The 2012 Program Schedule is now off to the publisher. A program
booklet and Quick Guide will be available at the registration desk,
but the program information is available at the above links to help
you to plan your weekend.
Sign-up sheets will be available throughout the weekend on the Info
Table in the Merchants Corner.
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Zev Vitaly Abosh Zev Vitaly Abosh - PhotoArt4U - Award-Winning
Photographer and Artist. Specializing in Weddings, Fashion and
Boudoir. Well known for his artistic and creative perspective and
vision. His work was published in local media. These days he's
working with a few fashion magazines.
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Angela Ackerman Angela Ackerman writes on the darker
side of Middle Grade and Young Adult, and is represented by Jill
Corcoran of The Herman Agency. A huge advocate of writers helping
writers, she blogs at the award-winning resource blog, The
Bookshelf Muse and is the co-author of The Emotion Thesaurus: A
Writer's Guide To Character Expression.
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Rona Altrows Rona Altrows is the author of two books
of short fiction, A Run On Hose (Thistledown Press, 2006) and
Key In Lock (Recliner Books, 2010). A Run On Hose won
the City of Calgary W. O. Mitchell Book Prize and was shortlisted for
the Howard O'Hagan Award for short fiction. In 2001 Altrows became the
inaugural winner of the Brenda Strathern Prize for her fiction. Her
work has appeared in Prairie Fire, Ryga,
Freefall, and other magazines of writing, and online in
Montreal Serai and elsewhere. She is also a frequent
contributor to WestWord, the magazine of the Writers' Guild of
Alberta. Altrows served as Writer-in-Residence for the Calgary Public
Library in 2007 and for the Alexandra Writers' Centre Society in
Calgary in 2009. She is currently writing a new collection of flash
fiction. With Naomi K. Lewis, she is co-editor of Shy, an
anthology on shyness.
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Colleen Anderson Colleen's fiction and poetry have
appeared in over 100 publications with recent work in Eternal Haunted
Summer, Heroic Fantasy Quarterly, Candle in the Attic Window and the
Mirror Shards anthology. She is a 2011 & 2012 Aurora Award nominee in
poetry and edits poetry and fiction for CZP. New work will be coming
out in Bull Spec, Bibliotheca Fantastica, Third Flatiron Publishing
and Chilling Tales 2. She has one book of poetry, Ancient Tales, Grand
Deaths & Past Lives through Kelp Queen Press and will soon have a
reprint collection of dark fiction available. www.colleenanderson.wordpress.com
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Vivi Anna Tawny Stokes aka Vivi Anna is a Canadian
multi-published author in paranormal romance, urban fantasy, scifi,
and young adult. Writing since 2002, she's published close to 19
books and novellas for Harlequin, Kensington, Avon and epublishers
Samhain and Carina Press.
Tawny is the current president of CARWA and co-founder of the popular
#TVwriterchat on twitter. She's written several spec screenplays,
adapted two of her books into pilots plus created both TV bibles, and
one into a feature. She's won the RWA Script Scene screenplay contest
with her adapted script Vanquished, has finaled in both the Austin
Film Festival and Slamdance Film Festival with her adapted TV pilot,
Occult Crime Unit. She is currently in development with a production
company on a TV pilot.
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Krista D. Ball According to her mother, Krista
D. Ball tells lies for a living. She is the author of several short
stories, novellas, and novels. Krista incorporates as much historical
information into her fiction as possible, mostly to justify her
B.A. in British History.
Krista enjoys all aspects of the writing and publishing world, and has
been a magazine intern, co-edited four RPG books, self-published
several short stories and a novella series, and has been a slush
reader. She has two novels out in the world, with another one coming
in November. She has also written a non-fiction blogging guide and has
a historical - comedy-writer's guide hybrid coming in November called
"What Kings Ate and Wizards Drank: A Fantasy Lover's Guide to
Food."
Whenever she gets annoyed, she blows something up in her
fiction. Regular readers of her work have commented that she is
annoyed a lot.
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Chase Baird Always colourful and quick to laugh,
Chase Baird is a returning full time student at Mount Royal University
in Calgary. Officially a Computer student, she spends way too much
time practicing the dark arts like English and eating sour patch
kids. An Indie-loving, techno geek, she has published fiction in
Freefall and just recently won Broken Pencil's Deathmatch - "the
deadliest fiction contest on the planet" - look for that story in the
Spring issue of Broken Pencil.
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Jayne Barnard Jayne Barnard's award-winning short fiction covers a range of topics and genres, but her best love is historical mystery. "Tommy Palmer's Ghost," set in 1922 Victoria, was short-listed for the Great Canadian Story prize in 2006 and "Each Canadian Son" won the 2011 Bony Pete award at Bloody Words. Her unpublished manuscript "When the Bow Breaks" is a finalist for the 2011 Unhanged Arthur Award from Crime Writers of Canada. Her work won a Saskatchewan Writers Guild Award in 1990 and has been published in Storyteller, Freefall, Western Living, Transitions, and others, as well as "Dead in the Water: an Anthology of Canadian Mystery Fiction."
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Michelle Beattie Michelle Beattie has been writing
for 15 years. Her first pirate novel sold to the Berkley Publishing
Group in 2007 and hit the shelves in December 2008 under the title,
What a Pirate Desires. Wanting to build a readership, Berkley
encouraged Michelle to turn the book into a series and 6 months later
she signed a two-book contract. Her second novel, Romancing the
Pirate was released in 2009 and the third book, A Pirate's
Possession was released in December 2010. Her books have received
wonderful praise from publisher's weekly, Romantic Times and several
on-line review sites as well as have been published in several
languages. Michelle currently lives with her husband and two
daughters near Camrose. Alberta.
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Louise Behiel Louise Behiel is a writer, therapist,
mother, grandmother and dog lover. She has a business degree and a
Bachelor's and Master's Degrees in Counseling Psychology. She has
worked as an accountant, therapist, facilitator, adult educator, sales
support manager and is currently employed in health care. She
listens to Country Music, watches CSI in all three cities and reruns
anywhere of Criminal Minds. She reads romance, self-help and spiritual
books, including anything by Wayne Dyer and Deepak Chopra among
others. And she's decided to work her way through her bucket list, to
ensure her life is filled with fun.
