Writer Guest of Honor:
Tanya Huff
Courtesy of Tanya Huff
Tanya Huff lives in rural Ontario, Canada, with her wife Fiona Patton, two dogs, and, as of last count, nine cats. Her 30 novels and 75 short stories include horror, heroic fantasy, urban fantasy, comedy, and space opera. She’s written four essays for Ben Bella’s pop culture collections and the occasional book review for the Globe and Mail. Her Blood series was turned into the 22-episode Blood Ties and writing episode nine allowed her to finally use her degree in radio and television arts. Her latest novel was a new Torin Kerr book, Peacekeeper #1: An Ancient Peace (Oct 2015), and her next will be Peacekeeper #2: A Peace Divided (Oct 2016). She can be found on twitter @TanyaHuff, on fb as Tanya Huff, and she occasionally blogs at LiveJournal, although as she links those occasional blogs to both twitter and fb, don’t worry about lj. Four collections of her short stories, as well as six of her older novels, are available pretty much wherever ebooks are sold.
Artist Guest of Honor:
Janny Wurts
Through a combined career as a fantasy artist and author, Janny Wurts has turned her dual talents toward creating a seamless interface, using pictures and words to explore imaginative realms beyond the world we know. She graduated from Hampshire College with a focus on art and writing, she rented a studio apartment in the carriage house of naturalist Daniel P. Mannix, whose rehabilitation of wild animals allowed her a unique opportunity to draw and sketch directly. She can be reached at: jannywurts@paravia.com.
Website: https://www.paravia.com/JannyWurts/website/index.html
Science Guest of Honor:
William K. Hartmann
Courtesy of William Hartmann
William K. Hartmann is known internationally as a planetary scientist, writer, and space artist. His 50-year science career includes discovery of the moon’s Mare Orientale basin, the modern theory of the origin of the moon, measuring ages of Martian surface features, and studies of asteroids. He was first winner of the Carl Sagan Medal from the American Astronomical Society, and he has an asteroid named for him. His SF novel, Mars Underground, was published by Tor.
Website: https://www.psi.edu/about/staff/hartmann
Spotlight Publisher:
DAW
Founded in 1971 by veteran paperback editor Donald A. Wollheim, along with his wife, Elsie B. Wollheim, DAW Books was the first publishing company ever devoted exclusively to science fiction and fantasy. Now more than 30 years and more than a thousand titles later, DAW has a well-deserved reputation for discovering and publishing the hottest talents in the industry. […] Despite its high profile, DAW is still a small private company, owned exclusively by its publishers, Elizabeth R. Wollheim and Sheila E. Gilbert. Betsy and Sheila are strongly committed to discovering and nurturing new talent, and to keeping a personal “family” spirit at DAW—something they feel is all too rare in today’s world of international conglomerate publishing.
(Text from DAW’s website)