https://guildificon.com/home daily 1.0 2024-10-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/ed7387f8-5078-4a26-a99c-d2bcbb5202e7/GuildifiCon+2022+Website.png Home - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://guildificon.com/yearlymembership daily 0.75 2024-06-19 https://guildificon.com/faq daily 0.75 2024-06-19 https://guildificon.com/2021-authors daily 0.75 2021-10-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/1635188025732-5EF07VAGDR8DERQKBO52/Stephen+Landry.png 2021 Authors - Stephen Landry Stephen Landry is a 33 year old writer and graphic designer living in Nashville,TN with his fiancée, two rescue dogs, and cat. Much of his work is character driven science fiction (space opera with aspects of fantasy, horror, and time travel) and LitRPG. When not writing Stephen can be found doing graphic design for many different clients including other authors, publishing companies, independent film studios, and more recently a few video game companies. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/1633491856859-44M7NMYFEJPJ4YOVC6SD/tao.jpeg 2021 Authors - Tao Wong Tao Wong is a Canadian author based in Toronto, with series in the LitRPG and xianxia science fiction and fantasy markets. When he's not writing and working, he's practicing martial arts, reading (even more!) and taking care of his family. Other hobbies include occasional RPGs and board games as well as picking up new, random skillsets. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/1632862599766-NJ3Q9SEDE5XAGUQE3XGF/Ryan.jpeg 2021 Authors - Ryan DeBruyn Ryan DeBruyn was a professional athlete that always wanted to write, and turned his dream into a reality. His works include, Ether Collapse, a Post-Apocalyptic LitRPG series, System Misinterpret, a Post-Apocalyptic Cultivation LitRPG, and Ether Flows. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/1633566738584-187N2OYI5MNCQ247YFSK/cailin.jpeg 2021 Authors - Cailan Wilkinson Cailan is an author in the LITRPG genre. He was born in Hawaii but moved to Delaware at a young age, and now lives in Lewes De where he is an environmental activist. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/1632938813667-7F8O4EV7H3W0EKCQUD75/TJ.jpg 2021 Authors - TJ Reynolds Like many LitRPG authors, TJ turned to the genre as a way to indulge his gaming addiction while pretending to be an adult. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/1633978737919-Q5LXHRRR64QWM42LUI7S/Phoenix+Grey.png 2021 Authors - Phoenix Grey Phoenix Grey is the secret pen name of a USA Today bestselling author. She currently lives in San Antonio, Texas where she hermits away writing books and playing video games. When she's not busy plotting her world domination, she can be found hosting tabletop game nights at the local comic book store or checking out the latest recommended anime. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/1632860821232-PRFFCEWR1R7582WFKSJG/Dakota.jpeg 2021 Authors - Dakota Krout Dakota Krout - Author of the best-selling Divine Dungeon, Completionist Chronicles, Full Murderhobo, and Artorian’s Archives series, was chosen as Audible's top 5 fantasy pick of 2017, top 10 bestseller on Audible, top 15 bestseller on Amazon, and featured on the Associated Press for reaching the top 10 bestsellers for audiobooks on Audible. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/1634672436646-VMPHZBXLY0Z3XG0EGFSQ/Carl+Stubblefield.png 2021 Authors - Carl Stubblefield The author began his plans for world domination by first becoming a dentist. It is a well-known fact that dentists have unearthed the ancient secrets of how to crush the hearts of men and to hear the lamentations of women and children. When this was insufficient, he created worlds where he could torment the good guys before moving to the next phase of his plans. Known for nefarious accomplishments that involve crippling dad-jokes and debilitating puns. From his secret lair hidden in the Pacific Northwest, he lives with his wife and three children. They haven’t left yet, but the mountain is covered with genetically altered wolves and other creatures. I’m sure that’s just a coincidence, though. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/1632864666074-RP1GP09JUE6DL80PC9SZ/DJ+bodden.jpeg 2021 Authors - DJ Bodden D.J. Bodden is a tech-startup COO who writes books because words are magic. He's an avid reader of science-fiction and fantasy, a gamer, a former pilot and coffee trader who's been to every continent but Antarctica. He's been woken up by gunfire, jumped out of helicopters, and climbed medium-sized hills in scorching weather; He likes to make people laugh for the wrong reasons; He tries to sell people grimoires disguised as fiction; He is scared of spiders, and only recently learned to ride a bike. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/1634676570902-YB22F9J54LNQA9F7KUFQ/Dan+Sugralinov.png 2021 Authors - Dan Sugralinov Dan Sugralinov grew up in a small working-class town Aktobe on the Russian border with Kazakhstan. It’s a miracle he survived his childhood games of hide-and-seek in the surrounding building sites complete with perilous rebar structures and flooded foundation pits. Ever since he learned to read at the age of five, he couldn’t put a book down. Reluctant to earn himself the name of a conceited nerd, he concentrated on playing soccer which allowed him to become friends with the town’s toughest kids. In 1995, he graduated with honors, entering the St Petersburg Academy of Engineering and Economics where he studied business creation. He must have done something right because in the years that followed, he first worked on TV and radio just to get the taste of it, then opened his first successful business followed by several more. In between, he started writing and playing video games, winning the St Petersburg Mortal Kombat championship and becoming runner-up for Starcraft and Warcraft 3. He is a 14-times champion in Quake, Quake 2 and Quake 3 as well as the world’s ex-#1 in the World of Warcraft. In 2004, he wrote his first motivational novella The Bricks which to date has garnered him over 3,000,000 readers online alone. In 2014, Russia’s leading publishers of business literature Mann, Ivanov & Ferber published a revised and extended edition of his book, The Bricks 2.0. In 2015, Dan discovered the existence of LitRPG. He devoured everything that had been written in that genre until he finally decided he too could write similar books. In summer 2017, he published his first book in the subgenre of realRPG: Level Up. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/1634924595308-TCPGZ9ZY56VUTI1LXOMU/Vasily+corrected.png 2021 Authors - Vasiliy Mahanenko Vasiliy Mahanenko is a fantasy and sci fi author and one of the original founding fathers of the new genre of LitRPG - the MMO-based fantasy and sci fi. His debut novel The Way of the Shaman series took Russian literature by storm in 2012. Vasiliy dipped into his college-days insider knowledge as a hardcore gamer in order to create a believable world of the virtual-reality MMO game. His bestselling series combines fiction and video games, telling the story of Shaman and his friends stuck in the ruthless reality of Barliona. He used his more than ten years' experience as an ERP implementation project manager to approach his writing in a well-organized manner, working to a strict schedule, a set of deadlines and even a budget. At the moment, the series boasts six novels with the seventh one in the works - this time the author expands on stories of Shaman's companions and those who helped and supported him in his trials and tribulations. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/1633640944883-U54XLJ3Y809AH979Q204/Rob+Billiau.jpeg 2021 Authors - RK Billiau R.K. Billiau is the best selling author in his household. He feels strange writing about himself in third person, so just know that he has a wife, a ridiculous amount of kids, a few pets, is a geeky used-to-be-gamer who now games vicariously through reading and writing LitRPG. When he isn't drowning in children, he works for a nonprofit medical outreach bringing free healthcare to people in his local community. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/1632865446467-AVG1ZYF8JVU5B7F97YGR/E+Godhand.jpeg 2021 Authors - E.C. Godhand E.C. Godhand is a LitRPG author by profession and nurse by trade. She writes with Shadow Alley Press, runs a community garden, and fosters orphaned kittens. She’s always mained healer, whether in video games or real life, and loves game design, wordplay, and psychology. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/1632938291011-5JXETOA4PG5ZNG9AD2Q1/Dawn.jpg 2021 Authors - Dawn Chapman Dawn has been creating sci-fi and fantasy stories for many years. These last few years her experience has expanded. From Drama, Sci-Fi, Mil Sci-fi, to Gamelit. Dawn’s built a solid portfolio of writing, publishing, consulting, and audio proofing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/1632936399977-8O5HEXXEYINKDTVV9RDU/Aaron%2BCrash.jpg 2021 Authors - Aaron Crash Aaron Crash writes adrenaline-fueled odysseys into the extreme regions of speculative fiction. If you're looking for cyborg vampires or jellyfish centaurs, you've come to the right place. He is the co-author of the War God’s Mantle series (Shadow Alley Press) and other over-the-top sci-fi/fantasy novels. He’s been an Amazon All-Star and his books have broken into Amazon’s Top 100. When he’s not wrestling the word dragons, he mountain bikes, kills pixels dead, and has been known to watch a movie or three. He lives in Colorado where he does devilish things. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/1635184586401-3ZECD5R1MOBJJ8LXBSIA/Jeffrey+Falcon+Logue+copy.png 2021 Authors - Jeffrey Falcon Logue Jeffrey "Falcon" Logue is a young author who dreams of owning a house with hidden passages. His first stories were those created at a young age with his legos, but it wasn't until college where he took part in his first Dungeon and Dragons game that he decided to write. After finding the Royal Road Legends site, he began writing his stories for others to critique. His first success, The Slime Dungeon, came about from the NaNoWriMo challenge on the site, writing a 60,000 word book in a single month. Since then, he has written 13 full novels in 4 years and graduated college, with plans to write more novels and finish a video game based around his slime monsters. He is proud of his contribution to the dungeon corps genre and gamelit/litrpg genre. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/1632864379852-1NKVGL21XMNIQUUW18PL/Jay+.jpeg 2021 Authors - Jay Boyce Jay Boyce is an avid reader and traveler, explorer of new things. Daughter of a librarian and wielder of words, she is primarily an editor who's trying her hand at writing. A crazy dreamer, she creates stories in her head all the time, and finally decided to start writing them down and sharing the love. The best description of her has always been eclectic, because she wanted to try everything at least once. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/1634680860640-83STNY5LSDWS5RR1MUFR/Marc+Alan+Edelheit.png 2021 Authors - Marc Alan Edelheit Marc is an avid reader and accomplished author that spends his days – and nights – dreaming and writing about all things fantasy and sci-fi. In 2015 Marc decided to make his dream a reality and self-published his first fantasy novel; the rest is history! Marc has a Bachelor's Degree in Science and obtained a Masters in Education as a Reading and Writing Specialist along with a Masters in Administration. After several years of moonlighting as a writer, Marc applied his experience as a business leader in the healthcare industry to his writing career to become a fulltime author in 2018. Marc has traveled the world, from Asia to Europe, even at one point crossing the border at Checkpoint Charlie in Berlin toward the end of the Cold War. He is the ultimate history fan and incorporates much of that passion into his work to bring greater realism to his books. Marc devours several books a week, ranging from history to science fiction and fantasy. He currently resides in New Hope, Pennsylvania, just miles from where Washington crossed the Delaware. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/1632865631550-Z510D5G7H21AEGU2R20Y/Jamey+Sultan.jpeg 2021 Authors - Jamey Sultan Jamey Sultan, is a 24-year old paramedic from the United States with a bachelors degree in Emergency Health Services. He started writing in December 2019 and fell in love with it. He enjoys reading, rock climbing, walking with his wife, and stalking his cat Freddie around his apartment. He falls asleep listening to stand-up comedy. His goal is to write a LitRPG series that he would love to read. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/1632863600577-XW809R1VNE0RWX0OO66I/Shirtaloon.jpeg 2021 Authors - Shirtaloon Shirtaloon was working on a very boring academic paper when he realised that writing about an inter-dimensional kung fu wizard would be way more fun. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/1632864159447-JA3VI0LEMX129NK5A68O/Shemer.jpeg 2021 Authors - Shemer Kuznits Shemer has been a fan of Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and RPG games since the early 80’s. In 2016 he started writing his first novel: Life Reset which turned into a 6-book series with its grand finale published in 2021. Each book in the series became an Amazon bestseller. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/1633561128152-1DS7HY1GMAZVORHLS5KJ/CM%2BCarney.jpg 2021 Authors - CM Carney After reading an editorial claiming Dungeons and Dragons drove kids to worship dark forces in the sewers, C.M. Carney’s mother immediately bought the game for him. He was ten, and strangely he never ventured into the sewers, mostly because he finds sewers wet, stinky, and creepy. But he did become obsessed with reading, writing, and playing all things fantasy and science fiction. After spending nearly two decades working as a creative executive for an animation and SFX studio, C.M. Carney decided to pursue his lifelong dream of creating his own universe(s). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/1633811399558-IOX0EL1WN3XGVE3MH1G0/Harmon.jpeg 2021 Authors - Harmon Cooper Harmon is the author of over sixty Cultivation/Progression, LitRPG, GameLit, sci-fi, harem, fantasy, and superhero books. Harmon lived in Asia for five years, which is where he draws some of the cultivation aspects of his works. He’s been a gamer since his first grade teacher plopped him down in front of a computer to play Oregon Trail. Cooper lives with his wife in New England. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/1634596993674-510A5JH24SXDRBI88P91/Sean+1+.png 2021 Authors - Sean Fletcher Sean Fletcher was born in the broiling, arid state some people lovingly refer to as Texas. He is the Amazon bestselling author of YA urban fantasy, in addition to other forthcoming books whose characters will not give him a moment's peace until they get their turn in the spotlight. When not making things up and putting them on paper, he can be found hiking, biking, or traveling, sometimes all at the same time. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/1632861903958-53TO6SMRDWBF5WD3E0VX/James+hunter.jpeg 2021 Authors - James Hunter James Hunter James Hunter is a full-time ink slinger, a member of SFWA, and the bestselling author of the Yancy Lazarus Series, Rogue Dungeon, Bibliomancer (The Completionist Chronicles Expanded Universe), and the litRPG epic Viridian Gate Online! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/1633642574031-RZ293RF7088F94WUZIWU/LitCon+UPDATE+copy.png 2021 Authors - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/1632935895936-MJY7L4JYMMYQ0GML0EBF/Atlas.jpg 2021 Authors - Atlas Kane Atlas Kane is a retired Dragon Rider with recurring pain in his L4/L5 joints. Carrying a zweihander while fighting in the king's war took a toll on his constitution, so he turned to the less glamorous occupation of Court Scribe. He now lives with his wives and a platoon of kids, recalling old battles and bygone glory. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/1632866249537-LYMOKGO87G2VGSPHLLIG/carrie+summers.jpeg 2021 Authors - Carrie Summers Carrie has always had a passion for fantasy fiction and imaginary worlds. After many years spent working in game development, she left to pursue her love for creating books. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/1632865812663-PFXAE2RILH1CLBQ6L7YA/Jon+Ryer+Davis.jpeg 2021 Authors - Jon Ryer Davis Jon is just a simple guy who likes nerdy things and travel. He writes as a hobby and side hustle, and really enjoys watching the world unfold. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/1632862271625-B7SPKNN6ZD0SW0GILJ4V/Jez.jpg 2021 Authors - Jez Cajiao Jez Cajiao was born a regular human, but over many years of trials and tribulations, he managed to survive to become...an older, uglier and larger regular human! Jez is the author of the bestselling UnderVerse series, and Age of Stone, started his love of writing in 2018, when his interest in the LitRPG genre sparked his creativity. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/1632863908270-7T7RRW4IRHJPO1CNS7WZ/Will+Wight.jpeg 2021 Authors - Will Wight Will Wight is the #1 Kindle Best Selling author of the Traveler's Gate trilogy, the Elder Empire cycle, and the Cradle series, with other titles available in alternate dimensions. He can smell fear, taste anger, and hear joy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/1633633723278-CAU0LB3D3PRK7NJZ4Q10/Jakob+Tanner.jpeg 2021 Authors - Jakob Tanner Jakob Tanner is the author of the LitRPG series Arcane Kingdom Online as well as Tower Climber. He likes playing video games, binging anime, and eating yummy food. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/1632865301498-OQ7C7FEI85YPYY5IWR8Y/Gage+lee.jpeg 2021 Authors - Gage Lee Gage Lee is a long-time fan of wuxia, cultivation, fantasy, and science fiction stories. The School of Swords and Serpents combines all his favorite genres, along with a healthy helping of seasoning from his years as an avid gamer. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/1632936665760-2GEJ7BFF3MF46TG28MXS/Hondo+2.jpeg 2021 Authors - Hondo Jinx Hondo is a bestselling author of pulp adventure. Other than that, he’s just a regular guy blessed with a great wife, a beautiful daughter, and a dog with two different colored eyes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/1634672234335-MF6DBSZ29CNUIXUD9TW3/Joshua+Kern.png 2021 Authors - Joshua Kern Joshua Kern is an anxiety riddled individual who is trying to write for a living. He has always loved reading and the escape books provide from everyday life. He always wanted to be a writer and has finally decided to take the plunge Joshua is currently writing several series that span a few different genres from GameLit, to Fantasy to even a bit of Romance. Joshua was born in a little town situated somewhere in Ohio and raised in an even smaller town someplace in Colorado. He attended University for a time, where he discovered that while he enjoyed Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, his true passion lay in writing. He lives primarily in Colorado but has been known to move around as the need arises. When not writing, he enjoys riding motorcycles, reading anything he can get his hands on, and anime. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/1634329709617-XSO2UNIWS2BEQKAF48YD/SL+Rowland.png 2021 Authors - S.L. Rowland S.L. Rowland is a nomad. He loves traveling and has road-tripped coast to coast three times over with his Shiba Inu, Lawson. When not writing, he enjoys hiking, reading, weightlifting, playing video games, and having his heart broken by various Atlanta sports teams. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/1632860942981-18RZ0AN4TLGR2RFRGK2H/Aleron+Headshot.jpg 2021 Authors - Aleron Kong Dr. Aleron Kong, doctor of Internal Medicine, is the author of the internationally best-selling series The Land, which has sold over 1,000,000 copies worldwide, and was voted Audible's Customer Favorite of the Year. Aleron is also on the Amazon top 100 Authors list. With help from his readers, Aleron has continued to raise funds for charities around the world, exceeding $125,000 over the past several years! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/1634842629450-F5IFIZJYOOXSBDOF39M0/Charles+Dean.png 2021 Authors - Charles Dean Charles Dean has an English Degree and an MBA. He's worked in multiple service and sales level jobs. He spent most of his childhood playing every story-based RPG and reading every fantasy book he could get his hands on. When he finally ran out, as the price of books and games was rather costly, he tried writing his own. The first LitRPG he produced was a simple Diablo 2 fanfic, involving the president becoming a Paladin in an epic quest to save the world from a treacherous demon's nefarious plot. Unfortunately, this book was part of a creative writing assignment for a school project and the teacher deemed it 'too violent.' It would be over a decade later until he finally had free time to begin his next attempt at a LitRPG with his original series The Bathrobe Knight. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/1632863373740-9RDE00US08QXUNVR4X4X/KT+Hanna.jpeg 2021 Authors - KT Hanna KT Hanna has such a love for words, a single one can spark entire worlds. KT creates science-fiction, fantasy, and LitRPG like it’s going out of style, with a dash of horror for fun! No, she doesn’t sleep. She is entirely powered by caffeine, Chipotle, and sarcasm. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/1634595647507-2788LO0K14UWQAQCZV76/Kit+Falbo.png 2021 Authors - Kit Falbo Kit Falbo, Born in 1980. Top 10 litRPG author according to some, fabulous friend according to others. 2021 SPSFC contender. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/1632864839878-8MRX1VQF0RVZPLSQKPDQ/Joseph+phelps.jpeg 2021 Authors - Joseph Phelps In competitive or co-operative video games over thousands of logged hours, Joseph has always sought out unconventional gameplay and created his own fun. He’s the kind of gamer that ensures the ESRB cannot provide appropriate ratings for online games. It’s this type of unusual and amusing gameplay that he brings to the LitRPG and GameLit genres, with wildly aggressive competitive and unconventional single player dynamics at the core of his storytelling. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/1632864982567-XYD6TUX99UFS6ZVMIZZE/Jonathan+brooks.jpeg 2021 Authors - Jonathan Brooks Jonathan has worked in retail for most of his life but has been an avid reader of fantasy books since around age 12. In addition, he has been playing videogames since he got an Atari 2600 when he was 5 years old. Consequently, he fell in love with the LitRPG, GameLit, and Dungeon Core genres when he first learned about them. Currently, he has 33 books published and more on the way! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/1632936147968-URUBR3IYRB8I5F7BYGB7/Daniel%2BSchinhofen.jpg 2021 Authors - Daniel Schinhofen Daniel Schinhofen is a self-published author in the burgeoning genre of LitRPG/Gamelit. He published his first book, Last Horizon: Beta, in October of 2016, and has published over thirty books to date. A best-selling author on Amazon multiple times, his series have achieved name recognition in the genre. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/1632934936975-7L1YA5923JB5KQ63D64V/Michael+Head.jpeg 2021 Authors - Michael Head Michael Head is the author of the Threads of Fate series. He was severely injured while serving in the military, and used his time recovering to rediscover his love for books. He found his experience in combat allowed him to write detailed and realistic fight scenes. Those battles, combined with his attention to detail and ability to plan vast, elaborate, and comprehensive worlds, make for fast-paced and thrilling books. https://guildificon.com/2021-full-schedule daily 0.75 2021-10-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/1633198623868-31O1QGRK6H7E3BZD1UT1/Litrpg+on+earth+and+beyond+copy.png 2021 Full Schedule - 2:00 - 3:00 Panel: LitRPG on Earth and Beyond! LitRPG that stays close to home… or far, far away. Have you ever wondered how authors change the earth into an amazing RPG? Or how space travel would change with the additions from our favorite LitRPG authors? Ask all your questions about books taking place on our planet, and many far, far away. Moderator: Zack Risley Panelists: DJ Bodden, Joseph Phelps, RK Billiau https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/1633206399517-TYN5CGBAFENE5BP7IAQ1/Untitled+design+-+2021-10-02T162927.215.png 2021 Full Schedule - 6:00 - 6:30 Giveaways and Games https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/1632860410357-RCX6VLT3B9ICDZHK1U3U/6th+Annual+LitRPG+Day%21.png 2021 Full Schedule - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/1633207613780-0BVG1JLNPG5553HN0OW0/look+out+hollywood+copy.png 2021 Full Schedule - 6:30 - 7:30 Panel: Look Out Hollywood, Here We Come!: Jumanji, Ready Player 1, Free Guy - LitRPG has taken to the silver screen, but how could we do it better? LitRPG is dipping has started to break onto the big screen, but do you feel they’ve done it right? What did you love and hate about movie and tv show adaptations of LitRPGs? What would you like to see in the future? What format do you think would be best for LitRPG? Moderator: Dylan Watkins Panelists: Shirtaloon, Aleron Kong, Jez Cajiao, Jamey Sultan, Jon Ryer Davis https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/1633216815947-2I8QJVPNDFLC65F3P89A/Giveaways+and+Games+%282%29.png 2021 Full Schedule - 4:30 - 5:00 Giveaways and Games https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/1633218649839-341UUK09KA7D9HOC39YR/Giveaways+and+Games+%283%29.png 2021 Full Schedule - 6:00 - 6:30 Giveaways and Games https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/1633199035915-QJGPNGMG0B6ENBAHKTS1/Giveaways+and+Games%21.png 2021 Full Schedule - 3:00 - 3:30 Giveaways and Games https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/1633215629956-W5DQ3RE9X3Z1TOD7ICM6/Giveaways+and+Games+%281%29.png 2021 Full Schedule - 3:00 - 3:30 Giveaways and Games https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/1633214778463-W4IQ3F5ZWKZVU01HEPSO/Libraries+copy.png 2021 Full Schedule - 2:00 - 3:00 Panel: Libraries and Forges and Taverns, Oh My! Town Building in LitRPG What makes a great town? How do you make the difficult decisions of what to build with limited resources and builders? Discuss the Town Building aspect of LitRPG, how you would go about it and why! Moderator: Bo Brooks Panelists: Shemer Kuznits, Jez Cajiao, Aleron Kong, CM Carney https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/1634325698046-N09JMHIMR836ESY9Q2EF/Tools+of+the+Trade+copy.png 2021 Full Schedule - 12:30 - 1:30 Panel: Tools of the Trade The Art of Crafting With attention to detail, careful and precise movements, and unlimited creativity, discuss the finer points of Crafting. What research goes into accurately portraying the craftmanship? Where do the ideas come from? Moderator: Jay Taylor Panelists: Vasiliy Mahanenko, Jonathan Brooks, Kit Falbo, Marc Alan Edelheit, Charles Dean https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/1634325584709-HUQ4B2BB1CEYD5LUK0EV/Copy+of+Giveaways+and+Games%21.png 2021 Full Schedule - 1:30 - 2:00 Giveaways and Games https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/1633219817294-JDZWLREVDT1EUPKZQ4WE/Copy+of+you%21.png 2021 Full Schedule - Not ready to call it a night? Keep the party going in Discord! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/1633202420822-7T1IGECEHU6MBCSSWYW7/Giveaways+and+Games%21+%281%29.png 2021 Full Schedule - 4:30 - 5:00 Giveaways and Games https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/1634327543820-D0ZN7RSV756J5KRDUULB/Russian+Roots.png 2021 Full Schedule - 12:30 - 1:30 Panel: Russian Roots The Russian evolution of LitRPG. Discuss how RussianLitRPG is different from Korean and American LitRPG. What is popular now and what will be popular in the future of Russian LitRPG? What is RealRPG, and what is the critical distinction from LitRPG? Why is Space LitRPG rather unpopular in Russia? Moderator: Jay Beraz Panelists: Vasiliy Mahanenko and Dan Sugralinov https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/1634327467548-OVSFXRN4FIG35PRZO2JX/Copy+of+Copy+of+Giveaways+and+Games%21.png 2021 Full Schedule - 1:30 - 2:00 Giveaways and Games https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/1633208094647-K89NJ0CW1I8Z5TUPCHX1/Giveaways+and+Games.png 2021 Full Schedule - 7:30 - 8:00 Giveaways and Games https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/1633205827139-0JPQU3FBA0IP341CP1KU/Swords+and+Schemes.png 2021 Full Schedule - 5:00 - 6:00 Panel: Swords, and Schemes and Magical Things... is what the Women of LitRPG are made of. Every day, more and more women are writing incredible LitRPG adventures, find out what inspired them to write in the genre, and their amazing contributions in shaping what the genre has become and will become. Moderator: Tammy Gates Panelists: KT Hanna, EC Godhand, Carrie Summers, Jay Boyce https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/1633201863185-5GX7WTPNSRZFMWY02RB5/Heart+of+the+Dungeon+%281%29+copy.png 2021 Full Schedule - 3:30 - 4:30 Panel: Heart of the Dungeon: Find yourself rooting for the Dungeon to win? Dungeon Core is the LitRPG for you! What makes a sentient dungeon? For that matter, how do you make a sentient dungeon? Find out about the creation of Dungeon Core and all that goes into making you root for the dungeon! Moderator: Kyle Wilkinson Panelists: Dakota Krout, Jonathan Brooks, Gage Lee, Joshua Kern https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/1633218249646-F2YJ9QO7I6RPP0231AC9/Cultivation+copy.png 2021 Full Schedule - 5:00 - 6:00 Panel: A Wise Man Once Said…The Path to Immortality Requires Much Meditation: LitRPG's love of Cultivation, Xianxia, and Wuxia What is Cultivation, Xianxia and Wuxia? Discuss the roots of Cultivation, and why it is so rapidly growing in popularity in the LitRPG genre! Learn about Leveling up vs. Ranking up, the path to immortality, and all that makes Cultivation so intriguing. Moderator: Sean Fletcher Panelists: Will Wight, Ryan DeBruyn, Harmon Cooper, Michael Head, Tao Wong https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/1633212857336-JTRPLZYW2STJWXEJJJME/you%21.png 2021 Full Schedule - Not ready to call it a night? Keep the party going in Discord! