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Complete Guest List for InConJunction 30

Keith R. A. DeCandido
Author Guest of Honor
Best known for his Star Trek fiction as well as Doctor Who, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Farscape, Supernatural and much more.

Keith R.A. DeCandido was born in the Bronx to a pack of wild librarians, who trained him in their vile and depraved ways. He is the author of more than fourty novels, most of them in various media universes, ranging from TV shows (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, CSI: NY, Doctor Who, Star Trek, Supernatural) to videogames (Command and Conquer, StarCraft, World of Warcraft), as well as novelizations of Joss Whedon's Serenity and all three Resident Evil films.

Keith currently scripts the monthly Farscape comic, which continues the story forward after The Peacekeeper Wars, working in collaboration with series creator Rockne S. O'Bannon, and he's working on a Dungeons & Dragons novel that's due to be published in the summer of 2011.

Keith's recent work includes the novel Supernatural: Heart of the Dragon; three Farscape comic book miniseries focusing on the character of Ka D'Argo (D'Argo's Lament, D'Argo's Trial, and D'Argo's Quest); the novella "The Unhappy Ones" in Star Trek: Seven Deadly Sins; the Jellico issue of the Star Trek: Captain's Log comic book miniseries; and the first volume of the StarCraft: Ghost Academy manga. In 2009, Keith was inexplicably granted a Lifetime Achievement Award by the International Association of Media Tie-in Writers.

Keith is also a professional percussionist, currently with the parody band Boogie Knights, a first-degree black belt in Kenshikai karate, and a lifelong fan of the World Champion New York Yankees. He still lives in the Bronx.

Find out less at his mediocre web site at DeCandido.net, read his inane ramblings at kradical.livejournal.com, or follow him on either Facebook or Twitter under the user name KRADeC.

For additional information, please refer to Keith R. A. DeCandido's Web Page.

Ed Beard, Jr.
Artist Guest of Honor
Fantasy artist best known for his work illustrating Magic: The Gathering, Dungeons & Dragons, and Lord of the Rings.

Ed is best known for his works illustrating dragons, wizards, and other fantasy subjects. His artwork has been gracing the covers of books and games for over 25 years. Ed's art has been licensed for many top publishers and manufacturers, including Hasbro / Wizards of the Coast Dungeons & Dragons, Magic: The Gathering; Verizon Mobile and Orange UK Mobile; The Mountain Corporation (T-shirts); Ceaco, Great American, Cobble Hill and Ravensburger FAO Schmidt (jigsaw puzzles); and TideMark Calendars, whose annual Dragons calendar can be found at Barnes & Noble and Borders bookstores. Ed also has a fine line of instructional videos for drawing and painting techniques. He is one of a handful of fantasy artists whose works are 100% hand-painted. For more info about the artist, please visit his website at www.edbeardjr.com.

Ed will be conducting a drawing workshop titled "Drawing the Dragon" where he will take participants step by step through his process. This class is for beginners to moderately skilled individuals. Ed will be giving hands-on personalized attention to each student who attends. The workshop is available to all InConJunction XXX attendees for an additional cost of $22. All materials will be provided. Check the schedule of events for details.

For additional information, please refer to Ed Beard, Jr.'s Web Page.

Wild Mercy
Music Guest of Honor
Filk band featuring Barry and Sally Childs-Helton, Debbie Gates and Jennifer Midkiff.

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!

For additional information, please refer to Wild Mercy's Web Page.

Andrew & Kristin Looney
Gaming Guest of Honor
Founders of Looney Labs Games and inventors of Fluxx, Treehouse, Icehouse, Chrononauts, and more.

Andrew Looney - Chief Designer - Looney Labs
Andy is the Chief Creative Officer for Looney Labs, and is the designer of Fluxx, Chrononauts, Aquarius, Are You the Traitor?, Treehouse, and Martian Coasters. Andy is also a photographer, a cartoonist, a video-blogger, and a marijuana-legalization advocate. Andy lives with his wife Kristin (and their housemate Alison) somewhere near Washington, DC. Andy is a Hippie, a Trekkie, and a Geek. He's been an Eagle Scout and a NASA engineer. He's gotten patents and won Awards. He's written a novel and has designed and coded a videogame, and he once watched as his software was launched into space. Andy loves cake.

Kristin Looney - Business Czar - Looney Labs
Kristin spent her first 15 years after college working as an Electronics Engineer at NASA and an IT Manager in the aerospace industry while running a little part-time game business on the side in her spare time. In early 1999 she jumped off the cliff, leaving her day job behind to work full-time running and growing Looney Labs. The games of Looney Labs are available worldwide, in large part due to Kristin's business and marketing savvy. Kristin fosters the large community of "Mad Lab Rabbits", who are spreading the word of Looney Labs far and wide. Kristin's earliest claim to fame came at age 16 when she solved a Rubik's Cube in 35.50 seconds on the television show That's Incredible, and her enthusiasm for puzzles and games is still going strong.

For additional information, please refer to Andrew & Kristin Looney's Web Page.

The Incredible Two-Headed Toastmaster
Toastmaster
Master of Ceremonies and Grotesque Accident of Science

What kind of freak of human nature is the Incredible Two-Headed Toastmaster? Are they the love-spawn of an atomic scientist and a Republican Vice-Presidential candidate? Or worse, the star of a rejected SyFy Channel Movie of the Week? Only these facts are known. As children, this human oddity was displayed at circuses, elementary school libraries, and abstinence rallies across the country until being rescued by an Amish codemonkey with a kind heart. They were then raised as normal children with classic American values: family, apple pie, and the Church of the SubGenius. The Incredible Two-Headed Toastmaster has now devoted their lives to traveling to science fiction conventions and spreading the gospels of fandom and tooth decay everywhere.

