A mild-mannered high school teacher by day, a writer by night, Kevin Hearne is the author of The Iron Druid Chronicles, an urban fantasy series from Del Rey. His first three books, Hounded, Hexed, and Hammered, were released back-to-back in the summer of 2011. The fourth book, Tricked, is scheduled for release in April 2012, and book five, Trapped, will come out the following December. When he's not writing or teaching, Kevin joins his daughter in obsessing over Dr. Who.

Paul Taylor is the creator of the odd slice-of-supernatural-life comic called Wapsi Square. He was raised on a good dose of Warner Bros. cartoons and scary movies that helped to fuel his already overactive imagination. After spending his post college years substitute teaching and then running a photography studio, Paul took his love of mythology and his equal parts passion for the cute and the macabre and set out to tell a story. When not working on his full time job of writing and drawing Wapsi Square, Paul can be found running errands with his four year old son or sitting in front of the television, watching a movie with his awesomely cool wife.

Mike Moore started his professional life like most of us... but there was a difference. Mike's first job was making props and sets for the first Universal Studios tour. Even though he went on to mundane jobs in retail sales and other areas, this first taste of prop making started it all for Mike. He finished his education at Cerritos College in Norwalk, Calif. and began working in the aerospace industry. To enhance his skills for this job he became certified in plastic technology.

Mike has worked on many movies since then such as The Abyss, Addams Family, Batman 3, The Hunt for Red October, Pulp Fiction, Inspector Gadget and many more. Mike will have 18 years invested in creating props for the Star Trek universe.

Mike and HMS have done other television shows as well, for example, Babylon 5, Captain Power, Dark Shadows (1980), Lois and Clark, 3rd Rock from the Sun and many more. HMS has also work for Las Vegas "The Star Trek Experience", the Traveling Star Trek Museums, Paramount Parks Displays, Universal Tours, Edinburgh Star Trek Museum and the Canadian Star Trek Museum.

Another area they have gotten into is prototyping for Mattel, Playmates Toys, All-American Casting, Icons Authentic Replicas and Master Replicas.

Overall, Mike Moore and HMS Productions have had a great impact on the science fiction movies and TV we see and love.

Wild Mercy, an Indianapolis-based eclectic Celtic band, is composed of Barry Childs-Helton (guitars, bass, vocals, original pieces), Sally Childs-Helton (drum kit, bodhran, world and classical percussion), Debbie Gates (keyboard, vocals, percussion) and Jennifer Midkiff (harp, bass, vocals). Their music is rooted in traditional and contemporary Celtic musics, with excursions into folk-rock, jazz, blues, indie, and world musics, and is marked by strong vocals and tight harmonies.

As a band composed of avid SF readers, WM was fated to start playing cons. Barry and Sally had been playing at conventions since 1983, had won several Pegasus Awards for filking, and been named to the Filk Hall of Fame before joining Wild Mercy. Soon Jen and Debbie began asking just what they were doing at these SF and filking things they were going to. It wasn't long before the whole band began going, beginning with InConJunction in 2004. Multiple con appearances followed, including ConClave, DucKon, CapriCon, Marcon, ConText, Ohio Valley Filk Fest, MidSouthCon, Conterpoint (Barry and Sally's second East Coast Science Fiction Filk Festival since Concertino in 1995), and the 2007 North American Science Fiction Convention. And as the fannish audience's high-quality attention spoiled the entire band rotten ("They listen to the words! They sing along! We want all of this there is!"), their filk repertoire grew apace, even as their style continued to sprout more rock, jazz, and choral elements. Unsurprisingly, now Jen and Debbie are both doing solo concerts and workshops at conventions as well, and the band has been nominated twice for a Best Performer Pegasus Award.

So, just what is "eclectic Celtic"? Well, it's Celtic! It's folk (except when it's rock)! It's sultry fairytale blues! It's lounge lizards unleashed! It's beautiful harp and vocal textures. It's bitter Jacobite protest songs. It's jazz played on a lever harp. It's bodhran-driven rock. It's tight vocal harmonies. It's way too many instruments for four people!

"We love the show, and we wanted to create something that we could share with other fans and something we would have a blast doing. Specifically, we take episodes of the original Star Trek and write songs for them. Sometimes the songs tell stories, sometimes they're about one character, and sometimes they're totally obscure. We never quite know what's going to happen with a tune until we write it. Our goal is to take every episode of the original Star Trek, write a song about it, record it, and play it. In the end, there will be five full-length CDs full of Star Trek goodness for all to enjoy."

Five Year Mission will be once again playing live at the InConJunction Dance on Friday night.

Five Year Mission is:

Noah Butler - Guitar/Bass/Keys/Vocals/Songwriter
Andy Fark - Percussion
Patrick O'Connor - Guitar/Bass/Keys/Vocals/Songwriter
Mike Rittenhouse - Guitar/Bass/Keys/Vocals/Songwriter
Chris Spurgin - Guitar/Bass/Keys/Vocals/Songwriter

To paraphrase the great Groucho Marx, "Charlie was born at a very young age." Charlie is a self described science nerd and a sci-fi geek, never finding a dull scientific conference or a sci-fi convention. From giving presentations for his peers to standing in line for an autograph he has never found a scientific conference or a sci-fi convention he enjoys both immensely.

Charlie attended some of the finest coastal schools in the Carolinas and has a background is in Marine Biology, Environmental Studies, and natural Hazard Preparedness. Charlie has worked in extensively in environmental consulting (where he fed generations of mosquitoes while walking through swamps) and academia where he studied coastal erosion, and natural disaster impacts (he also managed to put Star Wars action figures into the upper atmospheres, run Godzilla damage estimates and zombie outbreak models). He currently works for a local emergency management office in the SC Lowcountry where he helps the public prepare for Earthquakes, Hurricanes, and other hazards.

He is happy to share some of his adventures with anyone who buys the first round of margaritas.

Lou Harry is the author or co-author of more than 25 books including Creative Block, Know Your Zombies, The Encyclopedia of Guilty Pleasures, and the novelization of Santa Claus Conquers the Martians (seriously). His novel The High-Impact Infidelity Diet was optioned by Warner Bros and his Voodoo Lou series of doll-and-book kits have sold over a million copies. He is also a playwright whose produced work includes Midwestern Hemisphere, The Pied Piper of Hoboken, and the Indy Fringe hit Beer Can Raft. His freelance work has appeared in Writer's Digest, Variety, and over 50 other publications. He serves happily as Arts & Entertainment Editor for the Indianapolis Business Journal and appears weekly on Fox 59 morning news and on WIBC radio. At past Inconjunctions, he created and hosted the Science Fiction/Fantasy Spelling Bee, led the popular and lively Pub Trivia competition, and served as panelist and charity auctioneer.