Confirmed programming participants for MileHiCon 57
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| Pen/Badge/Preferred Name | Photo: | Biography | Website: | Link to Facebook: | Facebook: | Twitter handle | Other Links: |
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| @KatOfDiamonds / Kat | KatOfDiamonds has been cosplaying since 2012 and has been streaming cosplay builds on Twitch since 2018. She loves talking troubleshooting and creating as she is self-and-community taught in most things. Meet ups and collaborations are her bread and butter. Her two biggest fandoms at the moment are The Locked Tomb and Dimension 20. Check out her cosplays or reach out on her social media @KatOfDiamonds. | https://www.facebook.com/katofdiamonds | https://www.facebook.com/katofdiamonds | https://www.instagram.com/katofdiamonds ; http://twitch.tv/katofdiamonds/ | |||
| A.L. Kessler/Amy |  | A.L. Kessler is an author of paranormal and urban fantasy books and is best known for her “Here Witchy Witchy” series. A self-proclaimed coffee addict, she resides in Colorado Springs with her family and menagerie of animals. When she’s not writing her next book, she loves to read and visit with friends and family. To learn more about her, check out her website: http://www.amylkessler.com/ | www.amylkessler.com | https://www.facebook.com/alkesslerauthor | https://www.facebook.com/alkesslerauthor | ||
| Alex Galassi |  | Alex Galassi is the author of the Rebalancing the Cosmos series. He has been writing and creating stories for most of his life. Many of his characters, including Navacus Clums and Cecil Kloud, were born through his time playing with LEGO. Alex was born in Littleton, Colorado in the early 1990s and has lived in Colorado his entire life. When he is not working or writing fiction, Alex enjoys exploring Colorado’s beautiful mountains, reading fantasy and science-fiction novels, attending concerts at Red Rocks, and playing Magic: The Gathering, Dungeons & Dragons, and video games. | https://alexgalassi.com/ | facebook.com/AlexGalassiAuthor | facebook.com/AlexGalassiAuthor | N/A | https://linktr.ee/alexgalassi_author |
| Amy Armstrong | Amy Armstrong is a therapist transitioning to freelance editing and book coaching. She loves helping other writers and talking about books. She really loves horror movies and novels. Currently, she screens manuscripts for a literary agent and The Masters Review. She responds well to free drinks and ARCs. | https://www.armstrongediting.com | https://www.facebook.com/share/19S7Y5AV6t/?mibextid=wwXIfr | https://www.facebook.com/share/19S7Y5AV6t/?mibextid=wwXIfr | https://www.instagram.com/armstrongediting/profilecard/?igsh=dDNqN2c4dWV4OWlx | ||
| Arlen Feldman |  | As well as writing fiction, Arlen Feldman is a software engineer, maker, costumer, con-runner (cosinecon.org), and computer book author. His short fiction can be found in a number of anthologies and magazines, and he won the 2024 Baen Fantasy Adventure Award for his story The Wish Doctor. He lives in Colorado Springs, Colorado | https://cowthulu.com | Mastodon: @cowthulu@mastodon.social. Bluesky: @cowthulu.bsky.social | |||
| Betsy Dornbusch |  | Betsy Dornbusch writes epic fantasy, and has dabbled in science fiction, thrillers, and erotica. Her short fiction has appeared in over twenty magazines and anthologies, and she’s the author of three novellas. Her first fantasy novel came out in 2012 and her latest trilogy, Books of the Seven Eyes, wrapped up with Enemy in 2017. The Silver Scar, a standalone future fantasy novel, was called “a spellbinding saga” by Publisher’s Weekly. She likes writing, reading, snowboarding, punk rock, and the Denver Broncos. Betsy and her family split their time between Boulder and Grand Lake, Colorado. | betsydornbusch.com | facebook.com/betsydornbusch | facebook.com/betsydornbusch | betsydornbusch.bsky.social, instagram.com/betsydornbusch | |
| Beverly J. Warner |  | Beverly J. Warner (she/her) is a lifelong devotee of fantasy and science fiction, folklore and pop culture, and all forms of storytelling. As a masquerade director, cosplay judge, panelist, and organizer she’s crafted welcoming spaces in fandom like writers’ meetups, costume contests, and flower crown classes. When not volunteering or managing various small businesses, she enjoys Formula 1 Racing with her husband, K-Pop with her 5th grader, and snuggles with her two retired racing greyhounds. | https://beverlysomething.com/ | https://www.facebook.com/charmedseed | https://www.facebook.com/charmedseed | ||
| Calvin James | Calvin James is an Author, Engineer, and Game Designer. His novel Affairs of State will release July 2026. | www.calvinjamesauthor.com | Instagram@calvinjamesauthor | ||||
| Cameron Pittman |  | Cameron Pittman is a museum professional involved in managing natural history collections, incorporating the tasks of digitization, preparation, and conservation. Cameron was born in Utah and moved across a few states from the West Coast to the East Coast. He attended the Museum and Field Studies program at the University of Colorado Boulder, where he worked in the University of Colorado Museum of Natural History’s Vertebrate and Invertebrate Collections. Following graduation, Cameron began working as the Assistant Collections Manager of Vertebrate Zoology at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science, where he helps manage the mammalogy, ornithology, and herpetology collections. | https://www.dmns.org/science/science-staff/ | https://arctos.database.museum/agent/21333856 | |||
| Candy Fantastic | Candy Fantastic is a magical being disguised as a Colorado local. She spends her days conjuring new realms, weaving tales of fractured gods, and sketching monsters that may or may not belong under your bed. She co-hosts The Cloaked Tatters podcast, where she explores trauma, transformation, and the art that rises from both. Whether through words, visuals, or conversation, Candy loves transporting others to strange and wondrous places. | https://www.facebook.com/candycanefantastic | https://www.facebook.com/candycanefantastic | ||||
| Carol Berg |  | Former software engineer Carol Berg never expected to become an author, much less an award-winning author. But her eighteen epic fantasy novels and a handful of short works have won national and international awards, including four Colorado Book Awards and the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature. Her most recent novels are the fantasy adventure Chimera series from Tor Books, written under her alternate ID, Cate Glass. Carol/Cate lives in Colorado at the foot of the Rockies, and on the internet at www.carolberg.com. | https://www.carolberg.com | https://www.facebook.com/carolberg | https://www.facebook.com/carolberg | N/A | |
