First-look schedule now posted!
Want to see what’s on the menu at Writers Cantina? The first-look schedule is now posted! (The order may yet change, but the subjects and participants are pretty much set.)
Presenter spotlight: Craig Nybo
Craig Nybo writes and composes novels, musicals, and boardgames. His novels include Dead Girl, Bieber’s Finger, The Pan-Galactic Promshow, and Small Town Monsters. His musicals include Space Funk: A Science Fiction Funk Opera, and Tesla V Cthulhu: A Musical. As a game developer, Craig has produced Shoot Your Friends, CHOPS, and Rites of Cthulhu. Craig …
Presenter spotlight: Jay Barnson
Jay Barnson is the author of the Blood Creek Saga, the Vanished series, and dozens of published short stories and articles. He’s a former (or lapsed?) video game developer based in the Salt Lake City area. By day, he creates Virtual Reality-based training simulators, and by night he writes imaginary worlds. It’s questionable if he …
Presenter spotlight: Steve Diamond
Steve Diamond is a Horror, Fantasy, and Science Fiction author for Baen, Gallant Knight Games, and numerous other small publications. His two most recent works are a collection of short fiction, What Hellhounds Dream, and a Dark Fantasy/Horror novel co-written with Larry Correia, Servants of War. He is also the co-host of the writing advice …
Presenter spotlight: Larry Correia
Larry Correia is the creator of the Wall Street Journal and New York Times best-selling Monster Hunter International series, with first entry Monster Hunter International, as well as urban fantasy hardboiled adventure saga The Grimnoir Chronicles, with first entry Hard Magic, and epic fantasy series The Saga of the Forgotten Warrior, with first entry Son of the Black Sword. He is an avid gun …
Presenter spotlight: Jana S. Brown
Jana S. Brown entered the world of publishing in the mid-90s and has never looked back. She’s worked as a fiction writer, technical writer, editor, presenter, author coach, and a host of other positions. In the last several years, she’s assisted in the creation of bestselling and award-winning novels in the self-publishing space as well …
Presenter spotlight: D.L. Campanile
D.L Campanile writes both fantasy and science fiction, and reads just about anything she can get her hands on. She loves history, dragons, spaceships, magic, thrillers, computers, politics, humor, and psi powers – and sometimes mixes them all up in pretty strange ways. In her day job, she’s been an accountant for over 20 years, …
Presenter spotlight: J.C. Chambers III
J.C. Chambers III writes about heroic characters doing heroic things in intricate fantasy & science-fiction worlds. He believes that fictional worlds should inspire wonder, that action should be bombastic, and that romance should give you diabetes from the overwhelming sweetness. In addition to dreaming up over-the-top fantasy novels, J.C. passes the time as a professional …
Presenter spotlight: Jared Garrett
Jared Garrett is a family man, husband, full-time dad, voiceover and audiobook artist, public speaker, game show champion, and the author of contemporary fiction for all ages. At age 17, he escaped from a Scientology-breakaway cult and has worked as a firefighter, BBQ chef, cowboy theater actor, worldwide corporate trainer, adjunct faculty, and a bellman. …
Presenter spotlight: Holli Anderson
Holli Anderson has a Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing—which has nothing to do with writing, except maybe by adding some pretty descriptive injury and vomit scenes to her books. She discovered her joy of writing during a very trying period in her life when escaping into make-believe saved her. She has multiple published books of differing …