Complete Guest List for InConJunction XXXIII

Cherie Priest
Author Guest of Honor

Cherie Priest is the author of a dozen novels, including the steampunk pulp adventures Ganymede, Dreadnought, Clementine, and Boneshaker. Boneshaker was nominated for both the Hugo Award and the Nebula Award; it was a PNBA Award winner, and winner of the Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel. Cherie also wrote Bloodshot and Hellbent from Bantam Spectra; Fathom and the Eden Moore series from Tor; and three novellas published by Subterranean Press. In addition to all of the above, Cherie's first foray into George R. R. Martin's superhero universe, Fort Freak (for which she wrote the interstitial mystery), debuted in the summer of 2011. Cherie's short stories and nonfiction articles have appeared in such fine publications as Weird Tales, Publishers Weekly, and numerous anthologies. Cherie lives in Chattanooga, TN, with her husband, a big shaggy dog, and a fat black cat.

For additional information, please refer to Cherie Priest's Web Page.

Stuart Sayger
Artist Guest of Honor
DC Comic book artist and creator of Shiver in the Dark

Stuart Sayger is best known for his moody and expressive style. Inks, gouache, chalk and oil pastels are standard when creating his comic book pages. He first broke into the industry as the creator of Shiver In The Dark, producing the comic independently from start to finish. Currently Stuart is producing artwork for this summer's "Man of Steel" Superman movie, as well as a video game adaption of Robert Kirkman's "Thief of Thieves". Recent comic book projects include producing art for various IDW projects including: "30-Days of Night", "Robert Rodriguez's Machete", and "Bram Stoker's Death Ship". Toy fans may remember Stuart's work from a two-year run drawing the "Bionicle" comic book based on the popular Lego toy line of the same name. The series was translated to eight different languages and distributed internationally boasting the largest circulation of any comic book in the world. Gamers will know Stuart's work from various sets of collectible card game, "VS" from Upperdeck as well as "Vampire the Eternal Struggle" from White Wolf Games. Stuart will be drawing live during much of the convention so please stop by and see his inky fingers at work!

For additional information, please refer to Stuart Sayger's Web Page.

Five Year Mission
Music Guest of Honor
Star Trek themed band with the goal of writing and recording a song for each episode of the original Star Trek series.

The five seasoned musicians who comprise indie rock band Five Year Mission were brought together by their mutual love of sci-fi. Their mission: write and record a song for every episode of the original Star Trek series from the 1960's. Since all five members are involved in the songwriting process, the group's sound is eclectic and expansive, boldly going where no band has gone before, with material ranging from power-pop to folk, punk to rap, and nearly everything in between. The band has independently released two critically acclaimed full-length albums (2010's Year 1 and 2011's Year 2, respectively) and one EP (2012's The Trouble with Tribbles), and they have another three full-lengths on the horizon. Five Year Mission has accomplished much over the past three years: They performed regularly in and around the Midwest, appeared at some of the most prestigious science fiction conventions in the country, and have won the hearts and ears of Star Trek fans the world over. In early 2012, the band opened a panel for the legendary William Shatner in New Orleans, and shortly thereafter, they released a song paying tribute to actor George Takei; the song has since amassed over 80,000 plays on YouTube. The members of Five Year Mission continue to write, record, and perform songs for their ever-expanding fanbase, and they're having a blast doing it! The Band Members are: Noah Butler - Guitar/Bass/Keys/Vocals/Songwriter Andy Fark - Percussion/Vocals/Songwriter Patrick O'Connor - Guitar/Bass/Keys/Vocals/Songwriter Mike Rittenhouse - Guitar/Bass/Keys/Vocals/Songwriter Chris Spurgin - Guitar/Bass/Keys/Vocals/Songwriter

For additional information, please refer to Five Year Mission's Web Page.

Mikey Mason
Featured Guest
Geek. Fanboy. Comedy Rock Star. Not your average funny guy...

