Natania Barron
Natania Barron is a writer with a penchant for the speculative and an unrepentant geek. She is the author of the fantasy/steampunk/multiverse adventure, Pilgrim of the Sky, and co-author of Geek Mom: Projects, Tips, and Adventures for Moms and Their 21st Century Families.

Corey Castellano
Corey has been a professional makeup artist for over twenty years. His credits include: Teen Wolf, Pirates of the Caribbean 2, 3, 4, The Sarah Connor Chronicles, War of the Worlds, Quarantine, Fertile Ground, Fear Clinic, The Prestige, The Crazies, Zombieland, GI Joe, X-Men 3, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

Madison J. Cripps
Madison J. Cripps cut his puppetry teeth busking in 2006. Now a professional puppeteer and puppet builder in Asheville, NC, he combines his background in fine art, construction, environmentalism and theatre with new interests, such as circuit bending. Madison animates his unique hand carved marionettes with song, interaction, and pun.

Gary Gianni
Gary Gianni is an Eisner and Spectrum award-winning illustrator.  His comics include the Shadow, Batman, Indiana Jones, Tom Strong, and MonsterMen.

Kim F Holec
Kim Holec is a long-time costumer, from the Middle Ages to today's SF & Fantasy TV shows. She is the director of Timegate's costuming track. Kim has written essays on Harry Potter, Doctor Who, and Tolkien. Her favourite job was copy-editing for a now-defunct SF & fantasy publisher.

John Hudgens
John Hudgens is a award-winning filmmaker, animator, and artist who has directed documentaries, several award-winning Star Wars parody films, and worked professionally on such varied licensed properties as Babylon 5, Crimson Skies, MechWarrior, and Star Wars.

Sifu Kisu
Sifu Kisu is the martial arts consultant for Nickelodeon’s hit TV show Avatar: the Last Airbender as well as Nickelodeon/ Dream Works new series Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness.

Matt Nitchie
Matt Nitchie is a local actor/puppeteer, and co-creator of the Bob and Carl: Sci-Fi Janitors web series.

Craig Sheffer

David Silverman
David Silverman is President of American Atheists and was the creator and Executive Producer of the 2012 Reason Rally, the largest atheist event in world history.

Jennifer St. Giles
Jennifer St. Giles is the USA Today Bestselling Author of Gothic Romance, Paranormal Romance, Romantic Suspense. Though currently with a publisher she has ventured into the new world of self-publishing and will be launching a new paranormal series and steampunk series in 2012.

Dan Tuten
Dan Tuten is the Associate Director for Information Resources within the Office of Public Health Preparedness and Response. Effectively, this means he is the CIO for this group responsible for managing more than a billion dollars in US National assets for public health security.

Nicholas Vince
Nicholas Vince played The Chattering Cenobite in Clive Barker's Hellraiser and Hellraiser II: Hellbound. He also played Kinski in Barker's Nightbreed, which has found a new audience through 'The Cabal Cut'; a restoration version much closer to Barker's original vision for the film.

Scott Wilson
Scott Wilson can currently be seen on AMC's hit The Walking Dead, in which he plays veterinarian and Greene family patriarch, Hershel Greene.

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.

Michael K. Frith
Random House, author/illustrator, editor/art director (Dr. Seuss, etc.); The Muppets, 20+ years head of design/producer/Executive V.P. (co-creator Fraggle Rock, Muppet Babies, etc.). With wife Kathy Mullen co-creator PBS’s Between the Lions, co-Founder No Strings, NGO creating life-saving films for kids-at-risk world wide.

Kathryn Mullen
Starting on The Muppet Show Kathryn was a core Muppet performer for 10 years. She played leads in Fraggle Rock and The Dark Crystal. Later she was a co-creator and principle puppeteer on the PBS reading series Between the Lions. She now writes and directs for puppets.

Karen Prell
Karen performed puppets with Jim Henson and the Muppets for 16 years, most notably Red in Fraggle Rock and the Worm in Labyrinth. She then became an animator and worked on films including Pixar’s Geri’s Game and Toy Story 2 and Valve computer games including Portal 2 and DotA 2.

Mike Sakuta
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.

Noel Clarke
Noel Clarke is best known for his role as Mickey Smith in the BBC series Doctor Who.

Crossed Swords
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.

Peter Davison
Peter Davison is a British actor best known for his role as the Fifth Doctor in the BBC television series Doctor Who during the 1980s. 

Nicole Harsch
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.

Kris Holden-Ried
Kris Holden-Ried can currently be seen playing Dyson in the television series Lost Girl.

Cory Hudson Jones
Cory has 20 years of experience in games marketing and product development, he has had senior roles with: Blizzard Entertainment, Upper Deck, Virgin, Midway, and Crave. Notably Cory created the World of Warcraft TCG at Upper Deck, and guided it to one of the largest launches of any TCG in history.

Ben Stoll
Ben is a 4-year veteran of the trading card game industry, and has worked as one of the main designers for World of Warcraft TCG. Ben has also designed several tabletop games for Cryptozoic. Ben is overseeing the design and direction of TCG gameplay for HEX: Shards of Fate.

Chris B Woods
Chris is a 10 year veteran of digital TCGs. He worked on his first game, Star Chamber, in 2003 and has since gone on to do both design and engineering on 10 different TCGs. His 11th will be Hex: Shards of Fate.

Chris Balassone
Chris started in the medical field 20 years ago that includes being a Licensed Practical Nurse and currently a Paramedic. He joined Tri-City Paranormal 5 years ago and quickly moved up the ranks to now being the Director of the team

Dave Daigle
Dave Daigle is the Associate Director for Communication at CDC's Office of Public Health Preparedness and Response.

Dr. DNA
Paul "Dr. DNA" Gregoli obtained his doctoral degree in Molecular Biology from Oklahoma University September 1st, 1994 and had spent the decade of 1995 to 2006 performing his postdoctoral research on hematopoiesis and as a research instructor on colonic crypt stem cell biology at Vanderbilt University.

Michael Dorn
Michael Dorn donned mounds of facial makeup for what was to be his signature role: the U.S.S. Enterprise's Klingon officer Lt. Worf on Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987-1994).  Michael reprised his role of Worf on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1995-1999).

Gabrielle Harbowy
Gabrielle Harbowy is an award-nominated anthologist and writer, and an editor for Pyr Books.

Ali Khan
Ali S. Khan, MD, MPH, (former Assistant Surgeon General) is the Director of the Office of Public Health Preparedness and Response (PHPR) at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Pierre Rollin
Dr. Pierre Rollin currently leads a team of epidemiologists in CDC's Office of Infectious Diseases.

Marina Sirtis
It was Marina's portrayal of Deana Troi, the psychic counselor, for seven years on the series Star Trek: The Next Generation, as well as in the Star Trek feature films, that has brought her legions of fans throughout the galaxy.

David Swerdlow
David Swerdlow is the Associate Director for Epidemiologic Science at CDC's National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases. David received his MD from Harvard Medical School and has been with CDC for over 20 years.

James Vaughan
James Vaughan is CEO of Ndemic Creations and creator of the mobile game, Plague Inc providing a unique mix of high strategy and terrifying realistic simulation.

Paul Amos
Paul Amos currently appears as Vex on the Showcase/Syfy hit Lost Girl.

T. Eric Bakutis
T. Eric Bakutis is an author and game designer based in Maryland. He is a lead content designer on the upcoming MMORPG The Elder Scrolls Online. His debut fantasy novel, Glyphbinder, will be published by McBryde Publishing in summer 2013. His professional website is www.tebakutis.com.

Lauren Bowles
Lauren Bowles is best known for her role as Holly Cleary on the HBO hit True Blood.

K.C. Collins

Drewprops
Drew has worked on dozens of feature film and television projects. He has dropped Kevin Costner, bounced a grenade off of Daniel Baldwin, been scolded by Denzel Washington, leapfrogged by Dennis Franz and once caught a cottage made entirely of cheese while crouched inches away from a bikini-clad Nikki Cox.

Matt Green
After 15 years in the special FX business , Matt green moved into the film directing realm in 1999 with the film Severed, and then directed Vicious (2001), Bloodbath (2002) and Loaded Dice all starring horror legend Tom Savini. Matt's feature Zombie Invasion screened at Dragon Con 2012. He also continues to do physical and creature effects.

KISSNATION
KISSNATION is 15 year veteran nationally performed full makeup/costume KISS tribute act. The group is able to perform KISS music from all eras (70's-2010's) and have been featured on various national TV segments/spots. 

Thomas W. Knowles

Lips Down on Dixie
Lips Down On Dixie is an Atlanta based Rocky Horror Picture Show cast which performs weekly Friday midnight shows at The Plaza Theater. Known nationally for their screen accuracy, the cast has made appearances at venues around the Southeast region including Masquerade, Club Future, Chamber, Tongue & Groove, and others.

Matthew Charles Malis
Matthew Malis has been a part of the Larping community for over ten years. He has been involved in many projects, including Mandate of Power, Sins in the Past, Forest of Doors, and Fractured. He has been making boffer weapons since he was 25 of all shapes, sizes, and designs.

Charles D. Moisant
Charles Has been Publishing comic books since 1991. Some of his titles have been Myth Told Tails (a licensed title). Recently he published Zombie Annihilation, Whispers from the VOID. Currently Cynthia Martin, Jasper Barks, and Charles are developing Roller Derby Drama a world where all Derby Girls have super powers.

Zoie Palmer
Zoie Palmer can currently be seen playing Dr. Lauren Lewis in the Showcase/Syfy hit series Lost Girl.

Mark Setrakian
Mark Setrakian has pioneered cutting-edge animatronics for such films as Men In Black, The Grinch, Mighty Joe Young, Hellboy, Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters, and Pacific Rim.

Mark was the Heavyweight Champion of Robot Wars, and a seven-time trophy winner at BattleBots. Mark created the robots of Syfy's Robot Combat League.

Dexter Vines
Dexter Vines is one of comics most prolific and well respected artist inkers in the business with over 18 years experience. 

Bret Wood
Bret Wood is an independent filmmaker whose credits include Hell's Highway, Psychopathia Sexualis, and The Little Death. He has just completed the neo-gothic thriller The Unwanted.

Clint Black
Clint Black is Savage Worlds Core Rules Brand Manager for Pinnacle Entertainment Group and the "Rules Guru" on the forums. He’s worked on the Companion series (Fantasy, Superpowers, Horror, and Sci-Fi Companion), and multiple setting books including Weird War II, Hell On Earth, Space 1889, Deadlands Noir, and Necessary Evil.

Bob Burden
Eisner Award winning creator of Atlanta's first superhero, the surreal and action packed Flaming Carrot, Mysterymen and writer on the all-ages classic Gumby comic book series. Currently working on Hit Man for the Dead with Andrew Robinson.

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, The Spirit and Richard Stark's Parker: The Hunter.

Michelle R Griffin
Michelle is a gifted psychic and medium. She finds particular fulfillment in assisting with forensic cases. She has made many guest appearances speaking on demystifying psychic abilities. She firmly believes that each of us possess the ability to tap into and develop what is commonly known as our sixth sense.

Jonathan LeCraft
Jonathan LeCraft is a senior game designer at Blizzard Entertainment with over a decade of design experience in MMOs and RPGs. For the last eight years he has worked on World of Warcraft, pouring his passion into tradeskills, class abilities, quests, scenarios, and pet battles.

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 Dragon*Con.

Malcolm McDowell
Malcolm McDowell is a British actor. McDowell's career has spanned more than forty years and includes notable roles in If..., A Clockwork Orange, O Lucky Man!, Star Trek Generations, the TV serial Our Friends in the North, Entourage, Heroes, Metalocalypse, and the 2007 horror remake of Halloween.

Julian Sands

Victoria Schwab
25-year-old Victoria "V.E." Schwab is the acclaimed author of several books for teens, most recently The Archived, about a library of the dead. Her adult debut, Vicious, a twisted supervillain tale, hits shelves with Tor this September and is already receiving high praise.

Hunter Cressall
Hunter Cressall is a director, editor and DP in consumer and broadcast HD. Hunter specializes in bridging the narrowing gap between consumer, prosumer, and broadcast video. Hunter is a skilled editor on Avid, Final Cut, and Premiere. His background in feature films includes art direction, miniatures and special effects photography.

Nancy Knight
Nancy Knight has been a writer all her life, but began her professional writing career in 1983. Since then, she's had 12 novels published, 7 plays and 1 screenplay produced, as well as numerous short stories. She's been teaching creative writing since 1987.

Mary Elizabeth McGlynn
Mary Elizabeth McGlynn is perhaps best known for her work in Code Geass, Ghost in the Shell, and .hack//.

Mitch Pileggi
Mitch Pileggi  is an American actor, best known for his role as Walter Skinner on The X-Files. He also had a recurring role on Stargate Atlantis as Colonel Steven Caldwell. 

Daxiong Guo
Daxiong has created and published over 100 books in Asia and illustrated 3 books in Europe with Solei Publishing. Since coming to the states has worked with DC, IDW, and Dark Horse on projects such as Justice League America, Star Wars, and Fringe.

Manu Bennett
Manu Bennett is best known for his role as Crixus, the Undefeated Gaul in the American Starz television series Spartacus, about the uprising started by the gladiator Spartacus in the Roman Republic. He also had roles playing the villain Azog in The Hobbit and as Slade Wilson in Arrow, a series about the superhero Green Arrow.

Burn Gorman
Burn Gorman is known for his roles as Owen Harper in Torchwood, as William Guppy in Bleak House, and as Stryver in The Dark Knight Rises.

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

Tom Biondolillo
Tom Biondolillo is now adapting Walter M. Miller's classic Sci-Fi novel, A Canticle for Leibowitz, into an epic graphic novel. A comic artist, illustrator, concept artist, writer and college professor; having worked for frontline comic, game, and toy companies. He also teaches animation and game art and design.

Chad Coleman
Chad Coleman can currently be starring as Tyreese on AMC's hit series The Walking Dead.

Billy Flynn
The Wonderful Billy Flynn is a pioneer of New Media and host of the multiple Parsec Award-nominated podcast, "Geek Radio Daily." He is a renowned voice actor, starring in speculative fiction productions and audio dramas. Flynn has also hosted the Parsec Awards and emceed auctions and trivia game shows.

Lloyd Kaufman
Lloyd Kaufman is President of Troma Entertainment, Inc., the world's oldest independent film studio and creator of The Toxic Avenger. His latest feature is Return to Nuke 'Em High, produced in association with Anchor Bay and is slated for release in 2014.

