Our 2020 Special 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, a middle-grade 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 June 2020. When Taylor isn't writing novels, she is 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 U.S. working as a restoration carpenter and contractor on historical landmarks and playing her songs at music festivals. She holds master's 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.
Link to Taylor's Website: https://taylorshoch.info/
Link to Taylor's books on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=taylor+s+hoch+curse+of+the+Dullahan+book+1&i=stripbooks&ref=nb_sb_noss
Link to Taylor's Website: https://taylorshoch.info/
Link to Taylor's books on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=taylor+s+hoch+curse+of+the+Dullahan+book+1&i=stripbooks&ref=nb_sb_noss
Special Media Guest
Chalet Brannan
Chalet Lizette Brannan is a child prodigy.
Having beat stage 4 Burkitt's Lymphoma at age 10, she had already been established as an actress with many Disney projects. After taking time off while fighting cancer she resumed her acting while at the same time was being given an Ambassadorship with several leading cancer research and treatment organizations such as Make A Wish and more. It has been said her acting is on par with such greats as Linda Blair and Jodie Foster. Already at 13, she has been a lead with such greats as Bill Moseley ( Devils Rejects, ) and Kevin Sorbo ( The Sparrows ) Ms Brannan currently is filming the great franchise film Friday The 13th Vengeance with CJ Graham and Steve Dash among others. Chalet continues to film with names such as the upcoming horror film Velvet Moon with Nightmare On Elm Streets Robert Englund. To date she is one of Hollywood’s busiest child actors and has amassed and amazing 90 plus films and shows and has won 7 awards with 12 nominations. Her IMDb is www.indb.me/ChaletBrannan. We encourage you to visit that and all of her social media to learn more about this amazing actress.
Www.Facebook.com/ChaletLizetteBrannan
Www.instagram.com/chaletlizettebrannan.
Having beat stage 4 Burkitt's Lymphoma at age 10, she had already been established as an actress with many Disney projects. After taking time off while fighting cancer she resumed her acting while at the same time was being given an Ambassadorship with several leading cancer research and treatment organizations such as Make A Wish and more. It has been said her acting is on par with such greats as Linda Blair and Jodie Foster. Already at 13, she has been a lead with such greats as Bill Moseley ( Devils Rejects, ) and Kevin Sorbo ( The Sparrows ) Ms Brannan currently is filming the great franchise film Friday The 13th Vengeance with CJ Graham and Steve Dash among others. Chalet continues to film with names such as the upcoming horror film Velvet Moon with Nightmare On Elm Streets Robert Englund. To date she is one of Hollywood’s busiest child actors and has amassed and amazing 90 plus films and shows and has won 7 awards with 12 nominations. Her IMDb is www.indb.me/ChaletBrannan. We encourage you to visit that and all of her social media to learn more about this amazing actress.
Www.Facebook.com/ChaletLizetteBrannan
Www.instagram.com/chaletlizettebrannan.
Author
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.
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.
Author
D. Alan Lewis
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.
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 Readers Favorites Poll.
Find updates on his work at www.dalanlewis.com or www.voodoorumors.com
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.
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 Readers Favorites Poll.
Find updates on his work at www.dalanlewis.com or www.voodoorumors.com