| Carrie Vaughn |  | Carrie Vaughn's work includes the Philip K. Dick Award winning novel Bannerless, the New York Times Bestselling Kitty Norville urban fantasy series, over twenty novels and upwards of 100 short stories, two of which have been finalists for the Hugo Award. Her latest novel, The Naturalist Society, is about 19th century ornithologists, awkward love triangles, and the magic of binomial nomenclature. An Air Force brat, she survived her nomadic childhood and managed to put down roots in Boulder, Colorado. | www.carrievaughn.com | https://www.facebook.com/carrie.vaughn | https://www.facebook.com/carrie.vaughn | https://www.patreon.com/carrievaughn | |
| Catherine Cooke Montrose | Catherine Cooke Montrose wrote a couple of fantasy trilogies back in the 80's, a horror novel in the 90s, and a short story or two. She works in theater at the Lakewood Cultural Center and produces Gilbert and Sullivan operettas with the Empire Lyric Players, most recently "The Mikado IN SPACE!" | www.catmontrose.com | |||||
| Catlyn Ladd |  | Catlyn Ladd loves alliteration, the sibilant slip of similar sounds. She blends metaphors and archetypes from the shadow self, illuminating the monsters that gestate there. Catlyn worked as a stripper before becoming a professor of philosophy, religion, and women’s studies. Her fiction has been published in over a dozen magazines and anthologies. Her nonfiction book, Strip: The Making of a Feminist, is published by Changemakers. Her debut novel As Those Above Fall is from Winding Road Stories. She lives with her partner and cats in Colorado. | https://www.catlynladd.com/ | https://www.facebook.com/@catlynladd | https://www.facebook.com/@catlynladd | IG: EclecticAcademic TikTok: @eclecticacademic Newsletter: https://catlynladd.substack.com/ | |
| Chip Houser | Chip Houser's short fiction has appeared in Bourbon Penn, PULP Literature, Molotov Cocktail, PodCastle, Daily Science Fiction, and many other speculative and literary markets. “Dark Morsels”, a collection of his very short fiction, was published in 2023 by Red Bird Chapbooks. He attended the Odyssey Writing Workshop and earned an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Missouri-St. Louis, where he was the Associate Editor of Natural Bridge. He’s read slush for Amazing Stories and co-edited the Weird Dream Society anthology. He lives in northern Colorado and is a retired architect. Find him at chiphouser.com. | www.chiphouser.com | www.facebook.com/chazzlepants | www.facebook.com/chazzlepants | @chazzlepants | ||
| Connie Willis | Connie Willis is the Hugo- and Nebula-Award-winning author of DOOMSDAY BOOK, TO SAY NOTHING OF THE DOG, PASSAGE, and BLACKOUT and ALL CLEAR. Her most recent novel is THE ROAD TO ROSWELL. Willis is a Grand Master of Science Fiction and a member of the Science Fiction Hall of Fame. She is currently working on a new Oxford time-travellers novel called BOOK CIPHER. | conniewillis.net | |||||
| Courtney | After teaching science for 52 years Courtney is now retired. He spends much of his time with old sewing machines, quilting, and trying to stay out of Connie's way. | ||||||
| Craig W. Chrissinger | Craig W. Chrissinger is writing one piece a year for Locus Magazine, working some advance film screenings, and heading up in-person Bubonicons. Nothing is the same as before the modern-day plague, but we muddle through (and, yes, we had Covid October 2023). Craig has been in fandom since 1976, and was Fan Guest at ArmadilloCon 40. He lives in Albuquerque with the fabulous Jessica and two young cats named Gizmo and Kaylee. He works at a used bookstore, reads books, magazines and comics, and watches TV and movies. He would like to write more and really de-clutter the house. | www.bubonicon.com | |||||
| csmiskimon@gmail.com | Christopher Miskimon is a freelance writer specializing in military history and current/near term military affairs. He has over 230 articles, book review columns, and web articles in print/publication as well as authoring 9 bookazines. He is life long science fiction and fantasy reader. Chris is a retired US Army Space Operations Officer who also served in the field artillery and infantry. | ||||||
| Cynthia J Ward |  | A strange nerd who loves movies, gaming, craft beer, queer culture, and various combinations thereof. Cynthia has dipped her toes in filmmaking, film criticism, broadcasting, podcasting, homebrewing, and general geekiness. She lives in Denver with her wife, kids, and cats. | |||||
| Dana Bell | Dana Bell is owned by two cats who insist on being the center of her universe. She writes in SFFH and PNR. Currently has six books out. As an editor she has over 10 anthologies to her credit, writes poetry, some of which won awards, and more short stories than she can count. Her has many hobbies to occupy her time, and some, end up in her tales. | https://www.facebook.com/dragonlots57 | https://www.facebook.com/dragonlots57 | https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpcRzYgLS9Pd646GAKmo1jQ | |||
| Daniel Dvorkin |  | Daniel Dvorkin, Ph.D., served as an Army infantryman and an Air Force medic. He is now a bioinformaticist unraveling the secrets of life itself, or at least coming up with better drugs. Fiction works include the Seaway Station time travel series—so far consisting of three short stories published in Boundary Shock Quarterly, and a novel in progress—as well as two novels coauthored with his father David Dvorkin. Nonfiction includes various scholarly articles, findable by searching for "Dvorkin D" at http://pubmed.gov. He lives in Denver with his fiancée Becca Lee and a quantum field of cats. | https://www.facebook.com/DanielTheMedic | https://www.facebook.com/DanielTheMedic | https://www.quora.com/profile/Daniel-Dvorkin-3 | ||
| Danyda Feldman | Danyda is a professional storyteller, speaker, dragon maker, costumer, and hypnotherapist. She stubbornly keeps her British accent, but speaks fluent American. | ||||||
| David R. Slayton |  | David R. Slayton (He/Him) grew up in Guthrie, Oklahoma, where finding fantasy novels was pretty challenging and finding ones with diverse characters was downright impossible. Now he lives in Denver and writes the books he always wanted to read. His debut, White Trash Warlock, received a starred review from Publishers Weekly. In 2015, David founded Trick or Read, an initiative to give out books along with candy to children on Halloween as well as uplift lesser-known authors or those from marginalized backgrounds. His epic fantasy, Dark Moon, Shallow Sea, won the 2024 Colorado Book Award. Find him online at www.DavidRSlayton.com. | https://www.davidrslayton.com | https://www.facebook.com/david.r.slayton | https://www.facebook.com/david.r.slayton | https://x.com/drslayton | https://bsky.app/profile/drslayton.bsky.social |