Emily Kinney
Emily Kinney is an American television and stage actress currently appearing as Beth Greene in AMC's The Walking Dead. 

Lucky Yates
Lucky Yates plays Dr. Krieger on the hit show Archer on FX. He also played a bazillion characters on the show Good Eats on the Food Network along side his pal Alton Brown. He has a podcast with Amber Nash (Pam on Archer). Science!

Steven Yeun
Steven Yeun is a Korean-born American actor. Yeun is currently starring in the role as Glenn in AMC's original series, The Walking Dead since 2010.

Mary Abreu
Mary Abreu left an award-winning print journalism career to pursue her passion for sewing. Her career change led to continuing adventures in costume and apparel design, a successful sewing book (Little Girls, Big Style, Stash Books, 2010) , as well as sewing for film with Whitestone Motion Pictures.

Bill Bridges
Bill Bridges is Senior Content Designer at CCP/White Wolf. He is the co-creator of Holistic Design’s Fading Suns science fiction universe, and was the developer for White Wolf's Werewolf: the Apocalypse and Promethean games. He is a Fellow at the Mythic Imagination Institute.

Juliet Dark
Carol Goodman is the author of eight novels including The Lake of Dead Languages and The Seduction of Water, which won the 2003 Hammett Prize. Under the pseudonym Juliet Dark she is the author of The Demon Lover, which was named a top ten fantasy/sci fi book by Booklist.

Claire M. Eddy
Claire Eddy is a senior editor who has worked in the publishing industry for almost thirty years and specifically with Tor Books for 28 of those years. Concentrating on science fiction and fantasy, she discovered Jacqueline Carey and other major fantasy talents.

Thomas Michael Gofton
Initiating as an actor, Thomas became a producer of several initiatives in film, literature and game design working internationally on intellectual property development for television, film and the web including the children`s fantasy-action television series Mind`s Eye, the comedy-fantasy film series The Gamers and JourneyQuest web series.

Stacey Gordon
Stacey Gordon is an improviser and puppeteer in Phoenix, Arizona, where she's been building puppets, teaching, and performing in Puppet Slams since 2001. Stacey co-directs & puppeteers for The Bob & Angus Show, a web-series produced for Mayfair Games. Her puppets have been featured in music videos, commercials, and on ABC's The View.

Andrew Greenberg
Andrew Greenberg, co-creator of HDI’s Fading Suns and original developer of Vampire: The Masquerade, has developed numerous traditional and digital games. His credits include Star Trek: Starfleet Academy, Emperor of the Fading Suns, Warhammer 40K: Final Liberation, Merchant Prince II, Mall Tycoon, Dungeon Crawlers and a new Tycoon game.

John P. Helfers
John Helfers is a freelance author and editor from Green Bay, Wisconsin. He also packages anthologies with authors such as Mercedes Lackey and Johnny D. Boggs. His latest book is Tiger by the Tail, a Paladin of Shadows novel (written by Ryan Sear), co-authored with John Ringo.

Kerrie Lynn Hughes
Kerrie L. Hughes has edited ten anthologies with DAW and TOR. She has also published nine short stories with traditional publishers. Currently she is working on her first novel, and is editing anthologies for Fiction River, an online magazine run by Dean Wesley Smith and Kris Kathryn Rusch.

Brian Markinson
Currently starring in Continuum as Inspector Dillon, and in Mad Men as Dr. Arnold Rosen. Markinson has an impressive resume in some of the highest profile Sci Fi Television series in history: Vorin in Star Trek: TNG, Homeward, Lt. Durst and Sulan in Star Trek: Voyager episodes "Cathexis" and "Faces."

Michael Martinez
Michael Martinez is the author of Visualizing Middle-earth, Parma Endorion, and Understanding Middle-earth. He founded the Tolkien and Middle-earth fan track at Dragon*Con and served as its director for 2 years. When not disrupting the Web with his digital marketing theories Michael writes about Tolkien and Middle-earth on his blog.

Mark Meer
Mark Meer stars in Bioware's Mass Effect trilogy as Commander Shepard, the Vorcha, Blasto, Niftu Cal, and more. Other voice credits include the Baldur's Gate, Neverwinter Nights, and Dragon Age games. Mark is also a writer and performer on Canada's CAUTION: May Contain Nuts, often featured on Dragon*ConTV.

E. C. Myers
E.C. Myers was assembled in the U.S. from Korean and German parts. His short fiction has appeared in various print and online venues, and his young adult novels, Fair Coin and Quantum Coin, were published by Pyr Books. Find him online at ecmyers.net and on Twitter @ecmyers.

Lars Pearson
Lars Pearson is one of the foremost experts on Doctor Who in North America, and co-author of the seminal Who guide Ahistory (now 30,000 words longer than War and Peace). As Mad Norwegian Press editor-in-chief, he oversees the company's essay collections on women and fandom (Hugo winner 2011, twice Hugo-nominated in 2013).

Kalayna Price
USA Today Bestselling author Kalayna Price writes the Alex Craft Novels and the Novels of Haven. Her books, available around the world, contain the mystical elements of fantasy, a dash of romance, gritty horror, some humor, and a serving of mystery. Find out more at www.kalayna.com

Linnea Quigley
Linnea Quigley is known as "America's Scream Queen" with good reason.She has appeared in over 150 films in a career that has spanned over 3 decades. She first drew attention for her role in The Return of the Living Dead 1985, and is a Convention favorite with fans.

Gray Rinehart
Gray Rinehart's fiction has appeared in Analog Science Fiction & Fact, Asimov's Science Fiction, and elsewhere. In his US Air Force career, he fought rocket propellant fires, refurbished space launch facilities, "flew" satellites, and did other interesting things. He is now the "Slushmaster General" for Baen Books.

Michael Rome, Esq.
Michael Rome is an entertainment lawyer for filmmakers and serves as general counsel for Afterlight Pictures, an international distribution company for Horror and Science Fiction movies. Mr. Rome has film credits as production counsel & co-producer. He is a member of the GA & FL bars and the Beverly Hills Bar Association.

Shawn M Schuster
Shawn Schuster is best known for his work as a podcaster on the "GuildCast" and "Through the Aftermath" podcasts. He currently works as the Senior Editor at Massively.com and a farmer on his organic farm.

Fr. Bryan Small
Fr. Bryan is a Catholic priest know for combining faith together with sci-fi and pop culture,

Damien Valentine
Damien is a machinima filmmaker known for his work on The Death of Jar Jar, The Darkness Saga, and Chronicles of Humanity.

Leah Wilson
Leah Wilson is editor-in-chief of BenBella Books' pop culture imprint Smart Pop, publishing titles on science fiction, fantasy, and YA books, television, film, and more. She is the editor of Hunger Games anthology The Girl Who Was on Fire, among others.

Wolven
Damien Williams makes his name exploring the various intersections of pop-culture, weird and fringe science, and practical applications of occult theory. He's currently an instructor at Kennesaw State University, a staff writer at NeedCoffee.com, and the Programing Chair for the Comics and Popular Arts Academic Conference at Dragon*Con.

DJ Spider
DJ Spider is a past Dragon*Con DJ, avid cosplayer, 10 year Dragon*Con attendee and is always looking to balance geekery and music for D*C!

Seth Gabel
Seth Gabel is best known to fans as "Lincoln Lee" in Fringe and his most recent turn as "The Count" in Arrow.

Dr. Michael Shermer
Dr. Michael Shermer is the Publisher of Skeptic magazine, a monthly columnist for Scientific American, an Adjunct Professor at Claremont Graduate University and Chapman University, and the author of The Believing Brain, Why People Believe Weird Things, Why Darwin Matters, How We Believe, and The Science of Good and Evil.

Amy Acker
She is best known for her roles on the television series Angel as Winifred Burkle and Illyria, and on Alias as Kelly Peyton. She is also known for her role as Dr. Claire Saunders on Dollhouse and as Samantha "Root" Groves on Person of Interest.

Carole E Barrowman
Carole E. Barrowman is Professor of English and Director of Creative Studies in Writing at Alverno College, Milwaukee, Wisconsin and a reviewer and crime fiction columnist for the Milwaukee Sentinel, also known for her writing contributions with younger brother John Barrowman.

John Barrowman
John Barrowman is best known as Captain Jack Harkness from the Doctor Who series as well as the spin off Torchwood.  Most recently he wowed fans with his role as Malcolm Merlyn in Arrow.

Kristin Bauer
American film and television actress Kristin Bauer has been in show business since her early 20's. Kristin is most known for her role as Pam, the vampire co-owner of Bon Temps' Fangtasia bar, in True Blood.

Tara Buck
Tara Buck is best known for her recurring role as Ginger in the television series True Blood. 

Emilie P. Bush
Bestselling Steampunk Children's book author, YA Novelist, Editor-in-Chief of Steampunk Chronicle, Emilie P. Bush has her finger on the pulse of children's literature in the most adventuresome genre out there.

Blair B. Chintella
Defense attorney practicing primarily in copyright infringement defense, specifically P2P cases involving Bittorrent.

Suzanne Church
Suzanne Church is an award winning Canadian author of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror.  Her short fiction has appeared in Clarkesworld, Cicada and On Spec, and in several anthologies including Danse Macabre: Close Encounters with the Reaper and the upcoming When the Hero Comes Home 2.

Jessica Khoury
Jessica Khoury writes young adult science fiction like Origin (September 2012) and Vitro (coming January 2014), published by Razorbill/Penguin.

Elizabeth Norris
Elizabeth Norris is the author of Unraveling, Undone, and Unbreakable. The series, which has been optioned by MTV, is the story of one girl's fight to save her family, her world, and the one boy she never saw coming.

Eliza Dushku
Eliza Dushku is an American actress known for her television roles, including recurring appearances as Faith on Buffy the Vampire Slayer and its spinoff series Angel. She starred in two Fox series, Tru Calling and Dollhouse.

Liam McIntyre
Liam McIntyre is an Australian actor most known for his work in several short films and guest starring roles in Australian TV series. He played the lead role in the Starz television series Spartacus: Vengeance and Spartacus: War of the Damned.

Natalia Tena
Natalia Tena is best known to audiences as Nymphadora Tonks in the Harry Potter series and Osha in Game of Thrones.

Terry Farrell
Terry Farrell is a former American actress and fashion model. She is perhaps best known for her performances in the television series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine as Jadzia Dax and Becker as Regina Kostas.

Jim Parrack
Jim Parrack is an American actor. He has a recurring role as Hoyt Fortenberry in HBO series True Blood, and appeared in the film Battle: Los Angeles, which was released March 2011.

Aurelio Voltaire
Aurelio Voltaire is a media personality and respected authority on all things Gothic, Horror, Sci-fi, Steampunk and involving “geek” culture. He is often referred to as a modern day renaissance man having achieved success in the fields of animation, music, comics, books, and toys.

Brian Brushwood
For 15 years Brian Brushwood has toured colleges nationwide, performing his award-winning "bizarre magic show" (a thrill-ride mashup of dangerous stunts, mindreading, and comedy magic) along with skeptical lectures at over 1000 schools. Teller (of Penn and Teller) says "Brian Brushwood just kills me. He's funny, dangerous, and brilliantly original."

Chesya Burke
Chesya Burke’s 2011 collection, Let’s Play White, was featured in i09 and received praise from Samuel Delany and Nikki Giovanni. She’s recognized for her critical analysis of genre/race, including her article, "Race and the Walking Dead." Chesya’s currently getting her Master’s at Georgia State University.

Janina Gavankar
Janina Gavankar is perhaps best known for her role in HBO's True Blood.

Veronica Giguere
Veronica Giguere is a voice artist and coauthor of The Secret World Chronicles braided novel series published by Baen Books. She is a versatile narrator whose genres include science fiction, fantasy, steampunk, and romance.

Jennifer Dawn Kalmanson
Jennifer Kalmanson is a space systems engineer who’s worked missions as varied as demonstrating on-orbit satellite refueling, repairing Hubble, and encountering asteroids. A board member of the American Humanist Association and the Institute for Humanist Studies, she also performs weddings and funerals in her role as a Humanist Celebrant.

Phillip C. Kalmanson
Phillip Kalmanson is a Spacecraft Systems Architect currently working on in-space satellite servicing with NASA. He designed satellites and payloads for a variety of missions in Science, Exploration, Communications, and Defense. Phillip has always been a fan of science fiction and uses it for inspiration in his professional life.

Talloolah Love
Talloolah Love is an internationally known performer and producer of burlesque, including Dragon*Con’s own "Glamour Geek Revue."  She is Matron of the Atlanta Burlesque and Cabaret Society, Pin Curl Magazine's February 2013 cover girl, and contributing author in The Steampunk's Guide to Sex! See more at www.talloolah.com

Mark Maddox
Mark Maddox is a Rondo Award and Pulp Factory winning artist. His covers grace Screem Magazine, HorrorHound, Little Shoppe of Horrors, Undying Monsters, Moonstone Comics, Mad Scientist Magazine, and recently done art for Warner Brothers, Alchemy Werks, EMCE Toys and more.

Sylvester McCoy
Sylvester McCoy was starring at the National Theatre in The Pied Piper, a play written especially for him, when he learned that the BBC was looking for a new lead actor to replace Colin Baker in Doctor Who (1963). He later won the role as the seventh Doctor.

Mika McKinnon
Mika McKinnon is a scientist for science fiction, bringing plausibility to our on-screen heroes.

Olivia Olson
Olivia Olson is an actor and singer-songwriter who plays Marceline the Vampire Queen in CN's Adventure Time and Vanessa Doofenshmirtz in Disney's Phineas and Ferb. She also acted in the film Love Actually and is famous for singing the song "All I Want For Christmas Is You."

Rob Paulsen
Rob Paulsen is one of the top Voice Actors in cartoon voice acting and an Emmy and Annie award winner. He is best known as Yakko from Animaniacs, Pinky from Pinky and the Brain, Raphael in the original TMNT series, and Donatello on the new TMNT, as well as hundreds of other characters.

Beth Revis
Beth Revis is the author of the New York Times Bestselling Across the Universe series. The final book of her trilogy released January 2013.

Aron Siegel
Aron Siegel's a producer and sound mixer whose work includes Implanted, Quarantine 2, The Walking Dead, Teen Wolf, and Vampire Diaries.  Dragon*Con showcased three films he's mixed: Blood Car, The Signal, and 20 Years After.

