Writing Guests, Pros, and Panelists
MisCon 39
These panels include everything related to writing. Most of the time famous authors are the ones talking,l giving you tips on how to get published. They discuss craft, the publishing business, etc. They include MisCon's Writers' Workshop.
- Lynn Bailey
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Lynn, or Lil Snik Snak graduated with a major in Costume Design and Technology. She often jokes that costuming is her only life skill but also has hobbies in poetry, history, fashion, and performing. Snak proudly invites everyone to follow and join Zootown Tea and Missoula Cosplayers to get in on the Missoula costuming scene! For more details or to ask questions about cosplay feel free to ask her in person at Miscon!
- C.J. Cherryh
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CJ Cherryh is a renowned American science fiction and fantasy author. With over 70 novels and numerous short stories to her name, she is best known for her intricate world-building and complex characters in series like "Morgaine," "Foreigner," "Chanur," and "Fortress." A former educator in Latin and the classics, Cherryh's writing often explores political, social, and cultural dynamics within her fictional universes. A recipient of three Hugo Awards, she was also honored with the title of Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) in 2016.
- Katie Cross
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Katie Cross grew up in the mountains of Idaho, where she still loves to play when she gets the chance.
Her mission is connect women with their best selves, to seek the divine in each one of us, and to prove that we can love ourselves—and accomplish all—despite opposition.
If she's not writing, you can find her traveling, adventuring with her kiddos, trail running with her husband and vizla dogs, or curled up with a good book and a cup of chai.
- Diana Pharaoh Francis
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Diana Pharaoh Francis writes books of a fantastical, adventurous, and often romantic nature. Her award-nominated novels include The Path series, the Crosspointe Chronicles, the Diamond City Magic books, the Mission: Magic series, Putting the Fun in Funeral, and the Witchkin Murders. Her novels have been translated into German and French. She holds a Ph.D. in Victorian literature and literary theory, and an MA in fiction writing. She’s been teaching for more than 20 years. She’s a member of SFWA and NINC. She’s owned by two corgis and a blue healer, and likes rocks, geocaching, knotting up yarn, and has a thing for 1800s England, especially the Victorians.
- James Glass
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Jim won the Golden pen award of wotf in 1991, has published ten novels and over sixty stories in magazines and anthologies. He is a retired physics professor and dean. His most recent novel, SYNTHS, came out in November of 2018.
- Rafael Hohmann
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Born in a castle dungeon in South America and moving to the United States at the age of six, Rafael Hohmann spent his young years reading, exploring abandoned mines, and drawing strategy maps to survive the oncoming zombie apocalypse. Writer of the best-selling dark fantasy trilogy The SunRider Saga, numerous short stories, and anthologies, he strives to write worlds filled with mysterious history, horrifying monsters, and delicious cuisine. Obsessed with fiction more so than reality, he writes epic fantasy and digitally paints monsters and soldiers. You can often find him gorging on sushi and playing video games late into the night.
- Esther Jones
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Esther is the owner of Impulsive Walrus Books, and the co-author of the Gift of Grace series and many other short stories with her husband, Frog. Esther has always loved creating fantastical stories, characters, and paintings. She loves cooking good food, watching k-dramas, and puttering around killing plants in her garden, if she's not already too busy killing her characters
- Frog Jones
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Frog Jones is the acquisitions editor of Impulsive Walrus books and the co-author of the Gift of Grace series, recently a featured project on the front page of Kickstarter. He has appeared in several anthologies and edited two, both published by Impulsive Walrus Books. He and his wife have been named a "Hidden Gem" by fantasybookreview.uk, and they're looking to become a little less hidden.
- Dean Wells
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Dean Wells is an author, educator, and workshop leader. His published work has appeared in Queer Sci Fi, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, 10Flash Quarterly, and other fine venues of speculative fiction, including the anthologies Ink, Ceaseless Steam, and The Best of BCS. He has also written for the performing arts in various media, and is an active member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association. Dean and his wife live in the Pacific Northwest with a cat, rabbits, mountain beavers, and a socially indifferent family of raccoons.
