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Imaginarium 2027 proudly welcomes international bestselling author and lecturer Dacre Stoker as a Spotlighted 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! Dacre 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 2027 proudly welcomes award-winning author and filmmaker K.B. Carlisle as an Official Panelist! K.B. will be participating in our extensive Panel and Workshop Programming at Imaginarium 2027! Learn more about K.B. below! About K.B. Carlisle K.B. Carlisle is an award-winning Southern fantasy author, Appalachian folklore enthusiast, and professional purveyor of questionable magical decisions. His debut, The Book of Rose, won the 2024 Imadjinn Award for Best Young Adult Novel, while its sequel became a 2025 finalist. He writes small-town magic, strange suspense, and characters who probably should have known better. K.B. is also a co-founder of Tattooed Authors of Southern Appalachia.Read More →

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Imaginarium 2027 proudly welcomes artist, bookstore owner, and podcaster Lindsay Schultz as an Official Panelist! Lindsay will be participating in our extensive Panel and Workshop Programming at Imaginarium 2027! Learn more about Lindsay at her bio below: About Lindsay Schultz Lindsay Schultz is a bookstore owner, artist, and podcaster who owns The Spine Bookshop, located in Smyrna, TN. The Spine celebrates local and independently published authors, and spotlights banned books. The shop hosts a wide range of events, including children’s story times (Tuesdays at 4 p.m. and Saturdays at 10 a.m.), book clubs, craft sessions, and a Veterans Coffee Hour on Friday mornings. A co-hostRead More →

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Imaginarium 2027 proudly welcomes literary agent Rose Betancourt as a Spotlighted Guest! Rose is the owner and principal agent of Betancourt Literary, bringing more than twenty years of experience in the publishing industry as both an agent and a USA Today bestselling author! Rose is particularly drawn to psychological thrillers with a dark twist, layered mysteries, and stories that explore obsession, secrets, and moral ambiguity. She has a deep love for Southern and Southern Gothic fiction, especially novels that lean into atmosphere, complex female characters, and a sense of place that feels almost alive. She also represents select romance projects, particularly those with emotional depth,Read More →

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Imaginarium 2027 proudly welcomes award-winning, bestselling author DiAnn Mills as a Spotlighted Guest! DiAnn’s novels have appeared on the CBA, ECPA, and Publishers Weekly bestseller lists and have earned numerous honors, including the Christy, Selah, Golden Scroll, Advanced Writers and Speakers 2026 Golden Scrolls Lifetime Achievement Award, Inspirational Readers’ Choice, and Carol Awards. DiAnn is a founding board member of American Christian Fiction Writers and serves as Conference Advisor for the Blue Ridge Mountains Christian Writers Conference. She is also active in Advanced Writers and Speakers Association, Mystery Writers of America, International Thriller Writers, the Jerry Jenkins Writers Guild, Outliers Writing University, and The ChristianRead More →

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Imaginarium 2027 proudly welcomes award-winning editor, writer, and anthologist Ann VanderMeer as a Guest of Honor! Currently, Ann serves as an acquiring editor for Reactormag She was the editor-in-chief for Weird Tales, during which time she won the Hugo Award. Along with multiple other nominations, she has won a World Fantasy Award, the Locus Award, and a British Fantasy Award for The Weird: A Compendium of Strange and Dark Stories. She was recently honored with the Robert Bloch award for her work in the field. Ann’s latest anthologies include The Time Traveler’s Almanac, Sisters of the Revolution, The Big Book of Science Fiction, AVATARS, INCRead More →

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Imaginarium 2027 proudly welcomes award-winning author, publisher, game designer, and cover artist E.G. Rowley as a Spotlighted Guest! E.G. is a nationally recognized voice actor, radio host, award-winning playwright, and novelist, twice nominated for a Voice Arts Awards: Audiobook Narration of the Year – Best Voiceover. E.G. is also the co-founder of the award-winning, multi-genre independent publishing house Jumpmaster Press! We are honored to have E.G. join us for our 14th year, taking place July 23-25, 2027 in Louisville, Kentucky at the Crowne Plaza! For further information on the Imaginarium Convention, please visit www.entertheimaginarium.comRead More →

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Imaginarium 2027 proudly welcomes award-winning author, editor, screenwriter, filmmaker, comic creator, and podcaster James Sabata as a Spotlighted Guest! A multi-award winner, James is the author of a diverse bibliography spanning published novels, novellas, and meticulously curated short story collections. He co-writes the Midnight Monster Madness series with Vincent V. Cava. James is the founder and director of Spirited Giving, a pop-up horror-themed fundraiser helping local communities. James was also a co-host of TheNecronomi.Com, a popular weekly podcast analyzing horror films as social commentary that had over one million downloads. His latest feature-length horror-comedy, FAT CAMP, is currently in development and slated for release inRead More →

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Imaginarium 2027 proudly welcomes award-winning, bestselling author, editor, and publisher Jason Cordova as a Spotlighted Guest! Jason is an Imadjinn Award winner, as well as a John W. Campbell Award and Dragon Award finalist. He is the author of over two dozen novels across several genres, including YA, horror, science fiction, and urban fantasy! His work has also been featured in over forty anthologies, and he has been published in multiple languages across the world. Jason also serves as Special Projects Manager at Baen Books. We are honored to have Jason join us for our 14th year, taking place July 23-25, 2027 in Louisville, KentuckyRead More →

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Imaginarium 2027 proudly welcomes award-winning and international bestselling thriller author A.G. Mock as a Spotlighted Guest! A.G. was voted Author of the Year in the 2025 Bookstagram Awards, and he earned a Publisher’s Weekly BookLife Editor’s pick for his psychological thriller, Now is the Time of Monsters. 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 AllianceRead More →