Mary Jo Pehl is a writer, actress and comedian. She is best known for her various roles on the television series Mystery Science Theater 3000.

• »Bob Pendarvis
  Bob Pendarvis was the original founder of SCAD's Sequential Art Department. The Public Schools Library Association recently recommended his graphic novel, THE BRISTOL BOARD JUNGLE, as one of the top ten recommended non-fiction graphic novels for young readers.

• George Pérez
  George Pérez is an illustrator and writer of comic books born of Latin-American (Puerto-Rican) descent. Along with John Byrne, he was arguably the most popular and influential artist in American comic books in the 1980s. He primarily illustrates superhero comics, mainly published by DC Comics and Marvel Comics, and is known for his clean, dynamic, yet ornate style, with a strong emphasis on group superhero action scenes.

• Brandt Peters
  The Subject of Brandt’s paintings is a world of creepy side-show icons, deviant Animalia, and ‘masked’ glorified cartoon alter egos.  Brandt is currently working on several designer toy projects with MINDstyle and Wheaty Wheat Studios as well as developing his own animation projects including his well known Slap-Happy! property.

• »Brandon Peterson
  Brandon Peterson has been working professionally as a comic book illustrator for over 15 years. Although he has worked primarily as a penciller, he has also exhibited his talents in every other job associated with making a comic book.

• Felice Picano
  23 books published, four plays produced, many awards and nominations, translations in 13 languages; worked in TV and film. Two Sci Fi books, one nominated for two awards. I will be at the Decatur Literary Festival this year and they are paying my way and upkeep.

• Phil Plait
  Phil Plait is an astronomer, author, award-winning blogger, skeptic, two-time D*C guest, and president of the James Randi Educational Foundation. He's also a major scifi geek, and would gladly drop everything to see the universe in the TARDIS with the Doctor.

• Van Allen Plexico
  Van Allen Plexico's ASSEMBLED!, hailed by Marvel's Tom Brevoort and Kurt Busiek, continues to raise thousands for charity.  His SF, Fantasy, mystery, and superhero novels, short stories, and nonfiction articles have been published by Adamant Entertainment, Swarm Press, Airship 27, White Rocket, A Thousand Faces, Rittenhouse, and RevolutionSF.com."

• Lynnette Porter
  Dr. Lynnette Porter is the author of The Hobbits: The Many Lives of Bilbo, Frodo, Sam, Merry, and Pippin; Unsung Heroes of The Lord of the Rings; Lost's Buried Treasures; Finding Battlestar Galactica. She's a Tolkien Society member and past speaker at ORC, ELF, and the Fellowship Festival.

• Eric Powell
  Eric Powell has worked in is the comics field since 1995, but his true success came with the launch of his critically-acclaimed dark comedy series, The Goon.

• Cherie Priest
  Cherie Priest is the author of Fathom, Four and Twenty Blackbirds, Wings to the Kingdom, and Not Flesh Nor Feathers from Tor Books -- as well as Dreadful Skin and Those Who Went Remain There Still from Subterranean.

• David Prowse
  David Prowse has played many roles, but we'll always know him best as the man behind Darth Vader's sinister mask.

• Brian Pulido
  Brian Pulido, founder of Chaos! Comics, has created and written Lady Death, Evil Ernie, Purgatori, Chastity, as well as Nightmare on Elm St, Friday The 13th, Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Chucky.

• Wayne Pygram
  Wayne Pygram an experienced Australian actor with an extensive background in theatre and film. His portrayal of the half-Scarran scientist Scorpius has earned him a place in the hearts of Farscape fans worldwide. Most recently Wayne played Governor Tarkin in Star Wars III, and had a guest appearance on LOST.

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• Benjamin Radford
  Benjamin Radford is managing editor of "Skeptical Inquirer" magazine and author of three books. Radford is a science-based paranormal investigator (psychics, ghosts, exorcisms, miracles, Bigfoot, reincarnation, crop circles, etc.) Radford has appeared on CNN, History Channel, etc., wrote and directed two short films, and created a board game, Playing Gods.

