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Home Show sub menu Author Bio Contact Me Trophy Case Books Show sub menu The Rough Passages Chronicles Show sub menu The Sharp Edge of Yesterday Rough Passages Stories of the Restoration Show sub menu Controlled Descent Weaving In the Ends Flight Plan Novices Blog Show sub menu How my books are like my cats: a study in surprising similarities. Tag: panels Categories Authoring Cons & Appearances Writing Life There’s more to my life than the new house: there’s also Dragon Con! Post author By K. M. Herkes Post date August 28, 2019 This weekend I’m pausing all the moving-in work so I can go to Atlanta for Dragon Con. (Why did I buy house right between my year’s two biggest conventions? That’s just how I roll, what can I say?) Will you be at Dragon Con? Want to meet up? That would be awesome. Easiest way to find me: stop by one of the panels I’ll be on. Here’s a handy list. FRIDAY: Gimme a Break Time: 8:30 pm Location: Embassy CD – Hyatt (Length: 1 Hour) Description: Best advice for breaking into fantasy & SF novel writing. Panelists: Venessa Guinta(M), Scott Sigler, Tamsin L. Silver, Esther Friesner, J. Gregory Keyes, K. M. Herkes, John D. Ringo (I am seriously the Minority Report in this group. But it should be great.) SATURDAY: A Sense of Place: The Role of Setting in UF Time: 11:30 am Location: Chastain 1-2 – Westin (Length: 1 Hour) Description: Often the location where the action takes place can be an integral aspect of the story. Our panel of authors will discuss the role setting plays in their work & how it affects the stories they tell. Panelists: J.F. Lewis, Linda Robertson, E.J. Stevens, K. M. Herkes, Jennifer Morris(M), Melissa F Olson If I had a dollar for every time someone asked, “Why Elgin, Illinois?” I’d have…some dollars. I’ The Isms: Looking at Classic Fantasy from the Viewpoint of Today Time: 10:00 pm Location: Embassy EF – Hyatt (Length: 1 Hour) Description: Social consciousness changes, but books are forever. Something that was once progressive today may seem anything but. Are these works simply products of their time or true reflections of the person? Let’s not toss the dragonet out with the Hatching Sand and shells. *Trigger Warning* Panelists: Ray Johnson (M), K. M. Herkes, Mike Massa, Dr. Charles E. Gannon This…could be A-MAY-ZING. I’ve recently done some re-reading and re-watching of my classic faves, and wow…yeah. I am very much a fan of VERY problematic things. And that’s okay. Even good. Lots to discuss. SUNDAY Off the Record: Life beyond the Shelf – A Look at Publishing from the Other Side Time: 5:30 pm Location: Embassy EF – Hyatt (Length: 1 Hour) Description: What is the best way to approach a bookstore/library/track? What are these other people looking at and how best should you show that you are their answer? Time for an inside look at publishing from the other side of mirror. No recording, as this is Off the Record and Behind the Curtain. Panelists: Tyra A Burton, Kathleen, Diane Aurand, Cisca Small(M), K. M. Herkes Oooo, yeah, I have STORIES, from the bookselling years. MONDAY All the Subs Time: 1:00 pm Location: Embassy EF – Hyatt (Length: 1 Hour) Description: Fantasy is filled with all kinds of stories, but sometimes a trend pops up that turns into a sub-genre. Supervise? Gamelit? LitRPG? Cozy? Noir? There are so many, & a few that don’t really fit in any…yet. Panelists: L. Jagi Lamplighter, James A. Hunter, Aaron Crash, G. Scott Huggins, Cat Rambo(M), K. M. Herkes Meep. I’m on a panel with Cat Rambo? MEEP. So exciting. Daunting, but exciting. This panel topic is near and dear to my “organize-all-the-things” heart. I’m going to take deep breaths, sit up straight, and enjoy the heck out of it.’ I’m going to come home from this con with a TON of new reading material, I just know it. Between panels, I’ll be hanging at The Bard’s Tower in the Vendor zone. With my books, yes. Want to buy a book or a patch or some pins? I can make that happen. Have I mentioned that I write books? Techno-thrillers, superpower fantasy. And science-fiction-knitting-romances. (And cozy ghost mystery paranormals, but you can’t buy those yet.) ANYway. I’ll try to stay engaged online while away, but no promises. It’s a busy, BUSY con. I don’t have FB messenger, but texts or Twitter DMs will find me. I’ll also be going to panels & other events, because that’s part of the fun, and the con goes on all day & night for 4 days, after all. The Palmetto Knights are on my must-see list, for sure, and multiple visits to Artist’s Alley, of course. All righty. That covers the con. Time to color my hair, unearth the suitcase, and pack the con clothes. And after Dragon Con? Well. Expect this blog to go quiet. If I have time to sit down with words between Labor Day and Halloween, there’s a book to finish revising and another to finish drafting, and the urge to bury myself