Andrea J. Johnson
In-Person Conference Andrea J. Johnson is a speaker, editor, book coach, and the author of the Victoria Justice Mysteries about a trial stenographer turned amateur sleuth (think Murder, She Wrote meets The Pelican Brief). She holds an M.F.A. in Writing Popular Fiction from Seton Hill University and
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Erin Roberts
In-Person Conference Erin Roberts tells stories across formats. Her short stories and interactive fiction have appeared in publications including Asimov’s, Clarkesworld, Strange Horizons, and The Dark, she has written scripts for Zombies, Run! and Forge Your Quest, an interactive choose your own p
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Naomi Davis
In-Person Conference Naomi Davis is a Senior Literary Agent with BookEnds Literary Agency. With over ten years of experience, Naomi represents adult and YA speculative and contemporary fiction, as well as select picture books. In adult fiction, Naomi is seeking fiction that blends genres such as fan
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Crystal (CJ) Hunt
In-Person Conference Crystal (CJ) Hunt is an author, health psychologist, podcaster, and very human curator of bright ideas. She has been published in a wide variety of genres (romance, children’s books and non-fiction) under various pen names over the past two decades, and you can learn about her
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Renée Sarojini Saklikar
In-Person Conference and Virtual Conference Renée Sarojini Saklikar is the author of five books, including the award-winning Children of Air India and Listening to the Bees. Her poetry, essays and short fiction have appeared in many literary magazines and anthologies, including Exile Edition
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Robert Dugoni
In-Person Conference Robert Dugoni is the New York Times and #1 Amazon bestselling author of the Tracy Crosswhite police series, the Charles Jenkins espionage series, the David Sloane legal thriller series, the Keera Duggan legal series and the William Shumacher historical series set in 1933 Seattle
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Sean Cranbury
In-Person Conference Sean Cranbury is a writer and passionate advocate for literature and community-driven creativity. He works across disciplines and industries to champion experimental writing practices that challenge traditional boundaries, encouraging writers to embrace uncertainty, imperfection
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Eileen Cook
In-Person Conference Eileen Cook is a multi-published, award winning author with her novels appearing in nine languages. She’s written YA, Middle-Grade, Non-fiction, and most recently under the pen name Kate MacIntosh, an adult historical novel that People magazine named a best book of December. S
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Susanna Kearsley
In-Person Conference New York Times, USA Today and Globe and Mail bestselling author Susanna Kearsley is a former museum curator who loves restoring the lost voices of real people to the page, often in multi-stranded stories that interweave present and past, or the past and the more distant past. Sh
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Mary Robinette Kowal
In-Person Conference Mary Robinette Kowal is the USA TODAY bestselling author of the Hugo, Nebula, and Locus award winning alternate history novel The Calculating Stars. This title is the first book in the Lady Astronaut series, which continued in 2025 with its fourth installment, The Martian Contin
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Hallie Ephron
Virtual Conference HALLIE EPHRON is a New York Times bestselling author of 16 books. Reviewers call her stories “deliciously creepy.” A five-time finalist for the Mary Higgins Clark Award, her Writing and Selling Your Mystery Novel was an Edgar Award finalist. Lee Child called it “the best how
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Elizabeth Boyle
In-Person Conference Elizabeth Boyle is a New York Times bestselling author of 25 novels, several novellas and a couple of short stories. Her books have won the Romance Writers of America RITA award, the RT Love and Laughter Award, and garnered starred reviews in Publisher’s Weekly and Booklist, a
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Michael Slade
In-Person Conference MICHAEL SLADE is a criminal lawyer/crime writer who has acted in more than 100 murder cases. His specialty is psychopathology. He argued the last hanging appeal in Canada’s Supreme Court. His 15 Mountie Noir thrillers about the Special X psycho-hunters of the RCMP fuse pol
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Robin Stevenson
In-Person Conference Robin Stevenson is the award winning author of more than thirty books of fiction and non-fiction for young readers of all ages. Her books have won the Silver Birch Award, the Sheila A. Egoff award and a Stonewall Honor, and been finalists for the Governor General’s Literary Aw
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kc dyer
In-Person Conference kc dyer, the author of books for both teens and adults, has literally travelled around the world in search of fantastic stories. In her most recent novel, AN ACCIDENTAL ODYSSEY, an unexpected phone call derails a young woman’s wedding plans, and sparks an epic adventure around
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Diana Gabaldon
In-Person Conference Diana Gabaldon is the author of the award-winning, #1 NYT-bestselling OUTLANDER novels, described by Salon magazine as “the smartest historical sci-fi adventure-romance story ever written by a science Ph.D. with a background in scripting ‘Scrooge McDuck’ comics.”
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