Category: Podcasting Guest (Page 1 of 2)

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.

Billy Flynn

March 23, 2025 / ravenchair

The Wonderful Billy Flynn brings the funny every day on Geek Radio Daily! His daytime alter ego is mild-mannered (well, that part is a stretch) radio station personality at Rejoice! Richmond in Virginia. He actually gets paid to sit on his butt and run his mouth! His edumacation is from UNC-Wilmington, the Columbia School of Broadcasting, and University of Phoenix. When he is not gracing the podcasting airways with his comedic stylings, you can find Billy Flynn on Nintendo Switch (Friend Code: 4621 8841 4224), hosting trivia nights around the Richmond area, watching movies, reading comics, or just relaxing.

Flynnstress

March 22, 2025 / ravenchair

The Flynnstress brings a sultry, feminine voice to Mondays on the Geek Radio Daily show. Flynnstress is originally from Maryland, and went to school at George Mason University and University of Phoenix. The Richmond, VA area is now her home. She helps teachers integrate #LifeReady skills in the classroom with inspiring ed tech. Flynnstress was not always a geek; husband, Billy Flynn, got her hooked on favorites like Star Trek, Battlestar Galactica, Doctor Who, and Firefly. A former derby girl (Thistle Hurt) she now spends most of her time geeking out the next generation (her daughter MJ) or snuggled up with a book. Flynnstress also loves to travel, watches too much TV, admits to being addicted to Facebook, and is trying to save the earth, one recycled bottle of Coke at a time.

Sean Gleeson

March 22, 2025 / ravenchair

Sean is a fan of film and television of all types, but especially horror and sci-fi of all types. He is one of the hosts of the Doctor Who’s That? podcast (currently on hiatus for health reasons), as the “Expert Host” on the show.

Sean lives alone in a dusty apartment, surrounded by movies, books, and memorabilia. His cat, Spock, silently judges him, unless it’s feeding time; then Spock loudly and bitingly judges him.

Randall Hayes, PhD

March 14, 2025 / ravenchair

Randall Hayes, “your friendly neighborhood neuroscientist,” studied stroke patients and built computer models of sea slugs’ neural networks before getting involved with teaching and science communication for the public. His first podcast, VSI: Variation Selection Inheritance, was funded by the National Science Foundation through the Beacon Center for the Study of Evolution in Action. He’s written probably three books’ worth of blog posts over the past decade, and for four years he was a science columnist for The Intergalactic Medicine Show. More recently he’s been publishing articles in Utopia Science Fiction, ParABnormal Magazine, and Trollbreath Magazine, among others. Even more recently he’s been publishing fiction with Lackington’s Speculative Fiction, The Storyletter, and Illustrated Worlds. Updates and fresh fiction are available at his free newsletter Doctor Eclectic, randallhayes.substack.com.

Morgan Hazelwood

March 12, 2025 / ravenchair

Morgan Hazelwood writes from her lair in Northern Virginia and collects rejection letters. Her short story “Just a Hike In The Woods” was published by the Dark Recesses webzine in January 2022. She’s shared “Writing Tips & Writerly Musings” since 2015, first as a blogger, and then as a vlogger and podcaster. These days, she mostly does productivity sprints every Sunday on her YouTube and Twitch channels, eats snacks, and binge reads paranormal gay romances.

David Keener

March 8, 2025 / ravenchair

David Keener is an author, editor, and public speaker who lives in Northern Virginia with his wife and two, oops, three, inordinately large dogs. He writes SF, fantasy, and mystery but loves mashing up his favorite genres in new and unexpected ways, as seen in books like Jonelle Crosse and Road Trip. He is the editor of two anthologies, Fantastic Defenders and Fantastic Detectives. He is a founding member of the Hourlings Podcast Project, covering writing-related topics. David also frequently speaks at conventions, where he often conducts writing workshops.

Jonah Knight

March 7, 2025 / ravenchair

In early 2025, Jonah began exploring the supernatural in a new way: a storytelling magic show. In The New England Spirit Sessions, Jonah travels throughout New England telling true ghost stories augmented with magical effects. He will be performing a selection from this show (including the story of Edgar Allan Poe’s ghost, frequently seen in Providence, RI) as well as a number of other bizarre magical tricks.

Jonah is also a published ttrpg writer. Most recently he has a campaign published for the game Brindlewood Bay. His actual play podcast, Roll to Meddle, has featured Brindlewood Bay for the past three years. He will be GMing a game or two here at the con.

He also loves escape rooms, having designed and built one himself. You might find him hanging about the RavenCon escape room.

O. Hai Mark

March 4, 2025 / ravenchair

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

Cass Morris

March 4, 2025 / ravenchair

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 five-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.