• Humberto Ramos
  In 2005, Ramos' creator-owned six-issue miniseries Revelations began publication at Dark Horse Comics. Following Revelations, Ramos returned to Marvel Comics, joining writer Marc Guggenheim as the new creative team on Wolverine, beginning with issue #42 in March 2006. Ramos is currently working with writer Terry Moore on Runaways in 2008.

• Rodney Ramos
  Rodney Ramos inker on the award winning series Transmetropolitan with Warren Ellis. Also on 52, Countdown , Final Crisis , Batman and Green Lantern for 4 years. Peter Parker, X-men, Gen-X , Ironman, Nick Fury and Toxin mini series for Marvel,

• James Randi
  James Randi is a retired professional magician now best known internationally as an investigator of paranormal, supernatural, and occult claims. He currently offers a one-million-dollar prize to anyone who can establish the existence of any such claim. See http://tinyurl.com/68tg97. His web page is www.randi.org.

• Trina Ray
  Trina Ray is an Astronomer with the Cassini-Huygens Mission to Saturn operated out of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. In her current position she coordinates all the Titan science opportunities for the Cassini Mission. She is an active public speaker for NASA, invited to give many talks around the nation.

• »David Reddick
  Fans of Star Trek know David as the official Star Trek cartoonist/creator of The Trek Life comic strip for CBS/STARTREK.COM, IDW, Tokyopop, Star Trek Magazine, creator of 2 webcomics for Roddenberry.com, and Legend of Bill at www.LegendofBill.com. David works full-time for the Garfield comic strip.

• Barry Reese
  Barry Reese has written for Marvel Comics, West End Games, Khepera Games and Wild Cat Books. His most well-known works include The Marvel Knights Encyclopedia, The All-New Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe, D6 Space: The Fires of Amatsumara and The Rook series of novels.

• Mike Resnick
  Most awarded writer of short science fiction, living or dead, according to Locus. 5-time Hugo winner,. Author of 58 novels, 220 stories, 2 screenplays. Editor of 50 anthologies. Currently executive editor of Jim Baen's Universe. Work has been translated into 22 languages.

• Kat Richardson
  Author of the Greywalker paranormal detective series, former technical editor, former magazine and curriculum editor.

• John D. Ringo
  John Ringo is a best selling author writing in several genres including porn, SF, porn, technothriller, porn, Christian demonology and porn. Also romance and anime but he's alittle ashamed of that.

• Eliza Roberts
  Eliza Roberts is best known for her starring role as Brunella in Animal House and has also appeared alongside her husband in the new Doctor Who. She is married to Eric Roberts and is the mother of Emma Roberts.

• Eric Roberts
  Eric Anthony Roberts is an American actor. His career began with King of the Gypsies (1978), earning a Golden Globe nomination for best actor debut. He earned a Golden globe and Academy Award nomination for his supporting role in Runaway Train (1985). He just recently appeared in Dark Night as Salvatore Maroni.

• Scott Rorie
  Scott is a free-lance sci-fi/fantasy/pin-up artist from Cary, NC.

• Christine Rose
  Christine is best known for her role as Angela Petrelli on the hit NBC cult drama Heroes.

• Selina Rosen
  Selina Rosen's stories have appeared in several magazines and anthologies. Some of her fourteen published novels include Queen of Denial, Chains of Freedom, Strange Robby, Fire & Ice, Bad Lands (with Laura J. Underwood), and Sword Masters. She owns Yard Dog Press and created their Bubbas of the Apocalypse universe.

• Alan Ruck
  Alan Ruck is perhaps best known for his role as Cameron Frye, Ferris Bueller's hypochondriac best friend Cameron in John Hughes' Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986) (Ruck was 29 when he portrayed the 17-year-old Cameron), and as Stuart Bondek, the lecherous, power-hungry member of the mayor's staff on the hit ABC sitcom Spin City, which ran from 1996-2002.   Alan portrayed "Captain John Harriman" in the "Star Trek Generations" movie and reprised that role in the Independent film "Star Trek: Of Gods and Men." In 2008, Alan was in Mexico City filming a new Sci-Fi television series, "Person's Unknown."

