Guests Guests of Honor: David Morrell - Barbara Hambly - Tom Doherty
Artist Guest of Honor: Todd Lockwood
Toastmaster: Tad Williams

BIO - David Morrell David Morrell is a two-time nominee for the World Fantasy award for his short stories. The Horror Writers Association has presented him with three Bram Stoker awards. For 1988 and 1991 he won for “Long Fiction” and for 2005 his novel CREEPERS won. In 1992 he was also nominated twice for “Long Fiction”.

Born in Canada, Morrell is a former literature professor at the University of Iowa. While in graduate school at Penn State, he received writing lessons from William Tenn, who was part of the Golden Age of science fiction in the 1950s. A multiple best-selling author, Morrell has been translated into 26 languages.

Morrell’s 6-part comic-book series CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE CHOSEN has attracted a lot of attention and has sold out each issue. Comic-Con International presented him with their prestigious Inkpot award for a lifetime of contributions to popular culture. Other recipients have included George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, Gaham Wilson, and Rod Serling.

Visit him at www.davidmorrell.net.

BIO - Barbara Hambly Since her first published fantasy in 1982 – THE TIME OF THE DARK – Barbara Hambly has touched pretty much all the bases in genre fiction, including historical murder mysteries, fantasy, science fiction, comic books, graphic novels, a "contemporary occult romance novella" for Harlequin, and scripts for Saturday morning cartoon shows. She continues to write both fantasy and historical fiction: her most recent horror novel is RENFIELD, SLAVE OF DRACULA and her newest historical novel is PATRIOT HEARTS, a novel of the Founding Mothers.

Born in 1951, she grew up on science fiction and fantasy in Southern California and attended the University of California where she received a Master's degree in Medieval History, and a black belt in karate. She attended the University of Bordeaux and traveled in Europe in 1971-72 and held the usual assortment of day-jobs before being published: teacher, secretary, liquor-store clerk. She married science-fiction writer George Alec Effinger in 1998 and lived part-time in New Orleans for a number of years. Hambly's interests include historical research, dance, hiking, costuming, and carpentry. Now a widow, she shares a house in Los Angeles with several small carnivores.
Visit her at: www.barbarahambly.com

BIO - Tom Doherty Tom began his career as a Sales Manager of Simon & Schuster when they distributed Ballantine, then helped Ian and Betty Ballantine launch their first fantasy line by introducing Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings to North America. He later published the Tempo line of young adult fantasy and science fiction paperbacks at Grossett & Dunlap. When Grossett acquired Ace Books, with Harriet McDougal as Editorial Director and Jim Baen heading science fiction, Tom continued as publisher of Ace/Tempo until 1980 when he founded Tor Books which, two years later, spun off Baen Books. Fro the last 20 consecutive years, Tor has received the Locus Award for Best Publisher. Baen Books is now number two. Tom remains president and publisher of Tor and a partner in Baen. He has been honoured to receive:

Life Achievement Award from the 2005 World Fantasy Convention
2005 Made an honorary Calgarian at Westercon in Calgary, Alberta, Canada
2006 Raymond Z. Gallun Award for outstanding contribution to the genre of science fiction at ICON 25
The “Skylark” Boskone 30
The 2007 International Thriller Writers Silver Bullet Award
The 2007 Lariat Award of the Western Writers of America
And in 2007 received the recognition from the Chairman of the Committee on Ways and Means of the House of Representatives of the United States Congress.
Visit him at http://locusmag.com/2003/Issue10/Doherty.html

BIO - Todd Lockwood When Todd Lockwood attended his first Science Fiction and Fantasy convention, in Winnipeg, Manitoba, a door was opened that would lead to a staff position at TSR, the makers of the popular role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons. Over the next seven years, he built an impressive body of fantasy images, and helped to redefine the look of the popular Dungeons and Dragons game for the Third Edition release.

His work has been honored with multiple appearances in Spectrum and the Communication Arts Illustration Annual, twelve Chesleys, two prestigious World Fantasy Art Show awards, and numerous industry awards. Now he finds himself, his wife and three children in Washington state, freelancing again, but doing the kind of work he enjoys, with fans all over the planet. 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/

Bio - Tad williams Born in 1957 and currently living in San Jose, California, Tad seems to have done it all. He admits to “holding more jobs than any sane person should”. He has sung in a band, sold shoes, designed military manuals, hosted a syndicated radio show for 10 years, worked in theatre and television, and even co-founded an interactive television company. In 2002 he was the toastmaster for World- Con in San Jose.

Readers know Tad best for his many fantasy and science fiction novels. He started with a fantasy story about cats in Tailchaser’s Song (1996). He then wrote the Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn fantasy series (1988 - 1993). Next he delved into science fiction with his Otherland series (1996-2001). In 2003 he returned to fantasy with the publication of War of the Flowers. He is currently working on the third Shadowmarch novel, Shadowrise.

In 2006 Tad began publishing a new six issue comic mini-series through DC Comics called The Next. In 2007 he wrote the final seven comics for the revamped Aquaman: Sword of Atlantis, also from DC Comics. A new series for DC Comics called The Factory is currently in the planning stages.

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