Authors:
Jim C. Hines
Ann Leckie
Catherynne Valente
Alaya Dawn Johnson
Kelley Armstrong
Christian Klaver
Cherie Priest
Courtney Allison Moulton
Robert Jackson Bennet
Diana Rowland
John Scalzi
Wesley Chu
Delilah S. Dawson
Mark Oshiro
Brent Weeks
Mur Lafferty
Mari Brighe
Pablo Vazquez
Brigid Collins
Annalee Flower Horne
Jason Sanford
Natalie Lurhs
Scott H. Andrews
Bradley P. Beaulieu
Aimee Carter
Miriam Weinburg
Michael K. Elliott
Sam Sykes
Douglas Hulick
Megan E. O'Keefe
Alex Kourvo
Brian McClellan
Saladin Ahmed
Tom Doyle
Cassandra Rose Clark
Merrie Haskell
Susan Dennard
Gwenda Bond
Michael J. DeLuca
Michael Damian Thomas
Elise Kova
Max Gladstone
Justin Landon
Kameron Hurley
Patrick Tomlinson
Amal El-Mohtar
Kristine Smith
Anna Carey
Gordon Smith
Doselle Young
Andrea Phillips
Lynne M. Thomas
Sarah Gibbons
Laura Resnick
Melissa F. Olson
V.E. Schwab
Michael R. Underwood
Sunil Patel
Steve Buchheit
Stina Leicht
Scott H. Andrews
Ferrett Steinmetz
Elizabeth Shack
Tobias S. Buckell
David M. Stein
Matt Pearson
Patrick Tomlinson
Catherine Shaffer
Lawrence Schoen
Adam Rakunas
Greg van Eekhout
Andrew Zimmerman Jones
Jon Skovron
Marko Kloos
Agents, etc.:
Cameron McClure (Agent - Subterranean Press)
DongWon Song (Agent)
Miriam Weinberg (Agent - Tor)
Devi Pillai (Editorial Director - Orbit Books)
Yanni Kuznia (editor - Subterranean Press)
Michael Damian Thomas (editor)
Navah Wolfe (editor - Saga Press)
Jackie Morgan (book reviewer)
Patrick Nielsen Hayden (editor)
Paul Kemner (editor?)
Whew! I wish I had time to tell you more about these amazing people and what they write or do, but this isn't even the exhaustive list, so you'll have to cut me some slack. Needless to say, you couldn't turn around without bumping into a talented author this year at Confusion.
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