• Tony Ruggiero
  Tony Ruggiero is best known for his vampire series the Team of Darkness Declassified Files. The series has been described as Anne Rice and Tom Clancy rolled together into one dynamic and captivating story. The series continues in 2009 with Book III scheduled for a May-June release.

• Andy Runton
  Andy is the creator of the breakout all-ages series of graphic novels, Owly, starring a little owl who's always searching for new friends. Relying on a mixture of symbols and expressions to tell his silent stories, Runton's heartwarming style has made him a favorite
  of both fans and critics alike.

• Chris Ryniak
  Chris Ryniak was born as a baby in 1976 in the suburbs of Detroit. He spent his childhood basking in the warm glow of Saturday morning cartoons and flipping over rocks in search of insects, reptiles and ghosts.

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• Mike Sakuta       Swashbucklers
  Nicole Harsch and Mike Sakuta are the Crossed Swords. For over 20 years, their Crossed Swords Stage Combat Shows have been seen across the continental U.S. and Canada at renaissance festivals and science fiction conventions and, of course, previous Dragon*Cons.

• Richard Saunders
  Richard Saunders is one of the stars of the Paranormal Australian TV show 'The One', the host of 'The Skeptic Zone Podcast' and author of many books and a DVD on origami.

• John Schneider
  John starred as "Bo" in the hit series "The Dukes of Hazzard" appearing in 128 episodes. He is also starred in 111 episodes on TV on SMALLVILLE as Johnathan Kent. In 2008 he starred in "The Secret Life Of An American Teenager".

• Jason Schneiderman
  Dr. Schneiderman is a neuroscientist at Brigham and Woman's Hospital of Harvard Medical School.

• Edmund Schubert
  Edmund R. Schubert is the author of over thirty short stories and one novel, Dreaming Creek (Oct. 2008). He’s held a variety of editorial positions, currently serving as editor of Orson Scott Card’s InterGalactic Medicine Show. An anthology of IGMS stories, co-edited with Card, was published by Tor (Aug. 2008).

• Dwight Schultz
  William Dwight Schultz is an American stage, television and film actor. He is best known for his roles as Mung Daal in the children's cartoon Chowder, Captain "Howling Mad" Murdock on the hit 1980s action show The A-Team, and Reginald Barclay in Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Voyager, and the film Star Trek: First Contact.

• Randal L. Schwartz
  Published technical author (a dozen books, and hundreds of magazines on Perl and Smalltalk), new media journalist (producer of FLOSS Weekly, regular guest on many others), professional presenter (corporate training, comedy), world traveller, convicted computer criminal

• Tracy Scoggins
  Tracy is well-known for her lead role as Captain Elizabeth Lochley, a career military officer, in the award-winning international hit series Babylon 5, in which she starred alongside Bruce Boxleitner, Jerry Doyle and Mira Furlan.

• Eugenie C Scott
  Eugenie C. Scott is an internationally known authority on the creationist movement and antievolutionism in general. She is also a respected communicator of science to the general public, and a critic of pseudoscience.

• Steve Scott
  One of the current artists on Marvel's popular "X-Men Forever," you no doubt have seen the work of artist, Steve Scott if you are a fan of the hit TV show, Smallville as well!  Not to mention a plethora of other projects... that have been garnering him a great deal of attention from editors and comic readers alike!!

• ScottC
  ScottC is a long-time contributor to Needcoffee.com, a premiere pop culture news and reviews website now celebrating its 10th year serving the entertainment needs of over-caffeinated insomniacs the world over.

• Stephen H Segal
  Stephen H. Segal is the editorial & creative director of the legendary fantasy magazine Weird Tales. The original birthplace of Cthulhu and Conan, today Weird Tales is a vital fantasy-scifi-horror-steampunk laboratory, publishing cutting-edge stories, art and comics from creators like Michael Moorcock, Cherie Priest, and Caitlin Kiernan.

