The 7th annual Scares That Care Charity Weekend begins in just ten days! For readers attending to meet their favorite authors,, here is the programming schedule (with a reminder that each of these authors will also be signing throughout the weekend).

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AUTHOR PROGRAMMING

FRIDAY

4:15pm to 5:00pm (Room A): Todd Keisling and Bridgett Nelson – Reading and Q&A

 5:15pm to 6:15pm (Room A): MY FAVORITE HORROR HYBRID – Like peanut butter and chocolate, horror goes well with other genres. Gabino Iglesias, Adam Cesare, Stephen Kozeniewski, and Scott Baker (moderator) discuss some of their favorite cross-genre chillers.

 6:30pm to 7:15pm (Room A): Hunter Shea and Matt Serafini – Reading and Q&A

 7:30pm to 8:30pm (Room A): COLLECTING HORROR MOVIE NOVELIZATIONS – What’s your first edition paperback of John Carpenter’s Halloween worth? Where can you find a copy of Friday the 13th in print? Matt Serafini, Kristopher Triana, Wesley Southard, and Scott Cole (moderator) discuss collecting novelizations of your favorite horror films.  

8:45pm to 9:30pm (Room A): Kristopher Triana and John Wayne Comunale – Reading and Q&A

9:00pm until… (Auditorium): HORROR TRIVIA THUNDERDOME II: Fans compete against their favorite actors and authors in a hilarious horror trivia deathmatch. Hosted by Brian Keene and featuring surprise guests.
 

SATURDAY  

10:15am to 11:00am (Room A): Jacob Haddon and Red Lagoe – Reading and Q&A

 11:15am to Noon (Room A): Scott Baker and Jay Wilburn –Reading and Q&A

Noon to 1:00pm (Rooms 2 & 3): WRITING FOR VIDEO GAMES – Video game industry veteran Richard Dansky answers all of your questions about how to break into the field and how to write for video games.

 12:15pm to 1:00pm (Room A): Scott Cole and Christoph Paul – Reading and Q&A

 1:15pm to 2:00pm (Room A): Adam Cesare and Wesley Southard – Reading and Q&A

 2:15pm to 3:00pm (Room A): Jonathan Janz and Gabino Iglesias – Reading and Q&A

 3:15pm to 4:00pm (Room A): Laurel Hightower and Sonora Taylor – Reading and Q&A

 4:15pm to 5:15pm (Room A): I SURVIVED THE DEATH OF HORROR (AGAIN) – From Zebra Books and Dell/Abyss in the mid-1990s to Leisure Books and Samhain in the ‘00s, mainstream horror fiction has died and then clawed its way out of the grave time and time again. Ronald Kelly, Jeff Strand, Jonathan Janz, Hunter Shea, and Lynne Hansen (moderator) discuss what it was like to live through those times, and how they survived to scare again.

 5:30pm to 6:30pm (Room A): V. Castro, Cynthia Pelayo and Leza Cantoral – Reading and Q&A

SUNDAY

 11:15am to Noon (Room A): Kelli Owen and Lucas Milliron – Reading and Q&A

 12:15pm to 1:00pm (Room A): Kevin Lucia and Lindsay Lerman – Reading and Q&A

 1:15pm to 2:00pm (Room A): Jeff Strand and Stephen Kozeniewski – Reading and Q&A

 2:15pm to 3:00pm (Room A): Robert Ford and Brian Keene – Reading and Q&A