Anthony Spay
Anthony Spay is currently the staff artist/art director for Zenescope Entertainment. Known for his work as a cover artist, Anthony contributes covers for all of Zenescope's major titles. He also designs Zenescope's characters, and made his writing debut this year, penning the script for Grimm Universe #4.

Tom Fleming
Tom is a four time Chesley Award nominee that has illustrated for: World of Warcraft, Magic the Gathering, Heavy Metal Magazine, Marvel, DC, Dark Horse, & Image Comics. The Illustrator/Storyboard Artist for many Hollywood movies. He is known worldwide for his Fine Art that has been the recipient of many awards.

Rachel Hartman
Rachel Hartman’s debut novel, Seraphina, published on July 10, 2012 and debuted at #8 on The New York Times Best Seller list. It won the 2013 Morris Award for the best YA novel by a debut author and will be followed by a sequel entitled Shadow Scale in 2013.

Matt Hughes
Ingeniously blending the romantic aesthetic beauty of Art Nouveau with the dark concepts of Gothic art, painter Matt Hughes is best known for giving rise to Gothic Art Nouveau, a new art movement that’s redefining the relationship between viewer and subject

John Levene
John Levene is an English actor. His most famous role was that of Sergeant Benton of UNIT on the television series Doctor Who.

Susan Chang
Susan Chang is a Senior Editor at Tor Books. She acquires and edits books for the Starscape middle grade and Tor Teen young adult imprints.

Michelle Hodkin
Michelle Hodkin grew up in Florida, went to college in New York, and studied law in Michigan. She is the author of the New York Times bestselling Mara Dyer trilogy, and you can visit her online at michellehodkin.com.

Bonnie Kunzel
Bonnie Kunzel, retired young adult librarian, is a nationally-known speaker at library, education and science fiction conferences. She presents seminars on What’s New in SF, Fantasy and the Paranormal, etc. Her professional works include Fluent in Fantasy: The Next Generation, and Strictly Science Fiction: A Guide to Reading Interests.

John DiMaggio
John DiMaggio is best known for his work as Bender from the television show Futurama, Marcus Fenix from the Gears of War video game series, and as Jake the Dog on Adventure Time.

Emerald Rose
Emerald Rose has traveled the US and Ireland and are equally at home at Science Fiction conventions or celebrity-studded parties in Hollywood. In February 2013 Emerald Rose returned to Hollywood for their third appearance with the cast and crew of Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit movies.

William Kircher
William Kircher is a lead cast member of The Hobbit trilogy playing the dwarf Bifur and also the performance-capture role of Tom Troll. William has also taken guest leads in fantasy series Legend Of The Seeker and Xena - Warrior Princess.

Daniel Logan
At the top of this young actors growing resume sits Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones, with the coveted role of Boba Fett, winning the part, out of thousand who tried out, after just one audition!

Douglas J McCarthy
Douglas J McCarthy was the founder and frontman of the EBM band Nitzer Ebb.

Graham McTavish
Graham is starring in The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey as Dwalin the dwarf in the first installment of Peter Jackson's blockbuster trilogy.

Vic Mignogna
Vic is a professional music composer/producer and veteran actor most well known as the voice of Edward Elric in Fullmetal Alchemist. Vic has voiced characters in more than 150 shows and video games

James Nesbitt
James Nesbitt currently plays Bofur in Peter Jackson's three-part The Hobbit.

Jeremy Shada
Jeremy Shada  is an American teen actor and singer who currently provides the voice of the young adventurer, Finn on Cartoon Network's Emmy®-nominated series Adventure Time.

Matthew Wood
Matthew Wood is a 2 time Academy Award nominated and Golden Reel winning sound supervisor from Skywalker Sound. He is also an actor of multiple characters in the Star Wars Prequels and Clone Wars Animated TV Series. He is famous for the roles of General Grievous and Battle Droids.

Avery Brooks
Avery Brooks is an accomplished stage, television and film actor best known for his role as Benjamin Sisko in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.  He is the only actor to appear in all 173 episodes of the series, and has also directed several episodes.  In addition, he played Benny Russell in the episodes "Far Beyond the Stars" and "Shadows and Symbols."  He also voiced Sisko in the games Star Trek: Deep Space Nine---Harbinger and Star Trek: Legacy.

Rodger Bumpass
Emmy-nominated for the voice of Squidward on Spongebob Squarepants, Rodger has been in acting for 38 years. In addition to Squidward, he was the voice of Professor Membrane in Invader Zim, Dr Light in Teen Titans, Hanover Fyst in the cult favorite Heavy Metal .

Cirroc Lofton
Cirroc Lofton played the regular role of Jake Sisko on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine beginning in 1993.  

Paul McGinnis
Paul McGinnis is a puppeteer.  His TV and film work includes Sesame Street, The Muppets, Crank Yankers, Warren the Ape, Crash & Bernstein, Felt, West Wing, It’s a Big Big World, Dog With a Blog, Book of Pooh, and Greg the Bunny. On stage he worked on the Broadway tour of Little Shop of Horrors and Walking With Dinosaurs.

David Warner
Welcome English actor David Warner, perhaps best known for his roles in genre work such as The Omen, Time Bandits, Tron, Star Trek V and VI, The Lost World, Planet of the Apes, and Dr. Who, among hundreds of others.

Kelly Yates
Kelly Yates is an illustrator on Doctor Who: The Forgotten and Fairytale Life comics for IDW Publishing, along with various one-shots and covers. He also writes and illustrates the creator-owned comics, Amber Atoms and MonstHer.

Jason Metcalf
Jason is most known for his pencilling on IDW's Eternal Descent and Cobalt titles. More recently, Jason provided artwork for HBO's Game Of Thrones and the History Channel Vikings blu ray content. Other projects include Marvel Beginnings, Avengers Assemble, and character design for Stan Lee's POW! Entertainment.

Ted Naifeh
Comics creator Ted Naifeh is best known for his Eisner nominated fantasy series, Courtney Crumrin, a New York Times bestseller. He also created Polly and the Pirates, and co-created the goth classic Gloomcookie, as well as Holly Black's The Good Neighbors. His upcoming barbarian schoolgirl epic, Princess Ugg, debuts this year.

Rhonda Oglesby
Rhonda is proud to be a geek and a gamer. In 2012, she joined Regina McMenomy, PhD to launch the Game on Girl weekly podcast. She serves as graphic artist and co-host for the show and the site.

Jamie Wade Tyndall
Jamie Tyndall is a Canadian comic book cover artist, that is known for his depictions of sexy, strong female characters. His published work includes covers for Zenescope, Top Cow, and Big Dog Ink as well as Stan Lee's Pow Entertainment.

Matthew J. Brown
Matthew J. Brown, Ph.D is a professional scholar of comics and popular culture and a professor of philosophy at The University of Texas at Dallas. He has presented at San Diego Comic-Con and has organized an academic conference at Dragon*Con since 2008.

Erin Leigh Bushko
Erin Bushko has been a professional in her field for over ten years specializing in Historical, Steampunk, and Fantasy costuming. Her work has been featured in publications such as Escapist Magazine and Star Wars Insider. She was also a featured zombie in all three season of The Walking Dead.

Tony Dumont
Tony Dumont is the Production Manager at Bob Burden Comics, the imprint for Bob Burden’s own publishing company. He is also the programmer who created Burden’s impressive website with its own online store. Dumont administers the site, all the while generating the digital versions of Burden’s work.

Chris Gann
Chris started his career with the development of his own charity teddy bear product line. Since then, his company Gann Memorials has transitioned into a custom toy developer. They handle everything from toy design to delivery. Lastly, Chris has even created plush costumes/costume accessories for companies, such as Nintendo.

Tom Heintjes
Tom Heintjes is the co-founder and publisher of Hogan's Alley magazine, one of the leading magazines on contemporary and classic cartooning. He is a former managing editor of The Comics Journal and for years wrote biographical essays for Will Eisner’s Spirit magazine for Kitchen Sink Press.

Bruce Mangan
Bruce Mangan is a co-founder of the Darkside Syndicate, a composite of independent investigators that research the paranormal. Bruce is also a co-host of the radio show "The Darkside" with Will Aymerich. Bruce's background is in comparative religion, UFOs, paranormal activity, alternative history, and general conspiracy theory.

Roxanne Starr
Roxanne Starr is a comic book letterer and graphic designer. As a comic book letterer, she was the first to bring computerized comic book fonts to the industry. Starr is currently working with Bob Burden and programmer, Tony Dumont, on the Bob Burden Comics website and online store.

Thomas F. Zahler
Thom Zahler is the creator of the superhero romantic comedy Love and Capes, as well as the writer and artist of the inaugural issue of IDW's My Little Pony micro-series.

Michael Capps
Michael's been a game designer, executive producer, head writer, lead programmer, comic author, and studio executive. He's best known for his decade with Epic Games, makers of mega-hits Gears of War and Infinity Blade and the award-winning UnrealEngine. He's a long-time Dragon*Con attendee, guest, and co-directs the videogame track.

L. M. Davis
L. M. Davis is an author and scholar. She is the author of two YA fantasy novels, Interlopers: A Shifters Novel and Posers: A Shifters Novel. She has a Ph. D. from Emory University and her areas of specialization include African American, Native American, and speculative literatures.

John Glover

Brodrick Jones
Brodrick Jones is a writer, comedian, and puppeteer best known for Jigsaw, a web series about a robot and a mad scientist who yell a lot. This is his first Dragon*Con. Be gentle.

Eloy Lasanta
Eloy Lasanta is the "hardest working man in RPGs," having founded Third Eye Games, released a slew of games like Wu Xing: The Ninja Crusade and Part-Time Gods, and even does freelance work for others. Got a question for him? Ask away!

Allison Mack
Allison Mackis an American actress, director and producer. She is best known for her role of Chloe Sullivan on the Superman-inspired television series Smallville.

Jef Murray
Jef Murray is an internationally known artist, author, and illustrator. His paintings, sketches, and writings appear in fantasy publications and calendars (MyMiddleEarth.com, Amon Hen, Mallorn, Beyond Bree, Silver Leaves, Mythprints) worldwide. His artwork has been featured in video courses and television specials on J.R.R. Tolkien and Middle-earth.

John F Sokol
John Sokol is known nationally for his hard work and dedication to the interests of various alternative lifestyles. John’s background of 15 years in law enforcement give a unique perspective about the pitfalls of living a lifestyle outside of what is usually considered average and normal.

Thomas Willeford
Thomas Willeford is a steampunk and fantasy artist, writer, and designer.  His main publication, Steampunk Gear, Gadgets, and Gizmos: A Maker's Guide to Creating Modern Artifacts by McGraw-Hill, which is the #1 selling Steampunk non-fiction, #2 Book on Leathercraft on Amazon, and in the Top 20 Fashion best-sellers.

Victor Yerrid
Victor's credits include The Hangover, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Family Guy, Team America, Men In Black II, Farscape: The Peacekeeper Wars, Angel, Community, Robot Chicken, MADD, The Sarah Silverman Program, Warren The Ape, Crank Yankers, Greg The Bunny, Sid The Science Kid, Pajanimals, and Sesame Street.

Justin Robert Young
Justin Robert Young is a podcaster, blogger and writer. He is a co-host of NSFWShow with Brian Brushwood. Their controversial book hoax The Diamond Club, a crowd sourced erotic fiction novel written by podcast fans, became a literary phenomenon in 2012.

Peter S. Beagle
Peter S. Beagle was born in 1939 and raised in the Bronx. Classic works like The Last Unicorn, A Fine and Private Place, and "Two Hearts," have made him a fantasy icon. He also wrote “Sarek” for Star Trek: The Next Generation and the animated Lord of the Rings.

Atlanta Radio Theatre Company
Bringing the magic of old time radio into the modern era with original stories told in the classic audio style.

Chris Avellone
Chris Avellone is Creative Director and narrative designer for Obsidian Entertainment. He's worked on titles such as Fallout, Star Wars, Wasteland 2, and now Project: Eternity and Torment: Tides of Numenera.

Keith Baker
Keith Baker is best known for creating the Eberron Campaign Setting for Dungeons & Dragons and the storytelling card game Gloom. He's produced a host of games, novels, and RPG supplements, including the novel The Queen of Stone and the card game Cthulhu Fluxx. Currently he's developing a brand new world.

KyL T Cobb
Kyle T. Cobb, Jr. serves a consulting demonologist, paranormal researcher and historian dedicated to unraveling the mysteries of the past. Known as a world traveler and religious scholar, Cobb’s specialty is placing ancient texts in context and determining the original, often lost meaning.

Austin Grossman
Austin Grossman is the author of two novels, Soon I Will Be Invincible and You. He writes and designs video games, including System Shock, Jurassic Park: Trespasser, Deus Ex, Disney's Epic MIckey, and Dishonored.

Jonathan Maberry
Jonathan Maberry is a NY Times bestselling author, multiple Bram Stoker Award winner, and freelancer for Marvel Comics. His works include Flesh & Bone, Patient Zero, Assassin's  Code, Ghost Road Blues, The Wolfman, Ultimate Jujutsu, Zombie CSU, Captain America, Doomwar, Marvel Zombies Return, and Marvel Universe vs. The Avengers.

Lou Ferrigno
A world-renowned bodybuilder and actor, Lou Ferrigno has played many roles calling for someone really big, but none as famous as The Incredible Hulk. 

Brian Green
Brian 'Psychochild' Green is an experienced MMORPG developer. In his more than 15 years of professional experience, he has done game programming, designing, writing, and live game administrating. He co-wrote a book on business and legal issues in game development, and maintains the game development blog at http://psychochild.org/

Molly Lewis
Molly Lewis (aka Sweetafton23) is an American Internet musician who is known for her ukulele playing. She plays both covers and original songs. Her original music consists of comedic songs about pop culture topics that trend towards the nerdy. She is currently signed with DFTBA Records through which she released her first EP "I Made You A CD... But I Eated It".

Mike Phirman
Mike Phirman is a musician and comedian and original partner in "Hard 'n Phirm" with Chris Hardwick.

Michael Rooker
Michael Rooker was born in 1955 in Jasper, Alabama. When he was 13 he went with his mother to live in Chicago. He caught the acting bug while attending college, and began appearing in local stage productions. His most recent credits include The Walking Dead and Call of Duty Black Ops 2.

William Shatner
William Shatner is an actor and novelist who gained worldwide fame and became a cultural icon for his portrayal of Captain James T. Kirk, captain of the starship USS Enterprise, in the television series Star Trek from 1966 to 1969, Star Trek: The Animated Series, and in seven of the subsequent Star Trek feature films.

