Next week I’ll be attending the SFWA Nebula Conference. The Nebulas have grown from a conference mostly focused on the awards ceremony into a full-blown professional conference with amazing programming and lots of opportunities for both networking and professional development.

Here’s my schedule of events. Hope to see you there!

Catalog Copy Dos and Don’ts: copy is not a blurb, learn your d*mn terms!

Thursday May 16th, 2:00pm @ A/B Salon

We spend hours trying to get the perfect cover that will catch our audience – but too often, we lose them with the cover copy.  What are the dos, don’ts, and Tragic Mistakes of cover copy, and how can you nail it?

Mass Autographing

Saturday May 18th, 1:30pm @ Grand Ballroom

Come say hello and get books signed by a star-studded array of authors.

Structuring a Series

Sunday May 19th, 11:30am @ G/H Salon

We talk about beginning, middles, and ends, but a series contains a multitude of endings. What are the strategies for keeping a reader’s interest, while giving them a satisfying ending? How do you sustain tension across multiple works?