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2026 Dragonon Booth signing schedule.
Aug. 31st, 2026 12:27 pmSignings at The Missing Volume booth #1300, 1302, 1201, 1203
Table 1
FRIDAY
11AM Patricia Briggs, KD Edwards
1PM Clay McLeod Chapman
3PM Neil Clarke
4PM Mari Mancusi Diana Peterfreund
5PM James J Butcher, R R Virdi
6PM Jean Kwok
SATURDAY
10AM Megan O’Russell
11AM John Hartness, Theresa Glover
Noon Gail Martin/ Seven Rasmussen
1PM Jack Campbell
2PM Gini Koch, J B Garner, Noel Plaugher
3PM Jennifer Estep, Julie Vee
4PM K A Linde
5PM Keith De Candido
6PM Susan Griffin
SUNDAY
11AM Hunter Blain, Justin Leslie
Noon Ryan Cahill
1PM Delilah Dawson
2PM D B Jackson
3PM Kevin J Anderson, Rebecca Moesta
4PM Tao Wong
5PM A J Hartley
6PM Henry Herz
Monday
10 AM Susan Griffth
11AM Jack Campbell
Noon R R Virdi
1PM A J Hartley, Seven Rasmussen
2PM Noel Plaugher, Ryan Cahill
3 books limit - so everyone in line has a chance
Authors will sign for about an hour
You don’t have to buy a book to get something signed....but it’s nice if you do!
Signings at The Missing Volume booth #1300, 1302, 1201, 1203
Baen Table
FRIDAY
2PM Shami Stoval
3PM A C Haskins, Melissa Olthoff, Mariss Wolf
4PM Gray Reinhart
5PM Esther Friesner
6PM David Boop
SATURDAY
11AM D J Butler, Aaron Michael Richey
1PM Griffin Barber, Charles Gannon, Walter H Hunt
5PM Jody Lynn Nye, S M Stirling
6PM Lydia Sherrer, Casey Moores
SUNDAY
1PM Timothy Zahn
2PM Robert Hampston
3PM Wil McCarthy
4PM James Cambias
5PM Les Johnson
MONDAY
10AM Lydia Sherrer
11AM David Boop
1PM Casey Moores
2PM A C Haskins, Melissa Olthoff, Mariss Wolf
3 books limit - so everyone in line has a chance
Authors will sign for about an hour
You don’t have to buy a book to get something signed....but it’s nice if you do!
A tidy mystery that is solved in the end and now to wait if there will be more mysteries for Dorthy, ship’s detective to solve.
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Dorothy Gentleman wakes up not in her body and needs to quickly solve a murder on the interstellar ship that she works as a detective. Her nephew is a programmer and turns out he figured out a way to erase the memory books that everyone in the ship uses to upload themselves and be able to download into a new body when they please. He was overheard talking about the erasure theory and now someone has decided to kill passengers on the ship permanently erasing them so they can’t be redownloaded into a new body. Now Dorthy, as one of the ship’s detectives needs to find the killer before any more books are erased including her own.
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Maggie wakes up naked in the mud in the city of her favorite fantasy book with no idea how she got there. She quickly uses her deep knowledge of the unfinished trilogy to get money and shelter and finds out that she can come back to life after being killed. She uses this skill a few times to painfully get ahead in the story. She uses what she knows to stop the main bad guy from taking over the kingdom but every change she does effects plot points further down and the ending of the book is a complete surprise to her and the reader.
I can’t wait for the next one.
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#14 Butterfly Effects by Seanan McGuire
Mar. 9th, 2026 02:50 pmThis wraps up the Sarah story arc. As Mark is finally coming out of the coma he has been in for the last eight years, Sarah is kidnapped by the Johrlac and taken back to their dimension to stand trial for her crimes. As they were doing this, the Johrlac take Arthur as evidence of Sarah’s crimes. As the story unfolds, we find out why the cuckoos were sent to our dimension and why they are different from home world. Annie, Sam, Alice and Thomas travel to Johrlac to rescue Sarah and Arthur and along the way also find out more about the Karios. A great book and the novella at the end had me in tears.
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This black, white and red graphic novel is a story of an unloved princess born with a birthmark on her face and sent away to be raised by herders until they need her to marry for a political alliance. Philonoe is only mentioned in one known text so this is a idea of how she avoided the curse that was placed on her family and her sisters in particular. There are gods and monsters both involved in this tale and as usual in most myths the gods use mortals as pawns for any slights they feel.
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In a world where some families in this valley have and ride dragons there is a coffee shop where you can bring your baby dragon. Saphira is alone in the world and opened a café with the funds provided by grandmother’s will. Aiden is a bit of a recluse from an important local dragon owning family who is grieving his brother’s death and now trying to raise the dragon that his brother left to him when it was still an egg. When he meets Saphira and sees how well Sparky responds to her he begs her to train him, the money is a boon to the café since it is barley scraping by due to the damage the little dragons do to the café. This is a cute cozy romance the the dragons give a nice little fantasy touch to.
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The In Death Cookbook: To-Die-For Recipes from the World of J. D. Robb by
Theresa Carle-Sanders, J.D. Robb (Foreword)
This themed cookbook is various dishes mentioned or eaten by the characters in the series. There are also cocktails recipes in here as well so you can make your own screamer if you want. What I liked about the setup was there was paragraph from the book where the recipe was pulled from before every recipe and it left me wanting to reread the series from start to finish. A nice gift for fans of the series.