Destini Hope Beard
Featured Guest
Vocalist

Destini is a rising star in the haunting and enchanted sound track and music venue. Destini background in vocals started in high school where she excelled as a Soprano 1 with a 3-4 octave voice and a sweet lyrical sound that enchants all who listen to her. She was, and is, the youngest member of the world reknowned Susquehanna Valley Coral. On Destini's youtube channel she has examples of many covers from classical to contemporary favorites such as: Think of me and Wishing both from Phantom of the Opera, Smoke gets in your eyes, Love song for a Vampire, Sally song from Nightmare before Christmas and many more. Destini has recently teamed up with horror and haunted soundtrack legend "Midnight Syndicate" with her latest CD offering. Destini created the lyrics and vocals to some of Midnight Syndicate's greatest hits and new music compositions created specially for Destini. Destini wrote the lyrics and sang vocals to "Cage of Solitude" to which Midnight Syndicate created the movie soundtrack for the movie Dead Matter. Destini's song is listed as the bonus Track on that CD. You can hear Destini's enchanting voice on her Youtube channel http://www.youtube.com/user/destini91. You can meet Destini at her father Ed Beard Jr's booth and check out her CD cover art done "of course" by her Dad.

Destini will be debuting her new CD The Dark Masquerade, vocals by Destini Beard and music by Midnight Syndicate, at InConJunction.

For additional information, please refer to Destini Hope Beard's Web Page.

Travis Clemmons
Featured Guest
Author - Lecturer - Philosopher

The business card for Samuel Travis Clemmons lists him as an Author - Lecturer - Philosopher - Time Traveler - Public Nuisance - Sometime Ne'er Do Well. The man claims to be an "Alternate Reality Counterpart" of the man that everyone knows as Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens). Yes this is all a load of bullfeathers ... But you've got to start a biography somewhere.

The man who created the character of Samuel Travis Clemmons was born and raised in Central Kentucky. Being someone who loves an intricately woven tall tale (the more absurd the better) he wrote and began performing a comedy routine called Marc Twain: The Time Traveler. In order to keep his storytelling from being railroaded into following the actual events of Mark Twain's life, he decided it would be best to create a fictional Marc Twain who had been born in an alternate realm of existence.

So if a friend tells you that he's headed to a science fiction convention to meet Marc Twain ... Ask him to spell the first name before you call him a liar.

For additional information, please refer to Travis Clemmons's Web Page.

TammyJo Eckhart, PhD
Featured Guest
Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Author

TammyJo Eckhart's fiction has appeared in anthologies from Circlet Press, Greenery Press, Blue Moon and Ravenous Romance. Six collections of her fiction have also been published. "Mistress Loves Me, This I Know" from Python University Productions (2009) is her seventh book in print and contains science fiction, fantasy, historical ficition, and horror short stories. "Servants of Destiny" (2006 Nazca Plains) was her first novel, a sword and sorcery story with a few twists. Currently she is finishing a new book, "Day Unto Night," about the power and problems of vampires and those who serve them; two stories from this collection are also being published in Ravenous Romance books. A huge but picky science fiction, fantasy, horror, and slash fan, Eckhart is also a prolific book reviewer writing 3-6 reviews a month for various publications. Active in the BDSM community since 1993, her essay on feminism and BDSM is widely cited online whenever questions about these topics arise. Feel free to learn more about her at http://www.tammyjoeckhart.com or follow her latest adventures at http://thetammyjo.livejournal.com.

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

Joe Greene
Featured Guest
Costumer and Robotics and LEGO® Enthusiast

Joe 'Volg Clawtooth' Greene: Amateur roboticist, LEGO® addict, and costumer. A Critter Crunch veteran since 1995 (OK, so I missed a few), with his robots built from 100% genuine LEGO® parts. Author of the Critter Course rules based upon the original Critter Crunch rules, his exploits also include captain of the winning team of the LEGO® Imperial Star Destroyer Speed Build Contest at Star Wars Celebration III and MC for the First Critter Course at Capricon XXVI. Being the geek he, is, Joe is always finding new ways to integrate his hobbies of computers, robotics, LEGO®, gaming and costuming.

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

Marc Gunn
Featured Guest
Musician

Marc Gunn is a musician and podcaster. As the autoharp-playing half of the Brobdingnagian Bards, Gunn and partner Andrew McKee developed a following with weekly performances on the campus of the University of Texas at Austin. This led to gigs at renaissance faires, science fiction conventions, and Celtic music festivals as well as parties and weddings for the pair. The group headlined at the Oscar party for The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King.

With the Bards' calendar busy, Gunn began producing the duo's recordings. Their first effort in 1999 was Marked By Great Size followed by Gullible's Travels in 2000. The third release was 2001's instrumental Songs of the Muse, then two theme CDs A Faire To Remember and A Celtic Renaissance Wedding. 2002 saw the release of Songs of Ireland, 2003 brought Memories of Middle Earth, and their latest CD is Brobdingnagian Fairy Tales. A solo album, Soul of a Harper, appeared in 2004; he then embarked on work for Irish Drinking Songs for Cat Lovers.

The Brobdingnagian Bards band broke up amicably on September 15, 2008, and Gunn plans to pursue a solo career.

For additional information, please refer to Marc Gunn's Web Page.

Lou Harry
Featured Guest
Author of The Superman Guide to Life: Living the Superhero Lifestyle and the novelization of Santa Claus Conquers the Martians

Lou Harry is Arts & Entertainment Editor for the Indianapolis Business Journal. Formerly Co-Creator and Editor in Chief of Indy Men's Magazine, he's the author of many books including In the Can: The Greatest Career Missteps, Sophomore Slumps, What-Were-They-Thinking Decisions and Fire-Your Agent Moves in the History of the Movies and the 2005 novelization of Santa Claus Conquers the Martians. His novel The High-Impact Infidelity Diet was optioned by Warner Brothers for a feature film. His latest projects include My Crop Circle and The Underground Manual of Office Dares. Lou has worked with such science fiction/fantasy legends as William F. Nolan (creator of Logan's Run) and David Gerrold (author of The Trouble with Tribbles episode of Star Trek) and spent ten years as a professional stand-up comic. His plays -- including Midwestern Hemisphere, The Pied Piper of Hoboken and Lizzie Strata -- have been seen on stages in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Indiana.

For additional information, please refer to Lou Harry's Web Page.

