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Authors signing at Table One

Friday 

                                             Noon   K. T. Hanna

                                             1 PM     Keith R. A. DeCandido

                                             3 PM     Nat Cassidy

                                             4 PM     Gini Koch / Noel Plaugher / J. B. Garner

                                             5 PM     Mari Mancusi                 

                                             6 PM     Patricia Briggs

Saturday          

11 AM Gail Martin / Megan O’Russell

                                             Noon   Mia Tsai

                                             1 PM     Jack Campbell

                                             2 PM     Delilah Dawson

                                             3 PM     Jonathan Maberry

                                             4 PM     Robert J. Sawyer

                                             5 PM     Wesley Chu                     

                                             6 PM     Cinda Williams Chima

Sunday             

11 AM Kevin J. Anderson

                                             Noon   James J. Butcher / R. R. Virdi

                                             1 PM     Richard Kadrey

                                             2 PM     Gini Koch / J. B. Garner / Noel Plaugher

                                             3 PM     John Hartness / K. T. Hanna

                                             4 PM     Sean Fletcher

                                             5 PM     Terry Mancour / A. J. Hartley                                

                                             6 PM     Lucienne Diver

Monday            

11 AM Jack Campbell / Noel Plaugher

                                             Noon   R. R. Virdi

                                             3 PM     John Hartness

Baen Book Author Signings.               

Friday                

11 AM Charles Gannon

                                             Noon   Kacey Ezell / A. C. Haskins/ Melissa Olthoff / Marissa Wolf

                                             1 PM     Robert Hampson/ Les Johnson

                                             2 PM     Lydia Sherrer

                                             4 PM     Jason Cordova                              

                                             5 PM     Walter H. Hunt

Saturday

                                             11 AM David Boop / Gini Koch

                                             1 PM     Kacey Ezell / A. C. Haskins /

                                                            Melissa Olthoff

                                             5 PM     S. M. Stirling                   

                                             6 PM     Les Johnson

Sunday             

11 PM Jody Lynn Nye

                                             1 PM     Griffin Barber / Charles Gannon /

                                                            Walter Hunt

                                             2 PM     Lydia Sherrer

                                             3 PM     A. C. Haskins / Marissa Wolf

                                             5 PM     D. J. Butler / Aaron Michael Ritchey

                                             M. A. Rothman

Monday            

11 AM Timothy Zahn

                                             1 PM     David Boop

                                             2 PM     Kacey Ezell / A. C. Haskins

                                                            Melissa Olthoff / Marisa Wolf

Lizbeth Rose is back in California with her husband to protect her sister while Felecia attends the Wizard’s Ball. The Ball is an event that moves around every 3 years for eligible magical people to attend to find spouses. Geopolitical politics are play during the meet ad greet and Felica is attacked again and again mostly by German and Japanese magicians because if she will not work for them then they would rather see her dead.  Lizbeth is constantly thinking how she just doesn’t fit into Eli’s world and she desperately wants to go back home once all of this is done. Eli doesn’t seem to be talking to Lizbeth about what is going on in the gregori society during the ball and what he wants. The ending was surprising but a good ending but I would like to see more with Felicia.

Digital review copy provided by the publisher through Edelweiss

Set in the Kitty Norvell universe but can be read as a stand alone story. Three average guys have been living together as vampire roommates since they were turned in the same week 15 years prior.  Sam plays and reviews video games and doesn’t go out much except to the club to help his roomie meet women for meals.  Rick, the Master of Denver has pretty much left the three of them on their own since they were turned. When a reporter approaches them for a story but is really using it as a way to get info on Rick, Sam and his buddies now have to deal with older vamps coming after them and hope that Rick can get to them in time.

The latest finds Penric off to see a potentially possessed ox at a bridge building site that his brother-in-law is working at along with Penric’s son.  Otta and Rina are brought with them so Otta can learn first-hand about newly possessed and Rina to keep her company. Rina is happy about this because she is interested in possibly following in her father's footsteps.  Things happen and the ox gets lose and everyone is searching for it before something happens and the demon jumps to another host. This is also a story of a father watching his kids make decisions about their futures and possibly laying the groundwork for future books about the kids.

The Waiting by Michael Connelly, Christine Lakin (Narrator), Titus Welliver (Narrator), Madison Lintz (Narrator)

This book covers three cases, two cold cases and one case that Renee can’t make an official case since it deals with her badge and gun being stolen while she was surfing.  The first cold case is an old series of rapes that gets a familial hit that send then trying to solve an even older rape case. The second cold case is one that Maddie brings to the unit when she gets flagged on her personal time at her storage unit when they owner finds an abandoned unit with graphic evidence of a very old serial killer.  Renee reaches out the Harry to help her with getting her badge and gun back and that leads to a trail of breadcrumbs to a bigger case that she has to decide what to do about.

Mickey made some bad bets on a friend’s game and now he is more than desperate to sign up as an Expendable on a colony ship. 200 people with specialized skills and then there is Mickey, his job is to do things that will get him killed but are necessary for the colony. When he dies he is resurrected and keeps doing jobs until he must do something lethal.  When the 6^th version of him is presumed dead his 7^th version is decanted. Six makes it back to camp and finds Seven in his bed and neither of them want to die even though only one of them should be alive.  With a colony leader having a religious hate about him he needs to keep out of trouble, but it doesn't happen.  The story was interesting and the ending fixes a lot of what is going on for Mickey.

Renee is heading up a newly reformed cold case unit that has the political support of a councilman who’s sister is one of the cases. Renee gets Harry to volunteer on the unit with the carrot that he can also work on one of his old cases that has always nagged him.  Ballard’s case turns up to be a serial murderer and Bosch closes his in a way that could cost him his life.

A cute collection of stories from Atticus’ past that he shares with Oberon and Starbuck when they have to get baths for various reasons. Some of the stories highlight a time in history that he was adjacent to and others are when he was doing things to help the Earth. A good read for fans but not the place for someone new to jump in. 

Every wonder what happens to all the Chosen Ones/Scooby Gang when they grow old? Well now you can find out.  A used bookstore built into a very old house that has been in Temple’s family for generations and infused with all of the previous generations magics.  Temple is a very old sorcerer living with two roommates; Jenny and Annette. Jenny is a former Hunter of Artemes, she was taught at a young age to hunt all monsters but now she heals them in the kitchen and works in the bookstore.  Annete is a half succubus retired PI that is working on repairing her relationship with her son and keeping her two grandchildren in her life.  When a young man shows up in the store the morning after an attack on one of the friendly local monsters everyone goes on alert that he is the one attacking them.   The POV rotates between the three and each of them have regrets about their lives. The story uses a lot of urban fantasy mythos and is a fun read.  I’m really hoping there will be more to read about in the future.

Digital review copy provided by the publisher through NetGalley

Ashley got a new job as the community liaison for a district in the city that has more aliens than humans and she gets tossed in the deep end quickly. Constituents come in to get their rep to take care of issues of the sewer and worries about damage from an upcoming parade. Ashley also ends up meeting with a local animal control officer that deals with more than just cats and dogs. A humorous story and I hope there will be more in this setting in the future.