Mikey Mason (a nationally touring standup comedian by trade) made a splash on YouTube with the video for his song, %u201CShe Don't Like Firefly,%u201D which spurred the recording of his crowd-funded geek rock/comedy album, %u201CImpotent Nerd Rage.%u201D He recently completed his second geek album, "Barbarian Jetpack," and is now working on an EP of non-comedic songs inspired by Neil Gaiman's novel American Gods. Mikey's work has been featured on Nerdist.com, MTV Geek News, SyFy's Blastr.com, and in Time Magazine's Techland. He has made multiple appearances both on NBC and at the legendary House Of Blues, headlined on all four coasts and performed at the Atlantis Resort in the Bahamas, the 2011 Geek Media Expo, and RPG conventions across the US. He is also a proud media sponsor of Can't Stop The Serenity, a fundraiser for Equality Now, and performs at at least one CSTS each year. "Soooo great!!" - Morena Baccarin (Firefly, Serenity, Homeland, V) "Hilarious." "Totally catchy." "His voice is so awesome that we immediately ran to his website to check out his tour schedule." -Blastr.com (SyFy Channel) "This album totally doesn't suck. Which I like. The music is quality, the guy can sing and play and not to be captain cliche or anything... but I found myself wanting more." -Audrey Brown, bornforgeekdom.com %u201CThe wordplay is genius.%u201D -Juliette B. Edwards, nerdsraging.com "My dad had a great sense of humor, knew hundreds of jokes, puns, limericks, etc and would have LOVED your song!" -Cindy Gygax (Daughter of RPG luminary Gary Gygax) Learn more at mikeymason.com.

For additional information, please refer to Mikey Mason's Web Page.

Robert Pyatt, Ph. D.
Featured Guest
Mad Scientist and Pseudo Super Villain

Rocketed to Earth as an infant to escape the destruction of his home world where his parents had been brutally murdered before his eyes one night in a dark alley, Rob's ship crash landed in a jungle where he was adopted by a friendly gorilla and raised to learn the ways of the jungle. As a teen-ager, Rob re-joined society and quickly enlisted in the army where he was given an experimental formula designed to create the ultimate soldier. After being put on ice for a number of years, Rob ditched the military and got a job at a scientific research facility where he was unfortunately exposed to gamma radiation, beta radiation, delta radiation, cosmic radiation, and a really nasty bite from a radioactive spider. Well, sort of. Rob's been bouncing around InConJunction for a number of years now and you can normally find him hosting the "The Weird World of Science" or "Top 10 Worst Sci-Fi & Horror Movies" with Jeff Thompson and Chris Canary. As a mild mannered scientist, Rob's secret identity allows him the chance to develop his plans for world conquest while conducting some pretty twisted experiments. In the past, he's warped the fragile minds of college students at Morris Brown College, Clark-Atlanta University, and Emory University. Rob is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Pathology at Ohio State University and the Assistant Director of the Cytogenetics/Molecular Genetics Laboratory at Nationwide Children's Hospital. He also currently writes a column for the Annals of Improbable Research called "Pubmed Goes to the Movies" which compares films and scientific articles that share the same titles.

Also Appearing

John Allen

John F. Allen is an American speculative fiction writer born in Indianapolis, IN. He is an active member of Indiana Horror Writers and serves as its Vice President and is also a member of Indiana Writers Center. He began writing stories as early as the second grade and has pursued all forms of writing at some point, throughout his career. He studied Liberal Arts at IUPUI with a focus in Creative Writing. John%u2019s debut novel, The God Killers is planned for publication in Summer 2013 with Seventh Star Press. John currently resides in Indianapolis, Indiana with his wife, son and daughter.

For additional information, please refer to John Allen's Web Page.

Kate Bendele

I have been a licensed cosmetologist for over five years; I am skilled at fantasy hair and makeup. I create and sell jewelry and hair accessories. I also have many really great entertainment based panel ideas!

Matt Betts
Author of the steampunk/alternate history novel, Odd Men Out.

