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FEATURED GUESTS
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Currently there are 207 Guests & Performers confirmed for 2012.
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Lynn Abbey
Lynn Abbey has written SF and Fantasy novels since 1978. CJ Cherryh, Jane Fancher, and she formed Closed-Circle.net where their works are available in digital editions. Abbey says she write fantasies because when her imagination gets going, it's full of magic, intrigue and the colors of a stained-glass window. »Pete Abrams
Pete Abrams is the creator of the highly addictive niftiness that is Sluggy Freelance, a daily online comic strip that's been appearing since August 25, 1997.
Aaron Allston
New York Times bestselling novelist Aaron Allston is an author of science fiction, fantasy, and horror. Best known for his work in the Star Wars Expanded Universe, he has written 22 novels. The most recent of them, Star Wars: X-Wing: Mercy Kill, debuted this August.
Tony Amendola
Tony Amendola is best known for his recurring role as the Jaffa master Bra'tac in Stargate SG-1. He can also be seen in ABC's hit show Once Upon a Time playing Geppetto/Marco. Lou Anders
Lou Anders is the Hugo Award winning editorial director of Pyr Books (www.pyrsf.com), as well as a Chesley Award winning art director. He is the World Fantasy, Locus, Shirley Jackson and Philip K. Dick award nominated editor of nine critically-acclaimed anthologies.
Kevin J. Anderson
Kevin J Anderson, the #1 international bestselling author of nearly a hundred novels, is best known for his Dune novels coauthored with Brian Herbert, his Star Wars and X-Files novels, and his Saga of Seven Suns series.
»Aaron Ashmore
Aaron Ashmore is perhaps best known for his roles in American TV shows, as Jimmy Olsen in Smallville and as Steve Jinks in Warehouse 13.
Ed Asner
Ed Asner is an American film, television, stage, and voice actor and former president of the Screen Actors Guild, primarily known for his Emmy Award-winning role as Lou Grant on both The Mary Tyler Moore Show and its spin-off series, Lou Grant. In 2009, he starred as the voice of Carl Fredricksen in Pixar's award-winning animated film, Up.
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Adam Baldwin
Baldwin has an impressive range of over 60 feature film roles in his career so far. His most recent success has been Chuck for NBC. Baldwin is also known widely for his role as Jayne Cobb in Joss Whedon's Firefly. Philippa Jane Ballantine
Philippa is the author of the Books of the Order series with Ace (Geist and Spectyr out now), and also the co-author of the Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences series with Tee Morris. In June 2012 her Shifted World series with Pyr Books, begins with the first book Hunter and Fox.
Jamie Bamber
Jamie Bamber is a British actor known most widely for his roles as Lee Adama on Battlestar Galactica and Detective Sergeant Matt Devlin on the ITV series Law & Order: UK.
Ryan Benjamin
Ryan Benjamin is a comic book artist/illustrator/3D artist known for his work on WildCats, X-Men, Star Wars, Spawn, Captain America, Iron Man, Batman Beyond, and many more. Amber Benson
Amber Benson is an actor, filmmaker and novelist. Best known for her work as Tara Maclay on Buffy The Vampire Slayer, she’s the author of the Calliope Reaper-Jones series and the children’s ghost story, Among The Ghosts. She is also the co-director the feature film, Drones. Bruce Boxleitner
Bruce Boxleitner is an American actor and science fiction writer. He is best known for his leading roles in the television series How the West Was Won, Bring 'Em Back Alive, Scarecrow and Mrs. King (with Kate Jackson), and Babylon 5. Dr. John E. Bradford
Dr. Bradford is President of SpaceWorks Engineering in Atlanta. His expertise is in systems integration, multidisciplinary optimization, and power/propulsion for future space concepts. Recent projects have included heavy-lift configuration options for NASA’s SLS, Air Force support on Reusable Booster System demonstrator, and designs for NASA-AFRL Joint Systems Study. Jennie Breeden
Jennie Breeden is the creator of the online journal comic The Devil's Panties.
Mike Brotherton
Mike Brotherton is a hard science fiction writer and author of Star Dragon and Spider Star. He is also a professional astronomer at the University of Wyoming and runs the Launch Pad workshop. See his blog at www.mikebrotherton.com.
Jason Bulmahn
Jason Bulmahn is the Lead Designer of Paizo Publishing, LLC and the designer of the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game, as well as a number of award winning RPG supplements.
»James Burns
James Burns specializes in autobiographical and political comics. He has lectured internationally about comics, politics, and the nexus between the two.
Laura A. Burns
Laura Burns has been a contract engineer on NASA missions since 1998. She spent the summer of 2007 in Beijing at the International Space University and has returned to ISU as a Guest Lecturer. She is the head of the Parsec Awards Steering Committee and has lent her voice to several podcasts.
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Leslie Carrara-Rudolph
Leslie Carrara-Rudolph is best known for her work on Sesame Street as Abby Cadabby (Emmy Nominated). Other TV shows include Muppets Tonight, Johnny and the Sprites. Her film credits include Forgetting Sarah Marshal and the new Muppet Movie. Gail Carriger
\New York Times Bestselling author Gail Carriger writes comedic steampunk mixed with urbane fantasy. Her debut novel, Soulless, won the ALA's Alex Award. The following books in her Parasol Protectorate series were all bestsellers. She is a professional archeologist and overly fond of tea. Keu Cha
Keu Cha received his big break into comics at Top Cow Productions as a background artist and eventually debuted as penciller on Rising Stars.
Garry Chalk
Garry Chalk has appeared in shows such as Cold Squad, Stargate SG1, The Outer Limits, and Transformers. Recently, he filmed Psych, and J.J. Abrams' Alcatraz. Garry just landed a role in the movie Big Time Rush Movie. He is currently appearing in AMC'S hit The Killing. A. C. Charania
Mr. A.C. Charania is President of SpaceWorks Commercial, an aerospace consultancy focusing on entrepreneurial and international space. He is also currently the CEO of Generation Orbit Launch Services, Inc. (a nanosatellite launch company). He has more than a decade of experience developing new U.S. and international aerospace projects. Cheeks
Husbands co-creator, Brad Bell, built a brand as multimedia entertainer "Cheeks," before joining VH1's Pop Up Video as Consulting Producer. Writing, producing, and performing comedy and music, "Cheeks" combines creative talent and social media savvy to broaden his dedicated fan base.