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Eileen Bell Eileen Bell lives in Edmonton, Alberta. She won the 2010 Aurora for Pawns
Dreaming of Roses in Women of the Apocalypse, and is delighted to have a
short story in Evolve2. She's working on a number of other projects in her
round house, with her husband and her daughter's cranky cat.
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Nancy Marie Bell Nancy Marie Bell lives near Balzac,
Alberta with her husband and various critters. She is a member of The
Writers Union of Canada and the Writers Guild of Alberta. She enjoys
writing poetry and fiction and non-fiction. Nancy is an editor with
MuseItUp Publishing Inc.
Please visit her webpage: http://www.nancymbell.ca
You can find her on Facebook at http://facebook.com/NancyMBell
Follow on twitter: @emilypikkasso
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Aviva Bell'Harold Having struggled with dyslexia,
among other learning disabilities, Aviva's foray into reading (and
subsequent writing) was rather late. However, her learning
disabilities never stopped her from daydreaming. Aviva was an avid
daydreamer from age three, but she was sure she couldn't be an author;
whoever heard of a dyslexic author? Then at age 35 Aviva decided to
stop allowing her dyslexia get in the way. Now published, three books
later, Aviva loves sharing with the world her story, her struggles,
her books, and what she has learned along the way.
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Pat Benedict Patricia writes Haiku, Tanka, and
Renga. She and fellow poet Joanne Morcom have conducted Haiku
workshops together several times, in various venues in the city. Her
work has been published in Haiku Canada, Gusts, Tinywords, Herons
Nest, RAW NerVZ, DailyHaiku, World Haiku and others. In January of
this year she received an award for one of her Haiku from the Asahi
Haiku Network of Japan. She is member of Haiku Canada, and the
Magpie Haiku Poets of Calgary, and her poems appear in their
anthology, A Piece of Eggshell. She is an actor/director and
Professor Emeritus of Drama from the University of Calgary. She lives
in Calgary.
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Janice Blaine Janice Blaine is a professional
commercial artist working out of Calgary. Throughout her career, she
has worked on a wide variety of projects, ranging from pre-production
animation to design & illustration of children's books. Her
illustrations have appeared on the covers of numerous magazines and
books and her cover illustration for Neo-opsis issue #20 was recently
nominated for an Aurora Award. She currently works as the Production
Manager at EDGE Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing, as well as the
Commercial Artist for The Financial Guides. Her personal work is
fuelled by a passion for storytelling and a love of nature. Her
paintings explore the universal language of myth and folklore. Her
portfolio may be viewed at www.paintersblock.com
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Roxy Boroughs Before turning her attentions to
writing, Roxy tread the boards as a performer, appearing in theatres
across North America, TV commercials, and movies. In addition to
writing interactive murder-mysteries for Pegasus Performances, her
award-winning novel A STRANGER'S TOUCH, as well as its sequel,
A STRANGER'S KISS, is now available through Amazon.com. Watch
for her upcoming release, the edgy urban fantasy, WOLFEN TIME.
"Roxy Boroughs has it all - humor, suspense, and the kind of raw
emotion that makes romantic suspense worth reading. This genre has a
bright new star." Lecia Cornwall author of Secrets of A Proper
Countess, an RT Reviewers Choice nominee.
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Jade Buchanan Jade Buchanan is a multi-published
author who believes love and romance are universal concepts, no matter
a person's gender identity or sexual orientation. She is a member of
the Romance Writers of America, and is the current Vice President of
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Susan Calder Susan Calder's short stories, poems and
articles have appeared in magazines such as Alberta Views, Other
Voices and The Prairie Journal. Her first novel, a murder mystery
Deadly Fall, was published by TouchWood Editions in March 2011. Susan
teaches workshops and courses at the Alexandra Writers' Centre Society
and is currently working on a second novel. You can visit her at
www.susancalder.com.
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Kathy Calvert Kathy Calvert grew up hunting, fishing
and camping with her father and twin brother from a very early
age. She began her climbing career at age sixteen, and in 1975 became
Canada's first female park warden. Kathy's career as a national park
warden continued for twenty five years, first in Yoho National Park,
and later in Jasper National Park. In 1977, Kathy was on the first
all-female expedition to attempt Canada's highest mountain, Mount
Logan, via its challenging South peak, and attempted the first
all-female ski traverse from Jasper to Banff in 1984. She also
completed the first all-women's Bugaboo-to-Rogers Pass ski traverse in
1989. Kathy's practical knowledge of the outdoors is augmented by a
BSc is in Biology and an MA in Environmental Science.
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Leslie Carmichael Leslie Carmichael is the author of
two books for children, Lyranel's Song (2005) and The Amulet of
Amon-Ra (2009). Her other publication credits include short stories,
articles, essays and poetry; in such publications as Storyteller:
Canada's Short Story Magazine, American Miniaturist, and The Journal
of Dracula Studies. She writes comic interactive murder mysteries for
Pegasus Performances.
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Paul Carreau 25 years in the Canadian Military as an
Administrator. Former owner of an IT development company,
RFID. Involved with KAG KANADA for seventeen years. Founded the IKV
SonchIy in 1996 which became the SonchIy Squadron in 1997, the only
ship in KAG to accomplish this. Senior Command Officer, KAG Kanada for
ten years (full story can be found at qeliv.blogspot.com). Has worked
directly on conventions in Halifax, MarFest, and in Calgary
(Conversion). Current retirement project, working with the oldest and
most established Craft Beer Distributorship in Alberta.
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Brenda Collins Brenda M. Collins has wanted to write
romance since she was twelve years old. LIFE got in the way although,
as an adult, she joined a number of writing groups to learn about 'the
craft' and completed two mystery manuscripts. To help her fellow
writers develop strong business skills, Brenda published articles and
delivered workshops to hundreds of writers, on career planning,
professional networking and presentation skills--one is appearing in
the 2013 Writer's Market (Brewer, R.L., ed. F&W Media Inc.). In June
2011, the Bandit Creek Books collaborative series opportunity arose
and, with the energy and enthusiasm of 33 other authors behind her,
Brenda buckled down to write. The story that emerged started with a
murder, but it came to life with witches, warlocks, a canine familiar
and a magical dimension called The Otherland. Her debut novel, Witch
in the Wind, is available on Amazon and
her next book, Chance Romance, a collection of short romantic stories
with award-winning author, Roxy Boroughs
,will be released next month.
