Meet Milton Davis at Chattacon January 29-31

Milton Davis
Milton Davis

Milton Davis is a research and development chemist, speculative fiction writer and owner of MVmedia, LLC, a micro publishing company specializing in Science Fiction, Fantasy and Sword and Soul. MVmedia’s mission is to provide speculative fiction books that represent people of color in a positive manner.

Milton is the author of Changa’s Safari Volumes One, Two and Three. His most recent releases are Woman of the Woods and Amber and the Hidden City. He is co-editor of four anthologies; Griots: A Sword and Soul Anthology and Griot: Sisters of the Spear, with Charles R. Saunders; The Ki Khanga Anthology with Balogun Ojetade and the Steamfunk! Anthology, also with Balogun Ojetade.

Milton Davis and Balogun Ojetade recently received the Best Screenplay Award for 2014 from the Urban Action Showcase for their African martial arts script, Ngolo. His current projects include The City, a cyberfunk anthology, Dark Universe, a space opera anthology based on a galactic empire ruled by people of African American descent, From Here to Timbuktu, a steamfunk novel and Changa and the Jade Obelisk, an animated movie based on his story The Jade Obelisk. Milton resides in Metro Atlanta with his wife Vickie and his children Brandon and Alana.

Chattacon 41 will be held this weekend, Jan 29-31 at the Chattanooga Choo Choo Hotel and Convention Center. Chattacon is an annual science fiction convention held in Chattanooga organized by the nonprofit Chattanooga Speculative Fiction Fans, Inc. First held in 1976, the convention drew more than 1,200 attendees in 2014. Go to http://www.chattacon.org/ for details.

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