Amy L. Herring (Louise Herring-Jones) writes speculative fiction, with a preference for historical fantasy and alternate mystery. Her stories, appearing in fourteen anthologies, include “The Poulterer’s Tale” in God Bless Us, Every One—Christmas Carols beyond Dickens (Voodoo Rumors Media). Amy coordinates the HSV Writers’ group in Huntsville, AL. Visit her online at http://www.louiseherring-jones.com.
Naomi Novik, New York Times best-selling author of the Temeraire series, appears at Dragon Con 2014 just as news spreads about Uprooted, her new stand-alone fantasy novel from Del Rey Books. Novik’s Temeraire series, beginning with His Majesty’s Dragon, flew dragons as a sentient air force during an alternative history version of the Napoleonic Wars. Its enchanting brew of… Read more →
Since this year I’m turning 21, that is, this is my 21st straight year of attending Dragon Con, I decided it was time for me to learn more about what gaming is all about. After years of passing by rooms of persons totally engrossed in gaming sessions, I have finally found a guide infinitely more conversant in gaming than I… Read more →
Hugo Award-winning editor and Chesley Award-winning art director Lou Anders has donned yet another hat, a Viking helmet, as he celebrates the release of Frostborn, the first book in his new middle-reader, fantasy-adventure trilogy, Thrones & Bones. Described in its Publishers Weekly starred review as “A powerful, fast-paced tale….The setting is rich, the characters well-defined, and the danger ever-paramount,” Frostborn is… Read more →
Mike Resnick enhanced the already visually enchanting and intellectually stimulating “Baen Travelling Slide Show and Prize Patrol!” on Sunday afternoon, 2:30PM, Regency V Hyatt, by remarking on a new, highly anticipated Baen anthology coming out October of this year. Worlds of Edgar Rice Burroughs, edited by Resnick and Robert T. Garcia, will feature original stories by F. Paul Wilson, Mercedes… Read more →
Peter S. Beagle, author of The Last Unicorn and screenwriter of the famous film adaptation, provided running commentary for the Dragon Con screening of the animated feature at the Young Adult Literature (YA) track on Saturday at 5:30PM, International North, Hyatt. Moderator Jana Lott introduced Beagle as “one of the greatest living fantasists.” Beagle finished The Last Unicorn in 1967…. Read more →
A capacity crowd applauded and laughed through the Men of Urban Fantasy (UF) panel, Fri 8:30PM, International Ballroom (W). Fans took every chair, stood, or sat on the floor. In the hallway outside the panel, more fans discussed the popularity of the genre and the panelists’ books as they waited for space in the room to become available. Kevin J…. Read more →
The Atlanta Radio Theatre Company (ARTC) charmed fans Friday evening with the debut of In Need of a Bard, a whimsical, trans-dimensional, musical, fantasy epic cleverly disguised as a radio play. Sacha Dzuba excelled in triple duties as Brad the Bard, playing the guitar and singing as well as acting. Fiona K. Leonard acted and sang as Nocturne the Protector…. Read more →
For those of you commuting locally to Dragon Con and out-of-towners riding the trains from off-site hotels, all shambling, zombie-like, through the Peachtree Center station, beware! Just before 9AM Sat, a crowd of parade-bound fans ascending a vertigo-inducing escalator were trapped when the escalator growled and ground to an abrupt halt. The offending escalator rises above the tap-out exit to… Read more →
