This coming weekend I’ll be at OryCon, a science fiction/fantasy convention held annually in Portland since 1979. This year it’s at the Red Lion Hotel on Jantzen Beach. When not at the bar, here’s where you can find me (moderator…
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Waypoint Kangaroo is an Endeavour Award Finalist!
ICYMI last weekend: my debut novel is one of this year’s finalists for the Endeavour Award, “for a distinguished SCIENCE FICTION or FANTASY BOOK written by a Pacific Northwest author or authors and published in the previous year.” Hearty congratulations…
My OryCon 38 Schedule
Next weekend (Nov.18-20) I’ll be reading, paneling, and drinking at Oregon’s premier, fan run, annual science fiction/fantasy convention held in Portland. Please stop by the Portland Marriott Downtown Waterfront if you’re around. We can raise a glass to freedom, if nothing…
I Will Be at Some Conventions This Year
(Wow, has it really been a whole month since my last blog post here? I’m a terrible person.) If you’re a SF/F convention-goer, here are some 2016 events I’m definitely attending and which I would recommend to any fan: Norwescon…
My OryCon 37 Schedule
Hey science fiction and fantasy lovers in or near Portland, Oregon! It’s that time of year again: time for OryCon! This Friday through Sunday, hundreds (if not thousands) of fans will gather at the Portland Marriott Downtown Waterfront for a…
My OryCon 35 Schedule
ETA(2013-11-04): better link destinations for co-panelists, sign-up info for ORCs, Twitter stuff. If you’re anywhere near Portland, Oregon (the science fiction capital of America!) during the second weekend of November, stop by OryCon 35 and have some fun–not necessarily involving…
New ORC City
This is an unofficial announcement, so don’t make plans until you see an update on the OryCon 34 web site, but: I am running the Open Read and Critique (ORC) sessions again this year, but instead of a solid three-hour…
Pictures from an OryCon
…OryCon 33, to be precise, which happened this past weekend in Portland, Oregon. DeeAnn was this year’s Liaison for Artist Guest of Honor (GoH) Jim Pavelec, and we watched him do a painting demonstration: https://picasaweb.google.com/sparckl/OryCon33JimPavelecArtistGoH Our friends The Doubleclicks performed…
The ORC Equations
Download PDF Last weekend, at OryCon 31, I ran two Open Read & Critique (ORC) sessions. I’ve done writing workshops before, but this was my first experience with the ORC format (called “rogue workshops” in other places). There were a…