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Imaginarium 2027 proudly welcomes two-time Primetime Emmy Award-winning and Grammy nominated screenwriter and playwright Jymn Magon as an Imaginator Guest! Jymn got his start with the newly-formed TV animation department at Walt Disney Productions in 1984, where he functioned as the senior creative manager for nearly a decade. Jymn spent 17 years at Walt Disney Studios, first producing children’s records, then later moving to Disney Television Animation. Jymn created, story edited, and wrote on such shows as Disney’s Adventures of the Gummi Bears, DuckTales, Chip ‘n Dale: Rescue Rangers, TaleSpin, Darkwing Duck, Goof Troop, Quack Pack and The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh. InRead More →

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Imaginarium 2027 proudly welcomes internationally award-winning artist, illustrator, and cover artist Echo Chernik as an Imaginator Guest! Echo’s clients include Monopoly, Hasbro, Acotar, DC, Random House, Penguin, MacMillan, Miller, Camel, Celestial Seasonings Teas, Angry Orchard, Dos Equis, Regal Cinemas, Disney, Mattel, and many more. Echo also does a great amount of work for the role playing game Shadowrun. Echo is the coordinating judge for the Illustrators of the Future Awards. Her recent work includes the Monopoly game for A Court of Thorns and Roses, the epic romantasy series from Sarah J. Maas, and twelve new covers for the latest edition of the best-selling House ofRead More →

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Imaginarium 2027 welcomes #1 NYT and #1 USA Today bestselling, award-winning author P.C. Cast as an Imaginator Guest! P.C. has more than 30 million books in print in over 40 countries. The author of the enormously successful House of Night Series, now being made into feature films, she is also known for her Goddess Summoning and Partholon series. Her novels have been awarded the prestigious Oklahoma Book Award, YALSA Quick Pick for Reluctant Readers, Romantic Times Reviewers’ Choice Award, Booksellers’ Best, and many, many more! P.C. is a member of the Oklahoma Writers Hall of Fame. We are honored to have P.C. join us forRead More →

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Imaginarium 2026 proudly welcomes award-winning, #1 Amazon bestselling thriller author A.G. Mock as an Imaginator Guest! A.G. earned a Publisher’s Weekly BookLife Editor’s pick for his psychological thriller, Now is the Time of Monsters, and he is a two-time American Fiction Awards winner for his debut novel, The Little Woods! His growing fanbase of readers have made each of his books a #1 bestseller on Amazon’s horror and thriller charts in the US, UK, and Canada! A.G. is an active working member of the International Thriller Writers (ITW), the Horror Writers Association (HWA), and Alliance of Independent Authors (ALLi). We are honored to have A.G. join usRead More →

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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 →