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Bill Mulligan

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!

DJ McGuire

DJ McGuire began his geek journey watching Star Trek: The Original Series in syndication. These days, he is an IT cost estimator and teaches economics at his local community college. He has been a musical performer (bass and vocals) for eight years, starting with Dimensional Riffs in 2017. He has also played with the Nefarious Ferrets (as “Bass Ferret”) and has been a solo performer since 2020. Among his geek-friendly albums are You’re Not Cleared For This, Goldsmiths’ Gambit, and Starfleet Program Manager.

Murdermittens_

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.

Steve Murphy

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.

Dennis M. Myers

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 Cosplay

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

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.

Geneva Oleander

Geneva Oleander is a local RVA author with a lifetime of writing and storytelling pushing her to share her lived experiences (along with the stories of all the fairies, vampires, witches, and sexy aliens who roam her mind rent free). She prefers to break every convention she’s ever encountered and tell the weirdest, sexiest stories possible. As a fan of the indie authors movement, River City Siren Press is her passion and home for every story she ever plans to write. She is a published short story writer, poet, and sci-fantasy (sci-romantasy) novelist.

Contact her at genevaoleander@gmail.com.

Open High School Rocket Club

OHS Rocket Club is a model rocketry club in the city of Richmond, VA. Students compete in the American Rocketry Challenge, designing model rockets that safely launch and land 1-2 eggs while meeting specific altitude and flight duration requirements. The club also participated in NASA’s Cubes in Space program and designed an experiment in a 4×4 cm cube to test the effects of radiation on yeast. This cube was then launched in a sounding rocket and scientific balloon. The team is currently determining the feasibility of space pizza.

Orthane Productions

Orthane Productions is a tabletop role-playing game studio creating The Kingdom of Keshanar. This is a fantastical re-imagining of what ancient Egypt could have been in a TTRPG world where the magic, the gods, and the monsters are real. Brought to you by an international crew of writers, game designers, artists, and historians, this D&D 5e campaign setting is even vetted by a PhD Egyptologist. Find out more at Keshanar.com.

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