Evan Graham is an Ohio native who consistently refuses to seek help for his lifelong sci-fi addiction. Since there are not enough stories currently in existence to satisfy him, he had no choice but to start writing his own.

TANTALUS DEPTHS is Graham’s debut novel, and introduces his CALLING VOID series, an anthology of stories celebrating the wonder and terror of the Unknown.

Joelle Presby lives in Ohio with her husband and two daughters. She demonstrates a continued suspicion of Earth’s motives by maintaining both earthquake and flood insurance. She prefers to keep as many books as possible in easily portable ebook form, because, one day, we might need to evacuate the planet.
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Presby’s novels include the near-term science fiction debut solo novel, THE DABARE SNAKE LAUNCHER, and a continuation of the MULTIVERSE series which David Weber began with Linda Evans, The Road To Hell.
Graham and Presby will both be at Cleveland ConCoction 2023!

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2023 Authors |  Evan Graham  |  Joelle Presby  ​

From a family of avid readers, Jason Lady was encouraged to read fantasy and science fiction and write his own stories and comic strips from an early age. Jason wrote his first novel-length story in high school - a parody of Robin Hood that starred all his friends - which got passed around on the bus and read on the way to cross-country races.
 
Jason's books have been accepted to the Ohioana Book Festival, the Kentucky Book Festival, and the Heartland Book Festival. Jason is currently at work on the fourth book in the MAGIC PEN ADVENTURE series.
 
Marie Vibbert has sold over 80 short stories to magazines like Nature, Amazing Stories, and Fantasy and Science Fiction. ​Her debut novel, GALACTIC HELLCATS, made the long list for the British Science Fiction award in 2021. She made the long list for the Hugo for short story in 2022.


Vibbert’s latest novel, THE GODS AWOKE, is about an amnesiac goddess discovering where she came from.
 
Be sure to check out both authors at Cleveland ConCoction 2023!

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2023 Authors |  Jason Lady  |  Marie Vibbert  ​

Cleveland ConCoction 2023 is thrilled to host Puente's Tijuana Tacos this year as one of our Food truck options!

Mark and Laura Puente launched Puente’s Tijuana Tacos after visiting dozens of taco stands across
Southern California in 2019 and 2020.

The hallmark of Tijuana-style tacos is meat grilled over mesquite charcoal. Mark’s lifelong passion for
meat smoking and grilling drove him to Tijuana-style tacos.

Mark, an investigative reporter and former truck driver, visited carnicerias across Los Angeles to ask Mexican butchers about the best cuts of meat for Tijuana tacos. He also gathered insight from tacqueros at taco stands across Los Angeles. He brought those tips and cooking equipment from Los Angeles to the Cleveland area in 2021.

Mark and Laura enlisted family members and friends to help spread the word about their brand of tacos across Northeast Ohio.

Puente’s Tijuana Tacos have a unique taste like no other tacos in the area.

puentestijuanatacos.com/

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Greetings from your Evil Gaming Lair Overlord! I look forward to seeing all of you in less than 2 weeks.  Egads, is it really that soon?? Ok, I'll make this quick then. Just a few items to go over for this year.

Item the first, it saddens me to admit that I wasn't able to con, cajole, beg, bribe, threaten, or weedle enough people to volunteer in my Gaming Lair to have 24/7 gaming this year. At least not officially. If there are open tables, you're welcome to use them to play games. If you find yourself in the gaming area after staff is gone for the night, please treat it with respect. Leave it how you found it; clean, orderly, and most importantly- disinfected.

Item the second, the good news is that there will still be play to win games. That's right, I'm still bribing you to hang out with me and play some games by giving a bunch of them away! OK, so truth be told, the fine folks at Double Exposure gave me the games to give away, but still. Check out the Play to Win page of the website for a list of titles.

Numero three- for you brainiacs (or masters of the Google-Fu) we welcome back "Name the Game,"  where one of my minions tries to stump you with clues about games that you may or may not have ever heard of, and whoever amongst you names the most correctly wins a FREE membership to ConCoction 2024!

