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Imaginarium 2016 is proud to welcome award-winning publisher, editor and writer Jason Sizemore as an Imaginator Guest this October 7-9 in Louisville, Kentucky at the Crowne Plaza Hotel. The founder of Apex Book Company, Jason is one of the best in the business when it comes to the book publishing world and his participation in Imaginarium will be a fantastic opportunity for attendees to meet and learn from a true maverick and visionary in the industry. An exceptional writer and three-time Hugo Award-nominated editor, Jason’s range of talent and experience will be a wonderful addition to the 2016 event! About Jason Sizemore:  Raised in theRead More →

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Imaginarium 2016 is proud to welcome NYT bestselling author Elizabeth Bevarly as one of our Imaginator guests! An author of romance and women’s fiction with over seventy books to her credit, Elizabeth is also a screenwriter and will be a wonderful guest to have with us this coming October 7-9 in Louisville, Kentucky at the Crowne Plaza Hotel. About Elizabeth: Elizabeth Bevarly is the New York Times bestselling author of more than seventy books whose novels have been translated into two dozen languages and published in three dozen countries. Currently, she writes romance for Harlequin and women’s fiction for Berkley Trade. More recently, she’s turnedRead More →

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Imaginarium 2015 is honored and proud to announce our Guest of Honor for 2015, Lori Wilde! A New York Times and USA Today best selling author, Lori is well-familiar to fans of romance literature everywhere. She will be an amazing Guest of Honor for the nation’s premiere convention about creative writing. Lori Wilde   About Lori Wilde: New York Times and USA Today best selling author, Lori Wilde has sold seventy-eight works of fiction to four major New York Publishing houses. She holds a bachelor’s degree in nursing from Texas Christian University and a certificate in forensic nursing from Kaplan University. She is a memberRead More →

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Imaginarium is very proud to welcome USA Today bestselling mystery author and screenwriter Jamie Lee Scott to our 2015 family of guests! Her works include the Gotcha Detective Agency Mysteries and with her writing including both prose and screenwriting she will be a great addition to the programming of the nation’s premiere creative writing convention! About Jamie Lee Scott: Jamie Lee Scott is the USA Today bestselling author of the Gotcha Detective Agency Mysteries Originally from the Central Coast of California, Jamie was swept off her feet by a dashing Iowa farm boy and moved to the Midwest. After several years of running a restaurantRead More →

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Imaginarium is proud to welcome USA Today bestselling author Gina Danna to our 2015 family of guests!  A writer of historical romance, Gina will be an outstanding addition to the programming of the nation’s premiere creative writing convention! About Gina Danna: A USA Today Bestselling author, Gina Danna was born in St. Louis, Missouri, and has spent the better part of her life reading. History has always been her love and she spent numerous hours devouring historical romance stories, always dreaming of writing one of her own. After years of writing historical academic papers to achieve her undergraduate and graduate degrees in History, and thenRead More →

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Imaginarium is proud to welcome NY Times bestselling author and screenwriter Elizabeth Bevarly to our family of guests for 2015! An author of over 70 romance novels and novellas, Elizabeth brings a tremendous range of talent and experience to Imaginarium. We are very excited to have her participation in the nation’s premiere creative writing convention! About Elizabeth Bevarly:Elizabeth Bevarly is the New York Times best-selling, award-winning author of more than seventy novels and novellas. Her books have been translated into two dozen languages and published in three dozen countries, and she hopes to someday be as well-traveled herself. An honors graduate of the University ofRead More →

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Imaginarium 2015 proudly welcomes author Tim Waggoner as an Imaginator for this year’s event!  From his extensive body of work including over 30 published novels, to his work on licensed tie-ins to major TV shows such as Grimm, Supernatural, and the X-Files, Tim brings a tremendous background and perspective into Imaginarium’s extensive creative writing programming. Attendees will be able to benefit directly from Tim as he will be conducting a special writing workshop at Imaginarium, as well as participating on panels and being featured in a spotlighted Q and A session. About Tim Waggoner: Tim Waggoner has published more than thirty novels and three storyRead More →

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Imaginarium 2014 is proud to announce writer/game designer Dan Jolley, who has a brand new Terminator mini-series with Dark Horse Comics, as our latest Imaginator! 2014 Imaginator Dan Jolley Writer/Game Desinger ComicsAbout Dan:In a freelance career spanning 24 years, Dan Jolley has written comic books for every major publisher in the country, authored original novels, licensed-property novels, and movie novelizations, and provided game design and dialogue for multiple video games, including the Transformers titles War for Cybertron and Fall of Cybertron. Dan’s latest comic book projects include his creator-owned series BLOODHOUND, available from Dark Horse Comics in two volumes — BLOODHOUND Vol. 1: Brass KnuckleRead More →

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Imaginarium 2014 is proud to announce screenwriter Jeffrey Reddick as our latest Imaginator! It is a very special recognition to be named an Imaginator, all of whom will be featured in a spotlighted manner in the event programming. 2014 Imaginator   Jeffrey Reddick ScreenwriterAbout Jeffrey: Jeffrey Reddick got his start in the film industry by interning at New Line Cinema when he was 19. He worked at the studio for over 11 years. But Reddick shot to horror film fame with the creation of “Final Destination.” New Line Cinema released the original “Final Destination” in 2000 and the movie earned over $100 Million at theRead More →

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Lucy A. Snyder to Attend Imaginarium 2014! Imaginarium 2014 is proud to welcome Bram Stoker-Award-winning author Lucy A. Snyder, who will be participating in Imaginarium’s programming and offering a premium workshop! About: Lucy A. Snyder is the Bram Stoker Award-winning author of the novels Spellbent, Shotgun Sorceress, Switchblade Goddess, and the collections Orchid Carousals, Sparks and Shadows, Chimeric Machines, and Installing Linux on a Dead Badger. She will have two new books out in 2014: Shooting Yourself in the Head For Fun and Profit: A Writer’s Guide will be released by Post Mortem Press, and her story collection Soft Apocalypses will be released by RawRead More →