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#9 Operation Bounce House by Matt Dinniman
Feb. 5th, 2026 12:15 pmWhen the gate finally opens between the New Sonora colony and Earth things are looking good for New Sonora. Oliver and his sister Lulu are working the farm together after their grandfather died with the help of Roge,r an AI bot used to control the drones that work the fields. But when large mechs land on planet and start attacking the colonists they quickly find out that they are being targeted for extermination by Earth. The battle lasts five days and with some backroom deals with the company controlling the game as the battle is seen from Earth, Oliver alongside his friends and neighbors have to work with the company to make the game interesting in the hopes of surviving the game. The players think they are helping to destroy the rebels but there are no rebels and a lot of disinformation is going on.
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#8 Beast Business by Ilona Andrews
Feb. 2nd, 2026 02:28 pmNot the place to start in this universe of stories but very entertaining for fans of the series. Diana Harrison needs a very special baby back before it dies without its mother’s milk. She also has loyal employees to avenge that were killed during the theft. She hires Augustine to help her and between the two of them they will succeed along with a little help from Augustine’s intern.
There are bits and pieces from the website collected here as well as a short story that happens along the same time line. 
#7 The Mating Game by Lana Ferguson
Jan. 29th, 2026 10:05 amTess Covington shows up to an inn in a remote part of Colorado to do a job that the owner’s aunt had scheduled. Tess has just found out she is a late blooming omega, the first shifter in her family for generations so she doesn’t know what to expect. Hunter is an alpha werewolf and is mad at his aunt for having Tess’ company come and work on the inn but relents to have the work done. Hunter has to end up helping Tess with new heat cycles since she can’t control them and she doesn’t know what to do.
This is set after The Fake Mate but this story can be read without having to know what happens in that book. The story was cute and there is a lot of family interactions with Tess’ family with her brothers and her worry about her dad.
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#6 Such a Perfect Family by Nalini Singh
Jan. 28th, 2026 10:27 amEveryone is an unreliable narrator in this book. Tavish has recently married Diya in a whirlwind romance in Las Vegas and has moved with her to New Zealand. It is a fresh start for him with a string of death of former lovers behind him. There is a cop in LA that is convinced that he has gotten away with murder. Diya’s family wants to hold a huge Hindi wedding in six months so have asked the couple to say they are just engaged. Tavish comes back to the family residence with cake samples to find it in flames and Diya in the yard with multiple stab wounds. Her sister-in-law has survived the fire with stab wounds as well, but the parents are dead and the brother-in-law is missing. As the primary suspect in the killing his alibi checks out cursory but his past quickly comes back to haunt him with the police. As he is investigating the family secrets the detective in LA has chapters in between the narrative where he is convinced that Tavish has gotten away with murder and he is trying to find out how he did it. A good story with lots of twists and I didn’t see the ending coming.
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The second book in the series has Queen Lorelai the half elven queen of Baravia and one of the Queens of Villainy kidnap her nemesis the General Gerard de Moireul that she has been taunting for the last seven years and now she has kidnapped him to open his eyes to get his to see what is wrong with the Emperor he serves. She takes him to the Fae realm and they enter a contest and have to work together. As they are winning the various challenges each realizes that they have feelings for one another. This is a enemies to lovers storyline and by the end of the book the romance for book 3 is set up to happen.
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#4 For We Are Many by Dennis E. Taylor
Jan. 23rd, 2026 11:25 amAs Bob’s copies keep going out in the universe and replicating themselves each is slightly different than Bob but they are working to get the remaining humans off Earth and settled on new planets. New problems with this happens with both an alien race that devours all life on any planet if finds and strip-mines it for resources for it to expand further out in space and the copies of the Brazilian AI that wants to defeat all of Brazil’s enemies. Can’t wait to read the next one.
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#3 The Summer War by Naomi Novik
Jan. 14th, 2026 02:06 pmThe day Celia came into her magical powers she cursed her oldest brother to live without love. Her father now ignores her and her middle brother causing the tow siblings to forge a relationship that was previously prevented to happen due to middle brother’s mother being of low status. When the king decides that Celia must go to court to marry the prince she finds out that not is all as it seems with the reasons of the marriage and now she is nothing more that someone to be ignored by her new husband as she finds out the true meaning behind the war that has gone on between her people and the elves. A good novella that reminds the reader of the power of words.
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2025 book reading year in review
Jan. 13th, 2026 10:52 amSo I read twice as much fantasy as I did science fiction. My mystery numbers were up due to catching up on the Michael Connelly books and most of those were audios from the library. Very little on the graphic novel front and some of the fantasy books could fall into the romantasy side of the shelf. I read/listened to a lot of novellas this year so that will be a hard category to fill out on the Hugo ballot. This year I finally got an Audible account since there were lots of older SF books I wanted to listen to that were locked into that format. In Conquest Born by C S Friedman was one that I wanted to listen to but not spend the time rereading the paper version. Two thirds of my reading is review copies and then the rest was from my library either in audio or paper versions. I only reviewed a handful of books I bought most of those were ebook only on day of release. I had a few nonfiction titles I did read but only reviewed 3 of them since some I skim and don’t feel like posting reviews about them.
This is a great multicast audio of a book I haven’t reread in years and there were little plot points I had forgotten about. The voice casting was great and it is a different but good take on the single narrative reader audio book. A entertaining start to a long and fun series.
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#1 Silver & Blood by Jessie Mihalik
Jan. 12th, 2026 11:02 amSlowly Garrick starts showing Riela how to use her magic as he finds out why it seems she is blocked from most of it. Feylan also wants to know about this new mage and take her for her magic. As the story unfolds Garrick and Riela develop feelings for one another even if they aren’t sure about one another. As the story unfolds Riela finds out more about her mother who died during her birth. This adds complications to Riela and Garrick’s relationship and throws a wrench into Garrick’s plans to get even with Feylan.
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