Michael F. Haspil is an international science fiction and fantasy author and an Air Force veteran. His novel from TOR, Graveyard Shift, an urban fantasy about an immortal pharaoh out to stop an ancient vampire conspiracy in modern-day Miami, was a finalist for the Colorado Book Award. His Warhammer 40,000 stories are currently available from …
For sale at the registration desk: paperback copies of Project Salamander, the round-robin novella written last year to benefit the Cantina! Stranded in Salt Lake City by bad weather, attorney Owen Vail goes to sleep in the Airport Hilton. He wakes up in a different room. In a different city. In a different body. Swept …
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A note for y’all on the facility, the Utah Cultural Celebration Center: Those of you who attended last year remember that we entered the upper level on the west side (right about where the pin is on the photo below) and crossed a big empty hall to the stairs to the lower level where Writers …
Spotlighting new work by past and current presenters. Up today: Alumni Alerts: Catalyst (Jack Bishop Series Book 3) by Steve Diamond In a world on the brink of annihilation, Jack Bishop’s absence has been a haunting mystery. Imprisoned and subjected to sinister experiments, he battles to survive while the very world teeters on the precipice …
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Joe Vasicek fell in love with science fiction and fantasy when he read The Neverending Story as a child. He is the author of more than twenty books, including Genesis Earth, Gunslinger to the Stars, The Sword Keeper, and the Sons of the Starfarers series. As a young man, he studied Arabic at Brigham Young …
Pre-registration prices of $40 for the weekend ($20 per day) will close this Saturday, June 22. After that, registrations will be at the door: $50 for the weekend ($25 per day), with a $5 discount for student ID. Save ten bucks and register now!
At the “Real-Time Reaction” panel (Fri 2pm), editors Holli Anderson, D.J. Butler and Jason King will share what immediately attracts their interest and what turns them off as they react on-the-spot to real proposals for novels, submitted anonymously by conference attendees. They will give their reactions to what they are reading, both positive and negative, …
Jason King would say he’s a lover, not a fighter, but really isn’t good at either. He was born and raised in Salt Lake City, Utah, shaped by the dark forces of 16-bit consoles, anime, junk food, and tabletop games, and was mentored by the ghost of an Aztec shaman. Jason is married (sorry, ladies) …
Spotlighting new work by current and past presenters. Up today: The Shadow Over Vinland, and Other Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos by Nathan Shumate From the imagination of Nathan Shumate, the man behind the Space Eldritch and Redneck Eldritch anthologies and The Last Christmas Gift: A Heartwarming Holiday Tale of the Living Dead, comes this …
EmmaLee Davis has had a passion for writing since the first grade, and a love of fantasy worlds. First love will always be her two children and her supportive husband, with whom has kept her sane through the rocky road of raising two toddlers, but creating stories is a close second. She has successfully completed …