I'm proud to announce that I'll be volunteering at this year's Willamette Writers Conference in Portland, Oregon! As a year-round volunteer, I'll be helping in the background this year to keep the weekend running smoothly. I'll be around so come say hi!   About the conference: DREAM BIG this August 2-6, 2023 at the 54th annual Willamette Writers Conference! Join us to find your writing community, develop your craft and expand your career -- both in-person and online this year. At the Crowne Plaza Hotel in downtown Portland and at your own computer screen, you'll find workshops, keynotes, critiques and pitches, all aimed at helping you take that next step in your writing life. Critiques and pitches are online, August 2-3, and the workshops, keynotes, and events are August 4-6, in-person and online. But that's not all! There are evening events (Pitch for the Prize! The Writer's Fair! The Launch…

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This year, I'm excited to announce that I'm a panelist at Norwescon 46! What's Norwescon, you ask? Well... From the Norwescon website: Norwescon is the Pacific Northwest’s premier science fiction and fantasy convention, and one of the largest entirely volunteer-operated regional conventions in the United States. While maintaining a primarily literary focus, Norwescon is large enough to provide a venue for many of the other aspects of science fiction and fantasy and the interests of its fans such as comics, costuming, art, gaming, science, technology, and much, much more. I'll share details about my schedule once I have them, but until then, get your membership and book your hotel! It's gonna be an awesome Easter weekend!

From the Viable Paradise website: "Viable Paradise is a unique one-week residential workshop in writing and selling commercial science fiction and fantasy. The workshop is intimate, intense, and features extensive time spent with best-selling and award-winning authors and professional editors currently working in the field. VP concentrates on the art of writing fiction people want to read, and this concentration is reflected in post-workshop professional sales by our alumni. With over twenty-five years of experience, our students have gone on to be nominated for and win Hugo Awards and Nebula Awards, and to reach the New York Times Best Seller list. Viable Paradise encourages an informal and supportive workshop atmosphere. During the week, instructors and students interact in one-on-one discussions, group critiques, lectures, and free-flowing Q&As. The emphasis at first is on critiquing the students’ submitted manuscripts; later, the emphasis shifts to new material produced during the week. Even when not actively…

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I'm a panelist at Norwescon again this year! So if you're in the SeaTac area Easter weekend, come on down to hear me (and a lot of other awesome people) talk about SFFH and read our work!