And lastly, but certainly not leastly (is leastly a word?) we have two, count them two ways to let people know you want to play a game. The first way is a bit low tech, but its worked for hundreds of years. It's called "Write on the Wall." Wait. No. Don't do that. The very patient people at the Bertram will not be happy if we do that. Instead, I'll bring a ginormous piece of white board and we can write (legibly) on that. Just let people know what you're playing, when, and where & people will read that and show up. And for all you techno peeps, we have a Discord server with thread/channel thingies that you can post in! 
Heh.  Nailed it. Questions?  Hit me up.

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2023 Authors |  Megan Engelhardt |  Mary R. Arman  |  Marcus Cook

Everyone loves food. Everyone needs food. And we at ConCoction want you to have as many food
choices as possible when you join us for the weekend. So with that in mind, we will be having three
local food trucks (or really two trucks and one pop up food vendor) at the con this year.

Puentes Tijuana Tacos will be serving up their excellent Tijuana style tacos (which I’ve never had but look really kinda amazing).

Best Damn Smoked Meats BBQ will be bringing the smoke and sauce.

​And The Real Chef’s Food Truck will be there as well. TRCFT has a sort of rolling/rotating menu, but decisions will be made soon as to what the con menu will be.

You can find it on this blog and on our Facebook Stuffs.
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Over the next few days, pay attention to this page. There will be another post about each of these most
excellent noms provider’s, including menus, so you know what you have to look forward to.


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Looking to attend Cleveland ConCoction's 2023 Membership driven, All-Volunteer Run Convention?  

Don't forget to check out registration page 


We are now in the final week of 2023 Membership Pre-Registraion and a weekend badged membership is now $40 through to Friday, March 10th.  

Mail-in options and group rate mail-in options are also still available - they MUST be postmarked no later than Friday, March 10th or received by March 13th if in person. 


2023 Membership Registration 


We also have more events we are looking forward to in the year to come as well - so grab your membership now and keep checking our Website, Discord Community or Socials for updates. 

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We're now just a little under two short weeks time from ConCoction 2023's Convention.
Many departments are still in need of and accepting volunteers for this year's convention. 

We will need help in Programming, Publicity, ConSuite, Art Show, Charity Silent Auction, Gaming, Security and possibly also in Operations. 

We will also need help setting up on Thursday evening (this includes loading in) and tearing down on Sunday evening (this includes loading out), before the Dead Dog.
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Eight hours over the course of the weekend gets you a partial membership reimbursement and twelve hours gets you a bigger membership reimbursement.  


See out Volunteers Page for all the information and breakdowns.


What would you like to help with?  
You can sign up online at our website or send us an email here. 

Please let us know as soon as possible what hours and/or days you're available for and what department(s) you would like to assist in.
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We really appreciate YOUR help and We couldn't have this convention without YOU!


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Olivia Berrier is often clueless and always shoeless. She left behind many footprints at Hollins University in Virginia, where she studied Creative Writing and Mathematics. After college, her bare feet have carried her through many experiences, but her life remains anchored by writing. She is in love with candles, tea, yoga, running, snail-mail correspondence, napping, and memorizing the decimals of Pi.
 
Berrier is the author of A BOOK WITHOUT DRAGONS and THE WORLD THAT FORGOT HOW TO DANCE.
 
Vik K Walker has been telling stories since she learned how to speak.  Hand in hand with her most trusted friend, an imaginary boy named Charlie, she wove many a tale of aliens and evil clones who impersonated her elder brothers. When Charlie faded away, she continued to live in her own fantasy world, telling her stories to her stuffed animals, and finally writing them down when she was old enough to know how.
 
Walker is the award winning author of paranormal romance and fantasy fiction, including the ENLIGHTENED series.
 
Be sure to check out their work at Cleveland ConCoction 2023!

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2023 Authors |  Olivia Berrier |  Vik K Walker​