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Imaginarium 2027 proudly welcomes award-winning author and podcaster David Lyons as an Official Panelist! David will be participating in our extensive Panel and Workshop Programming at Imaginarium 2027! Learn more about David below! About David Lyons: David Lyons is a former homicide detective and retired police commander, living in central Kentucky. In retirement, he focuses on two passions. One, his role as a faculty member with FBI-LEEDA (the Law Enforcement Executive Development Association), the other, producing The Murder Police Podcast and The Murder Police Podcast YouTube channel. A true crime source where victim’s names are memorialized on the internet and their stories are told, throughRead More →

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Imaginarium 2027 proudly welcomes award-winning author and publisher Isabella as an Official Panelist! Isabella will be participating in our extensive Panel and Workshop Programming at Imaginarium 2027! Learn more about Isabella below! About Isabella: Isabella is an award-winning author for Sapphire Books. She lives on the central coast of California with her wife. she teaches at a local college and has three wonderful sons. She rides motorcycles when she’s not writing or remodeling a cabin in the Sierra foothills. Isabella has written over twenty novels. If you want to read her current work, check out her newest release, Premeditation – Luce Potter’s origin story andRead More →

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Imaginarium 2027 proudly welcomes author and cosplayer Rebecca Besancon as an Official Panelist! Rebecca will be participating in our extensive Panel and Workshop Programming at Imaginarium 2027! Learn more about Rebecca below! About Rebecca Besancon: Rebecca is a nurse, an author, and an avid cosplayer. She writes primarily in fantasy and speculative fiction, and her stories can be found through Bewildering Stories and Apex Magazine. Rebecca prides herself on her feral child nature and will often escape reality through primitive camping, wood carving, and foraging wild plants and mushrooms. Register for Imaginarium 2027 today with an Event Ticket at https://www.entertheimaginarium.com/2027-event-tickets/Read More →

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Imaginarium 2027 proudly welcomes author, filmmaker, musician, actor, and screenwriter Rose Marie Machario as an Official Panelist! Rose will be participating in our extensive Panel and Workshop Programming at Imaginarium 2027! Learn more about Rose below! About Rose Marie Machario: Rose Marie Machario is an author, actress, model, filmmaker, and producer at Machario Productions, to include films Give My Love To Rose, An Affair To Remember, and An Affair To Forget. Rose has worked in several principal roles, and has been featured in various television shows such as Ozark, The Originals, Nashville, Homicide Hunter, Killer Couples, Murder Chose Me, Murder Comes to Town, Snapped, #Murder,Read More →

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Imaginarium 2027 proudly welcomes comic artist, 3D and visual FX artist, and writer Jeff Brennan as a Spotlighted Guest! The artist and writer for the Cyber Girl L.E.E.T.A series, Jeff brings years of experience working for notable comics publishers, including DC comics, Heroic Comics, Bongo Comics, and Heavy Metal Magazine, and as a storyboard artist on animated shows like “Jumanji”, “Dragon Tales”, “Courage the Cowardly Dog”, “Extreme Ghostbusters” and “Magma Corps”. He graduated from the Joe Kubert School of cartoon and Visual art in 1991. He also graduated from the Digital Animation and Visual Effects School in 2008. Jeff started working in comics in 1991Read More →

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Imaginarium 2027 proudly welcomes author and editor Jack Valentine as an Official Panelist! Jack will be participating in our extensive Panel and Workshop Programming at Imaginarium 2027! Learn more about Jack below! About Jack Valentine: Jack has more than 30 years of gaming and LARP experience. Having been a storyteller since he was a little kid, about 15 years ago he began putting his work on paper. In addition to working as a freelance editor, he returned to his childhood dream of being an author and has now written more than 60 short novels, many of them spicy romances, under his pen names, available onRead More →

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Imaginarium 2027 proudly welcomes filmmaker and actor Natalie Jane as an Official Panelist! Natalie will be participating in our extensive Panel and Workshop Programming at Imaginarium 2027! Learn more about Natalie below! About Natalie Jane: I’m 24 years old and I’ve been in the performing arts since I was a toddler, starting out in ballet at 2 and then growing into theatre, opera, and film throughout high school and college. I am from the tiny town of Wilmore, Kentucky; and although the town may be small, it is brimming with brilliant artistic minds that are always looking to make something new. I have been fortunateRead More →

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Imaginarium 2027 proudly welcomes filmmaker, actor, and film/tv distributor Tori Johnson as an Official Panelist! Tori will be participating in our extensive Panel and Workshop Programming at Imaginarium 2027! Learn more about Tori below! About Tori Johnson: Tori Johnson is a multifaceted filmmaker, actor, screenwriter, director, cinematographer, and film distributor with a passion for independent filmmaking and storytelling. She has appeared in several independent films, directed multiple projects, served as Director of Photography on two films, and written several screenplays. Her experience across multiple areas of film production gives her a unique perspective on the creative and technical aspects of bringing stories to life onRead More →

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Imaginarium 2027 proudly welcomes author Jocelyne Waddle as an Official Panelist! Jocelyne will be participating in our extensive Panel and Workshop Programming at Imaginarium 2027! Learn more about Jocelyne below! About Jocelyne Waddle: Born on the Mediterranean and now rooted in Kentucky, Jocelyne Waddle is the author of Death Comes at First Light, A Mermaid’s Drowning, and the forthcoming Silence Above the Poisoned Hills. A former educator (Jocelyne holds advanced degrees in English, Education, Public Administration, and Foreign Policy, including an M.Ed. with a specialization in Gifted and Talented Education.) and devoted gardener, she blends history, mystery, and the quiet language of flowers, a sensibilityRead More →

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Imaginarium 2027 is proud to announce the addition of five new Workshops and two new panels to our programming! There will be over 200 panels and workshops hosted in our 14th year at the Crowne Plaza, so make sure to check back regularly on our official site to see all new additions! The titles, presenters, and descriptions for these new programming additions are as follows: New Workshops Added: Film-Ec: Presented by Herschel Zahnd. A candid and straightforward overview of the economic reality of working as a film professional in today’s world. (60 min) Seeking Alternative Income: The Basics of Business Writing: Presented by Barbara Evers,Read More →