Irone Singleton
Best known to audiences as the menacing thug Alton in the 2010 Academy® Award-nominated film The Blind Side, IronE Singleton's ability to play strong, multidimensional characters has made him a memorable actor in both film and television. His most recent role is T-Dog in The Walking Dead.

George Takei
George Takei, best known for his portrayal of Mr. Sulu in the acclaimed television and film series Star Trek, has more than 30 feature films and hundreds of television guest-starring roles to his credit.

Tim Farley
Tim Farley is a computer security analyst and Research Fellow for the James Randi Educational Foundation. He created the skeptic website What's the Harm, blogs at skeptools.com and podcasts for Skepticality and Virtual Skeptics. He has developed software for two decades and holds three patents.

Daniel Griffith
Daniel Griffith is an independent documentary filmmaker specializing in cult cinema. Since 2008, when he founded Ballyhoo Motion Pictures, he has produced and directed over 45 bonus feature documentaries and shorts, as well as three feature-length productions. He is also the official documentarian for the Mystery Science Theater 3000 television series.

Sam Ortega
For 25 years Sam has been with NASA working on everything from the space shuttle solid rocket motors to microgravity science research and is now focused on reaching out to technical communities outside of NASA for unique solutions to NASA'a technology barriers.

John C. Snider
John C. Snider blogs and podcasts about skeptical and secular concerns at AmericanFreethought.com.

Garrett Wang
Wang is best known for his role as Ensign Harry Kim on Star Trek: 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.

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."

Kevin D. Dockery
Kevin Dockery has written or contributed to 39 books, numerous magazine articles, and appears on PBS, the History Channel, Discovery Channel, and Military Channel. His additional work has been with weapons, as a gunsmith, consultant, or in the U.S. Military. He holds a patent on a round of 40mm ammunition.

Stanton Friedman
Stanton T. Friedman is a physicist, lecturer, and professional Ufologist.

Kenneth Hite
Kenneth Hite is a writer and game designer, creator of the roleplaying games Trail of Cthulhu, Day After Ragnarok, and Night's Black Agents, and over 70 other titles. Among his non-game works are Cthulhu 101, The Nazi Occult for Osprey Publishing, three Lovecraftian children's books, and several short stories.

Jamie Hyneman
Jamie Hyneman is best known for his role as co-host and executive producer of MythBusters.

Todd Lockwood
Todd Lockwood"s illustrations have appeared on bestselling novels, magazines, video games, TCGs, and RPGs. They've received numerous industry awards. Known for the narrative power of his paintings, Todd now turns to writing, with a novel to be published by DAW Books. Please visit his website, http://www.toddlockwood.com.

Adam Savage
In addition to co-hosting Discovery Channel's MythBusters, Adam teaches advanced model making, most recently in the industrial design department at the San Francisco Academy of Art. Somehow he also finds time to devote to his own art — his sculptures have been showcased in over 40 shows in San Francisco, New York and Charleston, W.Va.

Joseph Scrimshaw

Michael Stackpole
Michael A. Stackpole is a New York Times Bestselling author of over 45 novels, including I, Jedi, Rogue Squadron, and Vol'jin: Shadows of the Horde.

James Urbaniak
James Urbaniak provides the voice for Dr. Thaddeus Venture on The Venture Bros., as well as the Doctor's brother, Jonas Venture Junior and the super-villain Phantom Limb.

Lynn Abbey
Lynn Abbey’s first novel, Daughter of the Bright Moon, was published in 1978. She is also responsible for the creation and resurrection of Thieves' World. Since 2009, she, along with CJ Cherryh and Jane Fancher have been operating the digital publishing company, Closed Circle.

Skip Williams
Skip Williams, is an American author and game designer. He is best known as co-creator of Dungeons & Dragons 3rd Edition, as the longtime author of Dragon Magazine's column "Sage Advice," and onetime director of the Gen Con Game Fair.

Pamela Cole
Pamela Cole is a costumier who graduated from Goodman Theater, Chicago, 40 years ago and continues to work with dance companies, movies, museums, and reenactors, in the greater Atlanta area,  She us head of costuming for Atlanta’s Capitol City Opera Company. She has been involved with Dragon*Con’s costume track from the beginning.

Drew Curtis
Drew Curtis is the CEO and Founder of Fark.com, a social news aggregator website, and the author of It's Not News, It's FARK: How Mass Media Tries to Pass off Crap as News.

Mercedes Lackey
Author of Heralds of Valdemar, Elemental Masters, Bedlam Bards, Obsidian Mountain, SERRAted Edge, Dragon Jousters, Dragon Prophecy, 500 Kingdoms, Secret World Chronicles, Bardic Voices, Diana Tregarde Mysteries, Mage Wars, Shadow Grail, and other series and solo books.

Lee Majors
Lee Majors is known and loved world wide for his iconic role as Col. Steve Austin in The Six Million Dollar Man television series.

Aaron Poole
A writer and director, Aaron is the producer of the animated short film How the Whale Got His Throat, co-host of the comedy podcast Cabin Fever, and is a contributor at asitecalledFRED.com. He is also Irish...very, very Irish.

S. M. Stirling
S.M. Stirling is a fantasy and science fiction author; latest books The Given Sacrifice and A Shadow of Falling Night.

William Stout
William Stout is an American fantasy artist and illustrator with a specialization in paleontological art. His paintings have been shown in over seventy exhibitions, including twelve one-man shows. He has worked on over thirty feature films, doing everything from storyboard art to production design.

Lindsay Wagner
Lindsay Wagner received household recognition worldwide when she broke the mold for women on television with her iconic portrayal of Jaime Sommers. As she collaborated with the writers,  The Bionic Woman became an inspiration around the world and in 1977 Lindsay won the Emmy for "Best Actress in a Dramatic Role."

Tracy A. Akers
Tracy A. Akers is the author of the award-winning Souls of Aredyrah Series. Her books have been included in the Florida Department of Education’s recommended reading lists, are frequently used by teachers in the classroom, and were acknowledged by the Governor of Florida during the 2008 Florida Heritage Awards Ceremony.

Alina
PJ Beemer Renehan (Alina) is currently the Co-Project Lead of Artix Entertainment’s flagship game, AdventureQuest Worlds, as well as AE’s Writing Coordinator. She works with their many talented writers to ensure high-quality game storylines and marketing content.

Artix
Adam Bohn (Artix), is the Founder/CEO of Artix Entertainment, which makes weekly updated web games including AdventureQuest, DragonFable, MechQuest, EpicDuel, and the popular AdventureQuest Worlds. Artix Entertainment's game lineup also includes HeroSmash, several minigames, and the newly released OverSoul, AE's first card based PVP MMO game.

Cysero
Cysero has been the Project Lead for Artix Entertainment's flagship game AdventureQuest Worlds, a free-to-play, Flash based MMORPG, since its release in 2008.

Susan Dennard
Susan is a reader, writer, lover of animals, and eater of cookies. Her debut novel, Something Strange and Deadly, was released last year from HarperTeen. It's the first in a steampunk gothic trilogy, and the sequels (A Darkness Strange and Lovely, A Dawn Most Wicked) are also now available.

Scott Edgington
Dr. Edgington is a Planetary Scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory whose research specialties are giant planets, spectroscopy, and photochemistry. He is Cassini’s Deputy Project Scientist and Investigation Scientist for Cassini’s thermal infrared instrument. Previously, he was a Science Planning Engineer leading Saturn atmosphere planning for Cassini.

Susan Fichtelberg
Susan Fichtelberg is the author of Encountering Enchantment: A Guide to Speculative Fiction for Teens, published by Libraries Unlimited. In her 25 years as a children€™s librarian in NJ, Susan has presented fantasy booktalks and programs on the state and national level.

Galanoth
Tony Deller (Galanoth) is Senior VP of Game Operations for Artix Entertainment and heads the continued development of AE games after launch. He has worked with AE since 2002, and was instrumental in the launch and growth of AE's first game, AdventureQuest, one of the world's first played Flash RPGs.

Sonia Gensler
Sonia Gensler, author of The Revenant (Knopf ’11) and The Dark Between (Knopf ’13), grew up in a small Tennessee town and spent her early adulthood collecting impractical degrees from various Midwestern universities. A former high school English teacher, she now writes full-time in Oklahoma and spends summers in England.

Honey Goodenough
Honey Goodenough is a New York City based puppeteer, producer, educator, clown, and magician. Puppetry credits include Phantom Limb's The Fortune Teller, Puppetworks, and The National Marionette Theater, and No Strings International. She produces Puppet Pandemic, a nationally touring showcase of puppetry works. And yes, that really is her name.

Cheralyn Lambeth
Cheralyn Lambeth is a professional prop, costume, and puppet builder/performer whose work includes films (The Muppet Christmas Carol, Leatherheads, Evan Almighty, The Hunger Games), television (Dinosaurs!, Homeland) and various interactive properties (Star Trek: The Experience at the Las Vegas Hilton.) She also writes nonfiction ghost books with Schiffer Publishing.

Georgia McBride
Georgia McBride is a former music and internet executive, founder of #yalitchat, publisher and owner of Month9Books and Swoon Romance. She also writes speculative fiction for young adults and tweens, and packages books under Georgia McBride Books. Her first novel for teens is called Praefatio coming in May 2013.

Nythera
Stacia Spradlin (Nythera) is Head of Player Support for Artix Entertainment and has been with the company since 2006. AE's Player Support includes their customer support, game forums and in-game moderation teams.

M. B. Weston
Award-winning author MB Weston writes YA, fantasy, paranormal, steampunk, and science fiction. Her first paranormal thriller, Unleashed, will debut Summer 2013, and her short stories have appeared in paranormal, steampunk, and science-fiction anthologies. Weston, a gifted orator, speaks to thousands at schools and conventions about the craft of writing.

Dan dos Santos
Well known for his Mercy Thompson covers, Dan's colorful and highly rendered paintings often depict strong women. His work spans a variety of genres including novels, comics, and film. The recipient of many awards, Dan's work has graced the #1 spot on the New York Times Bestseller list numerous times.

RJ Haddy
RJ Haddy was a season two contestant and fan favorite on SyFy's Face Off.  He is an accomplished professional effects artist whos work includes big budget Hollywood films such as Batman and Robin, Theres Something About Mary, Contact, and Sleepy Hollow.

Paul and Storm
Paul and Storm are an Arlington, Virginia-based comedic musical duo consisting of Paul Sabourin and Greg "Storm" DiCostanzo. They are favorites of Dr. Demento and regular guests on the Bob and Tom radio show. 

Anne Sowards
Anne Sowards is an executive editor at Penguin Group (USA) Inc., where she primarily acquires and edits fantasy and science fiction for the Ace and Roc imprints. Some of the authors she works with include Jim Butcher, Patricia Briggs, Jack Campbell, Rachel Caine, Anne Bishop, Ilona Andrews, and Karen Chance.

Veronica Belmont
Veronica is a technology and gaming-centric video host. Her projects include Tekzilla, Fact or Fictional, and The Sword and Laser (a science fiction and fantasy podcast and community). Recently Veronica appeared on BBC America as the co-host of Gizmodo: The Gadget Testers.

Blue Gillespie
Blue Gillespie is a progressive metal band featuring Gareth David-Lloyd from Torchwood.

Gareth David Lloyd
Gareth is best known for his role of Ianto, the long suffering side kick to Captain Jack on the hit BBC series Torchwood.

Sarah J. Maas
Sarah J. Maas is the author of international bestseller Throne of Glass, a young adult fantasy novel now available from Bloomsbury Children's. The sequel, Crown of Midnight, will release August 2013.

James Marsters
James Marsters may best be known for the role of Spike, the punk-goth vampire that he played for six seasons on Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel. He's a headlining fan favorite at conventions worldwide. He's appeared in numerous Sci-fi series, including: Smallville, Torchwood, Caprica, Supernatural, and Andromeda.

Randal L. Schwartz
Randal L. Schwartz is a renowned open-source technologist and published author, specializing in the Perl and Smalltalk programming languages, and is the host of the FLOSS Weekly open-source podcast.

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 Dragon*Con since 2005.

Larry Elmore
Larry Elmore is one of the world's leading fantasy artists. His works have graced the covers of National Lampoon, Heavy Metal, and Dragon magazine, among others. He is best known for his covers for the original Dragonlance novels. 

Josh Gates
Josh Gates is an American adventurer, explorer, photographer, and television personality. He is currently the host of Destination Truth on Syfy, a weekly one-hour show filmed in remote locations around the world that explores some of the world's mysteries and unexplained phenomena.

Steve Gonsalves
Steve Gonsalves has been on the Paranormal television circuit for close to 5 years on the wildly popular Sci-Fi hit show Ghost Hunters.

Kathryn Hinds
Kathryn Hinds is a novelist, poet, editor, and author of more than fifty nonfiction books. Her 2013 publications include the six-book series Fantastic Creatures and a volume of poetry. Kathryn’s fiction includes steampunk, epic fantasy, and a YA novel in free verse. She teaches English at University of North Georgia.

Brad Linaweaver
Brad Linaweaver is a Nebula finalist and Prometheus Award winner. He has 17 books to his credit, a lot of short stories and 3 times as many articles. (One article was praised by Ronald Reagan!) He publishes his own pop culture magazine, Mondo Cult.

Ken Plume
Ken Plume writes, does interviews, co-hosts podcasts, plots, and sings horribly. He runs FRED Entertainment (www.ASiteCalledFRED.com), where he hosts the interview series A Bit of a Chat with Ken Plume.

Erin Ryder

Dave Tango
Dave is one of the investigators/evidence analyst on the popular SyFy Channel TV show Ghost Hunters.  Besides the paranormal, Dave enjoys photography, music, and magic.

Stephen L. Antczak
Stephen L. Antczak most recently edited the anthologies Zombiesque from DAW Books and Clockword Fairy Tales from ROC Books.

Ghost of the Robot
Ghost of the Robot is a California Rock Band. Their latest album Murphy's Law received positive reviews with College Pulse Magazine stating, "Ghost of the Robot sounds very much like a new-age type of Beatles, Pop-Rock with more soul."

Jim Butcher
Jim Butcher is the author of the Dresden Files, the Codex Alera, and his new steampunk series, the Cinder Spires. Jim currently resides mostly inside his own head, but his head can generally be found in his home town of Independence, Missouri.

