ConCarolinas Guest List

Writer Guest of Honor

Jack McDevitt

Jack McDevitt is an American science fiction author whose novels frequently deal with attempts to make contact with alien races, and with archaeology or xenoarchaeology. He is a former naval officer and has pursued numerous other careers including t . . . [ more ]

Film/Media Guest of Honor

Jeffrey Combs

Few actors living today are truly icons.  Jeffrey Combs is that rare breed of actor who has secured himself a spot in film history.  Many claim him as the modern day Vincent Price.  Bursting into the public consciousness with his . . . [ more ]

Fan Guest of Honor

Janine Spendlove

Janine K. Spendlove is a KC-130 pilot for the United States Marine Corps, who graduated from Brigham Young University in 1999 with a BA in History Teaching. An avid runner, she also enjoys knitting, playing Beatles tunes on her guitar, and spen . . . [ more ]

Gaming Guest of Honor

Jennell Jaquays

Jennell Jaquays (formerly Paul Jaquays) currently serves as the Lead Level Designer on the World of Darkness MMO project for CCP North America near Atlanta, Ga,  focusing on world design. She has worked at CCP since August of 2009. Early in 2 . . . [ more ]

Music Performance Guest of Honor

Michael Longcor

 "A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, con a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone . . . [ more ]

Art Guest of Honor

Robert James Luedke

In December of 2001, Robert James Luedke set out to answer what he felt was a divine calling to re-enter the comic industry (after a three year absence) and create a graphic novel that would share the Gospel and honor God’s Kingdom. Sin . . . [ more ]

Writer Special Guest

David Drake

While David Drake was studying at Duke Law School, the Army changed his immediate career path to a choice between interrogator or grunt. Dave chose interrogator. He was assigned to the 11th Cav, the Blackhorse, and spent much of 1970 riding arm . . . [ more ]

Paranormal Special Guest

Jason Gowin

Jason Gowin is best known as the host of A&E's "Extreme Paranormal.". Jason has been featured in both television shows, specials and movies as well as made a few appearances at Sci-Fi conventions including last month's, "Salute . . . [ more ]

Music Performance Special Guest

One Hard Night

One Hard Night is a five piece nerd rock band based out of Atlanta Georgia. With their seamless blending of both musical styles and realms of fandom, they have a sound all their own. Which has lovingly been dubbed "Southern Indie Pop Nerd Rock&q . . . [ more ]

Comedy Performance Special Guest

Mon Frère Comedy

The story of Mon Frere Comedy Troupe is the story of a man, another man, and four more men. It’s a real sausage festival. We started cooking it up on the mean streets of Greensboro, North Carolina at the Idiot Box Comedy Club two years ago with . . . [ more ]

Writer Guest

Rachel A. Aaron

Rachel Aaron is the author of The Legend of Eli Monpress, a 5 books series from Orbit Books about a wizard con-man and the poor bastards who have to try and catch him. She was born and raised in Atlanta, GA and now lives in Athens, GA, as she w . . . [ more ]

Writer Guest

Diana Bastine

Diana Bastine is a writer and editor working in southeastern North Carolina.  Her first young adult fantasy novel, The Source, is being published by Helm Publishing sometime in 2011. She also did the first edit for all of Debra Killeen’ . . . [ more ]

Writer Guest

Davey Beauchamp

Davey is the creator of the Writers for Relief anthology series, the Agency 32 series and the Amazing Pulp Adventures Podcast along with Podcasting’s Rich Sigfrit. Also, thanks to this year’s WTHCon, Davey will be working on the novella 7 . . . [ more ]

Writer Guest

Stephen Euin Cobb

Stephen Euin Cobb is an author, futurist, magazine writer and host of the award-winning podcast "The Future And You." He is also a game designer, artist, essayist, transhumanist, and is on the Advisory Board of the Lifeboat Found . . . [ more ]

Writer Guest

David B. Coe

David B. Coe is the Crawford award-winning author of the LonTobyn Chronicle trilogy, the Winds of the Forelands quintet, the Blood of the Southlands trilogy, and more than a half dozen short stories. Writing as D.B. Jackson (http://www.dbjackson- . . . [ more ]

Writer Guest

Marcia Colette

Author Marcia Colette didn’t discover her love for reading until her late teens when she started reading John Saul and progressed to works by Stephen King and Laurell K. Hamilton. Her reading tastes convinced her to write dark paranormals . . . [ more ]

Writer Guest

Terry W Ervin II

Terry W. Ervin II is an English and science teacher who enjoys writing science fiction and fantasy. He is an editor for the speculative fiction magazine MindFlights and a guest contributor to Fiction Factor, an ezine for writers.
While F . . . [ more ]

