Jeff Breslauer

Actor, puppeteer, writer, voice-over artist -- even ballroom dance instructor. Multi-talented performer, Jeff Breslauer, has done all of these things and more.

After graduating with a degree in Broadcasting from Hofstra University, Jeff began his career in New York in the mid-1970s. His puppeteering work can be seen in "The Muppets Take Manhattan" and "The Muppets at Walt Disney World."

At EPCOT, Jeff played "The Dreamfinder," manipulating "Figment," the little dragon star of "Journey into Imagination. He also voiced and manipulated the "Spider" mascot for Scholastic Publishers' video series of "Math Place Programs" for first and second grades.

His vocal talents have been heard in commercials, industrials, TV shows, audiobooks and theme parks as everything from a termite to a cartoon super hero. One of his personal favorites was voicing "The Joker" for Six Flags Amusement Parks. Recently, Jeff had the pleasure of adding over a dozen voices to his audio repertoire when he performed the audio book versions of Glenda C. Finkelstein's sci-fi novels, "The Edge of the Universe", and "Nemesis Rising". Now he can also add the voices to the audiobooks "Cheese Runners" and "Cheese Rustlers", both written by Chris Jackson.

Another special project Jeff participated in is Sounds Abound? On All Hallow's Eve, a spellbinding aural feast created with his partners at JMJ Entertainment, Jeff Evans and Mark Priest.

In addition to performing on stage in such plays as "Breaking Legs" with Frank Gorshin (TV's "Riddler"), Jeff's work has graced several popular themed attractions in Orlando, Florida, including Walt Disney World, Sleuths Mystery Dinner Theatre (as everything from a detective to a maid to a stuttering florist), and Arabian Nights (as the Genie).

Jeff's on-screen work includes, "Police Academy V", "Matinee", "Wiseguy", "Superboy", "Swamp Thing", the Showtime movie, "Trade Off", the Mickey Rooney film, "Michael Kael vs. The World News Company", and the new HBO film, "Recount" starring Kevin Spacey and Laura Dern.

Moorcock was born in London , England in 1939.  He has been writing most of his life in most genres, from contributions to Tarzan Adventures at the age of 16 (and position as editor at 17) until today, including the Metatemporal Detective published in 2007.  The Metatemporal Detective features a cover by this year?s CoastCon Artist Guest of Honor John Picacio who has also illustrated throughout the newest edition of Elric: The Stealer of Souls.  Married to a Mississippian, he has even written fiction set in an alternate universe of CoastCon?s hometown of Biloxi along the ?Biloxi Fault,? a rift in reality which threatens the world. 

However, Moorcock is best known for his stories and novels centered on the ?Eternal Champion,? a figure of many incarnations in many universes all of which are part of one cosmic entity.  The best known of the Eternal Champions is Elric of Melnibone, an albino sorcerer-king who wields (or is wielded by) a soul-devouring sword known as Stormbringer, itself a part of the same cosmos spanning entity.  Elric first appeared in the early 1960?s and has continued to figure in stories and novels by Moorcock and others to this day.

Although primarily a writer of fiction with some poetry and non-fiction to his credit, Moorcock has also had a career as rock musician and songwriter.  As a collaborator with the band Hawkwind, he appears on numerous albums.  He has also has three songwriting credits with Blue Öyster Cult and has performed with the band on stage.

CoastCon 32 is proud to have Michael Moorcock as one of its two Author Guests of Honor.  He currently splits each year between homes in Bastrop , Texas and Paris, France with his wife Linda and two cats.

Chris Roberson?s novels include Here, There & Everywhere, The Voyage of Night Shining White, Paragaea: A Planetary Romance, X-Men: The Return, Set the Seas on Fire, The Dragon?s Nine Sons, and the forthcoming novels End of the Century, Iron Jaw and Hummingbird, and Three Unbroken and the comic book mini-series Cinderella: From Fabletown With Love. His short stories have appeared in such magazines as Asimov?s, Interzone, Postscripts, and Subterranean, and in anthologies such as Live Without a Net, FutureShocks, and Forbidden Planets.

Along with his business partner and spouse Allison Baker, he is the publisher of MonkeyBrain Books, an independent publishing house specializing in genre fiction and nonfiction genre studies, and he is the editor of anthology Adventure Vol. 1.

He has been a finalist for the World Fantasy Award four times?once each for writing and editing, and twice for publishing?twice a finalist for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, and three times for the Sidewise Award for Best Alternate History Short Form (winning in 2004 with his story ?O One?).

Chris and Allison live in Austin, Texas with their daughter Georgia. Visit him online at www.chrisroberson.net.

Glenda C. Finklestien

Glenda C. Finkelstein has been writing since she was a small child using words like an artist uses paint. Although her passion has always been Science Fiction, she has written a great deal of poetry. In addition, she has been part of the writing staff of various school and work newspapers over the years. Her first book was published in 2000, and currently has four novels out with a firth in the works. Of her works to date, she has received several awards.