in manuscripts is getting stronger by the day. So. That’s how it goes. Tags adventures, always learning, conventions, Dragon Con, DragonCon, excitement, panels, travel, writing Categories Authoring Cons & Appearances Promotion Writing Life WindyCon 45 quick report Post author By K. M. Herkes Post date November 11, 2018 I was feeling super-nervy & timid going into WindyCon this year, what with doing panels there for the first time and all, but it turned out totally fab. So many amazing moments. Shared a dealer table with author friends met at Nebulas and at Gumbo Fiction AND still got to hang out with Rich at Games Plus’s table and our WindyCon neighbor Richard from Dark River Pottery. Talked book promotion on a panel with a traditionally published pro and someone who does promotion for a living and didn’t feel (too) overwhelmed. Swapped stories about my favorite guilty-pleasure reads and watches on an imposing stage with someone rocking a s zebra-stripe mohawk (Kevin Roche, cosplay Guest of Honor, who has MAD costuming skills) Got to talk about stories by Arthur C Clark, Theodore Sturgeon, Ray Bradbury, and a bunch of other classic authors I haven’t re-read in years. (all tales that left us teary-eyed.) Got to indulge my passion for end-of-the-world fiction with other like-minded souls. ANYWAY. I digress. Staying at the con hotel even though the con was under an hour from home made a huge difference. I had time to catch up with friends met at past cons and time to make new friends too. Among the many people I met this year, I discovered one who lives nearby. And I mean, RIGHT nearby. (Barbara Barnett, her book is The Apothecary’s Curse, and it’s super-neat, and she already knows one of my best friends from another walk of life. Such is the small world of synchronicity.) Aaaand I digress again. Chatted with readers who bought books in past years, wonderful kind people who let me talk about characters and tell me who they like best and inspire me to Just. Keep. Swimming. (so to speak) I also gained new readers, AND I found good adoptive homes for the last few copies of my in-need-of-corrections first edition paperback. Huzzah. So I bought myself bling, because I allow myself to buy shiny things when I send books home with people. Tear-down with Rich for the Games Plus table went swimmingly (my big capital investment in a folding wagon TOTALLY paid for itself.) The drive home was uneventful, and now I’m cozy-comfy, with fuzzy socks on my feet, wine in a glass, and figure skating on the TV. …and Spouseman bought me cherry pie for dessert. :happy sigh: Have a couple of pics of my new shinies. New book, a tee I can wear to work, gorgeous plates from Dark River, & GLOW IN THE DARK glass sparklies! And have a few pics of Our Authors Corner of the dealer room too. It was neato-keen. Toni Johnson, Brendan Detzner, and Alice Liddell LED BUNNY All the magic fits into these boxes My little corner of Authorland, next to Toni’s Steampunk Cyborg Zombie series Okay. That’s it for now. Tags conventions, panels, self awareness, shameless self-promotion, Windycon Categories Authoring Cons & Appearances Writing Life Traveling through Time & Space: Cleveland Concoction 2018 Post author By K. M. Herkes Post date March 6, 2018 This week in Cleveland: ME! March 9 through March 11, at Cleveland Concoction, a fabulous fan-run, volunteer-run convention for all things Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Gaming, Filk and fun. Here’s the official site: About Cleveland ConCoction I’ll be there. My books will be there. SEANAN McGUIRE WILL BE THERE (So I am told) Lots of awesome authors, gamers, readers, and SFF fans of all kinds will be there. I’ll be participating in some panel discussions that should be fabulous. Check out my schedule below: Friday 2:00 PM Stories About Coming up with Characters. Sometimes we deliberately and painstakingly craft our characters, sometimes even excruciatingly pulling out our creativity… and then, other times, the characters drop in on us in the oddest way! Saturday 11:00 AM Author Showcase (Session 2) Listen to your favorite authors read excerpts from released and soon to be released works. Find your next great read. Ask questions, and discover the new worlds Saturday 12:00 PM Autographing (Session 2) – Author Alley Meet and talk with your favorite authors and rising stars. Purchase books and have them signed. Saturday 10:00 PM NSFW 2.0 Sex, violence, strong language; writers discuss their own personal limits on controversial subjects. 11:00 AM What’s in a Genre?Science Fantasy, Slipstream, Speculative Fiction – let’s get down and unclassifiable and explore what we mean when we define a story’s genre. Tags 2018 schedule, Concoction, convention, excitement, learning, panels, SFF, sharing, signings Exit mobile version {{#pages}} Older posts {{/pages}} © 2022 Dawnrigger Publishing To the top ↑ Up ↑