Category: ArmadilloCon 2021 Guests

Ryan Leslie will be appearing at ArmadilloCon 2021! Ryan Leslie oversees research for a large health system, where making stuff up is generally frowned upon. His creative outlet has always been writing fiction. He is the author of the contemporary fantasy/horror novel The Between and the dark science fiction novel Colossus (coming in the fall of ’22), both with Parliament House. Ryan lives in Austin, Texas, with his wife, children’s author Lindsay Leslie, and their two sons.

Visit: Ryan Leslie’s website

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Peri Charlifu will be appearing at ArmadilloCon 2021!

Peri Charlifu is a Colorado artist who has been selling his work professionally for over 39 years. He has won dozens of awards and is founder and Guild Primus of the Convention Artists Guild. He is a full time artist and participates in about 30-40 shows a year, all over the country! (When not in Covid lock down!) 

His work is exhibited and sold all over the United States as well as several countries. To date he has produced over 64,000 pieces.  His work is available for special order and at art shows only. 

Peri has been teaching workshop and classes for over 30 years and has experience with adults as well as teens and children.  He is also a graphic artist and his prints and original works can be seen on his website! 

You can check out his web site at aegeangoods.com or visit him on Facebook, to look at his work, see what he is up to and to place an order.

Visit: Aegean Goods

Follow: Aegean Goods on Facebook | Arts and Artisans of Colorado on Facebook | Convention Artists Guild on Facebook

Paul Benjamin will be appearing at ArmadilloCon 2021!

Paul Benjamin is a New York Times bestselling author who has written and produced comics and video games for diverse properties including many Marvel characters such as Hulk, Spider-Man, and Wolverine, many DC characters in DC Universe Online, plus Disney Princesses, Star Wars, Star Trek, Starcraft, World of Warcraft, the Muppets, Monsters, Inc., G.I. Joe, and more. He is a contributing essayist in books about Buffy the Vampire Slayer, G.I. Joe, X-Files, and others. His first prose short story appeared in The Protectors anthology. His original manga series Pantheon High was a YALSA Great Graphic Novels for Teens nominee.

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Wow! Martha Wells will be appearing at ArmadilloCon 2021!

Martha Wells has been an SF/F writer since her first fantasy novel was published in 1993, and her work includes The Books of the Raksura series, The Death of the Necromancer, the Fall of Ile-Rien trilogy, The Murderbot Diaries series, media tie-in fiction for Star Wars, Stargate: Atlantis, and Magic: the Gathering, as well as short fiction, YA novels, and non-fiction. She has won Nebula Awards, Hugo Awards, and Locus Awards, and her work has appeared on the Philip K. Dick Award ballot, the BSFA Award ballot, the USA Today Bestseller List, and the New York Times Bestseller List. Her books have been published in twenty languages.

Visit: Martha Wells’s website

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Mark Finn will be appearing at ArmadilloCon 2021! Mark Finn is an author, an editor, and a pop culture critic. He is a nationally-recognized authority on Robert E. Howard and has written extensively about the Texas author.  He is a managing editor for Skelos Press, and he podcasts with The Gentlemen Nerds. When he is not waxing eloquent about popular culture, he writes comics and fiction, dabbles in magic, and produces and performs community theater.  He lives in North Texas over an old movie theater with too many books and an affable pit bull named Sonya.

Visit: Mark Finn’s blog (check out his ongoing Top 5 horror movie lists while you are there) | Gobsmack project on Kickstarter | Confessions of a Reformed RPGer

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Follow: Twitter | Skelos Press on Facebook | Human Gorilla Creations on Facebook

Listen: Gentleman Nerds podcast

Lee Thomas will be appearing at ArmadilloCon 2021!

Lee Thomas is the Bram Stoker Award– and two-time Lambda Literary Award-winning author of the books Stained, The Dust of Wonderland, The German, Parish Damned, Like Light for Flies, Down on Your Knees, and Distortion among others. His work has been translated into multiple languages and has been optioned for film. Lee lives in Austin, Texas with his husband, John.

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Lawrence Person will be appearing at ArmadilloCon 2021!

Lawrence Person is a science fiction writer living in Austin, Texas. His fiction has appeared in Asimov’s, Analog, Galaxy’s Edge, Postscripts, Fear, Jim Baen’s Universe and several anthologies, including Rayguns Over Texas and Cross Plains Universe. His non-fiction has appeared in National Review, Reason, SF Eye, and NYRSF. He runs Lame Excuse Books and used to edit the Hugo-nominated Nova Express. He also owns a famous library of Science Fiction first editions.

Visit: Futuramen | Lame Excuse Books

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Purchase: Rayguns Over Texas

Josh Rountree will be appearing at ArmadilloCon 2021!

Josh Rountree writes horror, fantasy, science fiction, and whatever else sounds good at the time.  His short fiction has appeared in a variety of magazines and anthologies, including Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Realms of Fantasy, Bourbon Penn, PseudoPod, PodCastle, Daily Science Fiction, and A Punk Rock Future.  

His new short fiction collection, Fantastic Americana: Stories, is available from Fairwood Press. Josh lives in Texas and tweets about records, books, and guitars @josh_rountree.

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 Jess Nevins will be appearing at ArmadilloCon 2021!

He is the interim director of a community college library outside of Houston. He has written numerous books, chapters, and articles on subjects ranging from the history of the graphic design of Marvel’s most prominent superheroes to the entirety of Victorian genre fiction. He is the author of Horror Fiction in the 20th Century (2020), Horror Needs No Passport (2018), The Encyclopedia of Pulp Heroes (2017), The Evolution of the Costumed Avenger: The 4000-Year History of the Superhero (2017), The Victorian Bookshelf: An Introduction to 61 Essential Novels (2016), and The Encyclopedia of Fantastic Victoriana (first edition 2005, second edition 2020), among many other books and shorter pieces. He lives in Tomball, TX, with his wife Alicia and son Henry. 

Visit: Jess Nevins’s website

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Jessica Reisman will be appearing at ArmadilloCon 2021! Jessica Reisman grew up on the east coast of the U.S., was a teenager on the west coast, and now lives in Austin, Texas. She’s been a writer, animal lover, devoted reader, and movie aficionado since she was a wee child. She’s had two novels published, and her first collection of stories, The Arcana of Maps, came out in 2019.

Visit: StoryRain, Jessica Reisman’s website

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