O. Hai Mark is an emcee, host, filmmaker, and content creator who loves a bad movie or two. You can catch him online at Game Nights, Poker Nights, Karaoke Nights, and his flagship show Terrible Movies with Wonderful People
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D.M. Mewha lives in the magical land of “The DC Suburbs” where he does battle with monsters such as “Beltway Traffic” and “Wow, Everything Is Too Expensive” with the help of his talented and far-too-patient wife and an assorted menagerie of pets that she threatens to make weirder as time goes on (people don’t really want skunks as pets, do they?). He writes sci-fi and fantasy in a variety of flavors, and is a certified TTRPG nerd who dabbles in some tabletop wargaming, which sounds better than “he plays with little plastic guys and makes them go pew pew.”
Cass Morris lives her life at the intersection of storytelling, performance, and education as a writer and editor of novels, short fiction, and immersive experiences. Her novels, The Aven Cycle, are Roman-flavored historical fantasy. She is also one-third of the team behind the four-time Hugo Award Finalist podcast Worldbuilding for Masochists. Cass works as Story Editor at Mythik Camps, providing writing and developmental editing for the mythology-themed summer camps’ interactive theatrical experiences, as well as other programming and media projects. Previously, she worked in the education department at the American Shakespeare Center in Staunton, VA. She holds a Master of Letters in Shakespeare studies from Mary Baldwin University and a BA in English and History from the College of William and Mary. Her novel, From Unseen Fire, won RavenCon’s Webster Award in 2020. Find her online at linktr.ee/cassrmorris.
Mourning Dove Cosplay is a Louisiana-based cosplayer who has been cosplaying and attending conventions since 2018. She has attended various conventions in Virginia and North Carolina, cosplaying a range of characters that include Beetlejuice, Wednesday Addams, Emma Frost, Mavis, and many others. Not only is she an avid cosplayer but she has also been a performer with two Rocky Horror Picture Show shadow casts where she has performed as characters including Magenta, Janet, Colombia, Rocky, and Frank-N-Furter. She attended RavenCon 17 and ConGregate 10 last year as a cosplay guest and hopes to continue guesting at these conventions as well as many others.
Bill Mulligan is an indie filmmaker, podcaster, and author, when he isn’t teaching high school science in Sanford, NC. As part of the thriving North Carolina indie film scene, he has served as a writer, director, and special effects craftsman for five features films and over two dozen short films, including the award-winning Belladonna, Cache Me If You Can, Fix It In Post, and the upcoming Emotional Support Demon. As a podcaster, he can be found on Gruesome Magazine’s Decades of Horror (1970s and 1980s), The Videostore Junkies, and Deep Images. His first novel, Raum, made it’s official launch at RavenCon and he is looking forward to seeing his RavenCon family!
Mittens is a 32-year-old cosplayer, gamer, and fan fiction writer from South Africa, currently living in Virginia. They focus on inclusivity and low-budget cosplay and content. They hope to encourage folks who don’t think they have the money, the skills or the “perfect looks” to enjoy these hobbies and the fandom world.
As a writer, Steve has three published novels through Falstaff Books with co-writer Paul Barrett, a fourth currently undergoing developmental edits and three more in the works. Paul and Steve have also written several screenplays, many of which have placed highly in national competitions.
Steve has spent much of his life in uniform, starting with four years in the Navy as a GMM (Gunners Mate Missiles)—earning the Navy Expeditionary Medal and Navy Unit Commendation. This was followed by two years in the Army where he worked as a forward observer. Steve then became a police officer in Charlotte, NC, where he spent twenty-three years; fourteen of those years he was on the SWAT team, nine of which he worked as a sniper.
Steve is not a stranger to film production, having worked as a military/law consultant on several projects, a set dresser for films, and a lighting technician in live theater. But his main strength is in project management and ensuring the producers stay on target and time and helping deal with any problems that come up with the crew. In addition, his knowledge of military protocol and interest in military history help maintain verisimilitude in all the military aspects on any project.
The father of two adult boys, Steve lives on a small farm in North Carolina with his wife, two dogs, and an elusive cat.
Born and raised in central Minnesota, Dennis M. Myers developed a serious reading habit early in life due to the influence of his grandmother. In late high school he read one particularly “awful” book and, with all that teenage hubris, decided that he could do better.
After spending a decade in the United States Navy as a submarine sailor, teaching younger sailors, and writing adventures for Challenge Magazine, he settled in Virginia. The next two decades found him writing down story ideas, compiling his thoughts on the universe, and dealing with all the disasters of life. He eventually compiled the ideas he had been saving into a timeline spanning several thousand years. In 2017 the opportunity came to write full time for several months. With the full support of his wonderful wife, May, he began the book that is now known as Final Assembly, the first of four novels in his series, Rise of the Automated Empire. All four are available on Amazon.
Dennis’s novel, Broken Trust, is a finalist for this year’s Webster Award.
Naychan is an award-winning central Virginia-based cosplayer who has been sewing and creating costumes for well over a decade. She takes pride in clean craftsmanship and adding personal details to every costume. Naychan strives to learn something new with each build and has found a real passion in bringing that knowledge to other cosplayers through panels and workshops at conventions all over the east coast. She truly believes anyone can cosplay and loves to empower that crafting spirit! Her favorite projects usually involve sewing, painting, rhinestones, and especially a crafted fake food prop.
Bishop O’Connell is author of the American Faerie Tale series and the award-winning novel, Two-Gun Witch, as well as a consultant, writer, blogger, lover of kilts and beer, as well as a member of the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America. Born in Naples, Italy while his father was in the Navy, Bishop grew up in San Diego, where he fell in love with the ocean and fish tacos. After wandering the country for work and school (absolutely not evading mind-controlling bunnies), he settled in Richmond, VA where he writes, collects swords, revels in his immortality as a “visionary” of the urban fantasy genre, and is regularly chastised for making up things for his bio. He can also be found online at A Quiet Pint (aquietpint.com), where he muses philosophical on life, the universe, and everything, as well as various aspects of writing and the road to getting published.
