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Friday, August 16
 

1:00pm MDT

Autograph Sessions
Friday August 16, 2024 1:00pm - 2:00pm MDT
Merchant Room
Join us for an exclusive autograph session where you can meet your favorite author and get your books personally signed.

Authors:
Susan Forest
Dave Sweet
Speakers
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Susan Forest

Editor, Laksa Media Groups
Susan Forest is the author of dual Aurora Award-winners Bursts of Fire (2019) and Flights of Marigold (2020) as well as over 25 internationally-published short stories (Analog Science Fiction and Fact, Asimov's Science Fiction, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, and Orson Scot Card's Intergalactic... Read More →
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Dave Sweet

With 25 years of policing experience, Detective Dave Sweet (retired) has investigated some of Canada’s most heinous crimes.Over his career, Dave worked as a patrol officer, an undercover police officer and led several task forces targeting gangs and organized crime groups operating... Read More →
Friday August 16, 2024 1:00pm - 2:00pm MDT
Merchant Room
  Author Signing

2:00pm MDT

Autograph Sessions
Friday August 16, 2024 2:00pm - 3:00pm MDT
Merchant Room
Join us for an exclusive autograph session where you can meet your favorite author and get your books personally signed.

Authors:
Robert J. Sawyer
Nathan Ogloff
Nicola MacCameron
Speakers
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Nicola MacCameron

Published Leoshine, Princess Oracle Book 1 of the Leoshine series in 2020. Working on Book 2Audiobook narrator and producer. Author on Medium.com and Sci Fi Shorts.com
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Robert J. Sawyer

SFWRITER.COM Inc.
Robert J. Sawyer — called “the dean of Canadian science fiction” by both the CBC and The Ottawa Citizen — is the only Canadian to have won all three of the world’s top awards for best science-fiction novel of the year: the Hugo, the Nebula, and the John W. Campbell Memorial... Read More →
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Nathan Ogloff

I have always had a fascination with creating stories that are rich, intricate, and create a lasting impression on the reader. Previous writing credentials include two unpublished short stories. Other than those, this will be my debut novel. When I'm not writing, I am usually adding... Read More →
Friday August 16, 2024 2:00pm - 3:00pm MDT
Merchant Room
  Author Signing

3:00pm MDT

Autograph Sessions
Friday August 16, 2024 3:00pm - 4:00pm MDT
Merchant Room
Join us for an exclusive autograph session where you can meet your favorite author and get your books personally signed.

Authors:
Judah Leblang
Karen Lee
Andrew Snook

Speakers
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Andrew Snook

Andrew Snook is a professional writer and editor. His non-fiction and fiction writing have earned him a combined 21 national and international writing awards. Snook is also the founder of Canadian Independent Publishers, which is dedicated to showcasing indie writers, bookstores and... Read More →
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Judah Leblang

Judah Leblang is a Boston-based writer, teacher, and storyteller. He is the author of the essay collection, Finding My Place (Lake Effect Press, 2012) and the memoir Echoes of Jerry (Red Giant Books, 2019). He has performed his one-man show, "It's Now or Never" at Calgary Fringe--(Best... Read More →
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Karen Elizabeth Lee

Karen Lee is a published author of three books, two of which are memoirs, The Full Catastrophe (2016) a runner-up for the Exporting Alberta contest, and The Village that Betrayed its Children (2024). She has published many articles, is a group facilitator, public speaker, retired... Read More →
Friday August 16, 2024 3:00pm - 4:00pm MDT
Merchant Room
  Author Signing

4:00pm MDT

Autograph Sessions
Friday August 16, 2024 4:00pm - 5:00pm MDT
Merchant Room
Join us for an exclusive autograph session where you can meet your favorite author and get your books personally signed.

Authors:
Jonathan Whitelaw
Krista Wallace
Bonnie Jacoby
Kevin Weir
Speakers
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Krista Wallace

Krista is a fantasy writer, jazz & rock musician, audiobook narrator, actor, podcaster, mother, Gran, lover of pie, dark chocolate, and fine single malt scotch. She hails from Port Coquitlam, BC, where she writes and records in a closet, emerging occasionally to sing with the big... Read More →
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Jonathan Whitelaw

Jonathan Whitelaw is an award-winning author, journalist and broadcaster. After working on the frontline of Scottish politics, he moved into journalism, covering everything from sports to music to radioactive waste – and everything in between. He's also a regular reviewer, panelist... Read More →
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Bonnie Jacoby

