Imaginarium 2027 proudly welcomes award-winning author, graphic designer, and cover artist Aaron Christopher Drown as an Official Panelist! Aaron will be participating in our extensive Panel and Workshop Programming at Imaginarium 2027! Learn more about Aaron below! About Aaron Christopher Drown: Aaron Christopher Drown is a Maine native who’s lived all over, and whose stories have appeared in equally numerous magazines and anthologies. His debut novel won the Darrell Award for Best Novel, and as he’s promised everyone who’s asked over the years since, the follow-up will be ready soon. His collection of short stories, The Gods Must Clearly Smile, received the 2022 BIBA along withRead More →

Imaginarium 2027 proudly welcomes award-winning author Julie Jones as an Official Panelist! Julie will be participating in our extensive Panel and Workshop Programming at Imaginarium 2027! Learn more about Julie below! About Julie Jones: Julie Jones is an award-winning fiction writer from Oklahoma where she lives with her husband, two children, one very spoiled rescue dog named Zelda, and Yoru the rescue cat who only answers to Kitty. Aside from writing short stories and novels, Julie works full time and serves on the board of a county-based leadership organization. She loves her home and stays involved in the community. Julie won the 2020 Oklahoma Writer’sRead More →

Imaginarium 2027 proudly welcomes award-winning author Lynn Slaughter as an Official Panelist! Lynn will be participating in our extensive Panel and Workshop Programming at Imaginarium 2027! Learn more about Lynn below! About Lynn Slaughter : Lynn Slaughter is addicted to the arts, chocolate, and her husband’s cooking. After a long career as a professional dancer and dance educator, she returned to school to earn her MFA in Writing Popular Fiction from Seton Hill University. Her young adult and adult novels have received numerous accolades, including an Imadjinn Award, Silver Falchion Award, two Agatha nominations, and a Moonbeam Silver Medal. The past year was an excitingRead More →

Imaginarium 2027 proudly welcomes two-time Rondo Hatton award-winning artist and graphic designer Eric Puckett as a Spotlighted Guest! Eric won the two Rondo Hatton Awards under the special category The Linda Miller Fan Artist of the Year, presented by the Classic Horror Film Board. As a professional graphic designer, he has worked for major publishers. His art shows the classical influence of the Old Masters, along with the dynamics of Impressionist, and has been featured in magazines, galleries, restaurants, offices, private collections, and in celebrity homes all over the world. He graduated from Morehead State University with a Bachelor’s Degree in Fine Art and GraphicRead More →

Imaginarium 2027 proudly welcomes award-winning author and screenwriter Carol Preflatish as an Official Panelist! Carol will be participating in our extensive Panel and Workshop Programming at Imaginarium 2027! Learn more about Carol below! About Carol Preflatish: Carol Preflatish of southern Indiana has been telling stories for more than two decades. She is the author of the Nathan Perry Mystery Series and the Coyote Canyon Mysteries, several romantic suspense novels, two nonfiction books, and is also a multi-award-winning screenwriter. When she’s not crafting new twists and turns, Carol enjoys reading mystery and fantasy novels, watching golf and Indianapolis Colts football, and spending as much time outdoorsRead More →

Imaginarium 2027 proudly welcomes author and journalist Sabrina Black as an Official Panelist! Sabrina will be participating in our extensive Panel and Workshop Programming at Imaginarium 2027! Learn more about Sabrina below! About Sabrina Black: Sabrina Black is an Austin-based indie author who writes dark romance, psychological suspense and dystopian fiction. She is the author of the Free Me series, a dark romance/psychological thriller saga that explores dangerous relationships and trauma. Obedient Girls Stay Alive is her new dystopian thriller about power and patriarchy in a world overrun by the manosphere and red pill content. Outside of fiction, Sabrina works as a consumer social trendsRead More →

Imaginarium 2027 proudly welcomes author R.C. Reid as an Official Panelist! R.C. will be participating in our extensive Panel and Workshop Programming at Imaginarium 2027! Learn more about R.C. below! About R.C. Reid: An uber fan of the works of John D. MacDonald, Edward S. Aarons and Daniel Silva, R.C. Reid longed to see well-written female protagonists in the action-espionage genre and so created both the Mother Russia and the Morrigan Stories thriller series. With his friend Timothy Hardy Bischoff (also known as Cajun) he is half of Southern Wilds Publishing, serving as vice president and editor. Star Trek, Shakespeare and English history are severalRead More →

Imaginarium 2027 proudly welcomes author Molly Daniels as an Official Panelist! Molly will be participating in our extensive Panel and Workshop Programming at Imaginarium 2027! Learn more about Molly below! About Molly Daniels: Molly Daniels resides in the southwestern corner of Indiana with her spouse, three children, four grandchildren, and various household pets. A student teacher in her fifth-grade class showed this avid reader how to unlock the creativity in her brain and to write down the stories in her own head. In addition to her ten Women’s Fiction/New Adult novels and two Science Fiction books, her short stories and poetry have been featured inRead More →

Imaginarium 2027 proudly welcomes award-winning author, editor, publisher, artist, cosplayer, and game designer Renmeleon as a Spotlighted Guest! Under the name Renmeleon, Ana Maria Selvaggio has been a working creative since 1986. With a passion for writing, she has worked in and around the publishing industry since the mid-90s as a book designer, editor, and cover artist! Renmeleon is the founder of Dragonfly Press, the editor-in-chief of Kraft Paper Muse Magazine, and she is also the owner of Two Crows Market, a series of annual, mid-range juried art shows. She holds a Masters in Creative Writing, specializing in screenwriting for gaming, film, animation, and television,Read More →

Imaginarium 2027 proudly welcomes award-winning author and editor Andrea Jones as an Official Panelist! Andrea will be participating in our extensive Panel and Workshop Programming at Imaginarium 2027! Learn more about Andrea below! About Andrea Jones: Andrea Jones is the author of the “Hook & Jill” Saga, an award-winning series of Neverland novels for adult readers. Jones graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where she studied Oral Interpretation of Literature, with a Literature Minor. In her career in television production, she worked for CBS and PBS affiliates, and corporate studios, also performing as on-camera and voice-over talent. Jones is an editor of theRead More →