| DeAnna Knippling | DeAnna Knippling writes “literary pulp”—modern gothic, dark cozy, and speculative tales that linger like ghosts. Her latest novel, House of Masks, is a gothic space opera that blends haunted-house atmosphere with the shadows of deep space. Through her Wonderland Press imprint, she publishes fiction that mixes the strange, the unsettling, and the oddly cozy. She has lived in Colorado and now resides in Florida. You can find her work at WonderlandPress.com. | wonderlandpress.com | https://www.facebook.com/deanna.knippling | https://www.facebook.com/deanna.knippling | https://bsky.app/profile/dknippling.bsky.social | ||
| Dr. Jim Gunderson | Dr. Jim Gunderson believes in LLAMAs, the potential of AI, and the awesomeness of his wife, Dr. Louise. | gunderfish.com | https://www.facebook.com/james.p.gunderson | https://www.facebook.com/james.p.gunderson | |||
| Dr. Louise Gunderson | Dr. Louise Gunderson is an expert in the field of Artificial Intelligence and has written extensively about the field. | gunderfish.com | https://www.facebook.com/louise.gunderson.56 | https://www.facebook.com/louise.gunderson.56 | |||
| Dr. Rob S. Rice | Rob S. Rice has long had a fascination with the histories of war, technology, and the sea. He has delivered papers before the APA, lectured at Annapolis and has taught subjects from Mythology to Roman History. Before all THAT, he won the 1st Del Rey ‘Writers of Tomorrow’ contest in 1983, the bug bit hard and early, and has never quite let him go. Dr. Rice is a published poet, also a street actor and historical consultant for the Colorado Renaissance Festival in Larkspur. His works of Historical Fantasy are available from the Esterhazy Press, visit his website at http://www.robricebooks.com | http://www.robricebooks.com | |||||
| Emily Krempholtz |  | Emily Krempholtz is the author of VIOLET THISTLEWAITE IS NOT A VILLAIN ANYMORE, a cozy fantasy romance out in November. She's also a bestselling ghostwriter, award-winning book coach, and avid baked goods enthusiast. | https://emilykrempholtz.com/ | n/a | n/a | n/a | Insta: https://www.instagram.com/embakesbooks_/ ; Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@writersofrohan ; Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/writersofrohan.bsky.social |
| Emily Mah |  | Emily Mah has published short stories in Analog, Dreamforge, and several anthologies. She is also the contemporary fiction author, E.M. Tippetts. She lives with her family and Norwegian Elkhound in Santa Fe. By day, she works in finance. | |||||
| Erik Johnson | Retired engineer. Projects at classified locations provides a wealth of ideas for 'what-if' stories. | ||||||
| Eva Jorn | Eva Jorn is a geologist working at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science as an Assistant Collections Manager. She is essentially a rock librarian, organizing and tracking data for the rocks, minerals, and meteorites in the museum's Geology collection. Eva completed her Masters degree in Geology from the University of Colorado Boulder where she studied how bacteria are involved in creating fossils. | ||||||
| Ezri Lell |  | Author, parent, game master, game designer. Ezri writes Science-Fiction, Fantasy, Urban Fantasy, and TTRPGs, reads every chance she gets, and loves interacting with folks of all kinds at events! | www.kalijor.com | ||||
| F. P. Dorchak |  | F. P. Dorchak has a B.S. in physics/astronomy and retired after 37 years as a USAF officer/DoD contractor. He worked in missile warning, satellite operations, and technical writing. Frank’s been writing since he was six. His anthology Do The Dead Dream won a 2017 Best Books Award for short stories, and A Philosophy of Stars was a 2024 Best Book Awards Finalist in Science Fiction. Frank’s learning classical violin since 2020 and performs with the New Horizons Band in Colorado Springs. He can occasionally be reached in séances and at www.fpdorchak.com, but don’t believe everything he tells you. | www.fpdorchak.com | https://www.facebook.com/fpdorchakauthor | https://www.facebook.com/fpdorchakauthor | https://www.instagram.com/fpdorchak/ | |
| Fred Poutre | Fred comes from an extremely large and complicated family, which currently has 5 generations. He is a great-grandfather. Fred has lived in 13 states, and has visited all but Hawaii. Currently he lives in Riverton, Wyoming - almost the dead center of the state. Fred designs card, board, and role-playing games for Cloven Fruit Games. Fred's fandom reaches across many different science-fiction and fantasy, from many different medias. His day job is a mathematics teacher | ||||||
| Goth Hobbit |  | Becca Lee has been a fixture at MileHiCon since the tail end of the Reagan administration. She is working on a long-running series of projects on early 20th Century women's history, has enough primary source material to stock a small museum, and still finds it disconcerting to write about herself in the third person. Engaged to Daniel Dvorkin, her other interests include art, science, gardening, needlework, costuming, cooking, science, and music; in short, well-rounded nerddom. She also goes by the moniker of Goth Hobbit. If you don't know why, you'll figure it out when you see her. | |||||
| Gregory R. Hyde | Gregory Hyde has received twelve acknowledgments from Writers of the Future, including two finalist and two semi-finalist recognitions. His fiction has appeared in publications such as Midnight Graffiti, The High Fantastic (Ocean View Books), Edward Bryant's Sphere of Influence (Mad Cow Press), and Christmas Magic (Tor Books), a collaboration with Wil McCarthy. His latest publication will be in the Magazine of Litiary Fantacy early next year. After careers as a mental health professional and a telecommunications engineer, he now works as a paraeducator—a role he considers ironic given his personal struggles with Attention Deficit Disorder, dyslexia, and Developmental Language Disorder. | https://www.facebook.com/gregrhyde | https://www.facebook.com/gregrhyde | ||||
| Guy Anthony De Marco |  | Guy Anthony De Marco, MFA, is a speculative fiction author; an IAMTW Scribe Award and Bram Stoker Award® finalist; winner of the HWA Silver Hammer; a disabled veteran; a game writer; and a coffee addict. A writer since 1977, Guy is/was a pro member of the following organizations: SFWA, IAMTW, WWA, SFPA, MWG, ASCAP, RWA, HWA. He hopes to collect the rest of the letters of the alphabet one day. Additional information can be found at GuyAnthonyDeMarco.com and Wikipedia. | https://guyanthonydemarco.com/ | https://www.facebook.com/guyanthonydemarco | https://www.facebook.com/guyanthonydemarco | @GuyADeMarco | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_Anthony_De_Marco |
