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Saturday, July 18
 

10:00am EDT

Signings: Richard Kadrey
Saturday July 18, 2026 10:00am - 11:00am EDT
Grand Ballroom Salons E-F-G-H (Dealer Room)

Speakers
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Richard Kadrey

Guest of Honor
Richard Kadrey is the New York Times bestselling author of the Sandman Slim supernatural noir series. Sandman Slim was included in Amazon’s “100 Science Fiction & Fantasy Books to Read in a Lifetime,” and is in development as a feature film.Some of Kadrey’s other books in... Read More →
Saturday July 18, 2026 10:00am - 11:00am EDT
Grand Ballroom Salons E-F-G-H (Dealer Room)
  Signings / Autographs

10:00am EDT

Dealer's Room Open
Saturday July 18, 2026 10:00am - 6:00pm EDT
Grand Ballroom Salons E-F-G-H (Dealer Room)
Come and buy cool stuff!

Dealer Load-in
Friday: 8:00am

Dealer Room Hours
Friday: 2:00pm - 7:00pm
Saturday: 10:00am - 6:00pm (dealers in at 9am)
Sunday: 10:00am - 2:00pm (dealers in at 9am)
Saturday July 18, 2026 10:00am - 6:00pm EDT
Grand Ballroom Salons E-F-G-H (Dealer Room)
  Dealer's Room

11:00am EDT

Signings: Angela Giddings & Eli Rainwater
Saturday July 18, 2026 11:00am - 12:00pm EDT
Grand Ballroom Salons E-F-G-H (Dealer Room)
Angela Giddings signs her books.
Speakers
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Eli Rainwater

Literary Guest
Eli’s love for reading started at an early age. She discovered the fantasy genre and fell hard for it when her brother let her sit in on his D&D sessions and lent her his collections of David Eddings and Dragonlance books while he was away at college. An Atlanta transplant, she... Read More →
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Angela Giddings

Film Guest
A.M. Giddings is a writer, scientist, cellist, independent filmmaker and aspiring swamp hag from North Carolina.  She has a PhD in Microbiology and has authored multiple scientific articles in virology, cell line design, and gene therapy.  She enjoys writing stories that live within... Read More →
Saturday July 18, 2026 11:00am - 12:00pm EDT
Grand Ballroom Salons E-F-G-H (Dealer Room)
  Signings / Autographs

12:00pm EDT

Signings: Gray Rinehart & Bruce Buchanan
Saturday July 18, 2026 12:00pm - 1:00pm EDT
Grand Ballroom Salons E-F-G-H (Dealer Room)

Speakers
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Gray Rinehart

Literary Guest
Gray Rinehart is an award-winning author, an editor, a singer/songwriter, and a retired Air Force officer. He is the only person to have commanded a USAF satellite tracking station, written speeches for Presidential appointees, devised a poetic form, and had music on The Dr. Demento... Read More →
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Bruce Buchanan

Literary Guest
Bruce Buchanan can pinpoint the moment he became a fan of heroic fiction. When he was six, he accompanied his parents to the Kmart in Shelby, N.C., Bruce’s hometown. On his way to scope out the toy aisle, something caught his eye: A Spider-Man comic book, bagged with two other... Read More →
Saturday July 18, 2026 12:00pm - 1:00pm EDT
Grand Ballroom Salons E-F-G-H (Dealer Room)
  Signings / Autographs

1:00pm EDT

Signings: John Scalzi
Saturday July 18, 2026 1:00pm - 2:00pm EDT
Grand Ballroom Salons E-F-G-H (Dealer Room)

Speakers
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John Scalzi

Guest of Honor
John Scalzi is the Hugo-winning and New York Times bestselling author of Old Man’s War, Redshirts, The Kaiju Preservation Society, and Starter Villain, among other novels. Some of his short work was featured in the Netflix animated series Love, Death + Robots.He was president of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (now the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association), but he got better.He owns one dog, three cats, a six-necked guitar and a church. His burritos are internet infamous and possibly actual crimes. He lives... Read More →
Saturday July 18, 2026 1:00pm - 2:00pm EDT
Grand Ballroom Salons E-F-G-H (Dealer Room)
  Signings / Autographs

2:00pm EDT

Signings: EJ Isaacs & Dennis Myers
Saturday July 18, 2026 2:00pm - 3:00pm EDT
Grand Ballroom Salons E-F-G-H (Dealer Room)