Bonnie Jacoby writes adventurous fantasy and futuristic science fiction for teens. As a resident of the beautiful Pacific Northwest, Bonnie's love for nature is reflected in her stories, transporting readers to worlds that are both familiar and fantastical. With her debut book, Dreams... Read More →
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Kevin Weir

I began my work in film before becoming an author of page, stage, and screen. A fan of fantastical worlds, I found a way to channel my chaotic energies into wild yarns, taking readers on unforgettable journeys. My debut novel, Endless Hunger, was praised as a "riveting, genre-blending... Read More →
Friday August 16, 2024 4:00pm - 5:00pm MDT
Merchant Room
  Author Signing
 
Saturday, August 17
 

11:00am MDT

Autograph Sessions
Saturday August 17, 2024 11:00am - 12:00pm MDT
Merchant Room
Join us for an exclusive autograph session where you can meet your favorite author and get your books personally signed.

Authors:
P.J. Vernon
Jodi McIsaac
Jessica Waite
Speakers
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P.J. Vernon

Lambda Literary and Queerities awards nominee, P. J. Vernon writes, lives and loves on Moh'kinstsis (Mo-ghin-s-tis), which describes the gathering place where the Bow and Elbow rivers meet and the ancestral homelands of the Siksika (Six-ih-gah) Nation, Piikani Nation (Be-gun-ee... Read More →
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Jessica Waite

Jessica Waite is a memoirist, essayist, and single mom to a teenage drummer. She mentors incarcerated writers through the Hero's Journey and leads grieving people to heal through story. Jessica is the recipient of the Jon Whyte Memorial essay award and her work has been anthologized... Read More →
Saturday August 17, 2024 11:00am - 12:00pm MDT
Merchant Room
  Author Signing

1:00pm MDT

Autograph Sessions
Saturday August 17, 2024 1:00pm - 2:00pm MDT
Merchant Room
Join us for an exclusive autograph session where you can meet your favorite author and get your books personally signed.

Authors:
Jessica Johns
Shelly Campbell
Alison McBain
Julie Hiner
Speakers
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Jessica Johns

Jessica Johns is a nehiyaw aunty with English-Irish ancestry and a member of Sucker Creek First Nation. Her debut novel, Bad Cree, was shortlisted for the Amazon first novel award and won the MacEwan Book of the Year prize.
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Shelly Campbell

Shelly Campbell's debut grimdark fantasy duology THE MARKED SON series was published with Mythos and Ink Publishing in 2020-2022. She has co-authored a post apocalyptic sci-fi, KNOWLEDGE ITSELF and it's sequel MADNESS OF PEOPLE, with Cursed Dragon Ship Publishing in 2022, as well... Read More →
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Alison McBain

Alison McBain’s novels are the recipients of over 13 awards, including the Foreword INDIES. When not writing for herself, she’s a ghostwriter who has penned over two dozen books for clients, as well as an award-winning editor who has worked with both celebrity and NY Times-bestselling... Read More →
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Julie Hiner

Killers and Demons
Julie Hiner spent her childhood lost in the pages of books. The only thing that took precedence was her Walkman. Julie remains a hardcore 80s rocker at heart. Julie worked as a computer scientist, specializing in network simulation. On a break, she published an inspirational book... Read More →
Saturday August 17, 2024 1:00pm - 2:00pm MDT
Merchant Room
  Author Signing

2:00pm MDT

Autograph Sessions
Saturday August 17, 2024 2:00pm - 3:00pm MDT
Merchant Room
Join us for an exclusive autograph session where you can meet your favorite author and get your books personally signed.

Authors:
Tash McAdam
Josephine LoRe
Willa Holmes
Marie Powell
Speakers
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Tash McAdam

Tash McAdam is a Welsh-Canadian author, activist and educator. Their publications include The Psionics (Nine Star Press), and the Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selections Blood Sport and Sink or Swim (Orca Books). They are also featured in multiple anthologies. Tash is a recipient... Read More →
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Josephine LoRe

a pearl in this diamond worldJosephine LoRe has shared her poetry live on stage, in podcasts and radio programs, and in international zoom rooms. Her words have been put to music, danced, and integrated into visual art. She has two collections, Unity and the Calgary Herald Bestseller... Read More →
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Willa Holmes

Willa Holmes grew up in Edmonton, Alberta, where her love of fiction was born as she secretly read The Hunger Games in her desk. Apart from writing, Willa adores coffee, roller derby, guitar, scouting, and spending time with friends. She is the author of The Isle of Rebels and is... Read More →
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Marie Powell

Marie Powell’s castle-hopping adventures across North Wales resulted in her medieval fantasy series Last of the Gifted: Spirit Sight and Water Sight, set in 13th C Wales. Marie is also the author of 40+ children’s books with such publishers as Scholastic Education and Amicus... Read More →
Saturday August 17, 2024 2:00pm - 3:00pm MDT
Merchant Room
  Author Signing

3:00pm MDT

Autograph Sessions
Saturday August 17, 2024 3:00pm - 4:00pm MDT
Merchant Room
Join us for an exclusive autograph session where you can meet your favorite author and get your books personally signed.