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Betty Cross Betty Cross has published a sci-fi novel
called Discarded Faces through Double Dragon Ebooks. A fantasy
novel, Mistress of the Topaz, has been accepted by the same
publisher, and is now available.
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Sean Cummings is a comic book geek, superhero junkie,
zombie fan and a total nerd. (He's also a goldmine of completely
useless information about films made prior to 1960. Don't get him
started on "Arsenic and Old Lace" because he won't shut up about it. )
Sean's published works include "Shade Fright" (Snowbooks 2010),
"Funeral Pallor" (Snowbooks 2010), and "Unseen World" (Snowbooks
2011). His debut YA urban fantasy thriller "Poltergeeks" will be
published by Strange Chemistry Books (a new YA imprint from Angry
Robot Books) in October 2012 with the second book in the series
hitting bookstores in the spring of 2013.
Website - http://sean-cummings.ca
Twitter - http://twitter.com/saskatoonauthor
Pinterest - http://pinterest.com/saskatoonauthor
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Kris Demeanor Calgary born songwriter Kris Demeanor
delights in exposing the underbelly of western Canadian culture-
gambling, drug use, murder, religion, the suburbs. His numerous CDs of
original work explore the darkness and absurdity of these corners of
Alberta life. With the Crack Band, he draws on dense spoken word,
folk, and shamelessly hooky pop for audiences who like to laugh,
dance, think and weep all at the same time. While Kris's music
has taken him around the world performing, Kris has also become a
fixture of Calgary's spoken word, literary and theatre worlds,
creating music and lyric for numerous award winning projects.
Career highlights include taking the award winning short film based on
his song I Have Seen the Future to the Sundance and Toronto
film festivals, collaborationg with the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra
on the 2011 event Acres of Dreams, and sharing a beer with
David Byrne.
He has recently been named the first Poet Laureate of the City of Calgary
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Craig DiLouie Craig DiLouie is the author of the
bestselling zombie novels TOOTH AND NAIL, THE INFECTION
and THE KILLING FLOOR. Craig blogs about his fiction and all
things apocalyptic horror at www.craigdilouie.com.
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Josiah Ditoro Josiah Ditoro is a writer who has
dabbled in many genres and formats since she discovered a deep love of
words, and how they are strung together, as a child. This will be her
fourth year as a Municipal Liaison (regional organiser) in Calgary for
National Novel Writing Month, which proves she is sucker for
punishment and a fan of organized chaos.
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Jason Donev Dr. Jason Donev is a professor in the
department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Calgary. He
studies how people learn science and teaches about energy issues,
especially nuclear power. A long time geek he has enjoyed seeing the
interplay between science fact and science fiction.
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Dymphny Dronyk Dymphny Dronyk is a writer, editor,
mediator and mother. She is passionate about the magic of story and
has woven words for money (journalism, corporate writing) and for love
(poetry, fiction, drama, mystery novels and songs) for over 25
years. She is the co-publisher/co-editor of House of Blue Skies.
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Karen Dudley Karen Dudley loves both writing and
preparing fine foods, so writing about a chef comes naturally to
her. She began her career by writing wildlife biology books for kids
but was lured into writing mysteries for the satisfaction of bumping
off people in fiction who irritated her in real life. She has now
either seen the light or gone to the 'dark side' (depending on your
point of view) by switching genres to speculative fiction. Food for
the Gods is her first historical fantasy novel. A sequel,
Kraken Bake, is currently in the works.
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Dave Duncan Dave Duncan is a prolific writer of
Fantasy and SF, and was for many years a resident of Calgary. (He now
lives in Victoria.) His latest book, Wildcatter will be
launched at When Words Collide, and will be his third book this year,
following Against the Light and The Death of Nnanji. He
also has a short story in Neo-Opsis # 22.
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Amy Jo Fleming Amy Jo Fleming writes romantic
suspense. She loves a story that leaves you wondering about the
characters after you read the final page. Amy Jo is passionate
about writing and social justice. She is a Calgary freelance writer
and editor. She has written and edited Education Law and Privacy Law
Reports and publications for Calgary businesses and
not-for-profits. A member of the Saskatchewan Writers Guild,
Alberta Romance Writers, and Romance Writers of America over the
years, Amy Jo has been an enthusiastic member of the Bandit Creek
e-publishing collective. Her recent release, Death at Bandit
Creek, is available on Amazon Kindle, Smashwords and Kobo. It is a
romantic suspense set at the turn of the 20th century. Her current
project is The Refugee Claimant. Contact Amy Jo at
amyjofleming11@gmail.com or see her website at
http://www.amyjofleming.com
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Susan Forest Two-time Prix Aurora Award nominee, and
winner of The Galaxy Project, juried by Robert Silverberg,
David Drake and Barry Malzberg (Rosetta Books, November, 2011) for her
novella, Lucy, Susan Forest is a writer of science fiction,
fantasy and horror, and fiction editor for Edge Press. Her works have
appeared in Asimov's Science Fiction, Analog Science Fiction and Fact,
Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Tesseracts Ten, Tesseracts Eleven, Tesseracts
Fourteen, AE Science Fiction Review, OnSpec and Legacy Magazine. In
August of 2012, her first collection, Immunity to Strange
Tales, will be launched by Five Rivers Chapmanry Press. Susan's YA
novel, The Dragon Prince, was awarded the Children's Circle
Book Choice Award. You can check out her website at www.speculative-fiction.ca.
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Ron S. Friedman Ron's short stories appeared in Daily
Science Fiction and received an Honourable Mention in L. Ron Hubbard
Writers of the Future Contest. Since 2002, Ron is living with his
loving wife and two children in Calgary, Alberta. Ron is currently
polishing his first completed SF novel.
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Barb Galler-Smith Barb Galler-Smith resides in
Edmonton, Alberta where she's a Fiction Editor with On Spec
Magazine. She's co-authored an historical fantasy trilogy with US
author Josh Langston: DRUIDS (released in 2009 and nominated for the
2010 Prix Aurora Award for Best Novel in English), and CAPTIVES
released in 2011. The third book, WARRIORS, is scheduled for release
in August 2013 (EDGE Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing).