»David Cherry
David A. Cherry is an award winning fantasy and science fiction artist/illustrator, skilled in traditional and digital media, both 2D and 3D. He is past president of ASFA. His work includes about everything from book and magazine covers to game box covers to 3D game assets in Halo Wars. Cinda Williams Chima
Cinda Williams Chima authored two best-selling YA fantasy series: The Heir Chronicles (The Warrior Heir, The Wizard Heir, The Dragon Heir) with two more forthcoming; and the Seven Realms series (The Demon King, The Exiled Queen, and The Gray Wolf Throne) with The Crimson Crown forthcoming.
Mike Choi
Michael Choi is a comic book artist known for his work on books such as Witchblade, X-23, and X-Force. Freddy Clements
Freddy Clements is Professor of Drama and Faculty Costume Designer at Jacksonville State University. He has designed costumes for some of the most renowned theaters in America. On the university level, he has taught courses in costume design, costume construction, and advanced stage make-up.
Dave Cook
Local artist Dave Cook has been a fixture in the Atlanta horror market for over 20 years. He has been a Dragon*Con guest for over 10 years with his fan favorite Zombie Portraits and art prints. Best known for his work with clients like Netherworld Haunted House and The Atlanta Roller Girls.
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Jeremy Dale
Jeremy Dale is a comic book artist best known for his work on Marvel KaPow, G.I. Joe, creator-owned Skyward, Miserable Dastards, and many more.
Kathleen O'Shea David
Kathleen O'Shea David is a professional puppeteer, a master costumer, a book editor, and published writer. She is a member of the Puppeteers Guild, UNIMA-USA, Actors' Equity, and the International Costumers Guild. Her puppets are in private collections and museums all over the world.
Peter David
Peter David is a New York Times bestselling author. Keith R.A. DeCandido
Keith R.A. DeCandido is the Grandmaster Award-winning author of dozens of media tie-in novels, stories, and comics (Star Trek, Serenity, Farscape, Buffy, Supernatural, Leverage, etc.), as well as fantastical police procedurals (Goblin Precinct, SCPD: The Case of the Claw) and tons more. www.decandido.net
Kevin Dockery
Kevin Dockery has written or contributed to 39 books, numerous magazine articles, and appears on PBS, the History Channel, Discovery Channel, and Military Channel. His additional work has been with weapons, as a gunsmith, consultant, or in the U.S. Military. He holds a patent on a round of 40mm ammunition.
Michael Dorn
Michael Dorn donned mounds of facial makeup for what was to be his signature role: the U.S.S. Enterprise's Klingon officer Lt. Worf on Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987-1994). Michael reprised his role of Worf on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1995-1999). Mark Dos Santos
Mark Dos Santos has worked in comics on titles such as Western Tales of Terror, Monkey vs Lemur, Grimm Fairy Tales, Fall of Cthulhu, Eureka, IT! The Terror from Beyond Space and The Book of Five Rings. His work can also be seen on Marvel Sketch Cards from Rittenhouse Archives.
Carole Nelson Douglas
Carole Nelson Douglas’s 57 novels include bestselling high and urban fantasy series. Delilah Street, Paranormal Investigator, prowls a wildly reinvented Vegasverse and feline PI Midnight Louie fronts 24 mystery novels. A multi-genre award-winner, she was the first author to use a Sherlockian woman protagonist, Irene Adler.
Elonka Dunin
Elonka Dunin is a professional game developer, writer, and cryptographer. A leading expert on the world's most famous unsolved codes, such as Kryptos at CIA Headquarters, she is also namesake for the "Nola Kaye" character in Dan Brown's bestselling novel The Lost Symbol. Kenton Duty
Kenton Duty is an American actor and singer. He is best known for his recurring role as "Young Jacob" on the final season of the ABC primetime drama, Lost, and for his co-starring role as the flamboyant European exchange student, Gunther Hessenheffer on the Disney Channel comedy series, Shake It Up!.
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Gigi Edgley
Gigi recently finished starring on the hit series Rescue Special Ops as Lara Knight. She is an Australian actress who stole the hearts of sci-fi enthusiasts with her role as Chiana on Farscape, a cult science fiction TV show by The Jim Henson Company.
Mark Edward
Mark Edward is a professional mentalist who specializes in magic of the mind. As one of only five specially chosen and trained mediums in the history of the Magic Castle, he has performed seances that helped him perfect the role of spirit medium and psychic entertainer.
Nelsan Ellis
Nelsan Ellis is an award-winning American film and television actor and playwright, perhaps best known as Lafayette Reynolds on HBO's True Blood. Cary Elwes
Cary Elwes is known for his role as Westley in the cult classic The Princess Bride and for his role as Dr. Lawrence Gordon in Saw. Annie Erskine
Annie Erskine is a cartoonist, comic book artist, illustrator, writer, graphic designer, etc. Currently, Erskine does freelance illustrative work for Cartoon Network and is working on her own comic book creation, Magia High.
Jane Espenson
Jane Espenson has written for Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Firefly, The O.C., Gilmore Girls, Dollhouse, Battlestar Galactica, Caprica, Game of Thrones, and Torchwood: Miracle Day among other series. She currently writes for ABC's Once Upon A Time, and is co-creator of the web series Husbands.
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Bill Fawcett
Bill is a founder of Mayfair Games, a board and role play gaming company and designed award winning board games and role playing modules. He has designed computer games and co-authored several novels. His company Bill Fawcett & Associates has packaged over 350 books. Bill has edited or co-edited over 50 anthologies. Colin Ferguson
Colin Ferguson is a Canadian actor. He currently stars as the lead in Eureka, a SyFy channel series that began broadcasting in 2006. Ferguson was a member of the Montreal improv group On the Spot, as well as a founding member of The Second City in Detroit MI
Joe Flanigan
Joe Flanigan is an American television actor best known as Major/Lt. Colonel John Sheppard in Stargate Atlantis. John L. Flynn
Dr. John Flynn has written 13 books, 2 screenplays and many short stories. He is a member of the Science Fiction Writers of America, and has been nominated for three Hugo awards.
Eugie Foster
Eugie Foster received the 2009 Nebula Award for Best Novelette and was named Bards and Sages Author of the Year. She has also been nominated for the Hugo, BSFA, and WSFA awards. Her publication credits number over 100, and her short story collection, Returning My Sister's Face, is now available from Norilana Books. Jonathan Frakes
Jonathan Frakes is best known for his portrayal of Commander William Riker in the television series <i>Star Trek: The Next Generation</i>. David Franklin
David Franklin is best known to Sci-Fi/Fantasy fans as the consummate Peacekeeper officer Captain Braca on Farscape. Another memorable role is that of Brutus in seasons 4 and 5 of Xena Warrior Princess. He played Heat Blast in Ben-10: Race Against Time. Chandra Free
Chandra Free is the artist/writer/creator behind the dark fantasy graphic novel series, The God Machine. She’s also an illustrator on other books like Fraggle Rock, Conspiracy of the Planet of the Apes, and the Graphic Cannon. You can find her work at spookychan.com
Stanton Friedman
Stanton T. Friedman is a physicist, lecturer, and professional Ufologist. Mira Furlan
Mira Furlan is best known to the American audience for her role as Ambassador Delenn in the Warner Bros. TV-series Babylon 5 and as Danielle Rousseau in the the ABC hit series Lost.