Writer Guest

A.J. Hartley

British born writer A.J. Hartley got his first taste for archaeology touring sites in Greece and Rome as a child with his family. As an English major at Manchester University he took extra classes in Eqyptology and got a job working on a Bronze Age s . . . [ more ]

Writer Guest

John G. Hartness

Author of two published novels - The Chosen and Hard Day`s Knight as well as the President of the Charlotte Writers` Club. . . . [ more ]

Writer Guest

William Hatfield

William Hatfield plays piano and sings classic rock as Bill Hatfield.  He moved to Gainesville, Florida in 1979 with a contract playing at three restaurants/clubs.  He’s been there ever since.  Originally, he worked as a musici . . . [ more ]

Writer Guest

Faith Hunter

Faith Hunter, fantasy writer, was born in Louisiana and raised all over the south. She writes the Skinwalker series, featuring Jane Yellowrock: Skinwalker, Blood Cross, Mercy Blade and Raven Cursed, with Death’s Rival due in Oct. 2012. Her Rog . . . [ more ]

Writer Guest

Stuart Jaffe

Stuart Jaffe is the author of The Malja Chronicles, a post-apocalyptic fantasy series beginning with The Way of the Black Beast. He is also the author of the short story collection, 10 Bits of My Brain. Numerous other short stories have appeare . . . [ more ]

Writer Guest

Siobhan Kinkade

Hey, Y’all! I’m Siobhan Kinkade.
I’m a southern girl with lots of attitude, a dreamer, a lover, a writer. I spend my days working in an office and my nights with my family and my cats, all the while managing to squeeze in time to . . . [ more ]

Writer Guest

Nicole Givens Kurtz

Nicole Givens Kurtz is the author of four published novels; three as Nicole Givens Kurtz and ten other titles under various pen names. Her science fiction works have been named as finalist in the 2006 Fresh Voices in Science Fiction (Zephyr Unf . . . [ more ]

Writer Guest

Gail Z. Martin

Gail Z. Martin is the author of The Summoner, The Blood King, Dark Haven and
Dark Lady`s Chosen in The Chronicles of The Necromancer series. A new
series set in her world of the Winter Kingdoms, The Fallen Kings Cycle,
debuts from Orbit Books i . . . [ more ]

Writer Guest

Misty Massey

"I have always been a voracious reader. My parents encouraged my love of books, a gift more valuable to me than anything else they could have given me. It was no surprise to anyone when I began writing. I dabbled with short stories for years, . . . [ more ]

Writer Guest

James Maxey

James Maxey lives in Hillsborough, NC with his lovely bride Cheryl and a clowder of unruly cats. His novels include the superhero tales Nobody Gets the Girl and Burn Baby Burn, and the Dragon Age trilogy of Bitterwood, Dragonforge, and Dragonse . . . [ more ]

Writer Guest

Edward McKeown

Like Snake Plisskin, Ed McKeown escaped from NY, but his old hometown supplies much of the background to his humorous “Lair of the Lesbian Love Goddess” shorts, as his new hometown in Charlotte, North Carolina does for his “Templ . . . [ more ]

Writer Guest

Kalayna Price

USA Today Bestselling author Kalayna Price writes the Alex Craft Novels, a new dark urban fantasy series from Roc, and the Novels of Haven from Bell Bridge Books. Her works have received great critical review as well as several awards and are ava . . . [ more ]

Writer Guest

Stella Price

Bi-continental, Stella and Audra break all misconceptions about siblings. Writing as a team they have produced well over fifteen novels as well as several novella's and short stories. And Nary an argument has come from it.
On their off time f . . . [ more ]

Writer Guest

Edmund R. Schubert

Edmund Schubert is the author of over thirty-five short stories and one novel, Dreaming Creek. He's held a variety of editorial positions, currently serving as editor of Orson Scott Card's InterGalactic Medicine Show. An anthology of IGMS . . . [ more ]

Writer Guest

James Robert Smith

Partial credits.
Over fifty short story sales, including SCARE CARE (Tor Books), CHILDREN OF CTHULHU (Del Rey Books), WHITLEY STREIBER’S ALIENS (Pocket Books), RETURN TO LOVECRAFT COUNTRY (Triad Publishing), WHEN THE BLACK LOTUS BLOOMS (Unnam . . . [ more ]

Writer Guest

James R. Tuck

James R. Tuck is the author of the Deacon Chalk: Occult Bounty Hunter series from Kensington. Book one BLOOD AND BULLETS will be available everywhere on February 7, 2012 and will be preceded by the e-novella THAT THING AT THE ZOO on January 12, 2 . . . [ more ]

