We have added 18 new special guests and media guests!! Authors, actors, editors, film makers, and artists. Check them out and spread the word.

Media Guest

Manu Intiraymi’s

Manu’s theater work includes lead roles in “Waiting for Godot”, “Marvin’s Room”, and “The Wizard of Oz”. He made his debut in the movies in the film “Senseless”, which starred David Spade and Marlon Wayans. Other film work includes a starring role in “Whatever It Takes” (Phoenix Pictures), as “Dunleavy”, plus supporting roles in “Go” (Sony), “Orange County” (Paramount), “Pearl Harbor”, and “Eyeball Eddie”. Most recently Manu wrapped lead roles in two features including “Charlie” in “Fortress” (A WW2 epic from Bayou Pictures and Radical 3D) and “Benjamin Ramsey” in “Benjamin Troubles” (A Dark Comedy from the writer of Downloading Nancy). Both films are due to be released soon. In (2012) Manu is also recurring as “Billy” in season nine of the CW’s “One Tree Hill.” He has also appeared on well-known television series, like “Las Vegas”, “24″, “King of Queens”, “Jag”, “Sabrina the Teenage Witch”, “Unhappily Ever After”, “Smart Guy”, and “Pacific Blue”. His recurring role as Icheb, on the hit sci-fi show, “Star Trek: Voyager” lead to a worldwide fan base. Manu’s work as Icheb began in early 2000 as an episode arc, and soon transformed into a large recurring role that placed him on the show, season six through the final episode of season seven. As well as acting Manu has recently ventured into writing and producing.

Special guests

Heather Carr – Heather’s current illustration project has her working closely with NY Times Best Selling author C.L. Wilson.   Together they create artwork and merchandise for the Cheryl’s Tairen Soul novel series, an epic tale of magic, passion, and fantasy.  “I love this type of project.  The writing is so vivid that it begs to be illustrated.”

Heather’s wildlife paintings have shown at the OMMA gallery in Santa Barbara, Frameworks Gallery in Bozeman, and Safari Club International in Reno, and many other shows in her home state of Colorado.  Heather’s illustrative works have won her several awards and claimed clients as prestigious as Land Rover with whom she has over twenty tire cover designs roaming the globe. (http://www.darkparadise.org)

Cara Cioffari – Cara Draws Stuff in Places with Things. For the past two years she has been employed as a Toy Designer, where she develops both product and packaging (and plays with toys), but ultimately seeks to enter into the animation or game industry, where she can ideally work on more character and/or story-driven concepts.

In her spare time, she enjoys working on her web-comic, creating characters, writing the middles and ends of novels, composing unfinished songs, watching all the old Classic Doctor Who episodes, and reading multiple books at once. (http://www.thecobradays.net)

David Coe – David is a full-time writer, specializing in fantasy and science fiction. His first novel, Children of Amarid, volume one of The LonTobyn Chronicle, was released by Tor Books in 1997. It was followed by The Outlanders (1998) and Eagle-Sage (2000). In 1999, The LonTobyn Chronicle was awarded the William L. Crawford Memorial Fantasy Award by the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts (IAFA).

David’s second series, the critically acclaimed Winds of the Forelands, consists of five volumes, Rules of Ascension, Seeds of Betrayal, Bonds of Vengeance, Shapers of Darkness, and Weavers of War. David has recently completed work on a new fantasy series called Blood of the Southlands. This trilogy is set in the same world as Winds of the.

David has also written the novelization for the Ridley Scott production of Robin Hood starring Russell Crowe and Cate Blanchett. The movie first appeared in theaters in May 2010 and the book is still out and available for order!