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/1633219537516-GHMCYX3EDF8U2CFTSR6B/Collecting+Companions+copy.png 2021 Full Schedule - 6:30 - 7:30 Panel: Collecting Companions: A Beginners Guide to Harem Discuss how constructing a LitRPG system that interacts and benefits from a harem, as well as how the harem can build the class or power of the MC. Moderator: Nick Kuhns Panelists: Atlas Kane, Daniel Schinhofen, Hondo Jinx, Aaron Crash https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/1633212130932-GY7BXXS5QAMGXGZ1ML8P/Back+to+your+booth+copy.png 2021 Full Schedule - 8:00- 9:00 Panel: Back to Your Booth! The Narrators of LitRPG, the voices we love! How exactly do they remember each and every character’s voice? What is the biggest challenge when recording? Favorite and least favorite accents to do? Voicing the opposite gender? These talented voices show (and tell) all! Moderator: Jenn Bean Panelists: Luke Daniels, Travis Baldree, Steve Campbell, Andrea Parsneau https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/1633216451921-LDTJPK1BP916CB8JQN8T/OG+LitRPG+copy.png 2021 Full Schedule - 3:30 - 4:30 Panel: OG LitRPG: LitRPG Then and Now, how LitRPG has evolved, and where it will be in 5 years. LitRPG hasn’t been in the US for all too long, discuss how it started up here with some of the first authors in the US to write in the genre, how it has changed, and discuss where it might be in 5 years. Moderator: Jay Taylor Panelists: James Hunter, Aleron Kong, Dakota Krout https://guildificon.com/2021-narrators daily 0.75 2021-10-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/1632937467974-12QWU9NN58PFT3HRRL2A/Andrea.jpg 2021 Narrators - Andrea Parsneau Andrea Parsneau is an award-winning narrator focused on bringing a story to life via unique and identifiable character voices, emotionally genuine portrayals, and a unique theatrical flair. Her range of characters and hard-hitting emotional style has become nearly as well known as her dedication to making an audiobook as great as possible. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/1632937811999-A6ZTFWHHL8ASRFEFW60R/Nick%2Bp.jpg 2021 Narrators - Nick Podehl By day, Nick Podehl gives voice to a multitude of characters that heretofore only existed on the page. By night he balances time as husband, dad, and amateur armchair general. His castle stands proudly in The Mitten State where he hopes for snow each and every day. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/1632937593115-QN4U8GY6TCQ35AO0PNV8/Steve.jpeg 2021 Narrators - Steve Campbell As a techie with a passion for performance and a love of the written word, the voice-over industry called to Steve. He is now fortunate enough to be living his dream of audiobook narration from his home studio, in Calgary, AB, Canada. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/1632937234390-8WELQ16YCGWZUPANRIOA/Travis.jpg 2021 Narrators - Travis Baldree Travis loved the art of narration since he first heard Frank Muller’s legendary work. He’s been narrating since 2017, and has won a few awards from the IAA and Audiofile Magazine for his work. He’s best known for Will Wight’s Cradle series. Travis lives with his wife, two kids, and dog in Washington State, and gets up every morning excited and grateful to do this job. Travis is also a veteran game developer, and it’s possible you’ve played something he made. Torchlight, Fate & Rebel Galaxy have sold millions of copies on desktops and consoles. He remains the co-owner and CEO of Double Damage Games. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/1632937082337-QQ9DK2NZ7O3GG1GEU6T6/Luke.jpeg 2021 Narrators - Luke Daniels Luke Daniels was born into a family of actors. Both his father and mother have been performing and teaching in the Theatre for almost five decades. It is because of their influence that, from a very young age, Luke and his two brothers often found themselves spending countless hours in rehearsal halls across the country. This early exposure and “backstage pass” into the creation of innumerable productions fostered a deep love of storytelling in Luke that can be heard in his wide ranging audiobook work today. Luke Daniels has narrated over 450 audiobooks. A listener favorite, he has been the grateful recipient of 13 Audiofile Earphones Awards, 4 Audie nominations, as well as Audible’s 2012 Narrator of the Year Award. Luke is well known for his imaginative storytelling and dynamic characterizations, which create an immersive listening experience for his audience. Luke’s vast repertoire of work ranges from Kerouac to Updike, Nora Roberts to Stephen King, Michael Crichton to Phillip K. Dick. His background is in classical theatre and film. He has performed at repertory theaters around the country, but now produces from his home studio in the Midwest, where he resides with his pack. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/1634160525825-ZLHCGQG20DRAR4BKBOO6/Miles+Meili.png 2021 Narrators - Miles Meili Canadian actor Miles Meili was a storyteller long before appearing on the hit series Trailer Park Boys, web drama The Handmaid’s Tale, or becoming the voice of Jonathan Brooks’ cult-beloved Dungeon World books. A long-standing expat of numerous countries, he credits his global lifestyle with richly contributing to the qualities of intimacy, sincerity and immediacy enjoyed by listeners of both his audiobooks and real-life adventures. Born in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, Miles studied on-camera performance under television and theater actor John Dunsworth of Trailer Park Boys fame, later appearing on the program as Jason Hendricks. Guided by Dunsworth, Miles spent his early years performing in local Canadian TV. In 2004, his love of travel inspired a move to South Korea, where he would spend the following 10 years exploring his craft from an eastern perspective. Asia’s demand for ESL and globally distributed media enabled Miles to leverage his aptitude for languages. He developed a broad palette to draw from in terms of accents and pronunciations; a skillset he continuously works to expand. Within Seoul’s voice acting market, Miles was a mainstay in commercial narration, games and animation work. Known for his professionalism, versatility, and warm delivery, he voiced thousands of scripts on behalf of local and international clientele. https://guildificon.com/contactus daily 0.75 2022-10-12 https://guildificon.com/links daily 0.75 2022-10-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/1633523257092-05TJS5JNX4B2RSIFU70M/Copy+of+Copy+of+Copy+of+Copy+of+Buy+a+Top+5+Audiobook+on+Audible.png Links - Make it stand out Join the Discord Server to keep the conversation going! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/1633523236169-GQGHL55PSM81IE726XWS/Copy+of+Copy+of+Copy+of+Copy+of+Copy+of+Copy+of+Buy+a+Top+5+Audiobook+on+Audible+%281%29.png Links - Make it stand out Join the Facebook group to view the panels! https://guildificon.com/2021-saturday-schedule daily 0.75 2021-10-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/1633202420822-7T1IGECEHU6MBCSSWYW7/Giveaways+and+Games%21+%281%29.png 2021 Saturday Schedule - 4:30 - 5:00 Giveaways and Games https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/1633824224120-2HJEFG9WJSR65VMHSTE1/Swords+and+Schemes.png 2021 Saturday Schedule - 5:00 - 6:00 EST Panel: Swords, and Schemes and Magical Things... is what the Women of LitRPG are made of. Every day, more and more women are writing incredible LitRPG adventures, find out what inspired them to write in the genre, and their amazing contributions in shaping what the genre has become and will become. Moderator: Tammy Gates Panelists: KT Hanna, EC Godhand, Carrie Summers, Jay Boyce https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/1633824146582-4IEC80NRFJ2Y44Z7IV4U/Giveaways+and+Games%21.png 2021 Saturday Schedule - 3:00 - 3:30 Giveaways and Games https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/1634326601160-OAWS5Q8CP25IL4JV1J61/Copy+of+Giveaways+and+Games%21.png 2021 Saturday Schedule - 1:30 - 2:00 Giveaways and Games https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/1634326667079-L4U1DFTZR0T8GH90TR2P/Tools+of+the+Trade+copy.png 2021 Saturday Schedule - 12:30 - 1:30 Panel: Tools of the Trade The Art of Crafting With attention to detail, careful and precise movements, and unlimited creativity, discuss the finer points of Crafting. What research goes into accurately portraying the craftmanship? Where do the ideas come from? Moderator: Jay Taylor Panelists: Vasiliy Mahanenko, Jonathan Brooks, Kit Falbo, Marc Alan Edelheit, Charles Dean https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/1633208094647-K89NJ0CW1I8Z5TUPCHX1/Giveaways+and+Games.png 2021 Saturday Schedule - 7:30 - 8:00 Giveaways and Games https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/1633212130932-GY7BXXS5QAMGXGZ1ML8P/Back+to+your+booth+copy.png 2021 Saturday Schedule - 8:00- 9:00 EST Panel: Back to Your Booth! The Narrators of LitRPG, the voices we love! How exactly do they remember each and every character’s voice? What is the biggest challenge when recording? Favorite and least favorite accents to do? Voicing the opposite gender? These talented voices show (and tell) all! Moderator: Jenn Bean Panelists: Luke Daniels, Travis Baldree, Steve Campbell, Andrea Parsneau https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/1633201863185-5GX7WTPNSRZFMWY02RB5/Heart+of+the+Dungeon+%281%29+copy.png 2021 Saturday Schedule - 3:30 - 4:30 EST Panel: Heart of the Dungeon Find yourself rooting for the Dungeon to win? Dungeon Core is the LitRPG for you! What makes a sentient dungeon? For that matter, how do you make a sentient dungeon? Find out about the creation of Dungeon Core and all that goes into making you root for the dungeon! Moderator: Kyle Wilkinson Panelists: Dakota Krout, Jonathan Brooks, Gage Lee, Joshua Kern https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/1633212857336-JTRPLZYW2STJWXEJJJME/you%21.png 2021 Saturday Schedule - Not ready to call it a night? Keep the party going Discord! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/1633823629090-GZSH1NX70W2E1T563HAZ/Litrpg+on+earth+and+beyond+copy.png 2021 Saturday Schedule - 2:00 - 3:00 EST Panel: LitRPG on Earth and Beyond! LitRPG that stays close to home… or far, far away. Have you ever wondered how authors change the earth into an amazing RPG? Or how space travel would change with the additions from our favorite LitRPG authors? Ask all your questions about books taking place on our planet, and many far, far away. Moderator: Zack Risley Panelists: DJ Bodden, Joseph Phelps, RK Billiau https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/1633206392440-G7R5IPIF8CZ4V8NE2R8I/Untitled+design+-+2021-10-02T162927.215.png 2021 Saturday Schedule - 6:00 - 6:30 Giveaways and Games https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/1633207613780-0BVG1JLNPG5553HN0OW0/look+out+hollywood+copy.png 2021 Saturday Schedule - 6:30 - 7:30 EST Panel: Look Out Hollywood, Here We Come!: Jumanji, Ready Player 1, Free Guy - LitRPG has taken to the silver screen, but how could we do it better? LitRPG is dipping has started to break onto the big screen, but do you feel they’ve done it right? What did you love and hate about movie and tv show adaptations of LitRPGs? What would you like to see in the future? What format do you think would be best for LitRPG? Moderator: Dylan Watkins Panelists: Shirtaloon, Aleron Kong, Jez Cajiao, Jamey Sultan, Jon Ryer Davis https://guildificon.com/2021-sunday-schedule daily 0.75 2021-10-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/1633831480583-MQUGLHNS87Z05OBASCCN/OG+LitRPG+copy.png 2021 Sunday Schedule - 3:30 - 4:30 EST Panel: OG LitRPG: LitRPG Then and Now, how LitRPG has evolved, and where it will be in 5 years. LitRPG hasn’t been in the US for all too long, discuss how it started up here with some of the first authors in the US to write in the genre, how it has changed, and discuss where it might be in 5 years. Moderator: Jay Taylor Panelists: James Hunter, Aleron Kong, Dakota Krout https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/1633831692887-LGVODB8J4I8LYHWBAFCX/Giveaways+and+Games+%282%29.png 2021 Sunday Schedule - 4:30 - 5:00 Giveaways and Games https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/1633831153284-896YPQEKVOO5W0T8KZT4/Libraries+copy.png 2021 Sunday Schedule - 2:00 - 3:00 EST Panel: Libraries and Forges and Taverns, Oh My! Town Building in LitRPG What makes a great town? How do you make the difficult decisions of what to build with limited resources and builders? Discuss the Town Building aspect of LitRPG, how you would go about it and why! Moderator: Bo Brooks Panelists: Shemer Kuznits, Jez Cajiao, Aleron Kong, CM Carney https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/1633831776456-HXCQ7KR48LY781R4OTSP/Cultivation+copy.png 2021 Sunday Schedule - 5:00 - 6:00 EST Panel: A Wise Man Once Said…The Path to Immortality Requires Much Meditation: LitRPG's love of Cultivation, Xianxia, and Wuxia What is Cultivation, Xianxia and Wuxia? Discuss the roots of Cultivation, and why it is so rapidly growing in popularity in the LitRPG genre! Learn about Leveling up vs. Ranking up, the path to immortality, and all that makes Cultivation so intriguing. Moderator: Sean Fletcher Panelists: Will Wight, Ryan DeBruyn, Harmon Cooper, Michael Head, Tao Wong https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/1633832148947-K3TZ74NG9ZHTA43FO6NN/Collecting+Companions+copy.png 2021 Sunday Schedule - 6:30 - 7:30 EST Panel: Collecting Companions: A Beginners Guide to Harem Discuss how constructing a LitRPG system that interacts and benefits from a harem, as well as how the harem can build the class or power of the MC. Moderator: Nick Kuhns Panelists: Atlas Kane, Daniel Schinhofen, Hondo Jinx, Aaron Crash https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/1633831429304-PC3MSYWV6VZ4PDE86OOR/Giveaways+and+Games+%281%29.png 2021 Sunday Schedule - 3:00 - 3:30 Giveaways and Games https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/1634328205622-F4EMRVAF0K7SL7YGNIWW/Russian+Roots.png 2021 Sunday Schedule - 12:30 - 1:30 Panel: Russian Roots The Russian evolution of LitRPG. Discuss how RussianLitRPG is different from Korean and American LitRPG. What is popular now and what will be popular in the future of Russian LitRPG? What is RealRPG, and what is the critical distinction from LitRPG? Why is Space LitRPG rather unpopular in Russia? Moderator: Jay Beraz Panelists: Vasiliy Mahanenko and Dan Sugralinov https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/1634328125823-QW5H77KWP5G5J5ZSN59A/Copy+of+Copy+of+Giveaways+and+Games%21.png 2021 Sunday Schedule - 12:30 - 1:30 Giveaways and Games https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/1633832103677-LNH6105ZOOT3G9ILF66J/Giveaways+and+Games+%283%29.png 2021 Sunday Schedule - 6:00 - 6:30 Giveaways and Games https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/1633832743016-NY7FW12P3DWPMIGGKU8E/Copy+of+you%21.png 2021 Sunday Schedule - Not ready to call it a night? Keep the party going in Discord! https://guildificon.com/2021-monday-schedule daily 0.75 2021-10-22 https://guildificon.com/2021-tuesday-schedule daily 0.75 2021-10-25 https://guildificon.com/litrpg-on-earth-and-beyond daily 0.75 2021-10-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/1633825933783-7NN1XFJ5S03CMNVLWK8U/DJ+Bodden.png LitRPG on Earth and Beyond - DJ Bodden D.J. Bodden is a tech-startup COO who writes books because words are magic. He's an avid reader of science-fiction and fantasy, a gamer, a former pilot and coffee trader who's been to every continent but Antarctica. He's been woken up by gunfire, jumped out of helicopters, and climbed medium-sized hills in scorching weather; He likes to make people laugh for the wrong reasons; He tries to sell people grimoires disguised as fiction; He is scared of spiders, and only recently learned to ride a bike. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/1633823629090-GZSH1NX70W2E1T563HAZ/Litrpg+on+earth+and+beyond+copy.png LitRPG on Earth and Beyond - 2:00 - 3:00 PM EST LitRPG on Earth and Beyond! LitRPG that stays close to home… or far, far away. Have you ever wondered how authors change the earth into an amazing RPG? Or how space travel would change with the additions from our favorite LitRPG authors? Ask all your questions about books taking place on our planet, and many far, far away. Moderator: Zack Risley Panelists: DJ Bodden, Joseph Phelps, RK Billiau https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/1633826125752-APEDM3YU8EPI59WLYKFC/RK+Billiau.png LitRPG on Earth and Beyond - RK Billiau R.K. Billiau is the best-selling author in his household. He feels strange writing about himself in third person, so just know that he has a wife, a ridiculous amount of kids, a few pets, is a geeky used-to-be-gamer who now games vicariously through reading and writing LitRPG. When he isn't drowning in children, he works for a nonprofit medical outreach bringing free healthcare to people in his local community. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/1633826044213-724ZZ3XUAJKVJ895OC7X/Joseph+Phelps.png LitRPG on Earth and Beyond - Joseph Phelps In competitive or co-operative video games over thousands of logged hours, Joseph has always sought out unconventional gameplay and created his own fun. He’s the kind of gamer that ensures the ESRB cannot provide appropriate ratings for online games. It’s this type of unusual and amusing gameplay that he brings to the LitRPG and GameLit genres, with wildly aggressive competitive and unconventional single player dynamics at the core of his storytelling. https://guildificon.com/heart-of-the-dungeon daily 0.75 2021-10-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/1633826925673-R6ET2PGJQH0WPW1115LF/Gage+Lee.png Heart of the Dungeon - Gage Lee Gage Lee is a long-time fan of wuxia, cultivation, fantasy, and science fiction stories. The School of Swords and Serpents combines all his favorite genres, along with a healthy helping of seasoning from his years as an avid gamer. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/1634671601973-V7FS48YAEAW9ADI78MQS/Joshua+Kern.png Heart of the Dungeon - Joshua Kern Joshua Kern is an anxiety riddled individual who is trying to write for a living. He has always loved reading and the escape books provide from everyday life. He always wanted to be a writer and has finally decided to take the plunge Joshua is currently writing several series that span a few different genres from GameLit, to Fantasy to even a bit of Romance. Joshua was born in a little town situated somewhere in Ohio and raised in an even smaller town someplace in Colorado. He attended University for a time, where he discovered that while he enjoyed Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, his true passion lay in writing. He lives primarily in Colorado but has been known to move around as the need arises. When not writing, he enjoys riding motorcycles, reading anything he can get his hands on, and anime. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/1633826815405-CZJMV9PVODAZ9DW2UVEI/Dakota+Krout.png Heart of the Dungeon - Dakota Krout Dakota Krout - Author of the best-selling Divine Dungeon, Completionist Chronicles, Full Murderhobo, and Artorian’s Archives series, was chosen as Audible's top 5 fantasy pick of 2017, top 10 bestseller on Audible, top 15 bestseller on Amazon, and featured on the Associated Press for reaching the top 10 bestsellers for audiobooks on Audible. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/1633201863185-5GX7WTPNSRZFMWY02RB5/Heart+of+the+Dungeon+%281%29+copy.png Heart of the Dungeon - 3:30 - 4:30 PM EST Panel: Heart of the Dungeon: Find yourself rooting for the Dungeon to win? Dungeon Core is the LitRPG for you! What makes a sentient dungeon? For that matter, how do you make a sentient dungeon? Find out about the creation of Dungeon Core and all that goes into making you root for the dungeon! Moderator: Kyle Wilkinson Panelists: Dakota Krout, Jonathan Brooks, Gage Lee https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/1633826875759-TUILKE0K9V5P9HXL3A9Q/Jonathan+Brooks.png Heart of the Dungeon - Jonathan Brooks Jonathan has worked in retail for most of his life but has been an avid reader of fantasy books since around age 12. In addition, he has been playing videogames since he got an Atari 2600 when he was 5 years old. Consequently, he fell in love with the LitRPG, GameLit, and Dungeon Core genres when he first learned about them. Currently, he has 33 books published and more on the way! https://guildificon.com/swords-and-schemes-and-magical-things daily 0.75 2021-10-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/1633827267010-2MSDJ4WGRFRUHQIIPK4X/EC+Godhand.png Swords, and Schemes and Magical Things - EC Godhand E.C. Godhand is a LitRPG author by profession and nurse by trade. She writes with Shadow Alley Press, runs a community garden, and fosters orphaned kittens. She’s always mained healer, whether in video games or real life, and loves game design, wordplay, and psychology. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/1633827224807-IT8NB59RSJQPAFEXQVVN/KT+Hanna.png Swords, and Schemes and Magical Things - KT Hanna KT Hanna has such a love for words, a single one can spark entire worlds. KT creates science-fiction, fantasy, and LitRPG like it’s going out of style, with a dash of horror for fun! No, she doesn’t sleep. She is entirely powered by caffeine, Chipotle, and sarcasm. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/1633824224120-2HJEFG9WJSR65VMHSTE1/Swords+and+Schemes.png Swords, and Schemes and Magical Things - 5:00 - 6:00 EST Panel: Swords, and Schemes and Magical Things... is what the Women of LitRPG are made of. Every day, more and more women are writing incredible LitRPG adventures, find out what inspired them to write in the genre, and their amazing contributions in shaping what the genre has become and will become. Moderator: Tammy Gates Panelists: KT Hanna, EC Godhand, Carrie Summers, Jay Boyce https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/1633827321669-YQSNU1BXBYZFX6D8EPA9/Carrie+Summers.png Swords, and Schemes and Magical Things - Carrie Summers Carrie has always had a passion for fantasy fiction and imaginary worlds. After many years spent working in game development, she left to pursue her love for creating books. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/1633827359347-CSDI040KXGHBHLFXC2HO/Jay+Boyce.png Swords, and Schemes and Magical Things - Make it stand out Jay Boyce is an avid reader and traveler, explorer of new things. Daughter of a librarian and wielder of words, she is primarily an editor who's trying her hand at writing. A crazy dreamer, she creates stories in her head all the time, and finally decided to start writing them down and sharing the love. The best description of her has always been eclectic, because she wanted to try everything at least once. https://guildificon.com/look-out-hollywood-here-we-come daily 0.75 2021-10-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/1633829238210-FKM3B2TZT7ZQVX4D64LN/Shirtaloon.png Look Out Hollywood Here We Come - Shirtaloon Shirtaloon was working on a very boring academic paper when he realized that writing about an inter-dimensional kung fu wizard would be way more fun. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/1633207613780-0BVG1JLNPG5553HN0OW0/look+out+hollywood+copy.png Look Out Hollywood Here We Come - 6:30 - 7:30 EST Panel: Look Out Hollywood, Here We Come!: Jumanji, Ready Player 1, Free Guy - LitRPG has taken to the silver screen, but how could we do it better? LitRPG is dipping has started to break onto the big screen, but do you feel they’ve done it right? What did you love and hate about movie and tv show adaptations of LitRPGs? What would you like to see in the future? What format do you think would be best for LitRPG? Moderator: Dylan Watkins Panelists: Shirtaloon, Aleron Kong, Jez Cajiao, Jamey Sultan, Jon Ryer Davis https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/1633829511651-PXYNIXEONVZZ07D7GNNK/Jamey+Sultan.png Look Out Hollywood Here We Come - Jamey Sultan Jamey Sultan, is a 24-year old paramedic from the United States with a bachelors degree in Emergency Health Services. He started writing in December 2019 and fell in love with it. He enjoys reading, rock climbing, walking with his wife, and stalking his cat Freddie around his apartment. He falls asleep listening to stand-up comedy. His goal is to write a LitRPG series that he would love to read. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/1633829333336-S7YUJPTPLRLGYO848YJZ/Aleron+Kong.png Look Out Hollywood Here We Come - Aleron Kong Dr. Aleron Kong, doctor of Internal Medicine, is the author of the internationally best-selling series The Land, which has sold over 1,000,000 copies worldwide, and was voted Audible's Customer Favorite of the Year. Aleron is also on the Amazon top 100 Authors list. With help from his readers, Aleron has continued to raise funds for charities around the world, exceeding $125,000 over the past several years! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/1633829409348-5ZESESQ6R107ZRSRGSMS/Jez+Cajiao.png Look Out Hollywood Here We Come - Jez Cajiao Jez Cajiao was born a regular human, but over many years of trials and tribulations, he managed to survive to become...an older, uglier and larger regular human! Jez is the author of the bestselling UnderVerse series, and Age of Stone, started his love of writing in 2018, when his interest in the LitRPG genre sparked his creativity. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/1633829549651-89HCWUQ551A67DT72X3Z/Jon+Ryer+Davis.png Look Out Hollywood Here We Come - Jon Ryer Davis Jon is just a simple guy who likes nerdy things and travel. He writes as a hobby and side hustle, and really enjoys watching the world unfold. https://guildificon.com/back-to-your-booth daily 0.75 2021-10-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/1633830592996-Z11UDIHAS74A8UCWMG4C/Steve+Campbell.png Back to Your Booth - Steve Campbell As a techie with a passion for performance and a love of the written word, the voice-over industry called to Steve. He is now fortunate enough to be living his dream of audiobook narration from his home studio, in Calgary, AB, Canada. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/1633830662066-EDCNUBPIH8632PLANIQV/Andrea+Parsneau.png Back to Your Booth - Andrea Parsneau Andrea Parsneau is an award-winning narrator focused on bringing a story to life via unique and identifiable character voices, emotionally genuine portrayals, and a unique theatrical flair. Her range of characters and hard-hitting emotional style has become nearly as well known as her dedication to making an audiobook as great as possible. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/1633830137330-0OLPCICK89GYR6O6AQEW/Back+to+your+booth+copy.png Back to Your Booth - 8:00- 9:00 EST Panel: Back to Your Booth! The Narrators of LitRPG, the voices we love! How exactly do they remember each and every character’s voice? What is the biggest challenge when recording? Favorite and least favorite accents to do? Voicing the opposite gender? These talented voices show (and tell) all! Moderator: Jenn Bean Panelists: Luke Daniels, Travis Baldree, Steve Campbell, Andrea Parsneau https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/1633830227542-4W4I3CM65BHQYFA8O5JI/Luke+Daniels.png Back to Your Booth - Luke Daniels Luke Daniels was born into a family of actors. Both his father and mother have been performing and teaching in the Theatre for almost five decades. It is because of their influence that, from a very young age, Luke and his two brothers often found themselves spending countless hours in rehearsal halls across the country. This early exposure and “backstage pass” into the creation of innumerable productions fostered a deep love of storytelling in Luke that can be heard in his wide ranging audiobook work today. Luke Daniels has narrated over 450 audiobooks. A listener favorite, he has been the grateful recipient of 13 Audiofile Earphones Awards, 4 Audie nominations, as well as Audible’s 2012 Narrator of the Year Award. Luke is well known for his imaginative storytelling and dynamic characterizations, which create an immersive listening experience for his audience. Luke’s vast repertoire of work ranges from Kerouac to Updike, Nora Roberts to Stephen King, Michael Crichton to Phillip K. Dick. His background is in classical theatre and film. He has performed at repertory theaters around the country, but now produces from his home studio in the Midwest, where he resides with his pack. