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Ronald R. Van Stockum Jr.
Author Dr. Ronald R. Van Stockum, Jr. serves up a tempting mix of his trademark genre: Science, Travel, Fiction Science and Magic Realism. As a biologist, teacher, lawyer, and historian he delights with understated humor. His extensive knowledge of the sciences combines with allusions to biblical quotes, classical literature, and pop culture to create imaginative escapades in his writing. Find him at www.vanstockum.blog |
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Christopher Epling
Christopher Epling is an award winning illustrator and cartoonist from Pike County, KY. Although he has had numerous comics and children's books under his belt since 2010, his first graphic novel (The Hillbilly Bigfoot Paranormal Survival Guide) came out in 2022. Epling is the staff editorial cartoonist for The Appalachian News Express, The Mingo County Messenger, The Floyd County Chronicle and Times, The Paintsville Herald, and The Hazard Herald. He also hosts the The Art Workshop with Christopher Epling on PIKEtv airing daily from 1pm to 2pm. |
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BirdPresident
Karleigh Branscome is an Appalachian graphic designer, illustrator, and animator based in Lexington, Kentucky. She graduated in the spring of 2020 with a Bachelor of Science in Digital Media and Design, as well as a minor in Art History. Oftentimes, clients will seek out Karleigh under her online alias "BirdPresident", as this name has strong ties to herself and the artwork she envisions. Alongside her three focuses, Karleigh is also experienced in branding, design coordination, and storyboarding. |
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PopStich
PopStitch is a mother/daughter team from Hurricane, WV and South Point, OH. Hannah creates pop culture related cross stitch buttons and photo realistic portraits, as well as embroidery. Nikki crochets superhero/villain dolls, ornaments, and various pop culture pieces. |
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Far Away Supply and Trading (F.A.S.T.)
Far Away Supply and Trading (F.A.S.T.) is a nerdy company specializing in fan art, custom art, and other merchandise. |
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Nerdy Things
We love making art and crafts, particularly things relating to our nerdy interests- Video games, books, etc. We usually have a booth at the annual Shelby Valley craft festival, and Pikeville Comic-Con every year. Come see us! |
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Dead Hearts
Dead Hearts creates jewelry and ceramic pieces inspired by both nature and Victorian memento mori jewelry, and they aim to make pieces in the same vein; little reminders of your mortality. |
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Planet Plush
A husband and wife team specializing in unique and original plush designs! PlanetPlush began in a small rural West Virginian town. Product designer, Heather Hays, began making handcrafted plush in 2011 and has recently branched out into manufacturing original character designs. Our goal is to make our adorable plush toys available worldwide! |
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Fox and Bramble Kentucky born and raised artist, Ashton Johnson, has been honing her skills in graphic design and illustration for the past several years. Currently working as a graphic designer and baker.
She has been published in several books including AvantAppal(achia), and Inscape Magazine, and has had art displayed in galleries and shops around the state. You can see her work in many local schools and businesses. Her brand Fox and Brambles showcases her illustration and design work by melding the natural with the unnatural and focusing on strange animal forms. |
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Geek Corps
We sell art and random nerdy goodies. |
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Joey Webb
Joey Webb is an author/actor/filmmaker from Hazard, KY. He was an avid reader and moviegoer from a young age and showed promise as a writer early. His favorite genres are horror, sword and sorcery and science fiction. He has appeared in several indie films and shows in Kentucky including Santa Claus vs. The Zombies, Bunker of Blood, Astro Space Hero and Smile. He has two short story collections in the horror genre, Gory Stories and Pleasant Screams. He recently released the fourth and final book in his Blood Brothers Saga which chronicles the 200 year old feud between the werewolf lawman Chance Murdoch and his vampire outlaw brother Luke. He also hosts and produces his own variety show as Moonshine the Clown on the INC streaming channels for Roku titled The Clown Alley Horror Revue. Instagram. |
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Shawn Wallace
Shawn Wallace was born and raised in Dickenson County VA. He has been making art for over 30 years working as a painter, illustrator and graphic designer in various media. Shawn works from his studio in a Clintwood VA, he is also a preacher. He calls his style of painting Appalachian Gothic Surrealism, depicting stories, people, places and mythical creatures from the mountains. Shawn has illustrated several book and album covers for regional artists and writers. He most recently won’t Best Illustrator at the Appalachian Arts and Entertainment Awards. |
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BODS Mayhem Hour
BODS Mayhem Hour Podcast has been going strong for twelve years with real in depth interviews and shows no signs of slowing down -- with a focus of giving you an interview that gets to the meat and potatoes of the matter, the music. John "The Bodfather" Marshall, creator and host of the podcast, has worked as an online radio host and interviewer for a number of years and has an unrivaled passion for rock and metal music. John has been to more major, historical rock shows than could possibly be listed and keeps track of what bands and their members are doing to a staggering degree. |
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Noble Quest
JOE MEADE is an eastern Kentucky native with a love for writing, storytelling, and tabletop games, especially in the fantasy genre. These interests, coupled with nearly 30 years of experience with various roleplaying games, made it a natural progression for him to create his own roleplaying game. Joe’s company, NOBLE QUESTS, LLC, has produced the “Mystic Forces Second Edition” roleplaying game, along with several adventure modules and sourcebooks. Mystic Forces Second Edition is an in-depth, high-fantasy roleplaying game that is the culmination of 24 years of work and revision. Joe is also the author of a book of short stories titled, “Troves of Fantasy”. His fantasy adventure board game, “Omens of Destiny”, is nearing completion with a polished prototype that is being demoed locally and at a number of Cons! Be sure to stop by and check out the full line of products and gaming accessories, or just come by and chat. To see the full line of Mystic Forces products now, head over to www.mysticforces.com Also, be sure to join the Noble Quests Discord server for all the latest information on Mystic Forces and Omens of Destiny including announcements, sneak peaks, live streaming of gaming sessions and more. Use www.discord.noblequests.com to join the server! |
