Setting up and tearing down conference rooms all through the three-day weekend at the Greater Los Angeles Writers Conference. PHYSICALLY TIRED. Stuffing my brain with writing knowledge. MENTALLY TIRED. Saying goodbye at Karl Lembkey’s memorial. EMOTIONALLY TIRED. Normal blog will …
It started Saturday morning at 6:00 am. I was on kitchen staff at church making breakfast burritos for the woman’s conference the way we make them at the men’s monthly breakfasts. Hey, women need burritos, too. Luckily, I’m ¼ Mexican, …
It’s been a week since the L.A. Times Festival of Books, and I’m recovered enough to write about it. Actually, it wasn’t that bad. The LATFoB had been canceled for the past two years because of Covid. This first year …
I saw Alton Brown in person at the Los Angeles Festival of Books. Well, almost complete. They sold out of “Good Eats 4” before I could buy a copy. More on the LATFoB and the GLAWS booth next week. Time …
Festival! Festival! No, I won’t be burning books, but I’ll be helping authors sell their books at the L. A. Times Festival of Books. https://www.facebook.com/latimesfob For specific information, check their website https://events.latimes.com/festivalofbooks/ It’s been three years and GLAWS is glad …
It seems like we were just at the L. Ron. Hubbard Writers and Illustrators of the Future Annual Achievement Awards. Oh, yes, it was last October when they combined the 36th and 37th annual awards. Now it is back on …
My education as a writer continues with the California Creative Writer’s Conference http://www.wcwriters.com/ccwc/ this weekend and through the week. This conference, like the last, is virtually done via Zoom. So far there have been two full days of panels, …
Genre LA ended yesterday. It was the 30th conference put on by West Coast Writers Conferences. Being virtual, it started Friday, October 22nd, and ran through Saturday, October 30th. On the weekends it was a full day of programming. On …
As a member of GLAWS, Kris and I were invited to this year’s Writers and Illustrators of the Future awards dinner. This is a worldwide contest for new writers and artists with the quarterly winners being published in the yearly …
In GLAWS there is always a lot of talk about different paths to publishing: Traditional, Indi, Self-Publishing, Print-on-Demand, Kindle, etc. Ways of getting you work out there have become more diverse. Self-publishing used to be known as vanity publishing, but …