Growing up, Matt Betts consumed vast amounts of pop culture, watching cartoons, listening to various music, regularly viewing the old monster movies on weekend television and reading everything he could get his hands on. He is a former radio personality whose fiction and speculative poetry appears in various publications, including the Sidekicks! Anthology, Kaleidotrope, eSteampunk and The Book of Tentacles anthology. Much to his own surprise, he was mentioned in the New York Times for his zombie poetry. For a little over a decade Matt ran a writing and critique group in Columbus Ohio called the Naked Wordshop, which isn't nearly as dirty as it sounds. He blogs at www.mattbetts.com and Twitters as @captplothole. His steampunk/alternate history novel Odd Men Out will be released by Dog Star Books in the summer of 2013.

For additional information, please refer to Matt Betts's Web Page.

Dave Buhr
Artemis crew

I was asked to complete this in order to help with Artemis on Friday from 3-8 and Saturday from 10-1. I hope that I got the information in the correct place.

Kate Chaplin
Kate Chaplin is an indie filmmaker and author

Named a Naptown notable resident by Intake Magazine, as well as one of the most talented writers around today by the Writers Page, Kate Chaplin is an multi-award-winning film maker whose projects have appeared on MTV, local television, film festivals, in print and online. Ms. Chaplin's latest film project First They Came for won awards the Indy Award, the Gold Award and was nominated for the Hoosier Lens Award. Ms. Chaplin works on many film productions in Indiana as a Co-Producer, Assistant Director, or Script Supervisor. She is the author of The Belief Test and the president of the Indy Writers' group. Ms. Chaplin is passionate about film and sought after to provide film classes at local schools, libraries and leadership organizations to help inspire others to learn more about filmmaking.

For additional information, please refer to Kate Chaplin's Web Page.

David Daring
Movie to Novel, Novel to movie.

David Daring owner of Graphic Attack Productions has written/produced a full length Science Fiction movie, The Parchene Conspiracy which won Best Set Design at the World Independent Film Expo of 2010. He also wrote a computer game -- years ago -- called The Reign of the Red Dragon. It was for the Radio Shack model I, III, IV computers and was featured at Rivercon. He has also written a fantasy trilogy: Bones of the Pillar Lord -- the first book of the series is on sale at Amazon.com and Barnes and Nobles ( Under the title: CURSE OF THE GRAY FORTRESS, to be followed by CURSE OF GETHORIA to be followed by: CURSE OF THE SISTER SEED. All books have been written and are in line for publication ). He has had scripts reviewed at the William Morris Agency and Creative Artists Agency, and has written spec scripts for multiple actors. His film scripts have received two Honorable Mention awards: The Curse of Bleth (fantasy) ; The Icy hand (drama).

Dillan Dick

Dillan Dick is a soldier in the US Army Reserves, a former Eagle Scout, and just an all-around geek. When not watching zombie movies and critiquing them on how people could survive, he loves to watch UFC fights, read the Earth's Children series by Jean M. Aul, as well as prepare for the upcoming zombie apocalypse.

Mark Dooley
"De Boss" of the Whoosier Network, writer/artist of "The Actual, Semi-True Adventures of Mark and Dee". One man's "sick and twisted childhood" is another man's "inspirational parenting".

Mark C. Dooley is "De Boss" of the Whoosier Network, Indiana's Doctor Who club, as well as writer/artist of the online comic strip "The Actual, Semi-True Adventures of Mark and Dee" (www.deboss1.blogspot.com). He owes it all to his mom for letting him stay up late watching "Nightmare Theater" when he was seven years old. One man's "sick and twisted childhood" is another man's "inspirational parenting".

For additional information, please refer to Mark Dooley's Web Page.

TammyJo Eckhart
Speculative Fiction Alive

TammyJo Eckhart, PhD, returns for another fun year at Inconjunction. A published author of non-fiction, science fiction, fantasy, horror, historical, and contemporary fiction, she is represented by Terrie Wolf of AKA Literary, LLC. A self-proclaimed "Geek Girl" she loves to talk with readers and fellow geeks. She is also returning this year to run her 8th WoD tabletop game -- new players always welcomed.

