FyreCon will be held June 8-10 at:
Weber State University - Davis Campus
2750 University Park Boulevard
Layton, UT 84041

Thursday
12:30 -- Monsters That are Not Villains panel - Julie Frost (M), Larry Correia, Toni Weisskopf, and Wendy Knight.
3:30 -- Plot Bunnies: Picking an Idea (solo presentation). Similar to "Plot a story in an hour," we'll ( Read more... )

I may have mentioned more than once that I'm not a natural novelist. The short story is the milieu that has chosen me, not the other way around. I wrote my first novel completely by accident, and writing one on purpose has been daunting, to say the least ( Read more... )

My house is now (relatively) clean ( Read more... )

Today, I have ( Read more... )

Join us at MisCon 30, Memorial Day weekend (May 27-30), in Missoula, MT, at the downtown Holiday Inn. Guests will include Jim Butcher, Patrick Rothfuss, Kevin J. Anderson, Carol Berg, CJ Cherryh, Steve Diamond, Todd Lockwood, Peter Orullian, Christopher Paolini, Jeff Sturgeon, Robin Hobb and many many others ( Read more... )

World Horror Con is coming to Provo, Utah, April 28-May 1! Come join us!

Thursday 9:30pm: Women in Horror (yes, you read that right, 9:30pm, horror writers are owls). Who are some of the strong female writers of horror fiction and why is there so much attention being brought to them ( Read more... )

World Horror is one week away and we hope you're as excited about the convention as we are!

The schedule has been updated with a couple of changes. Primarily, Dan Wells and Carter Reid's kaffeeklatsches on Friday were switched. The new schedule is on the webpage. The game room schedule has been set and we've put the different events in rooms. ( Read more... )

...it don't ever go smooth ( Read more... )

I shared booth space with living legends: Jim Butcher, RA Salvatore, Terry Brooks, Kevin J. Anderson, Chuck Gannon, Rebecca Moesta, Peter Orillian, Larry Corriea, Dave Farland, Tracy Hickman. And we had plenty of up-and-coming stars: Josh Vogt, RJ Terrell, Steve Diamond, Dan Willis, Peter Wacks. I know I'm leaving people out, to my everlasting ( Read more... )

Thursday, 3pm: Genre Mash-ups: Isn’t it all just fiction anyway?: S. A. Butler, Julie Frost, L.E. Modesitt Jr., Dan Wells, Suzanne Vincent (m). I write genre-mashups all the time. Werewolf private eyes, haunted spaceships, a mad scientist married to a werewolf with a butler who spent time in the Fae...

Friday, 5pm: Treating Religion Fairly: ( Read more... )