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Barb Geiger Barb Geiger writes science fiction,
fantasy, horror and erotica. She has published numerous short stories
and was a finalist for Writers of the Future. Her short story
Little Black Boxes was published in Apex Magazine. It went on
to win an honourable mention in Year's Best Fantasy and Horror. Her
erotica writing as Angela Fiddler includes a multi-book non-sparkly
vampire series from Loose Id, her first stand-alone novel,
Pulse through MLR Press, and Cy Gets a Sex Demon,
published through Amber Quill. Cy will always be her favourite
title. She lives in Lethbridge, Alberta with her wife, Elisabeth.
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Chadwick Ginther Chadwick Ginther is the author of
Thunder Road, a Norse mythology inspired Urban Fantasy, releasing Fall
2012. His short fiction has found a home in On Spec, Tesseracts 16 and
the forthcoming Fungi anthology from Innsmouth Free Press. When he's
not writing his own books, he's selling everyone else's as a
bookseller and genre buyer for Canada's largest independent
bookstore.
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Jane Garthson Jane found fantasy and SF literature
in 1965, fandom in 1992 and fannish filk family starting with
TorCon3. She is Co-Chair of FilKONtario 23, Past President of the Filk
Society of Upper Canada and Treasurer of the Canadian Fantasy and
Science Fiction Association. Jane sings a little, drums less, reads
avidly and collects Zathras quotes. She is married to Phil Mills, a
filk singer-songwriter and software engineer. They and their cats host
visiting filkers and filk circles. Jane rides trails on her Quarter
Horse Nijomi, and is a leadership consultant to nonprofits and
governments.
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Neil Godbout Neil Godbout has a bachelor's degree in
journalism from Carleton University in Ottawa and a master's degree in
natural resources and environmental studies from the University of
Northern British Columbia in Prince George. He won provincial and
national recognition for his work during his 20 years as a reporter,
editor and photographer before bolting into public relations and
communications. Dissolve is his second novel, available this
summer from Bundoran Press.
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Kimberley Gould Although Kimberly Donn normally
hates being called Kimmy, her mother called her Kimmydonn and that was
alright. Now she has Lilah, or Delilah, or Delilah Dell if she's
misbehaving and Dad, Allen, catches her. Continuing in her day job as
an Environmental Consultant, Kim is also a writer in the time she
finds on the sides. She is the author of apocalyptic renaissance,
Cargon: Honour and Privilege, as well as the Family Saga, Thickness of
Blood, expected to release in September.
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Dave Gross Dave Gross is the author of Prince of Wolves, Master of Devils, and half a
dozen other fantasy novels. He's been editor of magazines ranging from
Dragon to Star Wars Insider and Amazing Stories. He posts writing updates at
frabjousdave.blogspot.com and at "Dave Gross, Author" on Facebook.
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2011 Publisher Guest Brian Hades Returns! See here for his biography.
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Vivian Hansen Vivan Hansen is a Calgary poet and
activist. Her fiction and nonfiction has appeared in many anthologies,
most recently in The Madwoman in the Academy and Writing the
Terrain. Her first full-length book of poetry Leylines of My
Flesh was published by Touchwood Press in 2002. In 2004, she
published Angel Alley, a chapbook about the victims of Jack the
Ripper. She has just completed her MFA in Creative Writing with the
University of British Columbia. A Bitter Mood of Clouds will be
published by Frontenac House in 2013.
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Richard Harrison Richard Harrison is the author of
six books of poetry, among them Big Breath of a Wish, nominated for
the Governor-General's Award for poetry, and Hero of the Play, the
first book of poetry launched at Toronto's Hockey Hall of Fame. His
writing has been published and broadcast around the continent and been
translated into French, Portuguese, Spanish and Arabic. He teaches
Creative Writing at Mount Royal University.
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Amber Hayward Amber Hayward's Children of the
Panther SF trilogy of novels was complete with the publication of
'Stolen Children,' released by Edge Press in September 2011. She has
had many short stories and poems included in various magazines and
anthologies. Amber's non-writing wage-earning alternate life sees her
as owner-manager of the Black Cat Guest Ranch near Jasper,
Alberta. From May 1, 2011 - April 30, 2012, Amber wrote a short short
story every day and posted it on her website, www.amberhayward.ca.
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Rhiannon Held Rhiannon Held lives in Seattle, where
she works as a professional archaeologist. Unfortunately, given that
it's real rather than fictional archaeology, fedoras, bullwhips,
aliens, and dinosaurs are in short supply. Most of her work is done on
the computer, using databases to organize data, and graphics programs
to illustrate it. Her debut novel, Silver, is the first in an urban
fantasy series from Tor. The second, Tarnished, will be out in
2013.
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Dr David Hobill David Hobill received his
Ph.D. from the University of Victoria in general relativity theory.
He then held PostDoctoral positions at the Institute Henri Poincare
(Paris) and Stevens Institute of Technology (Hoboken, NJ) before
becoming the head of the numerical relativty group at the Universtiy
of Illinois' National Center for Supercomputing Applications. He has
been a faculty member in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at
the University of Calgary since 1991 and has held visiting positions
at the Observatoire de Paris and the Albert Einstein Institut (Potsdam
Germany). His current research interests are in general relativity,
cosmology, and other applications of non-Euclidean geometries.
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Steena Holmes Steena Holmes is the author of
best-selling Finding Emma and has self-published nine
books/novellas in the past year and is epublished as well with three
novellas. Her latest release - Finding Emma, won the 2012 Indie
Excellence Award for Best Fiction and has finaled in several other
contests. Steena is a Canadian multi-published author in erotic
romance, inspirational and contemporary romance, urban fantasy,
thriller as well as contemporary women's fiction. She is currently on
the board of CARWA and can't wait to see what her passions for
chocolate and writing will take her in the next year. Visit her at
www.steenaholmes.com to
find out more!
