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Imaginarium 2026 proudly welcomes international bestselling author and lecturer Dacre Stoker as an Imaginator Guest! Dacre is the great grand-nephew of Bram Stoker and the international bestselling co-author of Dracula the Un-Dead,  the official Stoker family endorsed sequel to Dracula! He is also the co-author of Dracul, a prequel to Dracula, that was published by Putnam in North America, Penguin Random House in the UK, as well as publishers in numerous other countries, with film rights sold to Paramount Studios. A former Olympic modern pentathlon coach, Dacre manages the Bram Stoker Estate and regularly conducts international tours and lectures about the world of Bram Stoker, his writing ofRead More →

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Imaginarium 2026 proudly welcomes author, editor, comic creator, screenwriter, and story coach Jeri Fay Maynard, and author, editor, publisher, screenwriter, and filmmaker Scott Macmann, as Official Panelists! As Panelists, Jeri and Scott will be participating in our extensive panel and workshop programming during our 13th year, July 17-19, 2026, in Louisville, Kentucky! We invite you to explore their individual guest pages, which can be accessed by clicking on the graphic banners below!Read More →

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Imaginarium 2026 proudly welcomes New York Times bestselling, award-winning author Chris Enss as an Imaginator Guest! Chris has been writing about women of the Old West for more than thirty years.  She has penned more than fifty published books on the subject.   Her work has been honored with nine Will Rogers Medallion Awards, two Elmer Kelton Book Awards, an Oklahoma Center for the Book Award, three Foreword Review Magazine Book Awards, the Laura Downing Journalism Award, and a Willa Cather Award from Women Writing the West for scholarly nonfiction.   We are honored to have Chris join us for our 13th year, taking place July 17-19 ,Read More →

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Imaginarium 2026 proudly welcomes New York Times bestselling author Don Bentley as an Imaginator Guest! Don is the author of the Matt Drake thriller series , four novels in the Tom Clancy Jack Ryan, Jr. series, and two novels in the Vince Flynn Mitch Rapp series. Don spent a decade as an Army Apache helicopter pilot during which time he was stationed in South Korea, Germany, and Texas. While deployed to Afghanistan as a Troop Commander in support of Operation Enduring Freedom VI, Don was awarded the Bronze Star Medal and the Air Medal with “V” device for valor. Following his time in the military DonRead More →

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Imaginarium 2025 proudly welcomes Literary Agent Cherry Weiner as an Imaginator Guest! Cherry has been been agenting since 1977, when she left the Robert P. Mills Agency. Cherry started out by handling science fiction, fantasy, and horror. She now handles all genres of fiction and a good number of fairly well-known authors in the field of Horror, Science Fiction / Fantasy, Romance, Mystery, Westerns, Native American novels and Historical novels covering all the various genres each category can break out into. We are honored to have Cherry join us for our 12th year, taking place July 18-20, 2025 in Louisville, Kentucky! For further information onRead More →

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Imaginarium 2025 proudly welcomes award-winning author R.G. Yoho as an Imaginator Guest! A proud member of the Western Writers of America and 2022 Spur Award finalist, he’s author of the five-book Kellen Malone Western series as well as books of historical fiction and nonfiction. R.G. also received the 2024 Branding Iron Award for outstanding service to the WWA as the Spur Awards Chair! Yoho is also America’s foremost authority on the life of Baldwin-Felts Agent and notorious coal mine spy, Charles E. Lively, who he profiled in the biography, “Charles E. Lively. The Deadliest Man in the West Virginia-Colorado Coal Mine Wars.” We are honoredRead More →

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Imaginarium 2024 proudly welcomes Liza Groen Trombi as an Imaginator Guest! Liza is the four-time Hugo Award-winning Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of Locus Magazine, where she has been Editor-in-Chief and Publisher since 2009. Trombi participates in convention panels and awards juries, runs the Locus Awards Weekend and writing workshops, publishes books with Locus Press, and serves as board president of the Locus Science Fiction Foundation. We are honored and elated to have Liza join us for our 11th year, taking place July 19-21, 2024 in Louisville, Kentucky! For further information on the Imaginarium Convention, please visit www.entertheimaginarium.comRead More →

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Imaginarium 2024 proudly welcomes award-winning Hollywood makeup artist, actor, filmmaker, and author Michael F. Blake as an Imaginator Guest! A two-time Emmy-winning makeup artist, spent sixty years in the film and television industry before his retirement in 2018. His credits include Westworld, X-Men: First Class, Spider-Man 3, Independence Day, Tough Guys, Happy Days, and numerous other major productions. Michael’s books on silent screen legend Lon Chaney are the definitive works on the actor, and his trilogy served as the basis for the Turner Classic Movies documentary. His book The Cowboy President: The American West and the Making of Theodore Roosevelt was named by True WestRead More →

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Imaginarium 2024 proudly welcomes award-winning stage and screen actor, producer, and writer Bill Oberst Jr. as an Imaginator Guest! Known for Daytime Emmy Award-winning “Take This Lollipop” and a ratings-winning role on CBS-TV’s “Criminal Minds,” Bill has appeared in a multitude of film, television, and stage productions. Bill’s staged theatrical reading “Ray Bradbury’s Pillar Of Fire” won an Ernest Kearney Platinum Award for its Los Angeles debut. In 2017, it won a United Solo Theatre Festival Award for its Off-Broadway debut on Theatre Row in New York City. Bill has won numerous individual awards, and Ron Chaney, great-grandson of Lon Chaney, presented him with theRead More →

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Imaginarium 2024 proudly announces Steve Jackson, founder of Steve Jackson Games, as an Imaginator Guest! Elected to the Adventure Gaming Hall of Fame, Steve has received 12 Origins Awards, as well as numerous other honors, for game design. His company, Steve Jackson Games, is one of the most successful game publishers in the industry. His current mega-hit is the card game Munchkin, which has a Steam version available for online play, and current projects include various Munchkin follow-ups, a new edition of Car Wars, and the ongoing republication of his first RPG, The Fantasy Trip. We are thrilled and honored to have Steve join usRead More →