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The Spooky Family Podcast
The Spooky Family Podcast is just that. A family. The website, podcast, and blog maintained by the Spooky Family are all dedicated to bringing a lighter view to the darker side of the world. They aren't professional comedians. Heck, they aren't comedians at all. They just like to goof around in their haunted mansion. |
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Darth Slone
Darth Slone is an official content creator for Expansive Worlds on Twitch streaming the Hunter: Call of the Wild. He is also a TikTok Influencer with one video having 3.2 million views. |
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Nerdile Art
Nerdile Art are artists of kawaii critters and nerd culture merch. |
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The Henlo Press
The Henlo Press is an "Artists first" Independent Publishing Company focused on cultivating and encouraging creativity.It is our team’s desire to unite those with a love or the written word, across all genres and encourage an atmosphere that welcomes everyone, in all walks of life. From poetry to fiction, we are working to create a home for independent authors that are looking for an alternative to big publishing companies. |
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Beth's Sticker Boutique
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Miss Kitty Bakery
Local bakery. I started this baking business in 2019. Products are handmade from scratch using quality ingredients. Offering a wide variety of candies, pastries, cookies, cheesecakes, cakes and more. |
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PB and J Sellers
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Steven Paul Watson
Steven Paul Watson is many things: a writer, artist, amateur photographer, and avid outdoorsman as well as an all-around geek. His love of writing includes soul-chilling science fiction, fantasy, all things supernatural/horror, and a passion for steampunk/alternate reality. In his free time spends a lot of time out in nature hiking the hills near his home. There is no better way to stroke one’s imagination than being outdoors in the wilderness having real adventures that feed the ones he puts on a page. Steven is also an avid crafter and artist making a lot of jewelry and woodcrafts. |
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Dragon Eye Crafts
Dragon Eye Crafts are fantasy themed crafts including hand painted and sculpted jewelry, glassware, and books. |
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Pixels Get Stitches
Pixel Get Stitches are makers of geeky handmade bags, wallets, headwear, embroidery art, and perler art! |
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Kreepy Konfections
Kreepy Konfections creates baked goods with a macabre twist. She likes to make her sweet treats cute but creepy. |
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Adorkable Crafts
Adorkable Crafts make fandom themed and whimsical items and clay creation. Monster plants and oddities |
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Sinopa Publishing
Sinopa Publishing Founded in 2017 by W.S. “Sam” Quinton, Sinopa Publishing is dedicated to producing high quality role-playing books and comic books. The Tarot Adventure series of adventures has begun. The third books of the Tarot Adventures is now available! This series of 22 adventures for the 5th edition is setting neutral for easy portability. Each book features a theme relating to a card from the major arcana of the traditional Tarot deck. 47 Furious Tails, our 12 issue limited series telling the story of the 47 Ronin through anthropomorphic animals. Issues 1-3 are now available! Rayne of Ages, our first ongoing series: Sword swinging, spell slinging, monster slaying badass women adventuring in the lands of the Tarot Adventures! Necroholic, by Brian Lee: When you have a drinking problem and a potent talent for necromancy you find that your nights on the town often have dire consequences! You can get early access to our book by supporting our KickStarter campaigns. Follow W.S. Quinton on KickStarter to get a jump on exciting backer rewards. |
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R.S. Howell
I grew up in the hills of Kentucky and doing so taught me how to seek adventures through my imagination. I have always adored fantasy. Some of my greatest memories involve the many hours I would spend just playing with my friends outside, in the hills or valleys and roleplaying the video games we often played. We were LARPing long before we understood what it actually was. My love for fantasy grew when I was introduced to the wonderful works of J. R. R. Tolkien. Reading the words he had weaved on his pages, helped me to escape to a world of remarkable adventure and I wanted to give that to others, if I could. I also drew inspiration from Dungeons & Dragons. At first, I was a player, creating a character who would live a life of adventure. From there developed a spark that enticed me to crate my first campaign. I developed a world of mystery, filled it with characters for my friends to interact with, created lore, and watched as they traveled through the land unlocking all the secrets it held. I wanted to share with the world the imagination I was engaging my friends in. So, I began putting it down on paper. I just wanted to do for others what the great J. R. R. Tolkien did for me, so many years ago. Bring joy. |
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Ray Coffman
Ray is a published writer, artist and animator from Central Kentucky, best known for his
fantasy/action graphic novel Araura. Currently, Ray is developing and contributing to a number
of comic, gaming and animated projects as an artist and writer as well as serving as show
runner and producer for the Araura animated series now in production!
Ray is a published writer, artist and animator from Central Kentucky, best known for his
fantasy/action graphic novel Araura. Currently, Ray is developing and contributing to a number
of comic, gaming and animated projects as an artist and writer as well as serving as show
runner and producer for the Araura animated series now in production!