Authors:
Jack Castle
D.G. Valdron
Rhonda Parrish
Lee F. Patrick
Speakers
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Lee F. Patrick (Sandra Fitzpatrick)

Sandra Fitzpatrick is bilingual in financial and English. She's been helping artists, writers, actors and other Creative People with their taxes, both Canadian and US, since 2006. Many have not known the deductions available as self-employed people and she does several seminars each... Read More →
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D.G. Valdron

Writer, Publisher, Lawyer
The best writer you've never heard of, and I think I like it that way. Lawyer, social justice warrior, misanthrope and denizen of the Canadian prairie. Best known for The Mermaid's Tale, originally published by Five River's press, a grimdark, hopepunk, noir fantasy about an Orc hunting... Read More →
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Rhonda Parrish

Rhonda is the editor of many anthologies including, most recently, Earth: Giants, Golems and Gargoyles, Grimm, Grit and Gasoline: An anthology of Dieselpunk and Decopunk Fairy Tales and F is for Fairy. In addition, Rhonda is a writer whose work has been in publications such as Tesseracts... Read More →
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Jack Castle

Jack Castle has been labeled by the Coeur D’Alene Press as the “Man of Adventures!” He grew up in Florida and while working as a young stuntman for Orlando Theme Parks, he was hand selected by George Lucas to play a Han Solo look-a-like for Disney's Hollywood Studios. It was... Read More →
Saturday August 17, 2024 3:00pm - 4:00pm MDT
Merchant Room
  Author Signing

4:00pm MDT

Autograph Sessions
Saturday August 17, 2024 4:00pm - 5:00pm MDT
Merchant Room
Join us for an exclusive autograph session where you can meet your favorite author and get your books personally signed.

Authors:
Premee Mohamed
Sherry Wong
Chris Patrick Carolan
Kyle Noakes
Speakers
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K.J. Noakes

K. J. Noakes is a Science Fantasy author from, of all places, Calgary, Alberta, Canada. With a BA in Philosophy, he studies Social Ecology, Phenomenology, Existentialism, Critical Theory, etc.. He lives with his cat Purray “Murray” Bookchin (pictured), and tends a garden that... Read More →
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Premee Mohamed

Premee Mohamed is a Nebula, World Fantasy, and Aurora award-winning Indo-Caribbean scientist and speculative fiction author based in Edmonton, Alberta. She has also been a finalist for the Hugo, Ignyte, British Fantasy, and Crawford awards. She is an Assistant Editor at the short... Read More →
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Chris Carolan

Chris Patrick Carolan is an author, editor, and hovercraft enthusiast, originally from Glasgow but now based in Calgary, Alberta. He writes steampunk, horror, fantasy, and science fiction, though he has also been known to turn to crime to make ends meet. Crime fiction, that is. His... Read More →
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Sherry Wong

Born and raised in China, Sherry Wong moved to Canada in the late 80s to pursue her master’s degree. Since 2012, she has written under both her real name and the pen name Tong Ge and has published poems, prose, and short stories (both in English and in Chinese) in North America... Read More →
Saturday August 17, 2024 4:00pm - 5:00pm MDT
Merchant Room
  Author Signing
 
Sunday, August 18
 

11:00am MDT

Autograph Sessions
Sunday August 18, 2024 11:00am - 12:00pm MDT
Merchant Room
Join us for an exclusive autograph session where you can meet your favorite author and get your books personally signed.

Authors:
Anthony Bidulka
Finnian Burnett
Speakers
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Finnian Burnett

Finnian Burnett holds a doctoral degree in English pedagogy and teaches undergrad creative writing and English. Their writing explores intersections of identity — fatness, mental health, disability, queer joy. Finnian was a finalist for the 2023 CBC Nonfiction Prize. Their... Read More →
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Anthony Bidulka

Anthony Bidulka has dedicated his career to writing traditional genre novels in an untraditional way, developing a body of work that often features his Saskatchewan roots and underrepresented, diverse main characters. He tells serious stories in accessible, entertaining, often humorous... Read More →
Sunday August 18, 2024 11:00am - 12:00pm MDT
Merchant Room
  Author Signing

1:00pm MDT

Autograph Sessions
Sunday August 18, 2024 1:00pm - 2:00pm MDT
Merchant Room
Join us for an exclusive autograph session where you can meet your favorite author and get your books personally signed.

