Octocon 2010 Guests

Alan Nolan Submitted by Danielle Lavigne on 13. October 2009 - 1:48 Alan Nolan is the co-creator - with Ian Whelan - of the twice-Eagle Award-nominated comic Sancho, along with a smattering of stories for other Irish publications, such as the beautiful “Sorry I Can't Take Your Call Right Now, I'm Off Saving the World” and the Irish-language comic RíRá. Alan's idiosyncratic sense of humour makes him a fantastic guest for any convention, and we're glad he's decided to come back to ours! » 2010 Guest	Albedo One Submitted by Danielle Lavigne on 15. August 2010 - 18:02 John Kenny John Kenny has been co-editor of Albedo One since its inception in 1993 and a fan of science fiction since the late 70's. Before his involvement with Albedo One, he wrote extensively for Stargate, the magazine of the Irish Science Fiction Association, and was editor of FTL, the successor to Stargate. Apart from being involved in producing several books published by Aeon Press, he is also a writer of short fiction and has been published in First Contact, Woman's Way, Emerald Eye: Best Irish Imaginative Fiction and other venues. He is co-organiser of the International Aeon Award Short Fiction Contest, now in its 5th incarnation, and Managing Director of writing4all.ie. His first novel is currently doing the rounds with agents. Bob Neilson Bob Neilson lives in Dublin with his wife, two daughters, son, two dogs, one cat and a growing feeling of claustrophobia. In partnership with his wife he runs a successful retail business in Dublin city. His short fiction has appeared extensively in professional and small press markets and he has had two plays performed on RTE and one on Anna Livia FM. He also presented a radio show on Anna Livia for a year. He has had two short story collections published, Without Honour (1997, Aeon Press) and That’s Entertainment (2007, Elastic Press) as well as several comics and a graphic novel. His non-fiction book on the properties of crystals is a best-seller in the UK and Ireland. Peter Lotfus » Read more 2010 Guest
Brian J. Showers Submitted by Danielle Lavigne on 15. August 2010 - 18:01 Brian J. Showers is an expert in written horror. His gothic and classical sensibilities instill a sense of fear at both a primal and higher level of thinking. Since coming to Dublin from Wisconsin, USA with a degree in English Literature and Communication Arts, Brian has had published such amazing works as The Bleeding Horse and Other Ghost Stories and Literary Walking Tours of Gothic Dublin. » 2010 Guest	C.E. Murphy Submitted by Danielle Lavigne on 13. October 2009 - 1:47 C.E. Murphy, AKA Cate Dermody, AKA Catie, is the Alaskan-Irish hybrid author of many fine novels from many fine genres. She's written the fantastic Walker Papers series, an urban fantasy trilogy, and even a series of action-adventure novels called The Strongbox Chronicles. The writer of the Walker Papers, The Negotiator and the Inheritors’ Cycle. We are awaiting the release of her new series, of which the first book, Truthseeker, is due out in September 2010. For more check out her Website » 2010 Guest
Derek Gunn Submitted by Danielle Lavigne on 13. October 2009 - 1:50 An avid fan of Horror and Science Fiction from an early age, with dabblings in writing short stories as a teenager, Derek Gunn began writing again in earnest, in 2001. Derek's fantastic debut novel, Vampire Apocalypse: A World Torn Asunder, has been optioned. The second in the series, Descent into Chaos, was released in 2008 and third last year. Like everyone should be, we're always excited to see more of his work and with a plan to release one novel a year, we needed to invite him back to Octocon to get more of our fix! Derek Gunn's Website » 2010 Guest	Fabulous Lorraine Submitted by Danielle Lavigne on 18. August 2009 - 1:46 Neil Gaiman's personal assistant Lorraine has earned her title of Fabulous through many years of hard labour keeping Mr. Gaiman's bees and doing all of the dirty work besides! A musician, blogger and animal lover, Lorraine puts many of us to shame with her many talents! Fabulous Lorraine's Website Website: FabulousLorraine.com » 2010 Guest
Hilary Lawler Submitted by Danielle Lavigne on 30. August 2010 - 15:03 Hilary Lawlor is a Meath-based cartoonist of SuperHilbo! and contributor and publisher of Longstone Comics, an Irish comics anthology. Her surrealist storytelling skills will make her an interesting guest to say the least! ;) You can find her blog here! » 2010 Guest	John Vaughan Submitted by Danielle Lavigne on 27. September 2009 - 22:20 John Vaughn is the award-winning film maker of My Dad and Valour, as well as a general enthusiast of media, in particular, cinema and television. His manic comedy stylings have been...entertaining us for years and he's more than made up for it with two wonderful Octocon film premiers! His latest film, My Dad, which premiered at Octocon, has since gone on to win the coveted Best Picture (Short) Award at the prestigious Action On Film Festival in Pasadena, California. » 2010 Guest
