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Joshua Viola is an author, artist, and video game developer (Pirates of the Caribbean, Smurfs). In addition to creating a transmedia creative franchise around The Bane of Yoto, honored with more than a dozen literary awards, he is the author of Blackstar, a novel based on the work... Read More →

Aaron Michael Ritchey is the author of forty-three novels under various pen names. He’s been an Amazon All-Star, and the first book in The Juniper Wars series was a Dragon Award Finalist. His first two big press books, The Cunning Man and The Jupiter Knife, co-written with DJ Butler... Read More →

Edward Bryant has spent more than three decades as an award-winning writer of fiction and non-fiction, reviewer, teacher, screenwriter, editor, mentor and friend of MileHiCon.  One of his most recent stories appears in the anthology Nightmares Unhinged. Watch for others is upcoming... Read More →

Author of the Jonathan Shade series and more.

Jeanne C. Stein is the bestselling author of the urban fantasy series, The Anna Strong Vampire Chronicles and, most recently, the Fallen Siren Series, written as S.J. Harper. She has many short story credits to her name including Love Story in the NYT bestselling anthology, Dead But... Read More →

Mario Acevedo is the author of the bestselling Felix Gomez detective-vampire series, which includes Rescue From Planet Pleasure from WordFire Press. His short fiction has appeared in Nightmares Unhinged and CyberWorld from Hex Publishers. Mario lives and writes in Denver, CO.

Warren Hammond is known for his gritty, futuristic KOP series, of which the third book, KOP Killer, won the 2012 Colorado Book Award for best mystery. Warren's latest novel, Tides of Maritinia, ws released in December 2014. His first book independent of the KOP series, Tides is a... Read More →