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/1633830306801-J20IFKFDOUD5Z7VYF1GB/Travis+Baldree.png Back to Your Booth - Travis Baldree Travis loved the art of narration since he first heard Frank Muller’s legendary work. He’s been narrating since 2017, and has won a few awards from the IAA and Audiofile Magazine for his work. He’s best known for Will Wight’s Cradle series. Travis lives with his wife, two kids, and dog in Washington State, and gets up every morning excited and grateful to do this job. Travis is also a veteran game developer, and it’s possible you’ve played something he made. Torchlight, Fate & Rebel Galaxy have sold millions of copies on desktops and consoles. He remains the co-owner and CEO of Double Damage Games. https://guildificon.com/libraries-and-forges-and-taverns-oh-my daily 0.75 2021-10-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/1633831153284-896YPQEKVOO5W0T8KZT4/Libraries+copy.png Libraries and Forges and Taverns, Oh My! - 2:00 - 3:00 EST Panel: Libraries and Forges and Taverns, Oh My! Town Building in LitRPG What makes a great town? How do you make the difficult decisions of what to build with limited resources and builders? Discuss the Town Building aspect of LitRPG, how you would go about it and why! Moderator: Bo Brooks Panelists: Shemer Kuznits, Jez Cajiao, Aleron Kong, CM Carney https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/1633833683892-Z8B2A2AD8IEPPK875450/Shemer+Kuznits.png Libraries and Forges and Taverns, Oh My! - Shemer Kuznits Shemer has been a fan of Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and RPG games since the early 80’s. In 2016 he started writing his first novel: Life Reset which turned into a 6-book series with its grand finale published in 2021. Each book in the series became an Amazon bestseller. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/1633833864688-GZ6UL8EKBVJIKXMHWHU3/CM+Carney.png Libraries and Forges and Taverns, Oh My! - CM Carney After reading an editorial claiming Dungeons and Dragons drove kids to worship dark forces in the sewers, C.M. Carney’s mother immediately bought the game for him. He was ten, and strangely he never ventured into the sewers, mostly because he finds sewers wet, stinky, and creepy. But he did become obsessed with reading, writing, and playing all things fantasy and science fiction. After spending nearly two decades working as a creative executive for an animation and SFX studio, C.M. Carney decided to pursue his lifelong dream of creating his own universe(s). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/1633833802847-2UVOKGOD2IOOKGG4MRUK/Aleron+Kong.png Libraries and Forges and Taverns, Oh My! - Aleron Kong Dr. Aleron Kong, doctor of Internal Medicine, is the author of the internationally best-selling series The Land, which has sold over 1,000,000 copies worldwide, and was voted Audible's Customer Favorite of the Year. Aleron is also on the Amazon top 100 Authors list. With help from his readers, Aleron has continued to raise funds for charities around the world, exceeding $125,000 over the past several years! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/1633833738220-JTOC75AQT1UU822OAJJS/Jez+Cajiao.png Libraries and Forges and Taverns, Oh My! - Jez Cajiao Jez Cajiao was born a regular human, but over many years of trials and tribulations, he managed to survive to become...an older, uglier and larger regular human! Jez is the author of the bestselling UnderVerse series, and Age of Stone, started his love of writing in 2018, when his interest in the LitRPG genre sparked his creativity. https://guildificon.com/og-litrpg daily 0.75 2021-10-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/1633834095347-40P3TTB7I0X56BMX3QAF/James+Hunter.png OG LitRPG - James Hunter James Hunter is a full-time ink slinger, a member of SFWA, and the bestselling author of the Yancy Lazarus Series, Rogue Dungeon, Bibliomancer (The Completionist Chronicles Expanded Universe), and the litRPG epic Viridian Gate Online! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/1633834182972-2OYTJ3TMNY9C8EYG4QJS/Aleron+Kong.png OG LitRPG - Aleron Kong Dr. Aleron Kong, doctor of Internal Medicine, is the author of the internationally best-selling series The Land, which has sold over 1,000,000 copies worldwide, and was voted Audible's Customer Favorite of the Year. Aleron is also on the Amazon top 100 Authors list. With help from his readers, Aleron has continued to raise funds for charities around the world, exceeding $125,000 over the past several years! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/1633834224085-PZFDNBXFH17Q7HNOIBN8/Dakota+Krout.png OG LitRPG - Dakota Krout Dakota Krout - Author of the best-selling Divine Dungeon, Completionist Chronicles, Full Murderhobo, and Artorian’s Archives series, was chosen as Audible's top 5 fantasy pick of 2017, top 10 bestseller on Audible, top 15 bestseller on Amazon, and featured on the Associated Press for reaching the top 10 bestsellers for audiobooks on Audible. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/1633216451921-LDTJPK1BP916CB8JQN8T/OG+LitRPG+copy.png OG LitRPG - 3:30 - 4:30 EST Panel: OG LitRPG: LitRPG Then and Now, how LitRPG has evolved, and where it will be in 5 years. LitRPG hasn’t been in the US for all too long, discuss how it started up here with some of the first authors in the US to write in the genre, how it has changed, and discuss where it might be in 5 years. Moderator: Jay Taylor Panelists: James Hunter, Aleron Kong, Dakota Krout https://guildificon.com/a-wise-man-once-said daily 0.75 2021-10-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/1633834631701-8FA3JX4UNFMV4OSG3LOR/Harmon+Cooper.png A Wise Man Once Said - Harmon Cooper Harmon is the author of over sixty Cultivation/Progression, LitRPG, GameLit, sci-fi, harem, fantasy, and superhero books. Harmon lived in Asia for five years, which is where he draws some of the cultivation aspects of his works. He’s been a gamer since his first grade teacher plopped him down in front of a computer to play Oregon Trail. Cooper lives with his wife in New England. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/1633834473775-U9P0QMIZ6FEAG36YXHFZ/Will+Wight.png A Wise Man Once Said - Will Wight Will Wight is the #1 Kindle Best Selling author of the Traveler's Gate trilogy, the Elder Empire cycle, and the Cradle series, with other titles available in alternate dimensions. He can smell fear, taste anger, and hear joy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/1633834372862-BIGDQR5W2I2IAMWJHQAQ/Cultivation+copy.png A Wise Man Once Said - 5:00 - 6:00 EST Panel: A Wise Man Once Said…The Path to Immortality Requires Much Meditation: LitRPG's love of Cultivation, Xianxia, and Wuxia What is Cultivation, Xianxia and Wuxia? Discuss the roots of Cultivation, and why it is so rapidly growing in popularity in the LitRPG genre! Learn about Leveling up vs. Ranking up, the path to immortality, and all that makes Cultivation so intriguing. Moderator: Sean Fletcher Panelists: Will Wight, Ryan DeBruyn, Harmon Cooper, Michael Head, Tao Wong https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/1633834685171-G9S0XPQ2519O0RKQ74N2/Michael+Head.png A Wise Man Once Said - Michael Head Michael Head is the author of the Threads of Fate series. He was severely injured while serving in the military, and used his time recovering to rediscover his love for books. He found his experience in combat allowed him to write detailed and realistic fight scenes. Those battles, combined with his attention to detail and ability to plan vast, elaborate, and comprehensive worlds, make for fast-paced and thrilling books. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/1633834569593-WKWUH6GHYQWJ4Y10J5WB/Ryan+DeBruyn.png A Wise Man Once Said - Ryan DeBruyn Ryan DeBruyn was a professional athlete that always wanted to write, and turned his dream into a reality. His works include, Ether Collapse, a Post-Apocalyptic LitRPG series, System Misinterpret, a Post-Apocalyptic Cultivation LitRPG, and Ether Flows. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/1633834745630-35L6HVHTXDV8ML2P1OMY/Tao+Wong.png A Wise Man Once Said - Tao Wong Tao Wong is a Canadian author based in Toronto, with series in the LitRPG and xianxia science fiction and fantasy markets. When he's not writing and working, he's practicing martial arts, reading (even more!) and taking care of his family. Other hobbies include occasional RPGs and board games as well as picking up new, random skillsets. https://guildificon.com/collecting-companions daily 0.75 2021-10-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/1633835162664-SOOLN73ILMFHBXX7QI4E/Atlas+Kane.png Collecting Companions - Atlas Kane Atlas Kane is a retired Dragon Rider with recurring pain in his L4/L5 joints. Carrying a zweihander while fighting in the king's war took a toll on his constitution, so he turned to the less glamorous occupation of Court Scribe. He now lives with his wives and a platoon of kids, recalling old battles and bygone glory. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/1633835415217-B463XARFI8X7U7P5PN23/Daniel+Schinhofen.png Collecting Companions - Daniel Schinhofen Daniel Schinhofen is a self-published author in the burgeoning genre of LitRPG/Gamelit. He published his first book, Last Horizon: Beta, in October of 2016, and has published over thirty books to date. A best-selling author on Amazon multiple times, his series have achieved name recognition in the genre. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/1633835578454-C2FL6MSHJWGU60SY866Y/Aaron+Crash.png Collecting Companions - Aaron Crash Aaron Crash writes adrenaline-fueled odysseys into the extreme regions of speculative fiction. If you're looking for cyborg vampires or jellyfish centaurs, you've come to the right place. He is the co-author of the War God’s Mantle series (Shadow Alley Press) and other over-the-top sci-fi/fantasy novels. He’s been an Amazon All-Star and his books have broken into Amazon’s Top 100. When he’s not wrestling the word dragons, he mountain bikes, kills pixels dead, and has been known to watch a movie or three. He lives in Colorado where he does devilish things. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/1633835499703-CZ5Y5IRTH8NQ2X37ME1W/Hondo+Jinx.png Collecting Companions - Hondo Jinx Hondo is a bestselling author of pulp adventure. Other than that, he’s just a regular guy blessed with a great wife, a beautiful daughter, and a dog with two different colored eyes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/1633219537516-GHMCYX3EDF8U2CFTSR6B/Collecting+Companions+copy.png Collecting Companions - 6:30 - 7:30 EST Panel: Collecting Companions: A Beginners Guide to Harem Discuss how constructing a LitRPG system that interacts and benefits from a harem, as well as how the harem can build the class or power of the MC. Moderator: Nick Kuhns Panelists: Atlas Kane, Daniel Schinhofen, Hondo Jinx, Aaron Crash https://guildificon.com/guildificon-shop daily 0.75 2023-10-19 https://guildificon.com/tools-of-the-trade daily 0.75 2021-10-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/1634847680361-LD7QGZ0PFUVFY4II212C/Charles+Dean.png Tools of the Trade - Charles Dean Charles Dean has an English Degree and an MBA. He's worked in multiple service and sales level jobs. He spent most of his childhood playing every story-based RPG and reading every fantasy book he could get his hands on. When he finally ran out, as the price of books and games was rather costly, he tried writing his own. The first LitRPG he produced was a simple Diablo 2 fanfic, involving the president becoming a Paladin in an epic quest to save the world from a treacherous demon's nefarious plot. Unfortunately, this book was part of a creative writing assignment for a school project and the teacher deemed it 'too violent.' It would be over a decade later until he finally had free time to begin his next attempt at a LitRPG with his original series The Bathrobe Knight. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/1634924595308-TCPGZ9ZY56VUTI1LXOMU/Vasily+corrected.png Tools of the Trade - Vasiliy Mahanenko Vasiliy Mahanenko is a fantasy and sci fi author and one of the original founding fathers of the new genre of LitRPG - the MMO-based fantasy and sci fi. His debut novel The Way of the Shaman series took Russian literature by storm in 2012. Vasiliy dipped into his college-days insider knowledge as a hardcore gamer in order to create a believable world of the virtual-reality MMO game. His bestselling series combines fiction and video games, telling the story of Shaman and his friends stuck in the ruthless reality of Barliona. He used his more than ten years' experience as an ERP implementation project manager to approach his writing in a well-organized manner, working to a strict schedule, a set of deadlines and even a budget. At the moment, the series boasts six novels with the seventh one in the works - this time the author expands on stories of Shaman's companions and those who helped and supported him in his trials and tribulations. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/1634326448880-HN0EUKIT0HJY3WUA5XL4/Jonathan+Brooks.png Tools of the Trade - Jonathan Brooks Jonathan has worked in retail for most of his life but has been an avid reader of fantasy books since around age 12. In addition, he has been playing videogames since he got an Atari 2600 when he was 5 years old. Consequently, he fell in love with the LitRPG, GameLit, and Dungeon Core genres when he first learned about them. Currently, he has 33 books published and more on the way! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/1634595564027-66WIKKVYECNISCY1OFCC/Kit+Falbo.png Tools of the Trade - Kit Falbo Kit Falbo, Born in 1980. Top 10 litRPG author according to some, fabulous friend according to others. 2021 SPSFC contender. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/1634681542224-M110FNWY2B3XUFQ76QYJ/Marc+Alan+Edelheit.png Tools of the Trade - Marc Alan Edelheit Marc is an avid reader and accomplished author that spends his days – and nights – dreaming and writing about all things fantasy and sci-fi. In 2015 Marc decided to make his dream a reality and self-published his first fantasy novel; the rest is history! Marc has a Bachelor's Degree in Science and obtained a Masters in Education as a Reading and Writing Specialist along with a Masters in Administration. After several years of moonlighting as a writer, Marc applied his experience as a business leader in the healthcare industry to his writing career to become a fulltime author in 2018. Marc has traveled the world, from Asia to Europe, even at one point crossing the border at Checkpoint Charlie in Berlin toward the end of the Cold War. He is the ultimate history fan and incorporates much of that passion into his work to bring greater realism to his books. Marc devours several books a week, ranging from history to science fiction and fantasy. He currently resides in New Hope, Pennsylvania, just miles from where Washington crossed the Delaware. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/1634326268860-9JGLOVJ9K5N07L73E8FK/Tools+of+the+Trade+copy.png Tools of the Trade - 12:30 - 1:30 Panel: Tools of the Trade The Art of Crafting With attention to detail, careful and precise movements, and unlimited creativity, discuss the finer points of Crafting. What research goes into accurately portraying the craftmanship? Where do the ideas come from? Moderator: Jay Taylor Panelists: Vasiliy Mahanenko, Jonathan Brooks, Kit Falbo, Marc Alan Edelheit, Charles Dean https://guildificon.com/russian-roots daily 0.75 2021-10-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/1634328999058-OWOAPVZGA0IZM85X6QDF/Russian+Roots.png Russian Roots - 12:30 - 1:30 Panel: Russian Roots The Russian evolution of LitRPG. Discuss how RussianLitRPG is different from Korean and American LitRPG. What is popular now and what will be popular in the future of Russian LitRPG? What is RealRPG, and what is the critical distinction from LitRPG? Why is Space LitRPG rather unpopular in Russia? Moderator: Jay Beraz Panelists: Vasiliy Mahanenko and Dan Sugralinov https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/1634676417200-FI06CZ80T2ZVAK17LZH3/Dan+Sugralinov.png Russian Roots - Dan Sugralinov Dan Sugralinov grew up in a small working-class town Aktobe on the Russian border with Kazakhstan. It’s a miracle he survived his childhood games of hide-and-seek in the surrounding building sites complete with perilous rebar structures and flooded foundation pits. Ever since he learned to read at the age of five, he couldn’t put a book down. Reluctant to earn himself the name of a conceited nerd, he concentrated on playing soccer which allowed him to become friends with the town’s toughest kids. In 1995, he graduated with honors, entering the St Petersburg Academy of Engineering and Economics where he studied business creation. He must have done something right because in the years that followed, he first worked on TV and radio just to get the taste of it, then opened his first successful business followed by several more. In between, he started writing and playing video games, winning the St Petersburg Mortal Kombat championship and becoming runner-up for Starcraft and Warcraft 3. He is a 14-times champion in Quake, Quake 2 and Quake 3 as well as the world’s ex-#1 in the World of Warcraft. In 2004, he wrote his first motivational novella The Bricks which to date has garnered him over 3,000,000 readers online alone. In 2014, Russia’s leading publishers of business literature Mann, Ivanov & Ferber published a revised and extended edition of his book, The Bricks 2.0. In 2015, Dan discovered the existence of LitRPG. He devoured everything that had been written in that genre until he finally decided he too could write similar books. In summer 2017, he published his first book in the subgenre of realRPG: Level Up. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/1634924595308-TCPGZ9ZY56VUTI1LXOMU/Vasily+corrected.png Russian Roots - Vasiliy Mahanenko Vasiliy Mahanenko is a fantasy and sci fi author and one of the original founding fathers of the new genre of LitRPG - the MMO-based fantasy and sci fi. His debut novel The Way of the Shaman series took Russian literature by storm in 2012. Vasiliy dipped into his college-days insider knowledge as a hardcore gamer in order to create a believable world of the virtual-reality MMO game. His bestselling series combines fiction and video games, telling the story of Shaman and his friends stuck in the ruthless reality of Barliona. He used his more than ten years' experience as an ERP implementation project manager to approach his writing in a well-organized manner, working to a strict schedule, a set of deadlines and even a budget. At the moment, the series boasts six novels with the seventh one in the works - this time the author expands on stories of Shaman's companions and those who helped and supported him in his trials and tribulations. https://guildificon.com/2022guests-a-d daily 0.75 2023-06-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/10d0e8ea-310f-4ea1-a778-c86cc29bef9b/Author+Card+Dawn+Chapman.png Guests - Dawn Chapman Dawn Chapman has been creating sci-fi and fantasy stories for thirty years. Until 2005 when her life and attention turned to scripts, and she started work on The Secret King, a 13-episode Sci-Fi TV series, with a great passion for this medium. In 2015, Dawn returned to her first love of prose where she revelled in the world of The Secret King, Letháo and First Contact, as an epic prose space journey over three generations. This year her experience of working with others expanded. From Drama, Sci-Fi, Action, to LitRPG/Gamelit. Dawn’s built a portfolio of writing, consulting, publishing and audio proofing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/91b52ab7-cb12-41d0-ad51-b0bde1ae4d79/Author+Card+J.D.+Astra.png Guests - J.D. Astra J.D. Astra writes Sci-fi, Fantasy, LitRPG, and Cultivation novels with deep, meaningful themes wrapped in action-packed adventure. She’s an active member of the SFWA, Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America and loves to frequent the local cons in Colorado. Ten years of experience in the gaming industry as a designer, project manager, and QA tester has given her insight into the LitRPG world that elevates her crunch, resulting in well-balance game worlds that feel real. No need for a day-one patch on her books! When she’s not writing, Jess is spending time with her friends and family, managing QA projects for Disney’s R&D team, or gaming well into the wee hours of the morning. Her works include: The fan-favorite Viridian Gate Online: Firebrand series (completed); a dungeon delving story with weird magic, Deathless Dungeoneers (one book published); the underdog superhero Zero.Hero series (two books published); a Sci-Fantasy Cultivation series unlike anything in the genre, Bastion Academy (three books published). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/3231183f-69a1-49b2-9f98-48d1d9dc1eb8/Author+Card+Jonathan++Brooks.png Guests - Jonathan Brooks Jonathan Brooks is the author of over 40 books in the Dungeon Core and LitRPG genres, including Dungeon World, Dungeon Crafting, The Dungeon Fairy, and Station Cores, to name a few. He prefers his LitRPG to be on the crunchier side of the genre, both as a reader and author, so the more stats the better! He currently lives in Colorado with his wife and daughter, writing more books to release every month. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/64d993ee-a991-4287-93db-c36e059de544/Author+Card+C.M.+Carney.png Guests - C.M. Carney My journey to becoming the Bestselling author of ‘dorky books’ - as my sister is fond of calling them - began in the dark ages long before the internet was a thing with the original Dungeons and Dragons boxed set. My mother bought that shiny red box for me after reading an ‘editorial’ in the local paper claiming that role playing games drove kids to worship dark forces in the sewers. I was ten, and it's probably a good thing there were no sewers on my street, otherwise, I would have delved down with my hand-crafted wooden sword and my trash can shield, ready to smite evildoers of all stripes, likely to never be heard from again. Thankfully, my forays into the underworld never materialized, and I faced neither dragon nor goblin nor gelatinous cube. Instead, I turned my eye and my quill to writing fantastical tales. Today, thanks to my two Bestselling LitRPG series, The Quintessence, which incorporates cultivation elements and measured progression, and The Realms, which burst onto the LitRPG scene with Barrow King in February 2018, I get to put the profession author on my tax return. In addition to my two current series, I am just finishing up work on the first book in Knightman & Page, a middle grade superhero, action-adventure Arhturian series with LitRPG elements. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/63bb07c1-11dd-473d-97ad-73d219cab921/Author+Card+Natasha+Bennett.png Guests - Natasha Bennett Natasha Bennett is a long-time gamer and RPG player. She is also a Canadian author of several books and short stories in the science fiction/horror genre. Lately she has been working to break into the screenwriting industry. This year her latest script, Six Days Before Christmas, was a finalist in the 13Horror.com screenplay Contest. Prior to that her science fiction series, From the Ground Up, was a quarterfinalist in Screencraft’s ‘Upcoming TV Pilots’. When she is not writing, Natasha enjoys her time urban exploring Vancouver Island. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/7cf70966-02e8-440c-a62a-0da6d5fcee31/Author+Card+Harmon+Cooper.png Guests - Harmon Cooper Hi, I’m Harmon Cooper. I write in a variety of genres and styles mainly covering LitRPG, cultivation, post-apocalyptic, and progression fantasy. I have traveled through Asia extensively, from the Gobi Desert to the outskirts of Japan, which is where I draw the core of my inspiration. I was once a Fulbright Fellow, and in 2021 I won the LitRPG/GameLit audiobook of the year award for the Sacred Cat Island, narrated by Travis Baldree. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/68b2196c-e12c-4121-97ad-db3f1f147105/Author+Card+Matt+Dinniman.png Guests - Matt Dinniman Matt Dinniman is an artist and writer from Gig Harbor, WA. He writes Dungeon Crawler Carl. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/dc132e85-b738-4c50-949d-21c9f8526c5f/Author+Card+Alvin+Atwater.png Guests - Alvin Atwater Alvin Atwater’s a man of humor, fantasy, character creation and even their dreams. His main flagship is the Rise of the Cheat Potion Maker series, accompanied with a lesser known, Pinnacle of Power and an older light novel series that got his start in LitRPG. He’s written roughly 40 books, spanning across a few genres, though Goodreads state 51, remembering works that he’d rather forget. Born in Florida, Alvin did military service as a Navy Seabee, and afterward, dropped out of college to foolishly pursue a writing dream. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/03243ce7-7b12-41e7-9654-b64d7f64a73e/Author+Card+L.S.+Dealy.png Guests - L.S. Dealy L.S. Dealy, a third-year Sociology student from Ottawa, is work on publishing his first book of fiction and will use his experience to encourage other students in self-improvement of their skills. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/c4718ecc-0ba7-41b5-9cd1-4dbe45b20cd1/Narrator+Card+Steve+Campbell+%283%29.png Guests - Steve Campbell Steve Campbell is a Canadian Narrator who has recorded over 135 titles, totaling over a thousand finished hours of audiobooks, equal to 10,000,000 words. He won the Independent Audiobook Award in 2019 for YA (Watcher by AJ Eversley - co-narrated with Chelsea Stephens). Steve has also been interviewed for an article in the Wall Street Journal and has been on multiple podcasts and is a member of SAG-AFTRA. Steve didn’t start out in the narration business, he previously worked at restaurants entertaining patrons and at an apiary before turning to construction, where he worked for almost 20 years, eventually founding and owning an incorporated company for 10 of those years. Once he discovered his love for narrating he was able to go full-time with audiobook narration after only 1.5 years. Severe ADHD did not slow Steve down, he was not only an athlete in school, with achievements of being the captain of his high school basketball and volleyball teams, he was also involved in Fine Arts as the lead in many plays, including a community performance of Romeo and Juliet. He was also the high school class president and Valedictorian. Steve was also a lead singer in a church and youth band to crowds up to 300 strong and toured eastern Canada and northeastern US for a year doing multimedia dramas and music to crowds up to 1,500 in schools, churches, community centres, and minimum and maximum prisons. Steve is happily married to his high school sweetheart and they have two sons together. He’s a huge fan of movies and comics, and didn’t discover his love for reading until he was 20 and hasn’t looked back. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/2ea0f256-5b6e-47b1-8765-ed8506bf1652/Author+Card+Xander+Boyce.png Guests - Xander Boyce Xander is a USCG veteran and lifelong scifi/fantasy reader. Having begun creating worlds for his pen and paper roleplaying games more than a decade ago, he has always been fascinated by what can be done when people are pushed beyond normal boundaries. He was drawn to Science Fiction as a way to explore the human condition, and his debut book, Advent, is an extension of that desire. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/2d4dfa19-9409-4266-9b6f-e72d2e10da87/Author+Card+Austin+Beck.png Guests - Austin Beck My name is Austin Beck. I’m a laid back Southern fellow with a wife and three boys. I’m known for my isekai harem gamelit slice of life novels. That was a mouthful. I’ve written 7 harem novels and have loved every second of it. My most successful series so far are the Reborn as a Fire Mage series and the Mixed Martial Cultivator series. My books are kind of like popcorn movies in the summer. They won’t win any awards, but they are fun and mindless. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/0255e51d-d0c1-4a93-9bdc-f3979e42910b/Author+Card+Travis+Deverell.png Guests - Travis Deverell Travis Deverell is the unepententently Australian author of the suspiciously bestselling series He Who Fights With Monsters. Also known as Shirtlaoon, a moniker with a disappointingly banal origin, he has gone from a student of literature to a writer of litRPG, which is both more fun and more lucrative. The unfortunate lack of kung fu wizards in the English literary canon turned out to be a dealbreaker. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/1f928183-7e63-438d-bb1a-5a5b266b2339/Author+Card+Jay+Boyce.png Guests - Jay Boyce Jay Boyce, daughter of a librarian and wielder of words, is primarily an editor turned LitRPG writer. A crazy dreamer, she creates stories in her head all the time, and finally decided to start writing them down and sharing the love. A perpetual learner, she also works at her local university attending classes with deaf students and gleaning knowledge on any random subject she can get her hands on. She started writing again after being diagnosed with an autoimmune disease in 2018. She strives to make the world better through kindness, and showing that you can overcome whatever obstacles stand in your way. Jay is currently writing two series: A Touch of Power and Rise of the Mystic Mage. Winner of the 2019 Warriors and Wizards award for best new LitRPG author, she was also nominated as a finalist for the Independent Audiobook Awards in 2020. Jay is well known for collecting the rainbow in the form of dice, wigs, and mugs. Her hobbies, aside from reading/writing, include playing board and video games, ultimate frisbee and volleyball, and traveling the world to experience new cultures. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/8c333675-5cc6-4bd8-aecf-1191efb932c9/Author+Card+JJ+Ackerknecht.png Guests - J.J. Ackerknecht Hey there. Gonna break with tradition and do this bit in the first-person. I'm Justin Josiah Ackerknecht, aka JJ, aka JayAck. I love Fantasy, SciFi, Horror, and the intersections where those genres meet, as well as almost all of their little subgenre children. I've been writing for about 20 years, whether that be comics, short stories, webserials, and now, publishing to Amazon. I've lived in America (where I'm from) as well as Asia and Europe (where I am currently). My wonderful wife works as a librarian, and we both adore books and stories of all sorts. We also have a very stinky and absurd dog that we love very much. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/d643823e-a6cc-4fc4-b042-c7c8b9bf0ecd/Author+Card+Ryan+DeBruyn.png Guests - Ryan DeBruyn All right. Where do I start? Honestly, it’s strange looking back at how you got somewhere the further away from it you get. I grew up an athlete who wanted to read sometimes more than I wanted to compete. I wanted to be on some magical battlefield fighting off evil, instead of just the ugly opponent I also wanted to beat. If anything, this environment allowed me some unique creativity when it came to competition. It’s probably accurate to say I took sports as far as I physically and mentally could, attempting to represent Canada and compete in the Olympics. It might not have happened but that isn’t because I didn’t work hard enough to get the stats I needed. When sports ended I went back to school and took Electrical Engineering, it was during my final year there that my passion for reading and long desire to write finally manifested. I started my first story Equalize on RoyalRoad and fell ‘ass-backward’ into the world of being an author. Now, two years after taking writing full-time, I have three series to my name, and all of them have been best sellers. What a world we live in?! Give any of them a read ;) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/ab055df4-dd2b-4d78-8409-7f65c5463f9b/Author+Card+Jez+Cajiao.png Guests - Jez Cajiao Jez Cajiao was born a regular human, but over many years of trials and tribulations, he managed to survive to become...an older, uglier and larger regular human! Seriously though, I live in the North of England with my wife, and two sons, Max and Xander, two cats, and a two crazy dogs that love doing 'Zoomies' around the garden. I'm writing full-time now thanks to all of your support, and generally loving life, so thank you all! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/82761ebc-1e19-4f74-8ac5-ddc48dbebdfe/Author+Card+Matthew+J.+Barbeler.png Guests - Matthew J. Barbeler Matthew J. Barbeler is an indigenous Australian author, and he writes dark fiction to die for. Author of Crematoria Online and EDGE Force, his LitRPG combines his love of video games, games design, and writing page-turners that sink their claws in and don't let go https://guildificon.com/2022guests-a-j daily 0.75 2023-06-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/d8a0c168-319e-4877-a5d0-23de11618bc0/Author+Card+Dimitrios+Gkirgkiris.png Guests E-J - Dimitrios Gkirgkiris The three things Dimitrios would grab in case of a fire, would be his Lord of the Rings book collection, his Chrono Trigger SNES game, and his dog, Poko. July 2020 marked the beginning of his author career with the release of the Mana Trilogy, an epic fantasy saga focusing on world and civilization-building. Dimitrios was born in Thessaloniki, Greece and is now living in Berlin with his partner and his doggo. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/b4e7a3c8-8062-48b7-ac87-b32e04af666c/Narrator+Card+Neil+Hellegers.png Guests E-J - Neil Hellegers Neil Hellegers is an actor and award-winning audiobook narrator who lives in Brooklyn, NYC. With over 350 narrations, Neil has a focus in GameLit narration, with ample forays into Non Fiction, Thrillers, and Paranormal Fiction, and deep dives into Classic Lit. Neil can also be seem on-screen playing a variety of bearded professionals/dads. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/707bdf8e-6d57-4873-a320-1e32d2574b4b/Author+Card+Dean+Henegar.png Guests E-J - Dean Henegar Working from his home in the mountains of East Tennessee, Dean is the author of the Amazon bestselling Limitless Lands, Derelict, and Cat Core series. After a training accident in the Army Reserves left him unable to continue his civilian job, Dean reignited his passion for writing. As a lifelong fan of Fantasy, Science Fiction, and gaming, it isn’t too surprising that Dean chose the GameLit (LitRPG) genre to start his journey as an author. Whether it’s a grizzled soldier at the end of his life, a living starship, or an elderly cat lady defending her dungeon with a slew of kittens, Dean’s characters, and the worlds they live in, are waiting for you to explore and enjoy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/ef6c35c1-4ae9-449b-b079-6cc900b188b5/Author+Card+Damien+Hanson.png Guests E-J - Damien Hanson aka Dames Handsome Coauthor of BuyMort: The Shopacolypse series and a writer of children’s LitRPG, Damien Hanson aka Dames Handsome also manages to teach at the local university as well as his own private academy. His favorite classes to teach are creative writing, and after piloting a publishing project with his son he has taken in local children interested in writing their own novels in a more recent project to get their stories published to Amazon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/a95ac6ff-8dc6-4b8a-8055-118939be1ba9/Author+Card+Theo+Hodges.png Guests E-J - Theo Hodges Theo Hodges has been broke and stranded in far-out places, from South Korea to New Zealand and more. Now that he's safe in the heartland (see: old), he's eager to create adventures from his keyboard. His passion for Fantasy began with Dragonlance and old-school Final Fantasy. In writing his Badges of Dorkdom series, he strived to create a wise townbuilding wizard from the rags of a soon-to-be college dropout to the potential riches of a hero for the ages. To stay up to date on new releases, you can join his newsletter group: https://sendfox.com/lp/1vy0gz. It's all the rage a back-crippled wonder wizard could throw from his bag full of tricks and flying scorpions. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/d9c2ca22-df72-4c29-b648-ed4436d9c350/Author+Card+Sean+Fletcher.png Guests E-J - Sean Fletcher Sean Fletcher was born in the broiling, arid state some people lovingly refer to as Texas. He is the Amazon bestselling author of YA fantasy, including the Heir of Dragons, Mage's Apprentice, Darkness Within, Paranormal Outcasts, and Legacy of Dragons series, in addition to other forthcoming books whose characters will not give him a moment's peace until they get their turn in the spotlight. He is also the award-winning author of middle grade fantasy. When not making things up and putting them on paper, he can be found hiking, biking, or traveling, sometimes all at the same time. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/f6e03963-a3ff-49af-8b1a-6f0b9635a83f/Author+Card+Stuart+Grosse.png Guests E-J - Stuart Grosse Stuart Grosse has been writing since 2015, when he started his first book, Frozen Soul, as a webnovel on Royal Road. A veteran Tabletop RPG player and long-time WoW player, the Gamelit/LitRPG genre caught his attention when it was still in its infancy as .hack//Sign and Sword Art Online brought the concept of a story being in a game world with game mechanics to the mainstream, causing him to write his first Gamelit story, Rules-Free VRMMO Life. This story, published first as a webnovel, and then on Amazon, started what would be Stuart's twin calling cards in the genre: the use of Villains as Protagonists, and the use of episodic serial novellas, rather than full-length novels. Since he first started publishing on Amazon in 2017, his work has exploded to include over 170 titles in the Amazon marketplace, and he has garnered a great deal of success as an independent, self-published author. Forgoing the more kid-friendly feel of the majority of the genre, Stuart's villainous protagonists often require warning labels on his books: "If you have triggers, this is your warning, because I'm probably getting to you." However, his serial novella format and price structure have led him to great success, despite (or sometimes because of) the NSFW content, allowing him to write full-time. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/29be3ad6-15ca-4058-afc8-036e52aab899/Author+Card+KEL+Hoftaniska.png Guests E-J - K.E.L. Hotansika “Guillotine-Chan” Kel aka Guillotine-Chan started out as a litrpg writer right as the pandemic began. She has dabbled with various projects ever since completing that first initial work called Interstellar Warlock. Since then she has started working in earnest on two other novels, The Sovereign Swarm and Galatea. As far as focus goes she has attempted to use her background as a nonbinary person and as someone who has struggled with mental health issues to flavor their works. As a goal for her authorship it is not just to make (hopefully) decent books, but to also help diversify the genre. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/d0480542-8f81-4624-ace7-232f57404302/Author+Card+KT+Hanna.png Guests E-J - K.T. Hanna KT Hanna has such a love for words, a single one can spark entire worlds. Born in Australia, she met her husband in a computer game, moved to the U.S.A. and went into culture shock. Bonus? Not as many creatures specifically designed to kill you. KT creates science-fiction, fantasy, and LitRPG like it’s going out of style, with a dash of horror for fun! Her series include Somnia Online, Last Chance, The Domino Project, and System Apocalypse Australia - co-written with Tao Wong. Her hobbies include gaming and reading like there's no tomorrow. No, she doesn’t sleep. She is entirely powered by caffeine, Chipotle, and sarcasm. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/af87303e-d59e-4701-aa53-ad9906516800/Author+Card+Aaron+Holloway.png Guests E-J - Aaron “A.R.” Holloway A. R. Holloway (AKA: Aaron) has loved writing since he was a little kid reading his first fantasy books by the likes of C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, Brandon Sanderson, and Terry Goodkind (who wrote the first novel he ever read, the Sword of Truth). These gifted him a love of fantasy, science fiction, and storytelling. Grand vistas, dark lords, wondrous adventures, personal growth, and interesting cultures are just some of the things he loves reading about in his own time from the masters of the genres. Currently living in the shadows of mountainous rural Utah, where deep snow and brutal summers regularly coincide, Aaron lives with family scribbling his words and hoping people will buy, read, and more importantly enjoy them. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/9dcf294c-2074-4bf8-94c1-aa0d0b367b73/Narrator+Card+Gary+Furlong.png Guests E-J - Gary Furlong Gary is the friendly, guy-next-door sound used by Disney and Raising Cane’s... He is an accent and dialect master with fluency in, Irish, British RP, and Scottish. He is known for authentic characters in animation and video games as well as dynamic audiobook narration. Recent clients include Disney, Raising Cane’s and Ortho! Gary has over 280 books on Audible.com and is the recipient of an Audie, a SOVAS and 4 X Audiofile Earphones awards. He recently became part of the Star Wars Extended Universe with his narration of “Star Wars: Padawan” by Kiersten White for Disney Lucasfilm Press. Gary works out of his broadcast quality home studio in Denton, Texas. When not working, he enjoys playing guitar, Karaoke, painting Bob Ross style landscapes, cleaning up paint, and cooking! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/39fef1c7-2021-4233-b08e-156cdf5acc63/Author+Card+Michael+Head.png Guests E-J - Michael Head Michael Head is the author of the Threads of Fate series. He was severely injured while serving in the military, and used his time recovering to rediscover his love for books. After medically retiring, Michael went back to college to finish his degree and become a professor. When the coronavirus shut down his school, his wife encouraged him to finally take the leap and try writing his own books. He found his experience in combat allowed him to write detailed and realistic fight scenes. Those battles, combined with his attention to detail and ability to plan vast, elaborate, and comprehensive worlds, make for fast-paced and thrilling books. With, of course, the occasional touches of humor and sarcasm thrown in the mix. He currently lives in Texas where his wife, who is still currently serving in the military, is stationed. His days are filled with hiding from their three daughters, two dogs, and three cats. He is also losing an ongoing war with the neighborhood squirrels, but he will continue to fight until the bitter end. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/c1dbe07c-0591-426c-ad74-e60e8e7d2f21/Author+Card+JD+Glasscock.png Guests E-J - JD Glasscock J.D. Glasscock started as a slam poet on national teams in 1990. Six years later, he moved onto being the singer/songwriter/front man of a blues rock band called Sofa King, which lasted ten years. Though he still writes both lyrics and poetry, in 2005, he moved onto studying film writing and directing with a special emphasis on lighting, specifically, noir lighting. He moved to Los Angeles in 2010 to finally pursue those aspirations. He is the Alan Bailey Award winner for Excellence in the Craft of Filmmaking - Noir, at the Action on Film Festival 2015. He currently has 16 short films to his name and has won numerous awards as a filmmaker at large festivals. In addition to his filmmaking, he has 17 self-published books. Those books include poetics, lyrics, and film. His current goals include his two TV series, Celestial Moon, and The Mysfits, as well as his first feature, A God Among Sheep -- The Rise of Maria Salvatore. He has four other feature film scripts written in different genres -- Western, Sci Fi, Post-Apocalyptic and Suspense Thriller. He and his company Stormcrow Productions also has an Adult Visual Novel Video Game – A Crown of Thorns – based on the IP of his feature film script Blade n Blood coming out on Steam soon. He has been hired four times to write other people's film scripts. He moved to Denton, Texas five years ago to be near and help his family, and to bring his style of film to North Texas. He currently just finished his first LitRPG Novel -- The Bones of our Fathers -- Book One of Blood Brothers. It will be landing on Amazon in the next few weeks and he is about to begin working on Book 2 -- The Moon & The Night. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/58fb4c5d-a71f-4337-bee7-0a79e55ce902/Author+Card+James+Hunter.png Guests E-J - James Hunter James Hunter is a full-time ink slinger, a member of SFWA, and the bestselling author of Vigil Bound, Rogue Dungeon, Shadowcroft Academy, Bibliomancer (The Completionist Chronicles Expanded Universe), and the litRPG epic Viridian Gate Online! In addition to writing, James also runs a non-traditional publishing company, Shadow Alley Press, with his wife, Jeanette (who is an amazing business partner and an even better wife). James is a former Marine Corps Sergeant, combat veteran, and pirate hunter (seriously). He’s also a member of The Royal Order of the Shellback—’cause that’s totally a real thing. And a spaceship captain, can’t forget that. Okay … the last one probably isn’t true. When not writing or spending time with family, James occasionally finds time to eat and sleep. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/005523d5-3970-48e5-97d5-98f6ab5451cd/Author+Card+JD+Jorissen.png Guests E-J - J.D. Jorissen J. D. Jorissen writes science fiction and fantasy stories. He is the author of the Omega Online series, as well as To-Do List: A Zombie Comedy. He also has a series called Dungeon Mercenary, which is currently available on RoyalRoad. He possesses a bachelor’s degree in Psychology and a master’s degree in Emergency Management, which might explain why he spends so much of his time daydreaming about how he would fare in various end of the world scenarios. He currently resides in Colorado with his wife, daughter, cat, and dog. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/bd05e7ab-6db0-4e6e-8a11-05d04e19a083/Author+Card+Kit+Falbo.png Guests E-J - Kit Falbo Kit Falbo, Born in 1980. Top 10 litRPG author according to some, fabulous friend according to others. 2021 SPSFC contender. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/92506543-2ae9-4296-9fd6-74d054916ed0/Author+Card+E.C.+Godhand.png Guests E-J - E.C. Godhand E.C. Godhand is a LitRPG author by profession and nurse by trade. She writes about badass women, runs a community garden, and fosters orphaned kittens. She’s always mained healer, whether in video games or real life, and loves game design, wordplay, and psychology. All proceeds from book sales will go directly to supporting her habit of living so she can keep writing for you. She’s been rumored to eat up to three times a day even. At the very least, the kittens need to be fed. Don't buy the books for her though. Do it for fun LitRPG stories about drunken priests, weird dream worlds, fast action with faster women, bad puns, and characters' assured descent into madness. Most importantly, do it for the kittens. https://guildificon.com/2022guests-k-p daily 0.75 2023-06-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/243bfd7b-d155-447f-a3c3-8ac030ac3d95/Author+Card+Dakota+Krout.png Guests K-P - Dakota Krout Author of the best-selling Divine Dungeon, Completionist Chronicles, and Full Murderhobo series, Dakota Krout was chosen as Audible's top 5 fantasy pick of 2017, has been a top 5 bestseller on Amazon, and a top 6 bestseller on Audible. He draws on his experience in the military to create vast terrains and intricate systems, and his history in programming and information technology helps him bring a logical aspect to both his writing and his company while giving him a unique perspective for future challenges. Publishing my stories has been an incredible blessing thus far, and I hope to keep you entertained for years to come! -Dakota https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/0b9b5989-6c63-4667-805b-d98634bb7559/Narrator+Card+Andrea+Parsneau.png Guests K-P - Andrea Parsneau Andrea Parsneau is an award-winning narrator focused on bringing a story to life via unique and identifiable character voices, emotionally genuine portrayals, and a unique theatrical flair. Her range of characters and hard-hitting emotional style have become nearly as well known as her dedication to making an audiobook as great as possible. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/d43da3d6-49f1-4f64-8cfc-3258f623427f/Author+Card+Jeffrey+Falcon+Logue.png Guests K-P - Jeffrey “Falcon” Logue Jeffrey "Falcon" Logue is a young author who dreams of owning a house with hidden passages. His first stories were those created at a young age with his legos, but it wasn't until college where he took part in his first Dungeon and Dragons game that he decided to write. After finding the Royal Road Legends site, he began writing his stories for others to critique. His first success, The Slime Dungeon, came about from the NaNoWriMo challenge on the site, writing a 60,000 word book in a single month. Since then, he has written 13 full novels in 4 years and graduated college, with plans to write more novels and finish a video game based around his slime monsters. He is proud of his contribution to the dungeon corps genre and gamelit/litrpg genre. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/98bd521c-70f6-4aec-8ea5-2a8f23033914/Author+Card+Selkie+Myth.png Guests K-P - Selkie Myth I was led into the dark world of webnovels by the wild success of Solo Leveling. Devouring everything I could, I eventually stumbled upon Royal Road, where I proceeded to read everything I could. Like many people, I always had the idea rattling around in my head of 'maybe one day I'll write my own book.' Running out of books to read came at the same time I was laid off, and I figured if nothing else, I could write a better book that the machine-translated works. I sat down, and started writing the first story I've ever written: Beneath the Dragoneye Moons. Now I’m here! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/858ee67d-be0f-42a2-b72c-e0a061eeb163/Author+Card+Joshua+Kern.png Guests K-P - Joshua Kern My name is Joshua Kern and I have always loved reading and the escape books provided from everyday life. Writing stories was something that I always wanted to do, I just wasn't sure when. Now I have finally decided to take the plunge, and I couldn’t be happier for it. I am currently writing several series that span a few different genres from LitRPG/GameLit, and Fantasy to even a bit of Romance. I have written among others, The Game of Gods, The Dungeon Alaria, The Nameless Chronicles, and several more series as well. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/2aebe7b3-f251-4478-98e8-6be545f192bb/Author+Card+Troy+Osgood.png Guests K-P - Troy Osgood Born and raised in the granite state of New Hampshire, Troy, proud dad of two daughters, is a lifelong and avid reader of comic books and novels (mostly in the fantasy, sci-fi and adventure/thriller genres) and self-professed geek collecting action figures and building LEGO. He enjoys creating adventures that entertain and hopes to see his works appear in all forms of media. Don’t expect to bother him during football season, especially when the Patriots are playing. He still lives in New Hampshire. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/1362e3da-c5a1-45ec-94cf-6e741eb03ab8/Author+Card+TJ+Lombardi.png Guests K-P - TJ Lombardi TJ Lombardi has served in the United States Air Force since 2007. As a young Airmen stationed in the nuclear missile fields of Montana, he protected the worlds most powerful weapon system. In 2009 a spark of creativity launched him into writing. Seven chapters into the story his military career began to develop, and those written chapters were forever lost. 13 years later a rekindled flame emerged, and TJ went full throttle into bringing the story back to life. The Dying Breed series once believed to be one massive book, has now developed into a projected 15 books. Book 1 in the series, “The Dying Breed: Hunters” is currently in the Beta Reading phase, Book 2’s development grew so much that it has now been split into two books, and is currently 80% completed. TJ foresees Book 3 to begin shortly thereafter. TJ is currently working with hopes to have Book 1 published by Christmas 2022, with Book 2 and 3 published in 2023. Some of the many characters you’ll meet in The Dying Breed series. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/24211aac-fb34-4050-9324-37390b3bc43d/Copy+of+Aleron+Kong+Author.png Guests K-P - Aleron Kong Aleron Kong is an African-American physician turned WSJ Best Selling Author. His comedic fantasy opera, The Land, has eight novels and a main character that is an everyday kind of guy. The series has over 100,000 five-star reviews and has sold over 1,000,000 copies. Chosen as Audible’s Customer Favorite of the Year, it has wide appeal whether you are reading or listening. He has recently converted his novels into a webcomic. The author is also extremely proud of his fandom, which has raised over $150,000 for various charities over the past few years. Over 40 of his fans have also gotten tattoos of his artwork, and three babies have been named after his characters. His fans are united by the words, “Through Service, Ascendance. Through Dedication, Transcendence.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/666488a7-a338-4de4-b34a-1006bd15558e/Author+Card+Alex+Kozlowski.png Guests K-P - Alex Kozlowski Alex began writing in 2020, publishing the first book of Alpha Physics in late 2020 on Royal Road before moving it to Amazon in April 2021. Since then he has published a further six books and completed the Alpha Physics Series (6 books) and published the first novel in a new series in the same universe Broken Interface Kernal. His future plans include finish Broken Interface by mid 2023 and launching a new Sci-Fi Reborn Litrpg series with Aethon beginning in March 2023. Alex first fell in love with both computer games and writing when he was on a scholarship completing a Bachelor of Science majoring in Physics. After graduating and getting a job, writing was put to the side while that pesky thing called life got in the way. A career in banking delivering complicated quantitative banking applications resulted. Very stereotypical; Boring job as a banker - tick, Suburban home - tick Three kids - tick Two dogs - tick You get the point. A little thing called a global pandemic then came along and gave Alex a chance to return to his dream of becoming a writer. Having recently read a variety of LITRPG books it was a genre that Alex was excited to explore in order to create a world that readers could immerse themselves into. With the familiarity of the gaming world gained from playing WOW, Skyrim, Fallout amongst others there is simple joy in creating an imaginative magic filled world that is at everyone’s fingertips. In his writing, Alex aims to capture the feeling that he loves of being able to put yourself into a gaming world, develop your character and exploit the rules to the fullest. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/74995ecd-0b3e-489a-8f2a-6df9dcd503c5/_Author+Card+Martin+Lambert.png Guests K-P - Martin Lambert My entire life, it seems like I've made shaky decisions and passed them off as working on my "About the Author" page. This is my big chance to prove I wasn't lying! I grew up in rural Alabama. As a little kid, I cut grass for money, so my parents would take me to the used book store. When I was a little older, helping harvest hay on a farm or being the fry cook at a Mexican restaurant gave me the money for my literary addiction. In college, I wrote for campus newspapers and every creative writing course I could get, even though I majored in history. While I was in the army, I wrote stories influenced by the places I was deployed or stories about everyday things back home. There was a whole series of achingly terrible poems about Christmas with the family I penned in Bosnia for the holidays. Now I'm actually publishing all of these scribbles. I've visited 48 countries, quite a few of them at taxpayer expense. I was stationed in Germany and traveled all through Europe. I'm a huge history nerd, so on weekends, I'd rent a car and find a castle or the site of some battle to explore. At home, my favorite place to visit as a boy was Horseshoe Bend National Military Park, where my Grandaddy and I would walk the battlements of a Redstick War Battlefield. There's so much cool stuff to learn, and I'm going to try to absorb it https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/dd0c594a-4617-494c-ad6b-7dcb9f5a4a2e/Author+Card+J.R.+Mathews.png Guests K-P - J.R. Mathews J.R. Mathews is the author of Jake's Magical Market and the Portal to Nova Roma series. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/6c94a92c-e07d-4a41-b582-050b39c45a70/Author+Card+Lars+Machmu%CC%88ller.png Guests K-P - Lars Machmüller Lars Machmüller lives in Denmark with his wife and three kids. Family comes first, and as such, he spends a lot of time perfecting the art of packed lunches, cleaning food off the floor and delivering kids to and from school, kindergarten, playdates and whatnot. Whenever somebody is not crawling on his shoulders, he dedicates every waking moment attempting to exorcize all those LitRPG plot bunnies that keep finding a place to live within his skull. Whatever little time remains, he distributes evenly between his towering to-be-read pile, his trusty PC, and music. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/c60cbc0b-5a32-4060-aef4-2ddd0539c5f6/Author+Card+Kevin+McLaughlin.png Guests K-P - Kevin McLaughlin Kevin McLaughlin is a multiple USA Today bestselling author of science fiction and fantasy novels, with over eighty books published. With a mix of indie and traditionally published books, Kevin has a foot in both author worlds. He has been a speaker at DragonCon, the Nebula Conference, 20Books, and other events around the world. He believes in giving back to the writing community, so that the chain of writers helping writers continues unbroken. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/8c4d26be-e8d2-43ad-be47-ba009132e9ac/Author+Card+Evan+Klein.png Guests K-P - Evan Klein I am fifty years old and wrote my first LITRPG novel during the pandemic. I had lots of extra time because I was not commuting nearly three hours a day. I am a high school administrator in a school in the Bronx. I was reading quite a bit of LitRPG before and during the pandemic - The Fayroll series in particular - so I guess the genre was in the back of my mind. By the time of LitCon my first series - Immersion Online - will be concluded. The final book is in edits right now as I write this bio. Anyway, writing has been therapeutic to me. I have a great deal of stress in my life and writing has been a great way for me to escape some of my troubles in life even if just a few hours each day. I am very close to retirement and plan to write full time as soon as I take that plunge. I am currently working on two new series. One has a female main character (which in the genre seems greatly underrepresented to me). I plan for this series to be quite long - maybe seven or eight books. However, the books will be on the shorter side - maybe around 80 k or so. The other series will be only two books; however, I expect both books to be well over 150 k words. I really enjoy LitRPG and the entire community involved with the genre. I have found the other writers in the genre very helpful and generous with their input. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/3a758a0e-3757-426a-8022-c01a62a42875/Author+Card+Sean+Oswald.png Guests K-P - Sean Oswald Sean was born on Krypton, Zenn-La, or Planet Vegeta, depending on which one of his kids is asking and what mood he is in. He served in the USMC straight out of high school before going on to obtain a highly useful degree in ancient languages. Then, onto the mission field to work at an orphanage in India with his wife and 2.5 kids before returning to the US and surrendering to the dark side. Some say Sith, but his business card reads attorney. Now he lives with his wife and nine (yes 9) children in central Illinois. Although to be fair, some of the kids are moved out and now he has version 2.0 called grandkids—which are even more fun, despite still having a 4 year old of his own. When he isn't serving justice, moving furniture for his wife, or playing with his kids, he is busy trying to force all the stories in his head onto a piece of paper. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/b0c81191-f306-48bc-89a6-b2488a7d4f6e/Author+Card+Cale+Plamann.png Guests K-P - Cale Plamann A lifelong fan of Fantasy and Science Fiction, I usually spent my nerdy energy creating overly elaborate homebrew RPG campaigns. As it became harder and harder to juggle schedules for a half dozen players, I eventually made the logical choice and just cut them out of the picture entirely. Now I write novels. They whine a lot less about critical failures. https://guildificon.com/2022guests-r-z daily 0.75 2023-06-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/af8d0c0e-7e4a-4736-a907-0b0c5340f179/Author+Card+Kevin+Sinclair.png Guests R-Z - Kevin Sinclair I’m a full-time, British Indie Author publishing fantasy, sci-fi and post-apocalyptic novels within the LitRPG/GameLIT genre. Born and bred in the North East of England I live with my wife, our four children. It’s a stone’s throw from the rugged coastline of the North Sea and a place full of history, from Pagan stone circles to Roman forts that feed the imagination. We have three dogs all outrageously different in size, from an old giant Newfy to a miniature Yorkie and some sort of mysterious hybrid in between. My debut series Condition Evolution spans six novels with three more on the way. It crosses genres from LitRPG fantasy to real world GameLIT Space Opera, like a penguin goes from land to water. My second is a gritty, post-apocalyptic series, The Cesmial Accords, bringing time-travel, superhuman powers and waves of vicious monsters to Earth in a battle for survival. Last year saw the beginning of God of the Feast, a portal fantasy series that’s bigger, grittier and occasionally funnier than anything I’ve written before. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/9c68aec6-e9b9-4914-ae6e-367dd9403cef/Author+Card+Alex+Raizman.png Guests R-Z - Alex Raizman Alex Raizman has been a fantasy, science fiction, and horror fan since elementary school. Alex calls Stein, Tolkien, and Bradbury "gateway drugs". A voracious reader, the plan was always to always to write a book "someday". Being diagnosed with cancer in 2015 and recovering stopped the thoughts about "someday" and started "now". Three years later, Alex is cancer free and thrilled to have published multiple books in LitRPG, Urban Fantasy, and Epic Fantasy. Alex lives in St. Louis, Missouri, with Loki, Ishtar, and Balder, the best cats ever. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/341c657e-43d6-4061-bcfe-54db10b662d7/Author+Card+Cailan+Wilkinson.png Guests R-Z - Cailan Wilkinson Cailan Wilkinson is an author in the LITRPG genre, he lives in a small beach town on the east coast. An avid reader and lover of audiobooks, Cailan enjoys writing fast-paced fantasy novels filled with LITRPG elements. Cailan released his first book, The Elementalist: Book 1, Darkfire in August 2021, Book 2, Doom in January 2022, and Book 3, Resurgence in June 2022. He is currently writing book 4 and is expecting to release an audiobook of books 1-3 sometime in 2023. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/23c22db9-20d6-4f7d-926b-001f34e3ee5a/Author+Card+S.L.+Rowland.png Guests R-Z - S.L. Rowland S.L. Rowland is a nomad. He loves traveling and has road-tripped coast to coast three times over with his Shiba Inu, Lawson. When not writing, he enjoys hiking, reading, weightlifting, playing video games, and having his heart broken by various Atlanta sports teams. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/e219b8be-36dc-4999-98ec-bba31c6e3068/Narrator+Card+Daniel+Wisniewski.png Guests R-Z - Daniel Wisniewski Daniel is an actor of both voice and stage based out of New York City. He has produced over 120 audiobooks, was awarded the 2020 MLC Award for Best Narrator for his work on Shane Boulware’s Soulstealer, and is a multi-time Audible Best Seller for his work on Dave Willmarth’s Battleborne and James Haddock’s Wizard’s Alley and Stonecutter's Shadow. He is also an accomplished stage actor, with recent credits including Romeo & Bernadette (Off-Broadway), The Imbible: Day Drinking (Off-Broadway), Men with Money (World Premiere) at the Aurora Theatre in Georgia, and Gerard Presgurvic’s musical adaptation of Gone with the Wind (First China Tour, English Premiere). He also made his video game debut in Mystery Case Files: Crossfade and is currently working with Podium Audio as one of their first official AudioCollaborators. When not working, he can be found galavanting with friends as an alcoholic hobgoblin bounty hunter in their latest Dungeons and Dragons campaign. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/924cc662-9cf7-4398-8460-8c5073fe6f00/Author+Card+Eric+Ugland.png Guests R-Z - Eric Ugland Eric Ugland is the bestselling author of the Good Guys and Bad Guys series. He writes LitRPG from the depths of Maine's forests, fighting back bears and moose while slinging ink over the paper. Born in England, but raised in various other places, he's got a unique voice and several expired passports as well as a deep wealth of tropical diseases. He like gin and tonics, cold ice, and long walks on short beaches. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/8bb0e2ca-f21c-4cd1-81c0-326ca5c98e87/Author+Card+J.P.+Valentine.png Guests R-Z - J.P. Valentine J.P. 'Nixia' Valentine (The Nothing Mage, This Quest is Bullshit!, Dungeon Devotee) still has not decided which genre he writes, but people sure seem to like the litrpg more than the poetry. His hobbies include brooding, annoying his family with bad jokes, and smacking Void Herald with a stick to keep Vainqueur from overtaking him on the royalroad rankings. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/663ee0d7-d868-4dc8-b497-5006704294c7/Author+Card+Daniel+Schinhofen.png Guests R-Z - Daniel Schinhofen Daniel Schinhofen is a self-published author in the burgeoning genre of LitRPG/Gamelit. He published his first book, Last Horizon: Beta, in October of 2016, and has published over thirty books to date. A best-selling author on Amazon multiple times, his series have achieved name recognition in the genre. Series include; Last Horizons, Alpha World, Apocalypse Gates, Binding Words, Resurrection Quest, NPC LIves, Aether's Revival, and Dungeon Walkers. When not slavishly typing away at the next book, Daniel tries to unwind with video games, playing with his dog, or going for walks around his neighborhood. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/e5d20420-abdd-40a4-94c5-7cf8de85938a/Author+Card+Jakob+Tanner.png Guests R-Z - Jakob Tanner Jakob Tanner is the LitRPG author of three best selling series, Arcane Kingdom Online and Tower Climber, and his new series, Second Chance Swordsman. When not writing, he loves watching anime, reading comics, and playing video games. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/6153de29-79f2-47c2-a8b2-f1d843c551aa/Author+Card+Tao+Wong.png Guests R-Z - Tao Wong Tao Wong is a Canadian author based in Toronto who is best known for his System Apocalypse post-apocalyptic LitRPG series and A Thousand Li, a Chinese xianxia fantasy series. His work has been released in audio, paperback, hardcover and ebook formats and translated into German, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian and other languages. He was shortlisted for the UK Kindle Storyteller award in 2021 for his work, A Thousand Li: the Second Sect. When he’s not writing and working, he’s practicing martial arts, reading and dreaming up new worlds. Tao became a full-time author in 2019 and is a member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA), NINC and ALLI. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/6c474db3-caab-4703-b1d2-135eb05af59f/Author+Card+Rose+TJ+Reynolds.png Guests R-Z - Rose “TJ” Reynolds Rose Reynolds writes Progression Fantasy and LitRPG. Her primary pen name is TJ Reynolds with First Fist: Seventh Bridge to the Heavens as her most popular series (book 2 coming out Spring 23!). An old school gamer, she now spends her days admiring the mad skills of her three Gen Alpha kids as they rock everything from Pokémon Go to Animal Crossing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/8ad59d0f-f459-4344-bba2-3b4d8fa8f042/Author+Card+Shami+Stovall.png Guests R-Z - Shami Stovall Shami Stovall is a multi-award-winning author of fantasy and science fiction. Before that, she taught history and criminal law at the college level, and loved every second. When she’s not reading fascinating articles and books about ancient China or the Byzantine Empire, Stovall can be found playing way too many video games, especially RPGs and tactics simulators. She loves John, reading, and writing about herself in the third person. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/00dcb99d-6d9f-4ba7-b321-d19b097e29a3/Author+Card+Angel+Ramon.png Guests R-Z - Angel Ramon Angelus Maximus! Who is this mysterious man? He is just a dude who wishes he lived in Ancient Rome. Angelus is crazy about everything Roman to the point where he named himself based on a Pleb who might have lived during Roman times. Since he couldn't afford a time machine, he decided to write a series in the LitRPG genre. He is a huge Caesar 3 fan along with the Age of Empires game series and wanted to combine the two into a novel. His first complete series, The Great Centurion has been read by many. It has city building, land battles, a Roman who becomes an honorable general, naval battles, and even a bit of fun with women in togas. Did he mention that he loves his chainmail, now he needs a sword and shield to complete his dream of being a Roman soldier? He'll also need a time machine but he'll have hope for a miracle on that one. The honest truth is that Angelus Maximus is simply a 30-something-year-old man who is living out his childhood fantasy. He absolutely loves ancient history and talking about it. When he’s not working on his books, he loves heading to the beach, the rainforest, and eating bacon. Besides, who doesn’t like bacon? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/1c3104ee-f29a-439f-82e4-57cc0a12595d/Author+Card+C.J.+Timms.png Guests R-Z - C.J. Timms C.J. Timms has a passion for writing quality Aussie Sci-fi and fantasy, particularly LitRPG. If you want to read about a man riding in to save the day on a giant wombat, he's your guy. Chris is the author of the Aussie Mana Apocalypse (books 1-4 and comic), The Aussie Mana Apocalypse Freeman and King Tides Curse. Chris is a GP in Australia and passionate about burnout prevention. He finds writing a powerful tool to de-stress and be able to serve patients better. https://guildificon.com/friday-october-21-2022 daily 0.75 2023-06-12 https://guildificon.com/saturday-october-22-2022 daily 0.75 2023-06-12 https://guildificon.com/sunday-october-23-2022 daily 0.75 2023-06-12 https://guildificon.com/monday-october-24-2022 daily 0.75 2023-06-12 https://guildificon.com/tuesday-october-25-2022 daily 0.75 2023-06-12 https://guildificon.com/wednesday-october-26-2022 daily 0.75 2023-06-12 https://guildificon.com/coming-soon daily 0.75 2023-07-03 https://guildificon.com/2023-schedule daily 0.75 2023-10-24 https://guildificon.com/2023guests-a-d daily 0.75 2023-10-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/27917fd9-c7cd-4146-a741-65a584161f55/Author+Card+Matt+Dinniman.png 2023 Guests A-D - Matt Dinniman Matt Dinniman is a writer and artist from Gig Harbor, Washington. He is the author of the best-selling Dungeon Crawler Carl series along with several other books about the end of the world. He doesn't really hate Cocker Spaniels, and he plays bass in two bands. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/62d35cc9-bd1a-4186-bf7a-d1f7a15f15ed/Author+Card+Michael+Chatfield.png 2023 Guests A-D - Michael Chatfield A Canadian army veteran who enjoys long walks in foreign countries and some good beer with videos games at night! He writes character driven books for the simple joy of it. He's written a Space Opera series called the Free Fleet as well as a Hard Military Science Fiction Series, Builder's Legacy and the Harmony War series continued in the Maraukian War Series. He has written possibly the first complete LitRPG series Emerilia and followed it up with the LitRPG, portal and cultivation fantasy Ten Realms. He also has the comedic epic fantasy Death Knight series. Right now he's working on the Four Horsemen Series. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/e21448cb-7554-4ccc-9d38-1e0ded64d97f/Author+Card+RA+Cooper.png 2023 Guests A-D - R.A. Cooper R. A. Cooper is a Texan who loves fast-paced adventures. After a long journey to a career as a clinical neuropsychologist, she finally has time to take on her next endeavor in writing fantasy. She enjoys her growing family of five plus two lovable dogs. If there's any free time left, she enjoys traveling, experimenting with new recipes, and soaking up the opportunity for outdoor activities. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/670c8ae5-315a-4d6c-a403-ddbe6ed34e9d/Author+Card+Xander+Boyce.png 2023 Guests A-D - Xander Boyce Xander is a USCG veteran and lifelong scifi/fantasy reader. Having begun creating worlds for his pen and paper roleplaying games more than a decade ago, he has always been fascinated by what can be done when people are pushed beyond normal boundaries. He was drawn to Science Fiction as a way to explore the human condition, and his debut book, Advent, is an extension of that desire. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/31549bd2-255a-4d1b-9654-00282c56b0f9/Author+Card+Rhett+C.+Bruno.png 2023 Guests A-D - Rhett C. Bruno Rhett is a USA Today bestselling and Nebula-nominated hybrid author who has been writing Sci-Fi & Fantasy since before he can remember. On the editing side, he has collected works for numerous anthologies through Sci-Fi & Fantasy Bridge, and served as the lead editor of the bestselling Bridge Across the Stars Anthology. He also served for a period as a consulting editor for ASIM magazine and as a 34freelance editor on Upwork, and has earned a Certificate in Screenwriting / Storytelling from the New School in NYC. Rhett is passionate about science fiction and its role in our fast-moving society. He wants stories that focus on characters but also present the kind of concepts that keep readers up at night, dreaming of potential futures. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/dc1f1e55-ff08-48b1-8e01-74bdc1449b33/Author+Card+Jaime+Castle.png 2023 Guests A-D - Jaime Castle Jaime is an IPPY award winning author, editor, and producer. Before founding Aethon Books, he worked as a pastor and graphic artist. His work with numerous businesses and corporations serving as both a designer and creative director gives him an experienced eye at ensuring our covers and the books within are the best they can be. Jaime’s love has always been Fantasy. There isn’t an R.A. Salvatore book out there he hasn’t read or listened to, and his obsession with audiobooks gives us a leg up at pairing our authors with the best narrators in the business. He’s an avid Dungeons and Dragons player, lover of all things superhero, father of two, and husband of one. Jaime was also the lead singer/songwriter for the band Stonehigh for many years. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/e1994887-c424-4474-9673-36574c6e8d54/Author+Card+Jay+Boyce.png 2023 Guests A-D - Jay Boyce Jay Boyce, daughter of a librarian and wielder of words, is primarily an editor turned LitRPG writer. A crazy dreamer, she creates stories in her head all the time, and finally decided to start writing them down and sharing the love. A perpetual learner, she also works at her local university attending classes with deaf students and gleaning knowledge on any random subject she can get her hands on. She started writing again after being diagnosed with an autoimmune disease in 2018. She strives to make the world better through kindness, and showing that you can overcome whatever obstacles stand in your way. Jay is currently writing two series: A Touch of Power and Rise of the Mystic Mage. Winner of the 2019 Warriors and Wizards award for best new LitRPG author, she was also nominated as a finalist for the Independent Audiobook Awards in 2020. Jay is well known for collecting the rainbow in the form of dice, wigs, and mugs. Her hobbies, aside from reading/writing, include playing board and video games, ultimate frisbee and volleyball, and traveling the world to experience new cultures. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/dec176d2-28c3-449f-a59f-c667db738b2f/Author+Card+Jez+Cajiao+%281%29.png 2023 Guests A-D - Jez Cajiao Jez Cajiao was born a regular human, but over many years of trials and tribulations, he managed to survive to become...an older, uglier, and larger regular human! At a young age, Jez found that he truly disliked school, and due to that, decided to start work at the age of 11 in the family catering business. After many years catering, Jez then traveled and worked at bars in Greece, where he, well, what happens in Greece stays in Greece. He made a career change to welding, which he loved, but only for a short time, as he had developed welder's lung. The pandemic of 2020 caused Jez to be furloughed, as his lung condition put him at a greater risk. During this time, he wrote every single day. With the support of his readers, he is now happily writing away in his home office full time, with the company of his wife, two children, two dogs, two cats, and the Sanddancers in South Shields. You can find Jez on Facebook, Discord, Instagram, and TikTok, where he is always happy to chat with readers! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/ace19c38-5a73-41f0-9cb2-66e66768e106/Author+Card+Nathan+Ameye.png 2023 Guests A-D - Nathan Ameye Nathan Ameye grew up fishing, canoeing, hunting, and trekking through the Ozark Mountains. In his backpack, you could always find a bag of polyhedrons and a fantasy or science fiction novel with its tattered cover being desperately held together by yellowed bits of tape. Eventually, he headed for steeper terrain and spent years living in the Colorado Rockies where he took up rock climbing, fly fishing, and Jeeping. He has far too many hobbies to be really good at any of them, including photography, billiards, wood carving, guitar playing, blacksmithing, and martial arts. Nathan’s video game addiction started with Atari consoles and progressed to text-based multiplayer games (MUDs) and then more modern MMORPGs. He eventually discovered LitRPG, and, fascinated by the interweaving of game elements into fiction, wrote his debut novel, Black Dawn, a post-apocalyptic LitRPG. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/773b94ca-7245-44d3-9f3b-975f76f9ce5c/Author+Card+Jonathan+Brooks.png 2023 Guests A-D - Jonathan Brooks Jonathan Brooks is the author of over 40 books in the Dungeon Core and LitRPG genres, including Dungeon World, Dungeon Crafting, The Dungeon Fairy, and Station Cores, to name a few. He prefers his LitRPG to be on the crunchier side of the genre, both as a reader and author, so the more stats the better! He currently lives in Colorado with his wife and daughter, writing more books to release every month. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/0573cb35-33c4-47fc-beaf-189adfff9c70/Author+Card+JJ+Ackerknecht+%281%29.png 2023 Guests A-D - J.J. Ackerknecht I'm Justin Josiah Ackerknecht, aka JJ, aka JayAck. I love Fantasy, SciFi, Horror, and the intersections where those genres meet, as well as almost all of their little subgenre children. I've been writing for about 20 years, whether that be comics, short stories, webserials, and now, publishing to Amazon. I've lived in America (where I'm from) as well as Asia and Europe (where I am currently). My wonderful wife works as a librarian, and we both adore books and stories of all sorts. We also have a very stinky and absurd dog that we love very much. If you'd like to keep up with whatever I've got going on, you can check me out on Twitter @jjackerknecht or my personal website at www.jjackerknecht.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/315e3c24-faa3-4017-b7e7-5fa3a5927c7f/Narrator+Card+Steve+Campbell.png 2023 Guests A-D - Steve Campbell Steve Campbell is a Canadian Narrator who has recorded over 135 titles, totaling over a thousand finished hours of audiobooks, equal to 10,000,000 words. He won the Independent Audiobook Award in 2019 for YA (Watcher by AJ Eversley - co-narrated with Chelsea Stephens). Steve has also been interviewed for an article in the Wall Street Journal and has been on multiple podcasts and is a member of SAG-AFTRA. Steve didn’t start out in the narration business, he previously worked at restaurants entertaining patrons and at an apiary before turning to construction, where he worked for almost 20 years, eventually founding and owning an incorporated company for 10 of those years. Once he discovered his love for narrating he was able to go full-time with audiobook narration after only 1.5 years. Severe ADHD did not slow Steve down, he was not only an athlete in school, with achievements of being the captain of his high school basketball and volleyball teams, he was also involved in Fine Arts as the lead in many plays, including a community performance of Romeo and Juliet. He was also the high school class president and Valedictorian. Steve was also a lead singer in a church and youth band to crowds up to 300 strong and toured eastern Canada and northeastern US for a year doing multimedia dramas and music to crowds up to 1,500 in schools, churches, community centres, and minimum and maximum prisons. Steve is happily married to his high school sweetheart and they have two sons together. He’s a huge fan of movies and comics, and didn’t discover his love for reading until he was 20 and hasn’t looked back. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/155d7017-321c-4355-be85-57f64d03d0ae/Author+Card+Harmon+Coopper.png 2023 Guests A-D - Harmon Cooper Writer of over seventy-five fantasy books, Harmon Cooper lives with his wife in New England. His series include, but are not limited to, Arcane Cultivator, Pilgrim, War Priest, Cowboy Necromancer, The Feedback Loop, Proxima Legends, Monster Hunt NYC, and The World According to Dragons. Harmon has traveled through Asia extensively, from the Gobi Desert to the outskirts of Japan, which is where he draws the core of his inspiration. He was once a Fulbright Fellow, and in 2021 he won the LitRPG/GameLit audiobook of the year award for the Sacred Cat Island, narrated by Travis Baldree. In December, he'll start publishing a new webserial on Royal Road under the moniker GoblinWrangler. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/851b7112-a056-4cb3-9ade-b46767700300/Narrator+Card+Luke+Daniels.png 2023 Guests A-D - Luke Daniels Luke Daniels was born into a family of actors. Both his father and mother have been performing and teaching in the Theatre for almost five decades. It is because of their influence that, from a very young age, Luke and his two brothers often found themselves spending countless hours in rehearsal halls across the country. This early exposure and “backstage pass” into the creation of innumerable productions fostered a deep love of storytelling in Luke that can be heard in his wide ranging audiobook work today. Luke Daniels has narrated over 450 audiobooks. A listener favorite, he has been the grateful recipient of 13 Audiofile Earphones Awards, 4 Audie nominations, as well as Audible’s 2012 Narrator of the Year Award. Luke is well known for his imaginative storytelling and dynamic characterizations, which create an immersive listening experience for his audience. Luke’s vast repertoire of work ranges from Kerouac to Updike, Nora Roberts to Stephen King, Michael Crichton to Phillip K. Dick. His background is in classical theatre and film. He has performed at repertory theaters around the country, but now produces from his home studio in the Midwest, where he resides with his pack. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/a9de09f2-0c9b-4d9c-af4a-1ca25a8d30ce/Author+Card+JM+Clarke.png 2023 Guests A-D - J.M. Clarke J.M. Clarke is an author of novels, short stories and web fiction, known for Mark of the Fool, originally a web serial and now a best-selling series narrated by Travis Baldree. He also has short stories published in the anthology Book of Blades and the magazine New Edge of Sword and Sorcery. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/c9ca37f7-ed66-4ded-81d8-f40a9162bad7/Author+Card+Travis+Deverell.png 2023 Guests A-D - Travis Deverell Travis Deverell is the unepententently Australian author of the suspiciously bestselling series He Who Fights With Monsters. Also known as Shirtlaoon, a moniker with a disappointingly banal origin, he has gone from a student of literature to a writer of litRPG, which is both more fun and more lucrative. The unfortunate lack of kung fu wizards in the English literary canon turned out to be a dealbreaker. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/87821f28-77ff-4763-8b8a-15789b3d4200/Author+Card+Aqib+Ali.png 2023 Guests A-D - Aqib Ali Aqib Ali is an author from Huddersfield, West Yorkshire. He enjoys writing short stories, novellas, novels and creating audiobooks. He is currently working on the third episode of his Supernatural Dark Fantasy series The Dark Ranger and the Rekindle Project LitRPG series. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/30d05d8f-4646-4082-a7f2-5841904ffacd/Narrator+Card+JS+Arquin.png 2023 Guests A-D - J.S. Arquin When J.S. Arquin was three, he would take as many books as he could carry to the nearest adult, and demand they read them all to him. When they finished, he’d fetch another stack. As he grew older, he cut his teeth on comic books, classic fantasy and science fiction, and role playing games. J.S. is now a classically trained actor who has lived and performed around the world. But his love affair with books and the spoken word continues. As a narrator, he has breathed life into over 150 audiobooks, and been a finalist for several prominent awards. He loves Fantasy, Science Fiction, and LitRPG and has become known for his work on the wildly popular Path of Ascension series. J.S. is always busy recording, and has a slate of titles forthcoming from Aethon Books, Podium Audio, Tantor, Dreamscape Lore, and many others. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/460139ae-ccb8-43d1-9225-2ff0e233d95f/Author+%26+Narrator+Card+Travis+Baldree.png 2023 Guests A-D - Travis Baldree Travis is a New York Times Bestselling author, and a full-time audiobook narrator who has lent his voice to hundreds of stories. Before that, he spent decades designing and building video games like Torchlight, Rebel Galaxy, and Fate. He lives in the Pacific Northwest with his very patient family and their small, nervous dog. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/cfc4b151-e098-4fcd-b766-3f33d1738264/Author+Card+Austin+Beck.png 2023 Guests A-D - Austin Beck I am Austin Beck and I love Monster Girls! Action! Harem! Gamelit! Litrpg! Isekai! Slice of Life! I'm an Amazon bestselling fantasy harem light novel author and you should check my books out if you like having a good time! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/147027e1-5287-453b-9dae-cec1c2aba137/Author+Card+CM+Carney.png 2023 Guests A-D - C.M. Carney My journey to becoming the Bestselling author of ‘dorky books’ - as my sister is fond of calling them - began in the dark ages long before the internet was a thing with the original Dungeons and Dragons boxed set. My mother bought that shiny red box for me after reading an ‘editorial’ in the local paper claiming that role playing games drove kids to worship dark forces in the sewers. I was ten, and it's probably a good thing there were no sewers on my street, otherwise, I would have delved down with my hand-crafted wooden sword and my trash can shield, ready to smite evildoers of all stripes, likely to never be heard from again. Thankfully, my forays into the underworld never materialized, and I faced neither dragon nor goblin nor gelatinous cube. Instead, I turned my eye and my quill to writing fantastical tales. Today, thanks to my two Bestselling LitRPG series, The Quintessence, which incorporates cultivation elements and measured progression, and The Realms, which burst onto the LitRPG scene with Barrow King in February 2018, I get to put the profession author on my tax return. In addition to my two current series, I am just finishing up work on the first book in Knightman & Page, a middle grade superhero, action-adventure Arhturian series with LitRPG elements. