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Rainforest 2013 Approaches

Last year I attended the Rainforest Writers Village and enjoyed it so much I signed up as soon as registration opened for this year. I will be attending session #1 at the end of February on the OlympicPeninsulain the beautiful rainforest. And I have a plan.

In the month of February, I joined members of the Cloudcity Wordslingers in a wordcount writing contest. Each day we’ve reported our wordcount. In order to improve our consistency, in addition to word count, our speadsheet’s formula include...

Wicked Women Writers Challenge announced for 2013

The 5th Annual Wicked Women Writers Challenge has been announced with the theme How Will You Survive?

I was lucky enough to participate along with other previous years’s winners Rhonda Carpenter and Killion Slade in a short and long promo: Snag the long promo

See all the contest detail on the Wicked Women Writers blog.

Essentially, each woman writer who signs up will be assigned a location, an item, and a disability. She will then record a ten minute audio short story for the contest. The deadli...

Review and Preview

It’s the start of the year and a good time to take inventory.

Publishing: Since this time last year, I’ve been printed in three anthologies and sold two additional stories that will be published early this year. See my Amazon Author Page for updates.

I also provided blurbs to a few other authors after reading proof copies of their novels.

Submitting: I made twice as many submissions in 2012 as I did in 2011. I expect that trend to continue.

With the two rejections I got today (Thanks for the oppo...

Short Stories

Authors often debate whether it is useful to submit short stories to open submission calls. After all, it takes effort to write, effort to sell, and the pay isn’t great. And if it doesn’t sell to the first market, you have to make it conform to market after market.

I had to ask myself this question this week. I once wrote a 5,000 word superhero short story that was turned down when the publisher chose not to proceed with the anthology. Now, I’ve expanded the idea into 17,500 thrillingwords to...

I Wrote it First: When Science Fiction Comes True

One of the fun things about being a science-fiction writer is speculating about the near and distant future.

My mother asked me whether I’d written a scene inFractured Horizon before or after the recent spate of publicity forFelix Baumgarner’s space jump. (Note: I know this links to a Red Bull site. Sorry, but they have the footage if you want to see it. I get no money, I’m just offering the link if you’re curious and somehow missed out on the media blitzkrieg.)

The free serialized audio podcas...

Summers Aren’t for Resting

So how do you progress as a writer over a long summer? I have advice, most of which I even managed to follow. Tell me about your successes.

Writing Conferences:

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If you have the time and funds, writers conferences offer several benefits. Like any industry, networking can open doors and give you insight that someone else worked to acquire. Join forces to hear about local resources, editors who are most likely to enjoy your work, and to share an attitude of success.

While this may be a painful real...

Spiders now available from May-December Press

The print and ebook anthologySpiders is available on Amazon.com. My short story, “The Golden Rule,” was written at theRainforest Writers Village:

Genetically-modified spiders are at the mercy of university researchers who milk their silk and venom. The tables are soon turned. Have you ever known a merciful spider?

Yes, it’s horror with some sci-fi flavoring and has received some decent reviews.

Baycon 2012 Follow-up

After creating my mega-sized blog post about Baycon, you might not think there’s anything left to say. I even sent my mother to the post when she asked how my trip went. However, in the days since the convention I’ve realized a few more things need to be added.

The Wickeds seems to be selling well. Baycon was my first chance to hold a print copy. I know the editor worked very hard on all the stories and to format the book for print. Somehow, my story lost italics. Since it started out as the c...

Con Report Baycon 2012

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Emerian Rich, H.E. Roulo, and Laurel Ann Hill on WWW Panel

I had a great weekend attending panels in sunny California!

The blog is in two sections, first is my personal experience. Panel names are in bold for easy skimming. Beneath that, section two contains general tips for conventions.

My Experience

First, lets talk about the important stuff. A big thanks to the men and women who danced with me in theRenaissanceDance. To the first guy I danced with, I regret we didn’t get to talk more about fil...

Baycon Schedule

[image error]I promised you a listing of my Baycon schedule. I will be a guest participating in quite a few panels and readings. Official panel descriptions are in blue, and I’ve added my own notes after.

Friday May 25, 2012

Character Slam Book Hands-on Activity (Camino Real at 5:30 PM)

Emerian Rich will lead a class that will benefit new and seasoned writers along with anyone who just wants to dream up characters. This can even apply to gamers.

I’ll be the lovely assistant on this one, just adding my two cen...