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Author Guest of Honor: Weston Kincade

2/25/2026

Cleveland ConCoction 2026 is extremely excited to announce our Author Guest of Honor: Weston Kincade!!!!!!

Weston has been apart of Cleveland ConCoction since the beginning and Literally wrote the book on How to run an Authors Alley! This year we are happy to welcome him back as our Author Guest of Honor!!!!

Weston Kincade writes character-driven fantasy, paranormal, and horror novels that stretch the boundaries of imagination, and often genres. His current series include the A Life of Death trilogy and the Priors.

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Author Spotlight!!!!!! Mary R. Arman and Cindy A. Matthews

1/25/2026

Cleveland ConCoction welcome Authors Mary R. Arman and Cindy A. Matthews to our 2026 Author's Alley!!!

Author of Ty and the Blood Fairy Prince, Ty and the Bloody Road Trip, Ty and the Blood Fairy King, King Sal and the Battle for Ione. She also writes under the pen name Rose Withering and has a couple stories on Kindle Vella. Mary is the proud wife of Author Dan R. Arman.

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Cindy A. Matthews is a freelance writer/editor. She and her husband Adrian J. Matthews are co-creators of the BloodDark Series which is aimed at the YA/NA audience and set on a tidally-locked world filled with vampiric aliens.

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Author Spotlight!!!!!! Tory Gates and J Drew Brumbaugh

1/20/2026

Cleveland ConCoction welcomes Authors Tory Gates and J Drew Brumbaugh to our 2026 Author's Alley!!

Tory Gates has produced books for the Young Adult and Contemporary Fiction world since 2013. He takes readers to exotic locales, everyday places and brings to life characters that are complex and relatable, while addressing real-life issues.

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J Drew Brumbaugh writes suspense novels either with a science fiction, fantasy or mainstream flavor. Unlike many authors who hit the reader between the eyes on page one, Brumbaugh likes to introduce the characters, get the reader to know who they are reading about, learn to like or hate them and then tell the reader what happens to them.

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Authors Spotlight!!!!!! David F. Balog and Meg Engelhardt!!

1/16/2026

Cleveland ConCoction welcomes Authors David F. Balog and Meg Engelhardt to our 2026 Author's Alley!!

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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Megan Engelhardt is a Pennsylvania transplant, cryptid enthusiast, and stay-at-home mom to four. Her work has appeared in Asimov's, Daily Science Fiction, and Crossed Genres, among others.

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Authors Alley Highlight!!!! (part 4)

3/7/2025

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

Marcus V. Calvert

Marcus V. Calvert is a native of Detroit who grew up with an addiction to sci-fi that just wouldn't go away.

Author of Ty and the Blood Fairy Prince, Ty and the Bloody Road Trip, Ty and the Blood Fairy King, King Sal and the Battle for Ione. She also writes under the pen name Rose Withering and has a couple stories on Kindle Vella.

Megan Engelhardt

Megan Engelhardt is a Pennsylvania transplant, cryptid enthusiast, and stay-at-home mom to four. Her work has appeared in Asimov's, Daily Science Fiction, and Crossed Genres, among others.

Sara R. Cleveland

Sara R. Cleveland is an indie novelist and software engineer. She self-published her first novel, Saving the Dragon in 2015.

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Authors Alley Highlight!!!! (part 3)

3/3/2025

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

Geoffrey A. Landis

Geoffrey A. Landis is a science-fiction writer and a scientist. He has won the Hugo and Nebula awards for science fiction. He is the author of the novel Mars Crossing and the story collection Impact Parameter (and Other Quantum Realities), and has written over eighty published science fiction stories.

When not writing, Blackrose lives with three children, her husband and a full-time job in Corporate Communications. She’s 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."

Jarod K. Anderson

Jarod K. Anderson publishes fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. He has three best-selling collections of nature poetry, Field Guide to the Haunted Forest, Love Notes from the Hollow Tree, and Leaf Litter.

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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Authors Highlight!!!! (part 2)

2/18/2025

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

Weston Kincade writes character-driven fantasy, paranormal, and horror novels that stretch the boundaries of imagination, and often genres. His current series include the A Life of Death trilogy and the Priors.

Cindy A. Matthews

Cindy A. Matthews is a freelance writer/editor. She and her husband Adrian J. Matthews are co-creators of the BloodDark Series which is aimed at the YA/NA audience and set on a tidally-locked world filled with vampiric aliens.

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.

Evan Dicken grew up in one of those Midwestern, rust belt towns that form the fodder for so many coming-of-age stories. He studied Psychology, History, and Biology at Ohio University, and received his M.A. in East Asian History from the Ohio State University, after which he spent more than a little time in Japan.

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Meet some of our Authors!!!!!

2/1/2025

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

A J Matthews is a British author transplanted to the American Midwest, where there be dragons. Luckily, there is also Tea, homemade Digestive Biscuits, and marmalade.

Barbara Doran is a New Pulp writer of SF and Fantasy with Airship 27. Her works include the Golden Dragon Series ( Claws of the Golden Dragon, Wings of the Golden Dragon and Tales of the Golden Dragon), Wu Dang: Fist of the Wanderer, and several short stories (Sinbad and the Island of the Puppet Master, Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Counterfeit Secretary and City in the Clouds).

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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Author Guest of Honor

1/22/2025

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

Author – Educator – Developer

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 2024 welcomes Melissa Scott!!!

1/26/2024

Author Guest of Honor Melissa Scott

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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