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My Flights of Foundry 2025 Recap!

| October 6, 2025

This year at Flights of Foundry, I was a workshop presenter, moderator, panelist, poetry challenge co-leader, and support staff. It was a ton of work but also, as always, a ton of fun! On Friday, I kicked off the poetry challenge with a co-working and sharing session. Then I led my Intro to Speculative Poetry […]

My Flights of Foundry 2025 Schedule

| September 15, 2025

Flights of Foundry is coming up on September 26-28, and I’ve got my schedule for the weekend! I’m noting both the convention hours and the PDT times for my events; if you’re not in PDT, you can use the “Time” part of the program to convert the convention hours to your time zone! Friday, September […]

Fun for Friday: Ideas for Retellings of Classic Works

| September 12, 2025

A couple of weeks ago, the “New Approaches to Older Fiction” panel from Flights of Foundry 2023 went live on YouTube. The panelists talked about classic works that are no longer under copyright and different ways in which those can be made more accessible to modern people. They had a ton of fun tossing around […]

Flights of Foundry 2025 is Coming Soon

| September 3, 2025

Flights of Foundry, Dream Foundry’s annual online convention for creatives of all types, is coming soon from September 26-28, 2025. Programming runs around the clock with a variety of contents for authors, editors, translators, artists, game designers, gamers, and more! I’ll have my schedule to share closer to the event, but in the meantime, make […]

Another Batch of Flights of Foundry Videos

| September 1, 2025

Recently, I’ve been helping the fine folks at The Dream Foundry prepare, post, and promote some of the panel videos from the 2023 Flights of Foundry online convention. New content goes up every Sunday and Wednesday, and many of the videos are up permanently. (Some remain up for an limited amount of time.) Here’s a handful of […]

Flights of Foundry Registration is Open!

| August 13, 2025

If you haven’t already registered for Flights of Foundry 2025, this is your friendly reminder that registration for this year’s online convention is open! The convention runs around the clock for 60 hours from September 26 through 28. It typically kicks off around mid-day or early afternoon in the Central time zone, but the convention […]

Flights of Foundry Panels: Editing and More!

| July 14, 2025

Recently, I’ve been helping the fine folks at The Dream Foundry prepare, post, and promote some of the panel videos from the 2023 Flights of Foundry online convention. New content goes up every Sunday and Wednesday, and many of the videos are up permanently. (Some remain up for an limited amount of time.) Here’s a handful of […]

Another Flights of Foundry Panel Video Round-Up

| June 16, 2025

Recently, I’ve been helping the fine folks at The Dream Foundry prepare, post, and promote some of the panel videos from the 2023 Flights of Foundry online convention. New content goes up every Sunday and Wednesday, and many of the videos are up permanently. (Some remain up for an limited amount of time.) Here’s a […]

Rounding Up Some Panels I’ve Been On

| May 19, 2025

As I’ve been working on panel transcriptions and recordings recently, I thought it might be nice to have a round-up post that lists the panels I’ve been on that you can watch online! “Historians on History in Fiction” is from the 2024 WriteHive conference, where several historians talked about history in our writing, ways to […]

Flights of Foundry Panel Video Round-Up

| April 21, 2025

Recently, I’ve been helping out the fine folks at The Dream Foundry to prepare, post, and promote some of the panel videos from the 2023 Flights of Foundry online convention. New content goes up every Wednesday, and most of the videos are available for six months after they’re posted. (Some remain up for an unlimited […]