Writer Guest of Honor:
George R. R. Martin
George Raymond Richard Martin, often referred to as GRRM, is an American novelist and short story writer in the fantasy, horror, and science fiction genres, as well as a screenwriter and television producer. He is best known for A Song of Ice and Fire, his international bestselling series of epic fantasy novels that HBO adapted for its dramatic series Game of Thrones. Martin serves as the series’ co-executive producer, while also scripting one of each season’s 10 episodes. Martin was selected by Time magazine as one of the “2011 Time 100,” a list of the “most influential people in the world.”
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Website: www.georgerrmartin.com
Artist Guest of Honor:
Julie Dillon
Julie Dillon is an American artist specializing in science fiction and fantasy art. A freelance illustrator, Dillon has created images for games, book and magazine covers, and covers for musical albums. Dillon’s work has been nominated for the Chesley Award three times; she won the 2010 Chesley Award for Best Unpublished Color for “Planetary Alignment” (subsequently published as a cover for Clarkesworld Magazine), as well as the 2011 Chesley Award for “The Dala Horse” in Best Interior Illustration. She was nominated for the World Fantasy Award for Best Artist in 2012. Dillon lives and works in California.
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Website: www.juliedillonart.com
Science Guest of Honor:
Amy Mainzer
Amy Mainzer is an American astronomer, specializing in astrophysical instrumentation and infrared astronomy. She is the Deputy Project Scientist for the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer and the Principal Investigator for the NEOWISE project to study minor planets and the proposed Near Earth Object Camera space telescope mission. She has appeared a number of times in the History Channel series The Universe. She also appears in the documentary featurette “Stellar Cartography: On Earth” included on the Star Trek Generations home video release (March 2010).
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Spotlight Publisher:
Random House
Random House is the largest general-interest trade book publisher in the world. It has been owned since 1998 by the German private media corporation Bertelsmann and has become the umbrella brand for Bertelsmann book publishing. Random House also has an entertainment production arm for film and television, Random House Studio, of which the most recent release was One Day. The company also creates story content for media including video games, social networks on the web, and mobile platforms.
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Random House will be represented by Executive Editor at Del Rey Anne Groell and Del Rey Editorial Director Tricia Narwani.
A native New Yorker and former biologist, Anne Lesley Groell has been working in science fiction and fantasy publishing for close to twenty-two years—although she has been a devotee of the genre far longer. She worked for two and a half years at Avon Books, then moved on to Bantam Spectra. In the past twenty years, though she has never changed jobs again, she has worked for three different companies under two different imprints. She is currently an Executive Editor at Del Rey, where she works with such authors as George R.R. Martin, Terry Brooks, Robin Hobb, Scott Lynch, Naomi Novik, Connie Willis, Peter Hamilton and Harry Turtledove. She lives in New York with her husband, Canadian author David Keck, and their daughter Amy.
Web: www.randomhouse.com