• Michael Shanks
  Michael Shanks is a Canadian actor who achieved fame for his role as "Dr. Daniel Jackson" on the science fiction television series, Stargate SG-1. He also provides the voice of the recurring character, "Thor," on the same series.

• Sean H Shaw
  After drawing Gen 13, Shi, Avengelyne, Razor and a Vampirella/ Wetworks one shot, Shaw has recently done covers for Zenescope's Grimm Fairy Tales, and Sinbad. He is currently drawing covers for Warren Ellis's Anna Mercury at Avatar Press.

• Josepha Sherman
  Josepha Sherman is a SF/fantasy writer, editor, storyteller and folklorist with over 60 books in print and 150+ short stories.

• Seth Shostak
  Seth is the Senior Astronomer at the SETI Institute, in Mountain View, California, participating in the scientific search for extraterrestrial intelligence. He has written four books and several hundred popular articles. Seth is a frequent guest on radio and television, and hosts a weekly science show, "Are We Alone?"

• Scott Sigler
  New York Times best-selling novelist Scott Sigler is the author of INFECTED and CONTAGIOUS, hardcover thrillers from Crown Publishing. Scott built a large online following by giving away his self-recorded audiobooks as free, serialized podcasts. His fans, known as "Junkies," have downloaded over seven million individual episodes of his stories.

• Bradley H Sinor
  Brad Sinor has published more than 60 science fiction and fantasy stories in varuiys antholgies. He has three short story collections, In The Shadows, Playing With Secrets, and Dark and Stormy Nights. His latest collection is Echos From The Darkess.l He has also written for Starlog and other magazines.

• Susan Sizemore
  NYT bestselling author of urban fantasy and paranormal romance vampire series. Past Dragoncon guest and longtime member of sf/f fandom.

• Sket One
  A Connecticut-based graffiti artist, Sket has produced toys for such heavyweights as Kidrobot, Kaching/Mindstlyle, Red Magic, Circus Punks, and basically so many more that if we listed them all, you'd be reading a book.

• Helen Slater
  Helen's debut film performance, 3"Supergirl" won praise from critics and launched her career. She went on to star in such films as "The Legend of Billie Jean," "Ruthless People," "The Secret of my Success," "City Slickers," and appeared this season on "Law and Order: Special Victims Unit."

• Dave Slusher
  Dave Slusher hosted the syndicated science fiction radio talk show Reality Break for six years, and has recently revived the program as a podcast series. He has interviewed hundreds of authors, artists, actors, musicians and other ne'er-do-wells from the worlds of fantastical literature and film.

• »Fr. Bryan Small
  A Catholic priest for over 7 years now, Fr. Bryan enjoys the ongoing discussion between the expression of popular culture and the language of faith.

• Alison Michelle Smith
  Alison Smith is a skeptical investigator of paranormal pheneomena, founded Skeptical Analysis of the Paranormal Society, and currently works for the James Randi Educational Foundation as a Research Assistant.

• Tom Smith        Musical
  Tom Smith has won more awards for filking excellence than anyone alive, and his concerts are not to be missed.

• John C. Snider
  John C. Snider is the editor of the long-running online science fiction magazine SciFiDimensions.com. He's also the host of the SciFiDimensions Podcast and co-host (with David Driscoll) of the American Freethought Podcast (www.AmericanFreethought.com).

• »Spider Lilies        Musical
  Spider Lilies music is a blend of rock, darkwave, and goth, featuring female vocals, guitar, with electronic beats and samples.

• Jennifer St. Giles
  USA Today Bestselling Author Jennifer St. Giles writes award winning romance both in the paranormal contemporary and Historical genres. Former nurse and home educator, she lives in the Atlanta area and is an active member of Georgia Romance Writers and Romance Writers of America.

• Michael Stackpole
  Michael A. Stackpole is a New York Times Bestselling author of over 40 novels. He's won awards for podcasting, game design, computer game design, graphic novels, Screenplays and novels. His career in gaming spans over 31 years and he is best known for his defense of gaming against the Religious right.