CJ Henderson
Featured Guest
Author of the Jack Hagee Detective Series

Chris "C.J." Henderson is best known for his hardboiled Jack Hagee detective series and his supernatural detective Teddy London series, as well as many other short stories and novels featuring many characters from Lovecraftian fiction and Kolchak: The Night Stalker, as well as his own. Henderson has written comic books for such companies as Marvel, Eternity, Tekno Comix, Moonstone Books, and Valiant, most notably on Tekno's Neil Gaiman's Lady Justice and Moonstone's Kolchak adaptations.

For additional information, please refer to CJ Henderson's Web Page.

Rosemary Laurey
Featured Guest
Paranormal and Horror Romance Novelist

USA Today Best selling Rosemary Laurey grew up in a Surrey village not unlike Bringham in the Forever Vampires series but minus the vampires and witches. A graduate of the London University and University of Virginia, she taught for many years and on three continents before embarking on a writing career. Her work has received numerous nominations and awards including the PRISM Best of the Best and the Dorothy Parker Award.

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

MagicHouse Productions
Featured Guest
One of the Midwest's premiere motion picture production houses.

Located in Logansport, Indiana, MagicHouse Productions, Inc. is an energetic, up-and-coming company on the verge of becoming one of the midwest's premiere motion picture production houses. With an 8,300 square foot facility at their disposal, they can shoot any size of production, from the modest to the magnificent.

Led by founder Mark Racop, the talented staff writes, designs, builds, shoots, edits, effects, and scores commercials to full-length motion pictures for the silver screen. MagicHouse films movies, documentaries, commercials, music videos, training films, events, and weddings.

For additional information, please refer to MagicHouse Productions's Web Page.

C.S. Marks
Featured Guest
Author and Artist

C.S. Marks has often been described as a "Renaissance woman." The daughter of academic parents, she holds a Ph.D. in Biology and has spent the past two decades teaching Biology and Equine Science. She is currently a Full Professor at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College in west central Indiana. She began writing shortly after the untimely death of her father, who was a Professor of American Literature at Butler University. A gifted artist, she has produced illustrations and cover art for all three books. She plays and sings Celtic music and a few examples of her songwriting may be found within the pages of "Fire-heart." She enjoys archery, and makes hand-crafted longbows using primitive tools. Horses are her passion, and she is an accomplished horsewoman, having competed in the sport of endurance racing for many years. One of only a handful of Americans to complete the prestigious "Tom Quilty" Australian national championship hundred-mile ride, she has described this moment as her "finest hour." She has been happily married for nearly three decades. She and her husband, Jeff, share their home with ten dogs (predominantly Welsh Corgis) and five horses. They live deep in the forest, where there are miles and miles of trail riding to be had.

For additional information, please refer to C.S. Marks's Web Page.

Steven Marsh
Featured Guest
Editor of Pyramid Magazine

Steven Marsh has been the editor of Pyramid Magazine since 2000, and also has writing and editing credits in dozens of gaming products, including TORG, GURPS, WEREWOLF: THE FORSAKEN, and MUTANTS & MASTERMINDS. Although he's been nominated for eight Origins Awards, winning four, his greatest achievement to date has been helping to develop the next generation of gamers with his wife Nikola Vrtis (also a gaming professional); their two-year-old prototype, codenamed Sam, may be destroying something near you right now.

For additional information, please refer to Steven Marsh's Web Page.

Dr. Karen Nagel
Featured Guest
Associate Professor at Midwestern University

Dr. Karen Nagel teaches in the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences at Midwestern University in Downers Grove, IL. When not teaching classes on pharmaceutical dosage forms, history of pharmacy, and biotechnology, she is busy reading fantasy and horror, running, and teaching yoga.

Rob 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 Improbably Research called "Pubmed Goes to the Movies" which compares films and scientific articles that share the same titles.

Tom Smith
Featured Guest
The World's Fastest Filker

For over two decades, Tom Smith, The World's Fastest Filker, has been breaking hearts, crippling minds, and dropping jaws across the country and around the world. One of the most manic people in the history of fandom, Tom can warm or chill your heart at whim and seemingly pull new songs out of the air. He blends comedy, tragedy, dark romance, popular culture, politics, religion, gaming, movie trivia, current events, and the occasional recipe with virtually every genre of music you can imagine. His songs range from the slow and sensual ("Starlight & Saxophone", "Storm Dancing", "Pluto") to the dark and dramatic ("Hellraiser", "PQR", "Dervish") to the sweet and innocent ("A Dragon's Lullaby", "Take Your Hands Off The Bear", "500 Hats") to the flat-out rockin' ("Bermuda Triangle", "Rocket Ride", "And They Say I've Got Talent"). He has written in dozens of musical styles, from Klezmer to opera to Zappa pastiche to gospel choir to hip-hop. But mostly... it's about the puns. The grade-A, hi-test, godawful stinkbombs that make you choke on your own laughter. And the horrifically bad jokes that you can't help but giggle at. And the ludicrous yet somehow plausible situations that you have no idea where that came from. And the audacity with which he throws 'em around. "Smurfin' Safari", "Five Years", "I Want To Be Peter Lorre", "Domino Death", "Sheep Marketing Ploy (The Ballad of Fenton)", "Divine Irregularity", "Telly Taley Heart", "Honey-Glazed Ham", "House At Cthulhu Corner", "Psychic Voicemail Hotline", "Dead Potters", "Badger Pajama", "The Illuminati Polka", "Talk Like A Pirate Day", "Spoiler Alert", "Undead Happy Trees", "Lars Needs Women", "Tech Support For Dad", "Zombie Blues"... And then there's the speed with which he does it. He can make up a ditty about virtually any subject on the spot. He has improvised entire concerts, and can't seem to let ten minutes on stage go by without making up something no one's ever heard before, including him. On top of all that, he's carving out a bit of a niche market -- songs for web sites, especially online comic strips. He's written songs for Accidental Centaurs, Something Positive, Girl Genius, Anthrozine, and a couple of others we can't even talk about yet. So far, Tom's got sixteen albums, fourteen Pegasus Awards for Excellence in Filk, an animated music video ("Enterprising Man" from the second Babylon Park video) and a spot in the Filk Hall of Fame. He's all over the internet -- you can find him at: his home page, his LiveJournal page, his MySpace page, or at The Funny Music Project. Long and short of it: If you have heard him before, you know you've got to be there. If you haven't, check it out, join the party, and live the Myth of Smith!