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Faye Holt Faye Reineberg Holt has authored 11 books,
one poetry chapbook, and (co-authored) a travel book. Also, she has
published articles, interviews, short stories and additional
poems. One-time editor and co-editor for Freefall, she has
edited three additional books for a trade publisher and individual
client. She was writer-in-residence for Calgary Public Library and
AWCS and has offered a wide range of workshops, programs and readings
for libraries, history organizations and educational groups around the
province. She is a frequent visiting writer in schools and has taught
in the continuing education for Mount Royal University and U of A. She
belongs to a number of writing groups and, last year, she launched a
blog called "Can't Quit Learning." This year she has a new book:
Settling In: Early Homes of Western Canada. For more
information, see her website: www.wordsandhistory.ca
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Ron Hore Ron Hore, can be found sailing on Lake
Winnipeg when not writing novels or critiquing for an on-line
magazine. A member of several writing groups, with published short
stories, and now a fantasy novel, "The Dark Lady" in print and ebook
format, and two novellas: "The Housetrap" a fantasy detective tale due
December 2012, and "Knight's Bridge" a medieval fantasy due March
2013, plus another full-length novel, working title "Pawn Queen and
Checkmate" scheduled for April 2013. These are available through
Champagne/BURST Books. Supervised by his wife and a large, demanding
cat, most of his writings fall under fantasy, with wanderings into
science fiction and horror.
www.ronaldhore.com
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Paula Johanson Paula Johanson is a prolific author
of nonfiction books on science, health, and literature for high school
library publishers. Her most recent release is a biography of Lady
Gaga. Two of her stories were shortlisted for the Aurora. Currently,
she is working on a Master's degree in Canadian Literature.
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Tammy Johnston Tammy Johnston is the CEO and
President of The Financial Guides and author of The Financial
Foundations Books series. Read more at http://www.thefinancialguides.com/tammyjohnston.htm
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Sarah Kades Sarah Kades loves playing outside and
ten years as an archaeologist has given her even more inspiration. She
writes adventure and paranormal romances to celebrate love, the great
outdoors, and to inspire others to go have their own adventures. If
they are with a splash of the paranormal, even better. She lives in
Calgary, Alberta, Canada with her husband, daughter, dog, cat, and a
house full of plants. Visit her at sarahkades.com and sarahkades.blogspot.ca.
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Sandra Kasturi Sandra Kasturi is a writer, publisher
and Bram Stoker Award-winning editor. She is the co-publisher of the
World Fantasy Award-nominated press, ChiZine Publications. Sandra's
work has won several prizes for writing and has appeared in various
magazines and anthologies, including Taddle Creek, ON SPEC, Prairie
Fire, Contemporary Verse 2, Shadows & Tall Trees, several of the
Tesseracts anthologies, Evolve, Evolve 2, Chilling
Tales, and The Rhinoceros and His Thoughts. She managed to
snag an introduction from Neil Gaiman for her poetry collection,
The Animal Bridegroom (Tightrope Books). Her second collection,
Come Late to the Love of Birds, is out in November. She is fond
of red lipstick, single-malt scotch and Michael Fassbender.
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Jennifer Kennedy Jennifer Kennedy (byline
J.Y.T. Kennedy) writes primarily speculative fiction, although she has
been dabbling in poetry and scriptwriting lately. She has published
one fantasy novel, Dominion. Her latest credit is a story in
the upcoming Danse Macabre anthology from EDGE. She has a
strong interest in myth, legend and folklore, whether sharing the old
stories as an oral storyteller or using them as inspiration for
original fiction.
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Dr David Knudsen David Knudsen is Professor of
Physics and Astronomy at the University of Calgary, where he studies
the aurora using rockets, satellites, radars and cameras. He studied
at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, and has worked at the Max
Planck Institute for extraterrestrial physics in Garching, Germany;
the Herzberg Institute for Astrophysics in Ottawa; the Centre d'etude
des environnnements terrestres et planetaires near Paris; and NASA's
Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. He is the
principal scientific investigator for instruments on the European
Space Agency's Swarm satellite mission scheduled for launch into orbit
this coming November, and on Canada's Enhanced Polar Outflow Probe
satellite set for launch on a Space-X Falcon 9 rocket in early
2013.
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Adria Laycraft Adria Laycraft is a grateful member
of IFWA, a proud survivor...er, graduate of the grueling six-week
Odyssey Fantasy Writing Workshop, and an amateur landscape
designer. She works as a freelance copywriter and lives in Calgary
with her husband and son. Sadly, she is not related to Vala Mal
Doran.
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Alison Lohans Alison Lohans has published 24 books
for young people with Canadian and New Zealand publishers. Her 25th
book, Crossings, will be released by Bundoran Press at When
Words Collide. Alison has spent decades at her craft-giving readings
and writing workshops, presenting at conferences, and teaching writing
classes that have reached writers across Canada. Recent awards for
Alison's writing include the 2008 Saskatchewan Book Award for Young
Adult Literature for This Land We Call Home (Pearson, New
Zealand). The Saskatchewan Arts Board awarded her a major grant to
complete Picturing Alyssa (Dundurn, 2011), which was
short-listed for two categories in the 2012 Saskatchewan Book
Awards. This past May Alison toured Labrador and Nunatsiavut for
Canadian Children's Book Week. Two days before her tour, she was the
recipient of the 2012 Regina and southern Saskatchewan YWCA Jacqui
Schumiatcher Woman of Distinction Award for the
Arts. http://www.alisonlohans.com
http://books4kids.ca
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Nicole Luiken Nicole Luiken wrote her first novel at
age 13 and had two books published while still in high school. She is
the author of eight YA novels, including Violet Eyes,
Frost, Dreamfire and Dreamline. Her latest
publication is an adult fantasy romance ebook from Carina Press called
Gate to Kandrith, with the sequel scheduled for next spring.
website: www.nicoleluiken.com.
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Susan MacGregor Susan MacGregor has been a fiction
editor with On Spec magazine since 1991. Her work has been published
in On Spec, Northern Frights, and other venues. In
1998, she edited Divine Realms, an anthology through Ravenstone
Books, an imprint of Turnstone Press. Her non-fiction book The
ABC's of How NOT to Write Speculative Fiction has been the source
of many workshops presented by On Spec. She is co-editor of
Tesseracts Fifteen through Edge Books. Her agent is currently
seeking a publisher for her novel The Tattooed Witch, the first
book of a paranormal romance trilogy where the Spanish Inquisition
pits itself against gypsy magic.
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Tereasa Maillie Tereasa Maillie is an experienced
historical researcher and writer, and is currently the
Historian-In-Residence for the Calgary Catholic Immigration
Society. She received her BA in history from the University of
Calgary, and has completed her MA work in Chinese history. Recently,
her adaptation of Jane Austen's 'Emma' was staged to sold out
audiences in April 2012. By day at her desk, she is a Research
Analyst, focusing on First Nations and Metis history and legal
issues. On her couch at home, she is a World History reporter for
examiner.com, short story writer, and cat cuddler.
