Aprilynne Pike is a best selling author, known for her series Wings. Pike was born in Salt Lake City, Utah but grew up here in Phoenix, Arizona. Wings is a four book series about an ordinary girl who discovers she is was faerie. The wings series is on the New York Times best-selling Children's Series list. The series fourth book Destined, is due out this year.

For five years on nightly network NBC-TV, Erin Gray was the American’s image of the ideal woman. Her “Kate” in Silver Spoons managed to have it all –marriage, family, and business career. For two years before that she had redefined our public image of the beauty with brains, when Buck Rogers in the 25^th Century became a hit series, her sleek sophisticated “Colonel Wilma” became a role model, and Erin Gray became a household word. 

In the mid nineties Erin starred in three feature films, Jason Goes To Hell, Dangerous Place and T-Force, as well as, the first movie for the USA/Sci-Fi Networks, Official Denial, and the challenging role as the intense prosecutor, Pam Bozanich in the controversial Fox-produced film of the Menendez trial, Honor Thy Father and Mother. Erin also made appearances in guest-starring roles in the CBS Movie of the Week Crowfoot, the series Heaven Help Us, and the very popular Baywatch.

In the year 2000 Erin guest starred in recurring roles, as Congresswoman Karen Archer in NBC’c highly acclaimed drama Profiler, and the cold hearted Nicole Devlin in ABCs Port Charles. In 2002 Erin was honored with the Entertainer Award at San Diego Film Festival.

Within the last 7 years Erin completed filming 15 independent feature films, The Last Producer with Burt Reynolds,  Clover Bend with Robert Urich, Caught In The Headlights, with Stacey Keach and in the last year, My True Self, Loaded with Jesse Metcaffe, Ghouls with William Atherton, and Dreams Awake.

Gareth Von Kallenbach is a syndicated movie & game critic, writer, author and frequent radio guest. His work has appeared in over 60 publications worldwide and he is the creator of the rising entertainment site and magazine "Skewed and Reviewed".

Gini Koch lives in Hell’s Orientation Area (aka Phoenix, AZ), works her butt off (sadly, not literally) by day, and writes by night with the rest of the beautiful people. She writes the fast, fresh and funny Alien/Katherine “Kitty” Katt series for DAW Books and the Martian Alliance Chronicles series for Musa Publishing. She also writes under a variety of pen names (including Anita Ensal, Jemma Chase, A.E. Stanton, and J.C. Koch), listens to rock music 24/7, and is a proud comics geek-girl willing to discuss at any time why Wolverine is the best superhero ever (even if Deadpool does get all the best lines). She speaks frequently on what it takes to become a successful author and other aspects of writing and the publishing business. She can be reached through her website at www.ginikoch.com.

In a career spanning over half a century, he is most famous for his role in Boba Fett's costume (he did not do the voice) in the Star Wars films The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi. Additionally, he plays a minor role as an Imperial officer in The Empire Strikes Back, his only non-masked appearance in the original Star Wars films. Bulloch returned as Boba Fett for the fan film mocumentary: Return of the Ewok. He also has minor roles in three James Bond films, twice playing Smithers, an assistant to Q. In 1962, he starred alongside Cliff Richard in the musical film Summer Holiday.

Bulloch has also appeared in two Doctor Who stories, The Space Museum and The Time Warrior. In recent years, due to the release of the new Star Wars films, he is frequently invited to science fiction conventions throughout the world, and was inducted as an Honorary Member of the 501st Legion costuming organization in May 2002. Later, in November 2009, he actually joined the 501st as a costume-wearing member making appearances with the group as Boba Fett.

In 2004, Bulloch published a limited edition memoir, Flying Solo, which is a humorous account of his personal and professional life, interspersed with tales from the convention circuit. In 2005, he once again made an appearance in a Star Wars film, this time playing Captain Colton in Revenge of the Sith. In 2005, he played the role of "Chairman Skellon" in a stage production of The Trial of Davros. Recently, Bulloch played a small cameo role in Star Wars fan films Order of the Sith: Vengeance and its sequel Downfall - Order of the Sith - alongside David Prowse and Michael Sheard. These fan films were made in England in support of Save the Children.

Kevin had an idea for a web comic featuring a Druid who could communicate mentally with animals, especially his own hound. Zuda.com was running a contest, and he scripted out eight pages and completed six of them before realizing that if he submitted his work, DC would own a piece of the characters, or maybe own them outright. He didn’t want that, because he liked these characters too much to share with anyone else. So he wrote a novel about Atticus and Oberon instead, and it turned out to be great fun and easier to write than anything else he’d tried before. 

A New York Times Bestselling author, Michael A. Stackpole is best known for his work as a science fiction and fantasy author and game designer. He is also an advocate for digital publishing.

Originally from Vermont, where we was awarded a BA in History at the University of Vermont, Stackpole now resides in Scottsdale.

Stackpole has written numerous Star Wars novels, including books in the X-Wing and The New Jedi Order series. He's also worked on the BattleTech series for over 20 years.

William Shatner is renowned for his portrayal of Captain James T. Kirk in the science fiction television series Star Trek from 1966 to 1969, Star Trek: The Animated Series from 1973 to 1974, and in seven of the subsequent Star Trek feature films from 1979 to 1994. He has written a series of books chronicling his experiences playing Captain Kirk and being a part of Star Trek and has co-written several novels set in the Star Trek universe. He has also authored a series of science fiction novels called TekWar that were adapted for television.

Shatner played the veteran police sergeant in T. J. Hooker from 1982 to 1986. From 1989 to 1996 he hosted the reality-based television series Rescue 911 which won a People's Choice Award for Favorite New TV Dramatic Series. He has worked as a musician, author, producer, director, and celebrity pitchman. From 2004 to 2008, he starred as attorney Denny Crane in the television dramas The Practice and its spin-off Boston Legal, for which he won two Emmy Awards and a Golden Globe Award.