Virtual HallowCon ​2021
presents
The Gamblers Nightmare

Our Guests

Author Guest of Honor
​Taylor S Hoch

Taylor S Hoch has been creating other worlds for people to experience since 1996. She is the author of
The Curse of the Dullahan series, an urban fantasy adventure. Book six in this nine-book series was
released in June 2019 and the seventh book is due to be released in Sept 2021. When Taylor isn't writing novels, she writes D&D source material for Goodman Games and also works as a songwriter and musician. She has published three albums of Americana music. Her songs play on radio stations
worldwide and on radio networks such as the BBC and RADI. She spent most of her adult life traveling
extensively in the US working as a restoration carpenter and contractor on historical landmarks and
playing her songs at music festivals. She holds masters degrees in English Literature and Creative
Writing; Sigma Tau Delta/NEHS, Alpha Sigma Lambda. She is the mother of two amazing young men
and lives in rural Tennessee with her wife of twenty-three years, two supposed-to-be working farm dogs
that prefer the A/C to doing their jobs, L.J. the perfect cat, a gargoyle protector named Aloysius, a serious
clan of gnomes, and a variable population of free-range chickens. She is also a professional game
master, DM extraordinaire for the exclusive Gamera Gang, and an avid SF/Fantasy fan.

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Special Guest Author
Stephanie Osborn

Special Guest Author
D. Alan Lewis

​Few can claim the varied background of award-winning author Stephanie Osborn, the Interstellar Woman of Mystery.
Veteran of more than 20 years in the civilian space program, as well as various military space defense programs, she worked on numerous space shuttle flights and the International Space Station, and counts the training of astronauts on her resumé. Her space experience also includes Spacelab and ISS operations, variable star astrophysics, Martian aeolian geophysics, radiation physics, and nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons effects.  Stephanie holds graduate and undergraduate degrees in four sciences: astronomy, physics, chemistry and mathematics, and she is "fluent" in several more, including geology and anatomy. In addition she possesses a license of ministry, has been a duly sworn, certified police officer, and is a National Weather Service certified storm spotter.
Her travels have taken her to the top of Pikes Peak, across the world’s highest suspension bridge, down gold mines, in the footsteps of dinosaurs, through groves of giant Sequoias, and even to the volcanoes of the Cascade Range in the Pacific Northwest, where she was present for several phreatic eruptions of Mount St. Helens.
Now retired from space work, Stephanie has trained her sights on writing. She has authored, co-authored, or contributed to some 40+ books, including the celebrated science-fiction mystery, Burnout: The mystery of Space Shuttle STS-281. She is the co-author of the Cresperian Saga book series, and has written the critically acclaimed Displaced Detective Series, described as "Sherlock Holmes meets The X-Files," and its pulp-bestselling prequel series, Gentleman Aegis, the very first book of which won a Silver Falchion award. She has dabbled in paranormal/horror as well, releasing the ebook novella El Vengador, based on a true story. Her recent popular science book, Rock and Roll, a discussion of the New Madrid fault and its historic quakes, was a multiple-genre bestseller! It was followed with the equally-popular Kiss Your Ash Goodbye, an explanation of the Yellowstone supervolcano. Currently she's launching into the unknown with the Division One series, her take on the urban legend of the people who show up at UFO sightings, alien abductions, etc. to make things...disappear.
In addition to her writing work, the Interstellar Woman of Mystery now happily "pays it forward," teaching math and science through numerous media including radio, podcasting and public speaking, as well as working with SIGMA, the science-fiction think tank.

The Mystery continues.
http://www.stephanie-osborn.com/

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In 1965, an object fell from space, somewhere near Kecksburg, PA. This was the same year that Alan was born. To date, no connection has been made between the two events but that hasn’t stopped the conspiracy theorists and his children from speculating.
D. Alan Lewis is an ‘alleged’ native of Chattanooga, Tennessee who now resides in Nashville with his children and a fish bent on world domination. 
In 2006, Alan took the reins of the NWMG’s Novelist Group where he works with new and aspiring writers, runs various writing and publishing workshops, and helped to publish the group’s four anthologies.
His latest project is the paranormal-noir Voodoo Rumors book series that debuted in February, 2018. The series deals with all the unholy creatures of the night, including vampires, werewolves, demons, and ex-wives.
Alan’s debut novel, a fantasy murder mystery, The Blood in Snowflake Garden was a finalist for the 2010 Claymore Award and has been optioned for a TV series. He has several other books in print, Keely-A Steampunk Story, The Lightning Bolts of Zeus and The Bishop of Port Victoria. He is the editor of four anthologies for Luna’s Children 1 & 2 and Capes & Clockwork 1 & 2. He also has over two dozen short stories in a number of anthologies.
His novella, Keely and steampunk short story, The Celeste Affair, were both winners in their categories in the 2015 Preditors & Editors Reader’s Favorites Poll.
Find updates on his work at www.dalanlewis.com or www.voodoorumors.com 

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 Resident Guest Author
T.D. Raufson

​T.D. Raufson was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and between trips to other realms from his home in the Tennessee Valley he shares the fantastic and magical stories he has collected on his travels. Raufson weaves magic into the modern world and brings it to life through its interaction with the characters in his young adult and midgrade novels. In these novels and stories to come, he finds interesting ways to incorporate magic into interesting settings that are not traditional fantasy. Raufson now lives among the hills of the Tennessee Valley with his wife and a plethora of domesticated and wild animals whom they have given their very own voices and personalities that may someday show up among characters yet to be written. Join him in a magical journey today. ​

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Special Guest Author
Brian K Morris

Brian K. Morris is an independent book publisher, freelance hybrid author, an "award-winning" playwright, a Facebook Famous YouTuber, and former mortician's assistant. He's been a professional writer since 1997 and a full-time author since 2012.