Writer Guest

Stephen Zimmer

Born in Denver, Colorado, Stephen Zimmer is an award-winning fantasy author and filmmaker based out of Lexington, Kentucky. Stephen has two series being published through Seventh Star Press.
One is the epic fantasy Fires in Eden Series (which incl . . . [ more ]

Film/Media Guest

Mutantville.com

Mutantville Productions or “MVP” as they are commonly referred to consider themselves the “No-Budget Filmmaking Course Gurus,” the makers of “heroes & horror” and are the exclusive home to the Movie Morgue and M . . . [ more ]

Film/Media Guest

Deborah Smith Ford

Deborah’s image of the ACTION character that Carrie-Anne Moss portrays is uncanny.
Before Deborah took on this lookalike role, she was mobbed for autographs by fans who thought she was the “MATRIX lady.” After several weeks of be . . . [ more ]

Film/Media Guest

Cheralyn Lambeth

Cheralyn Lambeth likes to refer to herself as a "fan who went pro," crediting her work in the film/TV/entertainment industry to her early love of Star Wars. After a brief stint in the Air Force Reserve, she went on to study drama and Radio/ . . . [ more ]

Fan Guest

Starship Farragut / Farragut Films

Starship Farragut is an independent film series based on the original series of Star Trek. Starship Farragut focusses on the crew of the U.S.S. Farragut, a Constitution Class Starship (NCC-1647) commanded by Captain John T. Carter, and takes place d . . . [ more ]

Fan Guest

Micki R. Knop

Assistant Organizer/Book Reviewer to the very active Charlotte Geeks fan group, Mcki is a rabid bibliophile who will never have enough books in her life, especially zombie, vampire, graphic, and steampunk novels. Micki loves going to various SciF . . . [ more ]

Fan Guest

Daphne M Reeder

Daphne is a noted regular at ConCarolinas, especially at our costume contests. She also has a love for theater and music. She plays bass, guitar, and keyboard by ear, and has a music project in the works: Negativ Image. Daphne has done a quite a few . . . [ more ]

Paranormal Guest

Lori S Coffey

Lori is the Chief Editor of Fairy Ring Press and a freelance photographer. She has been interested in the paranormal since her childhood when she and her family were frequently visited by the spirit of her deceased grandfather. She fell in love . . . [ more ]

Paranormal Guest

Ron C Coffey

RON COFFEY is a veteran Cryptozoologist with nearly forty years experience in the field. He has researched cryptid sightings all across the United States and Northern Europe. He is considered the foremost authority on Bigfoot as well as many other . . . [ more ]

Paranormal Guest

Tonya Denny

Co-founder of the Winston-Salem Paranormal Society, Tonya grew up in the High Point/Greensboro area of NC where she often visited several relatives that owned what she believes were haunted houses. Over the years she was convinced that the activi . . . [ more ]

Paranormal Guest

Tally Johnson

Tally Johnson has been fascinated by the rich ghost lore of his native South Carolina for almost thirty years. Born in Lyman into a family of readers, his interest in ghost stories was first piqued by a presentation by author and storyteller Nancy Ro . . . [ more ]

Paranormal Guest

Todd Lacey

For over 30 years, Todd, a Clairvoyant, Channeler, Psychometry, Past Lives & Reiki Master, has given insight and spiritual guidance to people across the United States and abroad.
Since the age of 8, Todd was blessed with the gift of intuition . . . [ more ]

Paranormal Guest

Tina McSwain

Tina R. McSwain is Founder & Director of The Charlotte Area Paranormal Society or CAPS. She also serves as Lead Investigator and Historian of the group. She is a native Charlottean, and has been interested in the paranormal since reading Nancy Robert . . . [ more ]

Paranormal Guest

Chris G Rushing

Chris Rushing Is the founder and Director for State Paranormal Investigations and has been Investigating the paranormal since 2000. Chris started his carrier in the paranormal after seeing what appeared to be a world war 2 soldier walking the . . . [ more ]

Gaming Guest

Randy Richards

Randy Richards has been playing Dungeons and Dragons since the late 70`s, but started in earnest in the early 80`s. "In the 1980`s," Randy says, "we had the Basic D&D boxed game in our Gifted & Talented class, and I used to play a Caju . . . [ more ]

Gaming Guest

Christina Stiles

Christina Stiles is a freelance role-playing game writer and editor living in the midlands of South Carolina. She is a member of Misfit Studios , and is currently working on the Rogue Mage roleplaying game with fiction author Faith Hunter and advent . . . [ more ]

Gaming Guest

John Watts

John Watts is the owner and president of Gypsy Knights Games, a third party, small press publisher creating supplements for the Traveller role-playing game. John is married to his wonderful wife, Wendy and lives with three cats, Ariel, Moneypen . . . [ more ]