David is a founding member and proud contributor to the Magical Words blogsite, which is dedicated to the craft and business of writing. (http://www.sff.net/people/davidbcoe)

A.L. Davroe  – I write both YA and adult speculative fiction. I prefer revisionist tales in paranormal, romance, Steampunk, and fantasy. (http://www.aldavroe.com)

Lucienne Diver – Lucienne works for The Knight Agency and over the course of her dynamic career she has sold over seven hundred titles to every major publisher, and has built a client list of more than forty authors spanning the commercial fiction genres, primarily in the areas of fantasy, romance, mystery/suspense, and young adult fiction. Her authors have been honored with the RITA, National Readers’ Choice, the Golden Heart, and the Romantic Times Reader’s Choice Awards, and have appeared on the New York Times and USA Today bestseller lists.  She’s also an author in her own right with her Vamped young adult series published by Flux Books and Latter-Day Olympians series for Samhain.   (http://www.luciennediver.com/)

Darren J. Gendron – The dern of Dernwerks, Darren J. Gendron is a writer, artist and known scallywag. He’s the writer of Hello With Cheese (www.HelloWithCheese.com) and The Expert’s Guide (www.ExpertComic.com), and is the creator of Dear Pirate (www.DearPirate.com).

Michael A. Gordon – Mike a writer, editor, filmmaker, webmaster, comic fanboy, and co-founder of New Legend Productions. Writer of Scarlet O’Neal and Tiki Zombie. (http://www.newlegendproductions.com)

Daniel Gorman – Dan has played guitar in a couple hard rock bands, is a professional Medical Illustrator, and has worked as a staff Illustrator for a Law Firm. Dan has contributed work to “Golden Age of Comics Heroes and Villains” and “Classic Sci-Fi/Horror Movie Posters Set 2″ and will be working on “Thor”, “Marvel Beginnings Series 1″ and “Captain America.”  Dan planned, Directed, Filmed and Produced “One Night at Prospect Place.” This two hour video about the Prospect Place Mansion in Dresden, Ohio, which is considered to be one of the most haunted locations in the State. (http://dangormanart.com)

Chris Hamer – And artist in all sorts of mediums, but mostly in to Assemblage art! (http://www.urbnpop.com )

Faith Hunter - Faith writes dark urban fantasy: Skinwalker series, featuring Jane Yellowrock with Skinwalker, Blood Cross, and Mercy Blade, and Raven Cursed. Her Rogue Mage novels, a dark, urban fantasy series—Bloodring, Seraphs, and Host—feature Thorn St. Croix, a stone mage in a post-apocalyptic, alternate reality. (http://www.faithhunter.net)

Shane Moore – Author of the Abyss Walker series which has spawned two franchise writers; renown novelist and playwright, Roy C. Booth and up and coming novelist, Dave Barlow. The series has spawned five graphic novel spin offs with artists from Marvel and Gene Simmons’s “Dominatrix” writer, Sean Taylor. In August 2009, Shane will release book five in his Abyss Walker series with the debut appearance of a character modeled after Peter Mayhew (“Chewbacca” from Star Wars.) (http://www.abysswalker.com)

Tara O’Shea – Her essay collection “Chicks Dig Time Lords”, co-edited with Lynne M Thomas, from Mad Norwegian Press won the 2011 Hugo Award for “Best Related Work”. (http://fringe-element.net)

Stella Price – Stella and her sister Audra Price are have created alternate worlds that open up all the dark possibilities of a literary world where the bad guy is your hero, and you no longer crave that alpha with a heart of gold. Step inside the Eververse, and fall in love with your new literary obsession. (http://www.stellaandaudra.com)

PJ Schnyder – Author of paranormal and sci-fi romance, urban fantasy, and steampunk. (http://pjschnyder.com)

AJ Scudiere – A Best Selling Thriller Author (Resonance, Vengeance, God’s Eye).  AJ can be found teaching for fun (and the illusion of a regular paycheck) at all levels, grade school through college. AJ is no stranger to awards and national recognition for outstanding work as a teacher, trainer and curriculum writer. (http://www.ajscudiere.com)

Brian Woods – Co-creator, with Roy C. Booth of Suruale.  (http://www.goodreads.com/brianwoods)

Joe Wos – Joe Wos, 41, executive director of Pittsburgh’s ToonSeum, known as “The Fastest Draw in the East” and was the subject of the 2003 documentary “Drawn to Storytelling.” (http://toonseum.org)

Thom Zahler – Thom Zahler is the writer and artist of the indy fan-favorite comic, Love and Capes which has been a three-time participant in Free Comic Book Day.  Aong with Bob Ingersoll, Thom also co-wrote a story for the Star Trek: The Next Generation short story collection, The Sky’s the Limit. (www.thomz.com)