For additional information, please refer to Tom Smith's Web Page.

Michael West
Featured Guest
Author of the The Wide Game and member of the Indiana Horror Writers.

Michael West is a member of the Horror Writers Association and serves as President of its local chapter, Indiana Horror Writers. He lives and works in the Indianapolis area with his wife, their two children, their bird, Rodan, and turtle, Gamera. His children are convinced that spirits move through the woods near their home.

For additional information, please refer to Michael West's Web Page.

Michael Z. Williamson
Featured Guest
TV consultant and author of 12 novels including Contact with Chaos, Do Unto Others... and Rogue.

Michael Z. Williamson (I have never ever asked what the "Z" stands for and Mike's never been drunk enough in my presence to tell) escaped the People's Democratic but Socially Engineered and Multi-Cultural Monarchy of Great Britain at the worldly-wise age of 7. He then survived an arduous four-year trek through the wastes of eastern Canuckistan to arrive in the United States just in time for the Great Blizzard of 1978, during which he could be seen laughing at Americans who were surprised by the appearance of snow in January. After such an auspicious start, one has to wonder why the Carter-administration-era INS didn't catch a clue and deport him then and there. Fortunately for us, the powers that be in that time frame were debilitated by a bad case of peanut poisoning and Mike was in the USA to stay. I can only imagine the horror that his quick wit and broader-than-average experience with the world wrought during his younger years. So I didn't imagine. I asked. During his school years, Mike was mostly bored, dealing with a forced march through the public school system, victimized by bullies, all in all a fairly standard trip. Except that he was also possessed of a sense of confidence in his own abilities and the kind of hubris that leads an individual to think of something they write as publishable. Hey, c'mon. His first work was a "How to" paper on rocket functionality penned at age 7 on construction paper with marker. It ran to 40 pages before he moved on to a new project. Obviously destined for publication. When he hit 18, Mike upped for active duty service in the Air Force. Guess what? He's still serving. In fact, he finished his latest released work while in a very sandy and uncomfortable foreign country. Because of all his years of military duty that have extended up until now in the Air Guard (and include a six-year detour through the Army Guard), he's gained a keen insight into the day to day workings of one of the most complicated organizations on earth. This shows in how often the military becomes the butt of his jokes that have anything to do with efficiency. Mike and his lovely wife Gail (who is also an Army Guard combat photographer) have two wonderful and charming children: daughter Morrigan (who can beat you down with a stick and a smile and is known as something of a terror in her age group at SCA tourneys) and son Eric (a smiling, tow-headed self-deliverable nuclear energy packet who excels at city planning and urban renewal via Legos and whose kung fu lessons are helping to prevent being beaten down with a stick by his smiling older sister.) All of the Williamsons are heavily armed and should be considered very capable. Yes, even the bloody cats. I met Mike virtually via Baen's Bar sometime during or after 2002. Then I met him in person at SheVaCon (apparently right before it became PaganDrumCon), thus becoming a customer of his cutlery business and a fan of his writing simultaneously via the purchase of a knife and a signed copy of Freehold. I still have both, although the copy of Freehold is a bit rag eared now. Have I mentioned that Mike is the ultimate mercantilist? The pattern of obtaining cash from me for sharp pointy things and books seems to be set in stone now. Could be worse. The knives (and swords) are solid tech and his writing style rocks. Fair dinkum. Feel free to visit SharpPointyThings.com and let him pick your pocket, too. Mike's writing spans several genres (including, apparently, erotica. Not that I've read that particular work, mind you.) He has a notable techno-thriller series under the Target:Terror banner from Avon. Under the Baen logo, he has published a quartet of novels from his Grainne universe (Freehold, The Weapon, Better to Beg Forgiveness, and Contact with Chaos), The Hero written in John Ringo's Legacy of the Aldenata setting, and a short story in the Future Weapons of War anthology. Not satisfied with dominating in mil-SF and techno-thrillers, though, he has also published three fantasy stories in anthologies based out of Misty Lackey's Valdemar universe. Added to all his speculative fiction efforts, though, are his non-fiction articles and commentary that have a broad distribution on the web and in print. All of which proves that the one thing Mike has no trouble with is sharing his opinion, fact or fiction. In fact, he'd run for president but, as a naturalized citizen, it's just more efficient to jump the line straight to dictator. Look for his alternative governance campaign during the 2012 election cycle. In any event, Mike is a man of broad interests both in hobbies and in the world. He can speak with authority on historical re-enactment, fine food and drink, the forging of blades, hand to hand combat of various types, and the pros and cons of the various moral and societal models in use around the world today, in the past, and extend their effects into the future. To the point, someone you can always count on to write an interesting tale or to keep a con party lively. From his King Julien Crown and "Move it! Move it!" chorus to the ease with which he can turn a point, there's never a dull moment when Mike and his clan are around. Darwin Garrison

For additional information, please refer to Michael Z. Williamson's Web Page.

Also Appearing

Hal Ames

Hal teaches creative writing at the high school and college level and has been working on "Galatic Conflicts" for nineteen years; A book that he co-wrote with his son who began the work as an assignment.

Andy Andrews

Andy has been an InConJunction con-chair four times and has appeared in every InConJunction play but one for the last twenty years. He's a former President of the Circle of Janus and is an associate member of First Fandom. He likes to roam the halls of the convention late at night just to see who is up and what's going on. He also thinks peanut butter & jelly sandwiches are an endagered species.

James Barnes

James is the author of "Thief King", a historical fantasy novel. He grew up in the Ohio River Valley region and has been teaching and telling stories most of his life. A father and homeschooling dad, James holds a Masters in Ancient and Classical History, is an amateur archaeologist, and teaches outdoor and historical related courses and writing workshops to students of all ages. James now lives in a small town near Lake Erie with his wife and children where he writes and runs a small publishing company. He is currently working on his second book of Orenck, "Imposter".

For additional information, please refer to James Barnes's Web Page.

