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ArmadilloCon Day 1 — writers workshop

I’m posting from the end of a long day at the convention, so please forgive any typos and incoherence. I’ve been on the go since 6:30. The first day was the writers workshop. We had excellent commentary from the teachers on everything from the necessity of redrafting to applying the screenwriting formul to novels (an excellent presentation by Lou Anders with great relevance to writing novels) to discussing the place of epublishing for writers. In Read more…

By Patrice Sarath, ago

ArmadilloCon preparations and various other stuff

I’ve been prepping for ArmadilloCon by reading the manuscripts for the writers workshop and coming up with questions for Paolo Bacigalupi for the guest interview. The current Locus has an interview with him and at first I was like, hey, they stole my thunder, but actually Locus just made it a little bit easier for me. I won’t ask the same questions but will use some of his answers to dig deeper. Ages ago I Read more…

By Patrice Sarath, ago

Austenesque Twitter chat

I just participated in a whirlwind Twitter chat organized by Austenesque. I met loads of wonderful Austen fans and fellow authors, and now have a wishlist of books a half-dozen books long(er). Thanks to all the fans for their great questions and comments. That was fun. It was like a big party where everyone is sitting around with their beverage of choice (mine would be a mojito) and just gabbing away. We covered heroes, bad Read more…

By Patrice Sarath, ago