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Guests of Honor
MisCon 39
- Jonathan Maberry, Author GoH
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Jonathan Maberry is a New York Times best-selling author, five-time Bram Stoker Award-winner, anthology editor, comic book writer, executive producer, magazine feature writer, playwright, and writing teacher/lecturer.
His works include the V-Wars vampire series (adapted for Netflix), the Rot & Ruin YA series, the Kagan the Damned series, the Joe Ledger thrillers, sf thriller Necrotek, and the Pine Deep horror trilogy among others. He's written for The X-Files and Star Wars, and edited anthologies for Aliens, Predator, The Walking Dead, and more.
- Casey Renee Cosplay, Cosplay GoH
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Casey Renee is an award-winning cosplayer focused on education, craftsmanship, and sewing. Casey is incredibly passionate about cosplay craftsmanship and creating educational content. In 2022, Casey’s first book, “Cosplay Foundations” was published. Casey loves sharing her experience with others and helping the cosplay community as a whole learn new things and celebrate each other's cosplay construction journey.
You can find Casey’s work on youtube.com/caseyreneecosplay and instagram.com/caseyreneecosplay and digital courses, embroidery kits, patterns and more at CaseyReneeCosplay.com
- Doug Hemphill, Special GoH
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Academy Award winning sound engineer Doug Hemphill's film career has spanned 46 years and over 190 films including standouts like Batman Begins, the Dark Knight, Bladerunner ( and Bladerunner 2049), 7 X-Men films, Star Trek 4 & 5, TMNT, National Lampoon's Xmas Vacation, I Robot, Scent of a Woman, and a few Planet of the Apes films.
He won Academy Awards for Best Sound on "The Last of the Mohicans" and Dune Parts 1 and 2, and was nominated in 8 other films.
He began as a Mix Recordist on "Apocalypse Now (1979), and continued working for Francis Ford Coppola through the release of "Rumble Fish (1983), after which he moved to Southern California, where he did field recordings for
- Patrick Swenson, Featured Publisher
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Patrick Swenson edited Talebones magazine for 14 years, and he still runs Fairwood Press, a book line, which began in 2000. A graduate of Clarion West, his first novel The Ultra Thin Man appeared from Tor. The sequel is The Ultra Big Sleep. He has sold stories to the anthology Unfettered III, Like Water for Quarks, and magazines such as Marion Zimmer Bradley’s Fantasy Magazine, Figment, and others. He runs the Rainforest Writers Village retreat every spring at Lake Quinault, Washington. He's been a high school teacher for 35 years. He lives in Bonney Lake, Washington with his son Orion.
- Andy VanOverberghe, Artist GoH
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Andy VanOverberghe (an-dee van o-ver-berg) is a creator focusing in animation arts and fine art illustration on wood and stone. His work provokes imagination through the exploration of science fiction, philosophy, psychology, nature, spirituality, the cosmos, geometry, anatomy, and the world observed.
Professionals and Speakers
Check out all the speakers coming to MisCon 39, or look up pros by category using the site navigation.
About MisCon Pros, Panelists, GMs:
- Attending Professional
Attending Professionals are available to convention attendees as a resource. These individuals are special guests of the convention and are professionals in their industry or art. Their expertise on panels and in sessions is valuable to many of MisCon attendees.
- Featured Professional
Featured Professionals are guests of the convention. These individuals have often been a Guest of Honor in the past and are returning to MisCon, but they are always experts and professionals in their field or art. Their expertise on panels and in sessions is valuable to many of MisCon attendees.
- Featured Publisher
Featured Publishers are representatives of a publishing house attending MisCon as a guest of the convention. These individuals share their expertise on panels and in sessions, and can be a great resource to convention attendees. Often (but not always) a Featured Publisher will critique in the MisCon Writers' Workshop.
- Game Masters and Storytellers
GMs (also known as Game Masters, Story Tellers, Judges, Referees, Game Facilitators, Dungeon Masters, or any of a number of other names) are the people responsible for running the game. GMs referee the outcome of character conflicts (with other player characters or with non-player characters), run all (or most) of the non-player characters, describe the setting, and arbitrate die rolls.
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- Guest of Honor
Each year MisCon invites a small number (usually just 3) outstanding professionals in the realm of speculative fiction to be our Guests of Honor (GoHs, Guests). These individuals include at least one artist, at least one author, and one other professional each year. Guests generally participate in more panels than other individual pros or panelists.
- MisCon Staff
MisCon is run by a group of volunteers, ConCom, who work hard all year to put MisCon together. These staff members do everything from moving chairs to putting up decorations, from putting together the schedule of programs, pannels, demonstrations, and games to registering attendees, from recruiting merchants to hanging artist's artwork to recruiting Guests of Honor, and so much more. Many members of ConCom also help on panels and programs during the convention.
- Panel Volunteer
MisCon couldn't have the diversity in our programming without the many Panel Volunteers and Panelists that show up and agree to take time out of their schedule to help with a panel or two. These paying attendees help MisCon greatly each year!
Check out all the speakers coming to MisCon 39.