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Andrew E.C. Gaska
Andrew E.C. Gaska is the creator of the sci-fi graphic novel series Critical Millennium from Archaia Entertainment. He founded the guerrilla studio BLAM! Ventures in 2003, and is author/creative director of the Space:1999 revival comic/multimedia series, and the upcoming Illustrated Novel Conspiracy of the Planet of the Apes.
Josh Gates
Josh Gates is an American adventurer, explorer, photographer, and television personality. He is currently the host of Destination Truth on Syfy, a weekly one-hour show filmed in remote locations around the world that explores some of the world's mysteries and unexplained phenomena. Dr. Pamela L. Gay
Dr. Pamela L. Gay is an astronomer, writer, and podcaster focused on using technology to engage people in science. Each week, she and Fraser Cain take Astronomy Cast listeners on a facts-based journey through the cosmos. She's also behind the CosmoQuest citizen science project and blogs at StarStryder.com. Geeky Pinups
Timothy Oliver is a professional Photographer and Graphic Illustrator specializing in classic Pinups in Geeky genres.
Gil Gerard
Gil Gerard is best-known to SF audiences as Capt. William "Buck" Rogers in the SF TV series, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century. His other roles include several movie and TV series appearances. Justin Gerard
Justin is an artist and illustrator. Justin contributes articles to visual design magazines such as ImagineFX and to blogs such as Muddycolors. His work has won several awards including an Ippy Award for his work in Beowulf, Book 1, Grendel the Ghastly, and a Chelsey Award. David Gerrold
Author of The Trouble With Tribbles, The Martian Child, The War Against The Chtorr, The Star Wolf, Jumping Off The Planet, as well as numerous episodes of Twilight Zone, Star Trek, Land of the Lost and other TV series.
Steve Gonsalves
Steve Gonsalves has been on the Paranormal television circuit for close to 5 years on the wildly popular Sci-Fi hit show Ghost Hunters. »Michael Gordon
Michael Gordon is the Editor-in-Chief of New Legend Productions, publisher of Crypto Zo comic and the new Invisible Scarlet O'Neil graphic novel. He is also the creator of Tiki Zombie and co-host of the Earth Station One podcast.
Chris Gore
Chris Gore is a comedian and writer who appears on G4TV's Attack of the Show. He is the creator of two upcoming animated series -- The Last Guys on Earth and the stop-motion adult comedy FetishVIL. His wildly popular podcast is PodCRASH with That Chris Gore and is available on iTunes. Chris loves Batman, zombies and long walks on his back. Dr. Stephen Granade
Stephen Granade is a physicist specializing in robotic systems and space-based sensors. His sensors have flown in space, controlled robot-flown helicopters, and guided the shuttle to the Hubble Space Telescope. He has provided scientific commentary for FoxNews.com and CBS Marketwatch, and has won awards for presentations to non-scientist audiences.
Erin Gray
Erin Gray is an American actress, perhaps best known for her roles as Kate Summers in the situation comedy Silver Spoons and as Colonel Wilma Deering in the science fiction television series Buck Rogers in the 25th Century. Kevin R. Grazier
Dr. Kevin R. Grazier is a writer-producer and planetary physicist who spent 15 years on the Cassini Mission to Saturn and Titan. He is also the science advisor for TNT's Falling Skies and the upcoming SyFy Channel series Defiance. He co-authored The Science of Battlestar Galactica. D. J. Grothe
D.J. Grothe is President of the James Randi Educational Foundation, an organization that exposes charlatans and helps people defend themselves from paranormal and pseudoscientific frauds. Formerly a professional magician, he has interests in the psychology of belief and processes of deception. He hosts the popular podcast For Good Reason.
Rosemary Ellen Guiley
Rosemary Ellen Guiley is a leading expert on the paranormal. She conducts ground-breaking field investigations of entity contact experiences, spirit communications, and hauntings. She has written more than 50 books on a wide range of paranormal topics. Guiley lectures, appears in documentaries, and has her own radio show, Strange Dimensions.
Daxiong Guo
Daxiong is the first comic book artist in China and has published over 100 books in Asia becoming the most well known comic artist and creator in China. He illustrated 3 books with Solei Publishing, in the US has worked on Star Wars, Justice League America, and Fringe for DC, Dark Horse, IDW.
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Anthony Michael Hall
Anthony Michael Hall, star of Vacation, Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club, Weird Science, The Dead Zone, and The Dark Knight. Laurell K. Hamilton
Laurell K. Hamilton's writing is characterized by vivid prose, erotic sensuality, complex character and world building. Laurell K Hamilton is a regular on the New York Times Bestseller List with both her series: Anita Blake -Vampire Hunter and Meredith Gentry - Fairy Princess/Private Eye series. A. J. Hartley
A.J. Hartley is the international bestselling author of 8 novels including Will Power, one of 2010's best sci-fi/fantasy books according to Kirkus Reviews, the Darwen Arkwright children's fantasy series and Macbeth, a Novel. He's a Shakespeare Professor and writes for www.magicalwords.net.
Richard Hatch
Internationally known Actor, writer and director Richard Hatch starred as the original Capt Apollo in 1978 and Tom Zarek in the re-imagined Battlestar Galectica series and has written 7 Battlestar Galectica novels for I-books, edited So Say We All, and written several Battlestar Galectica comics. Additionally, he starred in the movie Inalienable.
Gary Kim Hayes
Gary Kim Hayes was Managing Editor of the science fiction magazine Critical Mass, and is a multi-award winner for his short fiction. Recent stories appear in Night Terrors II, Black Gate Books: eSsassins, Dark Moon Digest Presents: Zombies, and Zombiesque from DAW books.
Virginia Hey
Virginia Hey is an Australian actress who moved into natural therapies, meditation & perfume/candle design. Her acting career began following a successful modeling career, where she was spotted by casting directors for Road Warrior. Virginia went on to achieve worldwide recognition for her portrayal of Zhaan in Farscape.
Torri Higginson
Torri Higginson is a Canadian actressbest known for her roles in the TekWar movies and series, The English Patient, Bliss, and Stargate Atlantis.
