Anya Combs is the Director of Games at Kickstarter. She has been in the digital games space for over a decade, overseeing multiple mobile and online titles launched for Nickelodeon & AddictingGames, and has worked with countless game creators launching successful projects on Kickstarter....
Carola has her fingers in a multitude of pies, from organizing to lecturing, but the sweetest tasting one is Boys Love stories. She first fell in love with BL as a teen, and once she realized she could write these stories herself, there was no turning back. As an indie author, she made her debut with the novel SNOW in 2009, followed by Jaded and Love Addict, as Norway’s (presumably) first published BL author. In her writing she pursues what makes her own heart race when reading her favorite BL stories, while also incorporating elements of more realistic nature. Chosen family and mental health are two such topics, paired with a solid dose of spice and angst. In 2021 she released her 4th...
Shyam Khakria is the manager of hardware outreach at Indiegogo. He graduated from The University of California, Santa Barbara with a degree in Ethics and Public Policy. Towards the end of my college career, he was influenced by his internship at Novacoast and chose to begin his career in sales and marketing. During his time there, he felt invigorated while speaking to clients and also enjoyed every aspect of running a marketing campaign. After graduating, he began to pursue sales as his career choice and never looked back. Since his start, he have been a top-performing, volume-based sales professional who is always eager to learn more and fine-tune my abilities....
Kelly McMahon is a celebrated illustrator and graphic designer, known for her minimalist style, composed of sophisticated vector shapes and bold colours. Whether working as a commercial illustrator, graphic designer, or as an artist creating personal pieces, Kelly’s designs are inspired by both an iconic sense of style and balance. Her work has been featured in collaboration with Clerks III, Jay and Silent Bob Reboot, Radiant Pink, The Massive-Verse, Deer Arrow amongst many others. Kelly’s unmistakable designs can be seen at Gallery 1988 (LA) and Hero Complex Gallery (LA). Store: www.kellymcmahondesign.com Socials: https://www.instagram.com/kmmcmdraws/...
Wilson Ramos Jr is a freelance comic artist. Who has worked in the comic industry for over 25 years. He has worked as a Colorist, Letterer, Inker, penciler, and art direction for digital and print comics, posters, brochures, trading cards, magazines and scores of projects for Marvel Comics, DC Comics, Dark Horse, Random House, Red Anvil press, Darkstorm Comics, New Paradigm Studios, Apex Comics, Shatner Singularity, Action Lab Studios, Dynamite Entertainment, Papercutz Books, Atlantis Studios, Committed Comics and many Independent & Small Press Publishers. His most recent projects include the Independent Publisher Book Awards winning God Woke written by the Legendary Stan Lee. Wilson is also a popular Sketch card artist who has work for Topps, Upper Deck, Cryptozoic Entertainment and Dynamite Entertainment....
Dr. Emma Liggins is Senior Lecturer in English Literature in the Department of English at Manchester Metropolitan University. Her publications include George Gissing, the Working Woman and Urban Culture (Ashgate, 2006), The British Short Story (with Andrew Maunder & Ruth Robbins) (Palgrave, 2011), Odd Women? Spinsters, Lesbians and Widows in British Women’s Fiction, 1850-1939 (Manchester University Press, 2014) and The Haunted House in Women’s Ghost Stories, 1850-1945: Gender, Space and Modernity (Palgrave, 2020). She has also published articles and chapters on Vernon Lee, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, E. Nesbit and the supernatural, as well as editing ghost story collections by Charlotte Riddell and Rhoda Broughton for the Victorian Secrets series....
FujoshiTings or Riza Masuyama（リーザ 増山) is 23 years old and her pronouns are she/her(s) and she identifies as Aromantic and Demisexual. While daylighting as a graduate student, she moonlights as a blogger of BL, and writes both original and fan fiction novels! You can find her writings and her BL reviews at fujoshitings.com and fujoshitingsblreviews.wordpress.com. You can also find her on social media (@fujoshitings) and her original work on Tapas and Neovel under her pen name Riza Masuyama. ...
Hi! I am Jason and I am a UK based Gunpla modeler. I began building Gundam kits in the early 2000s and have recently ventured into building resin kits. I prefer building complicated, bulky, and large scale kits because of their impressive size and the satisfaction of finishing a difficult build. My philosophy for my builds is to make them as unique as possible through customizing paint jobs and adding custom details, whatever it takes to create a one of a kind model! I also have a YouTube channel showcasing my projects so go check them out if you are interested! Check out my Instagram channel as well....
Dr. Xavier Aldana Reyes is a Reader in English Literature and Film at Manchester Metropolitan University and a founding member of the Manchester Centre for Gothic Studies (UK). He is the author and editor of various books on Gothic fiction and Horror film, including Gothic Cinema (2020), Twenty-First-Century Gothic: An Edinburgh Companion (edited with Maisha Wester, 2019), Spanish Gothic (2017), Horror: A Literary History (2016) and Body Gothic (2014). Xavier has also edited various fiction anthologies for the British Library, such as Visions of the Vampire: Two Centuries of Immortal Tales (with Sorcha Ní Fhlainn, 2020) and Promethean Horrors: Classic Tales of Mad Science (2019). Xavier is chief editor of the Horror Studies academic book series published by the University of Wales Press, the first dedicated to the dissemination of research on all...
Cathy Camper is the author of the award-winning Lowriders in Space graphic novel series, Ten Ways to Hear Snow, Bugs Before Time, and the forthcoming Arab Arab All Year Round (2022). She also writes zines, including Sugar Needle, and is a founding member of the Portland Women of Color zine collective. An Arab American and a graduate of VONA/Voices writing, Cathy is a librarian and lives in Portland, Oregon. You can learn more about her on her site....