Gene Wolfe
Gene Wolfe is an American science fiction and fantasy writer.  He has written The Shadow of the Torturer, Peace, Soldier of the Mist, Knight, Evil Guest, Sorcerer's House, and Home Fires, among others.  His new book, Land Across is due out in August.

Brobdingnagian Bards
The Brobdingnagian Bards are back for a Dragon*Con reunion with a new CD of Celtic absurdity. They take traditional Irish and Scottish folk songs, mix it up with Lord of the Rings music to create a unique brand of Celtic Filk. Slainte! 

John G. Hartness
John G. Hartness is the author of the Black Knight Chronicles urban fantasy series (Bell Bridge Books) and editor of The Big Bad: an Anthology of Evil (Kerlak Press). John has seven novels and over twenty short stories in print and is a regular contributor to the blog Magical Words.

Mike Horner
Mike Horner is a professional puppeteer and puppet builder. Since 2006 he has been the Associate Artistic Director for the Paul Mesner Puppets in Kansas City, MO. Mike is the creator of the Timey Wimey Puppet Show, a puppet web series celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Doctor Who.

Catherine Lee Jones
Catherine Jones is an award-winning seamstress and owner of GSTQ Fashions. After studying theatrical costuming at Emory University, she gained professional experience by tackling drag costuming, bridalwear, leatherworking, car upholstery, and more. Catherine has translated those skills into making hundreds of costumes for customers, both nationally and internationally since 2008.

Sherrilyn Kenyon
In the past two years, New York Times bestselling author Sherrilyn Kenyon has claimed the #1 spot twelve times. This extraordinary bestseller continues to top every genre she writes. With more than 23 million copies of her books in print in over 30 countries, she has placed over 60 novels on the New York Times list.

Crüxshadows
One of the most notable Dark-wave bands internationally, The Cruxshadows' motto is "live, love, be, believe," and it serves as a reminder that while The Cruxshadows may write catchy songs, the band has depth that extends beyond the dance floor.

Samantha Inoue-harte
Samantha Inoue-harte is an established anime industry veteran. She is a producer and partner at Animetropolis, a boutique transmedia studio that is producing a Japanese CG-animated feature adaptation of Tailchaser’s Song, the acclaimed best-selling fantasy novel by author Tad Williams. She also is a voice actress in over 40 anime titles.

Dana Snyder
Actor / comedian / raconteur Dana Snyder is Aqua Teen Hunger Force's "Master Shake," Squidbillies' "Granny," and Minoriteam's "Dr. Wang."

Will Aymerich
Will Aymerich is a Latin American paranormal investigator, public speaker, traveler, radio/podcast host of The Darkside..., published author Souls of Norcross, filmmaker, photographer and founder of The Darkside Syndicate, a popular paranormal investigation team out of Atlanta, GA.

Allan Gilbreath
Allan Gilbreath is a nationally recognized and award-winning author, publisher, speaker, and actor. In addition, Allan is an accomplished skeptic, cook, gardener, computer geek, and martial artist. He appears on television, stage, movies, radio/web/podcast, and tours the country in live appearances.

Miracle Laurie
Miracle Laurie wowed audiences as not one, not two, but three characters in one on the Joss Whedon series Dollhouse, bringing Mellie, November, and Madeline Costley to life. She recently co-starred in the feature film Any Day Now and in 2013 can be seen in Scenic Route with Josh Duhamel.

Eve Myles
Eve Myles is best known for her role as Gwen Cooper in Torchwood.

Kathy Najimy
Kathy Najimy is an American actress, most notable as Olive Massery on the television series Veronica's Closet, Sister Mary Patrick in Sister Act and the voice of Peggy Hill on the animated television series King of the Hill.

Jonathan Bradley Strickland
Jonathan Strickland is a writer, podcaster and video host for HowStuffWorks.com and Discovery Communications.

Travis Walton
Travis Walton's book Fire in the Sky: The Walton Experience was the basis for the Paramount film Fire in the Sky. He has appeared in live venues and media worldwide. He has many new projects in development, including an ongoing effort to get a remake of his movie.

Richard Dean Anderson
Richard Dean Anderson is best known for his roles as MacGyver and Jack O'Neill in Stargate SG-1.

Teryl Rothery
Teryl Rothery is best known for her starring role of Dr. Janet Fraiser on Stargate SG-1.

Genelle Williams
Genelle Williams portrayed Leena on the Syfy series Warehouse 13.

Lev Grossman
Lev Grossman is the author of the New York Times bestselling fantasy novels The Magicians and The Magician King. In 2011 he won the Campbell Award for Best New Writer at Worldcon. Grossman is also the book critic at Time magazine, and has literature degrees from Harvard and Yale.

CCH Pounder
CCH Pounder can currently be seen playing Mrs. Irene Frederic on Warehouse 13.

Abney Park
Abney Park is a Steampunk band based out of Seattle, WA. During their stage show they perform a variety of songs off of their nine albums, coupled with a dynamic light show, on stage dancers, and guest musicians.

William C. Martin
William C Martin, Ph.D., is “Atlanta’s own Forry Ackerman.” A Buck Rogers Solar Scout and First Fandom member, he has been reading and collecting SF since the 1930s. He has penned numerous professional papers on SF’s history and development as the “Literature of the 20th Century."

The Gekkos
The Gekkos are a high energy nerd rock band that deliver a sound unlike any other! Utilizing accordion, keytar, they create sonic bliss singing songs about Pokemon zombies, MST3K, and dividing by zero!

Darwin Bromley
Darwin P Bromley is a game designer known for Empire Builder. Darwin co-founded Mayfair Games in 1981 and was the its President from 1982 to 1997. Darwin led Mayfair as it published its train games, card games, and RPGs (RoleAids, DC Heroes). Darwin started Mayfair re-publishing games from Europe, including Settlers of Catan.

Brad Bell Cheeks
Brad Bell is Executive Producer, co-writer, and star of the award-winning newlywed sitcom Husbands. In addition to his work as Consulting Producer for VH1's Pop Up Video, Bell, along with Jane Espenson, has written the Husbands comic book, available at Amazon.com.

Jane Espenson
Jane Espenson created the award-winning sitcom Husbands with Brad Bell (aka Cheeks). She is also known for her work as a writer/producer of shows including Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Firefly, The O.C., Gilmore Girls, Battlestar Galactica, Game of Thrones, ABC's Once Upon a Time, and others.

John D. Ringo
John Ringo is an award winning author of science fiction, fantasy and action thrillers.

Don Rosa
Internationally acclaimed and award-winning writer & illustrator best known for his comics adventures featuring $crooge McDuck, Donald Duck and the other characters featured in the Disney comics as originally created by Carl Barks.

The Blibbering Humdingers
The Blibbering Humdingers are a "wizard rock" band from Cary, NC performing songs primarily about Harry Potter and the wizarding world created by J. K. Rowling. They're also into all kinds of other nerd stuff like Dungeons & Dragons, Doctor Who, medieval history, steampunk, Star Wars, Lego, Ren Faires, SCA, etc.

Laura Layne Tyler
Laura joined Season 3 of SyFy's original reality TV series Face Off in 2012. She is a professional FX makeup artist who has worked in her field for more then 10 years and cant stop talking about cos-play and makeup.

Kathleen O'Shea David
Kathleen O'Shea David is a professional puppeteer, a master costumer, a book editor, and published writer. She is a member of the Puppeteers Guild, UNIMA-USA, Actors' Equity, and the International Costumers Guild. Her puppets are in private collections and museums all over the world.

Peter David
Peter David is a New York Times bestselling author.

Stephen W. Ramsden
Stephen W. Ramsden is the founder and director of the worlds largest Solar Astronomy outreach program, The Charlie Bates Solar Astronomy Project, a nonprofit 501c3.

Jennifer Spence
Jennifer Spence’s recent roles include the brainy and secretly libidinous Dr. Lisa Park on SyFy's  Stargate Universe. She is presently appearing in a recurring role on the highly anticipated new Shaw Media series Continuum.

Luvia Petersen
Luvia’s first professional job came at the age of 25--she was cast in the Emmy nominated TV series The L-Word (2004-2005). She has since appeared in projects including, The X-Files (2008), Battlestar Galactica (2009), Reaper (2009), Sanctuary (2010), Endgame (2011), and Falling Skies.  

Maurice LaMarche
Maurice LaMarche is known for the many voices he had done on Futurama including Kif Kroker. He is also know for being The Brain on Pinky and the Brain.

Edward James Olmos
Edward James Olmos is well known for his role as Admiral William Adama in Battlestar Galactica.

Michael Cerveris
Cerveris' most visible television role to date has been as the observer called September in the FOX science fiction television series Fringe. His character, a mysterious man seen attending many unusual events, has appeared regularly during the series and became one of the main characters to bring the story to its end.

Annie Erskine
Annie Erskine is a cartoonist, comic book artist, illustrator, writer, graphic designer, etc. Basically, a jack of all trades. She works as a freelancer for Cartoon Network doing various graphic design and illustrative work while simultaneously working on her own comic book creation, Magia High.

greendragon
Stage director, public speaker and singer Kirsten Z Cairns is a senior staffer for TheOneRing.net. Seen at conventions as a panelist for TORn and as a performer, Cairns brings her knowledge of acting, literature and traditional music to the talks which are beloved of fans of all things Tolkien!

Sarah Milkovich
Dr. Sarah Milkovich works at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory as the science operations systems engineer for Mars Science Laboratory (the Curiosity rover) and the investigation scientist for the HiRISE (High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment) camera on Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.

Tahmoh Penikett
Tahmoh Penikett starred as Lieutenant Karl "Helo" Agathon on the Emmy Nominated Sci Fi series Battlestar Galactica.  

Chad Ramey
Chad Ramey is a amateur nuclear physicist, engineer, and NASA intern. Chad owns and operates the world's smallest nuclear fusion reactor.

D. A. Adams
D.A. Adams is the author of The Brotherhood of Dwarves, Red Sky at Dawn, The Fall of Dorkhun, and Between Dark and Light.

Ginger Campbell, MD
Dr. Ginger Campbell is the host of the highly-rated Brain Science Podcast, "the show for everyone who has a brain." She is also the author of Are You Sure? The Unconscious Origins of Certainty.

Sheyne Fleischer
Sheyne Fleischer, an entertainment professional in the Los Angeles area, is a founding member of the fashion department at Pacific Media Expo. Named one of LA Weekly's People of LA 2010, Sheyne is currently a member of The League of S.T.E.A.M.

Jaym Gates
Jaym Gates is a publicist, editor, and author. Her projects include the anthologies Rigor Amortis, Broken Time Blues, and Geek Love. She is the publicist for Paizo's Pathfinder Tales and the Nebula Awards Weekend, and Public Relations Manager for the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America.

David Macinnis Gill
Young adult novelist David Macin­nis Gill is the author of the award-winning novels Soul Enchilada, Black Hole Sun, Invisible Sun, & Shadow on the Sun. His short sto­ries have appeared in sev­eral mag­a­zines, includ­ing The Cres­cent Review and Writer’s Forum.

Donna Governor
Master teacher and recipient of several teaching awards, Dr. Governor is activity involved in the science education community at local, state and national levels. She is published in several education and research journals on topics that include engineering education, family science nights and using science songs to engage learners.

Aaron Lathrop
Aaron has performed his puppets all over the country, with Tears of Joy, Great Arizona Puppet Theatre, and others. He creates new works of all types with his partner Gina Leigh and is thrilled to be a part of this year's Dragon*Con.

Gina L Leigh
Gina Leigh is a puppeteer and playwright. With her partner Aaron Lathrop, Gina has toured both coasts with puppet theatre companies. She played Alfreda The Cheetah in The Jim Henson Company's X.Tink.Shun. She has produced shows, classes, and workshops; and played in puppet slams across the country.

Comfort Deborah Love
Comfort Love & Adam Withers are the three-time Harvey Award nominated husband-and-wife Action Faction responsible for the series The Uniques, Uniques Tales, and Rainbow in the Dark. They are currently working on a massive How To book for Random House - The Complete DIY Guide for Comics, Manga, and Webcomics Self-Publishing.

Farah Jane Mendlesohn
Farah Mendlesohn's work includes Diana Wynne Jones and the Children's Fantastic Tradition (2005) and the acclaimed Rhetorics of Fantasy (2008). She won the Hugo in 2005 and has been nominated five times. Farah Mendlesohn is Director of Exhibits for the 2014 World Science Fiction Convention (London).

Midtown Brass
Made up of some of the top musicians in the Southeast, Midtown Brass Quintet is a dynamic chamber group based in Atlanta, Georgia. Their diverse palate includes classical, jazz, pop, and commercial music, which means we can meet any musical need.

Ay-leen the Peacemaker
Ay-leen the Peacemaker (Diana M. Pho) is an academic scholar, activist, and publishing professional. She works in editorial for Tor Books and Tor.com. She is a well-known media expert on steampunk and science fiction. Her contributions are found in Steaming into a Victorian Future, Fashion Talks, and Steampunk Magazine.

Carla Rhodes
Carla Rhodes is a rock n’ roll ventriloquist and comedienne. Mentored by the legendary Shari Lewis, Carla has performed since her teens and appears regularly in New York City when not touring nationally. Most recently, she was honored to be a finalist in the 2012 Andy Kaufman Awards.

Shane Simek
Shane Simek has been a Deputy Sheriff in North Eastern Ohio for 13 years. He studies Special Warfare and Counter-Terrorism and will be sharing his experiences with fans as part of The Armory track.

Tom Smith
Acoustic musician - mostly comedy, mostly folk-rock. Lots of laughs, lots of puns, many sf/fantasy-technology-pop culture references and jokes. Lots of audience interaction and silliness.

Jeanne C. Stein

Constance G.J. Wagner
Constance G.J. Wagner, writer, poet, and Tolkien scholar, has spoken regularly on all things Middle-earth at both academic and fan-friendly events nationally and internationally since 2005. Her book The War Within: Frodo as Sacrificial Hero is scheduled for release by Oloris Publishing in 2014.

Adam Withers
Comfort Love & Adam Withers are the three-time Harvey Award nominated husband-and-wife Action Faction responsible for the series The Uniques, Uniques Tales, and Rainbow in the Dark. Currently working on a massive "How To" book for Random House - The Complete DIY Guide for Comics, Manga, and Webcomics Self-Publishing.

Cassie Alexander
Cassie Alexander is a registered nurse and author of the Edie Spence trilogy out now from St. Martin's Press. Nightshifted, Moonshifted, and Shapeshifted, are about a nurse who works with vampires on a supernatural medical floor.