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Elona Malterre Elona Malterre is the author of 3
novels, and one forthcoming (Fall 2012), as well as numerous poems and
short stories. She holds a MA in Canadian Poetry and has worked as a
security guard, scriptwriter, seller of green garbage bags and
cemetery plots, teacher, editor and owner of a bar (not in that
order.) She is currently working on producing a movie starring
Cher.
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Deb Marshall Deb Marshall is the Assistant Manager,
Youth Services of Crossfield Municipal Library and has 25 years
experience working in the field of literature and programming for
children and young adults. She is also a children's writer and member
of SCBWI who blogs her passions at Just Deb (www.debamarshall.com).
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Micheline Maylor Micheline Maylor earned a Ph.D. in
contemporary Canadian Literature and Creative Writing in the UK. She
teaches creative writing at Mount Royal University and edits Freefall
magazine. Her latest book is due in 2013 with Frontenac House Press in
Calgary.
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Randy McCharles Randy McCharles has been active in
Calgary's writing community for many years with a focus on dark,
humorous (and often both) fantasy. In 2009 he received Canada's most
prestigious award for SF & F, the Prix-Aurora Award, for both short
fiction and fan organization, and was nominated again in both
categories in 2012. Randy is a long-time member of IFWA, the
Imaginative Fiction Writers Association, and in 2009 was published in
Year's Best Fantasy 9 (David Hartwell and Kathryn Kramer, ed). He is a
regular contributor to the 10th Circle Project (available as eBooks
from Amazon.com) and has several stories available in print from Edge
Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing, including in Tesseracts 11,
12, & 16.
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Larry McNish Larry is a retired Computer Consultant
and Electrical Engineer and has been an amateur astronomer and
astrophotographer for the past 26 years. He is a former President and
is currently Webmaster of the Calgary Centre of the Royal Astronomical
Society of Canada (RASC), a non-profit organization of 4000 amateur
astronomers affiliated with 29 coast-to-coast regional
'centres'. Larry also designed and constructed new Observatories for
the Calgary Centre and the University of Calgary. Larry can usually be
found at any public "star night" in the Calgary area with his
computer-guided telescope showing members of the public the stars,
planets and deep-sky objects.
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Billie Milholland Billie Milholland wrote one of the speculative fiction novellas in the 2010
Aurora winning "Women of the Apocalypse"; a time-travel novella that
appeared in the Edmonton Sun in 5 parts; fiction and non-fiction for
magazines and newspapers; and fiction and non-fiction for adults, YA and
children. She has also published two non-fiction books - one on the Edmonton
Journal best seller list for 12 weeks running. She is a social media
fanatic, an information junkie and a devoted fan of let's-try-something-new.
Current works-in-progress -- Too many to list.
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Joanne Morcom Joanne Morcom is a Calgary poet with a
special interest in SciFaiku, which follows the haiku poetry model,
while exploring speculative themes, such as science fiction, horror
and fantasy. She's probably the only haiku poet whose work has
appeared in Weird Tales. Her SciFaiku collection, A Nameless
Place, is available from Sam's Dot Publishing, and her haiku and
tanka poetry collection, About the Blue Moon, is available from
inkling press. She's a founding member of the Magpie Haiku and Tanka
Poets, who are working on their second anthology, Weathered
Wings. One of her haiku was recently awarded Best in Show (Adult
Poet) in the 5th Annual Hexapod Haiku Challenge, sponsored by the
North Carolina State University Insect Museum. Yes, she's a bug
lover! She's also a social worker, laughter yoga leader and a living
book volunteer with the Calgary Public Library.
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Tina Moreau Tina Moreau is a mother, writer,
publisher and science fiction geek. Using her years of office
management skills, Tina co-owns and manages Tyche Books, an up and
coming Canadian publishing house. She enjoys steampunk fashion,
escaping into a good book, any TV show that had/has some semblance of
science fiction, and dabbles in graphic design and website
development. If she isn't doing any of the above, then she is probably
out playing with her one year old son. You can find out more about her
work at Tyche Books.
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Carrie Mumford Carrie Mumford is a writer and editor
living in Calgary, Alberta. She writes short stories and non-fiction
articles, and blogs about technology, writing, and (of course)
books. Over the past 8 years Carrie has worked as a market researcher
and online marketer. By night (and usually on weekends too) she is a
freelance editor and social media addict. Carrie's short fiction has
appeared in Full of Crow Fiction, Fiction365, Vine Leaves Literary
Journal and the WCDR's Whispered Words anthology. Like any
self-respecting writer/editor, Carrie has 3 cats, likes coffee and
chocolate, and eats typos for breakfast.
Carrie can be found on Twitter (@CarrieMumford), Facebook
(facebook.com/CarrieMumford), Google Plus, LinkedIn and carriemumford.com.
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Derryl Murphy Derryl Murphy's novel Napier's
Bones is up for an Aurora this year. His next book, the collection
Over the Darkened Landscape, is out this fall. A former
Albertan, Derryl now makes his home in Toontown.
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Virginia O'Dine Virginia O'Dine is the publisher for
Bundoran Press. She also writes, directs, runs a graphic design
business and a small ski resort in her spare time. Recently Virginia
wrote the stage adaptation for Robert J. Sawyer's novel Rollback.
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Dan O'Driscoll Art for him has really always been
about exploration. Giving visual form to worlds that existed only in
his imagination was to him a liberating experience, a way to explore
those worlds and share them with others. Working in freelance
illustration has also allowed him to explore and give visual form to
worlds that exist in the minds of other creatives. The results of
these often challenging, but rewarding explorations have been featured
on magazines and novels across North America. Website: www.djostudio.com
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Heather Osborne Heather Osborne is a long-time
member of the Imaginative Fiction Writers' association. She has her
master's degree in Science Fiction Studies from the University of
Liverpool, and she is working towards her doctorate of Creative
Writing at the University of Calgary.
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Steven Owad Steven Owad's published crime novels
include Hard Currency (Five Star First Edition Mystery) as well as
Bodycheck and Brother's Keeper (Napoleon and Co.).
Steven has also published short stories and poetry in U.S. and
Canadian literary magazines. His stage plays have been developed
through the Alberta Playwrights Network and Davenport Theatricals (New
York), and his first feature-film screenplay, Sons of the Fathers, won
the 2011 Alberta Screenwriters Initiative.
