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

The see their full bio's and other Authors, click the link below!!

Authors Alley

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?

To read their full Bio's and see more Authors, Click the link below!!!

Authors Alley

​Cleveland ConCoction - By the Fans, For the Fans

​​Your Fandom Escape by the Lake

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. ​

To see a full list of Authors, Click the Link below!!!

Authors Alley

​Cleveland ConCoction - By the Fans, For the Fans

​​Your Fandom Escape by the Lake

Cleveland ConCoction 2025 welcomes this year's Artist Guest of Honor - Lar DeSouza!!!!!

Lar deSouza, beard advocate, noted hat enthusiast and Internet Uncle, is really good at sitting. He sits like a champ. And when he sits, he draws.  Like, a LOT. For the past 17 years, Lar has been pulling double duty as the cartoonist for the 2008 Shuster Award winning online comic “Looking For Group” (LFG.co) and the comic “Least I Could Do” (LICD.com). Lar has also been the recipient of the Prix Aurora Award for Artistic Achievement in Canadian Science Fiction (2008, 2006) and numerous other awards for caricature and cartooning. 

​
​For his full bio >>Click here!

​Cleveland ConCoction - By the Fans, For the Fans

​​Your Fandom Escape by the Lake

Cleveland ConCoction 2025 is thrilled to announce this years Musical Guest: 2d6!

2d6 is the fusion of two gigantic nerds that learned to rap by finding magical 6-sided dice.

They're a couple of nerds, who were once a couple of animals, who found a pair of six sided-dice after running away from a lab--listen, the backstory's a lot to take in; suffice it to say: 2d6 likes to rap about geeky pop culture. Anime, video games, comic books, roleplaying, 2d6 covers it all! And not only do they do it, they do it with more energy, verve, and panache than any other band you've ever seen.

Welcome to Cleveland ConCoction 2d6!!!!

For more info click here

​Cleveland ConCoction - By the Fans, For the Fans

​​Your Fandom Escape by the Lake

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.

​For more on Marie Vibbert click here

​Cleveland ConCoction - By the Fans, For the Fans

​​Your Fandom Escape by the Lake

Cleveland ConCoction is excited to announce a returning cosplay guest and judge: Knightmage!

A 24-year Deputy Sheriff for the Mahoning County Sheriff’s Office in Ohio, Michael “Knightmage” Wilson has been cosplaying since 2012. Having created over 350 costumes, Michael is an award winning cosplayer with many of his creations being praised and displayed on numerous platforms in print and online. Michael is noted as one of the most influential and diverse male cosplayers in the world. Along with judging cosplay contests Michael often hosts cosplay panels and workshops at conventions showcasing the creative, positive, inspiring and supportive side of cosplay.

For his full Bio click Here

Cleveland ConCoction is excited to announce a returning cosplay guest and judge: Big Girl Little World!

Big Girl Little World debuted in 2016 and since has won several awards: Best of Animation ( 2017 PopCon Indy) , Best Hero (2017 Wizard World Cleveland), Best in Show (2018 Cleveland Concoction), and Best Villain (2020 Wizard World Cleveland).

​For her full Bio click Here

Cleveland ConCoction is excited to announce cosplay guest and judge: Rose Royce!

Rose Royce has been a dedicated and passionate body-positive cosplayer and hobby model since 2014.

​For her full Bio click Here


Cleveland ConCoction - By the Fans, For the Fans

​​Your Fandom Escape by the Lake

Cleveland ConCoction is excited to announce a returning cosplay guest and contest emcee: Mogchelle!

Mogchelle started in cosplay by just being an average geek attending an anime convention in 1999. Her love for the artwork in anime, video games, and comic books made her want to bring the 2D images from the pages and screen to real life. She’s also been featured in several national and international magazines, and several online entertainment news sources for her costuming, and has done work for The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis.

​For her full Bio and more information click here

​Cleveland ConCoction - By the Fans, For the Fans

​​Your Fandom Escape by the Lake

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.”

For more on Melissa Scott visit her page here



Cleveland ConCoction - By the Fans, For the Fans

​​Your Fandom Escape by the Lake

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.


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

Cleveland ConCoction Authors Alley

2023 Authors |  Dan R. Arman  |  Barbara Doran  ​