Matthew Barron

Biography available soon.

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

Gabrielle Elizabeth Bates

Biography available soon.

Chazz Bennett

Retired, alive, well and acting in films right here in Indiana.

For additional information, please refer to Chazz Bennett's Web Page.

Deanna Blair

Biography available soon.

Mike Bolin

Biography available soon.

For additional information, please refer to Mike Bolin's Web Page.

Mr. Wayne Bowles, Jr.

Biography available soon.

Chuck Budreau

Chuck has been working on independent films for many years. He is a founding member of the MagicHouse Productions crew. Chuck is the co-writer of the soon to be released film Starship 2: Rendezvous with Ramses. The sequel to the 1996 release Rock N Roll Starship. He also doubles as Production Sound Supervisor and wrote the musical score for Rock N Roll Starship. One of the hallmarks of low budget, independent films is that you must ware many hats. Chuck has preformed almost every film job imaginable. Chuck mainly works on Indie films, but has also done commercial and industrial work.

Chuck launched http://IndyFilmNews.com, a website devoted to promoting a working relationship between filmmakers in the Midwest. He is also a voluntary board member of The Indiana Filmmakers Network.

For additional information, please refer to Chuck Budreau's Web Page.

Lynn Budreau

Biography available soon.

David L. Burkhead
Scientist, SF and Fantasy author

David L. Burkhead's most recent story, Her World Exploded was published in the April 2005 issue of Analog Science Fiction and Fact. In addition to his science fiction and fantasy writing, he is a scientist working in Atomic Force Microscopy and has a webcomic, Cold Servings.

For additional information, please refer to David L. Burkhead's Web Page.

Chris Canary

Chris Canary has been a part of InConJunction, from it's "golden age", to modern day. A locally reviled fan of movies, comics, and oddities, and a pope in the Church of the Subgenius, Chris has worn many hats at InConJunction over the last several years, and is currently a student, seeking to better his life. Computer Geek, B-Movie Magnet (Bad... as if there were any other kind of B Movies), Movie Soundtrack Obsessive, and a former InConJunction chairman, Chris enjoys fun in almost any capacity... And we're not just talking alcohol here.

Tracy Canfield
SF Author and Computational Linguist

Tracy Canfield's short story Starship Down won Analog's 2009 Anlab award. She has new stories appearing soon in Analog and in Fantasy Magazine.

She's a computational linguist (think machine translation, search engines, and speech recognition). On a more fannish note, her paper analyzing Alan Moore's fictional Ranagarian language from Swamp Thing will appear soon in an anthology on comics and linguistics, and she's doing research at the Library of Congress on social-class markers in the speech of Golden and Silver Age comics characters.

For additional information, please refer to Tracy Canfield's Web Page.

Jessica Carrico

Biography available soon.

Wendy Carson

Wendy Carson is the future Mrs. Wolowitz. She holds a PhD in Medieval Metaphysics from Miskatonic University. While in attendance, she also attained the title of Official Head Cheerleader. While she was born and raised in Arkansas and Texas, she currently resides in Indianapolis where she is busily plotting the downfall of all mankind through the careful manipulation of numerical data. She is eagerly awaiting the day in the near future when her true sovereignty will be recognized. She is currently accepting applications for minions and has a much better benefits plan than Bad Horse offers so apply today to insure your continued survival in her new world order.

Kate Chaplin
Award-winning writer/director/producer of Karmic Courage Productions.

Named a "Naptown Notable Resident" by Intake Magazine, as well as one of the "most talented writers around today" by the Writer's 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%u2019s latest film project First They Came for%u2026 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 president of the Indy Writers%u2019 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.

Dennis Ciurej

A SF fan since reading Heinlein's Have Space Suit, Will Travel in the first grade, Dennis worked Video at InConJunction 1 where he had his first date with his future wife. He started on the Art Show the following year and helped run it for the next 15 years. Dennis enjoys too many hobbies and goes broke enjoying them.

Lynette R. F. Cowper

Longtime SF fan and gamer, Lynette has been helping out at InConJunction and a member of the Circle of Janus for many years. She is the author of GURPS Rogues and INWO: SubGenius. She also compiled the original FAQ for the Christian Gamers Guild and currently holds the positions of Vice-President and Newsletter Editor in the CoJ. She is married to Mike and mother of Megan and Ren, who are all avid fans as well. This year you can probably find her in the ConSuite pulling out her hair.

Mike Cowper

Mike Cowper is a professional geek. He has been managing the technical side of an Internet Service Provider for over ten years. He is (or at least was when he used to have time) an avid reader of science fiction and fantasy. Mike has been attending InConJunction since 1984 and volunteering since about 1991. He is a past convention chairman and past president of Circle of Janus. He is an amateur actor and has been in many InConJunction plays. He also does game demonstrations for two game companies (Steve Jackson Games and Looney Labs Games) and is very involved with his church (Valley Mills Christian Church).

For additional information, please refer to Mike Cowper's Web Page.

Elizabeth Darvill

Biography available soon.

For additional information, please refer to Elizabeth Darvill's Web Page.

Anjala Dick

Anjala Dick has been a geek for as long as she can remember. Her mother raised her on Star Trek, in music, all the great cartoons of the late 70's and all of the 80's. She was also a choir geek all through school. She also instilled the love of all things geek into her son, Corey.

Anjala attended her first InCon in 2003 or 2004 (she can't remember as she has slept many nights since then). That is when she finally embraced her full geekness.

Anjala is an avid Harry Potter fan, as well as all things Trek and TMNT. She resides in Indianapolis with her husband, Dillan, and their kitty, Emma.

Anjala can be found at her LiveJournal page.

Jesse Dollar

Biography available soon.

Mark Dooley
Founder of The Whoosier Network

Mark C. Dooley is "De Boss" of the Whoosier Network, Indiana's Doctor Who and Sci-Fi Connection. He is a noted columnist, comic book writer and artist, the creator of the comic book and online comic strip THE ACTUAL, SEMI-TRUE ADVENTURES OF MARK AND DEE, ongoing episodes of which can be found at De Boss' Bally Blogspot. He is also the award-winning writer/artist of the satire comic WHOOM COUNTY, mixing the humor of Berkely Breathed's BLOOM COUNTY with the world of DOCTOR WHO. Mark blames his mother for the way he is for exposing him to the Joker in "The Great Joker/Clayface Fued" in Batman comics and letting him stay up to watch horror movies at age 7.