• Cat Staggs
  Cat Staggs recently worked with Lucas Film on exclusive prints for Celebration III, IV and Europe. She's also worked on two Lord of the Rings card sets for Topps; for Rittenhouse Archives, the Complete Marvel Avengers and the DC Legacy card sets; Worlds Finest VS trading card game with Upperdeck.

• »Rev. Ivan Stang
  Creator (under "Bob" Dobbs) of The Church of the SubGenius, author of 5 SubGenius books (~100,000 sales from Simon & Schuster), producer since 1985 of THE HOUR OF SLACK syndicated weekly radio show (25 stations), producer of annual SubGenius event X-Day, veteran of ~200 comedy nightclub, festival and convention shows.

• Ken Steacy
  During his 35 year career in the industry KEN STEACY has written and illustrated the exploits of practically every popular character you could name, including Astro Boy, Harry Potter, Batman, Superman, Spider-man and the X-Men.

• Kim Steadman
  Kim Steadman is an Engineer with the Cassini-Huygens Mission at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. She previously worked on the X2000 Project as a Systems Engineer and the Mars Exploration Rover Mission as a Mission Planner. She holds a B.S and M.S in Aerospace Engineering from Georgia Tech.

• Jeanne C. Stein
  Jeanne Stein's first novel, THE BECOMING, was a national bestseller. Books two, three and four have been published in the popular Anna Strong Vampire Chronicles, as well as short stories in MANY BLOODY RETURNS and AT THE SCENE OF THE CRIME. Her fifth book, RETRIBUTION, arrives September 2009.

• »Aimee Major Steinberger
  Aimee Major Steinberger is the creator of the illustrated book, Japan Ai, A Tall Girl's Adventures in Japan. She was an animator on The Simpsons, Futurama, and Pink Panther 2. She's currently Assistant Director on the new Futurama Series.

• Brian Stelfreeze
  Brian Stelfreeze has the distinction of painting over 50 consecutive Batman: Shadow Of The Bat covers. His other covers for DC, Marvel, and various other publishers are beyond the ability of most people to count.

• Rick Sternbach
  Rick Sternbach has been a space and science fiction artist since the early 1970s, often combining both interests in a project. Beginning in the late 1970s Rick added film and television illustration and special effects to his background, with productions like Star Trek: The Motion Picture, The Last Starfighter, Future Flight, and Cosmos, for which he and other members of the art team received an Emmy award, the first for visual effects. Rick also twice received the coveted Hugo award for best professional science fiction artist, in 1977 and 1978.

• Paul Stevens
  Paul Stevens is an Editor with Tom Doherty Associates. He acquires a wide range of books including science fiction and fantasy for Tor Books. Some of his recent books are Blood Groove by Alex Bledsoe and Too Many Curses by A. Lee Martinez.

• »Patrick Stewart
  Patrick Stewart is an English film, television and stage actor. He has had a distinguished career in theatre for nearly fifty years, including performances as various characters in Shakespearean productions. However, he is perhaps most widely known for his television and film roles as Captain Jean-Luc Picard in Star Trek: The Next Generation, and Professor Xavier in the X-Men films.

• Maggie Stiefvater
  The author of LAMENT & BALLAD (Flux 08/09), YA novels about homicidal faeries, and SHIVER, Scholastic Press' lead hardcover title for '09. Maggie also contributes weekly speculative fiction short stories to Merry Sisters of Fate every Friday.

• S.M. Stirling
  Stirling is best known for his Draka series of alternate history novels and the more recent time travel/alternate history Nantucket series and Emberverse series.

• Karen Stollznow
  Dr Karen Stollznow is a skeptic, author and linguist with a specialty in taboo language. Karen is Editor of The Skeptic magazine and author of the popular Skepbitch blog and Bad Language website.

• Eric James Stone
  Eric James Stone is an award-winning science fiction and fantasy author whose professional credits include venues such as Analog, Baen's Universe, Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show, Writers of the Future, and Kevin J. Anderson's Blood Lite anthology of humorous horror.

• Karl Story
  Karl Story inks and inks and inks, making him one of the most sought-after freelancers in comics. He has carved a vast body of work on Nightwing, Batman, Star Trek, Aliens Vs. Predator, X-Men, and many more.

