Save the date: I’ll be at VA Comicon Dec 8th
Come and join me and other local fantasy authors for an afternoon of costumes, fun and geeky gift-buying! I’ll be in Booth B13. Get the details on the Va Comicon website!
Category: Conferences
Almost Heaven Star Party
Okay, this has nothing to do with writing…almost. Last weekend I took off to West Virginia for the Almost Heaven Star Party with my husband. We met as amateur astronomers in the astronomy club that hosts the event, NOVAC, the Northern Virginia Astronomy Club. That would be back in 1986 when Comet Halley passed by. […]
My ‘chapter booklets’ arrived! Squee!
Who knew seeing your cover in a new way could be just as exciting as seeing the real book? I printed these ‘chapter booklets’ of The Unraveling to give away at my author reading this weekend at RavenCon 2016. Into 12 text pages, we squeezed both chapter 1 & 3 to give readers a taste […]
Upcoming Author Event… My first!
I’ll be a guest author among a hundred other fantasy authors, artist, filkers, costumers, scientists, podcasters, editors, publishers at RavenCon 2016, a weekend celebrating the genres of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror. It’ll be my first time at the con, and since they strive to book new and interesting guests every year, they have […]
Dressing up like a Victorian lady, Part 4: Reticules and other ways to carry things
Let’s face it, we are a society that totes things. To attend the Baltimore Book Festival dressed like a Victorian lady, and still have all my ‘necessities,’ I needed a reticule. In other words, an era-appropriate purse. My research led me to a timeline of purses titled Please Don’t Ridicule my Reticule! by Joan Kiplinger […]
Dressing up like a Victorian lady, Part 2: Acccessories
Dressing properly isn’t just the clothes; the accessories must be right to make a correct historical presence. I have a few more things to prepare for my Victorian costume to be ready for the Baltimore Book Festival. Anyone and everyone going out of the house in Victorian times wore a hat. During the time The […]
Dressing up like a Victorian lady
When I first decided to attend the Baltimore Book Festival, I also decided to dress Victorian, the era my series The Luminated Threads is set. I already knew it’d be fun because I put together a steampunk costume for a RWA conference a few years ago. But that was fantasy and easy–I could collect up […]
Going to UtopYA?
We’re less than 24 hours from the start of UtopYA, an author-fan con a fellow steampunk author has raved about. It’s four days of fun in Nashville, Tenn, an easy drive for me (who likes driving across country–really!) and the focus is on young adult and new adult supernatural and contemporary fiction–right up my alley! […]
Thanksgiving = Chessiecon
Over the weekend following Thanksgiving, the mid-Atlantic region is treated to Chessiecon, a science fiction/fantasy con presented by the Thanksgiving Science Fictions Society in Timonium, Maryland. Sessions on many aspects of SF/F are offered across as many as 12 rooms–art, music, gaming, dance, spiritual, videos, and literature. But best of all, one of my favorite […]
My RWA14 Conference Round-up
What’s it like to attend a conference with 2500 other writers? I can only speak from my experience with the Romance Writers of America National conferences: Exhilarating, educational and exhausting. Though a week has passed since the latest—the 34th—held in San Antonio, my head is still reeling with new ideas. Most writers leave very inspired […]