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Doug Burbey

March 27, 2025 / ravenchair

Doug Burbey, author of the Blood War militarized urban fantasy series, is constantly preparing to: repel the demon hordes, slay zombies, brew beer, and defeat the insidious plots of the bureaucratic machinery. Doug grew up in Asia as a military brat and went to college in Michigan. He then served in numerous Army positions and wars around the world before retiring his combat boots. Doug now is a military technology development program manager by day and demon slayer by night. With muddy boots and a cold beer in hand, he spends his spring/summer weekends as a gentleman farmer tending to his hops vines and apple orchard. Doug’s books can all be found on amazon.com. Get even more information on the current and future Bad Ash Publishing releases at badashpublishing.com.

Stephen Burks

March 27, 2025 / ravenchair

Stephen Burks is an illustrator living in Virginia who creates fantasy and pulp illustrations. His work has appeared in indie comics, webcomics, and pulp magazines where he won awards for his interior pen and ink illustrations. He is passionate about storytelling and tabletop gaming and has a Master’s in Creative Writing. Stephen draws inspiration from the art of realism, commercial posters, and the golden age of illustration.

With Iconograph Studios he created the Our Last Gasp webcomic, multiple comics, and wrote and directed episodes of the comedy web series Phenomena: Probing the Paranormal as well as several short films. His art appears in multiple volumes of the award-winning Pulp Reality anthology including the cover of Volume 3. His interior art in Pulp Reality, Volume 2 won the Pulp Factory Best Interior Art in 2022. Stephen created trading cards for Marvel, Upper Deck, Stormgate Press, Bad Axe Studios, and others. His published comic covers include work for Radical Visions Comics and Pocket Jack Comics as well as others.

Andrew Caballero

March 27, 2025 / ravenchair

Andrew Caballero brings over fifteen years of experience in science, engineering and technology for Department of Defense (DoD) customers like the U.S. Army, Air Force, and Navy through companies such as Textron Systems, Northrop Grumman, and Peraton Labs. Specializing in electro-optics and solid state physics, he routinely propagates lasers through various materials to induce specific effects. He has worked on systems ranging from underwater autonomous vehicles and acoustical tracking to space-based optical imaging and ad hoc wireless networks as everything from a technician to a chief systems engineer. Growing up an Air Force brat, having been all over the world with hobbies including marksmanship, American history, scuba diving, sailing, computers, electronics, and the Fallout universe, he brings a peculiar perspective to his activities. Always looking to slay super mutants and demons! (See the Blood War urban fantasy series by Doug Burbey and Mel Todd at badashpublishing.com).

Krista Cagg

March 27, 2025 / ravenchair

According to her mother, Krista has lived in her own imagination since birth. The real world let her down. It was, frankly, boring beyond belief. After she discovered fantasy novels and comics there was no going back. This didn’t win her any popularity contests (or dates) until after high school. Art school introduced her to other geeks and the wonderful world of AD&D. A love for RP eventually led to LARP (the goth/vampire era of her life). Finally, sci-fi/fantasy/fandom conventions introduced her to the beautiful world of steampunk. Music. Clothing. And books. She dove into the books she took a shine to and absorbed them. But something was missing. She wasn’t satisfied. During her recovery from neck surgery something she’d heard somewhere stuck out in her mind: “If you can’t find the stories you want to read then write them yourself.” On a couch in Savannah, GA. with Sons of Anarchy playing in the background, The William’s Hunt began.

Currently, Krista lives in her home town in Pennsylvania with four cats and a husband.

Roger Carden

March 26, 2025 / ravenchair

Roger and Janet Carden are the husband-and-wife team behind The Halfling and the Spaceman: Journeys In Active Fandom (2022-present). The Halfling and the Spaceman is a podcast featuring a series of conversations with creators as they detail their personal journey from becoming inspired by fandom to being creators in their own right.

Roger is also the producer of Applied Game Mastery, which explores the question “how do you become a legendary game master?” through interviews, reviews, and actual-play.

