books just slightly out of this world
I’ll be on panels at Denver Comic Con on Saturday and Sunday. Here’s my schedule.
Magicians, Psychics, and Characters with Super – Room 110 – Saturday 4:45- 5:35
Café Otherworld: Where Paranormal Is Just the Beginning – Room 102 – Saturday 6:15 – 7:05
Have Sparkly Vampires ‘Bitten’ the Dust? – Room 107 – Sunday 11:00 – 11:50
How the Digital Format is Changing the Creation Process? – Room 102 – Sunday 2:45 – 3:35
Women in Fiction – Room 108 – Sunday 4:00 – 4:50
I will be a panelist at the Moravian Writers’ Conference in Bethlehem, PA in June. My panel is called “Writing Moravians: Stories from the Archives.” I’ll be talking about the research behind my novel The Star Family with writers from Lehigh University and Craig Atwood, from Moravian College. Craig researched the period in Moravian history that inspired me to write The Star Family, and I’m looking forward to talking with him more.
Come join us in Bethlehem the first weekend of June.
I’m off to Left Coast Crime. Today at 2:00 p.m. I get to be on the panel called “This Can’t Be Normal, Can It: The Panel for Fantasy, Paranormal” with Ann Charles, Lynda Hilburn, Kris Neri and Alexandra Sokoloff! Say hi if you’re there, too.
At the MSU-Denver publishing panel last Tuesday, Lynda Hilburn talked about her publishing history. She says she was like so many other writers, happy to get interest in her manuscript. Excited by an offer, she published with a small press against her agent’s advice. The problem? Distribution.
When she got her rights back after they dithered over the third one in the series, she put them up herself. And struck gold. Well, maybe silver.
That’s when she came to the attention of a large agency in NYC who made a deal with Jo Fletcher books, a fabulous editor.
The books are great fun. Psychologist Kismet Knight treats vampire wanna-bes. But wait, some of them actually ARE vampires.
Lynda and I will be on a panel at Left Coast Crime tomorrow at 2:00 p.m. — “This Can’t Be Normal, Can It?” Hope to see you there.