For additional information, please refer to TammyJo Eckhart's Web Page.

Bob Freeman
Author of Descendant, Shadows Over Somerset, & Keepers of the Dead.

Bob Freeman is an author, specializing in Occult Detective Fiction. In addition to writing, Bob is a fantasy and horror cover artist, and is well-known in the paranormal community as an investigator with Nightstalkers of Indiana. He lives in rural Indiana with his wife and son.

For additional information, please refer to Bob Freeman's Web Page.

Eric Garrison
Indianapolis-area author of Reality Check, Blue Spirit, and the Road Ghosts series.

Eric Garrison is active in the writing community in Indianapolis, Indiana. He lives in the Circle City with his wife, step-daughter and a cabal of cats. He also enjoys gaming, home brewing beer, and finding innovative uses for duct tape. Eric's latest novel, Reality Check, is a science fiction adventure released by Hydra Publications. Eric has also written four urban fantasy novels. These include the Road Ghosts trilogy (to be released by Seventh Star Press), as well as Blue Spirit. His novels are dark supernatural fantasies, dealing with ghosts, demonic possession and even sinister fairy folk. Eric's short story, "Drag Show" appeared in the Fall 2011 edition of Strange, Weird and Wonderful Magazine. His flash piece, "Dark Reflection", appeared in the Indiana Horror 2011 anthology. Eric won The Iron Writer Challenge in March 2013 with his flash story, "Killer Cure".

For additional information, please refer to Eric Garrison's Web Page.

Deane Geiken
Artemis Crew

Working as a volunteer for the Artemis Starship Bridge Simulator game with Joe Greene. Working Friday 3pm-8pm and Saturday 10am -1pm.

Katie Grause
Hermione Granger in a thiry-something's body with wi-fi access.

Ms. Grause (rhymes with drowsy) enjoys many aspects of geekdom - from comics, sci-fi and anime to gaming, costuming and the internet. By day, a mild-mannered state government employee and by night (and weekend) discovering new outlets for her curiosity. She is also currently the female half of a band, Fate Pies. This is her seventh Inconjunction and looks forward to many more.

Jacque Greene
Pegasister, budding author, Origami enthusiast

Jacquelyn Greene is a young Pegasister, but loves the show. She has made a few of her own pony characters, and has ponified some of her different characters. She has made her own world, and has a large cast of characters all living in it. She is working on writing down these stories, but has only managed to finish writing one. She is also working on stories in different worlds, though most of these worlds are not as developed as her first. She is a budding Origami enthusiast, though spends most of time making paper dragons.

Joe Greene
This guy's a geek! He's big! He's green! But he's fuzzy, not mean.

Joe 'Volg' Greene is a costumer, LEGO roboticist, SciFi fan, DIY addict and UNIX admin. This guy's a geek! He's big! He's green! But he's fuzzy, not mean.

For additional information, please refer to Joe Greene's Web Page.

Misty Greene
Wife of Volg

Wife of Volg. Mother of Serena Mooneye and Melody. Mistress of their Universe.

Cern Greenman
"Celtic and Earth-based Music for the Spirit in You."

Singer-songwriter Cernowain Greenman has been a consummate storyteller, professional speaker and dedicated musician for a number of years. He has boldly stepped onto the Pagan Music scene with a quiver full of mystical songs that awaken the spirit. Ranging from folk to rock to blues to vaudeville, %u201CCern%u201D brings listening bliss to Pagans of all ages with his gifts of story and song. Anaan Sapphira, the "Muse", is the duo's female vocalist and percussionist. Anaan brings her beautiful descants and background voice, along with drums and a variety of percussion, to complete this duo's special uplifting and enchanting sound.

For additional information, please refer to Cern Greenman's Web Page.