• William Stout
  William Stout is America's leading dinosaur illustrator. His one-man show, Dinosaurs, Penguins and Whales—The Wildlife of Antarctica, has toured the art galleries of the world.

• Gillian Summers
  Gillian Summers is the writing duo of Berta Platas and Michelle Roper. They debuted their YA Faire Folk Trilogy at Dragon*Con 2007 with The Tree Shepherd's Daughter, now in its 2nd printing. This year the third book, The Secret of the Dread Forest, comes out in June.

• Kristy Swanson
  Swanson is probably best known for her starring role in the Twentieth Century Fox feature film, Buffy the Vampire Slayer.  Kristy has also appeared in the "Phantom", "Deadly Friend", "Ferris Bueller's Day Off", and "Dude, Where's My Car?"

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• »Tom Taggart
  Tom Taggart is a cover artist for DC Comics, Marvel and Dark Horse.  He is best known for Doom Patrol covers. Taggart is also a sculptor for such companies as McFarlane Toys.

• Jonathan Tarbox
  "Jake" Tarbox spent most of his adult life in Japan, working as a media manager and television personality. After working at Coamix Inc. as senior editor of Raijin Comics, he took the position of Group Editor at DC Comics. He now runs Arashi Productions.

• Anthony Taylor
  Anthony Taylor is the author of The Future was FAB: The Art of Mike Trim, editor of CultTVMan's Ultimate Sci-Fi Modeling Guide Books, and designer for tin10 collectibles (Lost in Space, Buck Rogers, Nosferatu lunchboxes). His articles have appeared in Toy Shop, FilmFax, Sci-Fi & Fantasy Models, and other magazines.

• Sean Taylor
  Sean Taylor is the writer of Gene Simmons Dominatrix and a contributor to Gene Simmons House of Horrors by IDW. He's also the former managing editor of Campfire graphic novels and former EIC of Shooting Star Comics.

• Greg Theakston
  Greg Theakston is the publisher of Pure Imagination. He has also worked for all of the major comics publishers, and has written extensively on the topic. He also published The Betty Pages and Tease! magazine.

• Toy Baroness
  The Toy Baroness is Kidrobot's promotions queen and event planner.

• Tiffany Trent
  Tiffany Trent is the award-winning creator and author of the young adult dark fantasy series, Hallowmere. She is the most recent winner of the Society for Children's Book Writers and Illustrators Work-in-Progress grant for her new Victorian dark fantasy series based on Charles Darwin's scientific adventures.

• Michael Trucco
  Michael Trucco; Resistance fighter, husband to Starbuck on Battlestar Galactica. Other work includes, Josh Hunter on Beverly Hills 90210, Lt. Tucker "Spoon" Henry on Pensacola: Wings of Gold, guest appearances on One Tree Hill, CSI and CSI: Miami. He recently played Jessica Biel's boyfriend on the Sony/Revolution feature Next.

• J.M. Tuffley
  J.M. Tuffley writes about pop culture for needcoffee.com, where he contributes assorted news and rants, and co-moderates the site's music forum. He also runs his own media experiments on the aptly titled randomwerks.com.

• Clifton Tunnell
  Cliff Tunnell is a registered patent attorney, who is licensed to practice law in Alabama and Georgia. His legal specialty is in the field of intellectual property law, including patents, trademarks, and copyrights. Cliff has spoken at previous Dragon*Cons on various topics related to patent law.

• Lani John Tupu
  Lani John Tupu has two major roles in the Saturn Award-winning TV series Farscape. He is the unpredictable Captain Crais, and the voice of Pilot, the ship's navigator. Lani also starred in the Australian film Lantana which won the Australian Film Institute award for Best Australia Film.

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• »Wayne Vansant
  For more than 20 years, beginning with Marvel's The 'Nam, Wayne Vansant has written and/or illustrated scores of books on historical and Military subjects. Covering conflicts from the Civil War, to World War II, Korea, and Vietnam, Vansant has researched and produced stories that are both texturally and visually accurate.