Robin Hobb
Robin Hobb is the author of The Farseer Trilogy, The Liveship Traders Trilogy, and The Tawny Man Trilogy. She also writes as Megan Lindholm (Wizard of the Pigeons, Windsingers, and Cloven Hooves). Her short fiction has won the Asimov’s Readers’ Award and been finalists for both the Nebula and Hugo awards.
»Bill Holbrook
Bill Holbrook produces three daily comic strips: the internationally syndicated On the Fastrack, Safe Havens and the pioneering webcomic Kevin & Kell which is the longest continuously running strip online.
Nancy L. Holder
New York Times bestselling, multiple award-winning author Nancy Holder has sold 80 novels and 200 short stories and articles. She writes tie-in material for Buffy, Teen Wolf, Angel, Smallville, and many other ‘verses. She’s sold three young adult dark fantasy series with Debbie Viguié; Wicked, Crusade, and Wolf Springs Chronicles.
Richard Horvitz
Richard Horvitz is an American actor/voice actor best known as the voice Zim from the Nickelodeon cartoon Invader Zim. He is also the voice of the original Alpha 5 in Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, Billy in The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy, Daggett in The Angry Beavers, and many others! Anson I Hunter
Anson Hunter is a young, charasmatic comic and animation artist who has recently completed an internship with Disney. In addition, he's the creator of clever web comic 2/3 Dead, which has garnered a decent 50,000+ fan base. In addition, Anson is a Dragon*Con vet and 2011 Digital Gaming Staff Member.
Faith Hunter
Faith Hunter writes the urban fantasy Skinwalker series, featuring Jane Yellowrock. The series includes Skinwalker, Blood Cross, Mercy Blade, Raven Cursed, and Death's Rival in 2012. The Rogue Mage series features Thorn St. Croix. The series includes Bloodring, Seraphs, Host, and the Rogue Mage RPG and World Book; a stone mage in a post-apocalyptic, alternate reality.
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»Grant Imahara
Grant Imahara is one of the hosts of Mythbusters on the Discovery Channel, where they use science to prove or disprove urban legends. He is a former ILM special effects artist who has worked on numerous films including the Star Wars prequels, Galaxy Quest and The Matrix Reloaded and Revolutions.
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D.B. Jackson
D.B. Jackson, who also writes as David B. Coe, is the award-winning author of a dozen novels and several short stories. Thieftaker, the first volume of Jackson’s Thieftaker Chronicles, has just been released by Tor Books. Volume II, Thieves' Quarry will be released in 2013.
Georges Jeanty
With such titles as Bishop the Last X-Man, Gambit, Weapon X and Deadpool for Marvel and Superman, Superboy, Wonder Woman, and Green Lantern for DC in his portfolio, This Miami native who now calls Atlanta home has acumulated an impressive run in comics.
»Van Jensen
Van Jensen is the author of the critically acclaimed graphic novel series Pinocchio, Vampire Slayer. A magazine editor by day, Jensen also is the author of Snow White: Through a Glass, Darkly. He lives in Decatur, Ga.
Les Johnson
Les is Deputy Manager for NASA’s Advanced Concepts Office; coauthor of three popular science books; coauthor of two SF books from Baen; technical consultant for the movie, Lost in Space; to appear on NatGeo’s Evacuate Earth in 2012; appeared with Michio Kaku’s in Physics of the Impossible. Zack "Jick" Johnson
Zack Johnson is the creator of the popular web-based multiplayer role-playing game The Kingdom of Loathing.
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Bill Keel
Astronomer Bill Keel, author of The Sky at Einstein's Feet and The Road to Galaxy Formation, has appeared at Dragon*Con since 2004. He has hosted overnight live astronomy sessions, and spoken on cosmology, extrasolar planets, public-participation discovery in astronomy, science in the Firefly and Avatar universes, and space technology.
»Peter Kelamis
Recently, Kelamis appeared as Adam Brody on Stargate Universe. His other appearances on TV include Eureka, The Outer Limits, Corner Gas, Sliders, Stargate SG1, The Sentinel, and The X-Files. He is also known for his role as Goku in Funimation/Saban's original dub of Dragon Ball Z. Sherrilyn Kenyon
In the past two years, New York Times bestselling author Sherrilyn Kenyon has claimed the #1 spot twelve times. This extraordinary bestseller continues to top every genre she writes. With more than 23 million copies of her books in print in over 30 countries, she has placed over 60 novels on the New York Times list. »Thomas W. Knowles
Thomas W. Knowles is a publisher, editor, and writer whose stories (Curtain Call, Luck of the Draw) cross genres to mix history, myth and legend. His nonfiction books have been recognized by the ALA, PBS, the NEA, and the Newbery Library, and he's narrated documentaries for the Discovery Channel.
Alethea Kontis
Alethea Kontis is the New York Times bestselling author of Enchanted, The Dark-Hunter Companion (w/Sherrilyn Kenyon), and the Alphaoops! series of picture books for children. She is also a princess.
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Cheralyn Lambeth
Cheralyn Lambeth is a prop, costume, and puppet builder/performer whose work includes film (The Muppet Christmas Carol, Leatherheads, Evan Almighty, The Hunger Games), television (Dinosaurs!, Homeland) and various interactive properties (Star Trek: The Experience at the Las Vegas Hilton.) She also writes nonfiction ghost books with Schiffer Publishing.
Juliet Landau
Juliet Landau is best known as Drusilla on Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel and Loretta King in Ed Wood. Janet Lee
Janet Lee is the Eisner-Award-winning artist and co-creator of Return of the Dapper Men. She illustrated Marvel's adaptations of Jane Austen's Emma and Northanger Abbey. Her upcoming projects include Time of the Dapper Men and The Wonderland ABC's from Archaia Press.
Mike Lee
Mike Lee is a novelist, scriptwriter and game designer whose credits include the fantasy epic Nagash the Immortal and Ubisoft Entertainment’s Splinter Cell: Conviction. He has also contributed to more than two dozen pen-and-paper role-playing games and supplements, including the award-winning Vampire: The Masquerade.
Sunny Lee
Sunny Lee has been a penciller for all three major publishers working on titles like Wolverine, Superboy, Spyboy, Star Wars Tales, and Gen 13. His professional portfolio also includes work for other publications like How To Draw Manga Style and other private illustration books.
»Jeff Lewis
Acting credits include Glee, My Name is Earl and believe it or not, General Hospital. He currently performs in the improv group "Hammer, Don't Hurt 'em" alongside his Guild co-stars, Felicia and Sandeep. Brad Linaweaver
Award winning science fiction author Brad Linaweaver has produced novels, short stories, articles and scripts in his eclectic career. A Nebula finalist, as well as winner of Prometheus awards, he has made his primary mark in alternate history, but earned more doing media tie-in novels based on video games and television shows.