| H.Y. Gregor | H.Y. Gregor was born in Portland, Oregon, but will always call the mountains of Colorado home. She holds a bachelor’s degree in political science but put it down often enough to narrowly avoid law school. Now she spends as much free time as possible weaving fantasy tales and battling plot gremlins. She's the author of Reka's Grasp, Tugarin's Revenge, Chernobog's Wrath, and Koschei's Madness, along with numerous short stories. When not writing, she can often be found at writer’s conferences and retreats, sporting an overstuffed messenger bag and too many pens (just don’t ask to borrow one). | hygregor.com | https://www.facebook.com/hygregor | https://www.facebook.com/hygregor | https://www.instagram.com/hygregor/ | ||
| Howard V. Hendrix | Howard V. Hendrix is the author of six novels, two collections of shorter fiction, a poetry collection, and many uncollected poems and essays. His newest nonfiction book -- Living Fossils, Lost Worlds, Last Humans: The Science and Fiction of Population and Extinction -- will be published in Spring 2026. | https://www.facebook.com/howard.hendrix.12 | https://www.facebook.com/howard.hendrix.12 | ||||
| Ian Brazee-Cannon | Ian Brazee-Cannon is a writer, film maker, game designer, podcaster and father. He is the creator and writer of the Georgie and Armand’s Place books and stories. His short stories have been published in The Fifth Di..., Wondrous Web Worlds, Forgotten Worlds, Tales of the Talisman, the shared world universe of ‘The Divided States of America’, and many other places. He is one of the founders and regular co-hosts on the Amateur Skeptics podcast. Ian has been involved with Dangling Carrot Films, Running Riot Productions and Ijin Studios as a writer, director, producer and editor on their projects. | https://www.facebook.com/IBCauthor | https://www.facebook.com/IBCauthor | ||||
| J.T. Evans |  | J.T. Evans writes fantasy and urban fantasy novels. He’ll dabble with sci-fi and horror in short form as well. He is the former president of the Colorado Springs Fiction Writers Group and Pikes Peak Writers. When not writing, he secures computers at the Day Job, and plays way too many tabletop games. Despite having his right arm amputated and reattached after a nasty car crash, he types faster than the average bear. He is the author of the Modern Mythology and Flashing Blades series and is hastily working on more right now. | https://jtevans.net/ | https://www.facebook.com/jtevans.author | https://www.facebook.com/jtevans.author | ||
| James Van Pelt | James Van Pelt writes in western Colorado. His fiction has made numerous appearances in most of the major science fiction and fantasy magazines. His first collection of stories, Strangers and Beggars, was recognized as a Best Book for Young Adults by the American Library Association. The Last of the O-Forms and Other Stories includes the Nebula finalist title story, and was a finalist for the Colorado Blue Spruce Young Adult Book Award. The Radio Magician and Other Stories received the Colorado Book Award. His latest, The Best of James Van Pelt is available in both hardback and paperback. | https://jamesvanpelt.com/ | https://www.facebook.com/james.vanpelt.14 | https://www.facebook.com/james.vanpelt.14 | |||
| Jessica Coyle | Jessica Coyle is one of the organizers of Bubonicon in Albuquerque, NM. When not working at her day job as the Instructional Coordinator at Coronado Historic Site, she hangs out with her boyfriend Craig and cats Gizmo and Kaylee watching terrible movies and crocheting. | ||||||
| Jim Henderson | Jim Henderson is a Colorado writer of fun, varied, and sound science fiction adventures. He is the author of the 10-book Mantis Saga, the story of the crew of the scout ship Mantis, as well as Viper: Boat-571, a military sci-fi adventure, and Inspector Giskard, a sci-fi mystery set in Colorado. Fun, adventure, aliens, space combat, robots, humor, intrigue, and excitement abound. Jim is a veteran, cybersecurity professional, and an aficionado of science fiction books, movies, TV, and games. When not working or mentally exploring the universe, he enjoys hiking, kayaking, gaming, and his 8 grandchildren. | mantissaga.space | https://www.facebook.com/groups/MantisSaga | https://www.facebook.com/groups/MantisSaga | |||
| John Barnes | John Barnes has published 33 book length works of fiction, and around 40 short pieces, mostly sf but a bit of everything, and a few hundred articles mostly about the software industry, marketing, and statistics. After a 13 year gap he is at work on a new book, DORYPHOROS | JohnBarnesSF | |||||
| John Be Lane |  | John Be Lane’s recent novel, The Future Lies – a post-dystopian romantic thriller is an Independent Press Award Techno-Thriller Distinguished Favorite, and a Colorado Book Award Finalist. His previous book, The Beatin’ Path – a lyrical guide to lucid evolution received a Living Now Evergreen Award as ‘one of the world-changing books published since the year 2000.’ He is the publisher at Global Arts Press, lives in Colorado, and can always be found at JohnBe.com. | https://johnbe.com/ | https://www.instagram.com/johnbelane/ (@johnbelane) https://bsky.app/profile/johnbelane.bsky.social (@johnbelane.bsky.social) https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnbelane/ | |||
| John E. Stith |  | John E. Stith is the author of ten+ best-selling novels, including REDSHIFT RENDEZVOUS, a Nebula Award nominee, and MANHATTAN TRANSFER, which is in development for TV. His mystery-suspense novel PUSHBACK, published in 2018 by ReAnimus Press and Audible, was a finalist for the Daphne Du Maurier Award for Excellence in Mystery/Suspense. TINY TIME MACHINE: THE COMPLETE TRILOGY (YA SF) and the military SF novel DISAVOWED were published in 2024 by Amazing Stories. | https://www.neverend.com | https://www.facebook.com/john.e.stith | https://www.facebook.com/john.e.stith | ||
| John Wilker |  | John writes fast-fun science fiction with found families saving the day despite being woefully unqualified. | https://johnwilker.com | https://wandering.shop/@jwilker | |||
| Jon Black |  | Jon writes from coffeehouses and bars wherever he finds himself. His distinctive, award-winning historical fiction with supernatural, horror, or pulp elements has been called “historical fan service.” Jon’s best-known publications include the Bel Nemeton series, blending a quirky 6th century re-imagining of Arthurian mythology with 21st century pulp; Gabriel’s Trumpet, a 1920s jazz-driven, supernatural mystery; and the novel-length Dr. Who story, Swinging Londons. Jon also dabbles as a music journalist, visual artist, and content-creator for TTRPGs. He has recently begun exploring the visual art and has had his work included in some small, local exhibitions. | jonblackwrites.com | https://www.facebook.com/JonBlackAuthor | https://www.facebook.com/JonBlackAuthor | blackonblues | |