• Denise Vasquez
  Denise Vasquez is a professional Artist whose talents run the gamut from Illustration, Singing, playing guitar and acting to dancing, and writing (music, short plays, poetry).

• Kate Vernon
  Most recently, Kate Vernon played the role of Ellen Tigh in the hit series "Battlestar Gallactica."

• Voltaire        Musical
  Voltaire and the Skeletal Orchestra: It's upbeat, low-brow Victorian hi jinks of the macabre kind, as Voltaire and his band of gypsy pirates stomp through songs about Zombie Prostitutes, The Day of the Dead and hits, including songs from Cartoon Network's "The Grim Adventures of Billy And Mandy".

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• Jeffrey Joseph Wagg
  Jeff is the Communication and Outreach Manager for the James Randi Educational Foundation. He investigates and researches paranormal claims, writes for the JREF's newsletters, and administers the $1M challenge.

• Doug Wagner
  Doug Wagner is the author of 12 Gauge Comics' The Ride, Gun Candy, and this year's The Ride: Die Valkyrie.

• Widgett Walls
  Widgett Walls is the chief cook and bottle washer of Needcoffee.com, the award winning pop culture website. He is also half of the brains behind the ever popular and ever evolving Gonzo Film Spectacular at DragonCon.

• Garrett Wang
  Wang is best known for his role as Ensign Harry Kim on Voyager which ran from 1995 to 2001. He was keen to participate in a new role for the 2007 fan production Star Trek: Of Gods and Men

• Jean Marie Ward
  Jean Marie Ward writes fiction, nonfiction and everything in between. Her first novel finaled in two categories of the 2008 Indie Book Awards. Here Be Dragons: Tales of DragonCon features one of her stories. Fantasy Art Templates, her latest nonfiction project, will be published in 2010.

• Graham Watkins
  Graham Watkins, a former researcher at J.B. Rhine's parapsychology laboratory in Durham, NC, published his first novel, Dark Winds, in 1989. His works are available in six languages. He has expertise in the areas of parapsychology and cryptozoology.

• Rebecca Watson
  Rebecca leads a team of skeptical female activists at Skepchick.org, co-hosts the weekly podcast The Skeptics’ Guide to the Universe, produces geeky pin-up calendars, and attending rock shows. She currently lives in Boston and there is an asteroid orbiting the sun with her name on it.

• Toni Weisskopf
  Toni Weisskopf succeeded Jim Baen as publisher of Baen Books. She has worked with such authors as David Weber, David Drake, Lois McMaster Bujold, Eric Flint, Wen Spencer, and many others. She's also edited three original hard sf anthologies, most recently Transhuman, with sf author Mark L. Van Name.

• Michael Welch
  Michael is part of the ensemble cast of the mega blockbuster "Twilight", based on the successful of novels by Stephanie Meyer.

• Mark I. West
  Mark I. West is a Professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, where he teaches courses in children's and young adult literature. He has published numerous books and article. many of which relate to fantasy literature.

• M. B. Weston
  Author, talk radio host, and graphic novel writer M. B. Weston is one of the fantasy genre's emerging voices. A gifted orator, Weston speaks at writing and sci-fi conventions. Weston's radio program about science fiction and fantasy movies, The Final Cut in Movies, airs daily on AdAstraRadio.com.

• Chris Wiese
  Chris Wiese, is a partner at Holistic Design, developer for Noble Armada, Carnage & Fantasy Encounters game lines and author or co-author of many HDI titles. Game designer, artist, writer and business owner/operator, Chris brings a skill set to gaming with vision for taking games from concept to finished product.

• »Eric Wight
  Eric Wight is the author and illustrator of FRANKIE PICKLE, a new chapter book series published by Simon & Schuster. Prior to that, he was an animator for almost ten years for such companies as Walt Disney, Warner Bros., and Cartoon Network.

• Michael Z. Williamson
  Mr Williamson is the author of 6 SF novels, dozens of shorts, hundreds of articles and commentaries for magazines and websites. He's an immigrant, a veteran of the Army and USAF (OIF). He's a professional bladesmith. He is currently working on a new novel, and projects with the Outdoor Channel.