Peter Linz
Peter Linz has been a Muppeteer for over 20 years. His starring role as Walter in The Muppets has won him the most acclaim. Other films include Muppets From Space and Men In Black. Television credits include 30 Rock, Between the Lions, Bear in the Big Blue House, Sesame Street. Kate Locke
Kate Locke (God Save the Queen) is a pseudonym for an award winning, bestselling author of more than 20 books. She writes Steampunk YA as Kady Cross (The Girl in the Steel Corset, The Girl in the Clockwork Collar). Her books are available in more than a dozen languages and formats. »Todd Lockwood
Todd Lockwood's work has appeared on New York Times best-selling novels, magazines, video games, and fantasy role-playing games. His first art book, Transitions, from Chrysalis books (U.K.), was released in September of 2003. You can see more of his work at his website, http://www.toddlockwood.com/
George Lowe
Cartoon Networks wildly popular Adult Swim block was built on the cult hit Space Ghost Coast to Coast which ran for a decade with legions of fans responsible for its success. George Lowe is the ad-libbing madman behind Space Ghost and its his honor to visit Atlanta for Dragon*Con.
»John Patrick Lowrie
John Patrick Lowrie is a voice actor for many video games, currently best known as Sniper on Team Fortress 2. John is also an author. His new book is currently in the top 10 category of amazon for his genre.
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Jonathan Maberry
Jonathan Maberry is a New York Times bestselling novelist, multiple Bram Stoker Award winner and Marvel Comics writer. Sean Maher
Sean Maher is an American actor, best known for his role as Simon Tam in the short-lived science fiction television series Firefly. Don Maitz
The award winning art of Don Maitz has appeared for 30 years on hundreds of publications, and as concept art for two feature animated films: Jimmy Neutron Boy Genius and Ant Bully. Maitz created the Captain Morgan Rum character and his a-Maitz-ing images have appeared before a worldwide audience.
Elizabeth Malczynski
Elizabeth began her professional career while still in college. Her cover illustrations included the first paperback edition of Anne McCaffrey's Harper Hall trilogy, Dragonsong, Dragonsinger and Dragondrums, Ursula K. Le Guin's The Beginning Place, John Crowley's Little Big and Engine Summer, Michael Moorcock's Glorianna, and Robert Silverberg's Nightwings. Mari Mancusi
Mari Mancusi is the author of 16 books for adults and teens including the Blood Coven Vampire series.
»Joe Manganiello
Joe is currently a series regular and busy filming season 4 of HBO’s critically acclaimed monster hit True Blood on which he plays werewolf Alcide Herveaux, and for which he won a 2011 LOGO Award and is currently nominated for a 2011 Saturn Award. James Marsters
James Marsters may best be known for the role of Spike, the punk-goth vampire that he played for six seasons on Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel. He's a headlining fan favorite at conventions worldwide. He's appeared in numerous Sci-fi series, including: Smallville, Torchwood, Caprica, Supernatural, and Andromeda. Gail Z. Martin
Gail Z. Martin is the author of The Summoner, The Blood King, Dark Haven, and Dark Lady's Chosen (The Chronicles of The Necromancer series). She also wrote The Fallen Kings Cycle from Orbit Books with Book One: The Sworn and Book Two: The Dread, and the upcoming Ascendant Kingdoms Saga. Niall Matter
Niall Matter is a Canadian actor mainly known for his work in Syfy's Eureka series, playing Zane Donovan.
Todd McCaffrey
Todd Johnson McCaffrey has written eight books in the Pern universe both solo and in collaboration with his mother, Anne McCaffrey. He is currently working on several non-Pern projects, including the long-awaited City of Angels.
Visit his website at http://www.toddmccaffrey.us
Eddie McClintock
Edward "Eddie" McClintock is an American actor who has starred and guest starred in numerous television shows. He currently portrays the role of Secret Service agent Peter Lattimer on the Syfy series Warehouse 13.
»James Allen McCune
James Allen McCune is an actor best known for his role as "Jimmy" in AMC's The Walking Dead. James Allen can be seen in Mike Brune's Comedy Congratulations!, ShowTime's Homeland, and Ric Roman Waugh's feature Snitch starring Dwayne Jonson, Jon Bernthal and Susan Sarandon in 2013. »Ellen McLain
Ellen McLain best known as the voice of GLaDOS from Valve's Portal 1 and Portal 2 is the 2011 winner of the VGA award for "Best Performance by a Human Female".
Travis Scott Merrill
Travis Scott Merrill is one of the founders of Sick Sense Productions and works with the Alabama Shakespeare Festival as a costume crafts artisan, specializing in leatherwork, mask-making, millinery, puppetry, armor construction, airbrush painting for large scale theatrical productions, and works with some of the countries best costume designers. Rebecca Moesta
Rebecca Moesta has written the Young Jedi Knights series and the Crystal Doors trilogy with her husband Kevin J. Anderson; she has also written comics and a Buffy the Vampire Slayer novel.
Chris Moreno
Chris Moreno is a comics, concept, and storyboard artist, and the creator of the new comic Zombie Dickheads (http://www.zombiedickheads.com).
Tee Morris
Tee Morris, in his first decade of writing, has written everything from epic fantasy to steampunk to definitive guides in Social Media. His recent novel Phoenix Rising won the 2011 Airship Award for Best in Literature.
Chris Mueller
Chris Mueller is a professional Costume Designer, technician, educator and one of the co-founders of Sick Sense Productions. He currently manages the costume shop at the Birmingham Children’s Theatre; one of the oldest and largest Children's Theatres in the country.
Eve Myles
Eve Myles is best known for her role as Gwen Cooper in Torchwood.
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Kathy Najimy
Kathy Najimy is an American actress, most notable as Olive Massery on the television series Veronica's Closet, Sister Mary Patrick in Sister Act and the voice of Peggy Hill on the animated television series King of the Hill. Dustin Nguyen
Dustin Nguyen is an American comic artist whose body of work, for the past 10 years, includes flagship titles for both DC Comics and Wildstorm. Nichelle Nichols
Nichelle Nichols is an American actress, singer and voice artist. Her most famous role is that of communications officer Lieutenant Uhura aboard the USS Enterprise in the popular Star Trek television series, as well as the succeeding motion pictures, where her character was eventually promoted in Starfleet to the rank of commander.
Friggatriskaidekaphobia Nurse
Margaret is the president of the Freethought Society. Her Friggatriskaidekaphobia Treatment Nurse character opens a center every Friday the 13th (with a museum and games). She also dresses as a Suffragist, Colonial Woman and talk show host Veracity Waddle.
