Rebecca Schwarz’s short stories have appeared in venues such as Interzone, Daily Science Fiction, Bourbon Penn, and PodCastle. She was the director of the ArmadilloCon Writing Workshop from 2018 through 2020.
Read: Lost Worlds Short Stories | Ecotones
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Listen: Cast of Wonders
Kim Redford is a multi-published author under several pennames in horror, fantasy, history, as well as contemporary and historical romance. She currently writes the Smokin’ Hot Cowboys series about cowboy and cowgirl firefighters in Texas. Cowboy Heat Wave (December 2021) is ninth in the series and features the fine folks of Wildcat Bluff County as they hunt for horse thieves and the legendary Hallelujah Ranch bootlegger gold.
“Hot for a Cowboy is tightly plotted, impeccably paced, and rich in Texan detail.”
– Fresh Fiction
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Juan Manuel Pérez will be appearing at ArmadilloCon! Juan Manuel Pérez, a Mexican-American poet of Indigenous descent and a Poet Laureate for Corpus Christi, Texas (2019-2020), is the author of several books of poetry including the Elgin Nominated SPACE IN PIECES (The House Of The Fighting Chupacabras Press, 2020), SCREW THE WALL! AND OTHER BROWN PEOPLE POEMS (FlowerSong Books, 2020), and PLANET OF THE ZOMBIE ZONNETS (Hungry Buzzard Press, September 2021).
His poetry has appeared in numerous scholarly journals and reviews, national and international anthologies, as well as, magazines and websites. The award-winning poet, history teacher, and Pushcart Nominee, is also a member of the Poetry Society of Texas, the Horror Writers Association, the Science Fiction Poetry Association, the Horror Authors Guild, the Baseball Bards, and the Military Writers Society of America. Juan worships his Creator and chases chupacabras in the South Texas Coastal Bend Area.
Visit House of the Fighting Chupacabras website
Book: Screw the Wall! And Other Brown People Poems
Book: Space in Pieces
Book: Planet of the Zombie Zonnets
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Patrice Sarath is appearing at ArmadilloCon! Patrice Sarath is an author and editor living in Austin, Texas. Her novels include the fantasy books The Sisters Mederos and Fog Season (Books I and II of the Tales of Port Saint Frey), the series Books of the Gordath (Gordath Wood, Red Gold Bridge, and The Crow God’s Girl) and the romance The Unexpected Miss Bennet.
Patrice is the author of numerous short stories that have appeared in several magazines and anthologies, including Weird Tales, Black Gate, Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, Realms of Fantasy, and many others. You can find short stories and chapters of her work at www.patricesarath.com.
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Frank Smith will be appearing at ArmadilloCon! Frank Smith is a science fiction writer based in Austin, TX. A member of SFWA, his publications include Clarkesworld, Analog, Asimov’s, Planet Scumm, and many others. He studied creative writing at The New School, and has worked as an editor, reporter, writer, and music critic, while also dabbling in photography and illustration.
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Erin Roberts will be appearing at ArmadilloCon! Erin Roberts is a speculative fiction writer who tells stories across formats. Her short fiction has appeared in publications including Clarkesworld, Asimov’s Science Fiction, Podcastle, and The Dark, and been selected for three Year’s Best anthologies. Her interactive fiction and game writing has been published or is forthcoming in Sub-Q Magazine, Strange Horizons, Pathfinder Lost Omens: The Grand Bazaar, and Zombies, Run! Erin is a graduate of the Odyssey Writers Workshop, holds an MFA from the Stonecoast program at the University of Southern Maine, and is currently a Provost’s Early Career Fellow at The University of Texas at Austin.
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Read: Pathfinder Lost Omens: The Grand Bazaar
Read: Then Again
Read: The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 4 (Amazon , B&N, Indie Bound)
Read: The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy and Horror 2019 (Amazon, B&N, Indie Bound)
Watch: TypeCast RPG
Benjamin Liar is a writer, musician, filmmaker, game developer, bartender, cartographer, estimator, semi-professional drinker, ditch-digger, file organizer, rockabilly bassist, bad actor, screenwriter, house painter, passionate fort-builder, reformed preacher, drywall hanger, and terrible golfer. The Failures, his first novel, is soon to be published by DAW and will be the first in a big old chunky trilogy. His name is clearly a pseudonym, but you still shouldn’t trust anything he says.
Matthew Bey is a writer, editor, internet marketer, and country gentleman living in Austin, Texas.
He was a co-founder of the print zine Space Squid and assistant edited at the Drabblecast podcast. He contributed to the futurist blog No Fear of the Future. His short stories have appeared in Black Gate Magazine, Town Drunk, Pseudopod, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine, and many other venues.
Podcasts he has contributed to include Bad Roll Models (Game Master), This Week in the Multiverse with S.G. Wilson (contributing voice work and content), the fishing-oriented Last Cast Podcast (with Jamey Maness), and the gritty detective podcast Corpus Thunder. He also serves on the highly secretive Loquat Fest governing council.
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Listen: This Week in the Multiverse | Bad Roll Models | Last Cast Podcast | Corpus Thunder
Brad W. Foster will be appearing at ArmadilloCon! Brad W. Foster, international jet setter and ex secret agent, dabbles in pen and ink. His artwork has been published in more than 3,000 diverse books, magazines, posters, prints, cards, and a little of everything else! Aside from the hundreds of science fiction fanzines to have used his work, magazines as broad-ranging in subjects as Amazing Stories, Highlights for Children, and Cavalier have carried his illustrations. His small press, Jabberwocky Graphix, issues fine-art prints and art collections. Brad has won eight Hugo Awards for Best Fan Artist. He was Artist Guest at ArmadilloCon 10. Brad and Cindy are slowly developing a huge cast of characters for a new project that will combine his fine art and comic-book sides. His motto says it all: “Leave no piece of paper blank!”
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Elizabeth Cobbe is a writer, arts critic, programmer, and playwright based in Austin. Her short fiction has appeared in Fireside, Daily Science Fiction, and Zooscape, and she’s a graduate of Viable Paradise.
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