Meet some of our Authors who will be at Cleveland ConCoction 2025!!!

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Check out some of our Authors who will be at Cleveland ConCoction 2025!!!!

​In January 2024, Marcus had a short story head into space on the Peregrine Rocket, destination the moon. Due to a technical problem, it did not reach the moon, but was in space for nine days, before it burned up in the Earths atmosphere. Now how many authors do you know can say that?

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Meet some more of our amazing authors at Cleveland ConCoction 2025!!!

​David F. Balog was born, raised, and still lives in the Greater Cleveland area with his cat. He grew up in the libraries of Lakewood and Parma, and his babysitters were the creatures of the Cleveland Aquarium. Ever inquisitive, he dove deeply into science, paranormal studies, mathematics, and mythology at an early age, and never let go of the idea that they, and other studies, were all tightly connected. ​

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Cleveland ConCoction 2025 welcomes AJ Matthews, Barbara Doran, and Becca Lynn Mathis!!!

​Born and raised in Texas, Becca Lynn Mathis has been writing stories and daydreaming about other worlds since she was a little girl reading books in the branches of the tree in her front yard. As she grew, so did her love of stories, so much so that she often got in trouble at school for writing them, even if her other work was already done.

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Cleveland ConCoction 2025 is excited to announce this years Author Guest of Honor: Marie Vibbert!!!!

Hugo and Nebula nominated author Marie Vibbert’s short fiction has appeared over 90 times in top magazines like Nature, Analog, and Clarkesworld, and been translated into Czech, Chinese and Vietnamese.

Her debut novel, Galactic Hellcats, was long listed by the British Science Fiction Award and her work has been called “everything science fiction should be” by the Oxford Culture Review. She also writes poetry, comics, and computer games. By day she is a computer programmer in Cleveland, Ohio.

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Cleveland ConCoction is excited to announce that Melissa Scott will be joining us as our Author Guest of Honor for this years 2024 Convention!!  

Melissa Scott has published more than thirty original novels and a handful of short stories, most with queer themes and characters, as well as authorized tie-in work for Star Trek: DS9, Star Trek: Voyager, Stargate SG-1, Stargate Atlantis, Star Wars Rebels, and the first season of Rooster Teeth’s anime series gen:LOCK. She won the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in 1986, and won Lambda Literary Awards for Trouble and Her Friends, Shadow Man, Point of Dreams, (with long-time partner and collaborator, the late Lisa A. Barnett), and Death By Silver, written with Amy Griswold. She has also been shortlisted for the Otherwise (Tiptree) Award. She won Spectrum Awards for Death By Silver, Fairs’ Point, Shadow Man and for the short story “The Rocky Side of the Sky.”

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 For many years Dan R. Arman has been a presenting Author panelist at Cleveland ConCoction's annual Convention and has been part of the Authors Alley.


On his Facebook on May 20th his wife posted: 
"For those of you who knew Dan, This is his wife, Mary.
Dan passed away May 19th around 2pm from a heart attack.​He went too quickly no one was with him when he passed.
He was survived by his wife Mary and an adopted daughter Mayra. Dan was a beloved teacher and an amazon best selling author. He will be missed." 

Dan R. Arman's Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/dan.r.arman

Writer, Teacher, Friend... Dan will be missed by all of us here.  Please take a moment to share your memories of Dan on his Facebook and/or here on our socials.

Barbara Doran is a New Pulp writer of SF and Fantasy with Airship 27. Barbara came by her love of reading early. Reading inevitably led to writing; beginning with fanfiction, she soon graduated to original works, some of which can still be found online if searched for by a dedicated investigator.

Her works include the GOLDEN DRAGON series, WU DANG: FIST OF THE WANDERER, and several short stories.



A long time ago, in a galaxy not so far away, Dan R. Arman decided he wanted to tell stories. Stories about other worlds populated by interesting characters, because he thought these people and worlds would help him reflect on the world he was living in, its beauty, horrors and absurdity. For several years, Arman worked as a newspaper reporter, an editor and now teaches literature and writing at an online high school. He holds a master’s degree in English literature and rhetoric from Kent State University.

Arman is the author of the NIGHT MAIDEN series, RIDING A BLACK HORSE, and BIFROST, among others.


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Both Doran and Arman will be at the Cleveland ConCoction 2023 Authors Alley!

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2023 Authors |  Dan R. Arman  |  Barbara Doran  ​

When she’s not rescuing orphan kittens or doing voice acting for villainous purple mermaids, Cassandra Morgan can be found creating worlds of magic, suspense and friendship. A lover of doughnuts and a self-proclaimed Coffee Connoisseur, Cassandra hails from a family of writers, authors and journalists. 

Cassandra is the author of the YA Fantasy series THE KINGDOMS OF CHARTILE and THE SILVER FOX MYSTERIES.
 


David F. Balog was born, raised, and still lives in the Greater Cleveland area with his wife and cat. Ever inquisitive, he dove deeply into science, paranormal studies, mathematics, and mythology at an early age, and never let go of the idea that they were all tightly connected. 

Balog’s current series is YA dark high fantasy, the first of which is titled NECROMANCER'S LAMENT.


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​Morgan and Balog will both be attended and presenting content at Cleveland ConCoction 2023!

J.D. Blackrose is fearful that so-called normal people will discover exactly how often she thinks about wicked fairies, nasty wizards, homicidal elevators, and the odd murder, even when she is supposed to be having coffee with a friend or paying something called "bills." As a survival tactic, she has mastered the art of looking interested. She credits her parents for teaching her to ask questions, and in lieu of facts, how to make up answers.

J.D. Blackrose wrote THE SUMMONER'S MARK urban fantasy trilogy for Bell Bridge Books and THE SOUL WARS, THE DEVIL'S BEEN BUSY, and ZOMBIE COSMETOLOGIST novellas through Falstaff Books.


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James Fadeley is a software engineer by day, a gamer in the afternoon, and writer by night. While this sounds hectic, he has recently become a father and thus no longer sleeps. When not feeding the milk vampire (his daughter), he can be found researching topics for his next story.

James is the author of the SAN CICARO series, THE BANNER SAGA, and a short story included in SECRETS IN SCARLET: AN ARCKHAM HORROR ANTHOLOGY, among others.
​Both authors will be in attendance at the Cleveland ConCoction 2023 Authors Alley!

Cleveland ConCoction Authors Alley

2023 Authors |  J. D. Blackrose  |  James Fadeley  ​