Gaming Guest of Honor – David Sherrer
David Sherrer is a born storyteller and has been an advid gamer ever since he discovered Magic the Gathering at the tender age of fourteen. He has alternately owned a gaming store, street performed for a living, and spent eleven years in the world of telecommunications. He lucked out by marrying a force of nature (otherwise known as his wife) determined to making living off writing, and has since escaped his 9-5 to become the Marketing Director and Lead Game Designer of Chenoweth Press.
His most fond achievements include being Time Magazine Person of the Year in 2006—there’s a story there, just ask him. David considers himself an Atlantian, but currently lives in Louisville, KY with his family, feline overlords, and a mountain of board games that he swears he actually plays.
Author Guest of Honor- Lydia Sherrer
Lydia Sherrer is an award-winning and USA Today-bestselling author who hopes to leave this world a better place than when she found it. She grew up in rural Kentucky and was thoroughly corrupted by a deep love for its rolling countryside, in spite of all the mosquitoes and hay-fever. Lydia’s parents instilled in her a craving for literature early on, and later regretted it as they had to wrestle books away from her at the dinner table and confiscate all her flashlights she used to read books under the covers. Despite their best efforts, they never managed to break her of the habit and Lydia is still reading under the covers today, though now she has the convenience of a Kindle with night settings.
Lydia graduated with a dual B.A. in Chinese and Arabic, and after traveling to the far corners of the globe, came home and stayed. Instead of becoming a marine biologist or a spy for the CIA (her childhood dreams), she decided to do something much more exciting and dangerous: write books for a living.
Her award-winning and bestselling “Love, Lies, and Hocus Pocus – the Lily Singer Adventures” series is delightfully snarky urban fantasy with a talking cat that has been described by Harry Potter fans as “Highly addictive!” and “a must read.” It has garnered thousands of five star ratings and sold over half a million copies.
Most recently Lydia is working on the TransDimensional Hunter series with NYT bestselling author John Ringo. Her short stories have appeared in numerous anthologies such as “We Shall Rise” and “Chicks in Tank Tops.” She also writes new short stories for her Patreon supporters every month. Lydia subsists on liberal amounts of tea and dark chocolate, and hates sleep because it keeps her from writing (though she needs it because she has kids to wrangle). In her non-existent spare time, she enjoys puzzles, archery, and collecting insects. Due to the tireless efforts of her game-designer husband and her three overlords, er cats, she remains sane and even occasionally remembers to leave the house.”
CrashCityCon 2025 is August 22-24, 2025 at the Tanglewood Holiday Inn