Laura VanArendonk Baugh is a behavior expert, animal trainer, and chocolate enthusiast who has attended and worked at quite a lot of anime, sci-fi, comic, gaming, and other geek conventions. Sheβs won about thirty costume awards at cons ranging in size from a few hundred to over fifty thousand attendees, judged costume contests, and presented hundreds of workshops on costuming, fandom, and related academic topics, so she enjoyed this chance to get her geek on in fiction as well.