As a journalist, Steven has published news, business and feature
stories as well as more than 300 arts reviews.
Steven lives in Calgary, Alberta, with his wife Aleksandra and his
daughter Sara. He can be found on the Internet at www.stevenowad.com.
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Alyssa Linn Palmer Alyssa Linn Palmer is a Canadian
writer and freelance editor. She splits her time between a full-time
day job, and her part-time loves, writing and editing. Her novella
PROHIBITED PASSION and short story BETTING THE FARM are available as
ebooks. Her short story VEE will be available in the upcoming charity
anthology FELT TIPS in December 2012. She's currently working on two
new projects, one of which is a novel set during the gangster heyday
in Chicago in 1925. You can find her online at www.alyssalinnpalmer.com,
or on Twitter @alyslinn.
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Justyn Perry Justyn Perry is the owner and publisher
of Breathless Press and Lycaon Press. Breathless Press started in 2009
as an eBook publisher producing quality Romance and Erotic
stories. Lycaon Press started in the summer of 2012 with the idea that
young readers are growing and needing something nice and dark to read
(to stay out of trouble of course!). Justyn has been creating cover
art and digital art for many years. His covers appear on many
Breathless Press titles as well as titles among other eBook
publishers. Breathless Press has recently grown from releasing 2
ebooks a week to 3 ebooks a week. Lycaon Press currently releases one
ebook a week.
http://www.breathlesspress.com/
http://www.lycaonpress.com/
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Sherry Peters Sherry Peters lives in Winnipeg, and
started writing around the time she learned to hold a crayon. Her
first success was with "The Greatest Honor" (Aoife's Kiss,
Sept. 2007), which went on to be featured in their best-of anthology
"Wondrous Web Worlds Vol. 8". Sherry graduated from Odyssey in 2005
and earned her M.A. in Writing Popular Fiction from Seton Hill
University in 2009. She lived in Northern Ireland for a year and is a
member of the Imaginative Fiction Writer's Association (IFWA) in
Calgary.
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Mike Plested Mike Plested is an author, a blogger and a podcaster. His writing podcast, "Get Published", has been nominated for a Parsec award in 2009, 2010 and 2011. His first YA novel, "Mik Murdoch, Boy Superhero" is contracted for a Spring 2012 release and he is self-publishing his YA Novel, "The Mystery of Lake Chulala" in July of this year.
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Kent Pollard Kent Pollard is the 2011 Canadian Unity
Fan Fund delegate. He dabbled in conventional publishing and spent 25
years as a bookseller, before recently taking a sharp turn into
network support for the University of Saskatchewan. He began writing
at the age of 12, when inspired by Ian Fleming, then switched to SF a
year later when he discovered Isaac Asimov. He is an omnivorous reader
of F&SF, and writes short fiction with a humorous tint. He lives where
he has spent most of his life in Saskatoon, with his wife and an
assortment of pets that all boss him around.
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Gary Renshaw Gary Renshaw is an actor, voice artist,
carpenter, black smith, writer, teacher, Linux guru, crisis counsellor
and martial artist. He appeared in The Great Sperm Race as a
stunt sperm and currently works at the medical school playing with the
brains of students. He's completed several screenplays, a plethora of
short stories (including Family Way which took 2nd place in
last year's short story contest and Vacation which is being
published by On Spec) and is working on a half dozen novels. Gary is
a long-time member of the Imaginative Fiction Writers' Association and
has a — whimsical — sense of humour. He shares something
wonderful with Daniela Ruah (who portrays Agent Kensi Blye on NCIS:
LA) and actress Jane Seymour.
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Timothy Reynolds Tim Reynolds is a writer, editor, and
artist with degrees in History and Education. His own ancestors have danced
in and around history from being banished from Salem, MA, to involvement
in the Russian Revolution and so it's no surprise that a common element
in his screenplays, novels and shorts is a blending of historical facts
with fictional tales.
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Candice Robinson Candice Robinson has been writing
in various forms since she was five but really got serious about it
when discovering National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) in 2004.
2012 will be her thid year as a Municipal Liaison (regional organiser)
in Calgary and she has reached 50,000 words six times (in 2004, 2007,
2008, 2009, 2010, and 2011). She writes a little of everything, but
mostly dabbles in fantasy and science fiction during NaNoWriMo.
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Robert Runté Dr. Robert Runté is an
associate professor at the University of Lethbridge and an acquisition
editor with Five Rivers Publications. Previously, he was on the
editorial boards of On Spec Magazine and Tesseract Books; and in 1996
he co-edited (with Yves Meyard) the Tesseracts5 SF anthology. In
1989, his Guide to Canadian Science Fiction won an Aurora Award; he
won a second Aurora in 1990.
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Catherine Sakaly-Stevens Catherine Saykaly-Stevens
has been directly involved with the Internet since 1995. Her career
started by building websites and maintaining Canada's CEONet Satellite
content for Natural Resources Canada's first website. She left for
California in 1999 to instruct web design and programming for a
technical school for five years.
In Calgary, through The Networking Web, she matches companies and
individuals to a few manageable online solutions from numerous
options. Her main focus is building strategy, content and
relationship building using social media tools and networks.
Online changes and trends occur at lightning speed. Catherine enjoys
the challenge and online education as a committee member of the Social
Media Breakfast: Calgary Chapter.
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Cliff Samuels Organizer, reader and avid collector;
those are the best words to describe Cliff. He has been collecting
Science Fiction and Fantasy books for over 35 years. It can be said
that even if he stopped buying new books he would never be able to
read everything he has, but that will never happen. His IT background
has allowed him to work on every aspect of conventions for the past 30
years. Cliff is on the board of directors of CSFFA, the national
society overseeing the Aurora awards which he manages. He is also
part of the When Words Collide committee
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2011 SF Guest Robert J. Sawyer Returns! See here for his biography.
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J. Ellen Smith Starting out as an author, J. Ellen
Smith, of Champagne Books developed an interest in the publishing end
of things and soon worked her way through several positions,
apprenticing at a small local press before venturing out with her own
company. With practical experience combined with a strong business
sense, she is proud of the accomplishments made by Champagne Books,
its staff and authors.
