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Writing Flash Fiction Panel

| February 27, 2023

Last year, I moderated a panel on flash fiction for Flights of Foundry. The YouTube video is available now, in case you’re interested in hearing a group of flash fiction authors share some of our favorite tips and tricks. We talk a bit about multiple genres, poetry, and more!  

Writing in a Shared World Panel at the Nebulas

| May 30, 2022

At the Nebulas award weekend, I attended a TON of panels, but I spoke on one panel about Writing in a Shared World, with M. Darusha Wehm, Vanessa MacLaren-Wray, and Noah K. Sturtevant. We each had a variety of levels of involvement in shared world projects, from publishers and organizers of all the pieces to […]

Writing Small

| May 16, 2022

I moderated a panel on “Writing Small” at Flights of Foundry, during which we talked a lot about flash fiction and other stories told in very small word counts. I was on a similar panel four years ago, since which time I’ve written and sold a lot more flash fiction and gotten a better grasp […]

Assembling Anthologies

| May 2, 2022

At the recent Flights of Foundry online convention, one of the panels I spoke on was about assembling anthologies. I’ve talked about this topic previously, though only in a very cursory way. This panel brought together people like me, who have edited Kickstarted anthologies with folks who have edited comics anthologies and anthologies showcasing underrepresented […]

Underrepresented Mythologies at QuaranCon 2022

| April 18, 2022

On April 7th, I moderated a QuaranCon panel on Underrepresented Mythologies, and it’s available to watch on YouTube (linked above).  This was a fantastic panel with five wonderful panelists who had great answers to my questions! We had people who have worked with a variety of Eastern European mythologies, Middle Eastern mythology, and a lot […]

Locus Recap

| July 5, 2021

The Locus Awards events were online this year the last weekend in June, and while I didn’t participate in a whole lot, I watched a couple of panels that I thought were interesting. One was “Speculative Mood: Making Short Fiction Shine.” The panel wound up being different than I expected from the title, but it […]

Convention of Heroes Recap

| June 28, 2021

Last week was the Convention of Heroes, an online event hosted by Superhero-Fiction.com. There were a ton of great panels, and the best news is that you can watch recordings of all of them on YouTube! I particularly found the “How to Craft a Hero” and “Captivating World Building” panels useful for someone who writes […]

Upcoming Awards Conferences Online!

| May 17, 2021

A lot of conventions and conferences made a quick pivot to online versions last spring, and now that people have tried various platforms to see what works and what doesn’t, many are continuing online events this year. The Nebulas Conference is online again, with the conference running June 4-6 and the awards presented on the […]

Going to Foolscap!

| February 6, 2020

This weekend, I’ll be at Foolscap in Seattle! Foolscap is a very small convention with lots of folks who are interested in books and crafts and all sorts of other cool things, and it runs February 7-9. I’m on a panel about Publishing in the Digital Age on Friday evening. On Saturday, I’ll be interviewing […]

My GeekGirlCon 2019 Haul

| November 20, 2019

GeekGirlCon was this past weekend, and while I didn’t bring home TOO much stuff, I did have a couple of awesome things I picked up! The fabric from Fireside Textiles is destined to become a young gamer’s first dice bag, picked out especially for them. They had so much other AMAZING fabric that I wanted, […]