This weekend, Jim and I will be heading to Louisville, Ky. for Imaginarium. We are looking forward to seeing old friends and meeting new folks, talking up the craft and hopefully selling some books. Jim is booth babe this time around, plus or minus a crop top. I, however, have a solid schedule, listed below:…
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Schedule for Imaginarium announced
I’m delighted to return to Imaginarium again, and I’m doing a bunch of workshops this year! At noon Friday, I’m teaching “The Art of Legal Prostitution: Selling Your Books at Cons and Signings” (RM Calumet). At 8 p.m., I’ll be on a panel discussing the ethics of AI across all media. I’m quite sure they’ll…
A haunted swamp, a dancer and the Angel of Death…
It sounds like the opening of a joke, but there are three new items up for order (or preorder) this month! First: We are now accepting preorders for Dreadmire, the 15th anniversary edition of my first quest fantasy. It’s a dark one – not for the kiddos – and I’ve always had a great fondness for…
March 2024 Linkspam: Return to the swamp
In the late 2000s, I wrote a media tie-in novel titled Dreadmire. It was a dark fantasy adventure tied to a d20 RPG published by Spellbinder Games, sourcebook by Randy Richards. The medievalesque high fantasy Randy created was inspired by the ecology and culture of the Louisiana bayous, and I found it a fascinating setting. I…
BookNotes: Nevermore
Today’s top read: The Estrogen Zone, or how women pioneered creative nonfiction before it was even a thing. All the way back to Nellie Bly, women like Joan Didion, Rachel Carson, Gail Sheehy, and others had to deal with the most rank sexism to fight their way out of the “flamingo pink” women’s pages…
The One Where Elizabeth Wins
I’m honored to share that I’ve been awarded an AWP Community Scholarship to attend the 2024 conference in Kansas City. I was lucky to attend last year’s conference in Seattle, and I absolutely loved it. AWP is one hell of a conference, with about 25 panels per hour aimed for writers and writing programs. It’s…
September 2023 linkspam
The image above was a sign on the wall of the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Atlanta, one of the five host hotels for Dragoncon. I was delighted to return to Dragoncon after an absence of eight years, which was just long enough to remember where the food court is, and completely forget which level you…
Fall Deathmarch (a.k.a. tour)
Excuse me, meme. We prefer the term “geeks.” Semantics aside (and I’m always up for semantics!) I’m off to sunny Atlanta for Dragoncon! It’s great to be returning after many years away – I think my last DC was 2015? My reading is at 2:30 p.m. Saturday in Hyatt Marietta, and I hope you’ll come….
Dragoncon Schedule
I’m delighted to be returning to Dragoncon after a long time away! Below is my schedule, where I get to meet up with some old friends and new faces as well. It’s a fairly light schedule, so I may have free time (!) to meet up and chat! I will have a limited quantity of…
August 2023 Linkspam
Let me start with the big one: my screenplay for “Infinity” was finalist at the Imadjinn film festival, complete with a nifty little trophy for my office. This was the first screenplay I ever wrote, as part of a workshop at the university under Professor Valerie Vogrin, and I was so pleased at its warm…