Brian Hakes

local artist from northwest indiana -pumpkin carving -pattern making -artifical and real pumpkin carving I have been carving and collecting pumpkin patterns for about 15 years. My Collection includes over 5000 patterns from your basic Dracula to the extreme Enterprise. I know create my own patterns! I started by just using a black marker and a picture now I use technology to create my patterns.

Matthew Hansel

I am an artist from northern Illinois and do a variety of art from comic books to comic strips to storyboards to comps for ads and newspaper ad design and flyers as well. I have a successful online strip Marty and Spud, www.martyandspud.com.

For additional information, please refer to Matthew Hansel's Web Page.

Ronald Hawkins
Ronald Hawkins is a multiple-decade, award-winning journalist. He's been writing the Indiana Science Fiction Sojourns column and blog since September 2007.

Ronald Hawkins is a multiple-decade, award-winning journalist. He is a staff writer/chief political writer for the Reporter-Times. He's been writing the Indiana Science Fiction Sojourns column and blog since September 2007. This will be the fifth year he's chaired or participated on InConJunction panels.

For additional information, please refer to Ronald Hawkins's Web Page.

Addie King

Addie J. King is an attorney by day and a writer by nights, evenings, weekends, and whenever she has a spare moment. Her short story "Poltergeist on Aisle Fourteen" was published in MYSTERY TIMES TEN 2011 by Buddhapuss Ink, and an essay entitled, "Building Believable Legal Systems in Science Fiction and Fantasy" was published in EIGHTH DAY GENESIS; A WORLDBUILDING CODEX FOR WRITERS AND CREATIVES by Alliteration Ink. Her novel, THE GRIMM LEGACY, is available now from Musa Publishing. The sequel, THE ANDERSEN ANCESTRY is scheduled for release in Spring, 2013. Her short story, "Welcome to New York" was just published in TRIUMPH OVER TRAGEDY, a charity ebook to raise money for the Red Cross to benefit victims of Hurricane Sandy. Her website can be found at www.addiejking.com

For additional information, please refer to Addie King's Web Page.

Timothy Lane
Editor of FOSFAX and graduate of Purdue University

Timothy Lane has a BS from Purdue in computer science, has edited FOSFAX (a former Hugo nominee) since 1987, and has been a frequent program participant (and occasional moderator) at many conventions, including several Worldcons, highlighted by being co-Fan GOH (with his co-editor and housemate, Elizabeth Garrott) at Windycon in 1997. He minored in economics and history and has continued to study both (with special interests in political and military history), and wrote articles on a number of subjects (including historical materials and environmental science) for Salem Press.

Rosemary Laurey
USA Today best-selling Author, Rosemary Laurey, writes paranormal and contemporary romance and fantasy. In her Madeleine Oh persona, she writes naughty books for grown up eyes only.

USA Today< best-selling Author, Rosemary Laurey worked her way through careers as a market gardener, potter, nanny, teacher, dressmaker, bookseller and mother before finally discovering what she wanted to be a writer when she grew up. She also writes erotica as Madeleine Oh.

For additional information, please refer to Rosemary Laurey's Web Page.

Sara Miller
Sara Jo Easton is the author of the Zarder series.

Sara Jo Easton is the author of the Zarder series, a trilogy of novels set in a world where dragon-like creatures called Onizards are the dominant species and humans must help them defeat the cruel Fire Queen. Sara drew the first Onizards when she was bored in 9th grade math class (in her defense, it was the second day in a row of graphing a plane). Over a decade later, she has attended college for Journalism, has traveled extensively, and has somehow obtained two insane cats. Her current project is set in an alternate universe rural Ohio where a succubus, a siren and a banshee work together to protect a town from forces that are (amazingly) more threatening than that combination of monsters working together.

Bryan O'Neill
"I'm the hero quality storytelling deserves."

Bryan O'Neill was born in Terre Haute, IN. He is an only child. In his youth he worked at a video store, then later a General Cinema in Indianapolis. His love for film, along with the growing epidemic of reboots, inspired him to create the book Original Plots: The Unified Field Theory of Storytelling. A guide to creating original stories, world building and character development across all genres. This is his first book.