After having translated two of her novels into audio formats, the most recent, ?Nemesis Rising? which is formatted more like an audio drama rather than a dry read. Glenda contributed five major voices having to learn Chinese, French, Southern, and Swedish accents allowing her one voice as herself. It was this process that started to push her toward another way of story telling, the screenplay. With that in mind she endeavored to put her novel, ?The Edge of The Universe,? into a screenplay format. That exercise groomed her for the screenplay that was finally taken to the screen this year called, ?Perfect Copy,? a story of self discovery that challenges the very definition of life.

Glenda C. Finkelstein is a woman of imagination and creativity that never rests. She has a passion to convey her thoughts and ideas through words, which is at the very heart and soul of her being. Although novel writing is her first love, she is beginning to appreciate and embrace the art of screenwriting. She said ?It's a way of story telling unlike any other, and requires the dedication and common purpose of others to bring it to fruition. It is this sharing of talent funneled into a single story which makes the people at Final Destiny so incredible to be around. It's not just the writer's imagination it's a team of creative individuals pooling their talents and resources to create something that no one person could have done on their own. To that I will be forever grateful to everyone that has shared this story with me.?

In addition to this being her first screenplay, this is also her acting debut. She said ?My only previous exposure to acting was 9th grade drama class which is further back than I care to admit, but necessity birthed in me something I never believed I could do. I, in no way, believe I'm going to sweep the Oscars. It did, however, afford me an opportunity to express myself in a new way. In many ways I think the experience will improve my screenwriting for future endeavors.?

Jeannie Holmes

Before receiving her Bachelor of Arts degree in English from the University of South Alabama, Jeannie Holmes worked in a variety of interesting fields, including medical records, independent auction houses, and owned a small handcrafted jewelry business. CRIMSON SWAN, her debut novel, is a supernatural suspense thriller set in her native southwest Mississippi and will be published by Bantam in fall 2009. In addition to working on the sequel to CRIMSON SWAN, she is finishing her Master of Arts degree in English and lives in Mobile, AL with her husband and four neurotic cats. For more information, visit her website at www.jeannieholmes.com

Guest of Honor
John Picacio

Rob Balder

Rob Balder is a professional cartoonist, singer/songwriter, game designer and web entrepreneur.

He writes and sings comedy songs, and has recorded two CDs (http://www.richfantasylives.com). The title track from Rob's first CD, "Rich Fantasy Lives" was co-written with Filk Hall of Famer Tom Smith (http://www.tomsmithonline.com). It won the Pegasus award for Best Filk Song of 2007. Rob's songs have often been heard on the syndicated Doctor Demento Show (http://www.doctordemento.com). In January 2006, he and six other comedy music performers founded The Funny Music Project (http://www.TheFuMP.com), where they present new songs every single day, released under a Creative Commons license.

Rob is also the creator of the clip-art comic strip "PartiallyClips" (http://www.partiallyclips.com), which is widely read online and has appeared in more than two dozen newspapers and magazines. A book collection of the strip, "Suffering for my Clip Art: the Best of PartiallyClips, volume 1" was published in 2005.

He is the Associate Editor of Nth Degree (http://www.nthzine.com/index.html) a popular fanzine covering genre fiction, gaming, comics, fandom and more. He writes science fiction and fantasy, including one unpublished novel and many short stories and poems.

Rob also teamed up with Pete Abrams of Sluggy Freelance (http://www.sluggy.com) to create "Get Nifty," (http://www.getnifty.com) a stand-alone card game themed around Pete's comic. Get Nifty debuted in stores in 2006, through Blood & Cardstock Games (http://www.blood-and-cardstock.com).

His current major project is a full-color Fantasy webcomic called "Erfworld" (http://www.erfworld.com), co-created with illustrator Jamie Noguchi (http://www.angryzenmaster.com). Erfworld began in December 2006 and runs at Giant in the Playground Games, home of the popular roleplay comic, "The Order of the Stick," by Rich Burlew. Time Magazine named Erfworld one of the Top Ten Graphic Novels of 2007. Erfworld is expected to be published in book form in 2009.

Ken Burnside has worked in the Adventure Games industry since 1991, and worked for most of the companies that produce science fiction products at one time or another as a playtester or freelance contributor. Ad Astra Games was founded in 2000 to publish his own designs and he has been working for Ad Astra since 2003. He's also an encyclopedia author and regular contributor in the military simulations community.

Ken's boardgame designs are reknowned for packing lots of scientific accuracy into suprisingly playable 3-D packages, and range from the "Honorverse" (Saganami Island Tactical Simulator) to hard science (Attack Vector: Tactical) and flexible cinematic (Squadron Strike). He has won the Origins Award once and has also been a finalist.

Ken has also designed Roleplaying Games, from the D6 Dramatics engine used by Ad Astra Games for its liscensed properties to Minimus, a complete roleplaying game in two pages. (The expanded version of Minimus has an additional few pages of GMing advice, but the actual rules of the game fit in TWO PAGES!)

You'll be able to find Ken in the gaming hall teaching people how to blow up chocolates, or doing a few panels with David Weber.

Publishing Guest 


Toni Weisskopf