Guests of Honor
Media Guest of Honor
Christopher R. Mihm
Christopher R. Mihm is the writer, director, and
producer of the films of the "Mihmiverse," a series of award-winning,
loosely interlinked feature-length films which pay homage to 1950s-era
"drive-in cinema."
Mr. Mihm's filmmaking career began in 2006 with the release of his first
retro-styled film, "The Monster of Phantom Lake." Made on a nearly
non-existent budget, the film went on to garner much critical acclaim,
appear in numerous film festivals, win multiple awards and, to this day,
continues to screen across the world.
Since his first film, Mr. Mihm has released one new as-authentic-as-possible
1950s-style feature a year, many of which have received numerous accolades,
nominations, and awards. "Attack of the Moon Zombies" raked in the most
2011 Dead Letter Awards at mailorderzombie.com. "House of Ghosts" beat
out several big budget films to win the coveted Rondo Hatton Classic
Horror Award for Best Independent Feature in 2012. Mr. Mihm's ode
to the "big bug" films of the 1950s, "The Giant Spider," won the Forrest
J. Ackerman Film Award at the Famous Monsters of Filmland Film Festival
and the Best Action/Horror Feature award at the Highway 61 Film
Festival.
Christopher R. Mihm has been featured in many publications, both online and
off, including SCI-FI Magazine, Screem, Famous Monsters of Filmland and
Scary Monsters Magazine. Mr. Mihm was the recipient of the first-ever
Roger & Julie Corman Intrepid Filmmaker award at the ninth annual Fargo
Fantastic Film Festival, won the Best Director award from
mailorderzombie.com and received the key to the city of Forest Lake, MN,
where July 30th was officially declared "Christopher R. Mihm Day."
Monica Valentinelli
Literary/Game Design Guest of Honor
Monica Valentinelli is a writer, editor, and game developer who lurks in the dark. She writes both original and media tie-in fiction and works on games and comics, too. To date, she has over seven dozen creative credits with more on the way. She is best known for her work related to the Firefly TV show by Joss Whedon. She was the lead writer and developer for the award-winning line of Firefly RPG books, and also wrote the Firefly: The Gorramn Shiniest Language Guide and Dictionary in the âVerse which was released from Titan Publishing in April 2016.
Published stories and games include âTomorrowâs Precious Lambsâ for
Extreme Zombies, âThe Digâ for the Lovecraft Zine, Dread
Names, Red List for Vampire: the Masquerade, and Unknown
Armies Third Edition. Monica also recently completed a successful
Kickstarter campaign for a co-edited anthology titled Upside Down:
Inverted Tropes in Storytelling from Apex Book Company. Her debut comic
Man Zombie Standing was published in 2013 as part of the
Unfashioned Creatures: A Frankenstein Anthology from Red Stylo Media.
You can discover more of the authorâs creative works through her fiction publications or
her game publications.
Her non-fiction repertoire includes online articles, worldbuilding games, reference materials, and essays. She has written for sites including HowtoWrite Shop.com, Sonyâs Crackle.com, SFWA.org, GeeksDreamGirl.com, and BookLifeNow.com. Her essays have appeared in books such as Family Games: The 100 Best, The Bones: Us and Our Dice, and For Exposure: The Life and Times of a Small Press Publisher.
Monica holds a B.A. in Creative Writing from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She lives with two very spoiled cats nicknamed Lord Lardbottom and Captain Whinypants, an albino water frog named Al, and her fiancé. In addition to writing and editing, she enjoys traveling, designing jewelry, cooking, taking photos, gaming, watching anime and martial arts movies, exploring old places, and hiking. She is represented by Jennie Goloboy from Red Sofa Literary.
Tad Williams
Literary Guest of Honor
The Bobby Dollar Series; Shadowmarch Series; The Ordinary Farm Adventures; The War of the Flowers; Otherland; Calibanâs Hour; Child of an Ancient City; Memory, Sorrow and Thorn Trilogy; Tailchaserâs Song
Tad Williams is a California-based fantasy superstar. His genre-creating (and genre-busting) books have sold tens of millions worldwide. His considerable output of epic fantasy and epic science-fiction series, fantastical stories of all kinds, urban fantasy novels, comics, scripts, etc., have strongly influenced a generation of writers. Tad always has several secret projects on the go. 2016 will see the debut of a number of them; March 2017 brings âThe Witchwood Crownâ, the first volume in the long-awaited return to the world of the âMemory, Sorrow & Thornâ novels. Tad and his family live in the Santa Cruz mountains in a suitably strange and beautiful house.
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Featured Panelists
Every year Odyssey Con has some of the most interesting panelists.
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Featured Gamers
Odyssey Con hosts one or more Game Room with both scheduled and open gaming. Game Masters who attend our convention are some of the best.
Featured Game Master
Daniel J. Bishop
Daniel J. Bishop was introduced to gaming in 1979. His first published rpg work was for Dragon Roots Magazine #0 in 2008. His first published adventures utilized 3rd Edition Dungeons & Dragons rules, but he is best known for his work on Dungeon Crawl Classics. He has worked with Goodman Games, Purple Duck, Straycouches, Moon Dice Games, and others. His best-known adventures may be The Arwich Grinder, in Crawl! #9, Bone Hoard of the Dancing Horror, The Dread God Al-Khazadar, and Through the Dragonwall. He has done every conversion to DCC published by Goodman Games to date.
You can find out more about him on his website at
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Contest Judges
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Musical Guests
Each year Odyssey Con has had evening musical events DJs, bands, karaoke, etc. We try to provide a variety of entertainment, and endevor to bring something new and interesting.
Sarge's Karaoke
Returning this year DJ Sarge of Highland Entertainment will be bringing back nighttime karaoke! Fun for young and old, Sarge has the largest karaoke selection in the state. Show off your singing skills, or sit back and listen to the songs we know and love!