Writing Guests, Pros, and Panelists
MisCon 25
- Justin Barba
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I never pursued a career aside from painting and writing other than an unsuccessful attempt at becoming a spy for the CIA (I almost got the job, but even though they flew me out to Washington DC for the final interview and psychological exam, the CIA decided not to hire me, something for which I was not happy about at the time, but am grateful for now).
- Carol Berg
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Carol Berg is the author of several fantasy novels, including the books from the Rai-Kirah series, Song of the Beast, the books from The Bridge of D'Arnath series, and the Lighthouse novels. In January 2010, she introduced a new series with the release of The Spirit Lens: A Novel of the Collegia Magica.
Berg holds a degree in mathematics from Rice University, and a degree in computer science from the University of Colorado.[1] Before writing full-time, she designed software. She lives in Colorado, and is the mother of three boys. - Margaret Bonham
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Maggie has taught writing courses with the Colorado Free University. She has spoken at seminars for National Writer's Association, Cat Writer's Association, CONDFW, Norwescon, Radcon, Fencon, Opusfest, MileHiCon, Baycon, Conestoga, MileHiCon, and Long's Peak Writer's Group. She has written and marketed mystery and science fiction/fantasy novels and is currently marketing a fantasy and mystery series.
- Chuck Bordell
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Writer/artist Chuck Bordell. Source of comic art, pin-ups, fantasy/sci-fi illustrations and various caustic ramblings on whatever Chuck has on his mind at the moment. If you are easily offended, you might want to back up now and save yourself from a seizure.
- Patricia Briggs
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Patty writes books. You can find a complete list of titles elsewhere. You probably don't really care where she was born [Butte, MT] or what her favorite animal is [horse]. The list of jobs she's held over the years doesn't tell you as much about Patty as it does about which jobs were available at various times in our past. I could fill pages with various facts and tallies that detail the events of her life. Instead, I'd like to tell you a bit about who she is.
- C.J. Cherryh
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I write, first and foremost. I figure skate. I travel. I photograph. I sketch. I read. I do genealogy and history, science, and archaeology. I do some modern and two ancient languages.
- John Dalmas
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My name is John Dalmas, and I'm an author with 27 published novels and 3 collections to my credit. I am not the Raymond Chandler private eye of the same name.
Even as a child I intended to write books. I simply wasn't in a hurry. There were all those other things I wanted to do first, and over the years I kept adding to the list. So I didn't sit down to write my first novel until almost my forty-second birthday.
One day in 1968, I picked up what I soon decided was a really poor novel, and told myself "I can write better than that," then began to write The Yngling. The following March, John W. Campbell bought it for Analog....
- M.J. Engh
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Science fiction fans know me as M.J. Engh, author of Arslan and other books. I'm also an independent scholar of Roman history, and in that field I write as Mary Jane Engh.
- Jane Fancher
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I'm an author/artist in the Science Fiction and Fantasy genre with nine books and a handful of short stories in my publishing resume. My interests are eclectic, from horses to computers, History to Quantum Physics, with a recently acquired passion for figure skating.
- Diana Pharaoh Francis
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Raised on a cattle ranch in Northern California. BA and MA in creative writing and a Ph.D. in literature and theory.
- James Glass
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Jim was the Grand Prize winner in Writers of the Future in 1990. Since then he's sold five novels and thirty-some short stories, appearing in magazines such as ABORIGINAL S.F., and ANALOG. His current book THE CREATORS is the third book of the SHANJI trilogy. SHANJI is now out in reprint from ereads.com A collection of his published short fiction "Matrix dreams and other Stories" has just come out from Fairwood Press. A novelet is in the March issue of ANALOG, and two other stories are in press with that magazine. Jim is a retired physics professor and dean at Eastern Washington University. Wife Gail is a costumer, drummer and healing dancer.
- John Goff
- Lenora Good
- Kathe Goslee
- Andrea Howe
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Andrea Howe is Blue Falcon Editing, providing editing services, quality control, and continuity tracking for her clients.
- CthulhuBob Lovely
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I and some friends run MisCon, a science fiction convention in Missoula, Montana. I also am very active in the Native American Community ('cause I'm an Indian), helping to run Pow Wows and other cultural events. In my copious spare time I am a non-practicing attorney and a fledgling author and try desperately to not alienate at least a few of my friends and loved ones by keeping in touch with them on rare occasion...
I am currently running a Call of Cthulhu campaign which took me 26 years to write, due in part to the size of the campaign, but military service, child rearing and a decade in college also played their parts. - Michael McClintock
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Professor McClintock is a Creative Writing Professor Emeritus at the University of Montana.
- Vicki Mitchell
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V.E. (Vicki) Mitchell has been writing for as long as she can remember—mostly, but not entirely, in the field of science fiction. In 1986, she won the national Amazing Stories Calendar Story Contest and sold a short story to a mainstream anthology. (This story was later cut when the book ran too long.) In 1987 one of her stories appeared in the legendary The Moscow Moffia Presents Rat Tales anthology. She sold a different "Rats" story to Pulphouse Publishing for their own Rat Tales anthology (1994).
- Kevin Noel Olson
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Kevin Noel Olson is a published author of children's books. Some published credits of Kevin Noel Olson are Eerey Tocsin in the Cryptoid Zoo, Eerey Tocsin on the Underwater Island, Entopia, and Buk Bakus in Darn Near the Fiftieth Century.
- Jenna M Pitman
- Josh Wagner
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Josh's writing career began somewhere around the age of 6 when he dutifully "paraphrased" the plot from Empire Strikes Back and called it his own. His first atrocious novels, penned clandestinely during class in Middle School, still live in a box somewhere–hundreds of pages hand written in pencil.
- Parris ja Young
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Actively engaged with the Missoula writer's group, the WordRats, Parris is rewriting a novel, RiverAngels: River Saints, turning the screenplay "Walkaway" into a novel, and writing a third novel titled The Planet and the Pirates.
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