| KaChun Yu |  | Ka Chun Yu is an astronomer at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science, which he joined originally to create planetarium software to visualize the known universe. Currently, he gives numerous talks to the public, advises on science content in permanent and temporary exhibits, and has helped produce movies and visualizations for digital planetariums. His research interests include studying how to teach astronomy with digital planetariums, storytelling in science educaiton, and astronomical research involving outflows from protostars and young star clusters. | https://www.dmns.org/science/science-staff/#SpaceSciences | ||||
| Karen Bjorn | I have attended/helped with art room set up/panels since the late 80's. I am a doodler/unpublished writer(so far) professional jeweler who loves talking old movies(Pit&Pendulum:Vincent Price) and making mead. | ||||||
| Karen Stollznow |  | Dr. Karen Stollznow is a linguist and author who uncovers the strange side of language, culture, folklore, and history. She has written many books, including Haunting America, Language Myths, Mysteries, and Magic, Bitch: The Journey of a Word, and On the Offensive. A Visiting Scholar at the University of Colorado Boulder and Research Fellow at Griffith University, Karen also hosts popular podcasts where she brings the past, and its mysteries, to life. | www.karenstollznow.com | https://x.com/karenstollznow | Bluesky - https://bsky.app/profile/karenstollznow.bsky.social | ||
| Kevin Ikenberry | Kevin Ikenberry is a life-long space geek and retired Army officer. He’s an international bestselling author of more than twenty-five novels including Colorado Book Award finalist Sleeper Protocol and the bestselling series The Buzzer War. Kevin is also a renowned writing instructor which is pretty cool because he never imagined being either one of those – he still wants to be an astronaut. Kevin is an Active Member of the International Association of Science Fiction and Fantasy Authors, International Thriller Writers, and SIGMA – the science fiction think tank. A former space operations officer, Kevin continues to work with space. | https://kevinikenberry.com/ | https://www.facebook.com/authorkevinikenberry/ | https://www.facebook.com/authorkevinikenberry/ | @thewriterike | ||
| Kim Kim | Dr Kim Klimek was so fond of dragons and castles that she became a professor of medieval and women’s history, where she gets to regale students and strangers alike with stories of peoples from England to India, Africa to Peru. An academic writer (whose most recent published work was the undergraduate textbook Global Medieval Contexts), she also dabbles in SFF poetry and short fiction. | ||||||
| L. Briar |  | Author L. Briar is a reader, engineer, and foam swordfighter. She is the author of the Uncommon Universe Series and 2024 Sidewise Alt-history short form award winner.When not writing, Briar enjoys hiking, playing board games with friends, and walks on distant worlds. Today, they are the author of more than 42 short stories, and their Kickstarter-backed novel, Gambling on Common Sense: Rationality, Romance, and the Space Between—funded at over 500%—is now available on Amazon. | https://laughingbriarbooks.com/ | https://www.facebook.com/LaughingBriar/ | https://www.facebook.com/LaughingBriar/ | https://www.instagram.com/laughingbriar/ | |
| L.F. (Laurey) Patten | L.F. (Laurey) Patten often characterizes her multitude of interests as “A.D.D of the right brain.” Degreed in history and anthropology, her checkered career has included work as an archaeologist on medieval/castle sites in England, tour guide at the Smithsonian, history teacher, herbalist, actress, singer, and pottery/jewelry instructor. (She also plays spoons and sings at Irish music sessions!) She has been writing/editing books, articles and short stories for the past 45 years. Her current novel, the heroic fantasy The Talent Sinistral, launched at World Fantasy Con in 2014, was written in loving tribute to fellow right-brainers everywhere. | lfpatten@dathana.com | |||||
| Lena M. Johnson |  | Lena M. Johnson is a science fiction author from Colorado who is obsessed with dinosaurs and cats. She has been published in various anthologies where she writes about badass women in futuristic worlds. Follow her for news of her upcoming novel, cat pictures, and terrible puns. | https://lenamjohnson.com/ | https://www.facebook.com/authorlenamjohnson/ | https://www.facebook.com/authorlenamjohnson/ | https://www.instagram.com/authorlenamjohnson/ | |
| Linda Nelson (LL Blacke) | L.L. Blacke is an author specializing in science fiction, paranormal fiction, and horror literature. With over thirty years of experience in the science fiction and fantasy community, L.L. Blacke has not only attended numerous conventions but has also played a significant role in organizing them. Now, in her retirement years, L.L. Blacke has embraced her passion for writing, finding it to be one of the most fulfilling and enjoyable pursuits of her life. Her works reflect her lifelong love for the fantastical and the eerie, drawing readers into richly woven narratives that challenge the boundaries of reality. | https://www.facebook.com/LLBlacke | https://www.facebook.com/LLBlacke | ||||
| Lou J Berger | Lou J Berger lives in Littleton, Colorado with his high-school crush and two rescue dogs. A member of SFWA, he has been published in Clarkesworld, Galaxy’s Edge magazine, and a host of anthologies. He is STILL working on his first novel. His author website is www.LouJBerger.com. Follow him on the following social media platforms: Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/loujberger.bsky.social Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AuthorLouJBerger/ Substack: https://loujberger.substack.com/ | www.LouJBerger.com | |||||
| Lyndsie Clark |  | Lyndsie Clark is a debut cyberpunk author whose first novel, In Memoriam, was released in May of this year. Raised by hippie parents, she grew up lost in stories and never found her way out. Her current obsessions run the sci-fi gamut from chaotic, dystopian worlds to technologically advanced solarpunk societies. When she’s not writing, you can find her digging in the dirt of her garden, sparring with a rapier, or cuddling her three tiny feline overlords. | www.lyndsieclark.com | https://www.facebook.com/lyndsieclarkauthor | https://www.facebook.com/lyndsieclarkauthor | https://www.instagram.com/lyndsie.clark.author | |
