Joe Viskocil is a special effects master and pyrotechnician known for his amazing contributions to genre films such as "Star Wars", "Terminator", "Alien Resurrection", "Batman Returns", "The Abyss" and of course "Independence Day" for which he won an Oscar. Find more info HERE.

Joseph Corsentino is a visual storyteller at heart. Lacking the ability to draw a straight line, he begrudgingly picked up a camera in high school and started documenting the lives around him. He quickly became bored with mundane activities and started having his friends pose scenes from his own imagination for his photographic pleasure. These scenes usually involve magick in far off lands across space and time... Years later, he took his passion for photography and storytelling to Los Angeles where, with his future wife, Donny Ha Corsentino, he began Time of the Faeries, a photographic, epic, retelling of faerie mythology. His stunning, ethereal, and realistic faeries can now be seen in private collections and magazines all over the world. His first book, published by Imaginosis Publishing, is a prologue into the Time of the Faeries universe. Joseph is now well into the production of his second book and already pondering the possibilities of the future...webisodes or graphic novels
. . .Joseph Corsentino creates a startling new vision in which faeries, angels and vampires hide in the dark corners of urban decay while waging an ancient battle to regain control of our world. The Time of the Faeries will appeal to any lover of the fantastic as Joseph’s lush sensual images reveal glimpses of the world from which these magical creatures are summoned by the heartfelt wish of one human girl. Please visit his website HERE.

Dani & Eytan Kollin

Brothers, Dani Kollin and Eytan Kollin are Tor authors out with their latest novel, The Unincorporated Man. The book has already received a coveted SciFi Essential designation and is also a nominee for this year’s Prometheus Award. The Brother’s K also garnered positive reviews from Publisher’s Weekly, Booklist Magazine and Library Journal as well as from such distinguished authors as Robert Sawyer, Gregory Benford and Kage Baker. The Kollin brothers have the distinction of being the only sibling collaborative science fiction writers in the world today.
The book's official website is right HERE.

John DeChancie is the author of over two dozen books, fiction and nonfiction, and has written for periodicals as widely varied as Penthouse and Cult Movies. His novels in the science fiction and fantasy genres have been attracting a wide readership for more than fifteen years, and over a million copies of his books have seen print, many in foreign languages.

. . .John's first work was Starrigger (Berkley/Ace ,1984), followed by Red Limit Freeway (1985) and Paradox Alley (1987), completing the Skyway Trilogy, one of the most imaginative, mind-expanding series in science fiction. Beloved of SF readers around the world, the trilogy has become a cult classic. Log onto Amazon.com and read the four-star Reader's Reviews. It is no exaggeration to say that the trilogy has found a place in the hearts of readers along with the works of Heinlein, Asimov, and Clarke. Jerry Pournelle, co-author with Larry Niven of the classics The Mote in God's Eye and Lucifer's Hammer, has compared the series to the best of A. E. van Vogt, and better written. The convoluted plot takes the reader on a mind-bending journey to the end of the universe and back. 
. . .His humorous fantasy series, beginning with Castle Perilous, became a best seller for Berkley/Ace. William Morrow published MagicNet, which Booklist said was "a welcome sigh of comic relief ... shamelessly droll, literate, and thoroughly entertaining. Magicnet is the fantasy genre's whimsical answer to Neuromancer." He has also written in the horror genre. His short fiction has appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction and in numerous original anthologies, the latest of which is Spell Fantastic. His story collection, Other States of Being, was recently published by Pulpless.com, Inc., an online and print-on-demand publisher.. Please visit his website HERE.

 

James C. Glass is a retired physics and astronomy professor and dean who now spends his time writing, painting, traveling, and playing didgeridoo or native American flute. He made his first story sale in 1988 and was the Grand Prize Winner of Writers of the Future in 1990. Since then he has sold six novels and two short story collections, and over forty short stories to magazines such as Aboriginal S.F., Analog, and Talebones. He now divides his time between Spokane, Washington and Desert Hot Springs, California with wife Gail, who is a costumer and healing dancer. Please visit his website HERE.

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. .Patti has been a long time published author since 1989. Her very first trilogy, "Thief of Hearts" was published with a small press in NYC. The company was purchased by a larger one, and the series was forced to sit back on her shelf collecting dust. The series will make it's debut shortly.

. .She has a twenty-eight year background in fiction and script writing newspaper and magazine writing as well as publishing which has enabled her and her husband to become the prolific best selling authors they are today.

Andrew has been actively writing since he was twelve years old, and writing stories that are worth reading, instead of simply using for toilet paper, since he was nineteen. His beliefs about equality, libertarianism, and personal potential lend his works direction and endings that often quite differ from the formulas seen in most other literary works.

. .Andrew has studied and experienced a wide range of pursuits, ranging from courses in emergency medical procedures to several decades of training in martial arts styles from around the globe, to baking and sushi making. He is currently an amateur mui thai kick boxer hoping to go professional (in the ring or in the NHB cage, depending), and thinks boots were made for walking... unless they're high heeled boots worn by statuesque domes. Please visit the AP Miller website HERE.

Lubov Perhaps oddly, it is the art of the fantastic - fantasy, phantasmagoric - that draws Lubov's imagination and her skills as an artist. Her work has its own voice. It stands outside the cacophony of commercial art, the core purpose of which always will be to sell you something you don't necessarily need. Lubov studied art at the Chicago Art Institute, one of the most prestigious schools in the country, but she maintains that her true knowledge of art - her sense and sensibility - comes via her own studies. Lubov's work is singular in both imagination and execution. There is technical mastery in her work; mastery in the sense of the old masters. Lubov's art is a return to the pre-Raphaelites' storied imagination, a thesis of art that resonates for Lubov. (Lubov's artistic inspirations include Adolphe-William Bouguerau, John W. Waterhouse, Maxfield Parrish, Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Victor Mikailovich Vasnetsov, Arkhip Kuinji, Alphonse Mucha, and Rembrandt.) Lubov paints with oils, the most difficult painting medium of all. The technique itself is six hundred years old and nothing since devised can match the sheer power of this very human mode of expression when handled by such an expert. Please visit her website HERE.

Maxwell Alexander Drake is an award-winning Science Fiction and Fantasy author. The first novel of his Genesis of Oblivion saga entitled Farmers & Mercenaries was released in June of 2009 and has won both a 2009 Moonbeam Young Adult Fantasy Award for Excellence in Literature as well as being named Dragonroots Magazine’s Best New Fantasy Saga of 2009. It is now up for an IPPY award.

. .Book two of this saga, Mortals & Deities, is scheduled for release in June of this year.

. .His Genesis of Oblivion short, The Way of the Lion, is being published in this year’s Gen-Con authors collection and took their “Honored Spot.”

You can read the first four chapters of Farmers & Mercenaries at the official website, www.genesisofoblivion.com.

. .At Xanadu this year, Drake will be doing his seminar entitled How to Create a more Realistic Fantasy World. This seminar is great for anyone who has a love of Sci-fi or fantasy whether you are a writer, gamer, or just like to sit and dream about alternate realities.

. .Drake will also be available at a table in the main hallway of this event when not giving the seminar.