Write, Rewrite, Repeat Conference

I’ll be the keynote speaker at the Write, Rewrite, Repeat Conference in Portland, OR on February 20. If you’re in the Portland area, and looking for a nice, short, local conference with great faculty and lots of useful information, check it out.

The conference is organized by editor and writing teacher Jessica Morrell, who’ll also be giving two of the lectures that day. Backstory time: I met Jessica back in 2013 at the Willamette Writers conference. Zeroboxer was a brand new manuscript I was pitching for the first time. Jessica was one of my professional critiques that weekend. She had to cancel our original appointment because she was flattened by stomach flu. But trooper that she is, she came in to meet with me the next day, but not before emailing me to say she “freaking loved the story” and asking to see more pages (presumably reading it while down with stomach flu). She then said, “You should send this to [agent] Jim McCarthy, it would be a good fit for him” (I did, he liked it and offered me representation, and is my agent now), and “This book will sell” (it did, a few months later), and she gave me some great advice on the manuscript. Every writer needs to hear voices of confidence in their journey, and Jessica was one of mine, so I hope I’ll be able to give a back a bit of that inspiration to the conference attendees.

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