Two things to bring to your attention today. First off, I have readings! They’re also listed in the Appearances page, on the upper right there.<\/p>\n
February 20, 7 pm, University Bookstore, Seattle
\nFebruary 24, 7 pm, Powell’s Books Cedar Hills Crossing, Portland
\nMarch 7, 6:30 pm, Third Place Books Lake Forest Park, Seattle
\nApril 26, 2-4 pm, Barnes & Noble, Kennewick (with Patricia Briggs)<\/b><\/p>\n
Also, I’ll be attending Radcon, in Pasco, WA, coming up February 14-16.<\/p>\n
Fri Feb 14 2:00:pm-3:00:pm
\nDecisions, Decisions<\/b><\/p>\n
When to keep writing, when to pull the plug, when to let a work sit and when to edit it, when to listen to critiques, when to query, when to publish … writers have to make a lot of decisions. How professional writers approach the decision-making process, and how to keep hard decisions from interfering with the writing process. Good guys should not be boring, because they’re not in real life<\/p>\n
Bara, Dave; Ceallaigh, Adriane; Held, Rhiannon; Nordley, Gerald David<\/p>\n
Fri Feb 14 3:00:pm-4:30:pm
\nFormidable Female<\/b><\/p>\n
What makes a woman protagonist a formidable woman? Sat Feb 15 10:00:am-11:00:am From urban fantasy or steam punk, do you have to think of the biology of demons or energy requirements of ray guns? Let’s talk about how that and things like historical research can contribute to fiction.<\/p>\n Held, Rhiannon; Johnson, Judy; Niemann-Ross, Mark; White, Lori<\/p>\n Sat Feb 15 5:30:pm-6:30:pm The people who really explore space and fight modern wars have a lot of self control. They don’t slam fists into spacecraft controls like Hulk Hogan. Do you have to forget about them in fiction, or can you make them interesting. And if your protagonist is like that do you just have to accept that critics will complain and press on in hopes of finding an audience that appreciates a little verisimilitude.<\/p>\n Fredericks, Deby; Held, Rhiannon; Kehrli, Keffy; Magner, Scott James; Tayler, Howard<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Two things to bring to your attention today. First off, I have readings! They’re also listed in the Appearances page, on the upper right there. February 20, 7 pm, University Bookstore, Seattle February 24, 7 pm, Powell’s Books Cedar Hills Crossing, Portland March 7, 6:30 pm, Third Place Books Lake Forest Park, Seattle April 26, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[44,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-appearances","category-travel"],"yoast_head":"\n
\n<\/span>Held, Rhiannon; Howe, Andrea; Johnson, Judy; Jones, Esther<\/p>\n
\nReal Science in Speculative Fiction<\/b><\/p>\n
\nDull, realistic, characters.<\/b><\/p>\n