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Guests
Ben Wolf (Author GOH)
Award-winning author Ben Wolf has made a career of writing action-packed LitRPG, horror, sci-fi, and fantasy novels, including his exciting Tech Ghost trilogy, his acclaimed Blood Mercenaries series of sword & sorcery books, his hilarious Santa Saves Christmas series, and his legendary LitRPG saga, Rickshaw Riot, co-written with Luke Messa.
He is also the Lead Writer for the Dungeon Crawler Carl Roleplaying Game and has written for the Dungeon Crawler Carl Audio Immersion Tunnel, published by Soundbooth Theater.
When not writing, he plays video games and chokes his friends in Brazilian jiu jitsu. You can follow him on Facebook in the The Ben Wolfpack, on TikTok at @1benwolf, or check out his books at www.benwolf.com.
Daniel "Stitch" Mohr and Wolfie (Toastmasters)
Wolfie was literally born for the stage. He has been acting and trying to make people laugh for over a decade. Eventually he'll succeed. Wolfie has also been nice enough to let Daniel Mohr come with him. Daniel has been an actor most of his life, and loves being on stage. In addition to his acting, Daniel has written and drawn multiple online comics. Daniel and his wife Jules have a business, Mohr Creations, where they sell Jules' handmade fine jewelry and Daniel's art.
Attending Professionals
Beth Hudson determined to become a writer when she was still in grade school. Her fantasy short stories have appeared in various magazines and anthologies. Her first full-length novel, Etched in Fire was released in 2015, with its sequel, A Gift of Flame, following in 2018. She released an anthology of her short stories, Seeing Green, in 2017. Her newest series debuted in 2020 with Goldsong and was followed by Runedance in 2023. She is currently working on Ravensgame, the next book in the Sagathas Bard series, and will soon re-release Etched in Fire. HOME | etchedinfire
Athena Foster - Athena Foster lives in the woods of Wisconsin dodging faerie rings, writing speculative fiction, and performing bureaucromancy during the weekday. She also works as a creative producer, creating folio editions and merchandise for authors. She studied creative writing at the Universities of Iowa and Wisconsin and regularly plays table-top and live action role-playing games. At last report, she is defending a 19th century farmhouse against a colonizing horde of pernicious woodchucks. AthenaFoster.com
Steven R. Southard - In a prior millennium, Steven R. Southard grew up in Iowa. Now he lives far away and writes science fiction. He’s the author of The Seastead Chronicles, tales of people moving to, and living on, the ocean. His short stories have appeared in over a dozen anthologies, most recently including Spring Into Scifi (2025), The Science Fiction Tarot, and Not Far from Roswell. He co-edited the anthologies Extraordinary Visions: Stories Inspired by Jules Verne and 20,000 Leagues Remembered. Visit Steve’s website at stevenrsouthard.com, where he’s known as Poseidon’s Scribe.
Cheshire Moon is the fanciful collaboration of trickster bard Lizzie Crowe and crazed magician Eric Coleman. What began as a simple joining of two talents in song circles, and occasionally during the mad-hatter antics of Eric Coleman on stage, whipped and frothed into the most likely of pairs. Eric’s love of punk, folk and prog rock gives them an eerie, otherworldly sound, while Lizzie brings the voice of that otherworld to life in voice and verse. Together they weave song and story, breathing new life into old myths, new faces onto old gods, and finally telling the princess's side of the faerie tale.