Speakers
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EJ Isaacs

Literary Guest
EJ Isaacs is at heart, a geek. As a child I grew up with classics in science fiction from Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clark and Robert Heinlein. A late comer to role playing, he enjoyed creating backgrounds to the characters he was playing. For a three-year period, he was involved with... Read More →
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Dennis M. Myers

Literary Guest
Born and raised in central Minnesota, Dennis M. Myers developed a serious reading habit early in life due to the influence of his grandmother. In late high school he read one particularly "awful" book and, with all that teenage hubris, decided that he could do better.After spending... Read More →
Saturday July 18, 2026 2:00pm - 3:00pm EDT
Grand Ballroom Salons E-F-G-H (Dealer Room)
  Signings / Autographs

2:00pm EDT

Signings: Sherrilyn Kenyon (at her table)
Saturday July 18, 2026 2:00pm - 3:00pm EDT
Grand Ballroom Salons E-F-G-H (Dealer Room)

Speakers
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Sherrilyn Kenyon

Special Guest
Defying all odds is what #1 New York Times and international bestselling author Sherrilyn Kenyon does best. Since her first book debuted while she was still in college, she has placed more than 80 novels on the New York Times list in all formats and genres, including manga and graphic novels, and has more than 70 million books in print worldwide.A pioneer in paranormal, fantasy, science fiction and romantasy, she has become one of the most popular and influential authors in the world (in adult, YA and... Read More →
Saturday July 18, 2026 2:00pm - 3:00pm EDT
Grand Ballroom Salons E-F-G-H (Dealer Room)
  Signings / Autographs

3:00pm EDT

Signings: Philip Kramer & Wayland Smith
Saturday July 18, 2026 3:00pm - 4:00pm EDT
Grand Ballroom Salons E-F-G-H (Dealer Room)

Speakers
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Wayland Smith

Literary Guest
Wayland Smith is the pen name for a native Texan who has lived in Massachusetts, New York, Washington DC, and presently makes his home in Virginia. His rather unlikely list of jobs includes private investigator, comic book shop owner, ring crew for a circus (then he ran away from... Read More →
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Dr. Philip A. Kramer

Science Guest
Dr. Philip A. Kramer is a biomedical researcher who studies aging, oxidative stress, and metabolism. In addition to his academic works, he is a hard science fiction author with two published novels (under the name P. A. Kramer), and several award-winning short stories. His blog (... Read More →
Saturday July 18, 2026 3:00pm - 4:00pm EDT
Grand Ballroom Salons E-F-G-H (Dealer Room)
  Signings / Autographs

4:00pm EDT

Signings: Tally Johnson & Mur Lafferty
Saturday July 18, 2026 4:00pm - 5:00pm EDT
Grand Ballroom Salons E-F-G-H (Dealer Room)

Speakers
avatar for Mur Lafferty

Mur Lafferty

Literary Guest
Mur Lafferty is an author. Mur Lafferty is a podcaster. Mur Lafferty podcasts about writing and writes about podcasting. She also writes about murders in space, zombies, Minecraft and Han Solo. Her writing and podcasting have resulted in numerous award nominations and wins, such... Read More →
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Tally Johnson

Special Guest
Mr. Johnson is a graduate of Spartanburg Methodist College and Wofford College with degrees in history. He is the author of Ghosts of the South Carolina Upcountry, Ghosts of the South Carolina Midlands, Ghosts of the Pee Dee (all for The History Press) and Civil War Ghosts of Sou... Read More →
Saturday July 18, 2026 4:00pm - 5:00pm EDT
Grand Ballroom Salons E-F-G-H (Dealer Room)
  Signings / Autographs

5:00pm EDT

Signings Michael G Williams: & Bill Mulligan
Saturday July 18, 2026 5:00pm - 6:00pm EDT
Grand Ballroom Salons E-F-G-H (Dealer Room)

Speakers
avatar for Fraser Sherman

Fraser Sherman

Literary Guest
Born in England, Fraser Sherman wound up spending most of his life in Northwest Florida. He’d be there still if he hadn’t fallen in love and moved to Durham NC to marry his dream woman. They’re still together, with two dogs and two cats added to the family.Fraser has published... Read More →
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Bill Mulligan

Film Guest
A 25+ year veteran of high school science teaching, Bill Mulligan has parlayed his love of horror, science fiction, and fantasy films into podcasting, convention panels, indie filmmaking, and storytelling. With creative partners such as Christine Parker and Mark C. Lucas, he has worked... Read More →
Saturday July 18, 2026 5:00pm - 6:00pm EDT
Grand Ballroom Salons E-F-G-H (Dealer Room)
  Signings / Autographs
 

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