Margaret is a a trusted member of the Skeptic community.
Jody Lynn Nye
Jody Lynn Nye lists her main career activity as "spoiling cats." When not engaged in this worthy purpose, she has published more than thirty-eight books and over a hundred short stories. Her latest books are A Forthcoming Wizard (TOR Books) and Myth-Fortunes, (Wildside Press) co-written with the late Robert Asprin.
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Jana Oliver
Jana Oliver is the multi award-winning author of the Time Rovers Series, set in 1888 London. Her young adult Demon Trappers Series is located in a bankrupt Atlanta plagued by Hellspawn and scheming necromancers. It appears no major city is safe from her fertile imagination. www.janaoliver.com
Kai Owen
Kai Owens is perhaps best known for his portrayal of Rhys Williams, the long suffering, ever loving husband of Gwen on the hit BBC series Torchwood.
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»Jaime Paglia
Jaime Paglia is the co-creator and Executive Producer of the Syfy Channel record-setting series, Eureka. Getting his start in feature films, Paglia sold his first spec script, Bombshell, (written with David Draffin) to Team Todd at New Line Cinema, followed by Kringle (written with Andrew Cosby), which sold to Oscar-winning screenwriter/producer Akiva Goldsman and producer Mark Canton. Paglia went on to co-create Eureka with Cosby for the Syfy Channel and NBC Universal Television Studios. They also adapted the feature film Damn Nation for MTV Films and Paramount Pictures. »Sandeep Parikh
Sandeep Parikh wrote and directed Comedy Central and Atom.com's highest rated web-series The Legend of Neil. Sandeep is also known as the co-lead, Zaboo in the acclaimed and multiple award winning webseries The Guild, which won Streamys for Best Comedy Webseries and Best Ensemble Cast.
»Craig Parker
Parker first came to Dragon*Con having played the elf, Haldir, in Peter Jackson's, Lord of the Rings. He came back for more Atlanta Madness in 2009 while playing Darken Rahl in ABC’s, Legend of the Seeker and now, in 2012, returns as the nasty roman, Glaber, in Starz, Spartacus: Vengeance. Teresa Patterson
Teresa Patterson co-authored 2 editions of The World of Shannara with Terry Brooks, the World of the Wheel of Time with Robert Jordan, and a murder mystery, No Quarter, with Robert Asprin and Eric Del Carlo, and authored numerous fantasy stories. Also a Chesley Award winner and past president of ASFA.
Diana Peterfreund
Diana Peterfreund is the author of the killer unicorn novels Rampant and Ascendant and the post apocalyptic For Darkness Shows the Stars.
Phil Plait
Phil Plait is an astronomer, blogger, author, lecturer, and TV science documentary host. His blog, Bad Astronomy, is hosted by Discover Magazine, and his TV show, Phil Plait's Bad Universe aired on the Discovery Channel.
Van Allen Plexico
Van Allen Plexico is best known for his popular Sentinels series of novels, pushing New Pulp into the contemporary superhero and space opera genres; for editing and writing for various SF/pulp adventure anthologies; and for the Assembled! books, exploring the history of Marvel's Avengers. »Carrie Preston
Carrie Preston currently stars as Arlene Fowler on HBO's hit series True Blood. Kalayna Price
USA Today bestselling author Kalayna Price writes the Alex Craft Novels and the Novels of Haven. Her books, which are available around the world, contain the mystical elements of fantasy and folklore, a dash of romance, humor, gritty horror, and thrilling mystery.
David Prowse
David Prowse has played many roles, but he is best known as the man behind Darth Vader's sinister mask.
George Pérez
George Pérez is an illustrator and writer of comic books born of Latin-American (Puerto-Rican) descent. Along with John Byrne, he was arguably the most popular and influential artist in American comic books in the 1980s. He primarily illustrates superhero comics, mainly published by DC Comics and Marvel Comics, and is known for his clean, dynamic, yet ornate style, with a strong emphasis on group superhero action scenes.
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Patricia Quinn
Patricia opened the very first performance of The Rocky Horror Show with the song "Science Fiction Double Feature" on June 16, 1973, at The Theatre Upstairs (Royal Court) in London. The film version of the Rocky Horror Show followed in 1975 and she stepped back into the role of Magenta.
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Jean Rabe
Jean Rabe is the author of more than two dozen fantasy and adventure novels and more than 60 short stories. When she isn't writing or editing, she visits museums and tosses tennis balls to her moose of a mutt.
Benjamin Radford
Benjamin Radford is deputy editor of Skeptical Inquirer magazine and author of six books on the paranormal, investigation, and science literacy. A columnist for LiveScience.com and Discovery News, he has solved many paranormal mysteries and appeared on the Discovery, Learning, and History Channels, as well as CBS, CNN, etc. Stephen W. Ramsden
Stephen W. Ramsden is the founder and Director of the world's largest nonprofit Solar Astronomy Outreach Program. The Charlie Bates Solar Astronomy Project shows the Sun to over 60,000 people per year in 13 countries.
Trina Ray
Trina Ray is an astronomer with the Cassini-Huygens Mission to Saturn operated out of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. In her current position she coordinates all the Titan science opportunities for the Cassini Mission. She is an active public speaker for NASA, invited to give many talks around the nation.
Mike Reiss
Mike Reiss has won four Emmys during his two decades as writer/producer for The Simpsons. He created the cult animated series The Critic and Queer Duck. He is the author of seventeen children's books, an Edgar Award-winning mystery writer and contributed to films including The Lorax and Despicable Me. John Rhys-Davies
John Rhys-Davies is a Welsh actor and voice actor. He is perhaps best known for playing the charismatic Arab excavator Sallah in the Indiana Jones films and the dwarf Gimli in The Lord of the Rings trilogy. J August Richards
J. August Richards has become a visible favorite in primetime television, starring in the Joss Whedon hit series Angel, Dick Wolf's Conviction and most recently, Steven Bochco's Raising the Bar for the TNT network. Rebecca Riggs
Rebecca Riggs is best known to fans as the irrepressible Commandant Mele-on Grayza in the Saturn Award winning Farscape. John D. Ringo
John Ringo had visited 23 countries and attended 14 schools by the time he graduated high school. This left him with a wonderful appreciation of the oneness of humanity and a permanent aversion to foreign food. Now he writes books. Nicholas John Robatto
Nick Robatto is a profesional prop maker from Wales UK. Known primarily for his work on Doctor Who and creating iconic props such as the sonic screwdriver and Daleks. Nick is also the owner of his own company Rubbertoe Rayguns, specialising in sci-fi accessories and rayguns.