Authors:
Wendy McGrath
Ali Bryan
Dana Goldstein
Angela Ackerman
Speakers
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Wendy McGrath

Wendy McGrath is a Métis poet, writer, and visual artist living and working in amiskwacîwâskahikan (Edmonton) on Treaty 6 Territory.Winner of the inaugural Prairie Grindstone Prize 2023-2024, McGrath’s writing practice embraces multiple genres—fiction, poetry, spoken word... Read More →
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Dana Goldstein

I am an author and podcaster with three published memoirs, The Girl in the Gold Bikini, a collection of stories about my relationship with food, Murder on my Mind, a memoir of menopause, and Spent, a collection of stories about my experience in retail management. My debut middle grade... Read More →
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Ali Bryan

Ali Bryan is an award-winning novelist and creative nonfiction writer who explores the what-ifs, the wtfs and the wait-a-minutes of every day. She crafts stories about the downtrodden and disenfranchised, the brokenhearted, and the vulnerable. About lovers and losers, mothers and... Read More →
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Angela Ackerman

Angela Ackerman is a story coach, international speaker, and co-author of the bestselling book, The Emotion Thesaurus: A Writer's Guide to Character Expression, and its many sequels. Available in nine languages, her guides are sourced by universities, recommended by agents and editors... Read More →
Sunday August 18, 2024 1:00pm - 2:00pm MDT
Merchant Room
  Author Signing

2:00pm MDT

Autograph Sessions
Sunday August 18, 2024 2:00pm - 3:00pm MDT
Merchant Room
Join us for an exclusive autograph session where you can meet your favorite author and get your books personally signed.

Authors:
Andrew Buckley
Carolyne Topdjian
Jass Aujla
Speakers
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Andrew Buckley

Author/Presenter
Andrew Buckley is a film school-educated writer, which means he's spent most of his life with no money and a high opinion about bad movies. Today, he's a traditionally and self-published novelist of rather silly, yet enjoyable fiction for all ages, a comic book writer, screenwriter... Read More →
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Carolyne Topdjian

Carolyne Topdjian is author of The Black Moth and The Hitman's Daughter (Agora/Polis Books), a gothic thriller which Library Journal calls a “fast-paced, haunting novel of survival” (starred review). She has published short fiction in PRISM International, Dreamers Magazine, and Firewords Quarterly and was shortlisted for the Ghost Prize by Fractured Literary. Her creative endeavours gravitate toward fusions of gothic mystery, noir suspense, and surrealist f... Read More →
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Jass Aujla

JASS AUJLA is the Canadian South-Asian author of debut suspense-thriller, NEXT OF TWIN. In addition to her twisty novels, Jass' poetry and microfiction have appeared in over ten bestselling anthology publications worldwide, including Hidden In Childhood (Literary Revelations Publishing... Read More →
Sunday August 18, 2024 2:00pm - 3:00pm MDT
Merchant Room
  Author Signing

3:00pm MDT

Autograph Sessions
Sunday August 18, 2024 3:00pm - 4:00pm MDT
Merchant Room
Join us for an exclusive autograph session where you can meet your favorite author and get your books personally signed.

Authors:
Wayne Atrhurson
Laurie Carmichael
monica zwikstra
Allissa Blondin
Speakers
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Wayne Arthurson

Wayne Arthurson is a writer and literary agent of Cree and French-Canadian descent, the author of eight novels, five books of non-fiction and countless articles. His novels have won an Alberta Readers’ Choice Award, an Arthur Ellis Award for Crime Writing and Best Trade Fiction... Read More →
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Laurie Carmichael

Laurie Carmichael is fast becoming a well-known figure in the literary community of Okotoks, Alberta. She founded the Foothills Writers Group (FWG), a collective of writers and authors who meet monthly. Laurie is committed to supporting other writers and authors. Laurie coordinates... Read More →
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monica zwikstra

Monica Sagle Zwikstra is the author of two epic fantasy novels, Dragons Flight, and Alban's Choice.. Monica's writing skills extend to short stories as well, with her story Storm House being published in the anthology A Haunting of Words and her flash fiction Humanity appearing in... Read More →
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Allissa Blondin

CEO, The Feathered Pen
I am a happily married mom of two, and a connector who loves to help people stand in their light so they can write the book they are meant to write!
Sunday August 18, 2024 3:00pm - 4:00pm MDT
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