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Specializing in plot twists and strong female characters, Brian's books have sold on three continents. His genres include humor, horror, non-fiction, and contemporary fantasy with titles such as Santastein Or The Post-Holiday Prometheus, Vulcana: Rebirth of the Champion, The Original Skyman Battles the Master of Steam, The Haunting Scripts of Bachelors Grove, and Amazon Book Reviews Made Less Impossible. 
He's also a prolific author with work at Flinch Books, Stormgate Press, TwoMorrows Publishing, Pro Se Press, Lion's Share Press, GCD Publishing, and Amazing Things Press, 

In case you thought Brian had any spare time, he's also the main guy with the Rising Tide Broadcast Network, a team of like-minded internet broadcasters who help each other promote their brands and expand their social media reach. Brian hosts three shows a week: Nevermind the Furthermore (an interactive chat show), Clever Title Pending (a weekly interview program with different writers, illustrators, publishers, cosplayers, etc.), and Comic Book Spectrum (a positive look at the comics medium).

A native of Illinois, Brian K. Morris lives in Central Indiana with his wife, no children, no pets, and too many comic books. He's also very proud to be a guest at Hallowcon.

Rising Tide Publication's website: www.RisingTide.pub

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Special Guest Author
John B Pyka

“The Prophet of Pop Culture” is the creative genius behind the madness! John has had an extensive career as a professional entertainer and storyteller. As a producer and director, Johnny directed and hosted over 117 consecutive episodes of Tales From The Geek on ComicsPriceGuide, and over 130 consecutive episodes of Comixstravaganza on GraphicPolicy. Those shows averaged a viewership of 80,000 and 108,000 views over week respectively. John was also the producer and host of the Dieselpunk Podcast for 10 years, averaging over 42,000 downloads per episode! John knows how to create and audience and is on pace to strike gold again with Back of the Cereal Box! John is also the author of 4 books on magic, including the industry best-seller Theatrical Magic. His first novella Night Reich is published by Seventh Star Press available wherever books are sold, and his original comic series The League of
Impossibilists will be available in digital and print format in the Summer of 2021!

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Resident Guest Author
 K.T. Hunter

K.T. Hunter is a lifelong fan of reading just about anything she can get her hands on, from science fiction (her first love) to science fact, from alternate history to art history and true crime. She credits her parents' encouragement of her creativity and their own love of Star Trek as the spark that lit her literary fires. She received her B.S. in Computer Science from UT-Chattanooga in 1993 and worked as a computer instructor and software developer in the insurance industry for the better part of two decades. Her first novel, 20 Million Leagues Over the Sea, the first novel in the steampunk adventure series The Nemo Paradox, was published independently in 2015. A new edition by Line by Lion Publishing is coming soon. She grew up in the hills of East Tennessee, and now she and her husband, T. D. Raufson, reside in Chattanooga.
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Special Guest Author
Jack Moore

    Being born in Georgia in the late 1960’s during a time of historic change helped to greatly shape Mr. Moore’s attitudes and views on the world. A lot could be said on this subject, but there are two key factors that definitely had a major impact. The biggest was that he was a part of the first generation to always know that man had walked on the moon. To people of his age space travel was never fiction and just something that was taken for granted, and always a part of reality.
    The other factor to shape Mr. Moore was not so much what was, but what was not. He was not of a generation that was considered Baby Boomer and not anything else that followed either. Due to small numbers, people in his age range were largely overlooked by the advertising community that was obsessed with Boomer nostalgia. In the end one could almost count this as a blessing because it meant that people like Mr. Moore never had a target on the back of their heads and were largely free to form opinions without the constant bombardment of a huge media machine. As a result, they formed different kinds of attitudes about life. This helped to set a course, but it did not limit it and Mr. Moore demonstrates this with what you see in the pages of his books. 
He began writing at an early age and had published his first play by age 16. He took up music professionally for a time and was also active in sports even if by his own admission he was never any good at it. Mr. Moore began taking college courses at the age of 14 and eventually enlisted in the US Army at the age of 17. This was followed by 24 years in Law Enforcement where he did nearly every job one can do in that profession. These years afforded Mr. Moore the opportunity to learn about people, and what makes them tick. This information became invaluable as a writing resource which had remained a part time job throughout.  
    Now retired, the part time job has become full time work. Over the years he had written many novels but never pursued publishing. Now this oversight has been corrected and we can all enjoy many of these books with more to come.

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