Allen Bellman
Allen Bellman became a staff artist at Timely during Golden Age of comics. He did the backgrounds for Syd Shores' Captain America in 1942, and eventually worked on titles such as: The Human Torch, All Winners Comics, Marvel Mystery, Sub Mariner, Young Allies, and more.

Ken Feinberg
Feinberg is best known for his work as an actor on Star Trek, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Charmed and many others. He is also an award-winning director most recently having directed the new film Santa's Boot Camp. Four of his films debut at the Cannes Film Festival in France.

Michael Gilkey
Michael Gilkey is the Marketing and Operations Manager for the National Center for Regenerative Medicine. He earned two degrees from Case Western Reserve University, a Master's of Science in Biomedical Engineering and a Master's of Business Administration. He has a Bachelor's of Science in Biological Engineering from Louisiana State University.

Nicole Gugliucci
Astronomer, writer, educator, skeptic, maker-of-tiny-comets, and all around geek Dr. Nicole Gugliucci has made it her mission to study and share the Universe. Known as the “NoisyAstronomer,” she earned a doctorate studying radio astronomy and now leads the informal education efforts of the citizen science project CosmoQuest.

Laura Hayden
As a kid, when Laura Hayden wasn't watching TV, she was reading. As a result, her seventeen books and short stories straddle multiple fiction genres and include vivid characters with action, suspense, and humor. A recovering military independent, she now lives in Alabama after years of moving around the US.

Herbert Jefferson Jr.
Herbert Jefferson Jr. is probably best known for his role as Lieutenant Boomer in the original Battlestar Galactica.

Deidre Knight
Deidre Knight wears many hats as an award-winning fantasy author and president of The Knight Agency, one of the top literary agencies in the Southeast. As an agent, she’s shepherded countless authors onto every major bestseller list, and is considered an industry expert on urban fantasy and paranormal fiction.

Anya Martin
Anya Martin is a writer/ journalist specializing in SF/F, horror and comics. "Stuffed Bunny in Doll Land," her contribution (with Spanish artist Mado Pena) to the critically acclaimed Womanthology (IDW Comics) has been called “wonderfully weird,” “a smart adventure,” and “delightfully fanciful.” Her many other projects include ATLRetro.com.

Tom Merritt
Tom Merritt is an award-winning podcaster and writer. He co-hosts the hit scifi/fantasy podcast Sword and Laser with Veronica Belmont, and the award-winning Tech News Today. He also hosts FSL Tonight, Frame Rate, Autopilot, and more. He also writes the comic TenState with Len Peralta.

Cinda Williams Chima
Cinda Williams Chima has written two best-selling YA fantasy series: The Heir Chronicles (The Warrior Heir, The Wizard Heir, The Dragon Heir, The Enchanter Heir) with another forthcoming; and the Seven Realms series (The Demon King, The Exiled Queen, The Gray Wolf Throne, The Crimson Crown).

The League of S.T.E.A.M.
The League of S.T.E.A.M. (Steampunk Ghostbusters and Monster Hunters)

Entertaining in the style of a traveling Victorian vaudeville show, this group of innovative artists dazzles audiences with an interactive show performing with fantastical technology, live demonstrations and theatrical trickery. Featuring amazing steampunk gadgets & monsters!

Dean Motter
Dean Motter, artist/writer/designer, relaunched his seminal creation, Mister X in 2009. In recent years he's written Wolverine, The Spirit, and the ‘film-noir’ graphic novel, Batman: Nine Lives. He is also known for his graphic novel The Prisoner, and is currently illustrating The Book Hitler Didn't Want You To Read.

Nick Eftimiades
Nicholas Eftimiades is a diplomat, author, and futurist. He’s held leadership positions in the US DoD in technology, space policy, and strategy. His publications include future technology, science fiction, and a book on Chinese intelligence earning him the title of "Enemy of the People" from The People's Republic of China.

Beth Patterson
Beth Patterson is a virtuoso bouzouki player and singer-songwriter, specializing in traditional Celtic, original songs, and twisted parodies (some with a science fiction bend).

Adrian Paul
Adrian Paul is best known for his role as Duncan Macleod in the international hit series Highlander.

James Burns
James Burns is a television graphic designer and illustrator who lives in Atlanta, Georgia. He's living proof that anyone can create comics.

Lauren Tom
Lauren Tom has provided the voices for both mother and daughter characters on two animated TV comedy series: on Futurama she voices Amy Wong and her mother Inez, and on King of the Hill she voiced Minh & Connie Souphanousinphone.

Keegan Connor Tracy
Keegan Connor Tracy can now be seen on ABC's Once Upon a Time as the Blue Fairy.

Jeremy Dale
Jeremy Dale is a comic book artist best known for his work on Marvel Comics’ KaPow and G.I. Joe comics for Hasbro as well as the Harvey Award-winning Popgun v.1 from Image Comics. He is currently working on several projects, including his creator-owned Skyward series and NFL Rush.

Richard Epcar
Richard Epcar has voiced over 300 characters and is well known to animation, game, and anime fans starting with Robotech (as Ben Dixon, Lunk, Grel and Capt. Grant). He is ‘Batou’ in Ghost in the Shell, and recently voiced Skyrim: Elder Scolls V (Game of the Year).

Phil LaMarr
Phil was profiled in TV Guide and LA Weekly for extensive voice-over work in Zambezia  and Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa.  He has also held roles on Futurama, Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends, The Spectacular Spider-Man, Samurai Jack, and Justice League Unlimited, as well as recurring appearances on Family Guy, Star Wars: The Clone Wars, Avengers: Earth’s Mightiest Heroes.

Mike McKone
Mike McKone is an award winning illustrator of such titles as Fantastic Four, Amazing Spider-Man, and the X-Men among many others.

Richard Pini
Richard Pini is the co-creator, sometimes-writer, editor, and publisher for the long-running fantasy graphic novel series Elfquest. A graduate of MIT in astronomy as well as planetarium writer, lecturer, and teacher, he has also contributed numerous articles to magazines on the wonders of the heavens.

Wendy Pini
Wendy Pini is the co-creator, writer, artist and colorist for the long-running fantasy graphic novel series Elfquest. She has also written and painted two Beauty and the Beast graphic novels, as well as a critically acclaimed 400-page dark, futuristic reimagining of Poe's Masque of the Red Death.

Jeremy Treece
Jeremy Treece is a comic book illustrator and colorist who has worked on books for Marvel (Zombie Christmas Carol), IDW (Vitriol the Hunter, Angel After the Fall), Speakeasy (Hero@Large), Dynomite Entertainment (The Warriors: Jailbreak), Eon Productions (Kid Nash) and his own, Crisishour Productions (Gravity Girl, Fearsome As The Night).

The Slants
First and only all Asian American dance rock band in the world, featured on NPR's All Things Considered and 1500+ radio stations, TV shows, and magazines.

Calabrese
Spooky horror rock that's guaranteed to haunt your speakers!

Elizabeth Donald
Elizabeth Donald is a writer fond of things that go chomp in the night. Three-time winner of the Darrell Award, she has penned many short stories, novels and novellas of horror, science fiction and fantasy. She is also founder of the Literary Underworld author cooperative.

Michael Gordon
Michael Gordon is the president and editor-in-chief of New Legend Productions and the writer and creator of the comic books series, Tiki Zombie. This year will see the release of a new book, Strong Will, co-written with Bobby Nash. He is also co-host of the weekly Earth Station One podcast.

James Minz
James Minz has been in SF Publishing for nearly two decades. He is Senior Editor with Baen Books, and has worked with Larry Correia, Eric Flint, Terry Goodkind, Elizabeth Haydon, Frederik Pohl, John Ringo, Robert J. Sawyer, Harry Turtledove, David Weber, Jack Williamson, Gene Wolfe, and Timothy Zahn, among many others.

Andy Price

Joel Shepherd
Joel Shepherd is an Australian SF&Fantasy author. He currently has seven published novels, including the Trial of Blood and Steel Quartet, and the Cassandra Kresnov Trilogy, the second series of which will be released later in 2013 with Pyr SF, commencing with 23 Years on Fire.

Aiden Sinclair
Aiden Sinclair is the worlds premier Paranormal Illusionist. His seance style shows use the art of illusion to bring haunted history to life.

Blake Sorensen
Blake Sorensen is a video game developer for Simutronics and a registered patent attorney with Merchant & Gould. He works with the Georgia Game Developers Association to provide legal insight and services to startups, particularly in the video game industry.

Richard Estep
Richard Estep hails from jolly old England, and has spent seventeen years investigating haunted houses on two continents. In between, he works as a paramedic and volunteer firefighter in Colorado. If a building is either burning down or haunted, he probably has an opinion...

Bill Fawcett
Bill is a founder of Mayfair Games, has designed several computer games and apps. Bill has been a book packager, editor, anthologist and author and collaborated on several mystery novels including the Mycroft Holmes mysteries. Bill's non-fiction books range from UFOs to Trust Me, 100 Leadership Mistakes that Changed History.

Margaret Killjoy
Margaret Killjoy is a nomadic author, editor, and tintypist. He is the founder of SteamPunk Magazine, the author of What Lies Beneath the Clock Tower and A Steampunk’s Guide to the Apocalypse, and an editor and tintypist of A Steampunk’s Guide to Sex.

Professor Boggs
Professor Boggs writes songs that teach science! Better known as the "mad whistler" from Emerald Rose, his geek alter ego has published two CDs of original science-y music targeted to help students of all ages learn and remember science concepts.

Jim Burns
Jim Burns has loved drawing and painting "weird stuff" since he was a tiny child in Cardiff and in 1972, following a failed attempt at becoming a jet pilot, someone started paying him to do it. He considers himself one of those lucky people whose hobby became their career and way of life. 

Mark Edward
Mark Edward is a professional mentalist who specializes in magic of the mind. He has spent over thirty five years in world class venues from high-end night clubs and theaters to hundreds of private party and corporate events.

Dr. Pamela L. Gay
Pamela Gay is an astronomer, writer, and podcaster focused on using new media to engage people in science and technology. Through CosmoQuest.org, she engages people learning and doing science. She is best known as cohost of Astronomy Cast, a weekly podcast that takes a facts-based journey through our Cosmos.

Mike Grell
Mike Grell is a comic book icon with Green Arrow, Sable, Warlord, and X-Men under his belt! He continues to work today for both DC and Marvel!

Doug Jones
Fans loved Doug for his portrayal of Abe Sapien in the Hellboy films. He's also the Silver Surfer in the Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer movie and won critics praise in Pan's Labyrinth! He will soon be able to be seen on Falling Skies!

Scott MacMillan
Scott MacMillan is Executive Producer and Creative Director at Deep Reach Productions, the company he founded in 2008. Specializing in non-fiction television, current productions include When Seconds Count, The 100 Hour Film Festival, and FUBAR (in association with Bill Fawcett & Associates), and the screen adaptation of St. Patrick's Gargoyle by Katherine Kurtz.

Bob Mayer
New York Times bestselling author of over 50 books, former Green Beret and author of million copy selling Area 51 series.

Eddie McClintock
Edward "Eddie" McClintock is an American actor who has starred and guest starred in numerous television shows. He currently portrays the role of Secret Service agent Peter Lattimer on the Syfy series Warehouse 13.

Mike Resnick
Mike Resnick is the all-time leading award-winner for short fiction, including 5 Hugos from a record 36 nominations, His work includes 71 novels, 269 stories, 3 screenplays, and 41 anthologies.

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.

Robert J. Sawyer
Robert J. Sawyer has won the Hugo, Nebula, and John W. Campbell Memorial Awards, all for best science-fiction novel of the year. The ABC TV series FlashForward was based on his Aurora Award-winning novel of the same name, and he was one of the writers for that program.

Raphael Sbarge
Raphael Sbarge has explored countless worlds in more than 40 years as an actor, from fairy tales, as Archie Hopper/Jiminy Cricket in Once Upon a Time; to outer space as the heroic Kaidan Alenko in the highly acclaimed videogame series Mass Effect and Michael Jonas in Star Trek: Voyager.

The Ken Spivey Band
This Celtic Doctor Who band has been praised by MTV.com and is a fan favorite playing sold out concerts to Whovians and Time Muggles alike.

C. L. Wilson
C.L. Wilson loves to combine her two favorite genres: epic fantasy and romance. Thankfully, a number of readers share that same love, thus keeping her employed. Her award-winning novels have appeared on a variety of best-seller lists, including the USA Today, the New York Times, and Publisher’s Weekly.

John Brightman
John Brightman, founder of New England Paranormal Research, has been investigating for nearly a decade. John has been featured on shows on the Travel Channel, Bio Channel and even international shows in over a dozen countries.

John’s book called Dark Gift is out and available for purchase

Dr. Bill Gibson
Dr. Bill Gibson is a Canadian scientist and physician whose team discovered the gene for Weaver syndrome in 2011. His research focuses on DNA sequencing to identify genetic mutations that cause rare diseases, including rare forms of obesity and diabetes.

Laurell K. Hamilton
Laurell K. Hamilton's writing is characterized by vivid prose, erotic sensuality, complex character and world building. Laurell K Hamilton is a regular on the New York Times Bestseller List with both her series: Anita Blake -Vampire Hunter and Meredith Gentry - Fairy Princess/Private Eye series.

John Picacio
John Picacio is one of the most acclaimed American artists in science fiction, fantasy, and horror publishing over the last decade, including his art for the best-selling 2012 George R. R. Martin A Song of Ice and Fire Calendar. His accolades include the Hugo Award and the World Fantasy Award.

Professor Elemental
Time travelling, hip-hopping neo Victorian rapper Professor Elemetnal has taken youtube by storm with his music videos about tea and trousers becoming an internet phenomenon. The Professor’s performances embody the Victorian spirit of invention and exploration with an engaging mash up of comedy, audience participation and party hip hop.

Omar Rayyan
Omar Rayyan is an award-winning fantasy illustrator who lives and works in Massachusetts.  His old world inspired watercolor and oil paintings are created primarily for the children’s books and magazine market.  He is also known for his illustrations in Atlas Games, Once Upon a Time, and Magic: the Gathering.

Scott Sigler
New York Times best-selling novelist Scott Sigler is the author of Nocturnal, Ancestor, Infected, and Contagious, hardcover thrillers from Crown Publishing, and the co-founder of Dark Overlord Media, which publishes his Galactic Football League series (The Rookie, The Starter, The All-Pro, and The MVP).