In addition, the Cardens also published Crimson Streets (2016–2023), an online magazine and associated anthology series dedicated to fiction in the style of the pulp magazines of yesteryear. Crimson Streets focused on fast-paced stories of action, adventure, and intrigue—from hard-boiled detectives and dangerous dames, to bold aviators and unspeakable horrors.

Before starting Crimson Streets, Roger and Janet worked with a team which published The Familiar (1988–1998), a professional print magazine dedicated to role-playing and adventure games.

Roger is a co-founder of the Game Publishers Association and an early supporter and member of CAR-PGa, the Committee for the Advancement or Role-Playing Games. Both enjoy playing “let’s pretend” with their friends via tabletop role-playing games. Janet is a fan of mystery and crime novels, whereas Roger is a fan of classic science-fiction and fantasy. They both really enjoy genre movies; the good ones… and the really, really bad ones.

Sammie Cassell

March 26, 2025 / ravenchair

Sammie Cassell is a NC-based actor, producer and comedian. He has been seen in Halloween Kills, Eyes of Tammy Faye, Please Don’t Destroy, Hunting Wives and many local films. He does improv comedy out of the Idiot Box Comedy Club in Greensboro, NC and is a performer with the Channel 53 sketch troupe. Known in some circles as Sammie the Comic Book Man. He’s also VP of Wreak Havoc Productions.

Dexy Collier

March 26, 2025 / ravenchair

Dexy Collier is a Richmond musician that draws a lot of inspiration from their nerdy passions. One of the biggest being Edgar Allan Poe, hence the name of her solo project, Tear Up the Planks. She also plays bass for Asylum 213, a mixed bag experimental noise rock/metal/mathrock/shoegaze band that tackles serious topics while blending all these genres and incorporating memes, pop culture references and high energy fun.

Fredrick Corry

March 26, 2025 / ravenchair

Fredrick Corry finds “Nothing is impossible, just improbable,” at least that’s what MacGyver has taught him. Father a woodworker, metalworker, electrician and his mother a seamstress he has acquired unique set of skills.

Randee Dawn

March 24, 2025 / ravenchair

Randee Dawn is the Brooklyn-based author of the new dark rock n’ roll fantasy The Only Song Worth Singing (Arc Manor) and the humorous pop culture romp Tune in Tomorrow (Solaris Nova, 2022). She had two other books out in 2024: Leave No Trace (dark fantasy, Arc Manor) and We Interrupt this Program (follow-up to Tune, Solaris Nova), and many short stories published in horror, fantasy and SF anthologies, including Dark Spores: Stories We Tell After Midnight, Vol. 4 (Crone Girls Press). In addition, she’s a veteran entertainment journalist writing for Variety, the LA Times, Today.com and Gold Derby who covers the film, TV, and music beats. If she can’t make you laugh, she’ll try scaring you. More at RandeeDawn.com.

James E. Deeley

March 23, 2025 / ravenchair

Jim Deeley is the founder and lead writer at Apotheosis Games & Publishing and also publishes his own work under the impression of Apotheosis Adventures. A passionate fan of fantasy, science fiction, and history since his early boyhood days climbing castle towers all across England, Jim’s life was forever changed one fateful autumn night in 2000 when he was invited to join a game of Vampire: the Masquerade at his local comic book shop; over the 20+ years since then, he has been trying to run the perfect role-playing campaign. While Jim hasn’t managed that yet, he has developed a series of panels on writing and running tabletop RPGs that he is working on turning into at least one book if not a series. Jim has also written for a number of game publishers both great and small, and has recently quit his second job to become a full-time professional Game Master, running games almost every night of the week—doing what he loves and getting paid for it! Jim Deeley holds a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from Christopher Newport University with a minor in Theatre Arts, with graduate work completed in International Studies at Old Dominion University, all of which informs his writing. When he’s not working for The Man by day and Living the Dream by night, Jim enjoys reading and writing fantasy and historical fiction, video games, comic books, bad sci-fi and fantasy movies, anime, hacking/slashing/shooting arrows at stuff in the backyard and attending comic book conventions, Highland Games, Renaissance Faires, and Pirate Festivals with his beloved, equally nerdy wife—in full kit, of course.

You can follow all the things Jim is up to at linktr.ee/renaissnceman.