Ryan Robbins
Ryan Robbins currently plays Henry Foss on SyFy's Sanctuary. Saul Rubinek
Saul Rubinek is a Canadian film and television actor. He has also directed and produced feature-length films. Rubinek currently plays "Arthur 'Artie' Nielsen" a covert agent employed by a secretive council to recover super-scientific and mystical artifacts, in the Syfy series Warehouse 13. »Andy Runton
Andy is the creator of the breakout all-ages series of graphic novels, Owly, starring a little owl who's always searching for new friends. Relying on a mixture of symbols and expressions to tell his silent stories, Runton's heartwarming style has made him a favorite of both fans and critics alike.
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John Sabol
John Sabol is an archaeologist, ethnographer, actor, author, para-anthropological investigator of interactive past presence, and cryptozoologist. He has published 14 books, all dealing with his fieldwork , and his experiences acting in movies and on television. He has also been an investigative consultant on the A&E series, Paranormal State.
»Katee Sackhoff
Sackhoff’s rough and ready portrayal of hotshot pilot Kara “Starbuck” Thrace has been stealing scenes on the critically acclaimed Battlestar Galactica for years now, turning heads and winning a Saturn award along the way. Tim Sale
Tim Sale is an American Eisner Award-winning comic book artist. He is primarily known for his collaborations with writer Jeph Loeb. R.A. Salvatore
As one of the fantasy genre's most successful authors, R.A. Salvatore enjoys an ever-expanding and tremendously loyal following. His books regularly appear on The New York Times best-seller lists and have sold more than 15,000,000 copies. Daniel Samonas
Other than Wizards of Waverly Place, Daniel has guest starred in iCarly, Zoey 101, Entourage, Hannah Montana, CSI: New York, Without a Trace and voiced Teo in Avatar: The Last Airbender. Brandon Winn Sanderson
Brandon Sanderson’s fantasy novels include the Mistborn books, The Way of Kings, and Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians, among others. He is completing Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time series; the final volume, A Memory of Light, will be released in 2012. Brandon teaches creative writing at Brigham Young University.
Dan Dos Santos
Well known for his colorful oil paintings, most often depicting strong women, this year's Dragon*Con Artist Guest of Honor Dan Dos Santos's work spans a variety of genres including novels, comics and film. He has worked for clients such as Disney, Universal Studios, Scholastic Books, The Greenwich Workshop, Penguin Books, Random House, Tor books, UpperDeck, Wizards of the Coast, and DC Comics. Stuart M. Sayger
Stuart Sayger is known for his moody and expressive art. Inks, gouache, chalk and oil pastels are standard in his comic art. Past credits include: Machete comic based on the Robert Rodriguez movie, 30 Days of Night, Lego Bionicle, and Bram Stoker’s Death Ship.
Raphael Sbarge
Raphael Sbarge currently stars as Archie Hopper/Jiminy Cricket on the hit ABC drama Once Upon a Time. He's also known to videogame fans as Kaidan Alenko in the popular Mass Effect series, and Carth Onasi in the Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic series. Matteo Scalera
In 2010 Matteo Scalera started to work for the House of Ideas, more precisely on Deadpool. His works appear on Deadpool Team-Up, Deadpool Corps, and Deadpool: Merc with a Mouth.
Randal L. Schwartz
Randal L. Schwartz is a renowned open-source technologist and published author, specializing in the Perl and Smalltalk programming languages, and is the host of the FLOSS Weekly open-source podcast. Eugenie C. Scott
Dr. Eugenie C. Scott is internationally-recognized as an expert on the creationism/evolution controversy and on the nature of science and pseudoscience. She is known to the media for her clear explanations of science, and is a witty and engaging speaker.
Russell D Shilling
Captain Russell Shilling is a Navy officer and a Program Manager at DARPA. He currently manages an Emmy nominated outreach program for military children with Sesame Workshop and programs in STEM (science, math, robotics) education using videogames. Recently he initiated a program to develop art therapy graphic novel authoring tools for servicemembers.
»Cliff Simon
Cliff is best known for the role of Ba'al on Stargate SG1. Cliff's combination of charming bad guy charisma and wicked sense of humor made him a viewer favorite antagonist, keeping his character recurring for five seasons.
Rikki Simons
Rosearik Rikki Simons is a voice actor, writer, and artist. He is most famous for being the voice of the robot in a dog suit, GIR from Invader ZIM. As an artist and writer he is known for science fantasy graphic novels. Doug Sneyd
Doug Sneyd has been under contract with Playboy Magazine since 1964 and has had over 450 full-page color cartoons published in the magazine. The Art of Doug Sneyd, a 248-page hardcover book published by Dark Horse Comics, was launched July 2011 and features 270 Sneyd cartoons. »Ian Somerhalder
Ian Somerhalder currently stars s Damon Salvatore on the CW hit series The Vampire Diaries. Samantha Sommersby
Samantha Sommersby is the author of more than ten novels and novellas, including the critically acclaimed Forbidden series.
Jennifer St. Giles
Jennifer St. Giles is the USA Today Bestselling Author of Gothic Romance, Paranormal Romance, Romantic Suspense. Though currently with a publisher she has ventured into the new world of self-publishing and will be launching a new paranormal series and steampunk series in 2012.
Michael Stackpole
Michael A. Stackpole is a fantasy and SF novelist, game designer and Skeptic who knows how to dance. Jewel Staite
Jewel Staite recently joined the cast of the Sci-Fi hit Stargate:Atlantis as Dr. Keller, in addition to shooting the lead role in the feature The Tribe, which depicts the story of five young adults shipwrecked on a deserted island off the coast of Latin America where they encounter a lost tribe of savages. Jewel is best known for her role in Joss Whedon's Firefly. »Jim Starlin
Jim Starlin is an American comic book writer and artist. With a career dating back to the early 1970s, he is best known for "cosmic" tales and space opera; for revamping the Marvel Comics characters Captain Marvel and Adam Warlock; and for creating or co-creating the Marvel characters Thanos and Shang-Chi, Master of Kung Fu. Kim Steadman
Kim Steadman is a Flight Operations Systems Engineer with the Cassini-Huygens Mission at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. She previously worked on the X2000 Project and the Mars Exploration Rover Mission at JPL. She holds a B.S and M.S in Aerospace Engineering from Georgia Tech.
Jeanne C. Stein
Jeanne Stein is the national bestselling author of the Urban Fantasy series, The Anna Strong Vampire Chronicles. Her series has been picked up in three foreign countries and her short stories published in collections here in the US and the UK. The eighth in the series, Haunted, was released August 28.