Maura McHugh Submitted by Danielle Lavigne on 1. February 2010 - 15:33 Maura McHugh was born in the USA but was transplanted to Ireland when too young to protest. Her short stories and poetry have appeared in publications in the USA and the UK such as Fantasy, Shroud Magazine, Paradox Magazine, Goblin Fruit and M-Brane SF. In 2009 her script, 'Hotel Training', was shot and premiered as part of the Hotel Darklight anthology film. In 2011 Atomic Diner will publish the graphic novel Róisín Dubh, for which Maura wrote the scripts and co-plotted the storyline with Rob Curley. She's now in development of another comic book project with Rob. Earlier this year she co-edited/juried The Campaign for Real Fear horror fiction contest with British author Christopher Fowler. Out of hundreds of entries they selected twenty stories as winners, which were published across two issues of British horror magazine Black Static, and podcast by Action Audio. She's a member of the jury of the Golden Blasters Film Awards, and a juror for the 2009 and 2010 Galway Junior Film Fleadh Pitching contest. Her short story 'Vic', originally published in Black Static #10, will appear in Year's Best Dark Fantasy and Horror 2010 anthology, edited by Paula Guran. She lives in Galway and when she's not writing she works as a blogger, newsletter editor and web content manager for the Irish Playwrights and Screenwriters Guild. » 2010 Guest	Michael Carroll Submitted by Anonymous on 27. September 2009 - 22:31 Michael Carroll is the Dublin-based author of such series as The New Heroes (also called Quantum Prophecy) and the Pelicos trilogy. In addition, he has been the writer of such esoterica as his “Sprout” columns and comics for www.2000AD-review.co.uk, as well as for Judge Dredd Megazine and 2000AD itself. Michael has never missed an Octocon and we're so glad that this year will be no exception! From such a wonderful speaker and writer, we can never wait to hear the next mystery of the universe solved in each of his panel appearances! Mike's websites can be found here and here. » 2010 Guest
Peadar Ó Guilín Submitted by Danielle Lavigne on 13. October 2009 - 1:51 Since first seeing publication in 2007, Peadar Ó Guilín's first novel, The Inferior, has been translated into numerous languages and continues to gain in popularity. Peadar is also the author of numerous published science fiction and fantasy short stories for magazines such as Black Gate and Albedo1. Peadar has been a regular guest at Octocon for a number of years now, and we're delighted to have the tradition continue in 2010! Peadar Ó Guilín's Website » 2010 Guest	R.F. Long Submitted by Danielle Lavigne on 13. October 2009 - 1:10 R.F. Long always had a thing for fantasy, romance and ancient mysteries. The combination was bound to cause trouble. In university she studied English Literature, History of Religions and Celtic Civilisation, which just compounded the problem. Her fantasy and paranormal romance novels (The Scroll Thief, Soul Fire) and novellas (The Wolf's Sister, The Wolf's Mate) are currently available from Samhain Publishing, online and in good bookshops. Her latest Songs of the Wolf the print volume containing both The Wolf's Sister and The Wolfs Mate releases in December 2010. Her YA dark fantasy May Queen is due to be released in Spring 2012 from Dial Books for Young Readers, a Penguin imprint. She works at a private library of rare and unusual books, but they don't talk to her that often. » 2010 Guest
Richmond Clements Submitted by Danielle Lavigne on 13. September 2010 - 15:12 Richmond Clements is a comic writer and editor with FutureQuake Press, who publish the almost award-winning FutureQuake, horror anthology Something Wicked and the 2000AD fanzines Zarjaz and Dogbreath. He has also written for Fortean Times magazine and the apocalyptic journal The End is Nigh. He is the author of the forthcoming Graphic Novel Corvus, a GN biography of Allan Pinkerton (currently in development hell- ask him about it!) and another Top Secret project he can't talk about (when sober... hint). He also co-organises HiEx- The Highland International Comic Expo with his partner, the artist Vicky Stonebridge. Richmond's Big Robots series, Turning Tiger, will be published by Renegade Arts Entertainment shortly. » 2010 Guest	Rob Curley Submitted by Danielle Lavigne on 13. October 2009 - 1:51 Robert Curley is the well-regarded author of the Eagle Award-nominated graphic novel series Freakshow, from his own Atomic Diner publishing label. He's also the publisher of many other fantastic Irish comics and the owner of the Sub-City chain of comic book stores in Ireland. We are looking forward to Róisín Dubh, a historical Fantasy graphic Novel, that is due out soon. » 2010 Guest
Sarah Rees Brennan Submitted by Danielle Lavigne on 15. September 2010 - 21:02 Sarah Rees Brennan was born and raised in Ireland by the sea, where her teachers valiantly tried to make her fluent in Irish, but she chose to read books under her desk in class instead. After living briefly in New York and doing a Creative Writing MA and library work in Surrey, England, Sarah has returned to Ireland to write. Her Irish is still woeful, but she feels the books under the desk were worth it. Her first book was The Demon's Lexicon. Sarah Rees Brennan's Website » 2010 Guest	Vicky Stonebridge Submitted by Danielle Lavigne on 13. September 2010 - 15:19 Vicky Stonebridge is a Fantasy artist based in Scotland. She paints amazing pictures in between running Hi-Ex - The Highland International Comic Expo and being a retained firefighter. Check out http://www.balnacra.com/ to see some of her work. » 2010 Guest
Wayne Simmons Submitted by Danielle Lavigne on 11. October 2010 - 11:16 Belfast born, Wayne Simmons, has been loitering with intent around the horror genre for some years. Having scribbled reviews and interviews for various zines, Wayne released his debut horror novel, DROP DEAD GORGEOUS in 2008. The book was received well by both fans of the genre and reviewers alike. An extended version of DDG will be released through SNOWBOOKS in 2011. Wayne released the zombie apocalyptic horror novel, FLU, through SNOWBOOKS in April 2010. In what little spare time he has left, Wayne enjoys running, getting tattooed and listening to all manner of unseemly screeches on his BOOM-BOOM Box. » 2010 Guest

When?

16th & 17th October 2010

Where?

The Camden Court Hotel, Camden Street, Dublin 2, Ireland

How Much?

Attending Membership: €50
Students: €40
Under 18: €40
Supporting Membership: €20
Under 12's: Free w/paying adult
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