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Gaming Guest of Honor : James Ernest James Ernest,(not just Cheapass Games) bio James Ernest is an expert game designer, poker player, and juggler. He began his gaming career in 1993 doing freelance work for Wizards of the Coast. In 1996 Ernest founded a quirky, low-budget game company called Cheapass Games (www.cheapass.com). Cheapass Games exploded into the under-ten dollar market, with creative games like Kill Doctor Lucky, Button Men, and Give Me The Brain. Today Ernest continues to run Cheapass Games, as well as a freelance game design studio, Lone Shark Games (www.lonesharkgames.com). Lone Shark inventions include Pirates of the Spanish Main (Wizkids); Gloria Mundi (Rio Grande); CowPoker (Steve Jackson Games) and many others. James is a regular columnist in Games Quarterly Magazine and Bluff Magazine, and has won several awards for game design. At home, James enjoys building Lego pirate ships, and playing video games with his wife Carol and daughter Nora. Filk Guests of Honor : Barry & Sally Childs-Helton Barry (bass, guitars, Roland GR-33 guitar synth, vocals) has a quiltwork musical past that includes solo coffeehouse singer/songwriter sets, a quirky proto-indie band (Barnacle Gonzo and the Chianti Brothers), a Bloomington poetry-and-music experiment (Third Wind), a semi-classified crew of sci-fi folk-rockers (Black Book Band) known for concertizing at science fiction conventions, and (with percussionist wife Sally) improvised incidental music for Indy's Theater of Inclusion on electric, acoustic, bass, and baritone guitars. His background includes occasional immersion in classical and jazz guitar; though his musical tastes draw on the whole range of rock, they often detour through traditional ballads, blues, progressive jazz, Bluegrass, and Bach. He has confessed to nurturing an attitude problem toward most conventional wisdom. He helps provide for the household by copyediting computer books for one of the best-known publishers in the business. He and Sally share said household with a dog, a rowdy crew of ferrets, and (probably, but what the heck) too many instruments and books. Created with novaPDF Printer (www.novaPDF.com). Please register to remove this message. 4 Sally At the age of 14 Sally Childs-Helton put down the flute, picked up drum sticks, and has never looked back. In her mid-teens she received a drum set from parents who believed that girls could indeed play drums. She majored in music education and percussion performance as an undergrad, and then graduate school at Indiana University studying ethnomusicology. She is a certified Music for People guided music improvisation teacher, and she teaches and conducts workshops in hand drums and ethnic percussion, music improvisation, and creativity. Sally also teaches ethnomusicology and world music at the university level, and accompanies dance, theater, and choruses. Sally is proud to be a co-founder of the Midwest Drumming and Dance Festival, and she does a Women's Drumming Weekend annually at Oakwood Retreat Center outside Muncie. Sally especially enjoys jazz, new age, classical (especially 20th c.), and all world musics. And she's having big fun with Wild Mercy, adding as many world music components as possible into the Celtic tradition. As her husband Barry is fond of saying, "It's all Earthling music."
Fan GOH : Nancy Hathaway A Brief History of Cleo as told by her husband Ross Nancy "cleo" Hathaway will have been going to science fiction conventions for almost 30 years as of the Saint Louis NASFIC. Her first convention was <strong>Archon</strong> 2, held at Stan Musial & Biggies St. Louis Hilton Inn back in 1978. She had way too much fun. She came with the group from Rocky Horror but by the end of the weekend she was hanging out with people from Saint Louis fandom and hasn't looked back! She was born (rumor has it) in 1959 in Asheville, North Carolina, Then, she moved to Saint Louis when she was seven and now lives in Rosamond, California with Ross, her husband of 20 years. There is nothing Cleo likes better than to get behind the wheel of her minivan and drive. She usually drives back to the Midwest two or three Artist GOH: Darrell K. Sweet If you’ve read much Science Fiction or Fantasy in the last forty five years, you’ve almost certainly had a book with a Darrell K. Sweet cover in your hands. Since beginning his career as a professional illustrator in 1960, Darrell K. Sweet has had over 2000 pieces of art published, including the covers of over 75 books from the New York Times Bestseller List. His style is instantly recognizable, full of craggy-faced wizards and gnomes with bushy eyebrows, vividly colored dragons, armored knights on enormous high-stepping steeds, and lonely looking space travelers on barren landscapes. Darrell attended Syracuse University on a scholarship and earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree. After graduating Darrell did his military service, going on to become the head of the training aids section of the 1ST Training Regiment before being discharged in 1959. Created with novaPDF Printer (www.novaPDF.com). Please register to remove this message. times a year to visit and attend a convention or two. Cleo has been married to her husband Ross "Gator" Hathaway since 1986. She met him at Czarkon, a small, adults only convention she established to nurture the inner child in all of us. Ross really is a rocket scientist (propulsion engineer) for NASA Dryden located at Edwards AFB. "When the shuttle has to land here in California it passes right over our house." Cleo is a multi-talented artist. She works in clay, beads, polymer, found objects, and pretty much whatever catches her eye. She and her husband both do digital photography. In addition to being an artist she and Ross collect art and have a large collection, acquired over the last 30 years. She and Ross actually met bidding on a drawing by Del Harris called "Dragon Style". Cleo won by the way. If nothing else, Cleo is friendly and having been Once he began his life as an artist for hire, Darrell quickly gained popularity and has since done work for every major p u b l i s h i n g house in the US and Europe. He’s i l l u s t r a t e d entire series of novels, most notably R o b e r t J o r d o n ’ s Wheel of Time novels and Piers Anthony’s Xanth novels. Along the way he’s painted book covers for all of the best known authors of the field including Robert Heinlein, Isaac Asimov, Poul Anderson, Jack Chalker and many others including, of course, our Guest of Honor Barbara 5 Cleo (Cont. on p. 27) Sweet (Cont. on p. 27)
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