General Guest

Amy H. Sturgis

Amy H. Sturgis earned her Ph.D. in Intellectual History from Vanderbilt University. Her primary fields are Science Fiction/Fantasy Studies and Native American Studies.
She is the author of four books and the editor of another six. Her articles . . . [ more ]

Music Performance Guest

The Blibbering Humdingers

The Blibbering Humdingers - Scott & Kirsten Vaughan have been avid
Harry Potter fans since 2000. In 2006 they opened a gift store that
specialized in HP accoutrements and other fantasy paraphernalia. Upon
the release of Deathly Hallows in 20 . . . [ more ]

Music Performance Guest

Valentine Wolfe

Lady Sarah Black always knew her destiny was to become more than this vale of tears offered: she was to be the sultry singing siren of the most Gothic and grievously macabre performing ensemble and to compose musical masterpieces about the detest . . . [ more ]

Music Performance Guest

Jonah Knight

Jonah Knight is a singer/songfighter focusing on songs about being haunted. Ghosts and monsters, angels and demons, empty places and empty people.In early 2010, Jonah Knight had an actual moment of clarity. He was playing at a songwriter showcase and . . . [ more ]

Comedy Performance Guest

Pineapple-Shaped Lamps

Pineapple-Shaped Lamps began as a UNCW Rocky Horror Shadow Cast that performed once a semester. We have since moved downtown to a more permanent residence with a regular weekly show. We have been shadow acting the Rocky Horror Picture Show since Janu . . . [ more ]

Comics Guest

Mini-Komix

Mini-Komix is an independent comics publisher that specializes in mini-comic books, graphic novels, prose novels, and sketchbooks. We have titles dealing in comedy, sci-fi, horror, anime, superheroes, action, fantasy, and more. . . . [ more ]

Alternate Media Guest

Tony Sarrecchia

Tony Sarrecchia is a writer-producer and the creator of the award-winning Harry Strange Radio Drama. Harry Strange is a full cast, pulp-style horror story in the style of the classic 40s and 50s radio dramas that plays against a current backdrop. In . . . [ more ]

Science Guest

James Craig

Jim Craig has worked as the director of the James H. Lynn Planetarium at the Schiele Museum in Gastonia since 1997. In addition to his science background, he is a lifelong science fiction fan and has given presentations on the history of science fict . . . [ more ]

Science Guest

Ben Davis

Ben Davis earned his Ph.D. in Nuclear Physics and his M.S. in Nuclear Astrophysics from the University of Notre Dame. He then taught at the college level for several years on a number of technical subjects ranging from computer programming to mathema . . . [ more ]

Writer Panelist

Charlotte Babb

ACCOMPLISHMENTS
2012 Maven Fairy Godmother novle Muse It Up Publishing
2009 "Seshat: Lady of the Library
2008 " Fairy Frogmother" short story in Les Bonnes Fees
2007 Spring "The Croning" in Circle Sanctuary #98
2005 Su . . . [ more ]

Writer Panelist

Alexandra Christian

Lexxx Christian, the Southern Belle from Hell, is a writer of paranormal romance and urban fantasy with a particularly spicy sensibility. Her first novel, Hellsong, is currently under contract with Sugar and Spice Press. . . . [ more ]

Writer Panelist

Betty Cross

A Nashville native, Betty Cross spent more than 40 years of her life living in Atlanta, Georgia. After several freewheeling years drifting from one college major to another, sucking down too much of certain herbal remedies, protesting the Vietnam . . . [ more ]

Writer Panelist

Teresa Frohock

Raised in a small town, Teresa Frohock learned to escape to other worlds through the fiction collection of her local library. She eventually moved away from Reidsville and lived in Virginia and South Carolina before returning to North Carolina, where . . . [ more ]

Writer Panelist

Crymsyn Hart

Crymsyn Hart’s interest in the paranormal started in childhood. It spurred on her delving into the darkness of her imagination to produce various worlds filled with the undead, shape shifters, dark angels, and everything else with fangs.
Using . . . [ more ]

Writer Panelist

Dahlia Rose

A best selling author of contemporary and paranormal romance with a hint of Caribbean spice. She was born and raised on a Caribbean island and now currently lives in Charlotte, NC with her five kids who she affectionately nicknamed "The children . . . [ more ]

Editor Panelist

Mason Lavin

An avid reader of sci-fi, fantasy, and horror, Mason first got involved in editing in high school with the literary magazine. In college she continued editing and writing, but it wasn't until graduate school that she began to seriously edit . . . [ more ]

Alternate Media Panelist

Nathan P. Butler

Nathan P. Butler is an educator and author. His earlier works include "Equals and Opposites" in Star Wars Tales #21 (recently re-released with action figures), the self-published novella Echoes, the self-published time travel thriller . . . [ more ]