| M.S. Harris |  | Markus Harris has been a professional fight choreographer and martial artist since 1987, specializing in historical combat and equestrian stuntwork from all eras. He has written, directed, and choreographed numerous equestrian stunt/combat shows at countless outdoor venues throughout the United States. He has been a playwright, screenwriter, technical director, and special effects show coordinator for various commercial projects and themed events, including interactive and experiential theater. As a professional stage combat instructor, he has taught workshops both professionally and at the collegiate level. Also active in other media, he is a professional historical warfare consultant for multiple fantasy authors and an expert advisor on multiple film and gaming projects. He is also a contributing writer to various historical magazines. | markusharris.com | https://facebook.com/projouster | https://facebook.com/projouster | N/A | cookiesandcocktails.net, fleshinarmor.com |
| Marie DesJardin |  | Marie DesJardin writes science fiction, fantasy, and alternative history, ranging from short stories to novels and screenplays. Credits include Analog Science Fiction and Fact, Compelling Science Fiction, and Flash Fiction Online. She's a current SFWA member, Story Quest award winner, and a finalist in the AnLab Readers' Choice Awards. Favorite things include world travel, rehabilitating traumatized cats, and standing up for our democratic rights. Marie lives in Denver, Colorado, where she enjoys swimming, biking, and hiking when the mountains are not on fire. | amazon.com/author/mariedesjardin | https://www.facebook.com/marie.desjardin/ | https://www.facebook.com/marie.desjardin/ | marie3d.bsky.social | |
| Mario Acevedo | Mario Acevedo is the author of The Nymphos of Rocky Flats in the national bestselling Felix Gomez detective-vampire series, the YA humor thriller, University of Doom; and co-authored the Western novel, Luther, Wyoming. His work has won an International Latino Book Award, a Colorado Book Award, and has appeared in numerous anthologies to include Denver Noir; ¡El Porvenir, Ya!;and Shadow Atlas. Mario was a faculty member in the Regis University Mile-High MFA program and Lighthouse Writers Workshops and was the editor of Ramas y Raíces: the Best of CALMA, an anthology from the Colorado Alliance of Latino Mentors and Authors. | https://www.marioacevedo.com/ | https://www.marioacevedo.com/ | https://www.marioacevedo.com/ | @AdelanteArts | ||
| Martha MacMillan |  | I am an animal anatomist & zoology preparator who's looking to take the "ick" out of anatomy. I love using comparative anatomy as a tool to get folks both interested in how their own bodies work & excited about animals, their welfare, conservation, etc. I have a Masters of Science in Biomedical Sciences & 18 years experience in dissection & specimen preparation. I have some of the funnest fun facts you'll ever learn. | https://www.instagram.com/ladycamelopard/ | ||||
| Meghan Bethards (Fey) | Meghan has been playing dress up since she was able to stand. Armed with hubris and an absurd number of sewing machines she has been part of the convention costuming scene since 2005 and the SCA the late 90s. From Viking apron dresses to science fiction gowns nothing is safe from her manic desire to always be the most overdressed person at any event. She wants everyone to feel like they too can be part of the party, and uses her knowledge(and thrifted horde of fabric) to teach classes and workshops at any convention that will have her in the art of costuming and cosplay. After years of sad eyes and a stout refusal to be on stage she finally snuck her way into running the MileHiCon Masqureade and can now be found herding her colorful charges between costume repair and the stage every year! | ||||||
| Michael Burgess | My first convention was the World Con in Denver (Denvention 2) while I was in college in Licoln NE. When I moved to Denver for Seminary I started attending Mile Hi con and have not missed one since. I started an Anime fan club CFO that met in my dorm. It became DAI when I moved back to Nebraska. I am a member of the Honor Harrington fan club and various other groups and a referee of a DnD group for over 30 years. I just finished upacking 74 boxes of books from my last move. (30 or so to go) Moved into dad's basement bunker to help my sister take care of him for my retirement. say hi if you want to chat. | https://www.facebook.com/me/ | https://www.facebook.com/me/ | ||||
| Michael Carroll | Author/artist Michael Carroll has over 35 books in print. He has written for dozens of magazines worldwide. His most recent non-fiction book is Beyond Artemis: Human Expeditions to the Moons of the Solar System (Springer Praxis books). His fourth science fiction novel is Plato’s Labyrinth: Dinosaurs, Ancient Greeks and Time Travelers. Carroll is a Fellow of the International Association of Astronomical Artists. His art has appeared in hundreds of magazines throughout the world. One of his paintings is on the surface of Mars—in digital form—aboard the Phoenix lander. | carrollspaceart.com | https://www.facebook.com/michael.carroll.568847/ | https://www.facebook.com/michael.carroll.568847/ | |||
| Michael Haynes | Michael Haynes (he/him/his) is an avid short fiction reader and writer with nearly 100 published stories, most in the speculative fiction genres. His 2025 short story collection, THREE THINGS CAMERON COULDN'T TELL YOU: STORIES OF (MIS)COMMUNICATION includes more than two dozen of his stories. Michael lives in Colorado and has more hobbies than he really has time for, enjoying travel, going to concerts, photography, cooking, geocaching, hiking, board games, and so on. Learn more at his website michaelhaynes.info or say hello on Bluesky @michaelhaynes.bsky.social. | michaelhaynes.info | https://bsky.app/profile/michaelhaynes.bsky.social | ||||
| MJ James | MJ James is an own-voice science-fiction and fantasy author for queer and neurodiverse readers. With themes of found family, aromantic and asexual representation, and a focus on belonging, MJ hopes their stories can provide companionship for their readers along with a sense of validation, understanding, and being seen. https://mj-james.com/ | mj-james.com | https://www.instagram.com/mj_james_writes/ | ||||
| Patrick Hester |  | Patrick Hester is an author, blogger, 2013 & 2014 Hugo Award Winner, and an all around Functional Nerd. He writes fiction of all shapes and sizes, but his heart belongs to Science Fiction and Fantasy. He is the Producer and co-host for the long running (15 years) Functional Nerds Podcast. His fiction is available online. He can usually be found on social media under ATFMB. Loves Star Trek AND Star Wars because he’s a rebel. He lives in Colorado with a puppy named Ronan who makes him laugh each and every day. | www.functionalnerds.com | https://www.facebook.com/atfmb | https://www.facebook.com/atfmb | https://www.instagram.com/atfmb | https://www.twitch.tv/atfmb/, https://www.instagram.com/atfmb, |
| Quinn | Hello! My name is Quinn Brazee-Cannon and I am so excited to return for another year of Mile High Con! I have been going to MHC for about 25ish years and grew up with this con and with these wonderful people! I’m extremely hopeful to see the fun that will be had all weekend long! | ||||||