Andrew Young
Andrew Young is a professional puppeteer, independent filmmaker, and animator from Toronto, Canada who has worked in puppetry for film, television, and theatre for over 15 years. He is the author/editor of the popular PuppetVision Blog and is currently completing a feature-length documentary about puppeteers and puppetry around the world.

Delilah S. Dawson
Delilah S. Dawson is the author of the steampunk paranormal Blud series for Pocket, including three books, three novellas, and the upcoming Carniepunk! anthology. Her paranormal YA, Servants of the Storm, will be out with Simon Pulse in 2014.

Lucienne Diver
Lucienne Diver is an agent of 20 years experience, and an author of young adult (the Vamped series from Flux, division of Llewellyn) and adult fiction (the Latter-Day Olympians series from Samhain), as well as short pieces in the anthologies Strip-Mauled, Fangs for the Mammaries (Baen) and Dear Bully (HarperTeen).

Peter H. Friedman
Peter H Friedman is the managing director of Peter H Friedman CPA a firm located in New York and San Francisco. The firms motto is "We do what others cannot do or will not do." The firm consults and specializes in Medical Marijuana, e-commerce, indirect taxation and tax litigation support.

Laura Haywood-Cory
Laura Haywood-Cory is an editor with more than a decade of experience, who has been with Baen Books since early 2008.

Chris A Jackson
Chris Jackson’s Scimitar Seas novels won three sequential ForeWord Book of the Year Gold Medals. His novel Weapon of Flesh won the USA Book News, Best Books Award 2005 for best Fantasy/SF novel. His pending Pathfinder Tales novel, Pirate’s Honor is due out in April of 2013.

Karan Ashley
Karan Ashley is perhaps best known for her role as Aisha the Yellow Power Ranger in Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers.

Nicholas Brendon
Nicholas Brendon is best known to audiences as the sardonic Xander Harris on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, a role he played for the run of the show. He's currently recurring as Kevin Lynch on Criminal Minds, was featured in a four-episode arc on Private Practice, and starred in Kitchen Confidential.

Walter Jones
Jones played the character of Zack Taylor, the original Black Ranger in the Power Rangers universe.

Brian Kesinger
Brian Kesinger is an Annie award winning story artist for Walt Disney animation studios and creator of the popular steampunk duo, Otto and Victoria.

Kristine Sutherland
Kristine Sutherland has conquered fantasy worlds large (as Joyce Summers on the cult hit Buffy the Vampire Slayer) and small (as the next-door neighbor, Mae Thompson, in the hit Disney film Honey, I Shrunk the Kids). She has also appeared in The Following and New Amsterdam.

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.

Dr. Bob Blackwood
Dr. Bob Blackwood, professor emeritus, City Colleges of Chicago, is the author of one book on films & co-author of another. He has attended Science Fiction & Fantasy conventions throughout the U.S. and Canada. Currrently, he is reviewing films for the Columbia River Reader, Oregon/Washington.

Paul Jenkins
Paul Jenkins is a British comic book writer. He has had much success crossing over into the American comic book market. Primarily working for Marvel Comics, he has had a big part shaping the characters of the company over the past decade.  He currently works on the Fablewood Saga.

T. S. Rider
T. S. Rider started writing in the third grade. Her first story was published in the Golden Visions Magazine of Science Fiction and Fantasy in October 2009. Her second publication appeared in the Deadly Ink 2010 Short Story Collection. Since then she has concentrated on longer fiction and art work.

Ashley S Field
Ashley Field has been exposed and involved in the paranormal since age seven. Her experiences inspired her to study metaphysical & scientific disciplines to better understand the paranormal. Currently Ashley is ½ of the paranormal team Spirit Hunters of the South. She is a seasoned investigator, researcher and occult practitioner.

John L. Flynn
Three-time Hugo Nominee Dr. John L. Flynn recently had the screenplay for his science fiction novel, The Jovian Dilemma, optioned to be made into a movie, and sold his erotic thriller Intimate Bondage to BelleBooks. He is a psychologist, college dean, and author with the Science Fiction Writers of America.

Ernie Hudson
Ernie is best known from Ghostbusters, The Crow, and HBO's Oz.

Katherine Kurtz
Katherine Kurtz is best known for the more than 15 books in her Deryni series, which helped establish the modern historical fantasy genre. She has also written the Adept series, five books set in modern-day Scotland, as well as half a dozen others.

Pamela Diane Nance
Pamela Nance, along with her business partner Ashley Field, has appeared in A Haunting on the Discovery Channel, My Ghost Story on A&E/BIO Channel, a paranormal documentary filmed in November, 2012, tentative follow-up guest spots on the TV shows above, and an upcoming guest spot on Darkness Radio.

Doug Sneyd
Doug Sneyd has been under contract with Playboy since 1964 and has had over 450 full-page color cartoons published in the magazine; Dark Horse Comics featured 270 of his cartoons in The Art of Doug Sneyd. The 248-page hardcover book was a 2012 Eisner Award nominee in the Best Humor Publication category.

Davey Beauchamp
Davey Beauchamp is the creator of Writers for Relief anthology series, the award nominated podcast Amazing Pulp Adventures, Gallifrey Pirate Radio, writer for YAtopia, working with Scaldcrow Games to release a line of RPG Books based on APA, and with Foxhammer Press to release an APA board/card game.

Amanda Conner
Amanda Conner is an American comic book artist and commercial art illustrator. She began her career in the late 1980s for Archie Comics and Marvel Comics, before moving on to contribute work for Claypool Comics' Soulsearchers and Company and Harris Comics' Vampirella in the 1990s. Her 2000s work includes Mad Magazine, and such DC Comics characters as Power Girl and Atlee.

Ben Davis
Dr. Ben Davis earned his degrees in Nuclear Physics and Nuclear Astrophysics from the University of Notre Dame. He taught college for several years on courses ranging from IT and mathematics to astronomy and physics. In the late nineties he took up a career in software development and industrial engineering.

Clay and Susan Griffith
Susan Griffith is part of a husband and wife writing team who are the authors of the Vampire Empire trilogy (Pyr Books); The Greyfriar, The Rift Walker, and The Kingmakers. They are the authors of a forthcoming fantasy trilogy from Del Rey.

Leanna Renee Hieber
Leanna is an actress, playwright and award-winning, nationally bestselling author of Historical Fantasy novels including the Strangely Beautiful, the Magic Most Foul, and upcoming Eterna Files sagas (Tor/Macmillan). A four-time Prism Award winner for genre excellence, her books are translated into several languages, selected for national book club editions.

David Anthony Lee
David is the principal artist of Hatton Cross Steampunk. As an artist and presenter, his focus is “Green Steam” (repurposing found items). His most recent creation, the “Gentleman’s Armored Battle Carriage” (a drivable steampunk tank) will accompany other fun projects including a steampunk Dalek and Séance Machine.

Kelly Lockhart
Kelly Lockhart is a book editor, screenwriter, award-winning journalist, voice actor, musician, longtime television and radio broadcaster, and most well-known to Dragon*Con attendees as the host and founder of the popular Robot Battles competitions.

Erin Patricia Macdonald
Erin Macdonald, Ph.D., is a tattooed astrophysicist working at Cardiff University doing research in gravitational waves for the LIGO Scientific Collaboration. She also is a STEM Ambassador and aims to demonstrate to the public how unique physicists can be.

Dan McGirt
Dan McGirt is the author of the Jason Cosmo fantasy adventure series of novels (Hero Wanted, Noble Cause, etc.) and other tales. He has written for fantasy RPG settings including Shaintar, Savage Suzerain, and Shards of the Stone. Dan is the founder and publisher of the independent press Trove Books.

Jana Oliver
Jana Oliver is the multi award-winning author of fantasy fiction for teens and adults. From twisted fairy tales to time travelers and rampaging demons, there is no limit to her fertile imagination. www.JanaOliver.com

Jimmy Palmiotti
Jimmy Palmiotti is a 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. 

Linda Robertson
Linda Robertson is the author of the Persephone Alcmedi series from Pocket Books. Shattered Circle, the sixth book in the series featuring witches, waerewolves, and vampires in Cleveland, Ohio, was released in early in 2013.

Laurie S. Sutton
Laurie S. Sutton is the author of an ongoing series of books for young readers featuring DC Superheroes Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, The Flash, and Green Lantern. Other work includes writing Star Trek comics for Marvel, DC, and Malibu Comics. She is a former editor for Marvel and DC Comics.

Anthony Taylor
Anthony Taylor is the author of Arctic Adventure!, an original Thunderbirds™ novel, as well as The Future Was Fab: The Art of Mike Trim.

James R. Tuck
James R. Tuck was born and raised in The South. Brought up on a steady diet of country music, Jesus, and guns; he's always been a little weird. Now he writes yarns about monsters, guns, hard-eyed men, and tough as nails women. He puts the DARK in Dark Urban Fantasy.

Billy Dee Williams
The Coolest man in the Galaxy, Billy Dee Williams is loved by millions of fans world wide from his role as Lando Calrissian in the Star Wars universe! His acting career spans over 50 years and hundreds of film and TV roles!

Keith R.A. DeCandido
Keith R.A. DeCandido (www.DeCandido.net) has written a truly ridiculous number of books and comic books, from best-selling and award-winning tie-in fiction to critically acclaimed fantasy & science fiction.

Dan Payne
The handsome and talented Dan Payne can be seen in many Stargate episodes as various aliens and scary beings. He is also the main 'bad guy' in Joss Whedon's Cabin in the Woods.

Jacob Rougemont
Jacob Rougemont is a writer/researcher for Marvel Comics. He has written on such books as the Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe, the Official Index to the Marvel Universe, the History of the Marvel Universe and Heroic Age: X-Men. He also provides research for various TPB & HC collections.

Alex Zahara
Alex Zahara has an impressive resume of roles and has played more characters in the various Stargate shows than anyone; he can currently be seen as King Midas in the hit Once Upon a Time.

Amanda Goodbread
Amanda Goodbread has been an animation production professional since 2008.

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

Jennie Breeden
Jennie Breeden is the creator of the autobiographical webcomic The Devil's Panties.

Jack Campbell
Jack Campbell (the pen name of John G. Hemry) writes the New York Times bestselling series The Lost Fleet which has been published in eight languages worldwide. He also writes the follow-on series Beyond the Frontier and spin-off series The Lost Stars. Jack/John is a retired US Navy officer.

Kevin R. Grazier
Kevin R. Grazier, Ph.D. is a writer/producer for The 50 Most Extreme Places in the Solar System, and the web series Stasys. He is also currently the science advisor on TNT's Falling Skies, Syfy's upcoming epic Defiance, and the summer blockbuster film Gravity.

Trip Hope
Trip Hope is producer of award-winning features The Human Race (2012) & Innocent Blood (2013). Additionally, he is executive producer of award-winning steampunk web-series The Adventures of League of S.T.E.A.M. with upcoming features include The Turning and Noon Tomorrow.

Alethea Kontis
Alethea Kontis is a fairytale princess and author of AlphaOops, The Wonderland Alphabet, and co-author (w/Sherrilyn Kenyon) of The Dark-Hunter Companion. Her YA fairytale novel, Enchanted, won the Gelett Burgess Award in 2012.

D.Alan Lewis
Alan is a Tennessee native and published author of a number of published short stories, two novels and currently is editing two anthologies for Kerlak Publishing.

Cherie Priest
Cherie Priest is the author of a dozen novels, including the award-winning Clockwork Century series from Tor, the Cheshire Red books from Bantam Spectra, and Fort Freak with George R. R. Martin. Her novel Boneshaker has been optioned by the classic UK horror studio Hammer, and Cross Creek productions.

Jay Smith
Jay Smith is the creator and writer for the Parsec-Award winning audio horror series HG World and producer of several podiobook serials and interview shows available online.

Karen E Taylor
Karen E. Taylor is the author of the seven novel Vampire Legacy series, Twelve Steps from Darkness, a stand-alone ghost novel, and numerous short stories, a collection thereof which garnered her a Bram Stoker Award nomination.

Gigi Edgley
Gigi is an Australian actress who starred as Chiana on Farscape, a cult science fiction TV show by The Jim Henson Company. Gigi has just finished starring on the Australian series Tricky Business. Previously she was filming Rescue Special Ops as leading lady Lara Knight.

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.

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.

Bryan Young
Bryan Young is a novelist, comics writer, filmmaker, and columnist. He's produced films for The Disinformation Company, written comics for Image Comics, and Slave Labor Graphics, written bestselling genre novels, and writes for Huffington Post, StarWars.Com, and Big Shiny Robot!

Robert Axelrod
Robert Axelrod starred in The Mighty Morphin Power Rangers as Lord Zedd and Finster, Digimon as Armadillomon and Wizardmon, Robotech, Spiderman, and a host of others. His anime voice career spans over 30 years! On camera, Axelrod has done over 50 feature films and TV shows including Star Trek Voyager, Amazing Stories, and The Blob.

Jason David Frank
Best Known for his role as Tommy Oliver in the long-running TV show Power Rangers, Jason morphed into series of different rangers over the years: Mighty Morphin Green and White, Red Zeo, Red Turbo and then returned in 2004 as the Black Dino Thunder Ranger.

C.A. Suleiman
In addition to being developer of White Wolf's new hit game, Mummy, C.A. was an author of their flagship property, Vampire, as well as scores of books for both the World of Darkness and Dungeons & Dragons. His new novel, Big Iron, should be out in time for Dragon*Con.

Jason Bulmahn
Jason Bulmahn is the Lead Designer of Paizo Publishing, LLC. and the creator of the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game.

Todd McCaffrey
Todd Johnson McCaffrey has written eight books in the Pern universe both solo and in collaboration with his mother, Anne McCaffrey. He is currently working on several non-Pern projects, including the long-awaited City of Angels.

Visit his website at http://www.toddmccaffrey.us

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

Ioan Gruffudd
Ioan Gruffudd is best known for his roles as Dr. Reed Richards/Mr. Fantastic in the Fantastic Four films and Horatio Hornblower in Hornblower.

A. J. Hartley
A.J. Hartley (Robinson Professor of Shakespeare at UNC Charlotte) is the international bestselling author of 4 mystery/thrillers, the fantasy novels Act of Will and Will Power, the Audie nominated Macbeth, a Novel (with David Hewson), and the Darwen Arkwright adventure series which won SIBA’s young adult book of 2012.

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.

Phoenicia
Phoenicia has been a belly dancer since 1983 first as a troupe member, then solo performer and finally a teacher. In addition to Cabaret, Ethnic, Tribal and Fusion belly dance styles she is also a nationally certified ballroom dance instructor. 

