SPEAKERS, PANELISTS and Presenters
SATURDAY | 11 AM-Noon
Pathways to Publishing Fish Interfaith Center Moderator: Lynette Beers-McCormick
• Colleen Dunn Bates is the publisher at Prospect Park Books, an independent press in Pasadena, California. She founded Prospect Park in 2006 after spending 25 years as an author, magazine journalist, book editor, and newspaper editor. Prospect Park publishes trade books in several areas: fiction, food/cooking, humor, children’s and regional.
• Colin Druce-McFadden is a selfpublished author and a contributing editor at DVICE.com, the SyFy Channel’s tech blog. He has written for the stage, video games and short stories. Last year Colin launched a highly successful Kickstarter campaign for his debut novel The Unshorn Thread. Colin is also a Chapman University alum.
• Kevin Staniec is an arts advocate, author, and publisher. In 2002, Kevin cofounded ISM, a non-profit organization publishing paperback projects and producing international art experiments. In 2013, Kevin co-founded Black Hill Press, a publishing collective dedicated to the novella. Kevin is the author of And This Was My Happy Ending, I Am. You Are, The Adventures of Super Bunny and Giant Cat Bear and Charlie, How to Catch a Cloud, How to be a Super Hero, Begin, and 29 to 31: A Book of Dreams. He currently programs the Arts, Culture, and Education division at the Orange County Great Park.
Story Time Argyros Forum 206
• Melissa Buell eventually turned the stories from her dreams into books. After graduating from CSU Fullerton with a degree in English, she began her career as a substitute teacher at the high school level.
• Jennifer Horsman has written many historical romance novels, ( Avon Books, Zebra Books, which are having a second life on Amazon Kindle), a number of non-fiction books ( Prentice Hall, Quill Driver Books) a couple of successful screenplays. Is God Real or Pretend? is her first children’s novel to be published
• Michael Sampson is a children¹s book author of Kitty Cat, Kitty Cat, Are You Going to School, published in fall 2013. In addition, he has collaborated with the late Bill Martin Jr. on more than 20 books, including Chicka Chicka, 1,2,3, Panda Bear, Panda Bear, What Do You See?, and The Bill Martin Jr. Big Book of Poetry.
SATURDAY | 12:30-1:30 PM
Adventures in Baseball Beckman Hall 404
• Adrienne Cherie Ashford has written a book, Strrr-ike!!, which gives you a delightful on and off the field look at her father, Emmett Ashford, the first black umpire in Major and Minor league baseball.
• Jason Hallenbeck currently works for Angels Baseball in Anaheim and played first base for the 2003 National Champion Chapman University Panthers.
• Richard Santillan is Professor Emeritus at California State University at Cal Poly Pomona in the Department of Ethnic and Women’s Studies. He is also the author of Mexican American Baseball in Los Angeles (2011); Mexican American Baseball in the Inland Empire (2012); and Mexican American Baseball In Orange County (2013). A 4th book, Mexican American Baseball on the Central Coast, will be released this December.
• Jim Segovia is a baseball player, educator, and family man.
I Spy, Sci-Fi Argyros Forum 209 Moderator: Jim Blaylock
• Michael Cassut is a writer of fiction, non-fiction (fourteen books, thirty short stories, two-hundred articles), and over sixty television scripts. His most recent novel is Heaven’s Fall, with David S. Goyer.
• Raymond Feist A New York Times, and Times of London Best-seller, he is the author of Magician, Silverthorn, and A Darkness at Sethanon, the three novels comprising The Riftwar Saga, the first series in the Arc that has become known as the Riftwar Cycle. Other works include the Empire Trilogy (coauthored with Janny Wurts), Krondor’s Sons, comprising Prince of the Blood and The Kings Buccaneer, and Faerie Tale a dark-fantasy set in contemporary America.
• Todd Powers is the author of thirteen novels, including On Stranger Tides, which was adapted for the fourth Pirates of the Caribbean movie of the same title. His novels have twice won the Philip K. Dick Memorial Award, twice won the World Fantasy Award, and three times won the Locus Poll Award.