This coming week I'm going to be at the Origins Game Fair in Columbus, OH. Here's my schedule if you're in the environs and want to stalk me  say hi!

Thursday

3:00-Flash your fiction

4:00-The Fine Art of Schmoozing

Friday-

11:00-gender-bending fiction

12:00-what’s in your literary kitchen?

Saturday

10:00-Pushing the YA envelope

11:00 Practice makes perfect

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Back from Gen Con. I met great new people, hung out with cool friends, and walked five hundred miles (that figure is approximate.) I even managed to get some writing done. I think I've finally caught up on sleep. Now I just have to get back into a healthy eating routine and life will be back to normal. Now that Gen Con is past, summer is "over" in ( Read more... )

 Tomorrow I'm heading to Indianapolis for Gen Con. It's four days of gaming and writing goodness, and I'm stoked. Here's my schedule for those folks that may want to find me:

Thursday, August 4th
1:00 p.m.: Tackling Writer's Block
3:00 p.m.: Author's Alley
6:00 p.m. read and critique

Friday, August 5th
10:00 a.m.: Author's alley
3:00 p.m.: sword and ( Read more... )

Overall, I'd give World Fantasy Convention an A ( Read more... )

Are you going to World Fantasy this weekend? If so, I'd love it if you'd stop by my reading on Thursday night at 9:00 p.m. I'll be reading a chapter from my recently-completed novel The Daphne Project. Stop by and say hello!

Made it back from Gen Con this afternoon. (I almost typed #gencon. Thank twitter.) This was, hands down, one of my favorite Gen Cons. I made new writer friends and reconnected with old ones. My panels turned out well, and people that I didn't know actually came to my reading. I got lots of exercise in terms of walking, bought lots of cool stuff in ( Read more... )

In a few short hours I'll be on the road to GenCon. The clothes are packed. The bags are in the living room. The dishes are in the dishwasher and the clothes are washed. It's Con Time ( Read more... )

For those of you wondering where I'll be during GenCon, here's the schedule. All seminars are in the Hyatt. Oh, and if you'd like a handy-dandy guide to all the Writer's Symposium events, check out the oh-so-easy to navigate schedule at www.kellyswails.com/gencon.

Thursday
9:00 a.m. Transporting your characters
10:00 a.m. Plotstorming from character
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As I'm sure you're all sick of hearing about it by now, this past weekend my husband surprised me for my birthday by hosting a writer's retreat at a local castle.  Several writers descended on the area, and we spent the time writing, talking, eating, playing games, and writing. I managed to get four chapters of The Daphne Project edited.  A few ( Read more... )