Bacon Academy held its third annual Sleigh Bells Arts & Crafts Fair at Bacon Academy in Colchester, Connecticut. This year Hebron author Stacey Longo was on-hand selling and signing her books including Secret Things and Pookie and the Lost & Found Friend.
Author Stacey Longo holding her book, Secret Things.
She also had a number of anthologies she has stories in at her table. One of the anthologies was Insanity Tales, which was published this past October.
Super Megafest has come to New England once again. It’s a show that draws hundreds of people every year. If you couldn’t make it this year, you will have two chances next year. There will be two Super Megafests next year. A Spring Edition in April to be held at the Marlborough Trade Center in Marlborough, MA. This convention will be held over three days, April 17 through 19. The Fall Edition will once again be held at the Sheraton Framingham Hotel in Framingham, MA. November 21 and 22.
Dwight Schultz (The A-Team, Star Trek: The Next Generation).
Denise Crosby (Star Trek: The Next Generation, The Walking Dead).
Marina Sirtis (Star Trek: The Next Generation).
Lee Arenberg (Pirates of the Caribbean series).
Paul Amos (Lost Girl).
Me and Kris Holden-Reid (Lost Girl).
Joe Pantoliano (The Matrix, Daredevil).
Jamie Kennedy (Scream, Scream 2).
Ian Ziering (90210, Sharknado).
Wrestler Scott Hall.
Wrestler Kevin Nash (Magic Mike, Rock of Ages).
Kiss Demon.
Vincent Pastore (The Celebrity Apprentice, The Sopranos).
Aileen Quinn (Annie).
Debbie Gibson (Mega Shark vs. Mecha Shark, Rock of Ages).
Author Stacey Longo and musician Gary DeCarlo.
Musician Micky Dolenz signing an autograph for a fan.
The pictures below are pirates from the Rogues’ Armada. You can also find these pirates on Facebook here.
A pirates from the Rogues’ Armada.
Commodore Samuel “WeirdBeard” Hain of the Rogues’ Armada.
Author Chris Philbrook.
Authors Della Rita Rossetti and Lory La Selva Paduano.
Spawn.
A Dalek from Dr. Who.
Santa Darth Vader.
A Starfleet officer.
BB hanging with the Ghostbusters.
Spawn.
BB hanging with some superheroes.
Actor Walter Koenig (Star Trek: The Original Series).
Captain America and Casey Jones.
Actor John Wesley Shipp (Dawson’s Creek, The Flash (1990 and 2014).
An Andorian Starfleet officer holding a tridimensional chessboard.
Actor James Hampton (Teen Wolf).
Mary Poppins.
A Visitor.
WWE star and author Mick Foley.
Actress Nichelle Nichols (Star Trek: The Original Series).
Cobra Commander.
Groot and Rocket.
Actor Seth Gilliam (The Walking Dead).
Quint being eaten by Jaws.
Ben Obi-Wan Kenobi and Dr. Strange.
Captain America.
Actor Mark Sheppard (Supernatural, Leverage).
Frozen’s Elsa.
Actor J. August Richards (Marvel’s Agents of Shield, Angel).
Actor Vic Mignogna (Star Trek Continues).
Mirror Universe Spock.
Author Eric Dimbleby.
Actress Karen Allen (Raiders of the Lost Ark, Starman). Photo by Stacey Longo.
Actor William Forsythe (The Devil’s Rejects, Dick Tracy).
Dick Tracy.
Actor Saul Rubinek (Warehouse 13, True Romance).
Kevin Smith.
The Blues Brothers.
Actor Anthony Michael Hall (Weird Science, televison’s The Dead Zone). Photo by Stacey Longo.
Steven Williams (Supernatural, The X-Files, Jason Goes to Hell).
Actor Bobby Clark (Star Trek: The Original Series).
Batman.
Actor John Rhys-Davies (Raiders of the Lost Ark) and author Stacey Longo.
Spider-woman and Captain America.
The Dome of the Sci-fi Saturday Night podcast.
Princess Leia (Cosplayer Sarah Ann McGinnis)
The alien marching band.
J. August Richards dancing with the alien band.
Actor George Takei (Star Trek: The Original Series).
Mar Jennings. Photo by Jason Harris.