• C.L. Wilson
  C.L. Wilson is a USA Today and NY Times Bestselling author of fantasy romance. The fourth and final volume of her cross-genre epic fantasy Tairen Soul series will be published June 2009 from Dorchester Publishing. Ms. Wilson is a member of SWFA and RWA.

• Grant Wilson
  Grant Wilson is the co-founder of TAPS, the Atlantic paranormal society, and star of Ghost Hunters, the highest rated show on SciFi channel. He has authored a New York Times best selling book entitled "Ghost Hunting" and they also run the TAPS Paramagazine. Grant also loves to draw, write music.

• »Renee Witterstaetter
  Writer, editor. publisher in comics, film, and art book publishing. Worked at Marvel, DC, Topps, Image, and worked on feature films "Rush Hour 2," "Red Dragon." New book "Excess: The Art of Michael Golden," just released, and the upcoming fantasty art bookk on Mark Texeira out by Dragon Con '08.

• Gene Wolfe
  Gene Wolfe writes SF, fantasy, and horror stories and novels. He is the author of SHADOW & CLAW, LATRO IN THE MIST, PIRATE FREEDOM, AN EVIL GUEST, and other titles all these are published by Tor. He's won two Nebulas and four World Fantasy Awards, and various foreign awards.

• Janny Wurts
  Janny is an author/artist, writing nineteen books and thirty stories.  Janny plays the bagpipes, entertaining all attendees at the DragonCon parade.  Janny wrote the War of Light and Shadows series, republished 2009, also collaborations with Raymond Feist.  In the area of illustration, she has done covers, exhibitions: NASA/Cleveland Museum, Hayden Planetarium, Delaware Art Museum. 3 Chesley awards, 3 WFC Best-In-Shows, 2010 calendar/Tidemark Press.

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• Derek Yaniger
  Derek Yaniger is a toothless hillbilly. Born in the backwoods of Arkansas, he was raised on little more than pork rinds and corn squeezins. Derek still resides in the south, in Atlanta, Georgia.

• Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
  Forty years a professional writer, Yarbro has published over 80 books and 70 short stories including science fiction, mystery, fantasy, western, young adlult, horror, and non-fiction, including her Saint-Germain series . 2002 the World Horror Association made her a Grand Master; in 2005 she became a Living Legend by the International Horror Guild.

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• Timothy Zahn
  Timothy Zahn is the author of thirty-five science fiction books, including eight Star Wars books, the young-adult Dragonback series, the Cobra series, and the upcoming FROM THE ASHES, a prequel to next year's movie TERMINATOR SALVATION.

• Fiona Zedde
  Fiona Zedde is the author of numerous short stories, three novellas, and four best-selling novels—Bliss, A Taste of Sin, Hungry for It, and the vampire love story, Every Dark Desire which was nominated for a Lambda Literary Award. She currently lives and writes in Atlanta.

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Theatrical, Musical, & Radio Performances

Dragon*Con has had a long tradition of providing a wide variety of performances for the enjoyment of our attendees. Each year we host at least a dozen performances from bands, theatrical troops, Combat Demonstrations, and DJs.

Musical acts from the past have ranged from light pop (Apollo Smile) to Goth and world-music (The Cruxshadows, Voltaire, The Changelings) to the heavy (The Misfits, Godhead).

Theatrical troops like the Atlanta Radio Theatre Company and the Mighty Rassilon Art Players have taken to the stage with their own brands of SCIFI entertainment.

Swashbucklers like The Crossed Swords have provided sword play performances and combat demonstrations with Sci-Fi and Renaissance flare.

Some of the best local and national DJ's provided music to get your body moving in our late night DJ'd dances.

The items below show which of the names on this page are performers and what type of performance they fall under.

•  Musical  - Musical Acts & Performances
•  Theatrical  - Theatrical Performances
•  Swashbucklers  - Combat Performances and Demonstrations
•  DJ  - DJ Dances

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