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/06dcd1ee-ed8b-4f6a-81e5-6e4f71487fa8/Author+Card+Dawn+Chapman.png 2023 Guests A-D - Dawn Chapman Dawn Chapman has been creating sci-fi and fantasy stories for thirty years. Until 2005 when her life and attention turned to scripts, and she started work on The Secret King, a 13-episode Sci-Fi TV series, with a great passion for this medium. In 2015, Dawn returned to her first love of prose where she revelled in the world of The Secret King, Letháo and First Contact, as an epic prose space journey over three generations. This year her experience of working with others expanded. From Drama, Sci-Fi, Action, to LitRPG/Gamelit. Dawn’s built a portfolio of writing, consulting, publishing and audio proofing. https://guildificon.com/2023guests-a-j daily 0.75 2023-10-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/9f5f4404-9247-4923-a0a5-5fa2e94cef1d/Narrator+Card+Gary+Furlong.png 2023 Guests E-J - Gary Furlong Gary is the friendly, guy-next-door sound used by Disney and Raising Cane’s... He is an accent and dialect master with fluency in, Irish, British RP, and Scottish. He is known for authentic characters in animation and video games as well as dynamic audiobook narration. Recent clients include Disney, Raising Cane’s and Ortho! Gary has over 280 books on Audible.com and is the recipient of an Audie, a SOVAS and 4 X Audiofile Earphones awards. He recently became part of the Star Wars Extended Universe with his narration of “Star Wars: Padawan” by Kiersten White for Disney Lucasfilm Press. Gary works out of his broadcast quality home studio in Denton, Texas. When not working, he enjoys playing guitar, Karaoke, painting Bob Ross style landscapes, cleaning up paint, and cooking! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/0d6ec9f2-4124-4fb0-aeca-3d138af511e7/Author+Card+Damien+Hanson.png 2023 Guests E-J - Damien Hanson Damien Hanson was born in Merrill, Wisconsin where he rushed off to the Army, then college, then Korea, where he settled down with his lovely wife. He writes novels, works remotely, and teaches at his academy while simultaneously finding time to school his son at the latest and great in video RPG and 4X game offerings. Check out his website at https://damienleehanson.substack.com/ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/47e38c29-aef6-44ce-b609-766710bfd4d5/Narrator+Card+Jeff+Hays.png 2023 Guests E-J - Jeff Hays Jeff Hays is a voice actor with tremendous range, a producer and narrator of more than 200 audiobooks — including the beloved Dungeon Crawler Carl series by Matt Dinniman — a musician and composer, and Founding CEO of Soundbooth Theater. Jeff has always loved the arts. He grew up immersed in media – from novels, film, and music to tabletop RPGs and videogames. His natural creativity coupled with unrelenting ambition led him to launch Soundbooth Theater right at the crossroad of all these mediums. Initially inspired by his passion for music, Jeff was in his mid-twenties when he found his true calling: using his voice to tell stories. He strives to make his characters memorable and believable; and his excellent comedic timing along with his ability to speak directly to the listener – rather than merely reading aloud – immediately set him apart as a creative force in the industry. With more time and higher-profile projects, Jeff was able to begin to experiment with and incorporate his other talents, blending illustrative sound effects and evocative music into his productions. It was discovering the opportunity to design a deeper experience with sound that led him to start this company, and to hold SBT’s audiobooks to the highest possible standards. Immersion is the primary design goal behind his audiobooks, and he encourages his whole team to adopt this philosophy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/a7e22c76-acaf-4144-a92f-75dfec2984cc/Author+Card+Sean+Hall.png 2023 Guests E-J - Sean Hall Sean lives in Texas with his wife and 4 kids. He originally started in the LitRPG genre like most others as a reader. With an eye for detail he swiftly became a beta reader for multiple authors and publishers. But he always had a dream to write and got his chance with his first short in Legendary Litrpg and publishing his first book Goblin Apocalypse. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/ecba2daf-2fe6-4be3-a6c1-dcef11bec524/Author+Card+Abby+Goldsmith.png 2023 Guests E-J - Abby Goldsmith Abby Goldsmith is the author of the Torth series, with 600,000+ reads on Royal Road. She’s an alumni of the Odyssey Writing Workshop, and her short works are published in Escape Pod, Fantasy Magazine, and Writer’s Digest Books. She works in Texas as a video editor and game artist. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/14742395-ed06-4077-a506-9cadcb7f6dc8/Author+Card+Dimitrios+Gkirgkiris.png 2023 Guests E-J - Dimitrios Gkirgkiris The three things Dimitrios would grab in case of a fire, would be his Lord of the Rings book collection, his Chrono Trigger SNES game, and his dog, Poko. July 2020 marked the beginning of his author career with the release of the Mana Trilogy, an epic fantasy saga focusing on world and civilization-building. Dimitrios was born in Thessaloniki, Greece and is now living in Berlin with his partner and his doggo. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/8df64d44-3058-4f3a-9d5e-55f3b5f1599c/Author+Card+Jack+Fields.png 2023 Guests E-J - Jack Fields Jack Fields is an Irish author. His upcoming novel Scarlet Citadel is the first in a trilogy published by The Legion Publishers. He has written, directed, and performed in award-winning theatrical productions and worked as a writer on a AAA videogame. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/97b57286-5aa4-4b20-9e23-6c4896241a4c/Author+Card+Kit+Falbo.png 2023 Guests E-J - Kit Falbo Kit Falbo, Born in 1980. Top 10 litRPG author according to some, fabulous friend according to others. 2021 SPSFC contender. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/d7ac8dc8-ba65-4464-a7b3-1884afb5b4e7/Author+Card+Michael+Head.png 2023 Guests E-J - Michael Head Michael Head is the author of the Threads of Fate and Wandering Warrior series. He was severely injured while serving in the military, and used his time recovering to rediscover his love for books. After medically retiring from fifteen years of service, Michael went back to college to finish his degree in order to become a professor. His love of learning and ability to speak several languages made it an obvious transition, but life had other plans. When the coronavirus shut down his school, his wife encouraged him to finally take the leap and try writing his own books. He found his experiences in combat allowed him to write detailed and realistic fight scenes. Those battles, combined with his attention to detail and ability to plan vast, elaborate, and comprehensive worlds, make for fast-paced and thrilling books. With, of course, the occasional touches of humor and sarcasm thrown in the mix. He currently lives in Kansas with his wife, who is also retired from the military, and their three daughters. Michael is also losing an ongoing war with the neighborhood squirrels that invade his attic, but he will continue to fight until the bitter end against the implacable enemy of mankind. You can connect with Michael on: Website: www.michaelheadauthor.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/author.michael.head Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/michael_head Newsletter: https://sendfox.com/author-michael-head https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/cced3875-0e15-4148-a4a2-e83b7d7a8209/Author+Card+James+Hunter+%281%29.png 2023 Guests E-J - James Hunter James Hunter is a full-time Inkslinger and the bestselling author of Vigil Bound, Rogue Dungeon, Shadowcroft Academy, Bibliomancer (The Completionist Chronicles Expanded Universe), and the LitRPG epic Viridian Gate Online! In addition to writing, James also runs Shadow Alley Press, a publishing company that specializes in LitRPG, Gamelit, and Progression Fantasy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/d0fe4f41-3905-402c-852a-bc5b1da3a757/Author+Card+Craig+Hamilton+%281%29.png 2023 Guests E-J - Craig Hamilton Craig Hamilton spends most of his day as a technical sales engineer, translating specifications and talking about IT infrastructure. While writing has been taking up most of his free time lately, Craig also appreciates playing tabletop RPGs or board games with friends. When his inner introvert demands a break from polite company, Craig can be found sprawled on a couch with a book or e-reader. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/95b7eb48-03ca-4388-bc8c-01d7e00e039c/Narrator+Card+Neil+Hellegers.png 2023 Guests E-J - Neil Hellegers Neil Hellegers is an actor and award-winning audiobook narrator who lives in Brooklyn, NYC. With over 400 narrations, Neil has a focus in GameLit narration, with ample forays into Non Fiction, Thrillers, and Paranormal Fiction, and deep dives into Classic Lit. Neil can also be seem on-screen playing a variety of bearded professionals/dads. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/86a9efe6-8cc9-4bfd-ac57-45c8fd395a6d/SBT+Card+Mark+Harris.png 2023 Guests E-J - Mark Harris Mark has been a student of ancient Greek, a software engineer, a creative technologist, and an experience designer. Now Mark writes audio dramas, plays, and novels. He is also an accomplished voice actor. In October, 2023, Mark is opening a Stanza Books in the Hudson Valley. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/e1338296-4e75-49e5-85ad-080283038a9f/Author+Card+L.M.+Hughes.png 2023 Guests E-J - L.M. Hughes Aoife writes under the pen name L. M. Hughes and hails from a long line of Irish storytellers, baptized in the sacred spring of Celtic lore and legends. Ever since she was a child she loved reading and writing fantasy filled with arse-kicking action and mythical creatures. Now she lives with her husband, three amazing kiddos and a super dog who gets up to all sorts of shenanigans when he thinks they are not looking. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/cd62d182-f676-4422-8cd0-87f8df709f56/Author+Card+JD+Glasscok.png 2023 Guests E-J - JD Glasscock J.D. Glasscock started as a slam poet on national teams in 1990. Six years later, he moved on to be the singer/songwriter/frontman of a blues rock band called Sofa King, which lasted ten years. Though he still writes both lyrics and poetry, in 2005, he moved on to studying film writing and directing with a special emphasis on lighting, specifically, noir lighting. He moved to Los Angeles in 2010 to finally pursue those aspirations. He is the Alan Bailey Award winner for Excellence in the Craft of Filmmaking - Noir, at the Action on Film Festival 2015. He currently has 16 short films to his name and has won numerous awards as a filmmaker at large festivals. His current goal as far as film is securing funding for his feature, A God Among Sheep -- The Rise of Maria Salvatore. He has four other feature film scripts written in different genres -- Western, Sci-Fi, Post-Apocalyptic, and Suspense Thriller. He and his company Stormcrow Productions also have an Adult Visual Novel Video Game – A Crown of Thorns – based on the IP of his feature film script Blade n Blood coming out on Steam soon. He has been hired four times to write other people's film scripts. He moved to Denton, Texas five years ago to be near and help his family, and to bring his style of film to North Texas. He is currently focused on his burgeoning career as a LitRPG Novelist. His GrimDark LitRPG series Blood Brothers is now out with its first five books. A new series is also out, a science fiction post apocalyptic GrimDark LitRPG called The Dream. He is currently writing book 2 of the Dream and next up is Book 1 of a Superhero LitRPG called Embers & Ash. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/64f7bb0e-4a39-4102-ace6-8d4dfb2461e4/Author+Card+KT+Hanna+%281%29.png 2023 Guests E-J - K.T. Hanna KT Hanna has such a love for words, a single one can spark entire worlds. Born in Australia, she met her husband in a computer game, moved to the U.S.A. and went into culture shock. Bonus? Not as many creatures specifically designed to kill you. KT creates science-fiction, fantasy, and LitRPG like it’s going out of style, with a dash of horror for fun! Her series include Somnia Online, Last Chance, The Domino Project, and System Apocalypse Australia - co-written with Tao Wong. Her hobbies include gaming and reading like there's no tomorrow. No, she doesn’t sleep. She is entirely powered by caffeine, Chipotle, and sarcasm. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/43fe35b6-f180-40e6-8b02-a040461ba548/Author+Card+Stuart+Grosse.png 2023 Guests E-J - Stuart Grosse Stuart Grosse has been writing since 2015, when he started his first book, Frozen Soul, as a webnovel on Royal Road. A veteran Tabletop RPG player and long-time WoW player, the Gamelit/LitRPG genre caught his attention when it was still in its infancy as .hack//Sign and Sword Art Online brought the concept of a story being in a game world with game mechanics to the mainstream, causing him to write his first Gamelit story, Rules-Free VRMMO Life. This story, published first as a webnovel, and then on Amazon, started what would be Stuart's twin calling cards in the genre: the use of Villains as Protagonists, and the use of episodic serial novellas, rather than full-length novels. Since he first started publishing on Amazon in 2017, his work has exploded to include over 170 titles in the Amazon marketplace, and he has garnered a great deal of success as an independent, self-published author. Forgoing the more kid-friendly feel of the majority of the genre, Stuart's villainous protagonists often require warning labels on his books: "If you have triggers, this is your warning, because I'm probably getting to you." However, his serial novella format and price structure have led him to great success, despite (or sometimes because of) the NSFW content, allowing him to write full-time. https://guildificon.com/2023guests-k-p daily 0.75 2023-10-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/e940b7b7-8960-4e73-8e6a-9ee87a6c29e1/Author+Card+Jeffrey+Falcon+Logue.png 2023 Guests K-P - Jeffrey “Falcon” Logue Jeffrey "Falcon" Logue is a man of many talents: being an author, woodworker, and game designer. He is the originator of the dungeon core genre. He first began writing his stories online while in college, an escape from the stresses of lab work. His first success, The Slime Dungeon, came about from a NaNoWriMo challenge with high praise and popularity, pushing him to continue writing. Since then, he has written 20 novels in 7 years and graduated college, with plans to write more novels and finish a video game based around his slime monsters. He is proud of his contribution to the dungeon core genre and gamelit/litrpg genre. Visit his site at https://slime-verse.com/ for more by Jeffrey "Falcon" Logue. Visit https://www.facebook.com/groups/Dungeonstories/ to learn more about dungeon core stories. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/3eaf455d-bc3f-478e-a054-73ce28e9a332/Author+Card+Aleron+Kong.png 2023 Guests K-P - Aleron Kong Aleron Kong is an African-American physician turned WSJ Best Selling Author. His comedic fantasy opera, The Land, has eight novels and a main character that is an everyday kind of guy. The series has over 100,000 five-star reviews and has sold over 1,000,000 copies. Chosen as Audible’s Customer Favorite of the Year, it has wide appeal whether you are reading or listening. He has recently converted his novels into a webcomic. The author is also extremely proud of his fandom, which has raised over $150,000 for various charities over the past few years. Over 40 of his fans have also gotten tattoos of his artwork, and three babies have been named after his characters. His fans are united by the words, “Through Service, Ascendance. Through Dedication, Transcendence.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/34962a77-2ce5-4354-bb60-90b7a9d26b2a/Author+Card+Joshua+Kern.png 2023 Guests K-P - Joshua Kern My name is Joshua Kern and I have always loved reading and the escape books provided from everyday life. Writing stories was something that I always wanted to do, I just wasn't sure when. Now I have finally decided to take the plunge, and I couldn’t be happier for it. I am currently writing several series that span a few different genres from LitRPG/GameLit, and Fantasy to even a bit of Romance. I have written among others, The Game of Gods, The Dungeon Alaria, The Nameless Chronicles, DungeonFall, Realms & Runes, and several more series as well. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/677b52b9-9c13-4340-afca-10cc508129f1/Narrator+Card+Stephanie+Ne%CC%81meth-Parker+%281%29.png 2023 Guests K-P - Stephanie Németh-Parker Stephanie is an Audie and SOVAS nominated Award-winning audiobook narrator, voiceover artist and actress. She narrates books in a variety of genres from Sci-Fi to GameLit and Thrillers, Romance to Horror and Fantasy. She just loves to be able to tell a good story. She works for Podium, Dreamscape, Macmillan and Audible to name a few publishers, and with lots of indie authors that she holds close to her heart. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/c33e352a-f5ae-477d-b793-15b3d390900c/Author+Card+Mike+Noris.png 2023 Guests K-P - Mike Noris Michel (Mike) Noris is an exciting new voice in the literary world, making his mark as a first-time author in the realms of LitRPG and Cultivation genres with his first novel Awoken book One of his Primal Age Series. Residing in Southern Missouri, he draws inspiration from the tranquil countryside and the vibrant community around him. As a lifelong reader and avid fan of fantasy and science fiction, Mike's love for immersive storytelling led him to embark on his own writing journey. Influenced by literary giants like Robert Jordan, Brandon Sanderson, Aleron Kong, Will Wight, and Michael Chatfield, Mike sought to create captivating narratives that seamlessly blend intricate world-building, rich character development, and exhilarating action. Their works served as beacons of inspiration, igniting his imagination, and fueling his passion for crafting epic tales. With a keen eye for detail and a knack for creating compelling storylines, Mike transports readers to realms where virtual realities collide with ancient arts of cultivation. His debut novel showcases his unique style, immersing readers in a world brimming with immersive adventures, epic battles, and mystical powers waiting to be unleashed. With his boundless imagination and deep admiration for the literary greats, Mike is poised to leave an indelible mark on the LitRPG and Cultivation genres, captivating readers with his innovative narratives and enchanting worlds. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/cdf48fdd-b40c-4b69-a41c-df0b82e7446b/Author+Card+Cale+Plamann.png 2023 Guests K-P - Cale Plamann A lifelong fan of Fantasy and Science Fiction, I usually spent my nerdy energy creating overly elaborate homebrew RPG campaigns. As it became harder and harder to juggle schedules for a half dozen players, I eventually made the logical choice and just cut them out of the picture entirely. Now I write novels. They whine a lot less about critical failures. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/f759fac3-e884-47db-8d13-30c2941f5eeb/Narrator+Card+Andrea+Parsneau.png 2023 Guests K-P - Andrea Parsneau Andrea Parsneau is an award-winning narrator focused on bringing a story to life via unique and identifiable character voices, emotionally genuine portrayals, and a unique theatrical flair. Her range of characters and hard-hitting emotional style have become nearly as well known as her dedication to making an audiobook as great as possible. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/b561cadb-a514-4ea8-a54a-ea8ce7e06afb/Author+Card+Sean+Oswald.png 2023 Guests K-P - Sean Oswald Sean was born on Krypton, Zenn-La, or Planet Vegeta, depending on which one of his kids is asking and what mood he is in. He served in the USMC straight out of high school before going on to obtain a highly useful degree in ancient languages. Then, onto the mission field to work at an orphanage in India with his wife and 2.5 kids before returning to the US and surrendering to the dark side. Some say Sith, but his business card reads attorney. Now he lives with his wife and nine (yes 9) children in central Illinois. Although to be fair, some of the kids are moved out and now he has version 2.0 called grandkids—which are even more fun, despite still having an 8 year old of his own. As of 2021 he left his law practice and is now making up stories full time. When he isn't moving furniture for his wife, or playing with his kids, he is busy trying to force all the stories in his head onto a piece of paper. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/6c7cf526-7320-4778-a77b-88e943c9280a/Narrator+Card+Nick+POdehl.png 2023 Guests K-P - Nick Podehl By day, Nick Podehl gives voice to a multitude of characters that heretofore only existed on the page. By night he balances time as husband, dad, and amateur armchair general. His castle stands proudly in The Mitten State where he hopes for snow each and every day. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/36e294b1-e015-4e11-8b32-52a2fc8dccae/Author+Card+TJ+Lombardi.png 2023 Guests K-P - TJ Lombardi TJ grew up under a rock for the vast majority of his life. In the bowels of earth where there was very limited music, tv, and movie selection. He found comfort and solace within the depths of his imagination. Though many may say he has multiple personalities, TJ counters that each one has a distinct voice and attitude within their behaviors. Therefore, the voices are more than likely a vast array of demons rather than multiple manifestations of himself. Though the current estimates are mixed in regards to what the actual f*ck is wrong with him, the current restraining orders he has from Dr. Phill, and Oprah and placed him on a forever banned list from seeking their professional help and assistance. TJ has taken his creative and somewhat demented energy deep within his soul, and has now applied it towards a vast array of stories and worlds. His primary series, “The Dying Breed” is an Epic, Progressive Fantasy series with his own take on a cultivation magic system. He currently has two books published in that series and is looking to have the third book in the series published, later this year. Additionally, TJ is currently working on “Project Monmouth”, the first LitRPG series under his belt and is his take on a mashup between Marvel’s Punisher and John Wick, with a slight amount of Deadpool humor thrown in. This series has also been defined as his IDGAF series. You either like it, or don’t like it, either way, HDGAF. TJ has also started to story board and begin to plan out a few other LitRPG’s series while simultaneously still devoting time to his primary series. TJ has classified himself as a pineapple. He tries to maintain a series, spikey, hard core exterior, but is rather sweet and juicy on the inside. He is sensitive, likes long walks on the beach, enjoys Disney movies, but will also think of 90 different ways to kill you and 10 different ways to f*ck you. One of the greatest compliments he ever got was, “TJ is a marine trapped in an Air Force uniform.” Which was a great compliment to receive with the exception that he was sadly never issued crayons to snack on. TJ is not the type of person you want with you in a dark ally or on a natural trail, for he is a survivalist and will push you towards the threat while doing his best to run away. Just like in Zombieland, Rule #1 Cardio. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/14ac25ca-5ffa-4c09-bc27-af9f2b16e226/Author+Card+David+Petrie.png 2023 Guests K-P - David Petrie Hi there! I’m a fashion and food-obsessed writer of fantasy with a comedic twist. My first book (Party Hard) was published in 2018 and I’ve been hitting the keyboard ever since. Currently, I’m working on a post-apocalyptic comedy series called, Necrotic Apocalypse. If you like magic zombies, ridiculous battles, and quirky characters, give it a try. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/1a732b1d-fe05-4e2b-94ba-ac7db8beadcb/Author+Card+Stephen+Landry.png 2023 Guests K-P - Stephen Landry Spinning chaos into art. Mostly chaos. Stephen Landry’s writing includes sci-fi, fantasy, horror, LitRPG, and post-apocalyptic fiction. Inspired by the works of Studio Ghibli, weird fiction, classic science fiction, LitRPG, dungeon core, video games, movies, and anime. Stephen’s work is usually filled with unbelievable monsters and characters. Stephen is also an award-winning graphic designer, producer, and musician whose goal is to encourage and inspire others through storytelling. Create. Inspire. Evolve. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/09f3bd0b-dc98-43ae-9570-304decc52089/SBT+Card+Ahmed+Mahmoud.png 2023 Guests K-P - Ahmed Mahmoud When he isn’t bringing many of Soundbooth Theater’s production to life while managing their Sound Engineering Department, Ahmed can be found recording and producing with various artists. He recorded and mixed the current releases of the band, Ex Astra. With the Hobonauts, a group comprised of Ahmed and singer/songwriter, John Bis, Ahmed mixed, recorded, and played various instruments on their four-song EP, Sea Monkeys in Space. He still works with Nelson Downend on various projects, including the scores and soundtracks for various features. Ahmed’s first scoring experience was on a project called, Whatever Goes TV, for which he scored the Kickstarter ad with John Bis. He scored The Dia Method with Nelson and Ambershift Media. Ahmed and Nelson also scored The Other Man, a film written and directed by Columbia film student, Edwin Ho (release TBD) and Fred’s Little Voice, a short film directed by Bis, shot by Fred Molina, and starring Ahmed, himself! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/fe397dae-27e7-4cc5-b39f-e97ebca5cf8d/Author+Card+Rachel+Ni%CC%81+Chuirc.png 2023 Guests K-P - Rachel Ní Chuirc Rachel Ní Chuirc is video game writer by day, LitRPG scribbler by night, and an all-round chaos gremlin. Hailing from Ireland, she’s spent the past five years working as a writer for critically acclaimed fantasy games and bemoaning the cost of a pint in Dublin. When she found LitRPG, it was love at first sight, and she poured (what was left of) her soul into her first novel, Knights of Eternity, which was picked up by The Legion Publishers. When not writing, she enjoys wrestling swans, kicking the moon, and lying about her hobbies. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/1bcdf17c-009c-433c-912b-31a3c2cc51df/SBT+Card+Aaron+J+Morton.png 2023 Guests K-P - Aaron J Morton Aaron J. Morton is an award-winning composer and producer from Tulsa, OK. In addition to many of the musical scores behind Soundbooth Theater titles, his work also appears in feature films, live productions, podcasts, and educational TV. He serves as the Artistic Director for Zephyrus Arts Institute and designs large-scale productions for competitive marching bands and other ensembles. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/ca3d2e2a-bf19-4980-b1c5-224d8215adf1/Author+Card+Lars+Machmu%CC%88ller.png 2023 Guests K-P - Lars Machmüller Lars Machmüller lives in Denmark with his wife and three kids. Family comes first, and as such, he spends a lot of time perfecting the art of packed lunches, cleaning food off the floor and delivering kids to and from school, kindergarten, playdates and whatnot. Whenever somebody is not crawling on his shoulders, he dedicates every waking moment attempting to exorcize all those LitRPG plot bunnies that keep finding a place to live within his skull. Whatever little time remains, he distributes evenly between his towering to-be-read pile, his trusty PC, and music. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/c8982461-cae1-4faa-b079-6f5195578c31/Author+Card+Troy+Osgood.png 2023 Guests K-P - Troy Osgood Born and raised in the granite state of New Hampshire, Troy, proud dad of two daughters, is a lifelong and avid reader of comic books and novels (mostly in the fantasy, sci-fi and adventure/thriller genres) and self-professed geek collecting action figures and building LEGO. He enjoys creating adventures that entertain and hopes to see his works appear in all forms of media. Don’t expect to bother him during football season, especially when the Patriots are playing. He still lives in New Hampshire. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/5496b1d8-0b34-4164-aa3e-e2a5b0ba14c4/Author+Card+Selkie+Myth.png 2023 Guests K-P - Selkie Myth I was led into the dark world of webnovels by the wild success of Solo Leveling. Devouring everything I could, I eventually stumbled upon Royal Road, where I proceeded to read everything I could. Like many people, I always had the idea rattling around in my head of 'maybe one day I'll write my own book.' Running out of books to read came at the same time I was laid off, and I figured if nothing else, I could write a better book that the machine-translated works. I sat down, and started writing the first story I've ever written: Beneath the Dragoneye Moons. Now I’m here! