Bryan Young's Blog, page 13

My FanX 2015 schedule

Here is my schedule for Salt Lake Comic-Con's FanX this weekend. I will also have a table (Purple 6) where I'll be selling and signing books throughout the convention.Thursday:
6:00pm What we know about Star Wars: The Force Awakens - Room 250AFriday:
3:00pm Full of Sith Podcast - Ballroom C4:30pm Mythology of Star Wars - Ballroom B6:30pm Art of Star Wars - Ballroom B8:00pm Ray Park - South BallroomSaturday:
12:30pm Why the Prequels Make the Classic Trilogy Better - Ballroom B5:00pm Star Wars Reb...

Readings at the Downtown SLC Library

This Thursday will see another reading at the Salt Lake City Library, but this one is a little different. Sure, I'm reading stories, but it's an open invitation for you to come read along side me.

It's something we've been doing for a while and it's booked consistently on the third Thursday of every month, 7:00-9:00pm in the 4th floor conference room at the Downtown library.

Here's the official rundown from the event:

Interested in science fiction, creative writing, or just looking to make conne...

Utah Humanities Book Festival

Tomorrow, I'll be at the Utah Humanities Book Festival doing a reading from The Serpent's Head (or Andy Wilson, Boy Super-Genius) and then answering questions about writing and publishing.

I'd love to see you all there.

It's at the Downtown Salt Lake City Library and I'll be speaking in the 4th floor conference room at noon. Some of my books will also be around and on sale.

Here's their official write-up:

The City Library will play host to authors Bryan Young, Barry Deutsch, and Matthew Kirby.

SCH...

My Salt Lake Comic Con Schedule

Hot on the heels of Dragon Con last week, I'll be at Salt Lake Comic Con this week.

Both conventions have kept me very busy, and I'm looking forward to Salt Lake. I'll be sharing a booth with the rest of the guys from Big Shiny Robot! and some other great artists. I'll have plenty of books and will be signing them, including The Serpent's Head.

For those interested, here's my panel schedule:

Thursday

4:00 pm - An Hour With Sam Witwer5:00 pm - Room 250a - What we know and what we think we know abo...

The Serpent's Head!

After two years and two drastic rewrites, The Serpent's Head, is finally coming out. It officially comes out in time for release at the Origins Game Fair, though the paperback has already found its way onto Amazon.  It should be up on the publishers website soon (Silence in the Library.)

Here's the official synopsis:

The man called Twelve is a hired gun, taking his laser pistol from planet to planet, hiring his services out to the highest bidder. He finds himself on Glycon-Prime, a new col...

A quick thought on writing women...

I've been thinking about this a lot lately and just wanted to get this out there.

I think the reason female characters seemed so hard for me to write was that I live in a society that made me think they were the incomprehensible (and sometimes irrational) "other."

Writing women was supposed to be hard.

But it got a whole lot easier when I stopped thinking of them as this alien species and more just like people. They have the same wants, needs, desires, thoughts, flaws, and defects as everyone el...

My 2014 Salt Lake Comic-Con FanX Schedule

I have my tentative FanX schedule. Things are subject to be added or subtracted, but this is, for the most part, the schedule I'll be sticking to. For the rest of the time at the convention, I'll be at my booth signing books or haunting the Big Shiny Robot! booth.
As far as I know, "A Children's Illustrated History of Presidential Assassination" will be available at the con.
I'm not on as many writing panels as Star Wars panels this year, but there are still a couple in there. Star Wars fans co...

An Update...

Things are still completely crazy in my neck of the woods. The documentary I'm working on for KUED (called "Normal, UT") is supposed to be done this week. That means that pretty much all of my available time is being sunk into that.

But that doesn't mean there aren't other things going on.

First: A Children's Illustrated History of Presidential Assassination is just about out. Kickstarter backers have received PDF copies of the book, the proofs from the printer are arriving tomorrow, and all of...

Writing prompts....

I've been swamped lately. The PBS documentary, the two books, another documentary, and just... everything. It's kept me buried under water.

I'm still keeping my writing routine, though. And I'm averaging 400-500 words a day on my book and another 1000 words a day in other writing (my various columns, pieces for magazines, etc.) I have a few short stories due as well, and I'm editing a pair of anthologies, too.

Add to all of that the passing of Aaron Allston, and I'm not sure how I'm still going...

An update!

Hello, everyone.

It's been a while. Too long, maybe. But that's just the name of the game. I've been off doing and making things, working my hardest on my craft and creating new things for you to enjoy.

I've got stories coming up in more than a few anthologies, but the one I'm most proud of at the moment is the story I'll have in Apollo's Daughters.

There's a Kickstarter (still going on right now, video below) for a project called Athena's Daughters that Silence in the Library is putting to...