Jasika Nicole
Jasika Nicole is best known for her role of Agent Astrid Farnsworth on the hit JJ Abrams sci-fi series Fringe on Fox.

Aaron Allston
New York Times bestselling novelist Aaron Allston is an author of science fiction, fantasy, and horror. Best known for his work in the Star Wars Expanded Universe, he has written 22 novels. The most recent of them, Star Wars: X-Wing: Mercy Kill, debuted this August.

Friggatriskaidekaphobia Treatment Nurse
Margaret Downey created the Friggatriskaidekaphobia Treatment Nurse to educate the public about superstitions. Each Friday the 13th, Downey hosts events in order to stop superstitions from affecting the economy. Friggatriskaidekaphobia Treatment Centers have opened in many venues and her "How To" guidebook has been used by others to host events.

Diana Peterfreund
Diana Peterfreund is the author of nine books for adults and teens, including the Secret Society Girl series, the "killer unicorn" novels Rampant and Ascendant, and the post-apocalyptic For Darkness Shows the Stars and Across a Star-Swept Sea, as well as several critically acclaimed short stories. http://dianapeterfreund.com

Massimo Pigliucci
Massimo Pigliucci is a professor of philosophy at the City University of New York with a strong interest in science and pseudoscience.

Janine K. Spendlove
Janine K. Spendlove is the bestselling author of the War of the Seasons series. She also has several short stories published in various anthologies. A KC-130J pilot in the Marine Corps, she is an avid runner and enjoys spending time with her family. Find out more at WarOfTheSeasons.com.

Michael Z. Williamson
Michael Z. Williamson is an author of SF and contemporary fiction, a bladesmith and gunsmith, and a consultant for TV and movie productions, the military, disaster preparedness operations and equipment manufacturers.

Kelly Hu
Kelly Hu is currently recurring on the CW series, Arrow, as China White and recurred as Pearl on the hit series Vampire Diaries and as Laura Hill on the hit series Hawaii 5-0. She has also added to an already expansive list of credits by voicing a role on Cartoon Network's series Young Justice. She has long voiced the character Stacy on the animated series, Phineas and Ferb.

Christopher Soghoian
Christopher Soghoian is a privacy researcher and activist, working at the intersection of technology, law and policy. He is the Principal Technologist with the Speech, Privacy and Technology Project at the American Civil Liberties Union. He is also a Visiting Fellow at Yale Law School's Information Society Project.

Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
A professional writer for 45 years, Yarbro is best known for her award-winning Saint-Germain series of historical horror novels.

Rob Levy
Dr. Who columnist for anglotopia.net. Podcaster/writer for needcoffee.com. Fanzine editor, Pop culture writer for Eleven magazine. Host of Juxtaposition on KDHX. Programmer, panelist, moderator for conventions, including Dragoncon. Member of St. Louis Film Critics Association. Writer for The St. Louis Beacon & interviewer for several pop culture publications.

Larry Niven
Larry Niven is an American science fiction author. His best-known work is Ringworld (1970), which received Hugo, Locus, Ditmar, and Nebula awards. 

Erin Gray
Erin Gray is an American actress, perhaps best known for her roles as Kate Summers in the situation comedy Silver Spoons and as Colonel Wilma Deering in the science fiction television series Buck Rogers in the 25th Century.

Laurie Holden
Laurie Holden's memorable roles are Fantastic Four, hero Cybil Bennett in Christophe Gans' artistic-horror video game adaptation of Silent Hill, and co-starring as Amanda Dumfries in The Mist. Holden recently starred as Olivia Murray in FX's series The Shield and is also currently starring in AMC's runaway hit The Walking Dead.

John Foster
John Foster is CEO and founding partner at Bianco Foster Group, LLC (BFG), a Georgia based management consulting firm focused on Information Security, Quality, Environmental, and Financial Management.

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 hosts annual overnight "Live Astronomy" sessions, and has spoken on cosmology, extrasolar planets, citizen discovery in astronomy, science in the Firefly and Avatar universes, space technology, and astronomical tourism.

Jody Lynn Nye
Although best known for her collaborations with other leading authors of SF/fantasy (Robert Asprin, Anne McCaffrey, John Ringo), Jody Lynn Nye has written dozens of other books and 115 short stories, most of them with a humorous bent. Her latest books are View From the Imperium (Baen), and Myth-Quoted (Ace).

Samantha Sommersby
Samantha Sommersby is the author of more than ten novels and novellas including the critically acclaimed Forbidden series, published by Samhain Publishing, Ltd., and Fallen, book one in a new urban fantasy series to be published by Penguin/ACE, written in collaboration with national best-selling author Jeanne C. Stein.

Debbie Viguié
Debbie Viguié is the New York Times Bestselling Author of the Wicked series and two dozen other books. She is one of the queens of epic dark fantasy. Debbie also writes thrillers including The Psalm 23 Mysteries, the Witch Hunt trilogy, and the Kiss trilogy.

Richard Lee Byers
Richard Lee Byers is the author of over thirty-five fantasy and horror novels including many set in the Forgotten Realms and Blind God's Bluff, the first in a new urban fantasy series. He also writes short fiction and a column for the science fiction news site Airlock Alpha.

Richard Hatch
Golden Globe nominated actor, writer, and director Richard Hatch starred in both classic and re-imagined Battlestar Galactica series, wrote seven Battlestar novels and comics for I-books and Extreme Press and has starred in the new movies Dead By Friday and The Pod.

Don Maitz
The award winning imaginative art of Don Maitz has appeared on hundreds of publications, and as concept art for two feature animated films: Jimmy Neutron Boy Genius and Ant Bully. Maitz created the Captain Morgan Rum character and his A-Maitz -ing images have appeared before a worldwide audience.

Van Allen Plexico
PulpArk Award-winning and Amazon Best-selling author Van Allen Plexico is best known for his ongoing Sentinels superhero novel series and as the creator, writer and/or editor of some two dozen other SF and New Pulp novels and anthologies, as well as the Avengers Assembled! books and the RevolutionSF RevCast.

Janny Wurts
Janny Wurts has authored 18 published books, including three novels in collaboration, a short story collection, and contributed thirty stories to separate anthologies. Also a professional fantasy artist, she illustrates her own covers, with numerous exhibitions to her credit and a painting in the collection of the Delaware Art Museum.

Timothy Zahn
Timothy Zahn is the author of over forty novels and nearly a hundred short stories. He’s best known for his nine Star Wars books, with a tenth, Scoundrels, to be published January 2013. He’s also the author of the Quadrail series, the Cobra series, and the young-adult Dragonback series.

Laura Anne Gilman
Laura Anne Gilman is the author of ten Cosa Nostradamus novels, and the Nebula award-nominated Vineart War trilogy, in addition to many shorter works. Her new fantasy novel, Heart of Briar, will be released by Luna Books in Autumn 2013. Ms. Gilman also writes mysteries under the name L.A. Kornetsky.

Dr. Stephen Granade
Stephen Granade is a physicist specializing in robotic systems and sensors. His sensors have flown in space, controlled robot-flown helicopters, and guided the shuttle to the Hubble Space Telescope. He has provided scientific commentary for FoxNews.com, CBS Marketwatch, and Jalopnik, and has won awards for presentations to non-scientist audiences.

Gail Z. Martin
Gail Z. Martin is the author of Ice Forged in her new The Ascendant Kingdoms Saga (Orbit Books), plus The Chronicles of The Necromancer series (The Summoner, The Blood King, Dark Haven, and Dark Lady’s Chosen) and The Fallen Kings Cycle (The Sworn and The Dread).

Travis Scott Merrill
Travis Scott Merrill is a founder of Sick Sense Productions, a company specializing in large and small scale theatrical and motion picture productions. As a professional costume crafts artisan he specializes in leather-work, mask-making, millinery, armor construction and airbrush painting . Currently he's in his eighth season at Alabama Shakespeare Festival.

Rebecca Moesta

Phil Plait
Phil Plait is an astronomer, blogger, author, lecturer, and TV science documentary host. His blog, Bad Astronomy, is hosted by Slate Magazine, and his TV show, Phil Plait's Bad Universe aired on the Discovery Channel.

Benjamin Radford
Benjamin Radford is deputy editor of Skeptical Inquirer science magazine and a scientific paranormal investigator with the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry. He is author of six books including Scientific Paranormal Investigation: How to Solve Unexplained Mysteries and Tracking the Chupacabra: The Vampire Beast in Fact, Fiction, and Folklore.

Sarah Anne Downey
Sarah A. Downey is an attorney, privacy advocate, and writer at Abine, an online privacy startup in Boston. A vocal proponent of privacy rights, she serves as an Abine spokesperson and blogger and is trying to prevent an Orwellian future. She also likes video games.

Mike Faber
Mike Faber is the Founder, Chief Creative Officer and Host of the highly geeky ESO Network, The Earth Station One Podcast, and Accompanying Blog which celebrates our love for all things Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Comics & much, much more since April 2010.

David Harmer
David Harmer is a Disaster Preparedness and Disaster Recovery Consultant since 1993. He has advised Major corporations and government agencies on their Disaster Planning. David is the author of Disaster Survival Guide, Alley Rabbit (a disaster cookbook) and various supplements for the Aftermath! Post Apocalypse RPG system, among others.

Mari Mancusi
Mari Mancusi is an Emmy award winning producer and author of 17 books for teens and adults in the fantasy, paranormal, and horror genres. Best known for her eight book YA urban fantasy series The Blood Coven Vampires, she lives in Austin, TX. Her new series, Dragonbound, launches in September.

Bobby Nash
Bobby Nash writes novels, comic books, short prose, ebooks, graphic novels, screenplays, and media tie-ins. He also does movie and TV extra work, co-hosts the Earth Station One podcast, and writes for All Pulp. Bobby is a member of the International Association of Media Tie-in Writers. www.bobbynash.com

Romily
Romily is an MMO gamer, software analyst, machinima director/producer, presenter, and voice actor. She has been presenting machinima at Dragon*Con annually since 2006.

Scott Viguié
Dr. Scott Viguié holds two doctorate degrees and is an archaeologist, attorney, actor and author. He created Dr. Geek's Lab and travels the convention circuit, where he can be seen participating in Doctor Who and Stargate related panels and speaking on such topics as "The Archaeology of Stargate."

Jean Marie Ward
Jean Marie Ward writes fiction, nonfiction and everything in between. Her credits include a multi-award nominated novel, numerous short stories and two popular art books. She edited the ezine Crescent Blues for eight years. Her video interviews and short subjects are a regular feature of Buzzymag.com.

Rebecca Watson
Rebecca Watson leads a team of skeptical activists on the Skepchick Network, which includes six websites with more than 50 regular writers. She also co-hosts the weekly Skeptics’ Guide to the Universe radio show and podcast. She travels around the world delivering entertaining talks on science, atheism, feminism, and skepticism.

Elonka Dunin
Elonka Dunin is a professional game developer, writer, and cryptographer. A leading expert on the world's most famous unsolved codes, such as "Kryptos" at CIA Headquarters, she is also namesake for the "Nola Kaye" character in Dan Brown's bestselling novel The Lost Symbol.

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

Faith Hunter
Faith Hunter writes bestselling dark urban fantasy: Skinwalker series, featuring Jane Yellowrock including Skinwalker, Blood Cross, Mercy Blade, Raven Cursed, Death’s Rival, and Blood Trade. Rogue Mage, a post-apocalyptic, alternate reality series, features Thorn St. Croix, a stone mage, includes BloodRing, Seraphs, Host, and Rogue Mage RPG and World Book.

D.B. Jackson
D.B. Jackson is the award-winning author more than a dozen fantasy novels. His most recent books, Thieftaker and Thieves' Quarry (The Thieftaker Chronicles -- Tor Books) combine historical fiction, urban fantasy, and mystery into what he calls historical urban fantasy, or Tricorn Punk.

Anthony Simcoe
Anthony Simcoe is a graduate of Sydney's National Institute of Dramatic Arts (NIDA). He is best known in Australia for his role as Steve Kerrigan in The Castle and better known throughout the rest of the world for his portrayal of D’Argo on Farscape.

Ken Spivey
Ken Spivey is a professional entertainer, songwriter, and convention organizer specializing in Doctor Who and Celtic themed music and knowledge.

Kim Steadman
Kim Steadman is a Flight Systems Engineer with the Cassini-Huygens Mission at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. During her over 12 years on Cassini, she has been a Mission Planner, Science Planner and currently a Systems Engineer. She holds a B.S and M.S in Aerospace Engineering from Georgia Tech.

Darlene Bolesny
Darlene Bolesny has lived many adventures - which made writing fantasy action-adventure a natural next step. The next book in the Duanor series, Sagril's Tower, is to be released in 2013. Her website may be found at www.bolesny.com.

Barbara A. Drescher
Barbara Dreschers is a cognitive psychologist. After a decade of teaching, she now produces educational material for the James Randi Educational Foundation and promotes scientific thinking at ICBSEverywhere.com and other blog sites.

Tedd Roberts
Dr. Tedd Roberts is committed to making brain science understandable to SF/F writers and readers alike through his fiction, "Teddy's Rat Lab" blog, and nonfiction articles for Baen Books. As professional Neuroscience researcher, Tedd loves to discuss the brain science behind science fiction and fantasy.

Carrie Ann Baade
Carrie Ann Baade is an internationally exhibiting artist whose surreal oil paintings are inspired by literature and art history. Baade received her Masters from the University of Delaware and her B.F.A. from the  Art Institute of Chicago. Currently, Carrie is an Assistant Professor of Painting and Drawing at FSU.

Kevin J. Anderson
Kevin J Anderson, the #1 international bestselling author of 120 novels, is best known for his Dune novels coauthored with Brian Herbert, his Star Wars and X-Files novels, Clockwork Angels with legendary rock group Rush, and his Saga of Seven Suns series.

Freddy Clements
Freddy Clements is Professor of Drama and Faculty Costume Designer at Jacksonville State University. He has designed costumes for some of the most renowned theaters in America. Freddy has taught courses in costume design, costume construction, and advanced stage make-up. He is an experienced cutter/draper.

Eugie Foster
Eugie Foster received the 2009 Nebula Award for Best Novelette and was named Bards and Sages Author of the Year. She has also been nominated for the Hugo, BSFA, and WSFA awards.  Her publication credits number over 100, and her short story collection, Returning My Sister's Face, is now available from Norilana Books.