For additional information, please refer to Bryan O'Neill's Web Page.

David Lee Pancake
Sculptor of the Fantastic

David Lee Pancake is a sculptor & painter of fantasy art. He began his art at an early age and displays more then four decades of artistic talent and skill. He pursues a variety of subject matter which includes a series of sculpted risqué angels, dragons, comic book heroes, nudes, abstracts, and other figurines. His paintings sometimes reveal a humorous pun, ponder a social issue or evoke an eureka moment. His art graces the homes of fans around the globe.

For additional information, please refer to David Lee Pancake's Web Page.

Stella Price
Author of over 24 books under two names, Stella Price writes Paranormal Romance, Steampunk and Erotic Romance.

Stella Price is a jerk of all trades. As an author she had over 24 novels published, 10 short stories and helps to run a small publishing company. As a graphic artist she has over 200 book covers under her belt and has recieved several awards including an Ariana and has been up for a Fango. Most recently, she has becoming convention director to the fastest up and coming literary convention in the country, Authors After Dark, which she runs entirely by herself. You can find her work and the insanity she calls her life at www.stellaandaudra.com and on twitter at @Eververse.

For additional information, please refer to Stella Price's Web Page.

Bob  Richey
Costumer/tinkerer specializing in the large, impracticable, and awesome.

An InConJunction attendee since 2005, Bob Richey is involved in costuming and creating Huge creatures using cheap and simple materials.

Angelia Sparrow

For additional information, please refer to Angelia Sparrow's Web Page.

R.J. Sullivan
R. J. Sullivan is a paranormal series thriller author with Seventh Star Press. www.rjsullivanfiction.com

R. J. Sullivan's novel Haunting Blue is an edgy paranormal thriller and the first book of the adventures of punk girl Fiona "Blue" Shaefer and her boyfriend Chip Farren. Haunting Obsession, a Rebecca Burton Novella, was released by Seventh Star Press. Seventh Star is releasing a new, authorized edition of Haunting Blue in early 2014. R.J. just finished next chapter in Fiona's story, Virtual Blue, coming from Seventh Star later this year. R.J. resides with his family in Heartland Crossing, Indiana. He is an officer of the Indiana Horror Writers. Check in regularly at www.rjsullivanfiction.com to learn the latest about the projects of R. J. Sullivan.

For additional information, please refer to R.J. Sullivan's Web Page.

Jeff Thompson

With a list of qualifications including (but not limited to) b-movie maven, SubGenius preacher, amateur improv enthusiast, sci-fi fan, computer programmer and author, amateur prop and costume designer wanna-be, amateur astronomer, playwright, webmaster, follower of all things urban-legend and/or myth, past InConJunction ConChair, and hard-core chili-head, Jeff Thompson is either a modern-day renaissance man, or someone that will do anything once you get a drink in him.

Jeff's been attending InConJunction since 1983 and has been working for the convention since 1992. You can regularly catch Jeff at the Top Ten Worst Movies panel, Video Trivia Contest, Sci-Fi Whose Line, as an occasional member of InConJunction's acting troupe (the "It's Not Our Fault Players") or preaching at InConJunction's on-again/off-again SubGenius Devival. If you can't find him there, odds are he's in the bar.

For additional information, please refer to Jeff Thompson's Web Page.

Wax Chaotic
Wax Chaotic - Twisted Folk Music

Wax Chaotic is a trio of musicians who've been putting their own twist on folk music since 2011. Both musically and lyrically eclectic, they change the mood and tone of their performance as whimsy dictates. Their musical influences include alternative, punk, bluegrass, blues, rock, pop, and of course, traditional and modern folk. They are lyrical storytellers, weaving themes of science-fiction and fantasy in with real-world events from their own lives. As a unit, the band tours the Midwest, looking for good places to spark musical mischief.

For additional information, please refer to Wax Chaotic's Web Page.