Every year we try offer you a great selection of local and regional authors.  These individuals will be offering their books for a nominal fee and will host various panels throughout the convention.

Michael Moreau

Writing a bio of myself is difficult because I often feel as if I don't really know who I am. I am a collection of characters and places that have touched me as I have traveled down the (often bumpy) road of life.
There's only been one constant thing about me that truly feels like "me" and that is the desire to create. Whether it's writing, photography, filmmaking costume & prop design, or one of the other couple of dozen things that I like to do I just can't stop creating. I'm drawn to it more than any other pursuit in life. Just like everything else about me my influences are a little all over the board. I would say that I admire and often imitate Douglas Adams' sense of humor, but lots of my works are also in the simple and elegant style of Andre Norton fused with some of the gritty details of writers like Hal Colbatch or Larry Niven. I don't write as a career, I know that during my lifetime I will likely never make any real money from my writing but I do it because I have stories to tell. All that I hope from my work is that people enjoy it. A quick fan letter is my reward for what I do.

Alexander Brown

Alexander S. Brown is a Mississippi author who was published in 2008 with his first book, Traumatized. Reviews for this short story collection were so favorable that it has been released as a special edition by Pro Se Publishing. Brown is currently one of the co-editors/coordinators with the Southern Haunts Anthologies published by Seventh Star Press. His horror novel, Syrenthia Falls is represented by Dark Oak Press. He is also the author of multiple young adult steampunk stories found in the Dreams of Steam Anthologies and the anthologies, Clockwork Spells and Magical Bells, and Capes and Clockworks. Some of his more extreme work can be found in the short story anthology, Luna's Children.

Linda DeLeon

Linda DeLeon was born in Richland Parish, Louisiana and raised in Vicksburg, MS. She now lives in Dallas with her husband, Rene. Her son, Cody, still lives in MS.While working as an ER nurse, she took a dare from a co-worker and began to write. With the encouragement of her fellow nurses, their entertainment became her obsession. With writing, she could combine her love of history and her deep fascination with vampires. Her endeavors resulted in FALL INTO DARKNESS and VEIL OF TIME.  In March, 2014, her first short story, DEDILESS, was published in the anthology, SOUTHERN HAUNTS- DEVILS IN THE DARKNESS. Since then, she has contributed to other anthologies that will be released in 2015. Presently, she is working on the first in a series of books to be published by Pro-Se Productions. Her next full length novel, THE CABIN, will be released in 2015 by Dark Oak Press.

S. Usher Evans

S. Usher Evans is an author, blogger, and witty banter a ficionado. Born in a small, suburban town in northwest Florida, she was seventeen before she realized that not  all  beach  sand  is  white.  From  a  young  age,  she  has  always  been  a  long-winded  individual,  first  verbally  (to  the  chagrin  of  her  ever-loving  parents)  and then  eventually  channeled  into  the  many  novels  that  dotted  her  Windows  98 computer in the early 2000's. After high school, she got the hell outta dodge and went  to  school  near  the  nation's  capital,  where  she  somehow  landed  jobs  at National   Geographic,   Discovery   Channel,   and   the   British   Broadcasting Corporation,   capping   off her   educational   career   with   delivering   the commencement  address  to  20,000  of  her  closest  friends.  She  determined  she'd goofed off long enough with that television nonsense and got a "real job" as an IT   consultant.   Yet   she   continued   to   write,   developing   20   page   standard operating  procedures  and  then  coming  home  to  write  novels  about  badass bounty  hunters,  teenage  magic  users,  and  other  nonsense.  After  a  severe quarter life crisis at age 27, she decided to fi nally get a move on and share those novels  with  the  world  in  hopes  that  she  will  never  have  to  write  another  SOP again.

B. Timothy Pennington, Ph. D.

B. Timothy Pennington was born in Jackson, Mississippi on September 2, 1948, the second of three children. He grew up in Polkville and Morton in central Mississippi and attended East Central Community College in Decatur before entering the University of Southern Mississippi where he went on to earn a Ph. D. in chemistry in 1974. He completed two years of postdoctoral research at the USDA Eastern Regional Research Center near Philadelphia, PA as a National Research Council Research Associate and one year as a Robert A. Welsh postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Texas at Arlington before accepting a teaching position at Navarro College in Corsicana, TX. After teaching and writing scripts for chemistry videotapes for two years as part of a National Science Foundation grant, he joined the chemical industry in the Lake Charles, LA area in 1979 and stayed in the industry for 30 years. A member of the American Chemical Society for over 35 years, he has seven publications in refereed scientific journals, two trade industry publications, and 21 US patents as inventor or co-inventor. In 1970, he married the former Esther Kennedy of Forest, MS and has three adult daughters.

Chris Hayes

Chris S. Hayes is a life-long reader of classic science fiction and romance. At the age of forty-one she decided she’d rather be both a writer and a reader, and she began writing her first novel, Sikkiyn, which was published ten years later in November 2014 by Solstice publishing. She works as a college health physician in Lafayette, Louisiana, where she lives with her wonderful husband, a very talented teenage daughter, and a skittish cat. She’s working on her second novel now, at a considerably more rapid pace than the first.