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

James S. Dorr
SF & Horror Author

Short story writer and poet with more than 400 publications, primarily in dark fantasy/horror but also sf, fantasy, mystery, humor. Has two collections (short fiction and poetry) available from Dark Regions Press, Strange Mistresses: Tales of Wonder and Romance and Darker Loves: Tales of Mystery and Regret. Active Member of SFWA and HWA, Anthony (mystery) and Darrell (short fiction set in the US mid-south) finalist, Pushcart Prize nominee, multi-time listee in The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, Rhysling (poetry) finalist, etc. Owner of a very hairy cat named Wednesday.

For additional information, please refer to James S. Dorr's Web Page.

Bryan Edward

Biography available soon.

Jeff Ello

Jeff Ello is equal parts Engineer and Artist. He has found success both on the technical and asthetic sides of the digital world, directing the technology efforts of the top ranked Krannert School of Management at Purdue University, as well as directing the visual efforts of a number of commercial print, web, and video productions, including "Starship II: Rendezvous with Ramses", currently in post production. Jeff is an authority on technology and communication mediums and his philosophy on what's possible in the independent film market is echoed in the name of his production company, MassiveWorks. With the conclusion of the Starship II project, Jeff and MassiveWorks will be back on the indie film scene with the MagicHouse/Sleepless Nights production of "Essentially American".

Judy Eudaly

Judy Eudaly has been attending InConJunction since 1982 and has been Chairbeing twice and Department head of almost every department at one time or another. She is a retired biochemist/belly dancer. Her interests are so varied, it would make your head spin.

Greg Fauverque

Biography available soon.

Chris Gross

As a horror host specializing in black and white and older films in the genre of horror and cult classics, Chris likes to bring back these older films that set design and costumes, with plenty of atmosphere and meaning.

For additional information, please refer to Chris Gross's Web Page.

Scott Hann
Science Fiction/Alternative History Author

Author of The Red Menace, a sci fi/alternative history novel, Scott is a veteran of the US Army and many Christmas Seasons in retail employment. Scott is a Member of the Military Writer's Society of America and the Heinlein Society. He organizes the annual Blood Drive at GenCon Indy for the Heinlein Society. An avid gamer, Scott plays Sci Fi and Horror RPGs (Tabletop) as well as historical wargaming, both figs and tabletop.

For additional information, please refer to Scott Hann's Web Page.

Drew Happli

Drew Happli has over 15 years experience in the computer field, this includes network administration, desktop support, help desk, network design, along with just about anything else you can do with a computer and a few things you most likely shouldn't. Not only does he work on computers, he plays on them too. You are likely to find Drew playing Battlefield 2 (If you see HavenIndy in a vehicle, and are on the other team, stay off the road, sidewalk, or greenways), Battle for Middle Earth 2, Galactic Civilization, Guild Wars or City of Heroes/Villians. Drew also plays non-computer gamees and is the Cell Leader for Indianapolis for Steve Jackson's Men in Black. Other fan interests of note are Comic books (Drew has been collecting comic books for over 20 years), Anime, and Drew is a voracious reader. Drew first attended InConJunction in 1992, and started helping at InConJunction in 1993. So far he has headed A/V, Anime, Programming and Dealers Room.

Ronald Hawkins
Award-winning journalist and author of the Science Fiction Sojourns blog

A Louisville, Kentucky native, Ronald Hawkins is a journalist with more than 30 years experience during which he's won multiple awards. He has written the Indiana Science Fiction Sojourns column and blog for nearly three years. He has been a news editor and staff writer for the Reporter-Times for 5-1/3 years and is a former New York bureau chief for Cable TV Business magazine. His most recent honor was a first place award for watchdog reporting in the first quarter of 2010. He's a lifelong science fiction enthusiast. He made his first appearance as a panelist at InConJunction in 2009.

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

Serra Head

Serra Head is a graduate from Indiana University with a BA in Anthropology. She has more than four years experience in the field of archaeology focusing on human osteology and historical archaeology. She currently works for a museum with their archaeology staff and in their preservation department.

For additional information, please refer to Serra Head's Web Page.

Kathy Hohman

Retired science teacher who has helped with InConJunction, Starbase Indy, numerous international Harry Potter conventions, and the upcoming Twilight convention this month.

Laura Hohman

Laura has been coming to InConJunction and helping out since she was a small child, and has no intention of stopping any time soon. She is from the lovely town of Bloomington, where she is known for her work with bats. She's the Regional Director of Hoosier Hills Bat World, rescuing sick, injured, or orphaned bats and giving educational programs whenever she can. Currently, Laura is pursuing a Ph.D. in Ecology at Indiana State University with the Center for North American Bat Research and Conservation.

Johannah Hupp-Clark

Biography available soon.

Andrew Zimmerman Jones

Biography available soon.

Melissa Kocias

Melissa Kocias is a conference and meeting planner by day, part-time bellydancer and samurai Avon lady by night. (Trust her - she's a professional!) When she's not managing the registration for dozens of conventions (or out saving the world), she is working on getting published in something other than a textbook or a peer-reviewed journal.

She has been a fan of science fiction ever since the neighbor kids across the street let her play with their Star Wars action figures in 1980. She sometimes has to play the You Took Me To See The Wrath of Khan In The Theaters When It First Came Out card when her mother, who is clearly a closet Trekkie, pooh-poohs any involvement in Melissa's lifelong pursuit of getting to use a functioning transporter.

Upon entering graduate school for the second time, Melissa turned the lens outward, and began studying fans and fan behavior. She did an ethnographic study of some Klingon groups, and has promised, after suffering one too many Dian Fossey jokes, that her eventual publication of the experience will be called, Klingons in the Mist.

