Info about our Guests:
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Writer Guest of Honor
Peter David is a "Writer of Stuff" and started writing professionally in 1985. He has written comics, novels, televison and movie screenplays. He has written comics for Marvel, DC, Dark Horse and IDW. He has also written over 50 novels most recently Tigerheart. He has written many popular Star Trek novels including the New Frontiers series. He also has an opinion column in the Comic Buyer's Guide called "But I Digress". Check out Peter David.net .
Special Guest Writer
John Ringo is a New York Times best selling writer. His first novel A Hymm Before Battle, was published in 2000 by Baen Books. Since then he has written or co-written 25 novels including Cally's War (with Julie Cochrane), March Upcountry (with David Weber), There Will Be Dragons, Ghost, Into the Looking Glass and Von Nuemann's War. He has written several op-ed pieces for The New York Post and been a commentator on Fox News . Honor of the Clan (co written with Julie Cochrane) will be coming out in February 2009. Checkout his website here.
Editor Guest of Honor
Toni Weisskopf started out as an editoral assitant for Baen Books in 1987. She eventually became an editor at Bean. In 2006, Toni became the publisher of Baen Books. She has edited five anthologies for Baen under the name T.K.F Weisskopf. These include two Cosmic Tales anthologies, two vampire anthologies with Greg Cox and recently Transhuman with Mark L. Van Name. Check out Toni's section of the Baen website.
Artist Guest of Honor
Johnny Atomic Johnny Atomic is one of the best concept designers and illustrators in the industry as well as co-founder of the wildly successful concept house League Entertainment. He capped off 2008 by helping re-design the Prince Caspian attraction at Disney’s Hollywood Studios, painting fresh interpretations of Michael Moorcock’s “Elric of Mlenibone” and painting the cover of Richard Lee Byers new novel “The Diamond Castle” In 2009 he will be collaborating with Nebula Grand Master Frederik Pohl on a new fiction anthology called “Vile”. This year, in addition to his design and illustration duties, he will be touring the country with League Entertainment Co-Founder Kenneth Chapman lecturing on painting techniques and the ins and outs of the notorious “Orphan Works” bill. For more information about Johnny or League Entertainment, go here.
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Also Appearing:
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Peter David 
John Ringo 
Toni Weisskopf 