05/10/13

              Friday: Under Cover (Letter): An unsolicited manuscript needs a cover letter as well written as the story itself. Learn how to make your cover letter professional. De La Salle – West Wing, 1st Floor, 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM Beyond the Known Horizon: Imagining new, unheard of sciences, beyond what you already...

05/09/13

              Author, mythologist, folklorist, and pro-bono demonologist Nathan Robert Brown will be joining us for A-Kon 24. His varied panel schedule includes two perennial favorites: Friday, 12:30pm, Peacock Terrace, “Fairy Tales Revisited” Saturday, 7:45pm, Coral Room, “Mythology for Narutards, 3.0″...

02/26/13

Rob Balder is a professional webcomic creator who has also ventured into game design, comedy music, publishing and new media business development. Most of his time is consumed writing and producing Erfworld, an epic fantasy/comedy comic about an obsessive strategy gamer who is summoned to fight a real war. Erfworld was co-created in 2006 with illustrator Jamie...

02/21/13

Life is never dull for Helen McCarthy. Since A-Kon 23, she’s been asked to teach at an English university, review and endorse academic publications on anime, help to put together a costume exhibition, revise and update one of her earlier books  and write a history of manga in three months. She’s also got a publisher reading her novel. On a sadder...

02/21/13

Anthony is by trade a writer, actor, director, and visual effects artist, and voice actor who’s work has been seen in various films and television shows including One Piece, Full Metal Alchemist, Trinity Blood, Cyberstalker, Cheaters, Bicycle Bobby, Red Victoria, Red Squad 4, and a host of others. Known as a jack of all trades, Brownrigg has been heavily...

01/21/13

Rachel Caine is the #1 internationally bestselling author of 42 novels, including 13 to date in the young adult Morganville Vampires series, most recently the late 2012 release Bitter Blood.   Two more books, Fall of Night and Daylighters, will be released in May and November 2013. In February 2014, she will premiere a new young adult fantasy novel, Prince of...

01/10/13

Meet the Publishers of Famous Monsters Philip Kim and Ed Blair.

01/05/13

Jana Oliver has the perfect job—she listens to the voices in her head and then writes their stories. Her latest creation, BRIAR ROSE, is a dark steampunk retelling of Sleeping Beauty, complete with Hoodoo, a vengeful Civil War ghost, and metal magic (Spring 2014 Macmillan Children’s Books). In Jana’s young adult DEMON TRAPPERS Series, Riley Blackthorne,...

01/01/13

M.G. “Mike” Keller is a by-product of southern angst and northern anxiety. A transplanted New Jerseyan, he has been interested in guys in rubber suits long before Pulp Fiction made them awkward. He hooked up with Edward Holland and the original incarnation of Monster Attack Team back in the 1990s, helping out with the magazine and occasional other aspects of...

01/01/13

Edward L. Holland is a contributing writer for Famous Monsters of Filmland and Captain of the Monster Attack Team, a Japanese live action magazine based in Texas and California, which he started with makeup artist and co-founder Joe Riley back in 1991. As a grade school student, Edward’s fascination with Japanese monsters, superheroes and rock and roll culture...