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Jefferson Smith Jeff is a young adult fantasy author who collaborated extensively with teens while writing his first novel, Strange Places, the first installment in the Finding Tayna series, which was shortlisted for the 2012 Saskatchewan Book Awards. His next book is the first in a fantasy picture book series for preschoolers, and he is writing slavishly to deliver Book 2 of the Finding Tayna series, Strange People. Prior to his return to academia, Jeff spent 20 years in the multimedia software
development and Hollywood special effects industry, working on such films as Jurassic Park, Terminator 2, Aladdin, and The Lion King. He finds that this background offers an excellent beachhead for engaging young writers, and he now works regularly with teen writers and artists to help them tell their own stories in whatever medium suits their abilities and interests. He also blogs regularly on tips and tools for writers at www.creativityhacker.ca.
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Bob Stallworthy Bob Stallworthy has been writing and
publishing poetry for 25 years. He has 4 books of poetry published and
one non-fiction e-book published on the Frontenac House website. His
poetry has been shortlisted for the W.O.Mitchell, City of Calgary Book
Prize twice and for the Stephan G. Stephansson Award for Poetry
once. He is a member of The Writers Union of Canada, a co-recipient of
the 2002 Calgary Freedom of Expression Award and a Lifetime member of
the Writers Guild of Alberta.
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Dan St. Yves Dan St.Yves is the author of "Nonsense
& Stuff", as well as a freelance writer whose features have appeared
in national and regional magazines, as well as newspapers across
Canada. Visit thatdanguy.blogspot.ca for
links to his writing, Twitter, and podcast interviews with authors!
Sometimes blogs as a rubber chicken - hey, you were warned...
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Det. Sweet Det. Sweet became a member of the Calgary
Police Service in 1998 after graduating from the Mount Royal College
Criminology program. He has worked in general patrol, general
investigations, the Drug Unit and in the Organized Crime Section. Det
Sweet brings to his presentation his extensive experience with
suspicious death investigations in the Homicide Unit. He'll leave you
spell bound as he reveals how dead men do talk.
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Patrick Swenson Patrick Swenson edited Talebones magazine
for 14 years, and still runs Fairwood Press, a book line, which began
in 2000. A graduate of Clarion West, he has sold stories to the
anthology 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. Patrick has been a high school teacher for 27 years. He
lives in Bonney Lake, Washington with his ten-year-old son Orion.
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Hayden Trenholm Hayden Trenholm (www.haydentrenholm.com) is a
Parliamentary policy analyst and an award-winning playwright and
author. He has twice won the Aurora Award for short fiction and been
nominated for Best Novel three times. His novel, Stealing Home
was shortlisted for the Sunburst Award. He lives with his wife,
Elizabeth, in Ottawa.
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Diane Walton Diane Walton has been with On Spec
since it began in 1989, and currently serves as Managing Editor. Her
own fiction has been published in the "Northern Frights" and "Divine
Realms" anthologies, as well as appearing on the pages of On Spec. She
lives in Alberta with her husband, Rick, and two spoiled cats.
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Sharon Wildwind Sharon Wildwind is a Calgary
writer. She has been published in non-fiction and mysteries, but also
writes speculative fiction, romantic mysteries, and plays. Her web
site is www.wildwindauthor.com.
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Ed Willett Edward Willett is the author of more than
40 books of fiction and non-fiction. Born in Silver City, New Mexico,
he moved to Saskatchewan from Texas when he was eight years old and
grew up in Weyburn. After studying journalism in Arkansas, he returned
to Weyburn as a reporter/photographer for the Weyburn Review, becoming
news editor in 1984. In 1988 he moved to Regina as communications
officer for the fledgling Saskatchewan Science Centre, and remained
there until 1993, when he became a fulltime freelance writer. Among
his novels: Marseguro (DAW Books), which won the Aurora Award
for best long-form work in English in 2009, the sequel Terra
Insegura, nominated for an Aurora the following year, and
Spirit Singer (Awe-Struck), a young adult fantasy that won the
Regina Book Award at the Saskatchewan Book Awards in 2002. His most
recent novel is the epic fantasy Magebane (DAW Books), written
under the pseudonym Lee Arthur Chane; he's now working on
Masks, the first book in a new series, to appear from DAW under
the pseudonym E.C. Blake. Nonfiction titles run the gamut from
computer books to science books to history and biography, on topics as
diverse as genetics, Ebola virus, quantum mechanics, the Iran-Iraq
War, the mutiny on the Bounty, Jimi Hendrix, Andy Warhol, and Orson
Scott Card. Ed just completed a nine-month stint as Writer in
Residence at the Regina Public Library. In addition to writing, he is
a professional actor and singer. www.edwardwillett.com.
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Jude Wilner Jude Wilner has been writing since the
1980s when she tackled her first romance novel. Every spring she would
send a manuscript into Harlequin and every summer they would send it
back with a kind letter telling her what she was doing wrong and what
few things she was doing right. After several years of writing on her
own, a chance phone call hooked her up with the Alberta Romance
Writers' Association who invited her to join their tiny group. Over
the following two years, she subsequently learned the lessons needed
to finally see her work published.
Her first novel with Harlequin/Silhouette, Just One of the
Guys, came out in 1992 and earned Romantic Times' Reviewer's
Choice Certificate of Excellence. Northern Manhunt followed in
1993, and A Miracle for Bryan -- which made the Waldenbooks
Romance bestseller list -- in 1994. Back in My Heart, published with
Kensington Publishers was released in 1998.
Writing with Diana Scott, Jude co-wrote the winning entry, Widows'
Row, in the Alibi Unplugged contest at the Banff Television Festival
in 2004.
Currently, Jude's Elizabethan time travel novel, Bewitching Ways, is
available online with New Concepts Publishing under the pen name Judy
Fayre.
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2011 Fantasy Guest Jack Whyte Returns! See here for his biography.
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Debra Yeung Debra is the 2012 Canadian Unity Fan
Fund delegate. Deb discovered SF & F books at an early age and was
often scolded for reading "that Science Fiction Stuff". She has been a
'Serial Volunteer' for much of her life, from media liaison for the
Hamilton Pagan Pride Festival to a decade with Hamilton's "It's Your
Festival", and is also a recipient of the 10 year Ontario Volunteer
Service Award. More recently Deb became involved with SFContario,
taking on roles from Party Maven to Program Director. In 2013 she will
be Vice Chair for SFContario 4.
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