The Post-Cantina Survey!
Now that you’ve caught up on sleep, we want to hear your takeaways! What did you like? What DIDN’T you like? Help lay the groundwork for WC27!
Presenter spotlight: David J. West
UPDATE: David J. West will be unable to join us because he’ll be OUT FIGHTING FRICKING FOREST FIRES. Prayers are appropriate. David J. West writes dark fantasy and weird westerns because the voices in his head won’t quiet until someone else can hear them. He is a great fan of sword & sorcery, ghosts and …
Presenter spotlight: Lyn Worthen
Winner of the Diamond Quill (2022), and Silver Quill (2019, 2020) awards from the League of Utah Writers for her multi-author anthologies, Lyn Worthen is a freelance editor, published author, and full time writer. Lyn has been reading since before she can remember, and began her career as a freelance writer and editor sometime in …
Presenter spotlight: Stanley Wheeler
Stanley Wheeler has been a vacuum cleaner salesman, window washer, construction site lackey, cow milker, farmhand, customer support representative, software documentation writer, law clerk, lawyer, and is currently a deputy prosecuting attorney in Idaho who writes books and short stories. His novels include the Tomahawks and Dragon Fire series (Threading the Rude Eye, Power to …
Presenter spotlight: Scott William Taylor
Scott William Taylor writes Sci-Fi, Steampunk, and other fun genres. He lives at the top of Utah (latitudinally, not by elevation). In addition to writing fiction Scott is also an awarding winning screenwriter. He enjoys writing, photography, and attending writing conventions. [He is also the might Second-in-Command workhorse of Writers Cantina, stepping in to make …
Presenter spotlight: Daniel Swenson
Daniel Swenson resides within the lofty snow covered peaks of the Rocky Mountains with his family in Utah. He and his family enjoy hiking, kayaking, pickle ball, riding bikes, playing outdoors and game nights where both family and friends play different board and card games. For the past twenty years Daniel has been refining his …
Presenter spotlight: Sandy Petersen
Sandy got his start in the game industry at Chaosium in 1980, working on tabletop roleplaying games. His best-known work from that time is the cult game Call of Cthulhu, which has been translated into many languages and is still played worldwide. He also worked on many other published projects such as Runequest, Stormbringer, Elfquest, …
Presenter spotlight: Nick Nethery
Nick Nethery spent twenty years in the US Army as a bomb technician. After a full career traveling the world, seeing incredible things, and blowing them up, he retired home to Texas. He lives with his wife and many, many children. When he’s not chasing them or giving them all the money in his wallet, …
Presenter spotlight: Joe Monson
Joe Monson loves reading, books, and butter mochi. He has worked at a couple dozen different jobs during his life, including translating and editing Engineer into English. He valiantly battles worms, trojans, viruses, corruption, and updates to keep computer systems running while also expanding the accessible knowledge of the world by night. He edited the …
Presenter spotlight: C.H. Lindsay
C. H. Lindsay (Charlie) is an award-winning poet & writer, housewife, and book-lover—not necessarily in that order. She currently has short stories and poems in over forty anthologies and magazines including Amazing Stories, Fantasy Magazine, Moonletters, Space and Time Magazine, Strange Horizons, and Utah’s Best Poetry and Prose. She is currently working on five novels, six short stories, and at …