What do you need to take your writing to the next level? Do you wish you were stronger in some aspect of your writing skills? Or maybe the business side of your writing career could use some bolstering. Perhaps it’s your workspace or your writing schedule (or lack of) that’s impeding your progress. If it’s…
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All Conferences Great and Small
There are hundreds of writing conferences to choose from; how to pick the best one? It’s RMFW’s Colorado Gold. That was easy. Shortest blog post ever. Ok, but if you want to go to more than one, here are some factors to consider based on my country-wide tour of writing conferences this year. Size. WorldCon…
New Kid on the Block . . . Again
Have you ever experienced such loneliness you resorted to befriending a ghost? I recently finished a short story about a girl who does just that after moving to a new high school. Granted most of us don’t have that option, but I’m hoping the story captures a feeling we’ve all known, one of being different,…
Conference Report: StokerCon 2021
Last month I “attended” the virtual StokerCon 2021 conference, run by the Horror Writers Associarion. If you see a conference run by the “[genre] Writers of America” or “[genre] Writers Association”, you can count on there being a lot of panels on writing, editing, publishing, marketing, and other writing-related topics. And that, friends, means it’s…
How to Get Ready for the Colorado Gold Conference
The Colorado Gold Conference is coming up next month. I know I look forward to this event all year long. Seeing my fellow writers, gabbing about the previous year, and celebrating my friends’ publications are all things I do at Gold. I also take classes, eat way too much, and barcon after dinner on Friday…