The 6th Annual Connecticut Authors Trail celebrated its finale on Thursday, September 4, 2014. The featured speaker was TV personality Mar Jennings, author of Life on Mar’s: Creating Casual Luxury. Giving a lively presentation from the stage of the Cabaret Theater at Mohegan Sun, Jennings gave advice and tips on creating a warm and inviting environment inside and outside the home. Sharing beautiful photos of his own home and garden in Westport, CT, Jennings shared his six principles for decorating a room, including repeating patterns and incorporating nature into the décor. He answered questions from the audience about personal interior decorating preferences and the best flea markets to shop in the area.
Many of the other authors who were featured on the Author Trail this year were in attendance for the finale. Mystery writer Liz Mugavero (Kneading to Die), historian Quincy Abbot (From Schoolboy to Soldier), and horror writer Stacey Longo (Secret Things) were all on hand with copies of their books. Libraries participating in the 2014 Connecticut Authors Trail kindly donated raffle baskets, and readers who attended the authors’ presentations throughout the state were given tickets to enter in the raffles. Mohegan Sun generously provided appetizers for the event.
To learn more about the authors who appeared on the Trail this year, please visit http://connecticutauthorstrail.org.
The 2013 New England Authors Expo. Photo by Jason Harris.
The New England Authors Expo will be attended by authors, artists, booksellers, publishers, and many more guests, companies and organizations, which makes it the perfect time for readers to meet and talk to authors and others in the publishing world about books and the written word. For an entire list of who will be there, click here.
Some of the authors and artists in attendance are Stacey Longo, Rob Watts, Dale T. Phillips, Vlad V., Michele McPhee, Nicholas Conley, Eric Dimbleby, Guntis Goncarovs, Edith Maxwell, Ursula Wong, A.J. Kane, and S.L. Johnson.
The bookseller, Books & Boos, will also be in attendance selling used and new books. There will be a few authors at its table. The authors are Longo, Michael Evans, and Kurt Newton.
The Expo operates from 4 p.m. to 9 p.m. and takes place in the Harborview Ballroom at the Danversport Yacht Club. The yacht club is located at 161 Elliott Street (Rt. 62) in Danvers, MA. There will be a free gift bag to the first 100 visitors. This event is FREE.
You can follow the Expo on its Facebook page here or on Twitter (@neauthorexpo).
WWE Wrestler Kane a.k.a Glenn Jacobs
WWE superstar Kane was on hand at TerrorCon at the Rhode Island Convention Center on Sunday, June 8 to meet fans and participate in a Q & A session with a packed crowd in attendance. Glenn Jacobs, who is the man behind Kane’s mask, was friendly, personable, and humble as he answered questions from the audience.
The first question from the moderator was about a failed character from Jacobs’s past, the ill-fated Isaac Yankem, DDS. Notorious for not liking to discuss this past gimmick, Jacobs did admit that he felt the personality’s failure was “mostly my fault. I didn’t like [the character], and it showed.” Jacobs was next asked who his favorite opponents have been over the years. His response listed some of the most well-known faces in wrestling from the past two decades, including The Undertaker, Mick Foley, Stone Cold Steve Austin, and Shawn Michaels.
One fan in the audience asked Jacobs about his reputation in the wrestling locker room as one of the “safest” opponents to face. Jacobs shrugged and explained “it’s mostly just about being a professional. You want to stay safe and keep your opponent safe.”
Jacobs was asked to reflect on his character’s evolution over the past 17 years. “Most guys go out to the ring doing the same thing night after night,” he said with a smile. “Kane’s different. He’s been able to evolve and develop as a character. I think it keeps him interesting.” He recalled different phases of Kane’s career, including a time when Kane had to use a voice box to communicate and when the Big Red Machine’s mask first came off. “It was hot under that mask,” he admitted. When asked who made the decision to unmask Kane, Jacobs said “two people: me and Vince [McMahon, WWE CEO].”
Jacobs fielded the questions from fans with good humor and grace. When one audience member asked him to comment on a current storyline about the Shield and Evolution, a storyline Kane is not involved in, he responded kindly: “I think it was a surprise, and that’s what you want, right?” Another fan asked about Kane’s experience getting Pete Rose in a Tombstone pile driver at WrestleMania 14 in 1998. “Pete Rose is like us,” Jacobs laughed. “He doesn’t take himself too seriously. I was just surprised when the crowd started cheering me.”