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/fd96580f-95d5-40f5-8d4c-2697411971fe/Author+Card+Brian+J+Nordon+%282%29.png 2023 Guests K-P - Brian J. Nordon Brian J. Nordon is a LitRPG Author from Dundalk, Ireland. He got his break on Royal Road, where his debut story, Wildcards: The Dread Pirate, hit the top ten in the site-wide rankings. After learning more about writing as a craft, and making a lot of mistakes throughout, Brian created a side-project just for himself. It was a story that would incorporate the invaluable feedback he gained from his readers, and would finally quiet the voices in the back of his head that demanded he write it. Quest Academy was born, and got picked up by The Legion Publishers. It’s Brian’s first proper foray into publishing, and he’s so proud of it, he’s putting his own name on it. Outside of writing, Brian works as a Recruiter for a video game company in Dublin. He spends his time interviewing writers and designers of some of the most critically acclaimed role-playing games in the world. He lives alone and is constantly torn between traveling the world, or getting a dog. If everything works out, he may very well do both. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/575b2567-ccf6-479f-9c16-18d988fa6a76/Author+Card+Dakota+Krout.png 2023 Guests K-P - Dakota Krout Author of the best-selling Divine Dungeon, Completionist Chronicles, and Full Murderhobo series, Dakota Krout was chosen as Audible's top 5 fantasy pick of 2017, has been a top 5 bestseller on Amazon, and a top 6 bestseller on Audible. He draws on his experience in the military to create vast terrains and intricate systems, and his history in programming and information technology helps him bring a logical aspect to both his writing and his company while giving him a unique perspective for future challenges. Publishing my stories has been an incredible blessing thus far, and I hope to keep you entertained for years to come! -Dakota https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/021e3cb1-0532-45ec-a644-d2cb65287bc0/Author+Card+Ryan+Maxwell.png 2023 Guests K-P - Ryan Maxwell Ryan Maxwell, author of Grand System Vending, was born in Fort Worth Texas, and currently resides in Arlington Texas. He now works in the IT field as a QA Engineer for a company called Nelnet working on school management software working to provide the best experiences for schools that utilize the School Information System to manage their data and daily needs. He has been an avid reader since a very young age, idolizing the likes of many great authors such as Steven King, J.R.R Tolkien, and Isaac Asimov. He has been reading the LitRPG genre for the last 6 years with some of his favorite series being The Land, Underverse, and Noobtown. He has been writing for the last two years and has multiple completed manuscripts. Ryan enjoys spending time with his wife, and three children as well as their many pets. He has been a volunteer foster parent to many dogs over the past 11 years and his hobbies include playing D&D with friends, traveling to the beach and mixed drink destinations, playing video games, reading, and listening to audiobooks. https://guildificon.com/2023guests-r-z daily 0.75 2023-10-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/8164467b-1d42-413e-8641-e83faa833c8d/Cosplayer+Card+Jeff+Russo.png 2023 Guests R-Z - Jeff Russo Hello everyone I'm Jeff from @jeffrussocosplay, I'm 36 years of age and live in Vegas, I have an amazing wife who's name is Kat @katiemaycosplay and we've been together for 20 years. I started crafting and cosplay as a form of therapy to help fight PTSD, depression and anxiety. When participating and wearing cosplays I'm not boring old Jeff, I'm whoever I want to be that day and seeing the reaction from others makes me smile even if they can't see it under the mask. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/dd3d9932-0f06-45e3-9326-f3aee1c20ea5/Author+Card+Cailan+Wilkinson.png 2023 Guests R-Z - Cailan Wilkinson Cailan Wilkinson is an author in the LITRPG genre, he lives in a small beach town on the east coast. An avid reader and lover of audiobooks, Cailan enjoys writing fast-paced fantasy novels filled with LITRPG elements. Cailan released his first book, The Elementalist: Book 1, Darkfire in August 2021, Book 2, Doom in January 2022, and Book 3, Resurgence in June 2022. He is currently writing book 4 and is expecting to release an audiobook of books 1-3 sometime in 2023. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/a1cf27d3-5ba3-448f-900e-cc9128041cfd/Author+Card+Gabriel+Rathweg+%281%29.png 2023 Guests R-Z - Gabriel Rathweg For as long as I can remember, I have had a foot in multiple worlds. Born in the nation's capital to a 6"5 blonde hair blue-eyed father and a new to United States Korean mother, my childhood took me to many lands. I have spent formative years in Puerto Rico, Venezuela, and Saudi Arabia, but most of my time has been in Cocoa Beach, Florida. I am currently living with my partner and two cats in the Bavarian State of Germany. I grew up in areas where a lot of people didn't look like me. I ended up joining the worlds created by fantasy authors. Starting with the classics like Tolkien and Lewis, I devoured fantasy literature. At the tender age of ten, my sister opened my mind to the works of Anthony and Pratchett and my love for the genre intensified. As I got older and read all that there was to read, video games were exponentially rising in popularity. You mean a real, live, choose-your-own-adventure game? Sold! Literature, video games, and music have been my solid companions in life. It is an honor to share what I create with you, the reader. I hope my books bring you the joy and friendship I have always found comfort in within the science fiction fantasy world. Find out more on: www.patreon.com/glrathweg www.facebook.com/glrathweg https://www.facebook.com/groups/2305071189719538/?ref=br_rs Instagram: glrathweg TikTok: @glrathweg Website: www.glrathweg.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/79425150-6aa3-48bd-a66f-a130307ad574/Author+Card+John+Stovall.png 2023 Guests R-Z - John Stovall John Stovall loves Shami, gaming, reading, math, his friends, his family, and his dog, and probably a whole lot of other things he can't think of right now. He obtained his BA in political science, and then later his JD from Humphrey's School of Law, but his real passion lies in writing. When he isn't thinking up number systems for his own homebrew Dungeons & Dragons game, he's thinking up cool plot lines for his books. If you'd like to contact John Stovall, you can find him on Facebook and Instagram at: john.w.stovall (be prepared for questionable photography skills) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/e19fa01b-6071-4166-a3a0-414e89fa666b/Author+Card+Rose+Reynolds.png 2023 Guests R-Z - Rose Reynolds Rose Reynolds grew up catching lizards and dreaming of dragons in flight. She joined the Army Infantry at 18, spent some time in the sand. During her tour to Mosul, Rose played Gears of War and Halo in between conducting raids, combat patrols, and tower guard. Rose earned degrees in English at CSU Fullerton. After a few years spent teaching as an adjunct, she returned to that childhood dream of writing fantasy stories. Somehow, she writes Fantasy, Cultivation, and LitRPG books for a living. Best known for her book First Fist: Seventh Bridge to the Heavens, under the pen name TJ Reynolds. The second novel in the series will be released Winter of 23’. A new project is on the horizon, The Heroes, Monk and Mage, due for publication Spring 2024. Perhaps her greatest accomplishment yet, however, has been learning to survive as a transgender person. Reclaiming her mind, soul, and body, she’s never felt more herself. Joyous though this change has been, the social and financial cost of transition is devastating. Send the trans folks you interact with a bit of kindness and grace: many of us are barely hanging on. If you’ve a mind to chat about anime, JRPGs, or the weighty calling of raising otaku children in 2023, please reach out to Rose on Facebook or Discord, and remember to follow her on Amazon to be notified of new releases. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/57bacaa9-bf94-4bb4-bc70-d6574602b7ba/Author+Card+Jakob+Tanner+%282%29.png 2023 Guests R-Z - Jakob Tanner Jakob Tanner is the LitRPG author of three best selling series, Arcane Kingdom Online and Tower Climber, and his new series, Second Chance Swordsman. When not writing, he loves watching anime, reading comics, and playing video games. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/b7854ee8-486d-44ba-8882-358075b63ce6/Author+Card+Tao+Wong.png 2023 Guests R-Z - Tao Wong Tao Wong is a Canadian author based in Toronto who is best known for his System Apocalypse post-apocalyptic LitRPG series and A Thousand Li, a Chinese xianxia fantasy series. His work has been released in audio, paperback, hardcover and ebook formats and translated into German, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian and other languages. He was shortlisted for the UK Kindle Storyteller award in 2021 for his work, A Thousand Li: the Second Sect. When he’s not writing and working, he’s practicing martial arts, reading and dreaming up new worlds. Tao became a full-time author in 2019 and is a member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA), NINC and ALLI. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/a2f3b03e-9bc0-4eb8-a20f-381c47901953/Author+Card+Lorne+Ryburn+.png 2023 Guests R-Z - Lorne Ryburn “caerulex” Lorne (also known online as caerulex) is a web serial fanatic. She is permanently in a state of devouring multiple online books and webcomics in the progression fantasy / LitRPG subgenres. The Menocht Loop is her second book series, which she began after publishing Apex Predator as an online web serial. She is co-owner of Timeless Wind Publishing, a small indie publishing company specializing in progression fantasy and LitRPG. She is also a full time AI/ML software engineer. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/e3a97005-a6a0-47fe-a6d8-42ee1ec59093/Author+Card+Kevin+Sinclair+%281%29.png 2023 Guests R-Z - Kevin Sinclair I’m a full-time, British Indie Author publishing fantasy, sci-fi and post-apocalyptic novels within the LitRPG/GameLIT genre. Born and bred in the North East of England I live with my wife, our four children. It’s a stone’s throw from the rugged coastline of the North Sea and a place full of history, from Pagan stone circles to Roman forts that feed the imagination. We have three dogs all outrageously different in size, from an old giant Newfy to a miniature Yorkie and some sort of mysterious hybrid in between. My debut series Condition Evolution spans six novels with three more on the way. It crosses genres from LitRPG fantasy to real world GameLIT Space Opera, like a penguin goes from land to water. My second is a gritty, post-apocalyptic series, The Cesmial Accords, bringing time-travel, superhuman powers and waves of vicious monsters to Earth in a battle for survival. Last year saw the beginning of God of the Feast, a portal fantasy series that’s bigger, grittier and occasionally funnier than anything I’ve written before. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/c336b6b8-c458-4138-97e1-c2765265fbf9/Narrator+Card+Daniel+Wisniewski.png 2023 Guests R-Z - Daniel Wisniewski Daniel is an actor of both voice and stage based out of New York City. He has produced over 180 audiobooks, is a multi-time Audible Best Seller, and was recently awarded the 2023 Readers’ Favorite Award for Best Fiction Audiobook for his work on Cordova and Novotny’s The Executioners. He is also an accomplished stage actor, with credits including Romeo & Bernadette (Off-Broadway), The Imbible: Day Drinking (Off-Broadway), Men with Money (World Premiere) at the Aurora Theatre in Georgia, and as The Beast in the Walnut Street Theatre’s upcoming production of Beauty and the Beast. When not working, he can be found galavanting with friends as an alcoholic hobgoblin bounty hunter in their latest Dungeons and Dragons campaign. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/159c62c1-f75f-43fe-a89c-b62432d0a0cf/Author+Card+Misty+Zaugg.png 2023 Guests R-Z - Misty Zaugg I started Kenpo Karate at 13 because my mom found a coupon for a free lesson. I sold candy at school (and got in trouble for it) but earned enough to carry a jar of small bills and change to pay for my first month of lessons. I fell in love with martial arts and obsessed about leveling up to black belt in three years time. A newlywed at 26, I decided to switch classes to healer and four years later was awarded the rank of doctor. And through it all, I devoured stories and played games. I bought Starcraft for my husband when we first got married, but I secretly played it for a couple of weeks before giving it to him, because you know . . . competitive. :) My kids loved it when I helped moderate the Minecraft server they played on. And now? I write stories combining everything I love. Why don't you read a few pages and tell me what you think? I'm always looking to connect with readers and improve my writing. I love a good adventure and hope my stories deliver that. Say hi - I answer. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/799cbbde-8827-420c-a19d-fe03ec8abe1c/Author+Card+Shami+Stovall.png 2023 Guests R-Z - Shami Stovall Shami Stovall is a multi-award-winning author of fantasy and science fiction. Before that, she taught history and criminal law at the college level and loved every second. When she’s not reading fascinating articles and books about ancient China or the Byzantine Empire, Stovall can be found playing way too many video games, especially RPGs and tactics simulators. She loves John, reading, and writing about herself in the third person. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/958f7538-4183-4a07-b1fe-833b69f3b6d9/Author+Card+Shawn+Weeks.png 2023 Guests R-Z - Shawn Weeks Shawn Weeks is an Acupuncture Doctor (DOM) practicing in Albuquerque NM. He specializes in neurological and electro-acupuncture treatments as well as treating allergies. He’s spent the last several years developing an acupuncture treatment for ADD/ADHD, but has spent the last four decades being a giant nerd. He is currently in the throes of writing his first LitRPG novel and loves the genre wholeheartedly. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/5cadfc2e-3c0c-4a7b-a203-6222a03865fd/Author+Card+Daniel+Schinhofen.png 2023 Guests R-Z - Daniel Schinhofen Daniel Schinhofen is a self-published author in the burgeoning genre of LitRPG/Gamelit. He published his first book, Last Horizon: Beta, in October of 2016, and has published over thirty books to date. A best-selling author on Amazon multiple times, his series have achieved name recognition in the genre. Series include; Last Horizons, Alpha World, Apocalypse Gates, Binding Words, Resurrection Quest, NPC LIves, Aether's Revival, and Dungeon Walkers. When not slavishly typing away at the next book, Daniel tries to unwind with video games, playing with his dog, or going for walks around his neighborhood. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/af426ea1-2522-4ae9-ba32-b1641c4b6f21/Author+Card+Eric+Ugland.png 2023 Guests R-Z - Eric Ugland Eric Ugland is the bestselling author of the Good Guys and Bad Guys series. He writes LitRPG from the depths of Maine's forests, fighting back bears and moose while slinging ink over the paper. Born in England, but raised in various other places, he's got a unique voice and several expired passports as well as a deep wealth of tropical diseases. He like gin and tonics, cold ice, and long walks on short beaches. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/9c6e6657-acd9-4856-ade3-d4c0ea2d7a9d/Cosplayer+Card+Crys+Wilson.png 2023 Guests R-Z - Crys Wilson Crys Wilson was born in Las Vegas, NV where she still resides. She began her cosplay journey in 2021. She enjoys crafting cosplays from a wide variety of Fandoms from Comics, anime, fantasy to videogame characters. it has been an amazing experience from meeting new cosplay friends, walking in Dragon Con parade and being featured on the cover of Blerd magazine. Her goal in cosplay is to spread positivity and to help others grow in the community. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/afe3b640-de27-4557-897e-43a283da2acd/Author+Card+C.J.+Timms.png 2023 Guests R-Z - C.J. Timms C.J. Timms has a passion for writing quality Aussie Sci-fi and fantasy, particularly LitRPG. If you want to read about a man riding in to save the day on a giant wombat, he's your guy. Chris is the author of the Aussie Mana Apocalypse (books 1-4 and comic), The Aussie Mana Apocalypse Freeman and King Tides Curse. Chris is a GP in Australia and passionate about burnout prevention. He finds writing a powerful tool to de-stress and be able to serve patients better. https://guildificon.com/2023-schedule-1 daily 0.75 2024-06-18 https://guildificon.com/2024-schedule daily 0.75 2024-10-22 https://guildificon.com/2023-schedule-1-1-1 daily 0.75 2024-06-19 https://guildificon.com/2024guests-a-g daily 0.75 2024-10-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/5be484b8-fb09-4997-8b8a-5cf0da78d60b/Steve+Campbell+GC+2024.png 2024 Guests A-G - Steve Campbell Steve Campbell is a Canadian Narrator who has recorded over 135 titles, totaling over a thousand finished hours of audiobooks, equal to 10,000,000 words. He won the Independent Audiobook Award in 2019 for YA (Watcher by AJ Eversley - co-narrated with Chelsea Stephens). Steve has also been interviewed for an article in the Wall Street Journal and has been on multiple podcasts and is a member of SAG-AFTRA. Steve didn’t start out in the narration business, he previously worked at restaurants entertaining patrons and at an apiary before turning to construction, where he worked for almost 20 years, eventually founding and owning an incorporated company for 10 of those years. Once he discovered his love for narrating he was able to go full-time with audiobook narration after only 1.5 years. Severe ADHD did not slow Steve down, he was not only an athlete in school, with achievements of being the captain of his high school basketball and volleyball teams, he was also involved in Fine Arts as the lead in many plays, including a community performance of Romeo and Juliet. He was also the high school class president and Valedictorian. Steve was also a lead singer in a church and youth band to crowds up to 300 strong and toured eastern Canada and northeastern US for a year doing multimedia dramas and music to crowds up to 1,500 in schools, churches, community centres, and minimum and maximum prisons. Steve is happily married to his high school sweetheart and they have two sons together. He’s a huge fan of movies and comics, and didn’t discover his love for reading until he was 20 and hasn’t looked back. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/3b492db0-bc7e-4ce1-9786-aa841b17e749/J.J.+Ackerknecht+GC+2024.png 2024 Guests A-G - J.J. Ackerknecht Hey there. Gonna break with tradition and do this bit in the first-person. I'm Justin Josiah Ackerknecht, aka JJ, aka JayAck. I love Fantasy, SciFi, Horror, and the intersections where those genres meet, as well as almost all of their little subgenre children. I've been writing for about 20 years, whether that be comics, short stories, webserials, and now, publishing to Amazon. I've lived in America (where I'm from) as well as Asia and Europe (where I am currently). My wonderful wife works as a librarian, and we both adore books and stories of all sorts. We also have a pair of very stinky and absurd dogs that we love very much. If you'd like to keep up with whatever I've got going on, you can check me out on Twitter @jjackerknecht or my personal website at www.jjackerknecht.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/db75a0cb-4f70-4b78-91f7-58ceeddff516/Dawn+Chapman+GC+2024.png 2024 Guests A-G - Dawn Chapman Dawn Chapman has been creating sci-fi and fantasy stories for a very long tim. Until 2005 when her life and attention turned to scripts, and she started work on The Secret King, a 13-episode Sci-Fi TV series, with a great passion for this medium. In 2015, Dawn returned to her first love of prose where she revelled in the world of The Secret King, Letháo and First Contact, as an epic prose space journey over three generations. This year her experience of working with others expanded. From Drama, Sci-Fi, Action, to LitRPG/Gamelit. Dawn’s built a portfolio of writing, consulting, publishing and audio proofing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/54d32b32-552b-4481-a3da-d83b9539019b/Harmon+Cooper+GC+2024.png 2024 Guests A-G - Harmon Cooper I'm Harmon Cooper, your friendly neighborhood genre-hopping author extraordinaire. Originally from Austin, Texas, I spent five years adventuring through Asia before finding my way to New England. Now, thanks to a fellow author buddy's recommendation, I call sunny Portugal home, sharing my life with my talented artist wife who sometimes does covers for me and always creates the art inside my books. Since 2015, I've handcrafted bestselling LitRPG, cultivation, post-apocalyptic, cozy fantasy, and progression fantasy stories for your digital, print, and audio consumption. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/4ae35d72-fc8e-4cab-a9da-c16c5ea9fea1/JD+Glasscock+GC+2024.png 2024 Guests A-G - JD Glasscock LitRPG Author, Award-winning Filmmaker, Poet, Lyricist, Video Game Designer. Nocturne Series https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/3af61721-9798-4dd2-814e-309a20653658/Stuart+Grosse+GC+2024.png 2024 Guests A-G - Stuart Grosse Stuart is a sci-fi and anime geek, who dabbles in tabletop and video gaming. He enjoys cosplaying and has gone to DragonCon annually since 2009. He's best known for his use of Villains as Protagonists, and his willingness to have the bad guys win in his serial novellas. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/99d94011-8247-4b05-b1a7-ae51e6f5aa6c/Rachel+A+Cooper+GC+2024.png 2024 Guests A-G - Rachel A. Cooper Inked in darkness and bound by light, Rachel A. Cooper, writes progression fantasy, blending LitRPG and western cultivation to explore characters’ journey of power and self-discovery. As a Texan juggling family and a number of questionable ‘pets,’ she draws additional inspiration from a love of paranormal legends, travels, and neuropsychology. Fast-paced stories that weave reality and fantasy are her cup of tea. Somehow, amongst it all, hope remains a steadfast companion for herself, the characters, and her readers alike. She co-authors with Aoife Wai/L. M. Hughes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/a03893ed-e796-4ac9-a9bf-29edb9a0dfbd/CM+Carney+GC+2024.png 2024 Guests A-G - C.M. Carney My journey to becoming the Bestselling author of ‘dorky books’ - as my sister is fond of calling them - began in the dark ages long before the internet was a thing with the original Dungeons and Dragons boxed set. My mother bought that shiny red box for me after reading an ‘editorial’ in the local paper claiming that role playing games drove kids to worship dark forces in the sewers. I was ten, and it's probably a good thing there were no sewers on my street, otherwise, I would have delved down with my hand-crafted wooden sword and my trash can shield, ready to smite evildoers of all stripes, likely to never be heard from again. Thankfully, my forays into the underworld never materialized, and I faced neither dragon nor goblin nor gelatinous cube. Instead, I turned my eye and my quill to writing fantastical tales. Today, thanks to my two Bestselling LitRPG series, The Realms, which burst onto the LitRPG scene with Barrow King in February 2018, and The Quintessence, which incorporates cultivation elements and measured progression, I get to put the profession author on my tax return. In addition to my two current series, I am in the early stages of plotting a third LitRPG series, The Essence of Power as well as a kid friendly, Arthurian superhero, action-adventure series called Knightman & Page, both of which will be coming to Kickstarter in the next few years. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/62051dc3-3e38-46e5-a72c-0df9728d6133/Matt+Dinniman+GC+2024+%281%29.png 2024 Guests A-G - Matt Dinniman Matt Dinniman is the author of Dungeon Crawler Carl. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/0763fbcc-be37-427d-aeb0-e6932d2fe750/Jack+Fields+GC+2024.png 2024 Guests A-G - Jack Fields Jack Fields is an Irish author, award winning playwright, and D&D enthusiast. He has worked on the development team for popular fantasy IPs in board gaming and video gaming. He lives by the seaside and writes stories, believing that there isn’t possibly enough time to meet enough people, so he must invent some himself. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/a16cdca7-cd01-49d9-8062-a9418f35e99b/Jez+Cajiao+GC+2024.png 2024 Guests A-G - Jez Cajiao Jez Cajiao was born a regular human, but over many years of trials and tribulations, he managed to survive to become...an older, uglier, and larger regular human! At a young age, Jez found that he truly disliked school, and due to that, decided to start work at the age of 11 in the family catering business. After many years catering, Jez then traveled and worked at bars in Greece, where he, well, what happens in Greece stays in Greece. He made a career change to welding, which he loved, but only for a short time, as he had developed welder's lung. The pandemic of 2020 caused Jez to be furloughed, as his lung condition put him at a greater risk. During this time, he wrote every single day. With the support of his readers, he is now happily writing away in his home office full time, with the company of his wife, two children, two dogs, two cats, and the Sanddancers in South Shields. You can find Jez on Facebook, Discord, Instagram, and TikTok, where he is always happy to chat with readers! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/1a4a31d1-4e7c-4849-9657-fc758c542a48/Robert+Gagnon+GC+2024.png 2024 Guests A-G - Robert Gagnon Bio to come https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/773f3bb9-2b64-4d12-833a-92165dd57ea7/JM+Clarke+GC+2024+%281%29.png 2024 Guests A-G - J.M. Clarke J.M. Clarke is an author of novels, short stories and web fiction, known for Mark of the Fool, originally a web serial and now a best-selling series narrated by Travis Baldree. He also has short stories published in the anthology Book of Blades and the magazine New Edge of Sword and Sorcery. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/eeb286a8-77c9-4f62-bb1e-891b24826c38/Maxwell+Farmer+GC+2024.png 2024 Guests A-G - Maxwell Farmer Maxwell spent his youth in Metropolis Illinois, the home of Superman. There, the seeds of loving Fantasy and Sci-Fi blossomed. Like the man of steel, Maxwell dons an alter ego. During the day, he’s known as Dr. Farmer and treats all the local dogs and cats of their ailments. At night however, he works hard to write captivating stories full of action and adventure in order to transport readers to new and magical worlds. He lives in the Great White North of Wisconsin with his wife and son. Feel free to message him on his website https://www.maxwellfarmer.com/ to discuss his projects or nerdy things in general. He’d love to hear from you! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/f508bb55-a800-4c4c-95c1-28aedf415fa5/Jay+Boyce+GC+2024.png 2024 Guests A-G - Jay Boyce Jay Boyce, daughter of a librarian and wielder of words, is primarily an editor turned LitRPG writer. A crazy dreamer, she creates stories in her head all the time, and finally decided to start writing them down and sharing the love. A perpetual learner, she also works at her local university attending classes with deaf students and gleaning knowledge on any random subject she can get her hands on. She started writing again after being diagnosed with an autoimmune disease in 2018. She strives to make the world better through kindness, and showing that you can overcome whatever obstacles stand in your way. Jay is currently writing two series. A Touch of Power is published by Mountaindale Press, which consists of Siphon, Adapt, Sense, and Insight. Lotus Lake: Rise of the Mystic Mage is indie published. Winner of the 2019 Warriors and Wizards award for best new LitRPG author, she was also nominated as a finalist for the Independent Audiobook Awards in 2020. Jay is well known for collecting the rainbow in the form of dice, wigs, and mugs. Her hobbies, aside from reading/writing, include playing board and video games, ultimate frisbee and volleyball, and traveling the world to experience new cultures. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/27fc0af4-f8b6-46d6-8426-0e98c4747555/Abby+GoldsmithGC+2024.png 2024 Guests A-G - Abby Goldsmith Abby Goldsmith is the author of the epic sci-fi Torth series, which starts with Majority. She has sold short works to Escape Pod and Writer’s Digest Books, having attended the Odyssey Fantasy Writing Workshop. Goldsmith is a 2D and 3D game animator, has lived on all three coasts of the United States, and is married to her favorite reader. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/a8de68ab-f4ea-45c8-aa4a-7749261499e4/Ryan+DeBruyn+GC+2024.png 2024 Guests A-G - Ryan DeBruyn All right. Where do I start? Honestly, it’s strange looking back at how you got somewhere the further away from it you get. I grew up an athlete who wanted to read sometimes more than I wanted to compete. I wanted to be on some magical battlefield fighting off evil, instead of just the ugly opponent I also wanted to beat. If anything, this environment allowed me some unique creativity when it came to competition. It’s probably accurate to say I took sports as far as I physically and mentally could, attempting to represent Canada and compete in the Olympics. It might not have happened but that isn’t because I didn’t work hard enough to get the stats I needed. When sports ended I went back to school and took Electrical Engineering, it was during my final year there that my passion for reading and long desire to write finally manifested. I started my first story Equalize on RoyalRoad and fell ‘ass-backward’ into the world of being an author. Now, two years after taking writing full-time, I have three series to my name, and all of them have been best sellers. What a world we live in?! