Candice Huber (they/them) is a sixth generation New Orleanian who owns New Orleans’ premier geeky, queer, progressive, and genre-focused bookstore, Tubby & Coo’s Mid-City Book Shop, named after their grandparents. Candice serves on the national Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion Committee, Science Fiction & Fantasy Task Force, and the Independent Bookstore Day Advisory Committee for the American Booksellers Association and is a writing, editing, publishing, and virtual event consultant. They are also helping to develop and an instructor for  the Store Operations module for the Professional Bookseller Certification program. In the before-times, they hosted The Writers’ Forum on WRBH Reading Radio, focusing on interviewing science fiction and fantasy authors. Candice established TALES Publishing in 2018, which has thus far published three books, with the fourth coming, a role-playing game supplement called Carnival of Creatures focusing on Louisiana monsters of myth and legend.