After the Q & A session, fans lingered to shake Jacobs’s hand and thank him for the opportunity to talk to him. “The best part about this business is you guys, the fans,” Jacobs said humbly, which is yet more evidence showing why Kane continues to be a fan favorite among wrestling patrons of all ages.
Musician Cherie Currie.
Jim Dyer of Fenham Publishing.
Naomi Grossman (An American Horror Story)
Michael Jai-White (Arrow, Spawn)
Author Stacey Longo with Captain Jack Sparrow.
The fun-loving Dee Wallace (E.T., Critters)
Me and Kane Hodder.
Frankenberry
Musician Lita Ford
Butch Patrick (The Munsters)
Pat Priest (The Munsters)
Author Stacey Longo having a scream at Terror Con.
A scorpion at Terror Con.
There will be one more entry with pictures from Terror Con tomorrow.
Sarah Michelle. Photo courtesy of Sarah Michelle.
Sarah Michelle is a model, actress, and wrestler. She has also been named Miss Terror Con. When she first heard about the newest horror convention in New England, it was as “a fan of horror,” she said.
“I was very excited that there was something like this going to happen in my hometown because it’s the first one,” Sarah said. “This is exactly what Rhode Island needs.”
She wanted to be involve in some capacity whether as a spokesmodel, helping out with flyers, or anything else she could do to help out the horror convention.
“I knew I could be beneficial to them.”
She sent the organizers an email and they responded with the idea of Miss Terror Con.
This isn’t Sarah’s first time in the spotlight. She started modeling about seven years ago when she was helping out a friend who was going to school for photography.
“I was really tomboyish. I still am at heart so the whole fashion, glamour thing was really new to me.”
After Sarah started her modeling career, she liked what she doing and was having fun doing it. Within the last few years, she started taking it seriously, she said. Since she loved horror, she started to wonder if there was anyone who would be interested in taking horror photos.
“I found out that there were a lot of people interested in that.”
Through her horror work, she started doing fetish work. When she started, she didn’t realize it was fetish work. She was working with the production company, Damsels in Distress Visual Productions. During the production, there were a lot of close-ups being taken of her legs, which were stuck in the mud. All she was thinking at the time was that it was a job and that it would give her a chance to practice her acting. After being told it was a fetish work, she was fine with it.
“I have always been very curious about different fetishes and things like that.”
After that first experience, she found out about different types of fetishes like bondage and vore, “which is essentially someone being eaten by something.”
She focuses mainly on fetish and horror photos and videos now. She handles her own business. She gets projects through Facebook, Twitter, and email. She has a shoot coming up in New Hampshire, which she got after the photographer saw some of her work on Twitter, she said.
“I enjoy doing it,” she said about fetish work. “It’s a lot of fun. I get to travel.”
Her work has taken to different states and overseas to England where she filmed a quicksand fetish for Damsels in Distress Visual Productions.
“I never thought in a million years I would be going to England especially not for fetish work.”
You can find Sarah’s work by clicking here.
You can meet her in person this weekend at Terror Con, which runs from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Saturday and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Larry Thomas, the Soup Nazi on Seinfeld.
The man on the Office Space movie poster.
Poison Ivy, Batman, and the Joker.
Indiana Jones.
Green Arrow.
Catwoman.
Man in the Moon.
Mr. T.
Nick Fury and Pepper Potts.
Iron Patriot with a convention-goer.
The Batcycle.
This is the final post of pictures from Hartford Comic Con. I hope you enjoyed them.
Deadpool.
Author Estevan Vega.
Harley Quinn and Poison Ivy.
Artist Agnes Garbowska.
Frozen’s Elsa the Snow Queen.
Green Goblin.
Brando Eaton (Cabin Fever 3).
The woodcarvings of Christopher Letarte.
Wonder Woman.
Merida from Brave.
The Green Hornet’s Black Beauty.
She-Hulk.
J & S Collectibles.
Gotham City residents.
Artist Mark Morales.
Oogie Boogie from The Nightmare Before Christmas.
Jason Harris Promotions 