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Imaginarium 2027 proudly welcomes author Bekka Scott as an Official Panelist! Bekka will be participating in our extensive Panel and Workshop Programming at Imaginarium 2027! Learn more about Bekka.below! About Bekka Scott Bekka Scott – Where Rules Are Optional & Page-Turning Is Mandatory When the clock strikes midnight and the rest of the world drifts off to sleep, Bekka Scott’s mind springs to life. Armed with a cup of tea that’s probably gone cold and a stubborn disregard for literary conventions, she crafts stories that refuse to be boxed in by genre expectations. A self-proclaimed “literary mixologist,” Bekka blends mystery, thriller, and romance with anRead More →

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Imaginarium 2027 proudly welcomes award-winning author, editor, and screenwriter Mick Williams as an Official Panelist! Mick will be participating in our extensive Panel and Workshop Programming at Imaginarium 2027! Learn more about Mick.below! About Mick Williams: Mick Williams is an award-winning author and screenwriter, who lives in Louisville, Kentucky, with his wife and two needy cats, Crash and Thud. His novel Exodus won Best Thriller award at the Imaginarium Convention, and the adapted screenplay also won Best Action Screenplay at the New York Script Awards. Hope’s Game also won Best Sci-Fi novel, also at the Imaginarium Convention. He is a member of The Authors Guild,Read More →

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Imaginarium 2027 proudly welcomes award-winning author, artist, cosplayer, and musician Chad Elliott as an Official Panelist! Chad will be participating in our extensive Panel and Workshop Programming at Imaginarium 2027! Learn more about Chad.below! About Chad Elliott: Chad Elliott is an award-winning author, as well as an artist, cosplayer, and sometimes musician. He calls Lexington, KY home. Chad writes in a variety of genres, including horror, urban fantasy, science fiction, and steampunk. He is a member of the BlahBlahBlah Writers Group in Lexington.story, “Immigrant,” won first place in the inaugural Arlen Andrews Sr. Science Fiction & Fantasy Short Story Challenge in 2026, and his debutRead More →

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Imaginarium 2027 proudly welcomes author, musician, paranormal investigator, and ghost tour guide David Simms as an Official Panelist! David. will be participating in our extensive Panel and Workshop Programming at Imaginarium 2027! Learn more about David.below! About David Simms: David Simms lives in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia after escaping decades of surviving New Jersey. A psychology teacher and college professor, counselor, music therapist, book reviewer, and ghost tour guide, he has endured a long tenure in the Slushpile/Killer Thriller Band band on lead guitar after co-founding the absolutely awful Killer Thriller Band with several best-selling ITW and HWA authors(including former GOH F. Paul Wilson).Read More →

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Imaginarium 2027 proudly welcomes award-winning author J.M. Celi as an Official Panelist! J.M. will be participating in our extensive Panel and Workshop Programming at Imaginarium 2027! Learn more about J.M. below! About J.M. Celi: J.M. Celi is the award-winning author of The Unlife of Lisa Cooper series, The Vampires of 1863, and multiple short stories in that universe. He is the author of urban fantasy and high fantasy fiction. Born and raised in southern New England, he enjoys spending time with his wife and joking around with his son. His hobbies include adventuring with his pugs, playing his ukulele, and snorkeling with cuttlefish. Read More →

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Imaginarium 2027 proudly welcomes award-winning author Carol June Franks 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 June Franks: Carol June Franks is a retired teacher turned children’s author. Her books include rhythm and illustrations that engage children as well as content that adults enjoy reading to the children in their lives. Carol’s goal is to improve childhood literacy through her writing, presentations, and support for parents and teachers. Carol June serves as the Bluegrass Writers Coalition’s (BWC) Vice President and she facilitates the BWC Story Spinners group,Read More →

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Imaginarium 2027 proudly welcomes award-winning author, podcaster, screenwriter, and filmmaker Dwan L. Hearn as an Official Panelist! Dwan will be participating in our extensive Panel and Workshop Programming at Imaginarium 2027! Learn more about Dwan below! About Dwan L. Hearn Dwan L. Hearn, more affectionately known as The Moon, is a self-published author of “The Copperwheat Collection (2023)”, a film-maker with Hallowed Hills Entertainment, and an internet broadcaster on The Sako and the Moon Horror Podcast, The Moon Unscathed, and The Moon=Wrestling Podcast, and three-time Imadjinn Award winning screenwriter. When not being creative, Dwan also enjoys listening to music, watching horror movies, traveling, and beingRead More →

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Imaginarium 2027 proudly welcomes author, military historian, prop armorer, and production consultant Dan Kemp as an Official Panelist! Dan will be participating in our extensive Panel and Workshop Programming at Imaginarium 2027! Learn more about Dan below! About Dan Kemp Dan Kemp was a history major at Ole Miss then a combat veteran infantryman in the Army’s 101st Airborne Division. After graduate school at Norwich, he partly reinvented himself writing military science fiction and alternative history. His primary body of work is the Athenaeum Inc. military thriller series at Cannon Publishing, which began as “a thinly veiled Kelly’s Heroes ripoff” and now is in itsRead More →

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Imaginarium 2027 proudly welcomes writer, podcaster, and paranormal investigator Amanda Brigner as an Official Panelist! Amanda will be participating in our extensive Panel and Workshop Programming at Imaginarium 2027! Learn more about Amanda below! About Amanda Brigner Amanda is a freelance writer, Co-host of the Millennial Mamas Podcast, Paranormal Investigator with over fifty investigations under her belt, and lover of the macabre. Driven by a deep personal understanding of survival and resilience, her writing explores the world of the very real monsters hidden behind closed doors and how thin the veil between this life and the next can be. Amanda was born and raised inRead More →

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Imaginarium 2027 proudly welcomes screenwriter, podcaster, and filmmaker Brian Haas as an Official Panelist! Brian will be participating in our extensive Panel and Workshop Programming at Imaginarium 2027! Learn more about Brian below! About Brian Haas Brian started his career in the early 90s as a film critic for many print and online publications. This has lead to various different roles including filmmaker, screenwriter, producer, film programmer at an art house theater, event host, festival programmer, podcaster and he might even step in front of the camera if the director’s standards are low enough. Brian is passionate about the art form in many capacities andRead More →