| Qwordy |  | Qwordy is the author of the SPFBO X Finalist The Humane Society for Creatures & Cryptids, the Founder of the Hardest Reading Challenge You'll Ever Do, and an overall enthusiast of all things crafts, animals, musicals, and spreadsheets. | authorqwordy.com | ko-fi.com/stephaniegillis | |||
| Rebecca Lickiss | While she still hasn’t gotten a life, Rebecca feels that she’s way too busy for that sort of thing. Suffering from novelitis, she has no choice but to write novels. Now that her feral children are all adults and not taking up the rest of her time, she also creates crochet critters and wire bonsai. Along with working the day job, which can’t be called a career, as the job itself has changed over the years. | ||||||
| Reed Mingault |  | Reed Mingault is the daughter of a Marine and hasn’t spent more than a few years in one place in her life. Her formative years, when not moving cross country and across oceans, were spent on horseback and handling birds of prey, and she’ll happily tell you more than you wanted to know about either. She draws, paints, dabbles in illuminated calligraphy, and is fascinated by pre-industrial handicrafts. Reed lives with her geneticist husband, precocious daughter, and a small menagerie of furred, scaled, and exoskeleton-ed critters. | https://reedmingault.wordpress.com/ | https://bsky.app/profile/milvusscribe.bsky.social // https://www.instagram.com/milvusscribe/ | |||
| Richard Friesen |  | Richard Friesen is a master storyteller whose works include an epic fantasy series, the Dreaming King Saga where the one who has the prophetic dream is king. His Wetware Wizards fight an AI world takeover. And a humorous superhero, Narcolepsy, whose power is falling asleep and taking you into his dreams with him. Another fantasy has a young sorcerer opposing a thousand-year-old oppressive king. There’s a space opera series, The Clark Family Legend about two star-pilots who change human space with daring and brains. Come join the adventure! | https://richardfriesen.net | https://www.facebook.com/richardfriesen.net | https://www.facebook.com/richardfriesen.net | https://www.patreon.com/richardfriesen | |
| Rick Wilber | Rick Wilber has published a half-dozen novels for Tor and other publishers, several short-story collections for WordFire Press and others, and some seventy short stories in major markets, most often in Asimov’s Science Fiction magazine. The son of a major-league baseball player, coach and manager, Rick’s stories often reflect his interest in baseball. The parent of an adult son with Down syndrome, Rick often includes characters with Down syndrome in his stories. He is a visiting assistant professor in the low-residency MFA in Creative Writing-Genre Fiction at Western Colorado University. He’s collaborated on several novellas with Kevin J. Anderson, all of which have first appeared in Asimov’s Science Fiction magazine. | http://rickwilber.net/ | https://www.facebook.com/Rick.Wilber | https://www.facebook.com/Rick.Wilber | |||
| Ronnie Seagren | Ronnie is still working on the sequel to her novel Seventh Daughter, among other things. She's the eldest and oldest member of the Northern Colorado Writers Workshop, and she became a great grandma this year. She's bee posting "A Flower A Day" on Facebook and NextDoor since Covid started in 2020. | ||||||
| Rose Beetem | Rose Beetem is the last fan standing who has attended all the MileHiCons. A founding member of the Denver Area Science Fiction Association (DASFA) and a generalist fan with an addiction to con organizing, she’s been on the MHC con com most years since she was 16, helps with COSine and chairs the tiny 100% participatory Karval Kon. She enjoys urban fantasy, most of the Star Wars and MCU canon, and thinks Strange New Worlds, Lower Decks and The Orville are all good Treks. A semi-universal auntie, Rose is sort-of retired and still passionate about curries and tai chi. | ||||||
| Sam Knight |  | Sam Knight has curated and published over a dozen anthologies, authored six children’s books, four short story collections, four novels, and over 75 short stories, including three co-authored with Kevin J. Anderson. | https://samknight.com/ https://knightwritingpress.com/ | https://www.facebook.com/AuthorSamKnight | https://www.facebook.com/AuthorSamKnight | https://x.com/AuthorSamKnight | https://knightwritingpress.com/ |
| Samantha Cohoe |  | Samantha Cohoe was raised in San Luis Obispo, California, where she enjoyed a childhood of beach trips, omnivorous reading, and writing stories brimming with adverbs. She attended Thomas Aquinas College, a Great Books college in California, and graduated with a BA in liberal arts. After studying Philosophical Theology at Yale Divinity School, she decided academia wasn’t for her. In the midst of marriage, child-bearing, and the identity crisis that followed, she rediscovered her early love of writing and adverbs. In 2011, she moved with her family to Denver, where she currently divides her time between writing, reading, fixing her lipstick, and deleting adverbs. Her young adult novels A GOLDEN FURY and BRIGHT RUINED THINGS are published with Wednesday Books. BRIGHT RUINED THINGS was nominated for the Colorado Book Award. | www.samanthacohoe.com | ||||
| Shady | "Shady" David Shadoin is a corn fed Nebraska boy who enjoys scotch, reading, gaming, golfing, and long walks on the beach. The Air Force taught him to be a decent pilot despite his best efforts, and helped him develop the creativity necessary to become a pro author. | davidshadoin.com | https://www.facebook.com/share/1DSi5Pq2Yc/ | https://www.facebook.com/share/1DSi5Pq2Yc/ | @Shady68333 | Shadow68333 on Instagram | |
| Sierra Swenson | Sierra is an assistant collections manager at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, and works with fossils from the Late Cretaceous of Madagascar. Her background is in stratigraphy and paleontology, and she’s always been interested in what rocks can tell us about the past. During her master’s work, she studied the sequence stratigraphy of the Jurassic Sundance Seaway, and the effects of environmental changes on the fossil communities within it. And now she works at the museum keeping their behind the scenes fossil collections safe and accessible. | ||||||
| Stace Johnson |  | Stace Johnson is a writer and musician from Colorado. He has published more than 120 short pieces spanning non-fiction, fiction, and poetry, most recently in Animal Magica Volume 3, A Bit of Luck, Animal Magica Volume 2, and Modern Magic. His poetry has appeared in Star*Line, Tales of the Talisman, and on the Apex Publications website, and he recently republished the first book of poetry from Victorian poet Gerard Manley Hopkins as his masters capstone project. He can often be found performing geeky original parody songs and folk rock covers in his signature steampunk hat. Learn more at https://linktr.ee/lytspeed. | www.lytspeed.com | www.facebook.com/wrytspeed | www.facebook.com/wrytspeed | www.twitter.com/lytspeed | https://linktr.ee/lytspeed |