Timothy Lane
Editor of FOSFAX Fanzine

Louisville fan Timothy Lane graduated from Purdue with a degree in computer science,which doesn't prevent occasional bursts of Ludditism. He found his fannish calling 20 years ago as editor of FOSFAX, which has collected 7 Hugo nominations for Best Fanzine (though never coming close to winning). He has served on panels on a wide variety of subjects at several worldcons, and he and coeditor Elizabeth Garrott were Fan GOHs at Windycon in 1997.

Jayron Latifi

Biography available soon.

Tom Lee

Tom Lee is a roleplayer who has run limited-duration games and multi-year campaigns. He has done voice acting for a few small productions. He has sung with an a capella madrigal group and played recorder with a medieval dance band. He is also a fan of Doctor Who, Star Trek (TOS is still the best), Larry Niven and H.P. Lovecraft. He has an MS in physics and works as a computer systems administrator. He is married to TammyJo Eckhart and lives in Bloomington, Indiana.

Loyette Leslie

Loyette wanted to be an actor when she grew up, and now at the tender age of 67 she's finally making her dream come true right here in Indiana

For additional information, please refer to Loyette Leslie's Web Page.

Sylvia Malkemus

Biography available soon.

Sean McConnell

Biography available soon.

Lisa Meece

Lisa Meece has been teaching yoga in Indianapolis for six years to geeks and non-geeks alike. Her essays about the practice of yoga can be found on the articles page at allpeopleyoga.com. She has been a geek her whole life.

For additional information, please refer to Lisa Meece's Web Page.

David Michel, III

David Michel has been a movie enthusiast for as long as he can remember. He has written and narrated many stories over the years, and recently been getting paid for his talent.

Amy Page

Biography available soon.

Gary Plumlee

Biography available soon.

Randy Porter

Randy has been a Gen Con regular since 1979 working for several different companies in the dealers room. When he's not a booth monkey, Randy is also the official historian and Keeper of the Ancient Gencon Lore. Randy is also a knowledgeable space historian in what litle free time he has.

For additional information, please refer to Randy Porter's Web Page.

Christine Pyatt

Biography available soon.

Mark Racop
Director, Writer, and Producer

The filmmaking bug bit Mark Racop at an early age. Racop's father remembers that Mark was interested in making movies even at the age of two! While other children were reading short stories, Racop was reading Stephen Whitfield's "Making of Star Trek."

In 1989, Racop formed MagicHouse Productions, and he raised money to shoot the ultra-low budget, ultra spoof, "Rock N Roll Starship." The movie featured cheesy sets, cheesy dialogue, and cheesy acting "but it was all part of the plan. We watched Dark Star and Hardware Wars on the same night," Racop said, "And Starship was the result!" The campy, funny film has played to science fiction audiences across the country, and he self distributed over 1,000 copies on VHS.

The success of the first film brought about a demand for a sequel. "Starship 2" was greenlighted in October of 2000, and went before the cameras on May 19th, 2001. The movie was a radical step up from the original film, featuring great actors John Astin, Richard Biggs, Jason Carter, Richard Hatch, and Leslie Culton? and a tightly-written script with a great story. Shooting wrapped in August of 2001, but special effects continued for another five years. "It was tough waiting on the effects, but the results were well worth it. Massive Works blew me completely away with the quality of the finished product."

In May of 2004, Racop bought an 8,300 square foot facility in Logansport, Indiana that he is converting into a movie studio. With two sound stages, makeup, wardrobe, editing, a paint booth, and plenty of office space, Racop will be able to accommodate many feature films.

Racop is currently developing a spy thriller called "Plausible Deniability" for production in 2006.

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

Eric Ridge

Eric has worked as a part of the production crew on a string of independent movies including "Starship 2", "Coma Care", "Incredible Fire", "Star Wars", and "Shadows". He's also been a part of the documentary "The Biggs and Carter Experience".

Kat Robertson

Conchair InConJunction 30, Steve Jackson MIB, Looney Lab Rabbit, and pagan priestess.

Alec Rollison

Alec Rollison, 13, is the son of Doug and Tracey Rollison. He's a compendium of information on mythology, Lord of the Rings, Lost, Star Wars, and all kinds of games (especially if it can be modded). He likes to find glitches in games that no one has found and posts them to his Youtube channel, megagamerdude. Alec, 13, is homeschooled and hopes to become a nuclear physicist or chemist, most recently participating in a gamma radiation workshop at the PUR1 reactor.

Tracey Rollison

Tracey Rollison is a serial information junkie, freelance writer, and web designer. She designs, develops and writes at KnowABit.com; designs and runs GoodLifeMenus.com; is launching Blue Newt WebDesign, sings/screams in a band, and is a homeschooling ballet/football mom of three. She's also married to The Duct Tape Blacksmith. When she has free time, she breathes and sometimes sleeps.

For additional information, please refer to Tracey Rollison's Web Page.

Michael Roney, Jr.

Professional Klingon translator and webOS developer Michael is responsible for the Sophos Klingon anti-virus as well as the Klingon translation of the Jenolan Caves audio tour. He has also released several Klingon and Trek themed webOS apps into the Palm App Catalog.

For additional information, please refer to Michael Roney, Jr.'s Web Page.

Andy Sams

Biography available soon.

Mark A. Schmidt
MIB Control for Steve Jackson Games

Gamer and GM since 1976, Mark has been a volunteer and contractor for Steve Jackson Games for nearly a decade. In his free time he's a cook, husband, dad, writer, and editor. Mark makes his own mead and chili powder, roasts coffee, and generally tries new things in the kitchen. He is rumored to have escaped from the IT industry.

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

Erica Seiffert

Biography available soon.

For additional information, please refer to Erica Seiffert's Web Page.

Joe Sexton

Biography available soon.

Mark Shidler

Mark is pretty much a fixture at InConJunction and has been for years. (Not that he is old or anything.) He is a master costumer and prop builder and a member of Fyberdyne Laboratories, a Midwest costuming group known for elaborate costume work. He has been a fan for most of his life, and has been fortunate enough to be called to Hollywood to do some props for television and movies. He is currently collaborating on the production of Batmobile replicas, and manages to find time to restore historical props for collectors such as the Gort helmet from “The Day The Earth Stood Still”.

