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We are very excited by our list of guests for Gaylaxicon 2009.
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Guests of Honor: Margaret Weis
Margaret Weis was born and raised in Independence, Missouri. She attended the University of Missouri, Columbia, graduating in 1970 with a BA degree in Literature and Creative Writing. In 1983, she moved to Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, to take a job as book editor at TSR, Inc., producers of the DUNGEONS & DRAGONS® role-playing game.
At TSR, Weis became part of the DRAGONLANCE® design team. Created by Tracy Hickman, the Dragonlance world has continued to intrigue fans of both the novel and the game for generations. 2004 was the twentieth anniversary of the DRAGONLANCE CHRONICLES, which has sold over twenty million copies world wide. Dragons of Autumn Twilight is being made into an animated film featuring the voices of Kiefer Sutherland, Michael Rosenbaum, and Lucy Lawless. Release date is November 2007 from Paramount Pictures.
Weis is also the author/co-author of several other New York Times best-selling series, including DARKSWORD, ROSE OF THE PROHET, STAR OF THE GUARDIANS, THE DEATHGATE CYCLE, SOVEREIGN STONE, and, DRAGONVAARLD. Weis also continues to write with co-author Tracy Hickman for the Dragonlance novel line, THE LOST CHRONICLES.
Weis is currently working on a new six book series with Tracy Hickman, Dragonships of the Vindras, to be published by Tor.
Weis is also owner of Margaret Weis Productions, Ltd., publisher of the Ask the Angels advice board, the Serenity Role Playing Game, based on the movie by Josh Whedon, licensed from Universal Studios, and the Battlestar Galactica RPG, also licensed from Universal, among other exciting game and book projects.
Weis lives in Wisconsin with three border collies and a Sheltie. Weis and her dogs, Dixie and Joey, enjoy competing in flyball tournaments.
Dragonlance and Dungeons and Dragons are registered trademarks owned by Wizards of the Coast. |
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Guests of Honor: Andy Mangels
Andy Mangels is the USA Today best-selling author and co-author of over a dozen novels — including Star Trek, Roswell, and Star Wars books — and is an award-winning comic book anthology editor. He has also written several nonfiction books.
In addition to writing several more novels and contributing to international magazines and newspapers, Andy has scripted and directed a series of over forty half-hour DVD documentaries for BCI Eclipse and Genius Products, as well as producing other Special Features content including commentary tracks. DVD sets he's produced include: He-Man and the Masters of the Universe, She-Ra: Princess of Power, The Archies, The Legend of Prince Valiant, Flash Gordon, Ghostbusters, Zorro, The Lone Ranger, Groovie Goolies, Ark II, Journey Back to Oz, The Secrets of Isis, Jason of Star Command, and Defenders of the Earth, among a large number of other DVD titles!
Andy has also written licensed material based on properties by Lucasfilm, Paramount, New Line Cinema, Universal Studios, Warner Bros., Microsoft, Abrams-Gentile, and Platinum Studios. He is a member of the International Association of Media Tie-In Writers.
Over the last two decades, Andy's comic-book work has been seen from DC Comics, Marvel Comics, Dark Horse, Wildstorm, Image, Innovation, WaRP Graphics, Topps, MVCreations, and others, and he was the editor of the award-winning Gay Comics anthology for eight years.
He has written hundreds of articles for entertainment and lifestyle magazines and newspapers in the United States, England, and Italy. He is a member of the prestigious film critic organization Far From Hollywood Film Society of Oregon
Andy is a national award-winning activist in the Gay community, and has raised thousands of dollars for charities over the years.
To find out more about Andy’s career and life, visit his website. |
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Guests of Honor: Lawrence Schimel
Lawrence Schimel (New York, 1971) is a full-time author, anthologist, and translator writing in both English and Spanish. He has published over 90 books in a wide range of genres, including the short story collections The Drag Queen of Elfland (Cirlcet), His Tongue (North Atlantic), and Two Boys in Love (Seventh Window); the graphic novel Vacation in Ibiza (NBM); and the poetry collection Fairy Tales for Writers (A Midsummer Night's Press), in addition to numerous children's books. He has also edited many anthologies, including: The Future is Queer (Arsenal Pulp Press), Things Invisible to See: Lesbian and Gay Tales of Magic Realism (Circlet), First Person Queer (Arsenal Pulp Press), The Mammoth Book of New Gay Erotica (Carroll & Graf), PoMoSexuals: Challenging Assumptions About Gender and Sexuality (Cleis), Switch Hitters: Lesbians Write Gay Male Erotica and Gay Men Write Lesbian Erotica (Cleis), Kosher Meat (Sherman Asher), Tarot Fantastic (DAW), and Camelot Fantastic (DAW), among others. His work has won the Spectrum Award, the Lambda Literary Award, and The Rhysling Award, among other prizes.
His shorter writings have been published in a diverse range of periodicals, such as the Christian Science Monitor, the Saturday Evening Post, Physics Today, Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, and The Lyric, and have been widely anthologized in The Random House Book of Science Fiction Stories, The Sandman: Book of Dreams, Chicken Soup for the Horse-Lover's Soul 2, and The Random House Treasury of Light Verse, among others.
His writing has been translated into Basque, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Dutch, Esperanto, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Greek, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovene, and Spanish.
He has lived in Madrid, Spain since 1999. |
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Guests of Honor: Terrance "Spider Baby" Griep
Terrance Griep writes.
Some of the things he writes are true: he's sold stories to Out Magazine, The Advocate, Star Trek Monthly, and Lavender Magazine, among others. He's interviewed Clive Barker, John Waters, and Esera Tuaolo, along with lots of boring straight people. A member of the Prism Comics' Advisory Board, he is a writer of that organization's frequently-hit Queer Eye on Comics web feature.
Some of the things he writes are false: he makes up stories, and, incredibly, people sometimes pay him for them. Most often, his lies are written for comics. For DC, he's written stories that have included Superman, Batman, and Green Lantern, but he's best-known as a writer on the DC monthly, Scooby-Doo. Comics have obviously damaged his brain--in fact, they turned him into a part-time super-villain.
On nights and weekends, Terrance works as professional wrestler, Tommy "The SpiderBaby" Saturday. As The SpiderBaby, Terrance, a multi-titlist, has been featured on TV, radio, and the Internet. The International Gay Outdoors Organization recently named him one of the Nine Toughest Gays in America.
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We also have a growing list of other professionals in the SF/F genre who will be attending our convention. We'll start listing them here soon.
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