Paul Stevens
Paul Stevens is an Editor with Tom Doherty Associates. He acquires a wide range of books including science fiction and fantasy for Tor Books, and general fiction for Forge Books.
Patrick Stewart
Patrick Stewart is an English film, television and stage actor. He has had a distinguished career in theatre for nearly fifty years, including performances as various characters in Shakespearean productions. However, he is perhaps most widely known for his television and film roles as Captain Jean-Luc Picard in Star Trek: The Next Generation, and Professor Xavier in the X-Men films. S. M. Stirling
S.M. Stirling was born, France 1953. Best known works are the Change/Emberverse novels: Dies the Fire, The Protector's War, A Meeting at Corvallis, The Sunrise Lands, The Scourge of God, The Sword of the Lady, The High King of Montival, The Tears of the Sun, and Lord of Mountains.
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Billy Tackett
Billy Tackett is a professional artist for known for his work in the zombie genre. His Dead White and Blue series of paintings has garnered an international following has earned him the title Father of the Zombie Mash-up. It has inspired a comic book mini-series, scheduled for release early 2012.
Dave Tango
Dave is one of the investigators/evidence analyst on the popular SyFy Channel TV show Ghost Hunters. Besides the paranormal, Dave enjoys photography, music, and magic. Jonathan Tarbox
"Jake" Tarbox spent most of his adult life in Japan, working as a media manager and television personality. After working at Coamix Inc. as senior editor of Raijin Comics, he took the position of Group Editor at DC Comics. He now runs Arashi Productions.
»Robin Thorsen
Robin Thorsen is a recent graduate of Chapman University in Orange with a BA in Theatre Arts, and an AA from Marymount College in Rancho Palos Verdes. She is thrilled to have been chosen to play Clara Beane in The Guild.
»Sam Trammell
An intelligent, highly-versatile actor who made inroads on the New York stage while building an intriguing career in mostly independent features, Sam Trammell can currently be seen starring opposite Anna Paquin in HBO's critically acclaimed series True Blood. Connor Trinneer
Connor Trinneer is an American film, stage and television actor. His highest profile role has been the role of Charles "Trip" Tucker III on Star Trek: Enterprise and Michael on Stargate Atlantis. Jamie Wade Tyndall
Jamie Tyndall is a cover artist for Zenescope Comics Grimm Fairytales. He is also well known for his magazine inspired comic book covers that are sought-after by collectors.
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Debbie Viguié
Debbie Viguié is the New York Times Bestselling Author of the Wicked series and two dozen other books. She is one of the queens of epic dark fantasy. Debbie also writes thrillers including The Psalm 23 Mysteries, the Witch Hunt trilogy, and the Kiss trilogy.
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Garrett Wang
Wang is best known for his role as Ensign Harry Kim on Star Trek: Voyager which ran from 1995 to 2001. He was keen to participate in a new role for the 2007 fan production Star Trek: Of Gods and Men.
Jean Marie Ward
Jean Marie Ward writes fiction, nonfiction and everything in between, including novels (2008 Indie Book double-finalist With Nine You Get Vanyr) and art books. Her short stories appear in numerous anthologies, such as Here Be Dragons and The Modern Fae's Guide to Surviving Humanity. Toni Weisskopf
Toni Weisskopf is the publisher of Baen Books, and a winner of the Hank Reinhardt Georgia Fandom Award.
»Paul Wesley
Paul Wesley is best known for his roles as Aaron Corbett in the ABC Family miniseries Fallen and Stefan Salvatore in The CW TV series The Vampire Diaries. Billy West
Billy is mostly know for his many voices on Futurama that include Philip J. Fry, Professor, Hubert J. Farnsworth, Dr. John Zoidberg and others. He is also know for The Ren & Stimpy Show as Stimpson J. "Stimpy" Cat. Michael Z. Williamson
Michael Z. Williamson is a Locus best-selling SF author, military and disaster preparedness consultant for TV, movies and private citizens, a gunsmith and bladesmith, a veteran of the Army and USAF who deployed for OIF, and a "library" of firearms and bladed weapons going back over 9000 years.
C. L. Wilson
C.L. Wilson is a New York Times & USA Today bestselling author who loves to combine her two favorite genres: epic fantasy and romance. Thankfully, a number of readers share that same love, thus keeping her employed. When not writing, she loves playing video games with friends and family.
Janny Wurts
Janny Wurts is a professional author, with 15 published novels, a short story collection, and a trilogy in collaboration with Raymond Feist; also fantasy artist and cover illustrator, with a painting on display in the collection of the Delaware Art Museum. Most recent release worldwide: Initiate's Trial from HarperCollins UK.
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Derek Yaniger
Derek Yaniger is a toothless hillbilly. Born in the backwoods of Arkansas, he was raised on little more than pork rinds and corn squeezins. Derek still resides in the south, in Atlanta, Georgia.
Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
Chelsea Quinn Yarbro has published in many genres including science fiction, fantasy, mystery, young adult, western, and horror. She is a Grand Master of the World Horror Convention, a Living Legend of the International Horror Guild, and has a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Horror Writers Association.
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Timothy Zahn
Timothy Zahn is the author of nine Star Wars books and the Cobra, Quadrail, and Dragonback series. Recent books include Cobra Gamble and the upcoming Judgment at Proteus. The 20th Anniversary edition of his first Star Wars book, Heir to the Empire, was released last September. Mark Zug
Mark Zug is an artist and illustrator who is known for his work with the Septimus Heap series and Harlan Ellison's adaption of I, Robot. He has illustrated many collectible card games, including Magic: The Gathering and Dune, as well as books and magazines.
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ATTENDING PROFESSIONALS
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Theatrical, Musical, & Radio Performances
Dragon*Con has had a long tradition of providing a wide variety of performances for the enjoyment of our attendees. Each year we host at least a dozen performances from bands, theatrical troops, Combat Demonstrations, and DJs.
Musical acts from the past have ranged from light pop (Apollo Smile) to Goth and world-music (The Cruxshadows, Voltaire, The Changelings) to the heavy (The Misfits, Godhead).
Theatrical troops like the Atlanta Radio Theatre Company and the Mighty Rassilon Art Players have taken to the stage with their own brands of SCIFI entertainment.
Swashbucklers like The Crossed Swords have provided sword play performances and combat demonstrations with Sci-Fi and Renaissance flare.
Some of the best local and national DJ's provided music to get your body moving in our late night DJ'd dances.
The items below show which of the names on this page are performers and what type of performance they fall under.
- Musical - Musical Acts & Performances
- Theatrical - Theatrical Performances
- Swashbucklers - Combat Performances and Demonstrations
- DJ - DJ Dances
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