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/91e7daf7-4a77-4eac-8ede-1d5a0109e0a7/Annie+Ellicott+GC+2024.png 2024 Guests A-G - Annie Ellicott A veteran of the stage, Annie Ellicott has been performing for sold-out crowds in theater and music for 30 years. She recently dropped an album of upbeat jazz standards, Happy Talk, with pianist Scott Mcquade — available on all streaming platforms. She has been a recurring guest singer with Jeff Goldblum and the Mildred Snitzer Orchestra, performing jazz, bebop, and comedy improv with the group across the US and Europe. Annie is also an Audie Award-nominated, and Society of Voice Arts and Sciences Award-winning narrator. Since 2018 she has been a composer and lead female narrator for Soundbooth Theater, appearing in over 100 titles for the company to date. As an auteur, Annie co-created, alongside Emily Labes, the first Soundbooth Theater Original Cinematic Audio series, Space Buns, a superhero adventure about slaying both inner and outer villains. Season Two coming soon! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/94443a7f-7ed2-431f-b352-80a69fe61c92/Gary+Furlong+GC+2024.png 2024 Guests A-G - Gary Furlong I have been a narrator for almost 10 years and have narrated a little over 400 audiobooks. My throat is constantly sore from all that talking. To introduce some drama into this bio I shall now give a hot take: The best Star Wars video game of all time....is Beat Saber!! Play that and tell me you don't feel like a Jedi!!! My favorite dog is all dogs but I particularly enjoy a Golden Retriever and I aspire to embrace life the way they do. I enjoy playing the guitar and talking to myself while driving. I am looking forward to hanging out with you all!! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/2b6e8996-8a08-4224-bed9-1d52794d998f/J.S.+Arquin+GC+2024.png 2024 Guests A-G - J.S. Arquin When J.S. Arquin was three, he would take as many books as he could carry to the nearest adult, and demand they read them all to me. When they finished, he’d fetch another stack. Since then, he has become a classically trained actor and has lived and performed around the world in a professional career spanning decades. His studied technique with characters and facility with accents have served him well as a full-time narrator, as he has breathed life into hundreds of audiobooks and been a finalist for several industry awards. His skills have made him a listener favorite in the exciting realms of Fantasy, Science Fiction, and LitRPG. while working with some of the top selling authors and publishers in the world. I guess you could say he’s paying all those Green Eggs and Ham forward. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/b5278313-d291-48c7-8cb8-b8e5be347ef0/Bosloe+GC+2024.png 2024 Guests A-G - Bosloe Husband, Dad, Teacher, Artist, Writer, Gamer, General Trouble Maker and Very Sarcastic Bosloe is a maths teacher after spending many years in the military and business sectors. He regularly tells dad jokes in lessons to continual groans of frustration from his students. He decided to switch to teaching not long before the pandemic hit, wishing to give something back to society. In his spare time, he writes and has a passion for storytelling. During this time, he creates compelling stories to captivate readers. Born and raised in the Northwest of England, Bosloe discovered his love for fantasy and writing at a young age. He had never had the opportunity to show his skills, and it was only recently that he began his creative journey, publishing his works on various platforms for readers to enjoy. Drawing inspiration from years of fantasy reading, gaming, and other amazing authors in the LitRPG Genre, he creates his worlds and crafts his stories. In addition to teaching and writing, Bosloe is completing an Open University Degree. Bosloe resides in Oxfordshire with his wife and fur babies. When not writing, he can be found walking the beast around the local area. https://guildificon.com/2024guestsh-z daily 0.75 2024-10-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/f5ea6ec4-7740-49d7-a5b9-e853e3dbdbe2/Sean+Oswald+GC+2024.png 2024 Guests H - Z - Sean Oswald Sean was born on Krypton, Zenn-La, or Planet Vegeta, depending on which one of his kids is asking and what mood he is in. He served in the USMC straight out of high school before going on to obtain a highly useful degree in ancient languages. Then, onto the mission field to work at an orphanage in India with his wife and 2.5 kids before returning to the US and surrendering to the dark side. Some say Sith, but his business card reads attorney or at least it did till he gave it up to make up stories. Now he lives with his wife and nine (yes 9) children in central Illinois. Although to be fair, some of the kids are moved out and now he has version 2.0 called grandkids—which are even more fun, despite still having an 8 year old of his own. When he isn't moving furniture for his wife or playing with his kids, he is busy trying to force all the stories in his head onto a piece of paper. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/23e96cdc-0c11-4480-8a9c-0c6e2ec824d4/Shami+Stovall+GC+2024.png 2024 Guests H - Z - Shami Stovall Shami Stovall is a multi-award-winning author of fantasy and science fiction. Before that, she taught history and criminal law at the college level and loved every second. When she’s not reading fascinating articles and books about ancient China or the Byzantine Empire, Stovall can be found playing way too many video games, especially RPGs and tactics simulators. She loves John, reading, and writing about herself in the third person. See all future releases with: https://sastovallauthor.com/newsletter/ If you want to contact her, you can do so at the following locations: Website: https://sastovallauthor.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/GameOverStation/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SAStovall/ Email: s.adelle.s@gmail.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/2ad38568-82d1-4268-9970-b571e7981f96/Brian+J+Nordon+GC+2024.png 2024 Guests H - Z - Brian J. Nordon Brian J. Nordon is a LitRPG Author from Dundalk, Ireland. He got his break on Royal Road, where his debut story, Wildcards: The Dread Pirate, hit the top ten in the site-wide rankings. After learning more about writing as a craft, and making a lot of mistakes throughout, Brian created a side-project just for himself. It was a story that would incorporate the invaluable feedback he gained from his readers, and would finally quiet the voices in the back of his head that demanded he write it. Quest Academy was born, and got picked up by The Legion Publishers. It’s Brian’s first proper foray into publishing, and he’s so proud of it, he’s putting his own name on it. Outside of writing, Brian works as a Recruiter for a video game company in Dublin. He spends his time interviewing writers and designers of some of the most critically acclaimed role-playing games in the world. He lives alone and is constantly torn between traveling the world, or getting a dog. If everything works out, he may very well do both. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/0f836284-96d5-4cff-aa7c-ca88681fd690/Rose+Reynolds+GC+2024.png 2024 Guests H - Z - Rose Reynolds Rose Reynolds (TJ Reynolds pen name) grew up catching lizards and dreaming of dragons in flight. She joined the Army Infantry at 18, spent some time in the sand. In between conducting raids and combat patrols in the city of Mosul, Rose played Gears of War and Halo, keeping her love of gaming alive. Rose earned degrees in English before spending a few years teaching as an adjunct professor. By a miracle of Fate, luck, and force of will, she now writes Fantasy books for a living, focusing on Progression Fantasy and LitRPG. Her best known work is First Fist: Seventh Bridge to the Heavens, under the pen name TJ Reynolds. Book 2 in the series is due for publication Spring 24. A new Progression Fantasy novel is on the horizon: The Heroes, Monk and Mage, scheduled for Fall 2024. Perhaps her greatest accomplishment yet, however, has been learning to survive as a transgender woman. Reclaiming her mind, soul, and body, she’s never felt more herself. Joyous though this change has been, the social and financial cost of transition are devastating. Send the trans folks you interact with a bit of kindness and grace: many of us are barely hanging on. For updates on books, or if you’ve a mind to chat about anime, JRPGs, or the solemn duty of raising otaku children, reach out to Rose on Facebook or Discord, and remember to follow her pen name TJ Reynolds on Amazon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/c76712e8-eea9-4194-addc-c6fedeb3bd9c/Daniel+Wisniewski+GC+2024.png 2024 Guests H - Z - Daniel Wisniewski Daniel is a NYC based performer originally from Philadelphia, PA. After graduating from Ithaca College with a BFA in Musical Theatre and having apprenticed at the Walnut Street Theatre (America's oldest continuously operating theatre), he performed in a variety of international, regional, and Off-Broadway stage productions. Since 2019, he has also worked full time as a voice actor. He most notable work has been in the world of audiobooks, having produced over 200 (and counting!) while also becoming a multi-time Audible Best Seller and having been award the 2023 Readers' Favorite Award Gold Medal for Best Fiction Audiobook. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/fc47dc33-eb8d-4fa1-be2c-b7a50d579e9d/Timothy+McGowen+GC+2024.png 2024 Guests H - Z - Timothy McGowen Timothy McGowen, a Kansas-based author, cherishes the joys of family life with his wife and two daughters. His journey in the literary world began in grade school, and it's a passion that continues to flourish. Inspired by the imaginative realms of Terry Brooks and Brandon Sanderson, Timothy endeavors to follow in their footsteps, crafting stories that resonate with fantasy and adventure enthusiasts. Prior to dedicating himself to the art of storytelling, Timothy honed his skills as a Software Developer, an experience that not only enriched his technical knowledge but also subtly influences his narrative style. This unique blend of technology and creativity is evident in his work, where he seamlessly integrates elements of Fantasy with splashes of Sci-Fi and the innovative concepts of LitRPG/Gamelit. Timothy's passion for both reading and writing books is the lifeblood of his creative journey. For those who share this enthusiasm, he warmly invites you to join his newsletter. Stay updated with the latest news and embark on an exciting journey with each new book release. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/64e30180-83fe-4639-bf5b-a8863eb237b3/Tao+Wong+GC+2024.png 2024 Guests H - Z - Tao Wong Tao Wong is a Canadian author based in Toronto who is best known for his System Apocalypse post-apocalyptic LitRPG series and A Thousand Li, a Chinese xianxia fantasy series. His work has been released in audio, paperback, hardcover and ebook formats and translated into German, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian and other languages. He was shortlisted for the UK Kindle Storyteller award in 2021 for his work, A Thousand Li: the Second Sect. When he’s not writing and working, he’s practicing martial arts, reading and dreaming up new worlds. Tao became a full-time author in 2019 and is a member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA), and Novelists International. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/0b60264d-5b79-4129-9279-aec918a4cb17/Stephen+Landry+GC+2024.png 2024 Guests H - Z - Stephen Landry Sci-fi & Post-Apocalyptic LitRPG, cultivation, horror, harem, deckbuilding, monsters, KAIJU-CORE. Death Metal. Video games and anime are my specialties. ADHD. Spinning chaos into art and writing. Mostly chaos. Create. Inspire. Evolve. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/cef93ec3-4c7d-427c-8887-53bf7d1cf1d1/KT+Hanna+GC+2024.png 2024 Guests H - Z - KT Hanna Born in Australia, K.T. Hanna met her husband in a computer game, moved to the U.S.A. and went into culture shock. Bonus? Not as many creatures specifically designed to kill you. KT creates science-fiction, fantasy, and LitRPG, with a dash of horror for fun! She is a member of the SFWA and NINC. Her hobbies include gaming, reading, and lake time! No, she doesn’t sleep. She is entirely powered by caffeine, Chipotle, and sarcasm. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/9a1abdee-6574-4efb-b3d8-5e0e22c93c25/James+Hunter+GC+2024.png 2024 Guests H - Z - James Hunter James Hunter is a bestselling author of Rogue Dungeon, Vigil Bound, Discount Dan, Wasteland Warlords, and the LitRPG epic Viridian Gate Online! In addition to writing, he also runs Shadow Alley Press, an industry leader in LitRPG, Progression Fantasy, and Gamelit publishing! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/5f7c6c6a-46a9-46ab-9f30-6e7d1b31bbe3/TJ+Lombardi+GC+2024.png 2024 Guests H - Z - TJ Lombardi TJ Lombardi is a US Air Force Veteran and found himself diving into the world of writing 3 years ago. He started out in epic progressive fantasy but was encouraged to join the world of LitRPG. He has written the series, The Scalpel Chronicles, which is considered "One of the most brutal stories in all LitRPG." and is working on his highly anticipated series, "Golem Master." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/efc3bc8e-e9ea-4c7d-afb5-9b1b59256627/Ryan+Maxwell+GC+2024.png 2024 Guests H - Z - Ryan Maxwell Ryan Maxwell, author of Grand System Vending, was born in Fort Worth Texas, and currently resides in Arlington Texas. He now works in the IT field as a QA Engineer for a company called Nelnet working on school management software working to provide the best experiences for schools that utilize the School Information System to manage their data and daily needs. He has been an avid reader since a very young age, idolizing the likes of many great authors such as Steven King, J.R.R Tolkien, and Isaac Asimov. He has been reading the LitRPG genre for the last 6 years with some of his favorite series being The Land, Underverse, and Noobtown. He has been writing for the last two years and has multiple completed manuscripts. Ryan enjoys spending time with his wife, and three children as well as their many pets. He has been a volunteer foster parent to many dogs over the past 11 years and his hobbies include playing D&D with friends, traveling to the beach and mixed drink destinations, playing video games, reading, and listening to audiobooks. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/49ab2cb2-2e0e-4bdc-8b78-803d7311a8e6/Shawn+Wilson+GC+2024.png 2024 Guests H - Z - Shawn Wilson Married to a beautiful and loving wife, as well as a father of six children (four biological and two adopted). I have enjoyed sharing my love of fantasy with them. We are lovers of movies and enjoy Netflix and hanging out as a family. I travel the world with my children and do humanitarian work in other countries once or twice a year, taking them when possible. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/d43c2de5-ada8-490c-81d4-71b086e7b19b/Rachel+Ni%CC%81+Chuirc+GC+2024.png 2024 Guests H - Z - Rachel Ní Chuirc Rachel Ní Chuirc is a chaos gremlin who spent six years working on Baldur's Gate 3 as a writer. When she found LitRPG it was lovely at first sight. Based in Dublin, she has since left her job to pour (what is left of) her soul into Knights of Eternity - a trilogy about a girl who gets trapped in the body of an arcade game villain. Her hobbies include wrestling swans, kicking the moon, and lying about her hobbies. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/56d578b9-0f49-4687-9cd4-67be1bd14cfc/Aleron+Kong+GC+2024.png 2024 Guests H - Z - Aleron Kong Aleron Kong is an African-American physician turned WSJ Best Selling Author. His comedic fantasy opera, The Land, has eight novels and a main character that is an everyday kind of guy. The series has over 100,000 five-star reviews and has sold over 1,000,000 copies. Chosen as Audible’s Customer Favorite of the Year, it has wide appeal whether you are reading or listening. He has recently converted his novels into a webcomic. The author is also extremely proud of his fandom, which has raised over $150,000 for various charities over the past few years. Over 40 of his fans have also gotten tattoos of his artwork, and three babies have been named after his characters. His fans are united by the words, “Through Service, Ascendance. Through Dedication, Transcendence.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/fc4cb619-41b2-45c0-887a-61a74a977b29/Malory+GC+2024.png 2024 Guests H - Z - Malory Author of Welcome to the Dark Age. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/974b58ee-3454-4f87-81db-d17596619069/Tess+Irondale+GC+2024.png 2024 Guests H - Z - Tess Irondale An in-demand narrator for over a decade, with hundreds of audiobooks performed, Tess has long specialized in LitRPG and Fantasy storytelling. She has collaborated with every major publisher in the business, in addition to dozens of independent producers and authors. A member of Podium’s elite AudioCollab cohort, she hosts a live audiobook server on Discord where she narrates almost daily. Her voice can be heard across a variety of mediums, including Amazon, NBC, Hulu and more. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/269f8951-9c4a-491b-9177-c2c96f507df4/Neil+Hellegers+GC+2024.png 2024 Guests H - Z - Neil Hellegers Neil is an actor, educator, and award-winning audiobook narrator who lives in Brooklyn, NYC with his wife, son and mutt. He has narrated over 400 titles, with a focus on GameLit, Sci-Fi/Fantasy and Literary Fiction. He has also been seen portraying various professionals, typically bearded, in film and on TV, or wandering forests muttering Shakespeare in lost, archaic accents. He is a proud member of SAG-AFTRA and PANA. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/4f94f6ef-8c79-4337-a90b-42aef6726e6b/Jolly+Jupiter+GC+2024.png 2024 Guests H - Z - Jolly Jupiter JollyJupiter hails from west of the Rockies where he lives with his supportive wife and darling daughter. A full-time teacher and fuller-time father, writing is a beloved hobby alongside playing the ukulele and throwing axes. He writes to make you laugh, but if all else fails he'll accept a groan at a dad joke as a consolation prize. He owes his pen name to his favourite song, and his love of NASA, who snapped the picture used in his profile! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/5b217bb7-8e35-4af3-818e-b907ff25e66e/Aoife+Wai+GC+2024.png 2024 Guests H - Z - Aoife Wai Aoife hails from a long line of Irish storytellers, baptized in the sacred springs of Celtic lore and legends. Ever since she was a child, she has loved reading and writing fantasy filled with arse-kicking action and mythical creatures. Now, she writes a unique blend of cultivation and LitRPG with her co-author, R. A. Cooper in the Uncharted Bloodlines Universe and beyond. She lives with her husband, three amazing kiddos, and a super dog who gets up to all sorts of shenanigans when he thinks they're not looking.. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/a8677355-964a-4313-9fd6-5a67f0b0e27e/Lars+Machmu%CC%88ller+GC+2024.png 2024 Guests H - Z - Lars Machmüller Lars Machmüller lives in Denmark with his wife and three kids. Family comes first, and as such, he spends a lot of time perfecting the art of packed lunches, cleaning food off the floor and delivering kids to and from school, playdates, sports and whatnot. Whenever somebody is not crawling on his shoulders, he dedicates every waking moment attempting to exorcise all those LitRPG plot bunnies that keep finding a place to live within his skull. Whatever little time remains, he distributes evenly between his towering to-be-read pile, his trusty PC, and music. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/03a8fe5e-d7d1-4b7f-95a7-c47f56a272a8/Mike+Noris+GC+2024.png 2024 Guests H - Z - Mike Noris Mike Noris is an exciting new voice in the literary world, making his mark as a first-time author in the realms of LitRPG and Cultivation genres with his first novel Awoken book One of his Primal Age Series. Residing in Plato, Missouri, he draws inspiration from the tranquil countryside and the vibrant community around him. As a lifelong reader and avid fan of fantasy and science fiction, Mike's love for immersive storytelling led him to embark on his own writing journey. Influenced by literary giants like Robert Jordan, Brandon Sanderson, Aleron Kong, Will Wight, and Michael Chatfield, Mike sought to create captivating narratives that seamlessly blend intricate world-building, rich character development, and exhilarating action. Their works served as beacons of inspiration, igniting his imagination, and fueling his passion for crafting epic tales. Beyond his writing endeavors, Mike actively engages with the writing community, attending conventions and participating in workshops to further hone his skills. When he's not crafting worlds or delving into the latest gaming trends, Mike can be found exploring the great outdoors, seeking inspiration from nature's wonders. He also enjoys spending time with his family and friends, sharing stories, and nurturing his creative spirit. With his boundless imagination and deep admiration for the literary greats, Mike Noris is poised to leave an indelible mark on the LitRPG and Cultivation genres, captivating readers with his innovative narratives and enchanting worlds. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/8ba30733-1aca-47d4-86e5-0c6509e7ca61/Jeffrey+Falcon+Logue+GC+2024.png 2024 Guests H - Z - Jeffrey “Falcon” Logue Jeffrey "Falcon" Logue is a man of many talents: being an author, woodworker, and game designer. He is the originator of the dungeon core genre. He first began writing his stories online while in college, an escape from the stresses of lab work. His first success, The Slime Dungeon, came about from a NaNoWriMo challenge with high praise and popularity, pushing him to continue writing. Since then, he has written 20 novels in 7 years and graduated college, with plans to write more novels and finish a video game based around his slime monsters. He is proud of his contribution to the dungeon core genre and gamelit/litrpg genre. Visit his site at https://slime-verse.com/ for more by Jeffrey "Falcon" Logue. Visit https://www.facebook.com/groups/Dungeonstories/ to learn more about dungeon core stories. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/993125ab-eb14-4522-82fd-e5845719a328/Gabriel+Rathweg+GC+2024.png 2024 Guests H - Z - Gabriel Rathweg For as long as I can remember, I have had a foot in multiple worlds. Born in the nation's capital to a 6"5 blonde hair blue-eyed father and a new to United States Korean mother, my childhood took me to many lands. I have spent formative years in Puerto Rico, Venezuela, and Saudi Arabia, but most of my time has been in Cocoa Beach, Florida. I am currently living with my partner and two cats in the Bavarian State of Germany. I grew up in areas where a lot of people didn't look like me. I ended up joining the worlds created by fantasy authors. Starting with the classics like Tolkien and Lewis, I devoured fantasy literature. At the tender age of ten, my sister opened my mind to the works of Anthony and Pratchett and my love for the genre intensified. As I got older and read all that there was to read, video games were exponentially rising in popularity. You mean a real, live, choose-your-own-adventure game? Sold! Literature, video games, and music have been my solid companions in life. It is an honor to share what I create with you, the reader. I hope my books bring you the joy and friendship I have always found comfort in within the science fiction fantasy world. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/c986098b-5ada-4536-a4d7-28d950026bd0/Joshua+Kern+GC+2024.png 2024 Guests H - Z - Joshua Kern My name is Joshua Kern and I am an anxiety riddled individual who is trying to write for a living. I’ve always loved reading and the escape books provide from everyday life. Writing stories was something that I always wanted to do at some point in the future. I just wasn't sure when, and now I have finally decided to take the plunge. I am currently writing several series that span a few different genres from LitRPG/GameLit, and Fantasy to even a bit of Romance. I was born in a little town situated somewhere in Ohio and raised in an even smaller town some place in Colorado. I attended University for a time, where I discovered that while I enjoyed Electrical Engineering and Computer Science my true passion lay in writing. I live primarily in Colorado but have been known to move around as the need arises. When not writing, I enjoy riding motorcycles, reading anything I can get my hands on, and anime. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/9dba0f50-0046-4c8a-a787-65c5569d6da6/Michael+Head+GC+2024.png 2024 Guests H - Z - Michael Head Broken guy writing OP MCs. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/5f2cb255-53fa-4b10-bb84-02a03c23665d/Mystic+Neptune+GC+2024.png 2024 Guests H - Z - Mystic Neptune Mystic was born and raised on an island surrounded by temperate rainforests, lakes, mountains and an endless ocean off the horizon. Mystic started writing books when she was 12, and by 14 she'd written her first novel. It was about an elven space princess whose evil stepmother messed up her transdimensional portal trip to university and sent her to a war torn restricted universe. It was very cheesy, and the nine book series she wrote was lost forever on the family windows 95 computer that died a very final death one summer when she was sixteen. By sixteen, Mystic was living with her very sick single mother and her disabled little brother, and working nights to help pay the bills. There was time to read during her school breaks but there wasn't time for much else - and no money to replace the home computer. She wrote notebooks filled with the beginnings of stories, and then got another laptop in college. Around that time she also met the love of her life who read just as much as she did! They got married but only after a terrible accident had befallen her! One day when Mystic was walking to the mall, an iron fence from a construction site fell on her. She suffered from amnesia so bad that she had to relearn English. She had to remeet all her friends and family. She walked past her mother in the street and didn't recognize her. It's OK though! She got better! Mystic started reading webnovels after she could read again because she was tired of picking up books only to remember the ending half-way through! Translated light-novels were new at the time, so she could read without worry that her silly memory would come back and spoil the ending. Mystic enjoys reading light-novels, webnovels, litrpg, gamelit, and fantasy. She also loves Middle Grade and YA. Her favourite authors are Patricia C. Wrede, Tamora Pierce, CasualFarmer, Ryan Rimmel and Diana Wynne Jones. In Mystic's spare time, she writes and does edit swap date-nights with her author husband, JollyJupiter. Oh he of famed dwarven comedy. She also runs after her daughter Phoebe Vaara. Phoebe is named after Saturn's moon, and Vaara actually means Danger in Finnish and Stranger in Greek. Phoebe is a rock-star social diva toddler who hikes mountains and has more friends and enemies than her parents combined, so it fits. Mystic is probably writing right now. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/2349edfd-f270-49ee-9b0b-0e91d08b05cb/Matt+Herrmann+GC+2024.png 2024 Guests H - Z - Matt Herrmann Hooked on NES and Super NES classics such as The Legend of Zelda and Donkey Kong Country at a young age, Matt savored the challenge and sense of adventure that video games provided. Having less time for them these days, he often incorporates video game elements and mechanics into the stories he writes. An avid hiker, gardener, and home chef, he’s always looking for new ways to challenge himself and find adventure in the real world. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/16ff9972-5d7d-4fd7-938c-fddaa0583203/Richey+Stephens+GC+2024.png 2024 Guests H - Z - Richey Stephens Host of Chattin' Stats and new narrator. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/0a84b8e7-3ef1-49fc-bae9-19dde529b06b/Daniel+Schinhofen+GC+2024.png 2024 Guests H - Z - Daniel Schinhofen A lifelong fan of Fantasy and Science Fiction, I usually spent my nerdy energy creating overly elaborate homebrew RPG campaigns. As it became harder and harder to juggle schedules for a half dozen players, I eventually made the logical choice and just cut them out of the picture entirely. Now I write novels. They whine a lot less about critical failures. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536325dee34e74af8717c9/97926184-3015-403c-8fe3-cd7daf61f9e7/Cailan+Wilkinson+GC+2024.png 2024 Guests H - Z - Cailan Wilkinson I strive to create Complex Characters and Thrilling Plots! I’m Cailan Wilkinson, a young author in the LITRPG genre. I was born in Hawaii but moved to Delaware at a young age. You can find my books on Amazon and Audible! https://guildificon.com/shop daily 0.75 2024-10-23 https://guildificon.com/shop-1 daily 0.75 2024-10-23 https://guildificon.com/read-me daily 0.75 2025-05-09