| Steve Rasnic Tem | Steve Rasnic Tem's writing career spans over 45 years, including more than 500 short stories, 17 collections, and 8 novels. He is a past winner of the World Fantasy, Bram Stoker, and International Horror Guild awards, including Blood Kin, winner of 2014’s Bram Stoker for novel. A collection of his Appalachian stories, Scarecrows, recently appeared. Other recent collections include Everyday Horrors and Queneau’s Alphabet: A Story Cycle(Macabre). In 2024 he received the Horror Writers Association Lifetime Achievement Award. Visit his website at: www.stevetem.com. | www.stevetem.com | https://www.facebook.com/steve.tem | https://www.facebook.com/steve.tem | @Rasnictem | BlueSky: @stevetem.bsky.social | |
| Steve Wahl | I am a fan and a life-long consummate reader of all the nooks and crannies of SF, Fantasy, Horror, even normal Literature - plus tons of science and technology works. My bookcases are full-to-bursting. My ever-present Kindle and Tablets are full-to-bursting as well. I am almost entirely retired from 45 years of Linux/Unix systems software development and hold a handful of software patents. I took five years of night school a while back and practiced many years subsequently making jewelry, doing metalworking, blacksmithing and have created a home shop for these avocations. I've been a regular Con-goer for nearly 50 years and have met many giants along the way. I truly love participating in MileHiCon every year! | ||||||
| Terry Kroenung |  | Terry Kroenung's many works include: The 'Legacy Stone' series: a swords-and-sorcery parody of 'Huckleberry Finn'; Book 1, 'Brimstone and Lily,' Bronze Medal, Independent Publishers Book Awards 'Paragon of the Eccentric,' a Steampunk prequel to 'War of the Worlds', winner of the Colorado Gold Literary Award 'The Gaze of Zeus,' historical science-fiction; Mussolini's Fascist Science Squad plans to use a death ray at the 1924 Paris Olympics "The Day the Earth Couldn't Stand Still:' Broadway musical-loving nanobots conquer the Earth; winner of the Colorado Short Story Contest HeartSnark: a funny memoir about his heart transplant, finalist in Humor and Memoir, Next Generation Indie Book Awards | https://www.terrykroenungink.com/ | https://www.facebook.com/terry.kroenung | https://www.facebook.com/terry.kroenung | none | BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/terrykroenung.bsky.social |
| Thea Hutcheson | Thea Hutcheson writes under multiple pseudonyms, in sf, fantasy, YA, and erotic genres markets like Realms of Fantasy, the Fiction River anthologies, Baen Books and Hot Blood anthologies. Lois Tilton of Locus Magazine called her work "sensual, fertile, with seed quickening on every page. Well done..." She is a factotum when she is filling the time between bouts at the computer. | www.theahutcheson.com | https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100031883516331 | https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100031883516331 | @theahutcheson7 on Tiktok | ||
| Tiffany Passmore |  | Tiffany Passmore has been an author for many years. She was born and raised in Illinois. Tiffany currently lives in Colorado. While she can live in the fast lane, Tiffany enjoys the quiet life with her feline fur baby. She graduated from Rockford College ( Undergraduate) and Capella University ( Graduate). Tiffany has several novels published and plans to continue sharing her work with the world. She also has an online epic and currently updating fan fiction titled The Sugar Series which has been ongoing for over a decade. | https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B07CKLPNN5?ingress=0&visitId=50b38eb9-cc6a-4da4-a5ab-e013476f8814&ccs_id=e68e7458-368a-4d6f-885e-1b986e26a721 | https://www.facebook.com/tiffany.passmore/ | https://www.facebook.com/tiffany.passmore/ | N/A | |
| Tim Anderson | Tim Anderson. Adventurer, wizard, bovine hypnotist, billionaire playboy…these are all things he would like to be someday if/when he grows up. In the meantime, he works as a software dev by day. By night, he has released several videogames and currently writes fiction under the pen name Tanner Howsden. Additionally, he had small appearances in a movie, a music video, a dating show, and was in Season 3 of "The Guild" for about 10 seconds. | https://tannerhowsden.com/ | |||||
| Tycho Dwelis |  | I’m Tycho (I also use the pen name Cassidy), and I love storytelling! I’m incredibly passionate about writing, art, and anything that allows me to create my own worlds. My goal is to write dreamy fiction for all ages that is unique, inspiring, and imaginative. I like to write about themes that include coming of age, magic, identity, relationships, and changing the world. My books are intended for readers ages eight to one hundred and eight, and are meant to connect the world of the fantastical to everyday life. I currently live in Colorado and have my MA in Publishing. | https://www.tychodorian.com/ | https://bsky.app/profile/tychodorian.bsky.social | BSKY: https://bsky.app/profile/tychodorian.bsky.social | TIKTOK: https://www.tiktok.com/@tycho_dorian | YT: https://www.youtube.com/@tycho_dorian | TWITCH: https://twitch.tv/tycho_dorian | ||
| W. Jade Young | W. Jade Young is the owner and founder of Bad Habit Publishing, and the designer of the Rainbow Quill Writing Tool and Tarot Deck for Storytellers. Because she hates having free time for fun or sleep, she also has a full-time day job, runs a tabletop gaming server, and occasionally writes her own stuff. | www.badhabitpublishing.com | https://www.facebook.com/badhabitpublishing | https://www.facebook.com/badhabitpublishing | N/A | wjadeyoung.bsky.social; https://www.instagram.com/wjadeyoung | |
| Wen Spencer | wenspencer.com | https://www.facebook.com/wen.spencer | https://www.facebook.com/wen.spencer | https://www.patreon.com/c/wenspencer | |||
| Wil McCarthy |  | Aerospace engineer and startup founder Wil McCarthy, formerly of WIRED and SyFy, has won the Prometheus once and the AnLab award twice. He’s been nominated for the Nebula, Locus, Seiun, Sturgeon and Philip K. Dick awards, and Discover rated his world of “P2/Sorrow” one of the 10 best fictional planets of all time. He has appeared in Analog and Asimov's, and his bestselling novels include New York Times Notable BLOOM, Amazon.com "Best of Y2K" THE COLLAPSIUM, and most recently, BEGGAR'S SKY. He has also written for TV and video games, and published copious nonfiction. McCarthy holds 31 issued U.S. patents. | http://wilmccarthy.com | https://www.amazon.com/stores/Wil-McCarthy/author/B001IXMMAE |