Theresa Shidler

Theresa was brought into fandom kicking and screaming and not understanding why anyone would do this type of thing… that is, until she attended her first convention. Needless to say, that was 15 years ago and she is still showing up and enjoying conventions. She has been a committee member for InConJunction for the last several years and is taking a vacation from all that real work this year.

Kevin Spencer
Battlestar Wiki Bureaucrat

Kevin H. Spencer is a computer technician and past guest/panelist at InConjunction. He has served as panelists at other conventions in the tri-state area and enjoys talks on philosophy and religion in science fiction. Kevin is particularly versed in the "Battlestar Galactica" and "The Matrix" universes and will talk your ears off if you approach him on these subjects. Kevin is hard at work on a book series that mixes a little history with the fall of mankind (yeah, you've heard it before).

For additional information, please refer to Kevin Spencer's Web Page.

Dr. Wolfgang Spendel, Ph. D.

Dr. Wolfgang Spendel is experienced in developing emerging science knowledge to create new products and applied technologies. He constructively challenged the status quo to find solutions to improve products, invent products, and overcome manufacturing limitations (he holds 11 patents). He earned a Ph. D. in physical chemistry and has gone interdisciplinary ever since. To overcome technical challenges he developed expertise in surface chemistry, system science, material science, artificial intelligence, biology, engineering, markets, and cognition. His current research and development effort is in applied nanotechnology. Wolf is a cofounder of two startup companies, one focused on speeding up market introduction of recent scientific advances, the other working to commercialize a technology for growing nanoparticles inside polymers.

His personal interest is to strengthen science and increase public understanding of how science works.

Rick Starets

Many years of professional acting waned as Rick became involved with his "real life people job". Now retired, Rick incorporate both worlds, hopefully to the enjoyment of those around him.

For additional information, please refer to Rick Starets's Web Page.

George Starkey

George Starkey (1963-2138) local fan turned actor, and long time InConJunction participant, is cursed with a resemblence to George Lucas, but as of yet has been unable to find a way to capitalize on this. George's film roles include Woodworks Films' Saving Star Wars (2004), Open Mic'rs (2006) and Pitching Lucas (2006) with Shane Felux (of Star Wars-Revelations fame). George is often named when someone says, "If I'm ever on Who Wants to be a Millionaire..." as a lifeline, because of his seemingly bottomless well of totally pointless and obscure trivia that he can summon at any given time.

For additional information, please refer to George Starkey's Web Page.

Mike Suess

Mike Suess has been a long time attendee at InConJunction. His father first introduced him to Incon in it's first or second year and he has been attending on his own since 1983. He enjoys science and science fiction as well as a little fantasy not only in what he reads but also in what he sees on television and in the movies. His interests also include collecting (go and ask him what), reading comics, and an ever-growing DVD collection.

Jeff Thompson

With a list of qualifications including (but not limited to) b-movie maven, sub-genius 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 con-chair, 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 Sub-Genius 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.

Kathie Thompson

Never thinking of herself as a Sci-fi fan in ANY way, shape, or form before 1988, Kathie has come a long way learning and participating in the local Sci-fi community. The first two years she attended InConJunction no one even knew Kathie's name, referring to her simply as "Jeff's Wife". Since her first InConJunction in 1988 Kathie has been a stage manager, ran programming, ran the consuite, ran registration (her true calling), was the hotel liaison for many years, is running the blood drive, and was even co-conchair (with her husband Jeff) in 1997. There were several years when Kathie was running registration for StarBase Indy in November and organizing may other departments for InConJunction, all while holding down the role of treasurer for the Circle of Janus and InConJunction. Kathie introduced the first "genetically altered tribbles" to InConJunction and after her husband recovered from the vet, food, and furniture repair bills due to those 8 kittens, she realized it was time to call in the professionals and invited Cat's Haven to do the job at both Starbase Indy and InConJunction.

Suzanne Vachet

Biography available soon.

David Vail

Biography available soon.

Wax Chaotic

Katt McConnell is a student pursuing a Bachelors in Media Arts and Sciences in the School of Informatics at IUPUI. Aside from spending two years each in middle and high school in choir, Katt had one semester of formal vocal training at IUPUI. Otherwise, she is an entirely self-taught vocalist. She is primarily a singer-songwriter, though she does dabble in percussion and is a student guitarist. Her music of choice is filk, but she's also been known to dabble in everything from rock to metal. Katt lives on the north side of Indianapolis, Indiana with her husband and three cats.

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

Judith Weldon

Biography available soon.

Mike Wickliff

Biography available soon.

Crystal Wolf
Folk and filk songwriter

Crystal is a scifi fan and wannabe writer from Indianapolis, IN who commits drive-by bloggings almost daily at MoonstoneWolf.com.

For additional information, please refer to Crystal Wolf's Web Page.

Stephen Zimmer
Award-winning fantasy author and independent filmmaker

Stephen Zimmer is an author and filmmaker based in Lexington, Kentucky.

As a fantasy author, Stephen has two series underway. The Exodus Gate, Book One of the Rising Dawn Saga, is a modern epic fantasy, which was released by Seventh Star Press in the spring of 2009. The book was a nominee for a 2009 Pluto Award, and all versions featured cover art and illustrations by fantasy artist Matthew Perry. Book two in the series is scheduled for a June 2010 release. Crown of Vengeance, Book One of the Fires in Eden series, is an epic medieval fantasy that was released in the fall of 2009. As with The Exodus Gate, Crown of Vengeance featured cover art and illustrations from Matthew Perry.

As a filmmaker, Stephen's debut feature as a writer-director was the supernatural thriller/modern fantasy Shadows Light. The film was a nominee for best feature at the Fright Night Film Fest in Louisville in 2009, and received both a North American DVD distribution deal, as well as an extensive video on demand deal on cable and satellite systems. The Sirens, a 30 minute horror short that Stephen wrote and directed, appeared on Indie Movie Masters' Festival of Horrors Vol. 1 DVD, which also received a video on demand deal in the USA and Canada.

Stephen also does blogs and podcasts spotlighting authors, filmmakers, and publishers.

For additional information, please refer to Stephen Zimmer's Web Page.

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